Sieze the Moment: A Layout for Creative Scrappers & Bird is The Word

 























Here is the original sketch from Creative Scrappers April Sketch Challenge:

I used the word "moment" in my title and will enter my layout in the Bird is The Word Challenge. 

I had a great time with this sketch and packing in as many embellishments and little details that I could!  I have may have gone over the edge of creativity into tacky!  You be the judge!

I used My Mind's Eye(paper, baker's twine), 7 Gypsies(paper), American Crafts(title), Martha Stewart(punch and glue pen), Marcy Uchida(punch),Fiskars(punch), Quick Quotes(ink pad), and October Afternoon(title stickers) products and supplies! (I have no idea all the companies that made the various buttons I used.)

4 Crafty Chicks Challenge # 122: Color Combo

It's me again!  This is my last challenge as a guest designer with 4 Crafty Chicks for the month of December!  Our challenge was to use the provided color combo in a project!  Can you guess the 4 colors?  (Black, gray, white, canary yellow!) 

 



To create this layout, I used these products & tools:

My Mind's Eye Follow Your Heart Be Amazing Paper & brads

My Mind's Eye Miss Caroline paper

7 Gypsies Avignon paper

Bazzill Basics Lemon Garden embossed cardstock

thickers by American Crafts "rocketeer"

Mon Ami Gabby yellow Crepe Paper

XXL Glue Dots

Quick Quotes Powderpuff Lemonade Chalking ink

Stazon Jet Black ink

metal frame by Close To My Heart

CTMH Paper Shapes flutter butterflies

Apple Barrel Acrylic paint in white

Foam dots

embroidery floss

needle

We R Memory Keepers paper piercer

Prima handheld comfort distressing tool

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Living My Own Adventure

So as you can see, I love patterned paper!  And lots of it! 
 I have also been playing with black cardstock as my base, and I like how it worked with these photos! 
 I used my Fiskars handheld circle cutter for the "circle" in yellow from Pink Paislee's Junque collection. 
 The black and creme pattern and the blue/yellow fleur de lis patterned paper are from 7 Gypsies, as is the title piece ADVENTURE.  The 3 red stars are also fussy cut from another sheet in that same paper pad. 
 The printed butterflies are from Close To My Heart - and I must say, I love them!  The strip at the top with the word "destination" is from Pink Paislee, and is actually a transparent border sticker!  The font stickers in the lower right corner are from Carolee Adorn It. Don't you love the old world script font stickers that appear to be written by quill pen!  (And these are ancient stickers by Flavia). 
The gold/white striped paper is from echo park's Little Boy collection. The blue/yellow polka dot accents in the top right corner, on the lower left photo corner, as well as the red/black circle strip in the top left are border stickers from Crate Paper.
I really got a kick out of all these primary colors, and I hope I have inspired you in just a tiny way, to feel more confident to play with angles, shapes, lots of fonts, various manufacturers and collections, and of course ----- patterns!

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Ahoy Mateys

This was such a fun layout of photos to scrap!  My son was playing with a "new to him" Little People Pirate Ship we bought from a friend!  This was 2 years ago, and he still gets it out every now and then and plays pirate! 

To create this layout, I used these products:

DCWV All About Boys stack

7 Gypsies Avignon 8x8

Stickabilities by the paper studio

Tim Holz Distress Ink Black Soot

Flavia stickers

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