Hello and happy Wednesday! It’s time for the weekly 50% off sale on select products at The Lilypad and I am just so happy with what I made with a couple of them!
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We celebrated our dating anniversary just a few weeks ago so of course I had to make a page about it.
Have a great rest of the week!
Sahlin Studio and Britt-ish Designs have put together an awesome Project Mouse: Around the World collection – 11 countries are represented! You can also purchase the countries individually if you want.
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I pulled out some of my travel photos to use with this collection.
Such happy memories!
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Here are some details:
I added some stamping too using the Asia stamp set.
Have a great weekend!
Hello and happy (almost) Wednesday! I interrupt my non-stop viewing of the Olympics to share a page I made with some products that are 50% off for the SOSN (Something Old, Something New) sale at The Lilypad.
I had so much fun making this page! I used some of the brushes in the kit as masks for the papers, and used them to embellish the background.
Hello and welcome back for another month of Kill My Studio Calico Kit! This is the 9th installment of this series, and in total I have made a whopping (112) layouts. Yay me!
This month I bought the Studio Calico scrapbook main kit, Homespun ($34.99). I also got the Asia stamp and die.
Notes: I have to be honest. I did not like the look of the kit, and even in person it didn’t speak to me. Hence, it has been sitting there for the past 5 months. I think the problem was that the side A of the papers didn’t appeal to me, yet once I got myself to use it, I found that the side B was much more to my taste. Once I started using the kit, I got into the groove and, while it’s still probably my least favorite kit ever, I love the pages I made. Also, the silkscreen is really cool, I love it! And the alpha is awesome, there are so many letters!
Kill my Studio Calico kit is a monthly series I started on my blog to hold myself accountable and use up my kits. You can subscribe to the Studio Calico Scrapbook kit here.
Status: killed!
I made 9 layouts (1 12″x12″, 8 9″x12″), for a total of $34.99, or $3.89/page. I supplemented the kit with several embellishments from my stash, since I really need to put a dent in it. I also used some stamps and cardstock for a couple pages. Here’s a roundup of all the pages I made:
And here is what I have left:
Leftovers: the kit is most certainly killed. I have some seasonal items leftover (the wooden “March” and the March transparency, which I likely will use in next year’s Project Life album. I also still have lots of letters left.
And here’s a roundup of all the projects I made:
And here they are, one by one.
I used the silkscreen on a piece of the gray cardstock with two shades of green paint. This screen is very sticky so it tore off some of the cardstock, but I covered it up with the kraft sticker. I added a few embellishments from the Finch add on and from my stash.
I love how this page turned out! I used a journaling card (which I punched out and cut up) and some stickers from the Pocket documenter add on.
And here is the last page I made to use up the last few scraps (background cardstock is from my stash). This page didn’t photograph very well, but I love how it turned out. I used some trim from my stash to match the colors in the photos. I used the silkscreen on vellum (which works well because it’s very slick so the screen doesn’t stick too much) with silver paint. Those transparencies from the kit went a long way, I loved using them!
And that’s it for this month! If you have any questions, please leave a comment and let me know!
Hello and happy August! As has been my tradition since January, I made a couple of hybrid pages using the digital releases from Studio Calico for the Young at Heart August kits. They are both 8.5″x11″. From what I’ve seen of the kits, this is going to be a good month!
To make this page, I used these digital products:
The background was made repeating one of the journal cards from this set, and the hearts are cut out from another of the cards. I recolored the labels to match.
I stamped the title using an old 6×8 alpha stamp called Oliver, and since the colors turned out to be brighter than I expected (I blame it on the matte photo paper, which is awesome for printing, less awesome for stamping), I added some vellum to the bottom of the page to tone it down. I love the result!
To make this page, I used these digital products:
I fell in love with the design and colors of this greeting card by Jasmine Jones, so I used it as my background, combined with one of the 12×12 digital papers and a printable word strip.
I hope you have a great start of the week and month!