February BYOC

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I know I say this every month.. but how can it be February already?? And this is a short month too, so March will be here before we know it. The one good thing of it being February already is that the new BYOC is in the store at The Lilypad!

I had so much fun playing with this one. For some reason, the February BYOCs are always my favorites. 🙂

Rack and Ruin papers and You and Me elements by Kaye Winiecki
Journal Strippers and Sprinkles v. 20 by Valorie Wibbens 
The Golden Friends fonts by Heather Joyce
I love scrapping with the BYOC – everything goes together so well!!

 

Credits:
Perfect Amount of Mess v4 by Amy Martin
The Golden Friends fonts by Heather Joyce


Have a great Friday!

February Idea Notebook

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Do you know when a page just gets together in no time at all?? That’s what happened to me tonight using the gorgeous new February Idea Notebook by Digital Design Essentials (and free with purchase cards).

These gorgeous designs make it so easy to put a page together! Here’s the first page I made with this collection.. and there will be more because there are so many gorgeous products I haven’t touched yet!

Credits:
February Idea Notebook and Besos vol II journaling cards by Digital Design Essentials

I’m so happy with how it turned out! 🙂 Best way to end a manic Monday for sure!

February

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I’m really excited to share the page I made for the write.click.scrapbook February gallery. The theme is Technology, and while there are so many ways in which technology has impacted our lives, I chose to scrap about one that was especially significant last month for me. I love how this page turned out!

I bought multiple sheets of that background paper by Studio Calico and had been hoarding it, and it was just perfect for this page! I wish I had a whole world map actually, since not all the places I needed to pinpoint were on this map, but I made do.

Here are some details.

 

Have a great rest of the weekend!

January BYOC!

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First Friday of the month… It’s BYOC time at The Lilypad!! I am one for bright colors all the way, but I have to say that this soft palette really grew on me!

Here’s my first page:

Credits:
Soiree Elements by One Little Bird Designs
Dinner Date elements by Pink Reptile Designs
Font: Vintage Typewriter
There’s also lots of fun going on this month at The Lilypad..

 

Will you be playing along?

Happy 2014!

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Happy new year!! 2013 has been a good year for me. I made a year in review page for the January gallery at write.click.scrapbook and I love how it turned out!

I kept it simple and let the photos speak.

I did some embossing in silver metallic zing to create a visual triangle around my photos.

Grey, red, black, yellow, silver.

Happy new year!

Stretch Your Card Kit!

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After all the cardmaking with the Copper Mountain card kits, I was itching to create something else. 🙂 So I made a 12×12 page using some paper scraps from the card kits and some digital files.

I love how this page turned out! Here are some details.

This is a digi printable.

I love this little stamps from the Copper Mountain card kit!

Layering with the pretty star button.

Misting in the background, and another digi printable (the speech bubble).

These gems are so pretty!

Copper Mountain – January kits at Studio Calico

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I am the card kit guest designer for January 2014 at Studio Calico, and I went a bit overboard with cardmaking lately! 😉 I made a total of nine cards!

These first few were done with the main card kit only, Copper Mountain card kit. {the link only works for subscribers from noon EST on Dec. 27, and for everyone from midnight}

The kit comes with a die to be used with a manual die cutter. Since I don’t own one, I thought of some other way to use the die, and ended up using it as a stencil for my stitching. 🙂 I love this cute whale!

 

 

The colors in this month’s kit are right up my alley!

The patterns in the paper pad are very pretty!

This ribbon in the kit is so much fun! It has thin metal wires inside, so you can shape it up as you wish!

I thought the stamps were so versatile!

I was inspired by these cute candy dots to go with an ombre theme for this card.

And now we get to the card add on kit, Spaulding Bowl. {the link only works for subscribers from noon EST on Dec. 27, and for everyone from midnight}

I went with an elegant design for this card.. I guess the color scheme was inspired by the Christmas festivities! 🙂

I am in love with the skinny handwritten sentiments in the stamp set!!

As soon as I saw the washi and the gems in the add on kit I knew they’d be a perfect match! 🙂

I also used some of the digital files along with my Silhouette.
When I saw the ocean theme for the stamp set I immediately thought I should use this pretty blue POW glitter paper I had in my stash. 🙂

Yeah, I think this is my favorite card out of the nine I made!

I tried using the stamp to make a card with two whales, but it didn’t quite work out.. it turned out much better to use the digital shape and cut out the two whales! 🙂

Confession: this was my first time ever using a rub on! 😉 (the white anchor)

There is an adorable fox stamp in one of the Project Life add ons and I got to play with this cut file and some watercolors. 🙂

And that’s my ninth card! I have by no means exhausted these two kit, just my time! I haven’t even played yet with two of the stamps – the clouds and “showered with love” sentiment in the main kit and the books stamps in the add on.

I hope you enjoyed these cards; I had lots of fun making them and I hope they show how versatile these kits are! 🙂 In fact, I used the card kits to make a 12″x12″ LO last night – I will be sharing it here early next week. 🙂
If you are considering signing up for a subscription, use this link and we’ll both get a $5 bonus towards add-on purchases. 🙂