Yay! I did manage to carve out some crafty time this afternoon (see post below), so I made a quick page using the Go See Do printables by Mari Koegelenberg. I printed and cut them out with my Silhouette.
Here are a couple details:
It’s funny because I am not a circle person – rarely do they appear on my pages – but I was digging all the circles on this page! 😉
Have a great weekend!
It’s BYOC* time at The Lilypad! Such a fun and versatile color palette this month!
* BYOC = build your own collab
Here’s what I scrapped with it:
I had a bit of a hard time coming up with a good background for this next page. I tried light papers first, but then I settled on this paper by Valorie Wibbens (I recolored it), and I love the result! I lowered the opacity on the dot papers by One Little Bird so they look like vellum.
I also made a hybrid card using Sahlin Studio products. I love the aqua, pink and yellow combination.
I added some Glossy Accents on the yellow heart to add a bit of texture.
And that’s all I have for this BYOC at the moment. Happy 4th of July, and happy BYOC to all of you! 🙂
I have some catching up to do! Our anniversary was a couples of weeks ago, and I scrapped, and I made a mini album! 🙂 All with Sahlin Studio products. 😉
This mini album was totally inspired by the Project Mouse journal date cards. I love how it turned out!
It was so easy and fun to put together (except when I printed on the wrong side of my matte paper.. LOL!). 😉
Are you ready for the week to be over? I sure am, plus Friday is BYOC time at The Lilypad! I love all the gorgeous new products – only a short wait now to see what’s coming! 🙂
The May BYOC has arrived at The Lilypad! In addition, the iNSD festivities are in full force, with fun games (and prizes!), a storewide 30% off sale and a free with purchase kit, so this is bound to be an exciting weekend! 🙂 I scrapped a few pages and made a few cards, so here they come.
I love this shade of green!
This card is for the hybrid challenge – I hope you’ll play along for the chance to win a GC!
Jenn Barrette’s new kit (20% off today!) is perfect to scrap the first few pictures of spring! The journaling cards are adorable too!
I made a hybrid page and had so much fun putting it together! It’s 8″x8″.
I used mists (Heidi Swapp Color Pop teal, Heidi Swapp Color Pop primrose, Studio Calico Mister Huey buttercup), sequins and some stitching to add more texture to the page. Here are a couple of details:
That huge blob on the background was a major mist spill (taught me that you shouldn’t be scrapping when you are nervous!), but it turned out to be a happy accident in the end. 🙂
I also have another page to share (didn’t have time to blog it yesterday), using creashens’ latest kit and accompanying products, which are just adorable! I loved the blue in the kit, but I ended up with this red+green color scheme that I was digging. I think I need to make another page with the blue now! 🙂
Have a fabulous weekend!
This was a fun week to put together!
I had quite a few pictures and events to include this week, so I added an insert using the Design H photo protectors. The photo protector on the left is by We R Memory Keepers.
On the right I used a Design A photo protector.
The left page is my least favorite part of this spread, but it still has parts I like.
This is the front and back of the insert. I love how it turned out!!
And this is the right page. OK, let’s see some details! 😉
I finally got to use some of my cards from the Clementine kit! I bought it last year and rarely use it, but this “10” card was perfect for this week. 🙂 The arrow stickers are from the Clementine kit as well. I had to add some washi tape (orange striped washi tape is by My Mind’s Eye,) at the top because the card kept slipping out of its slot. The stamp at the top is from the February Studio Calico Front Row Project Life kit, embossed with Versamark ink and Apricot ZING embossing powder. I love embossing!! I love stamping, but only have a limited color supply, while my Zing stash is getting bigger. 😉 I also stamped the Amy Tangerine calendar stamp in Versafine Smokey Gray ink. The blue alpha is by Prima.
The card is the back of a card from the March Studio Calico Neverland Project Life kit; I used my  Pebbles date stamp and the tab is by Bananafish Studio from the February Studio Calico Front Row Project Life kit.
I used two stamps from the March Studio Calico Neverland Project Life kit, and embossed with Versamark ink and Apricot ZING embossing powder on vellum paper. The badge is also from the kit. I created the “awesome” word bit, and the round stickers are from the Clementine kit. The background is a Becky Higgins Project Life 4×6 grid card sprayed with Heirloom Blue Mister Huey by Studio Calico.
I dug out the sold out Awesome stamp set by Studio Calico, and embossed it with Versamark ink and Apricot ZING embossing powder. It turned out awesome!! 😉 I made the word strip, and the card on the right is a recolored version of the one I used on this page, using a design by Digital Design Essentials.
I love the Darling Dear printed chipboard hearts by Studio Calico!
Here I used a stamp by Ali Edwards for Technique Tuesday, embossed with Versamark ink and Apricot ZING embossing powder. I layered washi tape by My Mind’s Eye and American Crafts glitter tape. The alpha is by Basic Grey (Fact and Fiction).
I stamped the Days of the Week stamp by Ali Edwards on the Bananafish Studio tab from the February Studio Calico Front Row Project Life kit, and colored it with watercolor crayons.
Just used some washi tape on this card.
This stamp is from the Epic stamp set by Studio Calico; I embossed it with Versamark ink and Apricot ZING embossing powder on vellum paper. I used the Tiny Attacher to attach it to the photo.
I love how this card turned out! The card is from the Studio Calico Darling Dear journaling card set. I embossed an Ali Edwards stamp with Versamark ink and Apricot ZING embossing powder. Tape by My Mind’s Eye, and a Darling Dear printed chipboard heart by Studio Calico. The blue camera sticker wasn’t planned to be on the card, but I made a mistake in the journaling so I used it to cover it up. 😉 Stamp from the Black Friday Studio Calico set (sold out)
Card from a Studio Calico PL kit. The cute little alpha is by Prima. I thought the wood veneer camera by Studio Calico was the perfect touch for this card.
I embellished these photos with Studio Calico Darling Dear stickers.
Well, now you know… that’s what my craft corner looks like most of the time! 😉 The alpha sticker is by Basic Grey (Fact and Fiction) and I added a word directly on the photo using a white poster paint fine sharpie.
And here’s the last card! I had fun using the Glitz roller stamp with Heirloom Blue Mister Huey, and I stamped stamps by Amy Tangerine and the Stepping Stone alpha by Studio Calico with Versamark ink and Apricot ZING embossing powder on a Becky Higgins Project Life 4×6 grid card.
Hope you enjoyed this post! I’d love to hear from you if you did. 🙂
Not sure how it happened, but yesterday kind of got away from me.. 😉 .. and I have two cards to share with two new kits that were released yesterday! The first one is by Mari Koegelenberg…
I made this simple card, but I really love how it turned out! 😉
Then there is this fun kit by Jenn Barrette and my card:
Have a nice day! I hate the switch to Daylight Savings, I know it’ll take me a few days to get used to it! Getting up on hour earlier is never good in my book… 😉
Warning: this is a picture heavy post! 🙂 Here’s Week 7 of my Project Life. This was Valentine’s Day week and, given the number of photos (and stories!) I had, I originally thought I would need to add an insert, but I managed to squeeze everything in two pages. 🙂
The colors for this week are red and gold, inspired by the Chinese red envelopes that I included on the left page.
This was a fun week to put together!
Here are the details.
Lots of gold for this card. 🙂 I own a couple of sets of gold thickers, and I settled for these curly ones because they were especially suited to represent the snake theme. 😉 I also used these pretty Dear Lizzy 5th & Frolic gold foil mini letter stickers.
On the title card I used some heart sequins that have been in my stash for years, Amy Tangerine’s new Yes Please calendar stamp (love!!) and my letter rubber stamps by ImageTree (EK Success). I used Colorbox pigment ink and Sharpie fine point pens.
I used the cool 3×4 Photo Templates by Designs by Lili for the journaling spots on this card and throughout the spread.
For the background of this card, I colored a Becky Higgins Project Life 4×6 grid card with an Elmer gold leafing pen (that thing stinks, but it is so pretty!! ;)) using a stencil by Studio Calico.
Just an easy photo collage and some digital journaling directly on it to save space. Man, was that a happy mail day!!
The newsflash stamp from the February Project Life Studio Calico kit was perfect to document a couple of events that have caught my attention.
This is one of my favorite parts of this week’s spread! (see below for more pictures) The heart design is a digital freebie by Designs by Lili (check out her Facebook page); I turned it red, printed it out, and then covered it with Studio Calico Mister Huey gold. So fun!! 😉
More Studio Calico stamps stamped with Colorbox pigment ink, along with gold sequins. The alpha stamp is the Studio Calico Stepping Stone set.
I love this card too! The typewriter on the left was sketched with my Silhouette cutter and a sketch pen… it was my first time using the Silhouette to sketch, and I was amazed at how well it worked! This machine seriously was my *best*purchase*ever*!! The typewriter from the right is from the Studio Calico Heyday wood veneer pack, and I colored it with the Elmer gold leafing pen.
I really love this pair of cards too! I used the same stencil of the card and misted it with Studio Calico Mister Huey gold. I totally just bought the Starbucks gift card so that I could include it in my album. It was a tad too large to fit in the 3″ wide pocket, so I cut off a bit with an X-acto craft knife. The card on the right is a free illustration by Samantha Hahn that I slightly recolored to suit my color scheme.
The card on the left, from the Feb. Studio Calico Project Life kit, was perfect to document our Valentine’s Day! 🙂
I added some journaling on this card (from the Feb. Studio Calico Project Life kit).
The card on the left is from an adorable set by Mari Koegelenberg and Penny Springmann; I added a heart sequin on top of the nut – it looks black in this photo, but it really is red. 🙂 Stamps by Studio Calico.
More collages and digital journaling. And this concludes week 7! But before I go, let me show you a couple more images of this pretty card.
It doesn’t translate well at all in the photos, but the Studio Calico Mister Huey gold has a gorgeous shimmery look – so pretty!
As all my hybrid work, this was printed out on Canon matte photo paper.
I hope you enjoyed this week. 😉 Thanks for staying with me till the end of this long post! 🙂
Once upon a time, years before discovering my vocation in scrapbooking, I had taken up embroidery as a hobby. I spent quite a bit of time at it, but I gave it up happily when I discovered scrapbooking, and never looked back. Tonight, as I was sewing on this card, I thought back at all the long hours spent embroidering, and I wondered how I could put up with that stuff! 🙂 It is clearly not the hobby for me.. 😉
I do love how the sewing turned out in the end, but this is one thing you won’t be seeing much of in the future from me. It took me way too long! I think I spent over an hour sewing on this card. The first attempt was directly on the background and it quickly went awry (I made a huge hole in the background and that resulted in some creative rearrangement of the elements of this card ;)). Next, I decided to sew on vellum and add it to my card – that worked better, but it still took me forever. 🙂
But apart from the insane amount of time I spent on it, I am very happy to have made this card – I finally got to use a seriously AMAZING kit by Jenn Barrette.
This kit is so cool! There are several papers in there that I wanted to use for my card (including a fabulous star chart and a planet map), but in the end I settled for this unique one.
I included the moon phases on this card as an inside joke for my husband – at my high school graduation exam I was asked a very simple question about the moon, and to this date he makes fun of me to the brilliant answer I gave (which, BTW, was precisely what the teacher wanted to hear) – “it’s the moon!”.  🙂
Jenn Barrette is re-releasing in her Sweet Shoppe store this gorgeous collab with Lauren Reid. It originally came out when she was guesting at One Story Down, but I Â didn’t get a chance to grab it back then. The kit is 20% off today!
I love this kit so much! The theme is obviously scrapbooking, but it works for anything really! I used it to make a love card using the print and cut feature of my Silhouette.
Here are some details.
I cut out the three frames and backed them up with patterned paper.
I love how it turned out! 🙂
I have another post coming soon with another fabulous release (or three ;))!
ETA: I print all my hybrid projects on Canon matte photo paper. It’s very cheap, and the colors turn out beautifully!