Celebrate Good Times, Come On! / My Scraps & More

Happy Thursday, friends!  I hosted last week's Trigger Tuesday Challenge over at on the My Scraps & More forums which is where we use the monthly theme to come up with the challenge.  July's themes are celebrations/patriotic/stars & stripes.  I challenged members to use the word CELEBRATE on their layouts and to make a shape of some sort with their title.

I learned how to created a shaped title in my Silhouette software and decided to give it a try.  It was actually really easy!  I learned by watching this video by Ashley Horton.  I used the Amy Tan Rise & Shine collection on this, and used various patterned papers to back all those cut out letters.  I like this kind of design because it automatically creates a place for your photos & embellishments to go...right inside the circle.

If you know my work, then you know I love mixed media.  I went very light on this and only added a bit of ink spray and gelatos to my background.  I just wanted a bit of a darker teal peeking out from under the photo and embellishments.  I layered lots of paper under the photo, and I added some washi tape, that cute "love" wood veneer and a few flair buttons.  I also stitched around the inner circle with grey thread.

Here's a look at the backed letters...a very easy and fun technique to get lots of color and pattern around your page without it being too busy.

I punched this "just having fun" piece from a piece of patterned paper, and that pretty clear sticker is from this collection.  That cute flair button is from my stash.  I love to add tangled thread under them.

Here's one last close-up of the layers and the other cute flair button.

Here's a video of how this layout came together from start to finish.  Hope you enjoy!

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