Final layout for Artful Delight June kit

I never thought the end of this kit would ever arrive...haha.  This is the last layout I created with the June Artful Delight kit.  Believe it or not, I still have product left over, and I will eventually dig back into it.  For this one, I used more Simple Stories Summer Fresh papers and embellishments.

I love these cool stick pins...I incorporated them behind my button & twine.  The "discover" title is almost like a flexible grungeboard type material.  I added paint and ink to give it some flavor.

I love these tags & tickets on some of the patterned paper...I just sliced the ends, added an eyelet & twine, and it gave it a little interest.

In case you didn't see the new July kit that's for sale, you must see my previous post, or click HERE. Lots of gorgeous summer colors in this one! You're going to love it :) Have a great day, and thanks for stopping by!

More Artful Delight June kit to share & July kit reveal

Yes, friends...I have yet another page created from Artful Delight's June kit to share today! (And it's still not even my last one...) Like I've said before, this was my first time scrapping with Simple Stories, and I just became obsessed! I love these huge titles, and I couldn't wait to incorporate them onto a page.

I love the sunburst here, and I wanted to use the open part for my journaling, which I stamped.  I also added in words from the sticker sheet.  The flowers in the bottom left hand corner are from a transparency that was included in the kit.  Love playing around with those!

 

I loved this "Summer" piece as is, but I wanted to give the banner a little boost, so I cut a few of the pieces and popped them up a bit.
 

Also, I wanted to share the JULY kit...check this out! There are FIVE different manufacturers included in this one!

Authentique - Delightful collection - 12x12 sheet (1 each) 

Lovely Sweet Beautiful Elegant Charming Cheerful Basic Grey - What's Up collection - 12x12 sheet (1 each) 

Constellation Studio Calico - Take Note collection - 12x12 sheet (1 each) 

Pink Pearl Fancy Pants - Time for Spring collection - 12x12 sheet (1 each) 

Short & Stout Flower Patch Honeycomb Echo Park - Sweet Day collection - 12x12 sheet (1 each) Journaling Cards Fancy Floral Coordinating Cardstock - Bazzill Basics - 12x12 sheet (2 each) 

Aqua Arizona Cantaloupe French Vanilla Sunflowers Medium Embellishments - sizes and color may vary per kit 

1 package - Dear Lizzy Thickers - Serendipity - Aqua 

1 sheet - Prima - (Mist)-A-Ble Canvas sheet -Butterflies and Flowers 

1 bottle - Mister Huey's color mist - Water Cooler 

2 yards - Baker's Twine 1 mini stamp set - Prima - Sun kiss clear stamps - Sunshine 

1 package - Prima Flowers - Lucerne Song Bird 

1 sheet - Authentique Delightful collection - Delightful Details sticker sheet 

1 sheet - My Minds Eye - Miss Caroline - Howdy Doody Lovely Stickers


Here is the CARD KIT:

Authentique - Delightful collection - 6x6 sheet (2 each) 

Lovely Sweet Beautiful Elegant Charming Cheerful Basic Grey - What's Up collection - 6x6 sheet (2 each) Constellation Studio Calico - Take Note collection - 6x6 sheet (2 each) 

Pink Pearl Fancy Pants - Time for Spring collection - 6x6 sheet (2 each) 

Short & Stout Flower Patch Honeycomb Echo Park - Sweet Day collection - 6x6 sheet (2 each) Journaling Cards Fancy Floral Coordinating Cardstock - Bazzill Basics - 8 1/2x11 sheet (2 each) 

Aqua Arizona Cantaloupe French Vanilla Sunflowers Medium Embellishments - sizes and color may vary per kit 

1 stamp set - Lawn Fawn - Sunny Skies 

4 pieces - Prima - (Mist)-A-Ble Canvas sheet -Butterflies and Flowers 

1 bottle - Mister Huey's color mist - Water Cooler 

2 yards - Baker's Twine 1 package - Prima Flowers - Lucerne Song Bird 

1 sheet - My Minds Eye - Miss Caroline - Howdy Doody Lovely Stickers

Wow...all that scrappy goodness! I love the colors and can't wait to play with it! Thanks for stopping by, and have a wonderful Tuesday!

My Scraps Got Talent contest

Hey there, scrappy friends...hope you're having a good weekend.  We have been bombarded with so much rain this weekend.  We've been stuck inside, and it's just so dreary outside.  Hurricane season just brings so many tropical storms & so much rain down here in Florida.  The kids are getting cabin fever, and I'm needing some fresh air.  On the other hand, being stuck inside gives me more time to scrap...and that is always a good thing!

I wanted to remind you about the summer-long scrappy contest going on over at My Scraps & More.  The Got Talent competition is overflowing with fun sketches this year.  Right now, there are several challenges up.  They are all sketches with a twist added in.  These aren't just any sketches...they are Kristine Davidson sketches!  Coming up later this summer, we'll have Julie Bonner & Jana Eubank sketches as well.  Talk about the scrappy sketch jackpot!  It doesn't get any better than that.  There are prizes given away every week, and the more you participate, the better chance you have at winning even more.

I wanted to share a page I created for one of the pre-contest challenges.  It's based on one of Kristine's sketches.  I used an older Echo Park line, Life is Good, for this one.  Yep, I hoard every single piece of paper and pull it out at later dates to use again.  I love this picture of Paige...we stuck her in the Outback takeaway bag one night...haha.




I hadn't used these cute little houses on a layout yet, and I thought since Paige was essentially "takeout" (haha) that the houses fit perfectly. Hey...you bring take-out home, right? Maybe it's a far stretch, but I liked it anyway :)
 
 
Head on over there and join us in the fun! You won't be disappointed :) Have a safe, fun and dry rest of the weekend!

More My Scraps & More pages

Happy Friday!  I'm just popping on this morning to share a few more pages I created for the My Scraps and More June DT reveal.  These are from the Fancy Pants Summer Soul line...such fun patterns & colors!  And I have a ton of summer pool pictures to scrap, so this line worked so well.  I've already shared my first two, so these are my remaining layouts.

For this page, I dirtied up a piece of kraft cardstock with some paint drips.  I also used a bottle cap as a circle stamp and used paint as my ink pad.  I didn't want to add a lot more blue to the page since the majority of my photos contain the bright blue that I love.  I added just a few pieces of patterned paper.  I added some punched circles, and I also punched a few holes out of the cardstock and pop dotted the paper behind it to give it some dimension.



I really wanted to use this really busy flowery paper for this page...but not for the entire background. So I tore it and added some solid light pink to the middle. I was also in the mood to make a few lollipop flowers, so I added those. I also used the coordinating chipboard banners...so fun & easy to use!

 


Don't forget about the My Scraps Got Talent contest going on right now and throughout the summer. I have more pages from there that I will be sharing soon...the inspiration just keeps coming over there! You really don't want to miss out on all the fun! Have a great weekend :)

Another Artful Delight page + a makeover!

Happy Thursday, scrappy peeps!  I have yet another layout to share today featuring the Artful Delight June kit.  Like I said in my previous post, it's the kit that never quits.  It's one of those kits you can stretch and stretch...and still have plenty left over.  Before I share it, I wanted to state the obvious...my blog got a makeover!  I've been wanting to do it for a while, and I finally bit the bullet and went for it.  Kristine Davidson designed it for me, and I'm so excited at what she created.  I am so in love with the bright colors...if you know me, then you know I LOVE anything bright.  When I saw this cute digi kit, I knew it was perfect for my blog.  I love the pinks, blues & greens, and those frogs!  The rainbow!  The sun peeking through the clouds...I could go on and on...haha!  I'm so thrilled with it, and I hope you like it, too!  THANK YOU, Kristine!  You did an amazing job.

Now, onto my page...I really love how Simple Stories has their 12x12 papers designed in these little "card" type shapes...the mats for both photos were just cut out...already made.  There was also a sheet that had smaller "cards"...like I used for the title.  There are SO many to choose from...the possibilities of combining it all are endless.  Some of the 12x12s are halved...like the text print I have behind the photos.  Simple...just cut it in half and it's ready.  I love how easy it is to use this stuff...the hardest part is deciding which sides to use.



I splattered & smeared a little paint...


Lots of edge distressing...I am addicted to roughing up edges :)


I still have three more layouts featuring this kit coming up...I can't wait to share them! I also will have more from My Scraps & More coming up as well. Thanks for checking out my blog, and have a fantastic day!

Artful Delight layouts x 2

I'm so excited to share these two layouts using my June Artful Delight kit!  I wound up making seven pages from this one kit, and I still have paper left over.  These two pages are my third and fourth ones...I'm telling you, this is the kit that keeps on going!  I'm so in love with Simple Stories now.  I had never worked with them before now, and I'm now a huge fan.  I love the pre-sized images and strips, and the colors & patterns are just awesome.

I was apprehensive about starting out with a bright yellow sheet of cardstock, but I love how this turned out.  I fussy cut the kite & cloud, and the rest was pretty much already "made."  So many of the papers are just ready to cut, and they are gorgeous as is.

I decided to get a little messy with this one.  Lots of paint & mist splatters and distressing...again, lots of beautiful patterns & colors.  So many cool shapes just begging to be cut out :)

Thanks for stopping by today...I hope you have a great Tuesday!

My Scraps & More June DT Reveal

I hope everyone is having a nice relaxing weekend.  The weather here is gorgeous...we've been in the pool today, and it just feels so good.  A nice breeze, cool water...all I was missing was nice cold pina colada :)  I wanted to share two of my four DT pages I created for My Scraps & More this month.  Tammi sent me the Summer Soul collection from Fancy Pants, and I had so much fun creating with it.  The colors are right up my alley :)

This one came together pretty quickly for me.  I started out with white cardstock and went to town with some paint...smears & drips everywhere.  I wanted to use several of the patterns, so I decided to use small squares.  The matching chipboard banner pieces make it so easy to add little bits here and there.  I added a punched border, a few buttons, and that was it.

This one I love simply because of the photos :) We were all down by the pool one evening and Paige was dying to get into the pool. She didn't have her suit on, so we improvised and let her go naked. Talk about cutey buns!  This background paper was pretty on its own, but I added a little bit of pink paint.  The banner was from another piece of patterned paper, so all I did was cut it out...so easy!

I have two more pages that I created using this line, but I'll share them later. I don't want to go overboard on one post :)  Don't forget, this line, along with tons of others, are available in the My Scraps & More shop.  Take a look...you won't be disappointed!

Thanks for visiting me...I truly appreciate it. I hope you have a great weekend :)