How Did You Turn Out So Wonderful?

Hey, friends!  I hope you're doing well on this beautiful Tuesday.  I'm sharing a layout today that I created last month for a Valentine Crop over on the My Scraps and More forum.  The challenge was to use at least two different types of sparkles on your project.  This could be paint, Stickles, rhinestones, etc.

I broke into my old stash of My mind's Eye (The Sweetest Thing) and created this page featuring my oldest cutie, Reese.  My sparkles were glittery gold paint, gold glitter Thickers, and shiny gold thread.  I'm just really loving the gold trend now...and when you add touches of it here and there, it just looks fabulous!  (You can check out all the brand new MME HERE in the store!)

I added some gold glitter paint to this little chipboard banner piece.  It really sparkles in real life!

Look at all the sparkles!  Woo hoo!  I just love this gold thread I found at Michael's...it adds the perfect touch.  And I hope I never run out of these Thickers...I bought them a long time ago but never actually used them.  Now I want to hoard them because I don't want to use them up...I know that makes no sense whatsoever...haha.

I love these MME dimensional layered stickers.  Perfect for layering on top of paper & thread.

Love these cute wooden buttons & brads.  I layered the brad...I had to dismantle the metal parts on the bottom and added a pop dot.

I highly recommend you add something sparkly to your page every once in a while...the glitter paint is  really easy to add to anything, and the thread is another easy add-on.

Thanks for stopping by, and have a great day!

Creative Scrappers #263

Are you ready for another awesome Creative Scrappers sketch?  This one is really cool because you have the opportunity to use a really large photo, which is something I rarely do.  Of course, you could break it up into smaller pictures if you wanted.  I chose to use a big one!

Check out the sketch:

I have been waiting to scrap this picture of Paige for a while now.  I actually have several more of her in this dress to scrap.  The colors make it difficult to go with just one collection, so this sketch was perfect for this.  I was able to use primarily washi tape to create it...I used just a tad bit of patterned paper to punch the hearts.  I went through my stash of tapes and picked out all the ones that matched her dress.  I had originally planned on making stripes in the order of colors on the dress but decided to do more of an ombre look.  I added in ribbon, stamps, thread and a few rhinestones.

I love the textures and dimension...there's a lot going on here!

Oh, I also added in a bit of modeling paste, but it's hard to see.

This layout was SO much fun to create!  I love breaking free from collections every once in a while and just grabbing whatever catches my eye at the time.

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Sweet Little Valentine Party

Hey there!  I'm wrapping up February with another cute Valentine layout I created for My Scraps and More :)  This was made for the Love is in the Air Crop a few weeks ago.  The challenge was to use at least two see-through items on a layout.  I used vellum, a frame and those adorable little acetate hearts.  All this is from the Love Notes collection from Crate Paper.  Even the Sweet part of the title is see-through.  Love all those little bits & pieces!

You can pick this line up in the My Scraps store HERE.
 

I love adding cord to my pages, and these cute flair badges are the perfect piece to layer on top.  And I just love this date stamped patterned paper!

I also like mixing up the alphas in my title.  Just makes it a little more interesting :)

I think Crate's chipboard pieces are my favorite in all their collections.  Always the perfect match.

I can't believe February is pretty much over already!  Get ready for another month...full steam ahead!

Thanks for stopping by, and have a great weekend!

Valentine Wrap Up / My Creative Scrapbook

Happy Thursday!  Today I'm sharing my final two projects featuring the February Main Kit from My Creative Scrapbook.  Both of these projects are primarily designed with the Love Notes collection from Crate Paper.

I wanted to add more teal to the background, so I first used modeling paste through a template, and then before removing it, I sprayed teal Color Shine over it.  I also added some darker pink watercolor.

I always love Crate Paper's awesome chipboard shapes!  And their 3-dimensional stickers are awesome...and pairing them together just works so well with their collections.  I colored one of the Prima flowers and tucked it underneath the chipboard as well as some red thread.

Chipboard layering...it adds so much depth.

A close-up of the paste...amazing texture!  I cut the word "love" on my Cameo.  It was actually left over from a previous project.  I love when I'm able to use up bits that are just laying around on my desk.

Here is my final card.  My favorite part of this one is the gold accents!  I colored the big flower blue using watered down acrylic paint.  The background of the card was cut from patterned paper, and the rest is stickers from the sticker sheet.  I added in the gold thread and Color Shine from my stash.

Eeeeek!!  Gold!  Love it!

You won't want to miss what's coming up in the March kits...so stay tuned next week for the reveal!

Thanks for stopping by today, and have a great day!

Finding Leaves / My Scraps & More

I love Tuesdays.  It's my day off from the gym, my husband drives the girls to school, I can take my time drinking my breakfast smoothie, and we get a little date later on tonight.  Which includes a stop at Michaels. And dinner.  It's awesome, and I treasure my Tuesdays :)

I have mixed emotions about this layout.  I created it using sketch #67 for My Scraps & More a few weeks ago.  I used the Happy-Go-Lucky line from Fancy Pants, which is awesome.  I'm just not sure I love how this all turned out.  The pictures of Reese trying to find leaves, so I had this bright idea of adding leaves somehow to the page.  So I grabbed the cover sheet of the collection...you know, the one with all the sample stripes of all the patterned papers included?  The very first sheet in the wrapper that has the title and everything?  I was going to use the white side and just paint the leaves once I cut them on my Cameo.  Well, once they were cut, I kind of liked how they looked with all the stripey patterns.  So I used that side.  I kind of think it's too busy, but I kind of like it at the same time.

I traced them on the yellow piece of paper as well.  I just wanted to add that "leaf" element to the page.  I did paint a few of the pieces with watercolors (a green tealish color).  I do like how the modeling paste turned out in the background.  I added gold paint to it.....now THAT I LOVE!  If you don't have any of the Martha Stewart gold metallic paint, it's SO cool!  Really easy to brush on to paper or embellishments, and it dries shiny.

Love these little banner stickers that Fancy Pants always includes.  I added some thread and made a popped-up little banner.

Here are my leaves...I never thought of using the title sheet in the collection, but it turned out kind of cool.  Plus a lot of the patterns are represented.

Eeeeeek!!  Shiny gold!!  And the gold thread is awesome, too.  Shiny is my favorite these days!

I added some splatters of gold Color Shine as well.  LOVE that stuff.

I hope this inspires you to use up that "title page" in your collection kits.  You never know what kind of cool look you might end up with.  And you still have the "real" paper to use on another project!  If you're like me, you hate wasting any scrappy product.

Have a great day!  Thanks for visiting me :)

A few more cards

Hello, friends :)  I wanted to share a few more cards I made with the February Main Kit from My Creative Scrapbook.  Like I said in my previous card post, I'm not a huge card maker.  There is nothing worse than spending time, energy and your precious scrappy supplies on a card to give to someone and they just totally disregard it and it winds up in the garbage!  Some people just don't appreciate a handmade card.  However, those people in your life who DO appreciate them are always thrilled to receive one.  Those are the people I make cards for.  And although it may seem like just a "simple card" to us...the average person is completely blown away by what you've made!

I had already made four layouts with this kit, and I had so many bits and pieces left over that I decided to give some cards a try.  They came together surprisingly quick, and although they're not my favorite designs by any means, they were still fun to make!

This kit is filled with the Love Notes collection from Crate Paper.  I liked the XOXOs on this patterned paper and the fun dimensional fan flower sticker.  I added in a little bit of thread.  It's not perfect, but I still like it.

You can't really see the shiny dried glue unless the light is shining on it...

I added some stamping and watercolor to this little card.  I really loved the chipboard mailbox and wanted the look of hearts pouring out of it.  I thought it turned out cute!  Pretty simple, but I know if I gave this to my mom, she'd love it :)

I dabbed red watercolor inside the stamped hearts.  I like that they're not perfect :)

You can check HERE for all the February kits.  I really enjoyed creating with this one.  I still have one more layout and card to share before the month ends.

Thanks for taking a peek!  Have a great Sunday :)

My Scraps Sketch #69

It's finally Friday...I thought it would never get here!  If you're looking for some inspiration to get your scrappy mojo flowing, check out the newest sketch over on the My Scraps & More Sketch Blog right HERE!  It's awesome and will surely help you kick start your weekend.

I pulled out the Flea Market collection from Crate Paper.  (There is still a lot of it left in the store HERE.) I added in some various washi tapes, modeling paste and watercolors.  I love all the bits and pieces in this collection.  It makes it fun and easy to tuck in embellishments here and there.

Gold thread....LOVE it!  I also love this circle cut.  I actually created it from scratch in my Cameo software.  It's so easy to make your own shapes and weld them together.

I'm going to be sad when I run out of these glitter Thickers.  They are as awesome as they come!

I love the imperfections of modeling paste, and I love outlining it to give it a little bit more definition.  I just added it right over the washi tape.

I thought this little tag was cute, and I threw in some tangled pink thread behind it.

Make sure you check out the rest of the team's layouts...lots of inspiration!  You could win one of the new My Mind's Eye Chalk Studio 2 collections if you play along with us!

Thanks for checking it out!  Have a great day :)