March Scrapshotz Kit - Pinkfresh Studio My Favorite Story - Take 2

 

Pastel rainbows and blooms! This pretty line of paper makes you long for spring! On this layout I used the rainbow to write my journaling. Under the matted photo, I put a trio of the lovely tags and at the bottom is a bit of popped up ephemera. A few enamel dots spread over the page and it was complete. 

For my second layout, I found this older photo of my granddaughter and had to laugh! Since we are social-distancing and self-isolating, the world is worried about having enough toilet paper. This toilet paper pile is pure gold right now! I used a couple of frames to do my journaling in, and popped one on top of the other.

There is a cascade of blooms mixed with chipboard circles down the diagonal of the page and I used plenty of pop dots to give it dimension.

 

And finally, the cards from the scraps! I love using left over bits of ephemera and scraps of leftover patterned paper to create cards for my stash.

This one is just a tag embellished with a few drops of Nuvo Crystal Drops.

This happy card was created by stamping the sentiment from the Stamping Village Happy Birthday set (available here!) right on a leftover tag, then adding a bow of binding tape and some enamel dots. I colored the hearts with a watercolor pen.

These cards used leftover paper blooms from the kit with a frame on one and the other highlighted with Nuvo drop centers. These cards will work for any event.

This card used another pretty frame and I used a greeting from the Taylored Expressions - Simple Strips Stamp Set Birthday.  These sentiments, along with the dies and the backer dies, are made in advance and stored for quick card making! Taylored Expressions has a few different sets that are cut with the same dies. Love them!!! 

Thanks for stopping by for a look at my kit projects. Be well and safe, everyone!

Check Out The March Kit Club Goodies!! with video

Hello! Karla back today with a closeup look at the fabulous March 2020 Kit featuring the absolutely gorgeous Pinkfresh Studio My Favorite Story collection!! I know we are heading toward the end of the month, but for any of you crafty gals (or guys!) who've been on the fence about signing up for a kit.... let me show you what a month of goodness looks like! First off, you can check out the DETAILS about our kits HERE! Along with all those perks and a crafty kit of supplies for you every month, you also get inspiration on how to use all those goodies each month. Our fabulous design team posts projects, videos and tutorials using products from the kits each month just to get you started!

Here's a look at the Video where you can see everything up close, along with a couple awesome coordinating add-on goodies you can throw in your cart if you want! 

Included in this month's Kit:

8 double sided Pinkfresh Studio My Favorite Story patterned papers,

8 matching  12x12  pieces of cardstock,

Phrases Puffy Stickers, 

Ephemera, 

half pack of Chipboard Flair, 

Enamel Dots, 

Puffy Stickers

& Puffy Alphas!  

 Thanks so much for stopping by! Be sure to head over to the Shop  to check out the March 2020 Kit - and find all the NEW in shop items HERE!! Have a wonderful, safe and crafty week my friends!

March Scrapshotz Kit - Pinkfresh Studio My Favorite Story

Hello! I sincerely hope this finds you all well and busy at home during this time of social distancing. I manage to keep busy in my craft space. Thank goodness for our hobby! Today I am sharing a couple of layouts created with the March Scrapshotz kit - Pinkfresh Studio's "My Favorite Story."

 

This simple layout has an Emerson quote that I thought was appropriate not only for the photo, but for this uncertain time. I used the new Lawn Fawn Oliver's Stitched ABC's Die Set. (I noticed that at present, this set is out of stock, but I'm sure if you let Sandy know, she can get you one!) I used a Zig marker for the handwriting in the quote.

The photo is nature at her finest and is highlighted with a Studio Katia stencil called Light Ray, using Vicki Boutin Wildflower & Honey Colour Wheel Pigment Ink gold. This metallic ink is solid and awesome, and it's hard to photograph how pretty it is.

I finished it off with a banner from the ephemera pack that I popped up on foam squares. I was planning to write a bit about this crazy time we're living through right now, but decided that I would like to put my thoughts in a note, put it in an envelope and put it behind the layout.

My second layout today used the Creative Scrapbooker challenge sketch for March 2020, shown here.

This color-blocked patterned paper from the My Favorite Story line needed nothing added. I loved this quote and knew that it definitely applied to my granddaughter, so used the beautiful white Thickers included in this months kit to put it on a black cardstock panel. The white printing is done with a Gelly Roll pen.

The blooms were fussy cut from another sheet of the patterned paper, then some were popped up with foam. The flower centers were embellished with drops of Nuvo Crystal Drops - Ebony Black. I love how they give the blooms some added life. I also embellished the page with some of the enamel dot stickers included in the kit.

Thanks for stopping by. Keep yourself and your families safe and well.

Simple Mixed Media

I am playing with some of the Vicki Boutin, Let's Wander collection - this is the line we are featuring in our kits this month and I got a few of the goodies to play with. I love it as much as I knew I would! This collection is so colourful and so busy (in a good way). With this kit, you can get away with keeping things really simple and still creating a layout with lots to look at.

I started this layout with the sunburst rainbow design in the 12x12 paper pad. Inspired by the rainbow look, I took the star 12x12 paper and started fussy cutting. Focusing on the stars that had the same colour tones as the rainbow burst and making sure to cut a few of all the different sizes - I spent a couple of Parks & Recreation episodes sitting on the couch cutting stars. Binge-watching and fussy cutting are like peas and carrots!

From there I laid out the stars on the rainbow burst using tone on tone. Sitting back, I felt like I needed some mixed media -  not too much though there was a lot going on...So I stamped a few stars from the matching stamp & die set with the collection to bring a little pop of black behind the star clusters. Then using my journal and a ruler created a grid pattern sort of like a graph paper design to anchor my photos and then a little bit more up top off the edge.

To finish off my background, I did just a tiny bit of black splatters and then layered it all back on. I used foam adhesive on a few of the stars to give it all some dimension. 

I really love how it turned out! The muted colours of this collection and pops of black with the star stamps and grid design giving it just a touch of black - made it fun busy, not too busy! 

February Kit with a Little Bit of Everything!

Hello everyone! I hope everyone is doing well and looking for some ideas with the February kit. The kit is full of Vicki Boutin "Let's Wander" supplies. There are lots of stars so I used them to inspire a layout with some fun pictures we took at Mme Tussaud's a few years ago.

I got to play with lots of fun supplies with this layout. The star bursts were made with a stencil called Starstruck. Seems like it was fate that it goes with the title of the layout. I used Liquid Pearls to fill in the stencil and then dab some extra dots to make the paint thicker. I also used the pearls on the wooden stars. They can be found in the Scrap Shotz store here. 

The background paper comes in a paper pad. The cute little envelope with matching card are a great way to add a journaling space on a busy layout. The title uses the Thicker set which I'm really happy has made 3 titles without running out of any letters. Finally, I've embellished the layout with die cuts and chipboard stickers. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Family Day Layout with Prima Capri & a Video

Hello friends! Karla here today with a pretty double page layout using the gorgeous Prima Capri Collection. The colours and images in this collection are so lovely, and I thought some photos from Family Day this year would look beautiful with them! We visited the Devonian Gardens downtown Calgary, which is an indoor garden, and is absolutely beautiful. 

I put together a video to show you how I put together the first page of this layout-

I decided to use a sketch from the March SCT 365 - 2020 Online Class to create this double page layout. I grabbed some teal bazzill cardstock from my stash and added it as accent colour, matting my photos and using some of the same colours from embellishments and papers in the collection. 

The Prima Flowers, Ephemera, Wood and Puffy Stickers and Gems are all so pretty!

I cut apart one of the 12x12 sheets to use a Postcard as an area to journal.

I even diecut butterflies with some of the floral paper with my Cricut to embellish my page further.

By adding layers of the Ephemera, using foam tape, and adding the paper flower and gems I added lots of texture & dimension.

The wood stickers are so cool and have such a great effect on the page! Of course, I love how the papers all work together so well and layer wonderfully.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Be sure to head over to the Scrap Shotz Store to check out the Prima Capri Collection. I hope in light of recent events you're all staying safe and healthy and I wish you all a crafty week 💖

Lawn Fawn A Bug Deal, Reveal Wheel and Magic Iris

Hello!

Rosie here, back with more Lawn Fawn projects for your viewing pleasure 😊. 

A Bug Deal Shadow Box

Supplies: A Bug Deal stamp and dies; Shadow Box Card Die, Shadow Box Park Add-on (clouds & grass); Hello Sunshine Remix 6x6 paper pack; Copic Markers; gems from my stash

Reveal Wheel Happy Birthday

Supplies: Reveal Wheel Die Set; Reveal Wheel Circle Sentiments stamp, Reveal Wheel Templates: Circle Sentiments, Hello Sunshine Remix 6x6 paper pack, Shadow Box Rainbow Add-on (clouds); Wink of Stella Glitter pens

Die cut the patterned paper with the Lawn Fawn Reveal Wheel square add-on.

Stamp the sentiment with using the circle template as a guide. There are two circle templates in the set A and B, I used the wrong one, I'll explain more about that later.

I coloured the sentiment with Wink of Stella glitter markers in rainbow color order.

Once that was done, time to put the wheel together. I won't describe the process stop by step, here's a link to a great video from Lawn Fawn explaining the process. You can see from the photo below that the sentiment is not entered within the window, that's because I used the wrong template to stamp the sentiment. I added red and yellow dots above the sentiment to fill in the white space and make it work :).

I adhered the finished wheel to a piece of yellow textured card stock from my stash and finished it off with clouds die cut from the Lawn Fawn Rainbow shadow box add-on.

Happy Day Cloudy Reveal Wheel

Supplies: Reveal Wheel Circle Sentiments stamp, Reveal Wheel die cut, Reveal Wheel Semi-Circle Add-on Lawn Fawn Cloudy Stencil, Lawn Fawn Hello Sunshine Remix 6x6 paper pad, Lawn Fawn Circle Sentiments Template, Distress Oxide Salty Ocean

After die cutting all the pieces I inked the front piece and the reveal wheel with Salty Ocean Distress Oxide ink and the Lawn Fawn Cloudy stencil. I love this stencil, so easy to use and the clouds it creates are fabulous!

I then stamped the sentiment using the right template this time so it lines up right in the centre of the wheel.

After colouring 'Happy' with a red glitter marker I put the wheel together and matted it on a piece of Hello Sunshine Remix paper then adhered it to a Kraft card stock base.

Simply Fabulous Magic Iris

It's a lot of fun using the Magic Iris die and I wanted to show you that it can be used with non-Lawn Fawn products too.

Supplies: Lawn Fawn Magic Iris Die, Magic Iris Scalloped Add-on, January Scrap Shotz Kit, Taylored Expressions Simple Strips Background Stamp, Taylored Expressions Simple Strips Die, Taylored Expressions Simple Strips Backer Die

I die cut all the pieces out of papers in the January Scrap Shotz kit.

The sentiment is from the Taylored Expressions Simple Strips Background stamp set and matted with the a banner from the TE Simple Strips Backer Die.
I chose to use a floral chipboard piece from the kit and as it has dimension, I popped up the Magic Iris with foam adhesive and it works beautifully!

Thanks for stopping in and taking a look!

Happy Crafting!