All This Happiness and More

 Hello!

Rosie back with a few more projects using the April kit club kit featuring Pinkfresh Studios Keeping It Real collection.

Once again, I've put to use a sketch, this time the Creative Scrapbooker Magazine Sketchy Group March sketch and I'm reliving a fun travel memory since there hasn't been any travel for awhile :).

I die cut some leaves out of the kit patterned paper with the Pinkfresh Studios Curvy Leaves die and layered them underneath the photos, ephemera and layout title.

The title is from the Vicki Boutin Color Study Sticker book, I placed it on white card stock and then fussy cut and added it to the layout with foam adhesive.

Now for a couple of cards; I've made a slimline and mini-slimline card:

If you struggle with the larger format of the slimline card, try out the mini slimline which measures 3 1/2" x 6".

For the regular size slimline I fussy cut a portion from one of the patterned papers and layered it over the coordinating "B" side of the paper adhered to the slimline card base. The fussy cut portion is popped up with foam to add dimension.

The sentiment is stamped directly on the patterned paper and is from the Poppy Stamps Diamond Sentiment set.  

A few Studio Katia Iridescent Bubbles  and Tiny Bubbles finish it off with a bit of sparkle.

This mini slimline was a lot of fun to make! I put together the two layers of the Pinkfresh Studios Diamond Plaid Slimline layering stencils and inked with Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide ink which is the newest colour from Tim Holtz.

I then cut a small piece of black card stock to ground a selection of  die cuts from the die cuts pack.

I stamped the sentiment from the Photoplay Say It With Stamps-speech bubbles- set and die cut with the coordinating die, popping it up with foam adhesive.  A smattering of Studio Katia Onyx Crystals complete the card.

Thanks for stopping in, Happy Crafting!

Colour Blocking to Use All the Embellishments

When the new Noteworthy collection from PinkFresh Studio arrives in your mailbox from Scrap Shotz - you find a way to use every cute embellishment...

There is nothing whimsical about this COVID-19 pandemic but I refuse to let my scrapbooker display the morose mood in the air - instead, I will design my pages focusing on the good things this has brought to our home and journal the hard stuff in some hidden way. 

With this in mind, I set out to use every cute embellishment I could from the Noteworthy collection using colour blocking.

I split my page into quadrants, sewed a bunch of times down the middle of the 4 quadrants, picked 4 colours that show up most on the collection and painted each section a different collection - then added every embellishment that matched that colour. 

I tried to use a few enamel dots, some of the stickers, and the puffy stickers in each quadrant to give a touch of texture. The chance to use little couches and potted plants and coffee mug puffies was to fun to pass up! 

I used the white alphas to add a COVID word that comes to mind in each quadrant and the little together piece from the layered stickers as my title. I love how it turned out - happy and bright! 

Looking to use up all those embellishments in a kit or collection, try colour blocking. You do not need watercolour paint to do it either - try just for 3x3 pattern papers, or strips of paper or circles and more. Simply pick a few colours and then, without overthinking, bring in every embellishment of that colour to match. 

Have fun!