Be Happy For Today...

Scrapbook Layout - Be Happy For Today -

a close up to the layout

Hi there!

I have been hard at work -late at night, mostly- on a few projects, in hopes to put a dent on my paper stash.   This time, I am working with Amy Tangerine's Better Together collection to document a picture of my 3 kids early one morning (they had just woken up, and are wearing pjs on the photo).

I started by using the yellow card-stock from the digital collection, Sunny Side Up, from the Cut Shoppe.  Since it was printed to fit a 11x17 in paper, I trimmed it to fit into a 11x11 in.   To complete the 12x12 in page protector of the album, I used the sewing machine to add a large border to the entire page.  I used the different papers in the collection to create this triangle shapes (graduated triangles), and stitched them to the layout.

Th Acrylic piece of ephemera worked perfectly to form the title of this project.

I made sure the triangle shapes were stitched offset of each other, so that they pointed to both horizontal edges of the picture.   I chose to create a large cluster with stickers and ephemera pieces from the same paper collection.

the final layout.

To finish this project, i added a few rub-on stickers and stitched the printed lines of journal to the page.

This layout reminds me of  the layouts i created when i first was introduced to scrapbooks, and I love it!!

As always, let me know if you have any questions about how this page came together.

See you all very soon!

Materials Used:

Patterned papers - Better Together collection - Amy Tangerine, American Crafts

Ephemera, stickers, rub-ons - Better Together collection - Amy Tangerine, American Crafts.

Yellow card stock - Sunny Side Up digital collection,  The Cut Shoppe

Just Smile

A Scrapbook Layout created for Scrapbook Nerd  - Just Smile -

the layout in construction...

Hello there,

It is my reveal week for this month at Scrapbook Nerd (I love Barb and Joy, the owners of the store).  For this layout, i wanted to showcase some of Amy Tangerine's Better Together collection;  the papers are lovely and vibrant, the colors are so appealing to both boys and girls, and my favorite there is lots of watercolor on the designs.  

The background for the Layout.

My process for creating  layouts is a bit unusual, as I often start with the backgrounds or titles, and then pick my picture.  For this layout, the contrast and combo of this two papers was beautiful, so i used Heidi Swapp's color shine to create a watercolor background on a 11x11 in. gessoed piece of white cardstock.  I then cut two  big L shaped strips of the papers (about 2 in) and glued them together to form a square,  Using some machine stitching, the watercolor background was attached to the mat.

the layout's title

The next step was to create a title, for this a cut file from the silhouette store was used.  I set the phrase to perforate, and then added an offset and make the cut around the perforated edges.  I chose two of  the colors of the triangle paper to hand stitch the words on the phrase.

the picture details on the layout.

For this layout, I chose to use some of  the pictures from a recent meltdown my nephew experienced at home.  It didn't help I kept telling him to just smile for the camera, and he just kept crying louder each time.  I printed 4 of the pictures to fit 2x2 in. each.   They were matted on white cardstock and layered with the patterned paper from the borders.  Once attached on the layout, pieces of washi tape from the collection was added as a layer under the picture cluster.  All the embelishments are from the sticker sheet and rub on from the same  collection, and a few add-ons from Pink Fresh Studio's Felicity collection...  

the finished layout

After attaching all the pieces, I added my journal lines in the space created between the two words.

I love the ending result. 

Till next time,

Happy Scrapping!

Materials Used:

Title - Just Smile,  Silhouette store

White Cardstock, American crafts

Patterned papers,  Better Together collection, Amy Tangerine

Color shine inks,  Butter, Peacock, Navy & Seafoam, Heidi Swapp collection

Stickers,  Better Together collection, Amy Tangerine

Rub Ons, Better together collection, Amy Tangerine

Wood pieces,  Felicity collection, Pink Fresh Studio.