Love Life!

Scrapbook Layout created for The Cut Shoppe - Love Life! -

A quick peek at the layout.

Hello there!

Today, I am up on the Cut Shoppe's blog with this lovely layout about my littles.   I took this picture of them enjoying the rides at an indoor fair while we were babysitting them.  Their happy smiles needed to be documented, so i created a page around this picture.

A look at the background of the layout

Since the picture was taken while my littles were riding the airplane ride, I chose to use the Cut Shoppe's "Give it a Whirl" cut file to replicate the rotor at the front of the plane.  I welded a few of the images so that they created a grid.  I chose to color block the patterned papers used to back the cut file, and after stitched a small circle (matching the papers).

I printed the picture in black and white, and placed it in the center of the background.  I chose to add just a small cluster of pieces at the top corner of the picture (making sure that they matched the colors in the background).   

The title of this layout

For the title, I chose the Cut Shoppe's "Words to Live By" cut file.  I rearrange the image so that it reads horizontally, instead that vertically ( as in the original cut file). and had the Silhouette cut two  pieces out of white cardstock.  Next I created an offset to the sentence, and sent it to cut in the Silhouette, but on one of the patterned papers of the Fancy Free collection (this way the title really pops out at the viewer).  I used glue to keep the three cut-outs together.

To add interest along the page, I added pieces of ephemera, chipboard and puffy stickers, in matching colors to the the patterned paper where they were placed.   To finish this layout, I added my lines of journal below the picture.   Here is the finished layout:

I love the finished and polished look of this page, and I hope that serves as inspiration to take a look at all the cut files the Cut Shoppe has to offer on their Etsy shop.

Thanks for visiting today!.

Take care!

Materials Used:

Cut file - Give it a Whirl, and Words to Live By - The Cut Shoppe

Patterned papers - Fancy Free collection - Pink Paislee

White card stock - American Crafts

Ephemera -  Fancy Free Collection - Pink Paislee

Puffy Stickers -  Fancy Free collection - Pink Paislee

                           Life is Beautiful collection - Fancy Pants Designs

Tabbies - Illustrated Faith

Chipboard Stickers - MAMBI Chips

Word Stickers - Small Chat (Occasions)-  Tim Holtz - Idea-ology

Hello Sunshine

Scrapbook Layout -  Hello Sunshine -

a close-up to the layout

Hello!,

 As i am writing this post, there are many collection arriving at my door step, so I have tasked myself to make a dent on my paper stash.  Trust me,  it is not easy, as I love pretty paper, and have lots of it safely kept in Iris containers.  But i knew that I had to work on trying to use up the collections, so I created this layout with a combination of many small pieces of different collections.

I am using the "Fresh Squeezed" cut file from the Cut Shoppe to document a picture of my littles taking a rest while shopping around the local plaza.  They both have drinks on their hands, so the cut-out was perfect  for this project.  I am using a combination of vellum, Simple Stories' Sunshine and Happiness collection, and The Cut Shoppe's Sunny Side up digital collection papers to back the cut out.  I attached it to the white cardstock using foam adhesive squares, so that there is dimension on the page.

a close up to the picture of my littles.

I framed the picture with papers from the collection, and added pieces from different collections in clusters around it.

For the title, I used one of the cardstock  paper piece from the Sunshine and Happiness collection.  Once again, I am using foam adhesive to attach it to the cut-out, so that it will stand out in the page.

Finally I added some details around the page, and a few lines of journal to the bottom of the page.

Here is the final layout:

This page is one of my favorites, as it tells the story of my littles on a hot summer day, plus i got to combine different collections in a coherent look.

As always let me know if you have any questions.  Thank you for visiting today.

See you around!!

Materials Used:

cut file -  Fresh Squeezed - The Cut Shoppe

Patterned papers :  Sunshine and Happiness collection - Simple Stories

                               Sunny Side Up digital collection - The Cut Shoppe

Stickers and Ephemera -  Sunshine and Happiness collection - Simple Stories

                                          Snapshots digital collection - The Cut Shoppe

Puffy Stickers - Bloom collection - Crate Paper

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