Love With All My Heart

Scrapbook Layout created for Scrapbook  Nerd  - LOVE WITH ALL MY HEART -

Hi there!


It is theme week over at Scrapbook Nerd.  This week's assignment is all about documenting someone you love, or Valentine's Day.   Well that is an easy subject for me, and my choice will always be my Family.  So i decided to document my page (2 more will be done -one for each kid's album) of our latest family portrait.

To create the background, I used some Prima Marketing Pastel Dreams confections to bring a soft watercolor look to the page.

Next, I pulled a Felicity Jane cut file to create the title of the page.   Once cut, it was all backed with papers from Crate Paper's Main Squeeze collection.   Then glued to the page, followed by a small Simple Stories stickers that finish the title of the page.

To frame the picture of our family, I pulled one of my favorite Just Nick studio (Leaf Cluster)  cut file. I cut the file from white cardstock, and backed it with vellum.   It was then added to the bottom of the title.   The picture was then glued above it, and pieces from both Crate Paper collections (Main Squeeze, and Heart Day) were used to create clusters that frame the picture.  A third cluster was then added to the title so that is completes the visual triangle of the page.

A few lines of journal, and gold splatters complete the page.   I love the result of this page!  The soft colors of the background, contrast with the bold title, which brings the softness of the cut out forward, hence bringing the picture forward.


I hope this inspires you to stop ny Scrapbook Nerd to check all the materials used in this page.  Sometimes it pays to keep somre previous collections to combine with more recent ones.


Remember, I am a comment away if you have any questions on how this page came together.


Take care!

Be Mine

Scrapbook Layout created for Simple Stories  -  BE MINE-

Hi there!

Nathalie with you today, bringing you some inspiration just in time for Valentine's Day.   And what better way to document your especial one than to use the beautiful Simple Stories's "ROMANCE" collection.

All the floral motifs in the Romance collection are beautiful, so a bit of fussy cutting was all that was needed to create the clusters that frame the picture of my husband and I on our Thanksgiving walk.

Since the picture of us was taken at a bridge, I was inspired to continue the pattern of the formation onto the background of this page.   There are so many beautiful embellishments in this collection, that it was so easy to combine them to create the title for this page.

The collection is perfect to document all those special moments in your life, not just Valentine's Day.   Remember to check the collection, you will love a bit of "ROMANCE" in your life.

Remember to contact me if you have questions on how this came together.

Take care.

Materials used:

Romance Collection:

9400 Collection kit

9411 4x4 Elements

9414  6x12 Chipboard stickers

9415 Bits and Pieces

9416 4x6  Stickers

Love 16

Scrapbook Tutorial created for Scrapbook Nerd  -  LOVE -16  -

Hello all!

Happy Valentine's Day to you all!  May you share some quality time with your loved ones today.

I was inspired by the rosette paper in the Crate Paper's Heart Day collection embellishment to create a layout that  showcase this fan like pieces as part of a layout.   The tutorial on how i created this rosettes is available at the Scrapbook Nerd blog .

Once all the rosettes were constructed, I created a heart cut out on white card stock, and backed the heart with one of the papers from Paige Evans' Take me Away collection, a bit of hand stitching secures the pages together.   Next i covered one half of the heart with the black and white rosettes, and teal hearts.   Then I layered the pink rosettes on top of the black and white rosettes, I only embellish the rosettes that were more prominent on the heart.

I attached a picture of my husband and I on our 16th wedding anniversary, and layered pieces of ephemera from the collections.  The title was built from the large chipboard sticker, and the number sixteen  on the rosettes.

I kept the rest of the layout simple as i did not want to take the attention from the picture.   A little bit of journaling completes the page.   Here is the completed layout:

There is a lot of dimension in this layout, so it sits on our sofa table.  It fits tightly in a page protector, but I love it.   Give it a try, paper rosettes are great for different crafts, once again you can find the tutorial on how to build them at the Scrapbook Nerd blog.  As always I am a comment away if you need assistance with the tutorial.

Have a great Valentine's Day!

Heart Day - 6x6 paper pad	Heart Day - Rubber Shapes	Heart Day - Stickers	Heart Day - Ephemera	Heart Day - Phrase Stickers	Take Me Away - #18 pattern paper
Heart Day - Thickers	American Crafts - Go Now Go - Puffy Heart Stickers	Crate Paper - Snow and Cocoa - 6 x 6 Paper Pad	Love & Adore - 6x6	Love & Adore - collection kit	Love & Adore - Chipboard

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Love Love Love Us

Scrapbook Layout  - Love Love Love Us -

The beauty of a long weekend is that there is extra time in the day to craft, in my case to scrapboook.  I chose this picture of my husband and I for the layout. Since it is all about us on Valentine's Day, I continued using Crate Paper's Hello Love collection for inspiration on colors to use.

To build the heart, i used the Half Heart Cutfile from The Cut Shoppe.  I manipulated the file so that only had one big heart to deal with.  Once I blew it up to fit into a 11x11 inch margin, i chose to cut just one side of the heart and perforate the other half  of it.  At the same time, i cut the words LOVE.. using another The Cut Shoppe cut file called Love Struck.  I made sure that the word fit within the heart's half.

The cut file has three words stacked.  In order to fit them into the
heart, i had to use the left over cut out piece to pick the angles for the cut.

The perforations in the heart make it easy to hand stitch the perimeter.  I used white embroidery thread to create mark the margin of the file.  Also, I added a thin  layer of gesso to the word cut out -since in my original plan they were going to be color with gouache-

A close up of the stitching and word cut out.

I wanted to keep my focus on the large heart,  so i used a bit of gold shimmer paste on the top and bottom border of the layout.  I simply used a palette knife to drag the paste in an inward motion from the edge.  Though it is not visible through the pictures, it adds a sheen to the layout in person.

I only used the paste in small amounts and dragged the knife with some
pressure to stretch the paste along the edge.

To create the other side of the heart, i used the geometric patterned paper from the same paper collection.  I cut around the triangles, and used an ink dabber to mark the edges of each triangle.  Using  a pencil, and the cut-out, the perimeter of the cut half heart was drawn onto a simple piece of 12x12 white paper.  The triangles were then glued within a half inch outside of the marked perimeter.  The cut out was  then attached using foam dots, so that there was a contrast in height in the layout.

I use all foam letters (from my local dollar store) when attaching
larger pieces of paper.  

The picture chosen was printed in sepia tone, since the background layout was busy, all it needed was to be matted on white card stock.  I wanted to pop the picture, so i placed it at the bottom of the cut half of the heart, making sure the width span between the stitched half and the cut edge.  A few pieces of ephemera were enough to complete the piece.  The word cut-out was part of the title, the other part was the word US.  I used large chipboard letters (from my dollar store) for this.  First I gesso them, after i added a layer of gold gelatos, and finally added pink glitter -to match the colors of  the triangles-.

A few tags and ephemera was enough to highlight the picture.

To add a bit of balance to the cut part of the heart,  a few cut outs and ephemera was added using foam dots.  This adds dimension to the piece, and balances the cut-out half of the page.

I fuzzy cut some of the collection's paper to create the decoration for the layout.

Once it was all attached, I debated over adding the journal lines to the page.  A white heart was added to the bottom left corner along with a cut-out heart and a few gel dots.  

I love this layout because of the different layers and dimension on the page, but mostly for the picture of my husband and I.  I hope you like it... See you soon..

The completed layout

Materials Used:

• Patterned papers, Hello Love Collection, Crate Paper
• Cut File -heart-, Half Heart, The Cut Shoppe
• Cut File -words-, Love Struck, The Cut Shoppe
• Ephemera -banner, button-,  Heidi Swapp MInc collection
• Ephemera -tags-, Hello Love, Crate Paper
• Stickers - arrow-, Soft Spoken collection, Me And My Big Ideas
• Chipboard sticker -heart-,  Family Stories,  Simple Stories
• Gold Shimmer Paste, Heidi Swapp collection