PuffBall Layout

Hi all!

Today I am sharing a layout I started at the all day crop I attended a few weeks ago. I didn't get time to finish the layout at the crop, so I brought it home and completing yesterdays layout has inspired me to finish more layouts so I pulled this one out and completed it.

I bought this sheet of dandelion paper a long time ago when these pictures were first taken. It has been sitting in my stash for YEARS! I am super pleased to use something that I bought so long ago, for what it was intended. I often forget I purchased a specific item for a project and then end up using something else, then I find the item later and am annoyed at myself for forgetting I had it in the first place. LOL

The large scalloped circle is from SVGCuts, cut at 11 in. The journaling circle I cut with my old Creative Memories Custom Cutting system Circle cutter. Boy I haven't used that in a looooong time, not since I bought my first Cricut. The piece of journaling paper I was cutting was only very slightly larger than the circle I wanted so I figured it was easier than trying to line it up on the Cricut. The title quotes I printed on transparency film.

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The PuffBall was cut from Lyrical Letters. I think technically its supposed t be Queen Annes Lace, but I improvised. lol I used a Gypsy to weld a longer stem onto the flower cut, then I cut it twice in blue and again in white and layered them together. The falling seeds were from a first cut that was too small.

Here is a close up of the pics of the girls. I just love them!
I feel like I am on a roll! Two posts in a row and I have three more ready to go!

Thanks for visiting today.

Have a Great and Crafty Day!

Jan

Hiking Layout

Hi all! I am so excited to be sharing a layout today. I haven't made any layouts is so long, and I have fallen quite behind in my scrapbooking. My friend introduced me to a great website called Let's Scrap. Its a great community of scrappers, and they offer motivation in the way of challenges using sketches. I am looking forward to working on more layouts in the future.

Here is the sketch for the week of 3/7/12:

Here is my layout for this sketch challenge:

All the papers used were from my stash. The Happy Trails was cut from Camping Critters, the @ was from Graphically Speaking, and the font is Jubilee Runt and Jubilee Basic. I inked the edges of the orange titles. The trees were from a K&Co set from a while ago. I added some brads and twine for a little interest, and a charm from Karen Foster Designs.

Here is a close up of the charm:
Isn't that fun? The charm set also has a Dutch oven, flashlight, canteen, and Camp Lamp. these charms are nice because they are flat on one side.

Thanks for visiting today.

Have a Great and Crafty Day!

Jan

Spring Layout

Hi all,

Today I am sharing a layout I made for a friend.

Most of the papers used were from a Finished in a Flash Kit from Paper Wishes that I have had in my stash for a while now. The only cartridge I used was Botanicals for the butterfly/floral cuts as well as the font.

Here is a close up of my butterflies:

I cut the images twice, once in patterned paper and once in vellum. I then hand cut out the butterflies so I could add some dimension to the them. I placed gems along the centers of all the butterfly cuts.

Here is a close-up of the Spring Title:

I used a Stampin'Up Sizzix Embosslits to make those tiny butterflies by the title. I then attached them to the paper using my Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher for the bodies. I used a Fiskars Border punch for the edge.

I added a few gem swirls from Want 2 Scrap that I picked up at a Scrapbook Expo.

Recipe:

Butterfly 1 and its Shift @ 6.5 in.

Butterfly3 and its shift @ 4.0 in

Font and shift @ .92 in.

Fiskars Border Punch

Stampin' Up Sizzix Embosslits Beautiful Wings

Papers; Hot off the Press Finished in a Flash Kit. Paper Studio Vellum

Gems

Tim Holtz Tiny Staples

Thanks for visiting today.

Have a Great and Crafty Day!

Jan

Friendship layout

Hi all!

Today I am sharing a quick little layout I made for my BFF for Xmas. Well actually its for both of us, because we have this great tradition that we started in 2005. We have one scrapbook, and we each take turns making a layout and giving it to each other. Its a fantastic way to share pics of the two of us. Its also a great way to see how our scrapbooking has evolved over the years.
This layout has no Cricut at all! Gasp! It uses some 8x8 paper from Making Memories that I got free from Archiver's. It was a gift with purchase promo a few years ago, and I have been hoarding the paper. Every time I have pulled it out to use, I say to myself, "I can't use THAT! Its too pretty" And so the pack sat on my shelf for years. Well I am trying to break myself of that habit, and use the things I have collected over the years.

Everything on this layout was from my stash and quite a few years old at that! (Well, except for the twine, that is not that old!) I am so glad I am working in older products into my crafting.

I carefully cut around the flower so I could tuck my photo behind it. The tags were from American crafts and have definitely been in my embellishment bucket for years! The vellum quote is from Creative Memories, it too, is several years old. The date sticker in the corner is from American Crafts.

Another thing we do is reuse the same gift box and take turns using it to wrap our presents in to each other. And with each use, we add something silly to the box, like a silly or unattractive picture of something that makes us laugh.

Here are a few pics of the box:




Just a little peek into the deranged minds of me and my Bestie! XD

Anyway...Thanks for visiting today.

Have a Great and Crafty Day!

Jan