Hello and happy Sunday to you all!
Are you a reader of Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine? I've been a reader for many years and they started a monthly challenge this year. I decided to take part in the April sketch challenge because, flowers! I also recently tidied up my craft room - and came across some of my wedding photos, so I had to scrap my favorite one.
So I started with a gorgeous sheet of Bazzill Juneberry cardstock for my base. I also had just seen Bea Valint's spring frame cut file and thought it would be perfect. I cut the full frame and trimmed one of the sides to use. I then used the Studio software to separate some of the flowers to create the back/inside cuts for a few of them. I felt like I was playing "Operation" using the Studio knife tool zoomed in to get exactly what I needed to separate!
For the photo mat, I had to use that "So Happy Together" paper. And vellum always gives a pretty touch to wedding pages - I scalloped the top of my vellum first. I sewed around the photo too to help frame it. I fussycut the flowers with "always & forever" from a journal card on the 4x4 and 4x6 Vertical Journaling Elements paper.
The "LOVE" stickers go perfectly for the title! I popped them up with some 3D foam dots.
I used many different enamel dots to fill in some of the flower centers. I also did a fair bit of fussycutting, and I used the center of the little 5-petal flowers from the cut file to fill in for added variety.
Here is the sketch I used from Becky Fleck of PageMaps via Scrapbook & Cards Today.
It is so fun to use sketches! Check back on May 12th for my reveal of Creative Scrappers sketch 306.
Until then, enjoy your week (with a bit of chocolate!).
xoxo,
Majken
Hello and happy hump day everyone! Do you love a good pun? I do! And the layout I'm sharing today has a fun one as my title. :)
I love this collection from Simple Stories called Bloom & Grow. The colors make me happy! I started by cutting a bunch of the Lazy Daisies cut file by Just Nick using the blue polka dot paper for the outline and various other papers for the inside of the daisies. Here's some close-ups of the flowers.
I used enamel dots and decorative brads for the flower centers.
The layout came together pretty quickly! Here's a close-up of my photo area. We took some photos during the holidays of me with my mom and brothers. How cute is that scalloped circle? I used the die from Papertrey Ink Shaker Shapes.
So many fun elements to choose from in this collection from the ephemera to the enamel dots to the stickers!
Here's a close up of the title. That little gnome gets me!
And then I felt the layout needed some stitching around the edges to frame all the flowers - just so they weren't just "floating" on the layout.
I'm so glad you could join me today. I hope this inspires you to use some of your stash for some die cutting fun!
Have a great week!
Majken
Hello out there scrappy friends-
Today I'm up on the Creative Scrappers blog kicking off the Design Team's take on sketch 305 for April. Our sponsor is The Cut Shoppe, and I had so much fun using two of Ashley's cut files! I used Oodles of Doodles for the spiral circles and Spring Fling for the flowers at the bottom. It's a fun and whimsical sketch, and I decided to use Dear Lizzy Lovely Day - it's so pretty and colorful! I cannot get enough of that blue floral paper (full disclosure, I had to order more of it!). Here's my layout.
After deciding on photos of my daughter when she was two, I planned out the sizes I wanted to print. Then I planned the paper square sizes and circle sizes. Next I cut those spiral circles using my Cameo and adhered everything to textured white cardstock that I had spattered with two colors of ink. Finally I sewed inside and outside each square as well as in the spiral circle. So fun!
After adhering the photos, it was easy to put the chipboard title, some enamel dots and stickers, and some journaling strips.
The chipboard hearts and flowers are so lovely! I felt the bottom needed an anchor, so I cut a thin strip of the blue floral paper and stitched across. And then I cut 3 flowers out from the Spring Fling cut file set and "planted" them in the strip.
And here is the sketch.
So come play with this fun sketch, and link up on the Creative Scrappers blog and Instagram using hashtags: #creatingwithsketches and #CSsketch305 and tagging @creativescrappers.
Thanks for visiting with me today! Have a fun week - and make sure you enjoy some chocolate, too.
xoxo,
Majken
