Hello! Today I have a layout for you that uses some foiled shapes I created using both my Silhouette PixScan mat and my Heidi Swapp Minc (I have a tutorial here showing you how to do this at home). Grab some chocolate and come along!
I used Simple Stories You Are Here collection to highlight some photos from my honeymoon back in 2000 (no, I am still working on scrapping the trip 16 years later! And the time warp continues!).
Here are some close ups. I love sewing on my layouts. Aren't the photo stickers and New Bradz awesome?
Here you can see the gold foil anchor I created using my PixScan mat and Minc, along with another New Bradz, enamel dots, and photo sticker.
How cool is this fussycut flower cluster popped up with 3D foam tape?
And here's a close up of the title and journaling. I used CTMH stamp set "Hello Paradise" and then print/cut/foiled the "adventure" and the heart I stuck on top of the chipboard camera.
I used the April sketch from Stuck?! Sketches.
Thanks for joining me today! I hope you have a wonderful weekend.
Majken
Hello everyone and welcome! I hope you can grab yourself a bit of chocolate and check out this layout where I scrapped an old photo of me with my now-husband from around 1987/1988 that my mom found. It's so fun to come across older photos like this and realize just how long ago it seems (or sometimes it seems like yesterday, right?). I chose to use the Simple Stories We Are...Family collection, a February sketch by Stuck? Sketches, and the Take 5 Challenge from Paper Issues (using the color red, the color pink, a heart, patterned paper, and ink/mist/paint - I actually used more than 5 suggested elements!).
I opted to watercolor and stitch a heart behind the photo area instead of the circles shown in the sketch. I lightly traced a large heart to provide a guide for my watercoloring using Tim Holtz Distress Inks and a watercolor pen. Then I let it dry and stitched around it.
Tip: when using water on a layout, to prevent it from curling up, first lightly mist the back of the cardstock. On this layout, I didn't mist first, and it dried with a slight curl. After my layout was complete, I misted it on the back and lightly flattened it until it was flat again.
I subbed one of the photos in the sketch with the "love" journal card that I punched with a cross-stitch die (the Simple Stories collection uses a cross-stitch element so I brought it into the layout that way as well).
I used several of the patterned paper, so stickers, so chipboard elements to create the mat, and I used the coordinating alpha stickers for the title.
Next I decided the layout needed to be "grounded" so I created a border with a border sticker, some chipboard and cardstock hearts, and stitching.
Finally, I included the embellishment cluster on the top left instead of on the circle shown in the sketch.
Here is the sketch:
Thanks for stopping by! I'm so glad you could come visit, and I hope this inspired you to do something a little different with a sketch.
Majken
Hi everyone! I know everyone is now looking to autumn-themed layouts, but I'm still enjoying summer. :) With that spirit, I wanted to use more of my Simple Stories Summer Vibes collection - I think it's my favorite Simple Stories collection so far. The colors are amazing! I also found this sketch at Stuck?! Sketches and really wanted to leverage it. When I think of "The Simple Life", this vacation in Colorado Springs four summers ago is what popped into my head, so I ran with it!
I was saving the "Shine On" sheet for something and decided this sketch was it! I first sewed along some of the sun rays in gold thread to define them and I went over a few of the rays twice to add interest. I trimmed a strip of the "Hello" paper for the bottom to help anchor the page.
The Be Happy sticker was perfect for the center to cover where the sewed lines met.
Then I just started cutting and layering more Summer Vibes papers for the journal spot and photo spot. I found a clear acetate tag with gold triangles (and some other elements you will see) from Pink Paislee's Citrus Bliss Ephemera pack and a "five o'clock somewhere" wood element in my stash and knew I wanted to incorporate them! Once I had most of my papers trimmed, I cut a few circles of the "Just Beachy" wood-grain paper.
I created the title by trimming "Simple Life" from one of the papers. I have a combo stamp/die set by KI Memories by Hampton Arts for Sizzix and stamped "hello" using StazOn brown ink onto a small piece of Shine On paper then cut with my Big Shot.
For the journaling spot, I used a couple of the rectangles from the Journaling Cards paper as well as a butterfly from my stash, some Summer Vibe stickers, a sequin and enamel dots. I included the "memory" wooden element above it.
Finally, I put a little embellishment spot in the upper right corner to complete the triangle for the wooden elements, even though this wasn't part of the sketch. I used another acetate banner, some stickers, and sewing.
Here is the sketch:
Thanks so much for stopping by today! Make it a wonderful week.
Majken
