Hello everyone! I hope you had a great Mothers Day weekend. I have a different project to share today. I wanted to create something special to give my daughter on Mothers Day so I had this thought to create a small album with photos of just her and my grandson, from his birth until present. I wanted to call it "Moments With Mommy".
I used the gold 4x4 WRMK album. It was the perfect size! I used the 4x4 inserts. Some were 4x4 photos and some were the 2x2 photos. I was also able to use my new Fuse tool from WRMK to add additional pages using scrap pieces of page protectors that I had cut apart for my Project Life inserts! Pretty cool if I do say so myself!
Here's a look at the album.....
I have a video share if you're interested. At the end of the video, I share the Fuse tool. Have I said how much I love that little tool? Oh, yeah I guess I did! ;)
I was recently tagged in a challenge from HeyNaeDaily on You Tube for The Scrappery Kit Club for International Scrapbooking Day. It was a fun challenge so I took it on!
There were four parts to this challenge. I had to use all four on my layout in some way.
Well I had no problem at all! I love paint! I love stencils! I love stars! I was ready! Here's my completed layout.
I started my background on white cardstock prepped with clear gesso. I then began layering mists and watercolors in various colors of green.
I used a star stencil and the Ranger Paint Dabber in Cracked Pistacio to add my stars. That took care of two elements right there!
I continued layering on my background with various stamps in mint green ink and gray to add more layers of texture.
I used lots of gold on this layout! I love gold! I used the Dear Lizzy Word thickers on the title as well as the Dear Lizzy mint green foam Thickers.
I used a lot of the Heidi Swapp Project Life kit on this layout. The gold and white embellishments were just perfect!
I love the way the layered background turned out. I was pretty happy with it!
Thank you to HeyNaeDaily for the challenge! It was a fun one!
I have a process video up for this layout if you'd like to see how it came together.
I am so excited to share this post with you. I was so thrilled when I was contacted by Ashley Horton asking if I would be the Guest Designer for May for The Cut Shoppe. Needless to say, I was jumping up and down with excitement! You know how much I love using cut files and The Cut Shoppe is my favorite resource for fun, cute, fresh designs.
Ashley is just a sweetheart and she is quite the scrapbooker in her own right! I drool over her layouts and love watching her create on her You Tube channel. But.... this is about The Cut Shoppe! If you haven't checked out her designs, you must! You can check out the guest design post on their blog here.
Here are the two files I used on my layout. The first one is a background file called Spin Cycle. I enlarged it for my layout and only used a portion of it.
I also used the Spring Fever set for my title.
Here's my layout.......
You can see here how I enlarge the background cut file so that it would fit photos in the circles. I cut it on white cardstock, then recolored using gelatos. I wanted it to be a bright colorful layout and I think I achieved that!
I added some colorful embellishments....
And here is the title using a cut file from the Spring Fever set.
I just want to thank Ashley for the opportunity to guest design this month. I had a blast! Head over to The Cut Shoppe to see all the new designs she has available!
I do have a process video for this layout if you'd like to see more of how this layout was created.
Happy Monday!!! Today I am participating in a video/blog hop called "But...it's so pretty". The theme of this hop is to pull an item or items that you have been hoarding because they are just too pretty to use and actually use them on a layout.
Oh, I'm amazed at how many things I do have like that! Embarrassed to say but I think we all have a few. The first things I pulled out are some beautiful papers that I have had for years! These papers were all designed by Karen Russell...yes, the Karen Russell who has the awesome photography classes now. Some of you may remember her when she was in the scrapbooking industry. She designed these gorgeous papers with beautiful edges. I had to have them! However, they have been hoarded by me and never used because...well, they were just too pretty! So, I made myself pull them out and use them for a layout.
I also pulled out the Heidi Swapp Project Life kit with all the gorgeous gold, white and turquoise elements! Swoon worthy! So pretty!
I decided to use this cream color patterned paper with the swiss dot edging. It's beautiful paper and I thought it would be perfect to use for these photos. I opted to go with a softer feel than my usual bright colored layouts. I wanted this to be girly and feminine. I love these three photos! They are of my nieces who are all sisters. They live across the country from me and I miss them so! They are beautiful girls and so sweet. I'm so proud of them.
You know me and cut files....I love them! I used a few from The Cut Shoppe. These are from the Funky Florals set in the shop.
Here you can see all the Heidi Swapp embellishments from the Project Life kit. The arrows are from The Cut Shoppe set called Target Practice. I love them! I've used these on so many projects. They are perfect for my Project Life layouts too! For this layout, I misted them with Heidi Swapp's gold lame mist.
And more of the Heidi Swapp embellishments. I love how the layout turned out! I think its the perfect amount of feminine for my lovely nieces!
There are many stops on this video/blog hop that you won't want to miss! Many great designers and some really great prizes too!
Here is my video from the hop. For the complete video/blog hop list and how to win some great prizes, check out the information box on my video.
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you've enjoyed seeing some things from my hoarded stash! ;)
