American Crafts Vicki Boutins Cut & Paste - Follow Your Dreams

Hello! It's Karen, and I'm back with another layout. Again I am using the vibrant Cut & Paste collection by Vicki Boutin for American Crafts. The bright colours in this collection are so versatile and are perfect for any scrapbooking project.

I began the layout with a 12x12 sheet of black cardstock. On top of this, I layered pieces of white and teal cardstock, leaving a thin border around each.

Next, I used black thread to machine-stitch a zigzag line where the white and teal cardstock met. This detail adds texture and interest to the page.

Then, I used a mini brayer and teal acrylic paint to add three short horizontal stripes to the layout. I intentionally kept the application a bit messy to create a more textured, relaxed look.

Using paper #7 from the collection, I fussy cut some scallop border strips. I used these to create  "shelves" beneath each of the painted stripes.

I matted three photos with pink cardstock and placed one on each shelf. To embellish each shelf, I used a combination of die cuts from the Ephemera Icons pack and fussy-cut flowers from paper #2. I added 3D foam underneath some of the elements to raise them slightly.

Using my Silhouette machine, I die-cut the title words from black cardstock and placed a word next to each of the three photos.

Finally I added a scattering of acrylic dots and sequins to the layout.

I hope you like this layout. I think the combination of white space and touches of black really helps the other colours stand out.

Enjoy the reast of the summer and I'll be back again soon.

Karen x x

Paige Evans ~ Happy Haven #1

Hi everyone, it’s Anna here. This month I’m working with Paige Evan’s latest and final collection with American Crafts - Happy Haven. You can find most of the collection in the shop here. 

For this layout I knew I wanted to use lots of folded paper windmills to document a trip to a windmill in Holland. I also knew I wanted to keep some of the florals on paper #1 while still using the b side as my base. So I gutted a section out of the middle and then trimmed some white cardstock to go in the centre. 

I made some folded paper windmills using a variety of 5cm and 6cm squares. I used paper #3 and paper #7 to make the windmills and I trimmed some coordinating bazzill cardstock for the ‘stem’. I added an enamel dot in the centre of each to secure and add extra detail. 

I chose a journalling box from paper #12 and adhered it under my photo. Once these were in place, I began to arrange the windmills on the layout. 

I cut out some of the florals from paper #1 and tucked them around the edge of the white cardstock. 

Finally, I selected a few stickers from the cardstock stickers and placed them around my layout. 

Thanks so much for looking! See you later in the month with another layout using this collection. 

Anna 

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American Crafts Paige Evans - Adventurous - Ramble Around Roydon

Hello, Karen here. I hope you're having a great summer. Today I have a multi photo layout using the  Adventurous collection by Paige Evans for American Crafts.  This collection is perfect for scrapbooking summer adventures and was ideal for my photos of a recent day out.

I started by cutting the 'Polaroid Background' digital cut file from the Silhouette Store, from smooth white cardstock. I cut it slightly smaller than 12x12 and then backed it with photos and some of the tags from paper #5. 

The backed cut file was then stuck to a sheet of paper #17 which had been trimmed to 11.5 x 11.5 and was then matted on a complete sheet of 12x12 smooth white cardstock. I put some 3D foam beneath the cut file to add some dimension and shadow.

The layout was embellished  with floral pieces from the Icon Ephemera pack .....

.... and some words and phrases from the Journalling Ephemera pack and paper #1 cut apart sheet.

In the bottom right corner of the layout I placed a card from the Journalling Ephemera pack as a home for my title.

The title was created with the Mini Alphabet Thickers and some layered die cut letters. I die cut the word Ramble four times from card (3 x white and 1 x pink) and then stuck the letters on top of each other to make them dimensional.

At the top of the card I stamped the date with my roller date stamp with pink ink.

The layout was completed with a few pink Enamel Dots.

Thank you for dropping by today. I'll be back again soon.

Take Care

Karen x x

American Crafts Paige Evans - Adventurous - Smile, it looks good on you

Hello, Karen here. Today I have another layout to share using the gorgeous Adventurous collection by Paige Evans for American Crafts.

For this layout I started by cutting a 10" square from the centre of paper #14. The B side of this paper has an all over cloud design and was the perfect background for a layout using a photo of my daughter and I taken on a sunny summers day. The 10" paper square was matted on pink 'Fussy' Bazzill cardstock, placed onto an 11.5" square of white cardstock and then placed back on top of the sheet of paper #14 which I had cut the original square from.

With white thread I machine stitched a straight stitch around the edge of the square.

Using an old Paige Evans sunburst stencil and some white gesso and yellow watercolour paint, I added a sunburst to the top left corner of the layout. 

I printed my photo in black and white and matted it on white card and then onto a piece of paper #19. I fussy cut a whole bunch of labels & tickets from paper #21 and these, together with some pieces from the pack of Journalling Ephemera and the photo were strung onto some black and white bakers twine across the layout. 

I added one of the cut aparts from paper #1 amongst the labels, played around with the order of the labels, etc until I was happy with the placement and distribution of the colours and then stuck them to the layout with 3D foam underneath.

Beaneath the photo I added the title using stickers from the Phrase Stickers Sheet and an older sheet of Vicki Boutin Phrase Stickers. 

Vellum flowers from the pack of Icon Ephemera were tucked under the top and bottom of the photo.

Journaling was added to one of the tickets and the layout was completed with splatters of gold ink and a scattering of gold sequins.

Thank you for dropping by today. I hope you like this layout. 

Take Care

Karen x x

June Papermaze Kit - Part 2

Lynn here today, with two more layouts using the Papermaze Kit for June. This kit gives you Bazzill and patterned papers in bright cheerful colours. I have used them along with the embellishments included to make pages featuring some 1960/70's Kodak square format photos.

 
Patterned papers:
American Crafts - Rainbow Avenue - My Feelings
Echo Park - My Little Girl - Pretty Girl Plaid & Bright Floral
Pinkfresh Studio - Picture Perfect - Write your Story
Pinkfresh Studio - The simple things - Rays of Sunshine
Simple Stories - Summer Snapshots - Take the Shot

The image below shows both sides of each of the papers included in the kit.

Embellishments: 1/2 sheet Paige Evans Blooming Wild puffy stickers, Strip of Vicki Boutin Speciality Acetate Discover and Create, 1 Paige Evans Blooming Wild Chipboard Mini Frame, 4 Doodlebug Designs All Aflutter butterfly shape stickers, 3 Masterpiece Design '12 months label mix', 3 Pretty Little Studio ephemera pieces Sunkissed - Smell the Flowers, Pinch of Pinkfresh clear drops - Blush, & Strip of Doodlebug Designs washi tape - Bunny Hop Pastel Plaid.

Bazzill Basics - Coconut Swirl & Classic Yellow (included in kit). Passionate, Aqua, Marmalade Blast & Wild Pansy (in Extra Bazzill Pack)

Oh Snap! - Photos I took myself with my first camera at the age of 11 on a year 6 school trip to The Isle of Wight. These appear to be the only two photos that have survived from that holiday. So, the Vicki Boutin Speciality Acetate and the Simple Stories Take the Shot paper was ideal for recording the memory.

Starting with the White CS Bazzill, I flicked some watered-down Distress Oxide Ink (Carved Pumpkin and Salvaged Patina), over the page.

The next step was to cut apart the sheet of Take the Shot paper into individual 'Polaroid' style pieces.  I arranged these over the layout, together with the photos, giving me colourful spaces to add my title and journalling.

I carefully trimmed each colourful slide from the VB Speciality Acetate and arranged these around the existing elements.

In addition, I used a few short lengths of Tim Holtz Idea-ology Filmstrip Ribbon, placing these randomly around the layout.

I wrote the journalling over three of the colourful paper pieces. The title was created with some old foam Thickers (Dear Lizzie Cordial) from my stash, and the year was made with LDRS One Fine Day small puffy alpha stickers, also available from Papermaze.

Summer 1969 - My baby brother with my dad, on the beach at Seaview on the Isle of Wight, summer of 1969.

This time I prepared the Aqua Bazzill, using a Tim Holtz Layering Stencil THS006 Dot Fade (an old one but still a useful favourite), and various colours of Distress Ink to match the papers.

I cut the PSF Write your Story paper into coloured strips and trimmed them to different lengths. I spread these across the middle of the cardstock, in a rainbow effect, then I glued them into place.

This time my embellishments were selected from Pretty Little Studio, Hey Summer Beach Bits Die Cuts. I arranged these around the page, adding my journalling to the little label in the pack. The title is made with Pretty Little Studio Sunkissed - Fun in the Sun Word Titles.

The date was cut using a Sizzix XLBigz Alphabet Die. I cut the numbers in various colours and also in black, I stuck them above the title creating a shadow by overlapping the colour and black.

That's all for today, but I do have another layout to share later.
Thanks for looking
Lynn x

American Crafts ~ Rainbow Avenue 🌈

Hello! It’s Anna here sharing my final layout using American Crafts Rainbow Avenue. 

You can find the collection in the shop here. 

I’ve picked out lots of the bright colours in this collection for this layout. 

I used a white bazzill cardstock background and then picked up ‘My Rainbow’ which I trimmed into strips and then weaved together on the top left hand side of the layout. 

I tore the edges, making them different lengths. 

I then selected my photos, I wanted to try and squeeze on three to document my birthday, so I used different size pictures to accommodate this. I mounted the photos with ‘Pink Dreams’. 

To fit in with my birthday themed layout, I have also used  ‘Birthday Sparkle’ element stickers by Photoplay. I added the ‘celebrate’ sticker to serve as my title and a few of the words and a candle to tie in with the birthday theme. 

I cut out one of the cut apart pieces from ‘Dreamy Day’ to use as a journalling box. I also used some of the ‘cardstock stickers’ including some florals, hearts and stars. 

Thanks so much for looking! See you later in the month where I’ll be working with Simple Stories Say Cheese Magic. 

Anna

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