Lego Creations - Flora & Fauna Layout

The end page for our time at the South Coast Botanical Gardens features a few of the Lego creation we discovered there. My kids love Legos, so seeing all the fun Lego animals, plants, and other creative things was a an extra perk to our visit!

Recipe:
Oh Happy Day papers (Simple Stories)
Canary, Peacock, Goldrush, Kraft, Black & Creme Brulee cardstock
Peacock ink
Black, Goldrush & Saddle markers
White gel pen (Sakura)
Oh Happy Day Bits & Piece ephemera (Simple Stories)
Mind Your Manners ephemera (Bella Blvd)
Let's Wander Thickers (American Crafts)
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: hearts
Cricut Artbooking cartridge: hearts on posts
Pattern: Sketches in Thyme #511 (rotated to the left and substituted hearts for the triangles)

Challenges: Cut It Up #250 April Showers Bring May Flowers (I went with the flowers part of the challenge); Lasting Memories #595 Hearts; Use Your Stuff #446 Spring/Easter (I went with spring since these pictures were taken spring 2016)

South Coast Botanical Garden Layout

For the intro page for a family visit to a botanical garden, I used the left side of a Stick It Down sketch  (see below) and played along with several challenges.

Recipe:
Smitten papers
Capri, Raspberry, Canary & White Daisy cardstock
Capri, Raspberry & Nectarine ink
Black marker
Flutter Just Blooms Paper Shapes
Illustrated Faith Go! die-cut (Bella Blvd)
Raspberry baker's twine
White Daisy ribbon slide
Petticoats & Pinstripes enamel dots (Echo Park)
Circle Double Stitched steel dies (Art Impressions)
Cricut You Are Here cartridge: title
Pattern: Stick It Down April Double sketch (left side only)

Challenges: Double Trouble #108 Frame It (Thing 1 = metal die + Thing 2 = play along with Dies R Us #191 Flowers/Spring challenge + Thing 3 = flowers and/or butterflies); Let's Craft and Create  #182 Beautiful Butterflies; Color My Heart Color Dare #491

Hot Wheels Layout

My second car show layout features a 5" x 7" photo of an old fashioned fire truck, so the title Hot Wheels seemed like a perfect fit! After cutting out the triangles overlay on my Cricut, I had a bunch of left-over triangles, so I came up with the idea of flipping them over to allow the lighter shade of the two toned cardstock to show, and then adding them randomly to my layout. I haven't tried this before, but I like the way it turned out.

Recipe:
Jackson papers
Glacier, Barn Red, Desert Sand & Colonial White cardstock
Glacier, Barn Red & Desert sand ink
Sienna Fineliner pen (iBayam)
ShinHan Touch Twin marker
Chocolate & Heavenly Blue Ribbon Rounds
Let's Wander Thickers (American Crafts)
Silver Bigger Brads
Staples
Edge distresser
Cricut Artistry cartridge: triangle overlay
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: tags
Cricut Just because Cards cartridge: car
Cricut Design Space: title using Freestyle Script font
Challenges: Lasting Memories #593 Triangles; Use Your Stuff #445 Tags

Car Show 2016

My husband loves to attend car shows, and he took about 70 photos of classic cars at this particular show, so I placed most of the photos in pocket pages and just scrapped the intro and one other layout. Here's the intro layout.

Recipe:
You're a Classic stamp set
Beautiful Friendship, Marc/April 2021 Mix In & July/August 2021 Mix In papers
Desert Rose, Pewter, Mocha, Shortbread & White Daisy cardstock
Glacier, Sage, Ballerina, Desert Rose , Pewter & Black ink
ShinHan Touch Twin markers
Black grosgrain ribbon (from my stash)
Grey epoxy bubbles
Cricut Artbooking cartridge: sunburst borders
Cricut Wall Decor & More cartridge: title
Challenges: Heart 2 Heart Anything Goes using CTMH products; Color My Heart Color Dare #489 Tic-Tac-Toe (Desert Sand + Ballerina + Glacier & Shortbread + Sage + Pewter & Ballerina + Sage + Mocha)

Springtime 2016 Layout

Easter 2016 at church included Peeps and a competition for the Sunday school kids, and my hubby managed to snap a few pictures of the festivities. Thanks to the challenge sites (see below) that inspired me to add flower die-cuts and a pretty color combo to my layout!

Recipe:
My Peeps & Hooray Bouquet stamp sets
Dotty for You paper
Blush, Canary, Lagoon & White Daisy cardstock
Vellum
Blush, Canary & Lagoon ink
Black marker
Pine Fineliner pen (iBayam)
Blush gingham ribbon
Blush craft buttons
Pearl Opaques
Lagoon baker's twine
Scalloped border punch (Fiskars)
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: flowers, butterflies
Cricut Artbooking cartridge: decorative border
Challenges: Crafter's Cafe #283 Flowers; Cut It Up #248 Spring project with a die-cut; Cupcake Inspirations #540 Color combo

Tomorrowland Layout

Every month, there is a Baker's Dozen Challenge over at Scrapbook.com, in which people suggest 13 items to use on a layout. Sometimes the list comes together really easily, and sometimes it's quite a struggle to get all the items on my layout. Here's the layout I created this month, along with the list. Can you find all the items? A couple of the less obvious ones would be my bargain buy (I used a paper pack that I purchased as a bulk item back when I was a CTMG consultant) and the printer (I printed Tomorrowland repeatedly on the circle).

Baker's Dozen Items:

1. Bargain buy
2. Sketch
3. Die-cuts
4. Torn paper
5. Patterned paper
6. Washi tape
7. wooden embellishment
8. Ribbon, twine, or lace
9. Gesso or white paint
10. Printer or label maker
11. 6 or more brads
12. Something green
13. Buttons

Recipe:

ProPlayer papers

Pacifica, Ruby, Pewter & White Daisy cardstock

Vellum

Pewter & Black ink

Black brads

Big black brads (from my stash)

Star brads (Creative Impressions)

Craft buttons

Greg Wool baker's twine

Love This wooden title

Silver washi tape

Cricut Artbooking cartridge: honeycomb overlay

Cricut You Are Here cartridge: video game controller

Pattern: EMS Sketch Challenge 75

Today Is a Good Day Layout

Not sure where all the gals were this day, but the guys got into the action either flying kites or watching them be flown. To scrap these photos, I knew I wanted to use the older CTMH Zoe papers because they came with a pretty kite sticker, so I just needed to find a sketch that worked. With a few tweaks, the current Stick It Down double pager fit the bill, and it came together pretty easily from there.

Recipe:
Zoe papers & cardstock stickers
Sweet Leaf, Smoothie & White Daisy cardstock
Canary, Mint, Smoothie & Slate ink
Warm Grey gel pen (Cricut)
My Crush Bestie Assortment stickers
Seas the Day enamel dots
Pattern: Stick It Down March 2022 sketch

Challenges: Lasting Memories #591 Finishing Touches (I used enamel dots)

Skating Party Invitations

My daughter wants a skating party for her birthday, so I booked the venue and then set to work designing and creating invitations. I had to use older supplies from when I was a CTMH consultant, since I needed to be sure I had enough of the same papers to use for multiple invitations. The old Laughing Lola papers from CTMH seemed to fit the bill; they are just cute enough to make me happy and just Goth enough to make my teenaged daughter happy! It's a little hard to see in the photo, but I used a clear shimmer brush to add some shine to the wheels on the skates.

I also created another variant for the boys' invitations, since I figured they wouldn't be excited about purple and sparkles! Instead of sparkles, I used black pearls. Not sure which invitation I like more, but it was fun figuring out the details of each.

Recipe (Card 1):
Laughing Lola papers
Crystal Blue, Saffron & Black cardstock
Crystal Blue, Thistle, Saffron & Black ink
White gel pen (Sakura)
ShinHan Touch Twin marker
Clear shimmer brush
Bitty sparkles
Swiss Dot embossing folder (Cuttlebug)
Cricut Design Space: Let's Roll die-cut

Recipe: (Card 2):
Noted Backgrounds stamp set
ProPlayer papers
Slate, Whisper, Ruby & Black cardstock
Slate, Outdoor Denim, Ruby & Black ink
White gel pen (Sakura)
ShinHan Touch Twin marker
Licorice Opaques pearls
Cricut Design Space: Let's Roll die-cut
Pattern: Try Stampin' on Tuesday #547 (slightly modified, because that's what I do!)

Challenges: Allsorts Challenges #668 Feminine theme; Festive Friday #0105 (For the girly card, I chose sparkles, polka dots, rhinestones & layers)

Easter Gifts Layout

We didn't have Easter baskets for the kids in  2016, but family friends ended up giving the kids gifts, so it all worked out. I had pulled out the Easter Bunny stamp set for my Easter egg hunt layout but it really didn't go with the big flowers, so I sneaked it in here. Love that cute little bunny with his basket of eggs!

Recipe:
Easter Bunny stamp set
Topstitch papers
Glacier, Heavenly Blue, Chocolate, Blush & Colonial White cardstock
Chocolate & Black ink
ShinHan Touch Twin markers
Clear embossing powder
Blush polka dot ribbon
Mocha Opaques pearls
White baker's twine (Recollections)
Scalloped border punch (Fiskars)
Swiss Dot embossing folder (Cricut)
Circle Double Stitched steel dies (Art Impressions)
Cricut Design Space: title
Pattern: EMS Sketch Challenge 8a

Challenges: Lasting Memories #589 Love Your Stash - Trims (used ribbon and baker's twine); Scrap With Stacy March Tac Tac Toe (used the diagonal with border punch + circles + die-cuts)

Tic Tac Toe Challenges #153 (used the middle row across with Die-cuts + coloring + Easter bunny)

Easter 2016 Layout

My kids are too old for Easter egg hunts now, so it was sweet to scrap these photos of them racing around the backyard and then proudly displaying their finds to me and my hubby! I tried some fun mixed media techniques on this layout by lightly stamping on the scalloped frame and then inking over the stamping, plus I added shimmer to the butterflies, title, and flowers.

In the scan of the layout, it's hard to see the shimmer on the butterflies, so here's a close up of it.

Recipe:
Universal Backgrounds stamp set
Let's Wander papers (American Crafts)
Glacier & White Daisy cardstock
Paper Pizzazz Pastel vellum (Hot off the Press)
Heavenly Blue organdy ribbon
Shimmer Brush - clear
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: butterflies
Cricut Artbooking: scalloped frame
Cricut Design Space: Easter title
Challenges: Lasting Memories #590 Love Your Stash die-cuts; Scrap Our Stash Springtime theme + flowers; Tic Tac Toe Challenges #152 (used the top row across with Easter + butterfly + vellum and the bottom row across with die-cuts + spring colors + floral)