My Hero/Bella Blvd DT

Good morning everyone! Sarah here to day to share a simple layout about my dad with you, using the new Dad style collection.

 I love this collection and there are so many things that can be done with it, but I chose to so a simple and clean layout this time around about my dad saving an eagle when I was younger.I wanted my photo to be the focal point. When I started my layout I chose to pull a few papers and layer them behind my picture. I also knew going into this that I wanted to use the My Hero from the Daily Details paper as my title so I had placed that to the left of my photo and its layers.

After I had my photo and title square down, I added a few strips of pattern paper to the top and bottom of the layout, roughing up the edges as I went, I love the little bit of texture that this adds to a layout,especially a simple one. Once I had the paper added to the top and bottom, I moved back in to embellishing.

I used a few of my circle punches from my stash and punched out different sized and patterned circles and popped them down here and there on my layout. I love using messy splatters usually, but I wanted more color added to this layout with it being so simple and I wanted to have control over there the circles went all together. After I had placed them, I pulled out my sticker sheet and added the man circle sticker with the mustache and the legendary sticker. When I added the legendary sticker I added a paper strep with it. I added some of the little circles onto the My Hero card Id chosen to use for my title, along with the protector sticker there as well. 

I thought all the little stickers and title I chose to use went well with this photo and added my journaling on the back of my layout. I always remember my dad being a protector when I was growing up and when he saved this eagle, to me he was my hero, I loved hoe compassionate he was. The eagle had flown into a power pole and got its talon stuck in it wing, my dad had manage to keep the eagle calm and get his talon out of his wing while he waited for animal control got there. I just remembering watching him and think how amazing he was for how he handled the situation and I loved the fact that I finally did a layout about it!

  

Dad Style collection, exclusive collection kit bonus pattern paper, Boarders, Story teller, Daily details, Dressed to impress, Cardstock stickers, ephemera pack

Right here/Pretty Little Studio DT

Good morning everyone!!

Sarah here this morning to share a new layout with you using the XOXO Collection. I have to say that I really do love this collection! The colors are beautiful and all the pretty patterns! So many pretty bits and pieces, you can layer so much and I did a little layering of pieces in this layout.

I started out by picking out my picture and then pulling one of my favorite 8x8 patterned papers from the paper pack and adhered it to the bottom center of the page. I added a small blue photo mat around my photo and then place it at the top middle of the 8x8 paper that I had already placed down.

I liked my photo where I placed it, so I grabbed a few die-cut labels and bits and added them to the left side of my photo, tucking them under, behind and on top of it.

After I got that little bit of layering done, I jumped down to the bottom of the layout and pulled out a bunch of the die-cut circles and labels and started to lay them in a grid like design. Once I got them where I wanted them, I adhered them down and pulled out my flair buttons from the collection and picked three, and oh man was that hard cause I wanted to use them all!! lol.

Once I chose the three I was going to use, I pulled some black thread from my stash and made some little messy thread nests to go behind the flair buttons and glued them down. I went back and ruffled up the edges of the circles and papers behind my photo to add a little more dimension to my layout and then splattered a little bit of my shimmerz at the top to finish it off.

Thanks so much for checking out my layout and make sure to head to the shop and check out all the pretty new things coming in!

Pretty Little Studio Products used:

Xoxo Collection: 8x8 Paper pack, Adore circle label die-cuts,  Us 1in Flair buttons, Together 1in flair buttons, Love you die-cuts

Happy Birthday/Shimmerz DT

Good morning everyone!! I hope your Valentine's Day was great!!

Earlier this week I shared this layout on my instagram for the Shimmerz Paints design team and I thought I would share here on my blog too!! 

I have had a rough couple of months and am happy to be back to where I can blog a bit more. Sick kids, hospitals and more, but everyone is healthy now!!

I started my layout with a white cardstock background, started cutting my paper strips and layering them at the top of my page and to the bottom right. As you can see I didn't end my layout with a white background though! lol

I was using the Make your mark collection from Bella Blvd. and of course I have the perfect Shimmerz that will match this collection, so I decided to cut different sized hearts out of the white cardstock I was going to use for the background and use the hearts as a transfer. I sprayed one heart with a spritz-Cotton Candy and the other with a Coloringz-Well blue me down. 

After I sprayed the large heart, I flipped it over and rubbed it on my paper to transfer the spray. I did the same with the little heart and let them dry.

After I let my background dry, I started to lay down the strips I had started with on the white background . I added in little flowers, and omg the flowers in this collection are so cute! But I layered them in and popped a few hearts here and there, I wanted some more gold added in and those hearts were perfect for adding some more shine to my layout!

Since this layout was of the day my youngest daughter was born, I thought the Happy birthday banner piece worked perfect, cause it was her birth-day. Everything layered in perfectly, but I still wanted a little more gold, so I grabbed my Inklingz-Miner,Miner49er and added little dots of it around my layout and that finished this layout for me!!

I  Hope you enjoyed this layout as much as I enjoyed making it!!

You&Me / Pretty Little Studio DT

Hi everyone!! Im back today to share a new layout I made for the Pretty little Studio design team using the new and beautiful XOXO collection!

I loved the colors in this collection, purple is one of my favorite colors and I was so happy to see more of it showing up in scrappy collections this release! The teals and pinks are a great combo with the purple too!

I dont usually use color photos, but I thought it worked well enough with this collection, so I went for it! I started out with a larger purple rectangle in the center of my layout. I'm a sucker for polka-dots too, so I grabbed the tri colored dot paper and added a strip of it, off set and towards the bottom of the purple paper. Then I decided to see where exactly I wanted my photo.

Once I decided where I wanted my photo and backed it with some white cardstock, I started to add embellishments around my layout. I love the pack of blooms, and tucked them in here and there around my layout, along with some labels.

I was liking my layout, but I felt like it was off balance with the off set dot paper to the right, I thought I needed to add something to the left side too. So I pulled out one of the journaling cards from the collection and cut it into a tag shape and punched a hole in it. Then I grabbed those cute little hears and added them on top of the ampersand. 

I added a few more labels, tabs and blooms to the left of my photo. I added my title to the bottom of my photo and finished my layout off with a little shimmerz from my stash.

Pretty little studio Products used:

XOXO Collection, 8x8 Paper Pack, Us-Flair Buttons, Adore circle label die-cuts, Never ending labels die-cuts, Love you Die-cuts, Blooming Love die-cuts, Im yours cut-aparts, Hello Lovely cut-aparts, You&Me cut-aparts, Love this 3x4 Journaling cards

Sweet Life Hello, Hello word stickers

Smile Heart wall decor Bella Blvd DT

Good morning everyone!!

Sarah here this morning to share a little wall decor I made thinking of my mom. And on the plus side, I got to dig into the new Mom Life collection! I was so excited to get this collection and I have to say I love all the new collection, they were even more beautiful in person!

I had recently been unpacking and organizing another box of my scrappy stash and found a canvas heart frame. It was actually supposed to be used as a little bulletin board, but I thought it would be great for a little home decor. 

I knew I wanted to break into Mom Life, so I chose a picture and dove into the collection. In the ephemera pack there were already beautiful floral die cuts, but I wanted more. So I pulled out the My Tribe paper and started to fussy cut some of the flowers out. Its so hard to chose just a few to use, I had to remind my self that all of them didnt have to be used on this one project, even though I really wanted to play with them all!! 

I decided that I wanted my photo backed with some more of the pretty papers, with the canvas background I thought it needed some more color to separate my photo from the background.So I pulled out some more of the My Tribe paper, Daily details and started to cut and add layers. Once I was happy with the layers and the way they looked I popped it up on foam adhesive and added it to the middle of the heart.

At this point I wanted to start tucking the ephemera pieces and the fussy cut flowers in the layers and behind my photo. I popped some of them up on foam adhesive, bent a few of them up, but just like a lot of my layouts I worked on a diagonal, I started from the bottom right, worked some of the pieces around the right side of the photo cluster and then moved to the upper left corner.

After I tucked the pretty flowers here and there on the diagonal, I went back in to my Bella goodies and pulled some more pieces that work perfectly with this collection. I love the little pom poms  and the epoxy stickers, so since they matched I started to add those in too. The little Pom poms added some more texture to my project and then the hexies mini epoxy stickers added some shine popping out around the heart. I did add a few cute clips, well the little bows, there cute and girly and love to use them, so I pulled them off there clips and added them. I wanted something that would act like a title and I had a bunch of the acrylic words and Smile just stood out to me. We were all so happy in this picture, smiling and enjoying our selves, so Smile was perfect. I added that to the right of the photo and that finished off my wall decor. I had no clue where I was going with this when I started but I am so happy with the way it turned out!

Mom Life Collection: Daily Details, My Tribe, Ephemera pack, Acrylic words; Baby Girl-Cute Clips, Illustrated Faith Pom Pom clips;Bananas for you, Apple of my eye, Basics-Hexies epoxy stickers-Bananas for you, Oh my Heavens



 

Head in the Game Layout/ Bella Blvd DT

Good morning everyone!! Sarah here this morning sharing a layout I made using Bellas Football collection!

This layout didnt quite go as I planned. Most of the time when Im making layout I'll stick with a white background, I just feel like it gives me a blank canvas to play on and keeps things bright, I do use full patterned/colorful backgrounds too, but usually white, and this layout happened to be one of those times!

I did pull out white card stock to start out with. I grabbed my Boarders&Details paper and cut some layers for behind my photo, even a boarder strip that had some footballs on it but it was looking to plain at this point for me so I went back in and started laying my photo and its layers on other papers from this collection and found this one and was so happy I did!!

I was way happier with this as my background and continued to build from there. I cut a star out of one of the papers and tucked it behind the left side of my photo and its layers and then decided I was going to add a little bit of white card stock to this layout. So I cut out a circle, popped up my photos and its layers on some 3D foam and laid it on top of my white circle.

I grabbed the ephemera pack and the fundamentals sticker sheet and started to add pops of red, blue and green around my layout. I popped some up on 3D phone to add some more dimension and I also decided I was going to run my fingernail under the side of my papers to add a little more texture to my layout. 

I got my title, that I added in the center bottom of my photo from the ephemera pack as well and popped it up on more 3D foam, along with a football. I added another football to the upper right of my layout with some stars and other ephemera pieces for another embellishment cluster.

I tucked a larger ephemera piece, with a football helmet on it, behind my photo so that it was sticking out and could still be seen and added a tab as well. I liked that this brought more of the colors in that I wanted and I also liked that it had a big helmet on it too! I wanted a little more texture on my layout and I have a bunch of these adorable puffy stars and of course they match perfectly, so I grabbed my puffy stars in the colors that matched and I tucked them in here and there all around the layout and that finished it off for me. I had fun changing it up a little bit from my norm and I loved how this layout turned out!

Football Collection: Boarders&Details, Throw it!, Game Time, Call The Play, Ephemera pack, Fundamentals, Puffy Star Stickers: Ice, Blueberry, Pickle Juice