Together | Clique kits international

Good morning everyone, Sarah here today to share with you a layout that was inspired by some stories my little ones have been telling me. We went running around outside, playing in the leaves and when we got in they went to telling me stories about their adventures, so I wanted to make sure to scrap a shot I got of them out there.

I used the Attitude of Gratitude base kit for this layout and it was perfect! I wanted leaves on this layout, being they had played in them all afternoon and all their stories were about their adventures in them too, so I went for a leaf cut-file on patterned paper and opted into a color cardstock background again. I wanted there to be a little lightness to the background, not just plain dark blue, so I dry brushed some white around where the cut-file was going to be, along with some splatters and added my cut-file on top.

From there it was pretty easy to finish up my layout, it was all about adding layers behind my photo and then the pretty, pretty embellishments.

I added a few layers and tags behind my photo and then went crazy on tucking flowers and leaves here and there in a few clusters on the layout. To finish it off I grabbed those oh so pretty Nordica sticker dots and tucked them in and under some of the cut-file and a few other places and that was it for this one. I hope you enjoyed this layout and I hope we can see more of what y'all create with the Clique kits!

Good morning everyone! Sarah here this morning to share with you a layout I made with the new , bright and summery, Aint' Life Grand  collection.

Here is the Big cheese! I was going threw my scraproom this last week cleaning up and reorganizing when I came across some older pictures that I thought I had lost and this was one of them. My oldest boy back when he was still in a high chair! I remember taking this picture, all's I had to do was ask his to look at me and he cheesed so big, I couldn't help but take the picture.

I started this page out with piecing together some cut files from The cut shoppe, I chose my background and then went to backing my cut file with the bright, beautiful papers. I popped the cut file up with 3D foam adhesive and placed it down. I pulled my photo out and played with it, trying to decided where I wanted it.

I started layering behind my photo, using a frame off to the right, adding a flair button with a little nest of thread behind it.

I bounced around my layout adding those adorable cork hearts, some ephemera and little thread clusters.

To finish off my layout I went down to the bottom right and placed my title, along with a die cut.

I hope you enjoyed this layout and I hope you come back and see what else I have in store! Make sure to share yout layouts or projects on Instagram and make sure to tag Pretty little studios so we can see too!!

Hello Flawless/Creating with sketches

Hello everyone!! Sarah here today to share with you my take on this months sketch, #305 and oh man did I love this one!! And I loved this months sponsors too! The Cut Shoppe , Ashley has so many different cut files, I loved working with them! Here's my layout.

I started my layout with a white background at first and then decided to change it up to a wood grain background. I wanted my cut files to pop a little more and on the white background it just wasn't happening.

I added a little a few layers behind my photos and then went to backing my cutfiles. After I backed my cutfiles I placed them on my background where I wanted them and started to layers my photos with other cutfiles.

Then I started to add little embellishments here and there, with a bit of dimension to some of them and some wood pieces, a rub on title and added a few sequins.

We would love to see what you create with this sketch too, so make sure to share your creations on Instagram  using #creatingwithsketches  I hope you enjoyed my take on this months sketch and I would love for you to follow me on Instagram

Thanks so much and cant wait to see what you create!!

-Sarah

Adventure awaits and more/Cocoa Daisy DT

Hello everyone! Hope you've had a great weekend! 

Ours gets to continue, like I know some others do too, Spring Break!! Well ours didn't start out to great, we have sick kiddos, but I'm really hoping that they will get better so we can have some fun. Its even gotten warmer outside, so here's keeping my fingers crossed!

Now to scrapbooking, something else I'm hoping to get more done of over spring break,lol.

I've been branching out and slowly trying new things, or old things that I haven't done in forever and trying them again.

I love bright bold colors and patterns, so I paired them together in this layout. I toned the bold strip down with some white paint and a stencil. I know its not a lot but I'm trying,lol. I used the word paper for the bottom with Happiness being the focus there. I used some of the DITL cards from my March 2017 Cocoa Daisy kit, a baggy that some of the embellishments came in made it into the layers and the cute little tag that was stapled to some of the packaging. I had a few cut files laying around and popped them in to the layers added a few stickers and the title and was happy with it.

Then I moved on to this layout. My poor baby had to get her shots, I always hate those! And I snapped a quick pic of it. I cut out this pretty heart on my Silhouette and filled the inside star shape with the cute rain drop paper, I looked at it as my heart hurting for her. I know cheesy lol. The rain drops kind of looked like tears to me, which is something I do every time one of my littles has to get shots.

I had the cut file be the main background on this layout and then did a little layering behind my photo. I used some of the pretty papers from the Flutterbye kit and some of the DITL cards as well. I layered a little bit of the Pretty little Studio washi in there to. 

I added some of the pretty Maggie Holmes stickers by the photo and up on the upper right hand side of the heart.I added my title and was done. No splatters on this one either,lol.

I hope you enjoyed seeing these two layouts and I have more to come. You can check me out on Instagram and make sure to check out the Cocoa Daisy site, come check out the forums and chat with us and you can check out the Cocoa Daisy planner fan page and the challenge page too and play along with us!! We'd love to see you there!

I hope y'all have a great rest of your evening and if your going into spring break, I hope you have fun and good luck!! lol. I have 6 kids, its fun trying to keep them all entertained!

So Cozy/Pretty Little Studio Pinterest Inspired

Good morning everyone, How was your Monday? Pretty good here, getting a lot done!

I'm here this morning to share a layout with you that was inspired by a pinterest board, shown here.

Now I went with a dark background, taking that from the bike picture and then playing with the rest of the colors.

I used a large cut file that made me thing of a dream catcher, since my little girl was all cozy in her bed. I backed some of the spaces in the the cut file with the With all my Heart collection and then went to layering behind my photo.

I added a few layers of papers, a frame and some tabs. On top of that I added some word stickers and a cute little heart sticker. 

To the right of my photo I added my 1st little cluster with some of the beautiful floral die cuts and floral stickers and added the title on top. The of course I had to use one of those pretty little flair buttons!

I added another cluster to the bottom right of my cut file and finished it off with, of course, some Heidi Swapp Gold color shine.

Pretty Little Studio Products used:

With all my Heart collection, Cut aparts Labels, Die-Cuts Floral Bouquet, Flair Happy Heart , Flair XOXO, Frames Flutter, Labels Love notes, Mini Word Sweetheart, 8x8 Paper pack With all my Heart, Stickers Love story words, Stickers Darling, Stickers Mini ABC Rose, Stickers Peonies

Jan18 Sweet Babe/Cocoa Daisy DT

Good morning everyone! How are you doing today?? We've made it to Thursday! The week is almost over!! Come on Friday!!

Well I thought I'd pop in really quick and share with you a layout I made last month with my December 2016 Cocoa daisy DT package.

There were so many pretty papers in this kit and the cut files you got were beautiful too! I was drawn to the embroidery hoop one and the pretty little floral element.

So I cut both of those cut files out, the floral quite a few times, then I decided to fussy cut out some of the pretty flowers from the Pink Paislee paper and started layering them around the embroidery hoop. I added a frame to a portion of the picture, just to add some color and then placed it behind the embroidery hoop.

I added some gold Heidi Swapp Color shine and a strip down the left side and was done. Another quick layout for this week. I think this one took we less than 45 min and thats with the fussy cutting counted in.

I love how it turned out. My youngest daughter is the main focus of the layout, just partially curled up sleeping, lol, she use to do that a lot, not so much anymore! lol, They grow so fast!

Thanks so much for coming by to check out my layout and I hope you come back again and see what else I come up with. If you dont want to miss anything, feel free to hit that follow button and you wont miss out on anything again! And make sure to head over to the Cocoa Daisy Blog and forums to see what else is going on over there!

Pretty Little Studio/Be Merry Be Bright 12x12

Good morning everyone!! Can you believe its already Christmas Eve?

Well today I wanted to share a layout I made using the Tinsel Town collection by Ashley Horton.

I got a picture of my Christmas tree from this year and thought it would go great with this collection, so I decided to scrap it. I used a cut-file from Ashley Hortons, The Cut Shoppe, Christmas Magic and cut the title out.

I backed it with pieces from the Tinsel Town collection and started layering behind my photo. I added a few pieces from a cut apart sheet and a few bits and pieces from an ephemera pack.

I added a small amount of journaling at the bottom of my photo about what year this was and a little blurb about my tree this year, finished off my little embellishment cluster and decided to add a small strip of paper to the bottom of the page and then moved on to add a wood veneer tree and a few more pieces from an ephemera pack.

To finish it off I added some splatters of Heidi Swapp color shine in gold lame and that was it. a quick simple layout, showcasing my Christmas tree. Thanks so much for coming by to check out this layout!

Pretty Little Studio products used:

Tinsel Town Collection: Cut-apart HoHoHo, Cut-apart Nice List,  Die Cuts Twinkle, Flair Festive, Frames Noel, Paper pack 6x6 Tinsel Town paper pack

Cocoa Daisy designer challenge

Good afternoon everyone! Sorry I'm a bit late getting this up today but it has been CRAZY! lol

We have had so much running around going on and family going here and there and I don't expect it'll slow down till after Christmas, but thats ok with me. I'm just happy to have all this family around! What about y'all?? Lots going on there?

Well today I wanted to share a layout I created to play along with this months Cocoa Daisy designer challenge. Oh and a quick mention, Cocoa Daisy has now set up a new facebook page for the monthly challenges, it makes it a bit easier to play along, so we hope to see you over there! Here it is for you, Cocoa Daisy Challenge facebook page . 

So this months challenge is to scrapbook your favorite memory from 2016. So this is what I scrapped about, This was our surprise in 2016.  And a fantastic one at that! We found out that we were pregnant with out 5th child and it was amazing. 

These are the 1st ultrasound pics, we didnt get to get in to ultrasound until further in to the pregnancy but that was ok, we knew she was ok.

I used the main kit, moments, and some layers made with the DITL kit and a cut file from Ashley Hortons, The Cut Shoppe.

We would love for you to play along and let us see your creations over on the facebook page or even in the Cocoa Daisy forums on our site. 

Thanks so much for stopping by and seeing what I had made today!

Pretty little Studio / I just love to smile

Good morning everyone!! Happy Monday! Its the beginning to a new week and I thought I'd share a new project that I made with the lovely Tinsel Town collection created by Ashley Horton.

This is a very simple layout but I loved the cute little picture of me and my daughter from last winter and her little antlers, lol. After I chose my picture, I went for my Silhouette, a piece of card stock and the Stained Glass and The Buddy the Elf cut-files from The Cut Shoppe.

I sewed the Stained glass cut-file to the background, splattered it with white paint. Then I layered patterned papers behind my photo and adhered it down. I cut the Buddy the Elf cut-file and put my title down. 

After that I grabbed the cute paper with all the circles on it and started punching some of the circles out. I popped a few up on 3D adhesive, with some thread messyness behind them.

I added ephemera pieces, love the Buck head!! And you get it in different colors! lol I was good an only added one flair button, I love them and need more!!!

Very simple, 30 minutes to make but I love it!!

Pretty Little Studio products used:

  Tinsel Town Collection, Cut-a part Nice List, Cut-a part Snow Day, Die-Cuts Twinkle, Flair Festive, Paper Evergreen, Paper Cookies & milk, Paper Oh Christmas Tree, Paper Very Merry, Paper Pack Tinsel Town 4x6

My loot Crate baby/ 12x12 scrapping my stash

Hey everyone! I am out running around today but I wanted to share a layout I created playing with stuff that's been in my stash for a few years.

Me and my hubby are our own kind of nerds lol and proud of it! Well he started getting his loot crates last year and loves them!! They always come with cool shirts, sometimes socks, collectabl toys and all kinds of stuff. It made him really happy when this showed up on our door step, I guess it's his equivalent to me getting my scrappy mail lol so I decided I wanted to document it.

I had fun playing with the cut files and mix of patterned papers. Ashley Horton created this cut file for Hip Kit Club for the month of August2016. And this was another layout that I created playing along with some of the prompts from a Victoria Marie online crop.

I really did like the fact that I dove into my stash with this one and used old Crate paper, old I believe American crafts paper, some Basic Grey and Pink Paislee Memorandum. I really did have fun. I definitely say you need to join the Victoria Marie facebook group, everyone is amazing there, lots of crafty talk, fun and goofyness and just plain fun!!

Well thanks for stopping by, I hope you come back to see more!

Pretty little Studio and JustNick Product Swapp / 12x12 layout

Welcome to the Pretty Little Studio and Just Nick Product Swap, October 3-8. Designers from both teams have swapped product to bring you some fabulous inspiration combining the two stores. Be sure to check back all week to both blogs, to see what our talented designers have created for you. 

Pretty Little Studio: http://prettylittlestudio.com/plsblog/

Just Nick: http://justnick.myshopify.com/blogs/justnick

Make sure to go and check out the JustNick blog and see what Nicole Martel has in-store for you!!

Also, make sure to grab your cut-files for 25% off thru Oct 31 with code: PRETTY

And over at Pretty little studio get 10% off  threw Oct 2-15 code: JNick10

I loved playing with the cut files from JustNick Studios!! And they work so great with all the pretty papers from Pretty little studio. I wanted to scrapbook this picture of my kids, niece and my parents. As you see my kids are goofy as all get out! lol This was a few years ago, now I have more kids and they are all just as goofy, if not more!! My mom and dad said that they had a hard time getting a picture of us when we were younger without at least one of us making a face or sticking our tongue out. So I guess my kiddos take right after me!

Since this picture was taken in the fall I wanted to go with a more fall-ish cut file so I went with the rustic wreath frame and 

a few pieces from Sweater Weather. I loved the way they looked cut out of the papers from the Woodlands Collection! I chose the wood-grain because it made me think of out side and the bright yellow because its bright but also makes me think of fall. I liked the combination of them and they way 

Pretty Little Studio Products used:

Woodland Collection: Butterflies 3x4 journaling cards, Clover Leaf Cut apart lables, Caterpiller-Green paper, Clover -Navy paper, Clover -Yellow paper, Clover paper, Mini ABC alpha stickers-Tree Bark, Rose Bush tabs, Wonderlust word stickers, Vellum Tape-Petals,