December Daily Spreads with Enza

Hello everyone! Enza here, and today I would like to share a few spreads in my December Daily album. I love using cut files to personalize the pages. Not only holiday-themed ones, but also sentiments and designs that go with the story of the day.

I really enjoyed using the Write This Down cut file. I like the arrow shape, and the sentiments are generic and can be easily adapted to any photo.

Creating dividers is also a lot of fun. Here, I cut four layers of the Make It Merry cut file and adhered them back-to-back, making sure to “sandwich” some patterned papers in between. It came out thick and sturdy. I love it! Just a technical note: since I wanted the textured side of the paper to show on both sides of the divider, I flipped one of the images horizontally in the Silhouette program before sending it to cut. That way the image was mirrored and worked perfectly for what I wanted.

Sometimes you don't need a lot to accent a picture or a page. The sentiment “Celebrate” included in the It's My Party cut file set, with its beautiful and delicate font, gives the right amount of color and detail to this photo.

The next page features the Snow Day cut file. I cut the snowflakes out of white glitter card stock, after modifying their sizes to create some variety.

Finally, I wanted flowers from the Flower Delivery cut file to be the focus of this mini scrapbook layout for day 9. Again, I cut them in different sizes and arranged them on the page. I kept it simple, with just a few embellishments around photo and flowers.

Here are the full spreads:

That is all for today. Cut files are a great way to personalize your December Daily album. Visit The Cut Shoppe Etsy store and get inspired by the beautiful and fun designs.

Thank you for stopping by!

Party on | Anna Komenda

Hello everyone. It's Anna here with my last project for 2017. I can't believe how fast this year went by. I am wrapping up this year with a party themed page. My daughter turned 9 few days ago and we had a party at home. Every year we buy giant balloon with a number and fill it with helium. It's like a tradition. Each year I take pictures of her with that balloon and scrap them like crazy :)

This year we had a pink 9 and when I was scrolling through the Cut Shoppe site I found this fun set of birthday cut files called "Party on"

I thought that those numbers look the same as our balloon and it started the process of inspiration and planning the page.

I wanted to add shimmer so I printed the "9" and "party on" using my laser printer and foiled it with Minc. You can use Print and cut feature or just cut it by hand. Just remember to leave a little offset. Thank to that the foil will cover the edges nicely too. 

I used rose gold foil for the "9" and gold for "party on". i also cut party hat and 9 candles using watercolor paper. I painted them with watercolors ans added to tge design.

Taking pictures of foiled elements is a nightmare. No matter how hard you try - you can't show how pretty the foiling is. It looks like a black surface. Foiling is a fun way of using your cut files and I like doing it from time to time. There is a magic happening when you peel of the foil and reveal the foiled image.

I hope you like my page. Thank you for stopping by and see you in 2018. Have a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Anna

Believe Layout by Jill

Hello!  I was so excited for the gorgeous stars in the new Christmas Star cut file set in The Cut Shoppe Etsy shop!  I love designs that can be big and bold on my layouts, or can be cut smaller and used as embellishments.  For this layout I decided to go big and bold, check it out below!

My first step was enlarging the believe star and rotating it slightly in my Silhouette software, knowing I wanted the cut located on the top left of my white cardstock.  I cut the star twice, once from the white paper and again from the green plaid so I could inlay the plaid on the white.

I backed the cut file with a more solid red paper so it would really pop on my layout.

I used a smaller photo from last Christmas of our elf, Elfie.  This wasn't a major moment in our lives, but I wanted to capture some of Elfie's antics!  I used several patterned papers behind the photo, then embellished with stickers.

I've loved banners since the moment they became a hot embellishment in scrapping, so I add them to about half of my layouts, haha!  I used my sewing machine to stitch a few rows to make the banner look like it's hanging.

And here's the layout, I was so happy with my end result!

Thanks so much for stopping by TCS blog today, I hope you're getting all prepared for Christmas!

Falalalala With Enza

Hello everyone! Enza here, and today I'm sharing a layout featuring the Under the Mistletoe and Decked Out cut files.

I started by cutting the mistletoe image four times, as I wanted to make it look fuller and take up most of the page without enlarging it too much. I think the smaller leaves add more interest to the design as well. I also knew I would be using the Falalala banner from the Crate Paper Falala collection as my title, so I got rid of the sentiment that was part of the cut file.

After arranging the mistletoe on the page, I added embellishments from the same collection and star ornaments from the Decked Out cut file set. I love the swirls inside the stars! I backed them with several patterned papers before adhering them down with foam adhesive.

For the photo, I just layered a few die cuts, tags, and chipboard stickers around it. Enamel dots and gold splatters finished the layout.

I hope I have inspired you to use these cut files on your next project. Did I mention the Under the Mistletoe cut file is free? ;)

Thank you for stopping by! Have a lovely day!

New Cut Files | Merry Everything

Christmas is coming and we've got some great cut files for all of your ho ho holiday projects!  There are four new sets available today in The Cut Shoppe Etsy store.  These would be perfect for layouts, Christmas cards, Traveler's Notebooks and your December Daily albums!  I used the Merry Christmas cut file, with a bit of hand-stitching, to create an eye-catching look on my layout!

I opened the cut file in Silhouette Studio and used the Trace feature to get my cut lines.  Then I used one of the Sketch Pens to draw the reindeer.  After that, I kept the mat in the machine, changed out the Sketch Pen with the blade and cut the words.  I wanted to fill in the reindeer, so I hand-stitched along the outline and then went back and added a string art look inside the design.

I backed the words with one of the darker patterned papers from the Pinkfresh Studio December Days collection.  Then I machine stitched around the circle of words, just to have more stitching on the layout.  I like to mix hand stitching and machine stitching on my layouts!

I placed my photo in the bottom corner of the layout, to keep from covering the stitched reindeer.  I used a puffy sticker from December Days under the photo, for my title.  I kept the rest of the embellishing simple, by creating a few clusters in a visual triangle around the layout.

You can visit The Cut Shoppe Etsy store and pick up this new cut file set, along with three other new designs!  And we love seeing what you create, so make sure you tag us any time you share on social media!

 

Pawsome with Jennifer

Hello everyone,

this is Jennifer with a new project for The Cut Shoppe.

I used the Happy Kitty cutfile for my title

and Full Circle for the big element in the background.

I backed both the title and the cirle cutfile with patterned paper. Because the title didn't work as is in my chosen size I cut it apart and stacked the parts on top of each other. As a throwback to the heart between the paw and some in the original file I added in a golden chipboard star to go with the rest of my embellishments.

I cut the circle in half and backed it with foam to give it dimension.

I tried to create a bit of a colorful "scene" around my photo using chipboard stickers, die cuts and normal stickers.

I backed my photo with patterned paper and phome to raise it up like the circle element. On top I added a chipboard phrame because I really liked how that looked and how it draws the eye to my picture.

That's it for today! Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!

xoxo