Three Dimensional Embellishments

Hello all!  I wanted to share my most recent layout with you along with the 3-D embellishments that really  make the layout pop!  For Spring Break this year, we traveled to Islands of Adventure in Florida and visited Marvel Island.  I knew that I wanted this layout to jump out at you and have a comic book feel.  So I based the layout on the sketch from NAS and did some misting on the cardstock for my background.  As I started building the layout, I thought that it would be neat to pop some of the stars.  So I used my Cricut George cartridge and cut three stars.  Each star would be slightly smaller than the previous.  Then I began chalking.  The bottom layer had the most chalking with each following layer to be chalked a bit less giving the dimension I was looking for.  Then I layered them adding pop dots and VOILA.  They jumped right out at ya!  I thought that this would be great to try on banners, butterflies, etc. 

Here is the sketch!

Here is my layout!

 Here is a close up of those 3-D embellishments.

These really do add dimension to a layout!  Try them out!

Show and Tell Saturday

Lately, I have been noticing a "not so new" trend in scrapbooking.  Cameras have been popping up everywhere on layouts and cards.  So I thought that I would share some of my favorite camera inspiration for this week:

1.  First I saw this beautiful card on Pintrest.  Now I am not a card maker but if I was, I would want to be just like Danni!

2. I love the idea of making your own camera with wire!

3.  I absolutely love this digital kit from After Five Designs .

4.  Check out these camera embellishments from Sweetly Scrapped!

5.  These cute map rosettes would be perfect on any travel page!  They are from Jardin de Papier.

6.  I also found these cute journaling cards from Creativity Prompt.

Thanks for spending another Saturday with me!

NAS Sketch 212 - Love this layout!

I loved the way that this layout turned out.  It was based on NAS Sketch 212.  I tried to bring out the background surroundings which reminded me of Little Italy.  I pasted over a stencil and let dry and then highlighted the design with some inks. I also stamped some images onto transparencies and embellished with a few older rub-on butterflies and birds, buttons, and flowers.  I hope you like it!

Show and Tell Saturday - Frugal Scrapping!

Once upon a time my husband made a comment - "What do you think?  Maybe do you have like $400.00 in scrapbooking supplies in your room?"  And my response was - "Yes.  $400.00 is approximately what I have in supplies."  Little did he know it was closer to $4000 than it was $400.  Right?  Anyone who scraps knows that it can get REALLY pricey.  So with that, I thought that I would share a couple of my money saving tutorials with you.  These are tutorials that I have found online and have tried on my own.  They really do work!!!

1.  Repurpose your Cricut mat with a Zig glue pen! - Repurpose your mat

2.  Handmade Glue dots/pop dots. Here is my post.   I even like to do a little thin line for gluing ribbons!  You can get so many dots and ribbon strips from one bottle of this glue!  Handmade glue dots

3.  Make your own paint daubers - Repurpose Bingo daubers
4.  And lastly - my new fav - make your own alcohol inks! - Alcohol inks

Show and Tell Saturday - Rainbows!

It's time for another Show and Tell Saturday.  This week's segment's was inspired by this amazing layout from Luv-a-Lot Land.  I am a huge fan of bright colors and rainbows and this layout was so "Springy" I couldn't resist.  I loved all the details, banners, colorful font, etc.  Way pretty!

I love the way this set of rainbow hearts from Wilma had beautiful running colors!

I am in love with this rainbow washi tape from Frozen Note Supply at Etsy.com.  I must have it!

How about these beautiful rainbow colored ric rac flowers for your layouts, cards, and altered projects?  Here is a great tutorial for making these!

And finally, how about this beautiful little card from a Walk Down Memory Lane?

Remember:

Show and Tell Saturday

I am loving all the mists and such for designing my own backgrounds lately and I really was inspired by a few techniques that I thought that I might share.  It all began with this layout.  I love the Studio Calico's white Mister Huey and this title really stood out to me!  This layout was created by Michelle Underwood from This Crazy Life.

So then I began to think about all of the ways and materials that you could use to create a masked background or title.  Here are a few techniques and projects that inspired me!

1.  From mytatteredangels.com

 By the way, this site has TONS of examples and samples for masking!!!  It is a must!



2.  A tutorial about making your own masks from Sara at One Day at a Time

3.  And I love this background enhanced with gems and pearls from scrapbook.com

I can't wait to share some of my own projects with all of you!!!  Happy Saturday!

Nuts About Sketches - 2 More Reveals

I just wanted to share with you my most recent layouts and reveals for Nuts about Sketches.  Here is the first sketch - Sketch 207:

And my layout - left side only:

And finally Week 208 sketch:

And my take on this sketch:

I hope you like them!