Moody Monday - 2/10 - Pastel Mood Board

Today, I was inspired by this mood board from Studio Calico. I loved the color scheme, sunburst effect, and the circular theme fit well with my photos. The photos that I scrapped aren't the greatest but I could not resist scrapping them.   They are of my great-niece playing in her ball pit.  She played hard but in the end the ball pit won!!  :)

So here is the mood board from Studio Calico:

 

And here is my layout of my niece:



I hope that you too can be inspired by this mood board!  Happy Monday all!

Just a Sketch and a Girl!

I loved this sketch from Nuts About Sketches Blog and couldn't resist creating a layout or two to share with you.  Both of these layouts were inspired by Fall and Sketch #289.  Hope you like them! 

Here is layout #1 - my great niece having a few Fall photos taken!

And my daughter and our puppy at the local park!

Re-using Sketches????

There are so many amazing sketches out there to inspire and challenge us on a daily basis but I began thinking . . . (yep dangerous) . . . and sometimes I come across a sketch that I want to use more than once.  My worry is that my pages may start to look the same so I try to mix it up a bit and use older picts on one and newer on the re-used sketch layout so they won't be so close together in my albums.

That definitely works but this time around I wanted to use the same sketch in the same album (livin' on the edge!)  So I thought that I might try to angle the sketch so it won't be so obvious!

I re-used this sketch from Sketches with a Twist - and changed up the angle and embellishments.

 Here is the first layout:

and the second angled layout!

So that's it!  Re-using favorite sketches with a slight twist!  Try it out!

Washi Tape Buttons

Good Sunday Morning everyone!  I just thought that I would pop by and share a quick little tutorial that I did this morning.  In my surfing on Pinterest (Yes I know it is addicting) I found this cute little tutorial on Washi tape covered tacks and thought - hmmmmm . . . buttons?  brads?  So I thought that I would give it a little try.  Here is what I came up with:

1.  Gather supplies - Unwanted buttons - My father picks up tons of buttons at garage sales for me and so I have a tons of those not-so-appealing white ones, washi tape, a darning needle or piercer, and maybe an exacto knife.

2.  Lay your button on the washi tape tape sticky side up and trim around the edge.

3.  Begin folding up the edges and run your nail along the edge to secure.

4.  Finally put the large end of your needle or piercer through the holes and wiggle a bit til you get the desired effect.

5.  Now I like the rough edges at times but sometimes I like a cleaner edge so on the green and teal buttons, I trimmed around the edge with an exacto knife!

Here is a layout that I created using teal buttons with a rough edge.  My daughter loved the One Direction store at the MOA!

Extend that washi tape and try these out!

Viewmaster Slides Tutorial and Handmade Embellishment Linky Party

I have loved the trend of Viewmaster slides as of late but I haven't been able to find them in my LSS.  So then I started thinking . . . Cassy . . . why not make some of your own to coordinate with your layouts.  So I started playing with punches and such and here is what I came up with.  I made several of different sizes for the following layout for my NAS DT reveal.  The layout also made Cookin' Up Creation's layout of the week!  YAY!

And here is how I made the slides:

1.  First I gathered supplies.  I needed a circle (mine was a 3" circle), coordinating scraps, a 1" square punch - or you could hand cut them, a rectangle and oval hand punch, and a 1" circle punch.

2.  Next, I place a small mark on the top, bottom, left, and right to line things up.  I used my quilting mat that I work on for that but a ruler would work just fine,

3.  Then I glued a 1" square next to each mark.  You will need 12 squares in total for a 3" circle.

4.  I then glued 2 squares in between each of my marked squares and I trimmed an old paper flower and punched a coordinating 1" circle and glued them in the center.

5.  And finally, I erased the marks and punched 4 rectangles and just nipped the edges in between each square with the oval punch to create the round marks.

Here is another layout that I created recently with a handmade embellishment.  I found the flower tutorial on Pintrest and couldn't resist making a smaller version.  I also trimmed the outside edge to make a more delicate flower when I was finished.

So share with us your favorite handmade embellishment.  Link back to your blog if possible and we will have a collection of amazing inspiration.  Also, I will again send out a small RAK for the random drawing for anyone who enters.  Remember you can link up to five projects, cards, or layouts!  Last week's winner was Jan!

Altered Canvas + a few extra layouts!

I just wanted to share my first Altered Canvas.  It was really easy to do, I included a photo of my kids of course, and it is really shimmery thanks to Tattered Angels!

I also wanted to share a few layouts that I recently created inspired by the folks over at Cookin' Up Creations and Nuts About Sketches.

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!

Nuts About Sketches DT layout

Here is my newest submission for the Nuts about Sketches DT.  If you haven't checked out Shawn's amazing sketches, you must make a trip to her site!

Here was the sketch!

 

And here was my interpretation.  I rotated the sketch a bit to fit a portrait picture.  I love the parallelogram shape (kite shape for non-math people - sorry the teacher coming out in me.)   It is unique and really adds to the layout!  Thanks for looking!

Crop Layouts

For my birthday a week ago, my kids and husband paid for my entry to a crop at the Forget-Me-Not Shoppe.  I am not a very quick scrapper but I did manage 5 layouts in around 8 hours and had tons of fun.  So here are a few random layouts.

Glamming it Up

For this challenge I was inspired by a recent episode on Food Network that took movie snacks and Glammed them Up. They took typical movie concession snacks like popcorn and pretzels and pepped them up a bit.

So I decided to do that with my layout this week also. I "pepped it up" a bit with a bunch of blingy embellishments. I added Stickles to my background pp to some of the dots and around the edge to add some interest. Then I added some silver shimmery trim to the left of the photo. I used Art Gesso and a butterfly template to create a raised butterfly and then added Shimmerz to the butterflies. I then made a trail of bling for each. Finally, I added Shimmerz to the painted letters and completed the layout with some glittery AC Thickerz.