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?

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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!

Show and Tell Saturday

Today I wanted to share with you my top 5 favorite tutorials.  I love new techniques but as we all know, some we definitely use more than others.  Here are my favorites:

1.  I am addicted to Bakers Twine of all colors.  So when I saw this tutorial for making twine pom-poms, I couldn't resist!

2.  I absolutely love this stamp your own doily tutorial from Paper, Scissors and Superheroes.

3. I love anything fruity or nutty smelling and so when I found this tutorial for fruity embossing, I was all over it!

4.  Okay so I know that I have posted this make your own washi tape tutorial from Aesthetic Nest before but I couldn't leave it out - especially with washi tape being all the rage right now.

5.   Finally one of the easiest and cheapest tutorials from Mrs. Priss, I love to make these felt pom-pom flowers like the expensive ones from Basic Grey and other companies.  They really are quite cool!

Thanks again for spending some time with me!

Show and Tell Saturday - Scraps

I love searching through all of the amazing blogs and sites looking for creative techniques to use on my layouts and altered projects.  So each Saturday, I thought that I might share some of my finds.  This week, I found some amazing ideas for using your scrapbooking paper scraps.  Check these out!

Tip Junkie shared a really cute idea to use your scraps and some wire to create these adorable twist ties for your altered projects and handmade gifts!

I found these amazing little "crackers" at Homespun with Heart that would be perfect for any holiday.  I can envision Easter crackers with carrot confetti.  Check these out!

 I love to make banners and pennants.  They can be a focus of the layout or understated like in this sample from Glitter Girl.  What a great way to use your scraps.

I love how Wendy Sue from Two Peas used her strips of scraps (and you could use ribbon too) to layer and then cut a shape for a cute accent.  You could cut any shape.  Here is her Christmas layout!

I really love Jen's understated background using her paper scraps and negatives of her die cuts!  Way cute!

And last but not least, washi tape is all the rage.  So let's make our own.  Check out the Aesthetic Nest's tutorial for using your patterned paper scraps!

Hope you enjoyed our first installment of Show and Tell!

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!

Wohooo!

Toot Toot!  I made layout of the week LOTW for this week at CUC for this layout!  It is a little brighter than my layouts usually are but I love the sunburst technique that Jan shared with us!  You must check it out!