Play layout with Fringe! | CutCardstock DT

Good morning everyone!! How are you this morning?? I hope all if well where you are. Well today I wanted to share a new layout with yall. I decided to play with diecuts and fringe!! I had so much fun with this!!

My mom came up to hang out and we decided to sit and play with some dies she had got, that I didnt have and I loved the Tim Holtz, Funky Insects dies and thought I would try and play with them. I pulled two purple(Hydrangea Purple, Grape Jelly) cardstocks, two pinks (Shimmer Fruit Punch,Strawberry Cream), a yellow (Light yellow), blue (Surf) and of course white(Cougar Smooth Cardstick) for my base and some die cuts.

When I went to assembling the diecut buggies lol, I pulled out some of my distressed oxides and added a little color to the edges, adheared them together lightly and then ran them through my sewing machine.

When I was making my bugs, I had went through my scrap bucket and pulled some patterned papers that went along with my cardstock colors. I cut some little pieces out for my bugs and then made sure I had enough to make long and short fringe with. I cut my fringe and started to play with where I wanted it on the layout. When I figured that out, I started adhering it down. I cut another scrap, white woodgrain, popped it up on foam adhesive and added it to the top of my fringe so that it had a more finished look and a little shelf for my photo to sit, along with my title.

I added a little paper behind my photo and popped it up on some foam adhesive too and placed it to the top right of my layout, sitting on that little shelf. I added my title, plain and simple, Play. Then came the fun!! I got to start tucking my little bugs in here and there. Sticking out from under the fringe and up by my photo. This was a fun layout and I love the way that the cardstock takes the ink and can be played with. Make sure to head over to the CutCardstock shop and check out all the beautiful papers, regular cardstock, shimmer cardstock and more.

This just Happened / 12x12 stash scrap

When I cleaned my scrap room a while back, I found a bunch of partial kits or left overs, bits and pieces from when I was on the Hip Kit club design team. So I thought I might as well bust into them and start to play with them some more. They have a lot of life left to them!! lol

I had seen some papers that had a water colored look to them, but I didn't have one in the colors I wanted, so I decided to make one and I LOVE the way it turned out. I also thought Id use one of the Hip Kit files and stitch on my page, but I decided to use this metallic gold embroidery floss, yeah not something I'll do again!! I love the way it turned out and all but man was it a pain. I've sewn with regular embroidery floss and it was way easy, but for some reason this metallic stuff got stuck SOOOO much and separated constantly! 

Anyways, lol, it turned out good and thats all that matters to me :)

This layout is about my daughter and hubby. They were just sitting on the couch watching TV, my daughter was eating golf fish, she turned and asked daddy if he wanted one, of course he said yes, but when she went to feed it to him she did like we use to when we fed her, lol, we'd open our mouths trying to get her to do the same and she thought she had to show him how to too lol. To funny.

Here are a few up close pics for ya to check out, hope you enjoy it and come back to see what else I make, thanks :)

Pretty Little Studio / I love your smile

Good morning everyone!! How was your 4th of July?? I hope safe and fun and filled with memories. I think this year is the first year that I sat my phone down, this is what I take most of my pictures on, and really didn't take any pictures. I really enjoyed everything like watching the kiddos play and get covered in watermelon juice lol and playing in the pool and everyone enjoying the food and company, but I didn't pick my phone up once to document it and it makes me sad but happy at the same time if that makes since.lol 

Well I am here this morning to share with you my first layout for Pretty Little Studio design team!!! this is a layout I made of one of my daughters, this was just an everyday moment that I caught of her in the backseat of the car when we were going out to run errands. She just looked too cute with that big ol’ smile that I had to scrap it and the You&Me Love Story collection had just the perfect colors and pretty little die-cut clouds! I love those and don’t ever think I’ll be able to get enough!

I used a black and white photo and this is something I do a lot, unless something in the color photo means something to me. I love the fact that using a black and white pic can allow me to use any papers and embellishments that I want, even though this picture would have been fine in color because all the colors were pink and blue! lol

I started this page with a piece of 12×12 American Crafts card-stock and lightly drew out lines at un-even lengths and sewed them with my sewing machine across my page, some what in a way that they would look like sun rays coming out from behind the picture. After that I started layering the pretty You&Me papers behind my photo and then added a 6in Cambridge doily. The I pulled out that lovely set of Cloud9 die-cuts and started placing them around the layout.

When I got the clouds where I wanted I added some 3D foam behind some for some dimension and started placing them down. I wanted a little something across the bottom with a little pop of color there too, so I grabbed some yellow washi from my stash and layered it with the Priceless patterned paper and stitched it across as well.

To finish it all off I grabbed my Love Story word flags and used some of these as my title, something small and understated really, so that the rest of the page was the focus. I punched a few tabs out for above the photo with one of my punches and added some little word stickers from Silly Monkey, Silly Woody Words sticker sheet.

I hope you enjoyed my layout today and I hope you come back to see more! Make sure to head over to the Pretty Little Studio Blog and check out whats going on over there and all the beautiful inspiration!!

Pretty Little Studio Products used:

• You&Me Love story collection: Cloud9 die-cuts, Love Story Word flags, More Love patterned paper, Love Youpatterned paper, Priceless patterned paper
• Let’s Go Travel collection: Lincoln Cut-out labels
• Doily: 6in Cambridge

Hip Kit CT/ Happy Moments

Good morning everyone! I hope all is well with you all!

I've had a ruff few days here, sick kids and hubby. But I did get a chance to jump back into my December Hip kit and make a layout.

I loved this Studio Calico, Goldie paper as soon as I saw it. The first thing I did to it was adding stitching along the lines and separating all the triangles. I had already decided what picture I wanted to use and that I wanted it in the center of the page, do I added a few sewn circles to where I knew it would be under the picture and any layering I was going to do.

I grabbed a the pretty fountain blue American Crafts card stock from the card stock kit and ran it threw my Silhouette, using one of Nicole Nowosads cut files from this month. I threw a piece of the white vellum from the card stock kit on there as well and cut some pretty little snow flakes out, with another of Nicole's cut files from last month.

I also used Kim Watsons print and cut for this months kit to add a little layering and bits and pieces here and there.  I thought these were just gorgeous! The colors matched perfectly, just like they always do! And they were so cute! I loved the Hiya Life one, I just had to use it.

I used some of the white card stock from the card stock kit, ran it threw my silhouette using another of Nicoles cut files and placed the frame around my picture, along with the one with stars cut out of it. That was the majority of this layout, its really quite simple but I love it. I added a few pieces of paper from the Maggie Holmes Shine 6x6 paper pad that was in embellishment kit and one of Kim Watsons project life cards she created for this kit. I use Kims PL card as my title, Happy moments. Because this was a fun day for us. It was our youngest daughters 1st time building a snow man, or helping lol and she loved it and loved the snow.

The rest of  the kids had a blast too, they love the snow! There a bit disappointed that we haven't had any yet this year lol. I did use Missy Whiddens technique of putting messy bunches of thread around the layout, in the little clusters I made.

Well I really hope you enjoyed this layout and head over to the Hip kit blog to see what the other ladies have created with this fantastic kit!! And please feel free to subscribe to my page so you dont miss anything!! 

Thanks so much!