You're My Favorite Friendosaurus card | Cut Cardstock DT

Good morning everyone, Sarah here this morning to share another Dinosaur card with you. I know I'm sorry, but I really like these little guys, but this might be the last one on the blog for a while, since I have some other things I wanted to play with. Now on my instagram, I can't promise lol.

As with most of my cards, I started with a base using Cougar White Smooth Cardstock. I had cut another piece of the same white cardstock down to a 4x5 1/4, this way my card would have a little white border. I laid it down on my desk, pulled a stencil from my stash and placed it where I wanted and secured it with low tack tape. Then I went to blending my Tumbled Glass distressed oxide and my Spun Sugar distressed oxide until I liked the way it looked.

I pulled out a die from my stash and cut one in the same white cardstock and another in Aqua, this way there would be another border between the patterned area and the dino itself. I wanted a little shading to the Aqua piece, so I grabbed my Tumbled glass distress oxide and blended some in on the sides.

I layered all my pieces up, really I thought I wanted the arches layered and coming from the bottom, but I changed my mind and decided I wanted them coming from the left side. Once I had those in place, I decided where I wanted my dino, ( My dinos were all stamped out on the same white cardstock). Then I stamped my sentiment, added some 3d foam behind my dino and stuck it down, then added a few little dots from my stash and called this one done!

Guest designing for the Cut Shoppe!! and a Giveaway!!

Good morning everyone!! I'm so excited to say that I'm guest designing on the Cut Shoppe Blog today!! I'm very thankful that Ashley gave me this chance and I had so much fun with it!!

And stay tuned at the bottom for a great giveaway from the CutShoppe!!

I used the Geo to go cutfile for my background, I did a tone on tone with that cutfile. I grabbed my Dear Lizzy, Serendipity collection and cut the geo to go cutfile again so that I can pop the geos up to add color and dimension. I did a bit of layering with the Serendipity around the funny little photo of our youngest that fell asleep on the boat this last summer. I also used the cutfile Nautical Notions for my title, ( You float my boat) and the cool little wheel behind the photo.

I played with my watercolors for my title, I wanted it to make it look like water, but in pink lol. And then I used my Faber-Castell, Lemon for my wheel. I loved that pop of color up at the top and the cutfiles were so fun to play with!!

Now Like I said at the beginning, I have a giveaway thanks to Ashley Horton of TheCutShoppe. I have the Geo to go cutfile up for grabs, so I will pick a random winner that leaves a comment on my blog by Wednesday and I will get up with you and let you know how to get your cutfile. I hope you enjoyed this layout and Wednesday night I will be getting up with one of you and letting you know how to collect your prize!! Thanks so much!! 

Hip Kit Club CT/ You spin me right round

Hello everyone, hope your weeks been going good. Now mine is going great since I've gotten my February Hip Kits!!!! There fan-freaking-tastic!!

I grabber this picture of my youngest son, from back when he was only 2, oh so long ago! He was out on the back deck with me playing on his sit and spin. It wasn't an amazing picture op or anything special like a bday party or anything but he was just so sweet sitting there with his shaggy hair and cute little laugh. So I snapped more pics then were needed and chose these two to scrap for this layout. I used Ashley Hortons sketch for this layout that she put up on theHip Kit facebook group for this weeks challenge. Her sketch was so great, I can see me using it over and over.

I stick more in the blue tones for this layout, pulling from the Pink Paislee C'est La Vie papers in the main kit with a little pop of bright yellow from the same collection. I did a bit of embellishing from the Pink Paislee C'est La Vie ephemera pack and the pretty 01 paper with all the pretty cut apart pieces. I loved the little bit of yellow around the photo but wanted a bit more, so I grabbed my Shimelle Starshine chipboard stickers from the embellishment kit 

I grabbed some embroidery floss from my stash, a variegated black to light grey and stitched my circles onto my page and to finish the whole thing off, I grabbed my Prima water color pencils from Octobers color kit  and splattered it across the page. 

I hope you enjoyed this layout and I hope you get the chance to grab this months kit and make sure to check out next months kit too!! So beautiful and oh yeah there are some great exclusives in the March kit!! Make sure to check them out!