Away we Go / Pretty Little Studio DT

Hello everyone!!

Sarah here today to share a layout with you of my oldest boy, graduating from elementary school. Oh how fast they grow and time passes. It feels like this just happened and today I got the new school supplies lists, Crazy!! lol

I loved the colors in this collection, I thought, well hey there for travel but would work just as good for a boy page. So I started layering behind my photo and worked out from there to be honest. A little tip from me to you for today is that layering adds great dimension to your layouts and more interest, whether it be with you papers or your embellishments. It draws your eye in to look at different places on your layout.

After I was satisfied with my layering, I decided I wanted a little something on the right hand side of the page to. So I cut the papers and adhered them down to look like they came from a 12×12 sheet and started embellishing! I love scrapping period but man do I love getting into those embellishments and playing! I added shipping tags into the layers, label cut outs, tabs and mini phrases and words.

I really love how this layout turned out and I hope you enjoyed seeing it!!

Pretty Little Studio products used:

• Let’s go Travel Collection: London patterned paper, Snapshot/Coral patterned paper, Athens patterned paper,Aspen patterned paper, Arrival/Coral Vellum, Cheyenne Shipping tags, Lincoln cut-out labels, Charleston mini words, Palm City phrase strips cut-out tags, Define Travel tickets, Tahiti tabs

My weirdos / Hip Kit club CT

Good morning everyone!! Im sharing a layout with you today that I created with the Hip Kit Club June 2016 kits. This is one of my last layouts with the June kit, my July ones should be here soon!! So excited! 

For this layout I used the sketch that Ashley Horton created for this month. Please feel free to use the sketch and come join in over on the Hip Kit club member forums on facebook, we'd love to see what you create with it!

So here is my layout. I loved this sketch as soon as I saw it and I also loved the cut-files for this month! I started off with a piece of American Crafts card-stock from the card-stock kit, ran it threw my Silhouette machine after I had played with the cut-files and got them the way I wanted.

After that I grabbed my Main kit and pulled out a few of the patterned papers and started backing the cut-file and behind my photo. Once I was finished with that I decided to sew down each row of arrows and then sewed a circle around the layout, like the sketch shows, I love that it draws you in to the photo but subtly.

After I did the sewing I started to add embellishments. I love the exclusive ephemera and puffy stickers Kim Watson created and wanted to use them as well. And the colors all matched perfectly.

I added the little clusters in like it showed on the sketch. I stuck really close to this sketch and was happy with the way it all turned out.

My kids are little goof-balls and this picture shows it!! lol So I used My little Weirdos for the title, it just fit! lol This was juts breakfast one morning and they were just laughing and joking and being goofy so I grabbed my camera and went to snap a shot and they got even goofier!!

Well I hope you liked this layout and I hope you come and play along with us over on the Hip kit club facebook forum. You'll love the weekly challenges, great inspiration and tons of great conversation! You can find more on the Hip Kit instagram and blog too!!

I hope you come back to see more of what I create with these kits!

Hip Kit Club products used:

Main Kit:

Simple Stories- Sunshine&Happiness-High Five

Simple Stories-Sunshine&Happiness- Bradz

Pebbles-Jen Hadfield-Everyday-Dotted Chevron

Kim Watson-Hip Kit Club Exclusive-Everyday- Laughter&Smiles

Kim Watson-Hip Kit club Exclusive-Everyday-Ephemera pack

Pink Paislee- Paige Evens- Fancy Free-06

Embellishment Kit:

JilliBean Soup-Newberg-Navy Alpha

JilliBean Soup-Summer Red Raspberry-Wood Veneer

Kim Watson-Hip Kit Club Exclusive-Puffy Stickers

Card Stock Kit:

American Crafts-White Card Stock

Hip Kit club exclusive cut-file

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

Exciting news!!

Hello everyone!! I've been a bit scattered here on my blog, but I've been trying to hide my giddy-ness of some good news! But thankfully now I can share!! 

I have the honor of being a part of the Pretty little Studio design team!!! Eeeek!! So excited!!

There are so many amazing and talented ladies on this team and I'm so happy that I get the chance to work along side of them, along with all the beautiful product this company puts out!

Please feel free to come back and check out what I make and make sure to check out the Pretty Little Studio blog and shop!

Be the reason /DIY embellishments/ HKC CT layout

Hello everyone!!

 I thought Id pop on tonight and share one of my last layouts made with the May 2016 Hip kits. 

I wanted to go with a colored background on this one, because I don't normally and I'm still in the process of trying to change that, lol. I loved this months kits, so many pretty things to play with!! I wanted to use the Illustrated Faith, She Blooms papers again. I love how bright and bold they are and just so stinking pretty!!

I started out with adding a thick strip of that to the bottom and a thin strip to the top and the opposite side of that paper to with the big dots. I added a tini strip of white cardstock above the floral paper on the bottom to add a bit of separation and then went to town layering behind my picture.

After I finished layering my papers from the Main kit, I grabbed a few little DIY embellishment clusters I had made and had put to the side. I have way more then just these three made but there the only ones I chose to use on this layout.

I loved this big cluster I did with the larger tag and then the smaller vellum one the opposite way. I started there with my cluster and then moved to some of the paper strips I had punched and some of the other shapes I had punched out of my papers. Then I went into the pretty HKC exclusive puffy stickers and grabbed that happy sticker out and added a blue cardstock from the cardstock kit and then finished it off with a few and Amal. Sand a wood veneer heart from JilliBean Soup. I added a few little flowers from the exclusives and one from The Illustrated Faith chipboard sticker on top of a cut file from this month.

I chose this cluster as the title because of the huge smile my daughter had on her face in this picture. She was just so happy and I thought seeing this will always make me smile. So be the reason someone Smiles today was perfect I thought. This was also another little cluster or DIY embellishment I made. I had punched out a bunch of shapes and punched a ton of strips of paper and it made it easy to sit there one night when I didn't feel much like doing an actual scrapbook page and still getting something crafty done.

I layered this one quite simply and thought it would be perfect for just a little touch at the top. And that made me happy with this layout and I was done.

I just know every time I see this layout I'll get a big smile on my face just from seeing the one on hers.

Well I hope you enjoyed my layout and I hope you're inspired to make some of your own DIY Embellishments. It's a nice way to spend some quality time when you're not at your full to actually scrap. And if you do decide to make some I would love to see what you do!! You can tag me on Instagram or comment here on my blog with your blog or wherever you share and I'll go check them out!

And make sure to head by and check out the hip kit Club blog and see what all the other DT members are doing and come join in on the fun, chit-chat and challenges over on the hip kit club Facebook page!!

HKC CT/ Cherish

Hello everyone!!

 I thought that I would share another layout I made with the May 2016 Hip Kits.

I had such a hard time cutting into this beautiful Illustrated Faith paper from the Main kit because it was just so pretty, the other side was just as hard, but I was so thankful that I had the paper add on kit to so I had another piece!

So I went ahead and grabbed it and started to cut it up, I knew I wanted to use the tissue paper that the kits were packed with so that I had a little texture to the page. After I cut the papers and tissue paper I sewed them down to a piece of American Crafts white cardstock from the cardstock kit.

I started backing my picture with some of the tissue paper and then added a few patterned papers from the main kit that are actually exclusive to this kit, created by DT member Kim Watson. After I sis that I grabbed my Simple stories frames and added that bright yellow frame to the page along with some Illustrated faith, she blooms chipboard stickers, exclusive die cuts that Kim made, Bella Blvd words and little plus signs, all from the embellishment kit

I added one of the cutfiles DT member Ashley Horton created, I loved these flowers!

I really love how this layout turned out! The colors in this kit are AMAZING! there are so may different layouts you can make and I still have plenty to play with, but I think I may only get one more done before my June 2016 kits get here, eek!! So excited! I love my scrappy box every month! 

Make sure you head over to the Hip Kit Club blog and check out what the rest of the Design team are making and head over to facebook and check out the forums and challenges!!

Hip Kit club CT / Shadow Box with tags

Hello everyone!! So school is out for the summer!! 

And my kids are in full fledged summer fun time! On top of getting them getting out of school, the 1st week we all played whos going to be sick today? We all went threw a 24 hour period of a very nasty stomach virus, fun, :(

But everyone is good now and I am back to playing with my May kits!! I made this shadow box for my mom for mothers day. And yes shes already got this, I didn't make her wait lol I am just be hind on here, that seems to be a constent for me lol I am trying to fix that though.

I made this with a shadow box from my stash, but I wanted to decorate something that my mom could use and change out the pictures that she wants, when she wants. I used my May main kit for the patterned papers, including the beautiful Hip Kit club exclusive papers created by the lovely Kim Watson. I also used the American crafts white, fountain, light kraft and white vellum from the cardstock kit. I also used bits and pieces from the embellishment kit for embellishing, with pieces from the main kit too.

I started out with the Light kraft paper for the background and went to making my pockets and sewed them on. I wanted to make sure they were secure so they wouldn't come off when putting the tags and pictures in and out. I made sure of the tag size and place them in and started embellishing the way I wanted and when I was done with the embellishing is when I chose pictures to go in. Its was actually a lot faster project for me then I thought it was going to be but Im happy with the way it turned out and my mom loved it.

Thanks so much for stopping by to check out what I created with my May kit and I have more to share with you and will be posing in the next few days. I hope you come back to see!!

And make sure you head over to the Hip Kit Club blog and check out all the pretty things the other DT members are making! And come and join in on the challenges and chats we have over on the Hip Kit club facebook page.