Sketch it out Saturday-Seriously SMS design team

Good morning everyone!!

Sarah here this morning to share another layout with you! I started this layout with this months theme in mind and a fun sketch too! I had already went threw and pulled a bunch of old pics of me an my sister from back when we were kids and our faces in this picture was perfect. When we were kids, Seriously was more then just a word it was a whole expression! lol It covered so much!

This sketch comes from DesignerDigitals.com

I started this layout with Basic Greys B-side collection, when I knew what collection I was using I pulled out all my pretty sequins and started matching them up to my papers. I grabbed 4 different packs and combined them, Pocket full of posies, Jaded hearts, Black tie event and Fairy Garden. I mixed them all together and sewed a plastic sheet into a shaker pocket to go behind all my layers. I layered a bunch of the papers from the collection like in the sketch. 

Once I got all the layers where I wanted them, I started to stick them down.

Instead of adding ribbon or lace, because that's what it looks like in the sketch to me, I used a boarder punch. Before I stuck the shaker pocket and all my layers down, I traced out the area behind where I wanted my picture and layers to go and came in with some Shimmerz Texturez, The tide that binds and used a old gift card and pulled it down and away from where I was putting the photo cluster.

Finishing off my layout I added some stitching, I know that wasn't in the sketch but I love to sew on my layouts, so I did. Then I added little strips of paper around the layout like on the sketch and then I just had to go back in and add some more sequins, just cause I love them!

Id love to see you play along with this sketch!

Stick em up / Sketch play

Morning everyone, how are you doing this a.m?? I'm tired, but I have my coffee and I'm ready to go!

Oh Snap

I was in my scrappy room a while back and decided I was going to put my kits up and play with my stash, since I hadn't done that in a while and my pretty stash was just sitting there. So I grabbed a picture, I don't scrap chronologically, so I grabbed this picture of my oldest son from this spring when we went on a weekend trip to my in-laws.
We all love going up there and hanging out. It takes a few hours to get there but everyone is always glad to be there. The kids love that they get to be out in the middle of nowhere and my oldest loves to ride the four wheelers! 

I decided I wasn't going to go with my plain white background like I usually do, trying to break out of that, but we will see. lol so I grabbed my American Crafts light kraft card stock and dove into my stash to pick patterned papers. I found in my 6x6 paper pads that I had a We R Memory Keepers, notable paper pad. I loved the colors and hadn't touched it yet so I pulled it. 

I rooted threw some of my ephemera drawers and ended up pulling things from Pink Paislee, Pink Fresh Studio, Crate paper wonder, Basic Grey, Simple Stories, Heidi Swapp and Amy Tan. I think thats all...

I guess I was kind of procrastinating cause I turned on my silhouette design studio and started scrolling threw my cut-files and I was glad that I did, I found this one that Kim Watson had made, it was actually only the one, but I manipulated it and combined  a few of them in different sizes. Once it was cut I started putting pieces of patterned paper in different places that I liked and backed my photo. Then I adhered it all down and went to embellishing!

I combined so many collections, it makes me happy when I can do that, the old and the new combined and they look good together to me.

Oh I also used a Hip Kit club exclusive flair button on this layout. I had fun with this layout and am hoping to dig into my stash more and more, I need to so all those pretties aren't just sitting there anymore!!

Thanks for stopping by to check this out!

Hip Kit Club layout/ Oh happy day & Good times

Good morning everyone! I got my March kit and was so exited about it!! The exclusive papers created by Kim Watson are AMAZING! So beautiful and vibrant! So of course I grabbed a few of those to work on my 1st layout out of this kit with. 

I Started this layout with the sketch that Design Team member Ashley Horton created for Hip Kit this month. I loved it and then the papers added in with it, so great!

I flipped the sketch on its side to make it fit for what I was wanting to do and then started.

I grabbed 2 papers by Kim Watsons, Just Dream papers and started with those.

I used lots of the bits and pieces from the kits to finish this layout, most of the layout is made up of those pieces lol. I loved how the PinkFresh Studio papers and embellishments went to well with everything in this kit! And the great Basic Grey cork stickers are great!

I did a lot of layering of the ephemera for this layout as you can see and it really was a fast layout. I love when you can put them together so fast and be happy with it. I love when the mojo it flowing good!

There wasnt a ton to do with this layout and I loved that, theres a bunch on the page but it came together so fast it was great! 

Now if you havent already you need to jump over to the Hip Kit site and grab this kit quick before there gone, the kit it self is beautiful but you cant get the exclusive papers anywhere else either! And make sure to check out the Hip Kit blog for the Design team call and all the great work that the other designers do!!

Hip kit CT layout/ Oh, snow happy

Goof morning everyone! It is still cold here and we've actually had a really nice snow once, it didnt last long, about a day, but we had so much fun while it was here!! It actually made me think of my pictures from last year. So I went and dug them out and grabbed this one of my 2 daughters. They were having so much fun being pulled on a sled for the 1st time and the colors we perfect!! lol 

This layout came together in about 35 min. My youngest was napping, I had all the house work done, so I figured I would jump in to my scrappy room and see what I could do. I loved the Basic Grey, B-Side paper with those pretty light pink dots, I usually use a plain white background but I wanted to step out of my comfort zone a bit and I like the way it turned out. The light dots made it perfect, not to much for me lol. Then I grabbed some of the scraps I had left over from some of my other layouts and started layering. Oh and I just loved that calendar paper by Crate Paper!! It was perfect for putting the date and it looked cute!

After that I added a few strips from Crate paper  to the top and bottom and outlined everything with my zig pen. After that it was adding the title, American Crafts Crush thickers and one of the great exclusive vellum words. I added little hearts from the great Crate Paper 12x12 chipboard sticker sheet that we got in the main kit and the pretty little exclusive acrylic circles from the Embellishment kit.

We had so much fun last winter and this one was great too!! Not I have some more great memories to scrap! And I love how Januaries kits can work so many ways!!

Well thanks for stopping by today and I hope your inspired to go play with your scrappy stuff today too!! And make sure to head over to the Hip Kit site and check out the New February kits!! They are AMAZING!!! Packed full for tons of greatness from this past CHA!! You wont want to miss it!! And make sure you head over to the Hip Kit blog and check out everything that all the great ladies over there are creating!!

Hip Kit Club CT/ In Grandmas arms

Good morning everyone!! Im here to share a layout that I created with Hip Kit clubs January kits. 

I used mostly Crate paper, Hello,Love and My Minds Eye, My Story. These two collections went so well together and I love it! Ashley Horton also posted this great color challenge over on the Hip Kit Facebook page and I used the colors from it to come up with this layout.

I used the cut file that Ashley Horton created for hip kit this month and actually manipulated it in my silhouette software to where I had two connected together, one a bit smaller then the other. I had already picked my photo so this whole thing came together so easily. 

I layered some of the pretty crate paper behind my cut files and some of the Basic grey behind my photo and another cut file then stated to layer pieces from the crate paper hello love collection and the My minds eye my story collection with bits of gold thread bunches here and there and to finish it off I added some Heidi Swapp Gold Lame and Seafoam color shine.

This layout was a bit harder for me to make, only for the fact that my parents recently moved and I'm use to having them close and so are my kids. I know Im a grown woman, but I miss having my parents so close that I can go see them every day and now I cant and I miss them sooo much, and my kids hate that there gone. Its a big transition needless to say! 

But this picture was taken the night before they moved, well before that finished packing everything. We stayed the last two nights before they left and this night, my youngest son crawled up in his grandmas lap and fell asleep. My mom didn't want to move, she was about ready to sleep in this chair so that she wouldn't lose any of this precious time with him. He doesn't know I have this picture, but Im sure in the future he'll be happy that I do. 

Well I hope you enjoyed this layout and my rambling. If you havent already, you need to head over to the Hip kits site and grab Januarys kit and sign up so you can get February kit too!! Its SOOOOOO amazing!! Packed full of all kinds of new releases from this past release, its great and you wont want to miss out I promise!!

Stash Scrap Thursday!! *Layout heavy*

Hey everyone, Thursday is here, so close to Friday!! lol And I'm back with another Stash Scrap.

This past weekend Paper Issues had an online crop and I'v been playing along and using up a bunch of my stash!! I think Ive only mannage to get 7 done so far, but I want to try and get more done before the 14th, thats the cut off for getting them entered in. You still have a but of time if you want to run over to facebook and look them up, Paper Issues Friends and fans, and all of the challenges are there! And lots of good fun talking too!

So here are my layouts and what challenge they were for:

This is me & my mom and this was Lisa's Attitude of gratitude challenge, you were to create a layout showing everyday gratitude. I used bits and pieces from my October Birds of a feather kit to create this layout

This is my oldest son back when he was first starting Kindergarten.  He was so happy and confident, it was amazing! This was Michelles get into Shape challenge. You were to use a repetitive shape threw the layout. I thought I would use my Pink Paislee memorandum 6x6 paper pad for this one because I loved all the pops of color with all the white I had put in this layout, I also grabbed bits from older Hip kits as well for embellishments.

This was for Color Cast Design mood board. This is the mood board:

I thought this picture was perfect for this mood board and I worked in all the colors but kept it very light and airy. The cold looks black in the photos lol, But I loved this picture of my youngest daughter with my hubby just checking out the water. 

This was for A Flair for buttons challenge, you were to use at least one flair and extra points if it was one of theres. I didnt have any of theres :( so I grabbed my Basic Grey Aurora flair and my Shimelle  stash go to town. My title is Life doesn't have to be perfect to be wonderful. And I chose that because I tried to get some good pics with all of us looking and smiling but hey there kids,lol. Ones not looking, neither am I lol, ones slining his head around to move away from his brother and ones cheesing and giving his brother bunny ears lol, Either way it was fun!

This layout is Leahs negative space challenge. You were to leave at least 2/3 of the layout blank. This is hard for me to do, as I'm guessing it is for a lot of scrappers lol. But I managed. I decided to grab an older pack of Heidi Swapp project life cards and the embellishments that came with it and went for it, this way I was still limited to what I was working with.

Now these next two I used my Birds of a Feather November kit. I had 2 layouts due for my DT obligations and a few of these challenges hit it right on the mark and I had just taken pictures the week before at the park that were perfect too so I grabbed my kit and pics and did these too.

Now this one was for Donas Orange challenge. You were to make a layout with orange in it and you got extra points if you used mixed media. 

I cut the background on my Silhouette and places a piece of bright orange paper under it from Echo Park and then went to cutting out leafs with my Silhouette too. I added some acorn brads from another of my previous months BOAF kits, I finished it off with a little flair, some thread and Thickers from the kit.

And las but not least this is the last one I have for now and it was for Corries color challenge. You were to use green, orange and red.  This pic was in with the above from the park the week before and I loved the colors of the leafs so I used it and a few pieces from previous kits and it all cam together quite quick.

Im really hoping to get at least a few more done, I would have liked to get them all done, but I guess we will see!! I'll be posting more here in the next day or so, all by the 14th, so come back by and check them out and if you dont want to forget you can subscribe and youll never miss another post! Thanks and I hope you have a good rest of your day and hey think, tomorrow is Friday!!

Cold hands and Warm Heart/ Hip kit club CT

Hello everyone!! Hope this Tuesday is going well for you!?! Well Im going gaga over the November 2015 Hip Kit club kits!!! They are beautiful!! I dont know how but +Kimberly Hutchison always out does the last kit!!

There are so many exclusives in these kits its crazy!! Thanks to +Kim Watson , we have tons of beautiful papers, wood veneers, and OMG so much more, that she created for these kits!

I dove in the day I got them and created this layout of me and my hubby last winter playing in the snow. I had to play with the papers Kim Watson had made, there just to pretty not to! So I grabber this one, Oh what fun - Softly Falling. I thought the paper went great since we were outside playing in the snow!

Oh and yeah there are exclusive print and cuts and cut files on the Hip Kit site too!! And oh man did the ladies do fantastic on these too!! The cut files, like some of the other items in the kits are exclusive to Hip Kit Club. You can download some of the files by just being a member of the site, others you have to be a subscriber and they are all well worth it!!! I actually used one of the cut files on this layout and it was created by the lovely Kim Watson!!

I actually stared this layout by choosing the photo and then the background papers, and then I was like, hey I think Im going to sew on this lol. So I went to it. I sewed the white strip in the center and then all the way around the edges. And then i decided I wanted to use that beautiful cut file and thought hey lets sew that too! lol So I did and I think it worked pretty well, if I do say so myself :)

I grabbed my Pink Fresh Studio cardstock die cut pack and pulled a few things out of there, oh it was so hard not to use the penguin with balloons lol. I think he might be my Fav!! But I did manage to narrow it down to just a few things lol and then I grabbed my wood veneers from the Embellishment kit and a small tag from the Basic Grey Juniper Berry Tags that came in the main kit and started layering them behind the frame until I liked the way it looked.

Then I jumped to the other side and added a vellum tab diecut  that I cut out of the whit vellum from the cardstock kit, grabbed a Christmas tree from the Pink Fresh die cut pack, slid that behind the tab and placed the word December from the pack as well on the tab. And then I just had to at least use the squirrel, so I had it hold my little title lol, I figured one way to sneak the little guy in there!!

The kits are AMAZING though!! And theres also a December Daily kit up on the sire, its under November so that you can get them before December and be ready!! lol But there are TONS of exclusives in the DD too, you need to hurry over to the site and check them out!! Kimberly even has 2 options for you, you can order it with the album or without! 

Well I hope you enjoyed this layout of mine, with these lovely kit and I hope you come back to see more!! And make sure you head over the the Hip kit club Blog and there Facebook forum too!! Come, Share and Chat with everyone!!