Dream Big - Fairytale club DT

Good morning everyone! I'm here this morning to share my second layout for the Fairytale club and I just love it all!! I have such a hard time choosing what to use, or what not to use I guess, since I have a hard time not using it all!!

I started with my photo and this great cut-file. I grabbed my cardstock and sprinkled some Gold color shine around it. While the color shine was drying, I backed the feathers on my dream catcher. Once it was done with backing the feathers I adhered  the feather portion of the cut file down and started layering papers behind my picture.

I grabbed a planner page and fussy cut that adorable unicorn out and layered it on the right side of the photo and added a few pretty little roses from the ephemera pack. Then slid it under the moon. Once I got the photo placed down where I wanted it, I glued the rest of the moon down. Then came the pretty sequins! I pulled almost all the gold sequins out and glued them down around the dream catcher.

I liked the layout, but wanted more color to it, so I trimmed down two sides and backed it with that beautiful, two colored dotted paper. I cut a triangle from one of the planner inserts, I loved the bows! I put that to the bottom right of the layout, trimmed down around the outside of a circle label I had already used the inside to, punched out the xo from the paper I cut the unicorn down from and then added that cute unicorn ephemera piece. I wanted one last touch, and added the So lovely word sticker and was done.

I hope you enjoyed this layout because I loved making it and I hope your enjoying playing with this beautiful kit!!

Happy Little Cat/Pretty Little Studio DT

Good morning everyone!! 

I'm here this morning to share with you a layout I made using the Dream Big collection from Pretty Little Studios.

I had fun playing with this one. It was fairly simple to make but still fun!

I chose a piece of stripped paper for my background. I loved that it looked like it had been hand drawn with some ink splatters already, so I added some of my own color to the background, using the packaging technique. I covered the background paper with a piece of vellum to tone it all down and did a little sewing in black to secure it together.

After I secured the background together I started layering behind my photo. I added some pattern paper and then came the tags, tabs and labels. I pulled out some of the ephemera pieces and layered them under and around the photo strip.

 On the other side of the layout, opposite of the photo strip, I added a frame and layered a few pieces of ephemera. And the I grabbed that adorable sheet of cloud stickers! I loved the colors and thought they would work great on this layout, so I started to layer them here and there on the layout. Around the photo and title and then up around the frame. I love how this layout turned out and the way the sweet little clouds looked on it!

Thanks so much for checking out what I made today and I would love to see what your making with the Dream Big collection too!!

Pretty little Studio products used:

Dream Big collection, Die-Cuts Be you labels, Die-Cuts Courage, Die-Cute Dream Big Tags, Die-Cuts Happy Hearts, Flair Dreamer, Journaling Day Dream, Paper Dream Big, Stickers Daydream

Sketch it out Saturday- Rad Dude

Good morning everyone!! I'm here this morning to share with you a new layout I made using some pretty sequins and awesome little corkys!

 Here is the sketch I used for this layout, this is another old one I had drawn up, hope you like playing with it!

This month were sticking in with the theme of the 80's & 90's. So today I using my title to go along with the theme. Thus the Rad Dude! lol.

When we were kids we use to say Rad all the time, lol, I feel like I'm making myself sound old lol. But I was a kid in the 90's and I use to love saying rad!

I grabbed my Crate paper, Cool kid collection, (its been sitting in my stash and I haven't touched it yet, well untf my layout I started layering behind my photo. And then it was to my Silhouette I went. I cut out my title and some fun little star circles and a line of them to layer around.il now!) Then I grabbed some Bazzil cardstock from the Spiegelmom store and started cutting away at my papers. I knew I wanted to fallow the layout pretty close or possibly to a T. So I chose my paper for the bottom and cut it down, and decided I wanted the top strip to be the same, so I cut that down too and put them in place.

I did all my cut-files on white cardstock too, so that I could water color them like I did my title or back them with colorful and patterned papers. With my title I sprayed it down with water and grabbed my water color pallet and started adding black watercolor to the letters. I sprayed it here and there and dabbed it to get the effect I wanted, a little wore look.

I put my title where I wanted it, to the right of the photo and started playing with the embellishments! I started layering some of the cardstock stickers, tags and my cut-files. I got some great washi from the shop too, He Zhi Color tape. I added a strip of that in a orange-red color and then added a cardstock sticker over it.

And then it was for Sequins and Cork!!! I love these colors and the texture that the sequins and cork add to a layout!

I added a bunch of the little shooting cork stars and then broke into my Neon Summer and Gotta love Emojis sequins. I used the bright orange sequins from Neon Summer and the black sequins from the Gotta love Emojis. After that I added a little black watercolor splatters and my layout was done!

I hope you liked this layout and I hope to see you play along with the sketch too!! Remember to tag us on instagram so we can see what you create!!

5 Kinds of happy/ Pretty little Studio Pinsperation

Good morning everyone! How are you doing? I hope well. We've had some nasty weather for the last week, so I am really hoping that it finally breaks tomorrow, I want to see the sun!!

Well I'm here this morning sharing a layout inspired by a picture from Pinterest.

I like pisperation because from one little picture like this, there are so many different way you could go with your layout, card or project. You can go with color, brush strokes, words or the little saying on the bottom, and in my case I went with the little saying at the bottom. To be honest, I was going to play with the brush strokes on a page, but those four little words just kept coming back to me, so I went with that.

I used those words as a jumping off point for me and based my layout around it. I went through my pictures and found five of my kids, me and my hubby and other family. I laid my photos there I wanted them and then started to layer bingo cards behind one, tags here and there under photos. 

I added little heart die-cuts and a few circle ones here and here. I pulled out some of the labels and layered them down at the bottom left and added my title, five kinds of happy to it and started my stitching. I stitched my title, through my little scalloped ephemera and all the way around my layout, all in black. Once I did that I decided I wanted a little more definition around my photos and other pieces, so I lightly traced around them with a pencil and was happier with the way it looked.

Thanks so much for stopping by and seeing what I came up with for this pinsperation picture and I hope to see you play along too!

Pretty Little Studio products used:

Dream Big collection, Bingo So Sweet, Cut-Aparts Loving it, Die-Cuts Be you labels, Die-Cuts Dream Big Tags, Die-Cuts Happy Heart

Hey everyone!

I'm excited to say that I'm a new member of the Fairytale club design team!! I got my first kit the other day and was so happy with it! Everything in it is made so well and the paper is good heavy quality, its all so amazing!

Tonight I shared my first layout on the Fairytale blog and I thought I would share it here too!

Make sure you go the the Fairytale blog and see all the amazing layouts, 6x8 pocket pages, pocket pages and planners that are being made over there!! And keep checking for the sneaks of Junes kit too!!

Today I'm sharing my first layout with the May, Girly and Strong kit! This kit is so beautiful! It was so hard for me to even cut into these papers, but I managed! lol I started going through this kit when I got it and saw all the bows and it made me think of this bow cut-file that I had sitting in my computer and I had never used. I decided to cut that out and started backing some of the bows with the pretty papers.

After I backed the ones I was going to back, I went back through the papers again to find my background papers. Once I chose my background, I adhered the cut-file down, layered a few of the color blocks from the cut apart sheet to my photo and popped it up on some 3D foam.

I added one of the pretty wooden paperclips to the top left of the photo. Then I broke into the ephemera die-cut pack and started on my embellishment clusters

I usually add at least 3 embellishment clusters around my layout. I don't always fallow that rule, the visual triangle rule, but I do find myself doing that quite a bit. I added some pretty sequins for some bling and was done.

I had a blast making this layout and cant wait to break into the next one! 

Together/Sketch it out Saturday SMS DT

Good morning everyone! Sarah here this morning to share with you a new layout made with a 80's-90's theme.

So for me, I chose my sketch first to work with:

Like I said before, I have a ton of sketches pinned on Pinterest and this one comes from there to but it originally comes from DesignerDigitals.com 

The first thing I thought of with this theme this month was a shirt I had when I was a kid. So I decided to head to my Silhouette and make a new cutfile for my background.

lol, I thought the cutfile fit  quite well with what my old shirt looked like, but I do remember my shirt being black and all the designs were filled in with different neon colors.

I thought the We R Memory Keepers, It Factor, to play with. I liked the neon colors and cool patterns. I backed my cut file and then started the layering behind the photo like it shows in the sketch. 

I added a doily behind my photo and then added the teal strip and bright yellow. For my title I grabbed a gold frame, clipped it off and slid it under in center of my photo. I love this old goofy  picture of me and my sister, we were always together and since that was the first thing I thought when I saw this picture, I figured I'd use it as a title. I saw that the sketch had another strip of what looked like washi tape behind the photo, I grabbed my Dear Lizzy washi, it was a light teal with cool little squares on it, again I had a shirt like that when I was younger too, but I slid that washi behind the photo and then started add my pretty sequins and cork butterflies.

I pulled some little ephemera pieces from Pink Paislee-C'est La Vie collection and added the little label and for me I wanted a little more so I added a ticket on top of that. I wanted more embellishing then the sketch showed, So I added a nest of thread behind my cork butterfliesthen added sequins from Gotta Love Emojis and Wild&Free.

On the sketch it showed something wrapped around the photo, but I didn't want to add that, So I didn't. But I did like the look of the sewing around the layout, So I grabbed my sewing Machine and sewed a few wonky lines around my layout, then I decided I would add a little stitching to the bottom of my photo too. The sewing machine stitched so easily threw the cork butterflies and I loved the way it looked. The sequins I added matched this collection perfectly too!!

Thanks so much for stopping by and see what I made with this fun theme this month and I hope you come back to see what else we come up with!

This happy moments/Pretty Little Studio DT

Good morning everyone! I'm here this morning sharing my first layout with the Dream big collection and oh is this collection beautiful!

This layout is of my youngest daughter, shes almost a year old now, but I wanted to scrap an actually sonogram picture and this collection was just so pretty, I thought it was a perfect for this.

I started out of course by picking my photo, and then the hard part came! I had to actually choose between the beautiful patterned papers, and oh man was that hard, but I think I got some great ones. I started by putting the two papers a little off set from each other coming off the top of the layout. 

I started layering the pretty flowers to the right side of the photo, adding in a few label die cuts. I decided that I didn't want a huge title on this layout, I wanted the picture to be the focus, not the title. So I used a label cut apart and a die cut word and made a small title, This Happy moment, on the flower cluster. I liked how that looked but I wanted something to soften it up a little, so I grabbed a pretty 4 inch doily from the shop and layered it between the two papers.

To the left side of the photo I added another little cluster of flowers and of course I had to add a pretty little flair badge, with it saying Hello on it I thought it was perfect.

I grabbed one of the clear patterns sheets I had got with this collection and cut a strip a bit smaller then 8 inches and placed it across the top of the layout. I thought I was going to be done at this point but I wanted a little color at the bottom of my layout too, So I used a strip of the left over that I had cut off from the top of the layout and added it to the bottom, added a little bit of black water color drops and called it good.

Thanks so much for coming by the blog today and checking out what I made and this beautiful collection. Make sure you head over to the shop and grab it for yourself too! There are so many thins this collection can be used for and you have to admit its just so darn pretty!!

Pretty little Studio products used:

Dream big collection, Clear Never forget, Cut apart Embrace life labels , Cut aparts Loving it, Die cuts Sweet Dreams floral, Flair Dreamer, Journaling Day Dreamer, Paper Dream Big, Paper Shine from within