The Fairies' Festival

 

Prima’s new Cherry Sweet collection immediately put to mind this photo of my Granddaughter taken in 2013 as she prepared for her ballet recital.

This design is inspired by the September sketch from My Creative Scrapbook. I have a hard time working with busy designs, so I chose the Thoughts from My Heart paper as the main background and the Dreaming of Pink Skies sheet to form background pieces.

I started by cutting a square from the center of the Pink Skies sheet, measuring 1.5” from the borders. The outer piece was glued to a 11.75” square of cardboard to create a base for the layout. Next, I cut the Dreaming paper in half and cut .5” from the left side, resulting in a piece measuring 11.5” x 6”. The right half was trimmed by 1.5” from the bottom, making a piece measuring 10.5” x 6”. These pieces were glued to packaging, then inked around the sides and adhered to the base.

I cut a few pieces from the Pink Skies sheet to create matting layers to place underneath the photo. All of these were glued to pieces of packaging, inked around the sides, glued together, and adhered to the page.

I grabbed a few tags and inked them and placed them down the side of the photo. I cut a circle from one more of the tags and glued it down. Next came the embellishments: some die cut cherries and a few blooms placed beneath the tags. As a final touch, I added the title piece to the bottom of my photo.

A few closeups:

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*****Supplies*****

***Paper***

Prima – Cherry Sweet Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Dreaming of Pink Skies #981860

Prima – Cherry Sweet Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Thoughts from My Heart #981884

***Embellishments***

Prima – Love Notes Collection – Flower Embellishments – Sweet Melody #663155

Prima – Cherry Sweet Collection – Flower Embellishments – Cherry Candy #679484

Prima – Cherry Sweet Collection – Ephemera – Daydreams #981969

Prima – Cherry Sweet Collection – Tag Pad – 15 Pcs #981990

Prima – Cherry Sweet Collection – Chipboard Stickers #981938

***Mediums***

Ranger – Distress Archival Ink – Hickory Smoke

***Tools***

Kreaxions – Circle Cutter

***Other***

Beacon – Fabri-Tac Permanent Adhesive

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Simple Pleasures

 

Another re-do, this time featuring a photo taken in the Summer of 1951. From left to right, my sister Jean, cousins Jane and Mary Kay Kehoe, and a pigtailed me on the end. We were in my grandmother's back yard, with her beautiful rock garden behind us.

I used the sketch that came in My Creative Scrapbook’s August LE kit as my roadmap, keeping pretty close to the design. I wanted to make my photo stand out, so I chose the less busy “B” side of the Blossom Sprinkle paper for my base. The “A” side of the Growing Wild sheet is a perfect match; I cut off enough to fit and flipped it on its side. I used a frame from the Die Cut package, adhering to the bottom of my photo and then to the Growing Wild piece. Next, I did a little trial and error to select the surrounding items. I wanted to use a part of the red polka dot file card from the Die Cuts; I cut off just enough to fit and put the remainder back for later. I selected one of the tags from the package to place on the bottom right. The other two tags were made with what I had left from the large matting piece – trimmed, punched and embellished with some jute from my stash. Next, I added a few of the journaling pieces to form my title and a piece for that sweet bird to rest on. A few pieces from the Little Birdie package and some splats and I was done!

 

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*****Supplies*****

***Paper***

49 & Market – Nature’s Haven Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Blossom Sprinkle #JNH-33076

49 & Market – Nature’s Haven Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Growing Wild #JNH-33090

***Embellishments***

49 & Market – Nature’s Haven Collection – Die Cuts – Elements #JNH-33199

49 & Market – Nature’s Haven Collection – Laser Cuts – Elements #JNH-33175

Little Birdie – Handmade Flowers – Arcadia Collection – Cardinal Red #CR92851

American Crafts – Jute Basics #89424

***Mediums***

Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink Pad – Ground Espresso

Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Oxide Spray – Lumberjack Plaid

***Other***

Beacon – Fabri-Tac Permanent Adhesive

Scrapbook.com – Artis Craft Glue

***Tools***

EK Success – Cutter Bee Scissors

We R Makers – Crop-A-Dile Big Bite

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Life Is So Good

 

I’ve scrapped this photo of my Granddaughter taken by her mother before. It’s one of my favorite images of her, so it immediately popped into my mind when I opened the February Scrapbook Kit from Tres Jolie and discovered that it contained paper and laser cut elements from 49 and Market’s Alena collection.

This took a few days to complete because I decided to fussy cut a lot of the flowers and butterflies that were included on the cover sheets of the paper pack and the laser cut embellishments. While I was doing that, I put together a plan for my finished layout.

To begin, I cut an 8” x 8” square in the center of the Full Bloom page and put it aside for a future project. (This is a good way to stretch patterned paper; I only needed the outside area.) The remaining 12” x 12” piece was glued to an 11.75” square of chipboard to give it stability.

I trimmed the Exquisite sheet by .25” on all sides, giving me a 11.5” square; this was adhered to the base.

The photo was glued to one of the laser cut frames, then cut down to fit. I glued small pieces of chipboard to the back of this, as well as to the other frame pieces that I had selected. These were arranged in a fan-like arrangement and glued to the page.

I adhered the “twine” piece to the bottom of the photo and then selected flowers and leaves from the pile of laser- and fussy-cut embellishments, starting with that marvelous flowing vine. To add dimension, I used foam adhesive to glue them all down.

To fill what looked like a gap, I added a few “ticket” pieces to the side of the photo after tearing the edges and topped this with my title piece.

To finish my page, I glued down a few scattered butterflies and a bit of script: the “beauty” piece above the vine.

A few closeups:

 

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*****Supplies*****

***Paper***

49 and Market – Art Options – Alena Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Exquisite #AA-37254

49 and Market – Art Options – Alena Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Full Bloom #AA-37292

***Embellishments***

49 and Market – Art Options – Alena Collection – Laser Cut Elements #AA-37360

***Other***

Beacon – Fabri-Tac Permanent Adhesive

Craft Country – Aleene’s All-Purpose Tacky Glue

Scrapbook.com – Foam Adhesive Strips #sbc-bcadh-3122

***Tools***

EK Success – Cutter Bee Scissors

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