My First Publication In Scrapbook Generation's Create Magazine!

Happy Tuesday everyone!  Today I am very honoured and excited to share that I have a layout published in Create Magazine!  This is a new free monthly digital paper crafting magazine that began publishing in January 2014.  My layout in the June 2014 issue is on page 212.  Check out this jam packed magazine that focuses on sketches but has so much more.  It's their biggest issue yet.  Check it all out here.

I love everything about Fancy Pants Designs and this layout was created from the As You Wish Collection.  I cut out the title on the gold foil paper with my Silhouette Cameo and also the gold tag behind the photo and the little gold hearts.  The flowers are fussy cut and I also cut strips of patterned paper from the collection and added some sewing mating stitching to the strips.  The photos were created with Turbo Collage, which is photo collage software, and the coloured text was added with the software as well.  This is the first layout that I have published in this particular magazine.

Thanks for stopping by for a visit.  I hope you all have a wonderful day.

You Are My World Layout

Hello friends!  Thanks for stopping by!  Today I would like to share a layout I created with a sketch by Jenny Evans and a cut file by Jess Mutty.

I used the As You Wish Collection by Fancy Pants for all the papers and stickers and also fussy cut the title and globe.  I cut out the circle background with my Silhouette Cameo and also used my sewing machine to add some machine stitching for more interest and texture.

This photo is a special photo to me because my only daughter was a year old in this photo and we are both survivors.  I won't go into a lot of details, but let's just say I just about lost her due to a horrible, freak accident when she was nine years old and she just about lost me due to an illness immediately after childbirth.  

This is the fifth layout I have made with this collection and I can't get enough of it.  Thanks for visiting and hope you get some time to do something you love.

Today I Am Loving Life Layout

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Hello friends!  Today I am sharing yet another layout that I created with one of my favorite Fancy Pants Collections ever.  This is my third layout with the As You Wish Collection.   I love all of Fancy Pants collections and I'm pretty sure I have just about every collection that they have come out with.  Out of all the collections so far, Park Bench, Trend Setter and As You Wish are my favorites.

This layout was fun to do.  I used a lot of my leftover strips from the As You Wish Collection and used my Silhouette Cameo to cut the title out of the gold foil paper,  the little tag and the tiny hearts.  There is a lot of sewing machine stitching on this particular and I also fussy cut the flowers.  I thought it would pop more if I used a black background.  To add text to the photos, I created it with an app named  Turbo Collage and I added the text as well.  I used a sketch designed by the amazing Allison Davis.

I love this collection!  Thanks for stopping by! Have a creative day!

As You Wish Masculine Layout

Hello and happy Thursday!  It's been a nice relaxing week as my teenage son is off school for spring break and it's been a nice break from the school routine.

Today I thought I would share another layout I created with the Fancy Pants "As You Wish" Collection.  I really love the way this collection can be used for masculine pages as well as feminine pages.  This layout is of my fourteen year old son and I loved the gold foil paper and wanted to use it to cut a title and some die cuts with my Silhouette Cameo.

I am really happy with how it turned out and the foil paper cut like butter in the Cameo.

I was inspired by a sketch by the talented Laura Whitaker over at Let's Capture Our Memories for Layout #67.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you have a creative day!

Love Affair With Fancy Pants

Hello friends!  Today I wanted to share a layout I created with the As You Wish Collection by Fancy Pants.  I am loving all the bright colors mixed with some vintage papers.  I love their ephemera packs too. I am not going to lie, I love Fancy Pants!

For the herringbone paper, I fussy cut it all apart and then assembled it back together and machine stitched it in place and rotated it to look like arrows.

Right now I am doing a lot of soul searching and thought a layout on where I am right now was in order.

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a wonderful day!