Summer Nails Layout And Tutorial

Hello friends! Today I am sharing another layout that I created with the June Sketch at My Creative Sketches.

This was created with the awesome June Creative Kit for My Creative Scrapbook.

 I thought I would share a written tutorial with full instructions on how I created this layout. Flamingos are trendy for summer and last year, I got my nails and toes done with painted flamingos at my local nail salon. Summer is to be celebrated. Don't you think?

Instructions For Summer Nails Layout

Basic Supplies

White Cardstock (12X12 piece)
Black Fine Line Pen
Foam Adhesive Squares
Liquid Adhesive (for adhering sequins)
Scotch ATG or any brand of permanent tape runner adhesive
Circle Cutter (or a 6 1/2 inch diameter dinner plate)
Scissors (for fussy cutting)
Pencil (for tracing circle)
Paper Trimmer


June Creative Kit Supplies

Blue Wave Patterned Paper - Pebbles Sunshiny Days Collection
Flip Flop Patterned Paper - Pebbles Sunshiny Days Collection
Cardstock Stickers (flowers, flip flops, flamingos (2), sun - Pebbles Sunshiny Days Collection
Chipboard Stickers (pineapple, flower, "summer" word - Pebbles Sunshiny Days Collection
Ephemera - Pebbles Sunshiny Days Collection
Sequins - Darice
White Chipboard Alpha Stickers - American Crafts


Instructions

• Trace a 6 1/2 inch circle on the blue wave paper using either a circle cutter, or a 6 1/2 inch diameter dinner plate. Cut it out with scissors if applicable.

• Cut "Life Is Better With Flip Flops" down to same height as the two photos (approximately 3 1/2 inches high by 5 1/2 inches wide)

• Adhere photos and "Life Is Better With Flip Flops" card to blue wave paper as shown.

• Cut Flip Flop patterned paper 9 inches long by 5 1/2 inches wide.

• Adhere blue wave paper that is matted with photos to flip flop paper. Make sure that one inch on the right side is showing.

• Adhere the cut blue wave paper circle to the white cardstock background. Make sure the blue circle is 1/2 inch from left edge of white cardstock and 1/4 inch from top left edge of white cardstock.

• Adhere the flip flop paper and blue wave paper that is matted with the two photos onto the blue circle. 

• Cut the word "My" from the blue card. Adhere.

• Place the white chipboard alphas "nails" below the "summer" chipboard word and adhere with liquid glue.

• Using foam dots, adhere the sun sticker on top right hand corner of white cardstock approximately 1/4 inch from top right edge and 1/4 inch from right edge.

• Add pink flip flop stickers to edge of "Life Is Better In Flip Flops" card as shown. Add small pink chipboard flower sticker on top of pink flip flop stickers as shown.

• Place green leaf sticker, red flower sticker and small white flower sticker in between right photo and "Life Is Better In Flip Flops" card layering stickers as shown.

• Add the flamingo sticker on top of the layered flower stickers popping up with a foam square.

• On bottom left hand corner of left photo, adhere the orange flip flop stickers as shown. Add the large pink flower sticker that is popped up with a foam dot on top of the orange flip flop stickers as shown. Add small blue flower sticker behind large pink flower sticker.

• Using a foam square, pop up large pink flower sticker and adhere to top left hand corner of left photo.

• On bottom left corner, layer the white flower, pink flower and green leaf stickers and pop them up with small foam squares. Adhere the orange flower chipboard sticker and the pineapple chipboard sticker as shown.

• Adhere blue flip flop sticker to left of "nails" word.

• Adhere the orange flower sticker, blue flip flop, fussy cut pink flower and small blue flower sticker layering them as shown.

• Journal around top of blue paper circle with a black fine line pen.

• Add sequins, as shown, around the entire layout on the centers of some of the flowers and flip flop stickers sticking them down with a tiny dab of liquid glue.

• The layout is now complete. 

Here are some more closeups of the layout:

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial and will give this layout a try.

Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day!

Cool By The Pool

Hello friends! Today I wanted to share another layout that I created for My Creative Scrapbook with the fabulous June Creative Kit.

For this layout,  I was inspired by a layout created by Paige Evans using lots and lots of paper strips. It's a great way to use up paper scraps from the kit. 

To give the layout more interest, I machine stitched the paper strips down instead of gluing them.  I also machine stitched around the beach ball die cut to give it more definition.

I added two 2X3 photos and added some fussy cut flowers, clustered some of the ephemera from the kit and yellow ribbon that I tied in bows.  

The sequins from the kit gives the layout more sparkle and interest.

Finally I added the location and date with a fine line black pen on one of the paper strips.

The paper strips look like sun rays don't you think?

Check out all the kits, including the June Creative Kit at My Creative Scrapbook.

Thanks for stopping by and have a nice day.

Lemonade Layout

Hello friends! Are you ready for summer? I know when I created this layout for My Creative Scrapbook with the June Creative Kit, that I had summer on the brain. Of course lemonade is something that came to mind when I saw this lemon patterned paper.

The papers, stickers, chipboard stickers and ephemera are from the new Pebbles Sunshiny Days Collection. There was a lot of fussy cutting for this layout but I actually sat on the deck with a cold drink and cut away. I find it so relaxing.

Here are some more closeups of my layout.

I wanted to stay with the yellow color for this layout. I also added some machine stitching to tack down the chipboard title and also the fussy cut lemon wedges and around the outside edge of the layout with some yellow thread. Sometimes it's fun to stitch with different colors of thread as I tend to use white thread for most of my layouts. 

Be sure and check out all the June kits at My Creative Scrapbook. Have an awesome day!

My Creative Scrapbook June Kit Sneak Peeks

Hello friends! Happy Friday! Today is the sneak peeks of all the June Kits at My Creative Scrapbook and I think they are wonderful as always.  Pam Rangel always does such a fabulous job of designing the kits.

June Main Kit

June Creative Kit

June Limited Edition Kit

June Album Kit

I was given the June Creative Kit to work with and I created four layouts with it.  Here is one that I can share with you today.  

Check back on Sunday, June 5 when the design team has the full reveal.  

Have a wonderful day!