Boys Rule

Hello scrappy friends! I hope you are enjoying your weekend. Today I wanted to share a masculine layout for A Flair For Buttons.

Yes, it's been quite a while since I've made a boy page and it felt good. I decided to do some major stash busting so I dug deep into my paper stash and found this older paper collection by Bella Blvd. that is perfect for boys. It's the Max Collection, which I believe is a winter release from 2014.

I arranged lots and lots of patterned paper strips along the bottom half of my white cardstock background  and machine stitched them in place with my vintage sewing machine in white thread.

For the photo of my son, I backed it with some scraps of Bella Blvd. papers from some various older collections and then added some stickers and of course a black heart flair button from A Flair For Buttons Just Hearts 2 Flair Set. Everything is better with hearts. I love hearts and heart flair buttons are no exception.

Just Hearts 2 Flair

For the title "Boys Rule", I added some old green chipboard alpha stickers, that have also been in my stash for some time, that are also from Bella Blvd. To make the title even more fun, I added a yellow star flair button from the My Life 4 Flair Set to replace the "o" in the word "Boys".

My Life 4 Flair Set

Finally, I added some star enamel shaped stickers in black, yellow and orange to give it a little more interest and dimension to the white cardstock background. I also added my son's name and date, when the photo was taken, with an acid free black fine line marker.

Voila! The layout is all done.

I really had fun creating this boy layout and flair buttons are my absolute favorite embellishment to add some more pizzaz to any paper project.

Be sure and check out all the flair buttons in the A Flair For Buttons store today. There are virtually hundreds to choose from in so many colors and themes.

Thanks for visiting and happy creating!

Love Summer Memories

Hello friends! I hope you are enjoying your weekend.

I am in summer mode at the moment and it's so awesome to have some lazier days and sunshine. Last year I renovated my outdoor space by adding some new outdoor furniture, privacy glass, a huge patio umbrella and a funky rug and it's now my favorite place to hang out with my family, friends and my dog and cat. That is what this layout is all about.

I had a layout published in the summer issue of Scrapbook And Cards Today Magazine and the lovely Catherine gave me the Summer Days collection kit from Simple Stories so I wanted to break it out and create something fun. I also used the Follow Your Heart cut file from The Cut Shoppe, which I cut on white cardstock with my Silhouette Cameo and backed it with lots of patterned papers. It truly is my favorite thing to do in scrapbooking. It takes time and patience, but the result is so worth it. The papers went perfectly with my photo of my red furniture and red toes.

I added three flair buttons from A Flair For Buttons, I love being on this design team because flair buttons are my favorite embellishment and Shelley always has such a huge selection of flair buttons to work with any page.  I chose the red heart flair button from the Just Hearts Flair 2 set to add to the left of my title.

I also added the flair button "the best summer of my life" from the Say Hello To Summer Flair set as well as the "keep calm and enjoy summer" flair button, which is also from the Say Hello To Summer Flair set. 

I love the bright striped washi tape from Simple Stories and added it below the photo and folded it back and forth to create a ruffle

and I also added a long strip to the bottom of the layout as well as several word and tab stickers above the washi tape strip. Finally I added some journal strips.

Finally to complete the layout, I  added some enamel hearts and an enamel arrow from Pinkfresh Studio. 

It was really fun to create a bright, happy, and fun summer layout because that is what summer should be is happy and fun. 

I hope you are having fun this summer. Thanks for stopping by my blog. Have a great day!

Cut File Used On Layout

Follow Your Heart - The Cut Shoppe

Flair Buttons Used On Layout

Just Hearts 2

Say Hello To Summer 

Syd The New Puppy

Hello friends! Today I am on the A Flair For Buttons blog sharing this layout of my new puppy Syd.

I designed a circular text cut file with my Silhouette Cameo and cut it out on the yellow polka dot patterned paper.  I backed the design with black cardstock so the title would stand out and then stitched around the circular title with my sewing machine.  I wanted to stay with the circle theme, so I thought flair buttons would be the perfect embellishment for my layout.  I used the Got Dog Flair, the Just Hearts 2 Flair and the Chalkboard Valentine's 2 Flair sets.   

To complete the design, I added some 3D puffy stickers of ladybugs and butterflies from Paper House Productions.  

I used these sets of flair buttons on my layout.

Got Dog Flair

Just Hearts 2 Flair

Chalkboard Valentines 2 Flair

I hope you enjoyed your visit today. Be sure and check out all the awesome flair buttons in the A Flair For Buttons store.