First Day Layout

Hello friends! I hope all my American friends had a lovely Thanksgiving Day.  Here in Canada we celebrate our Thanksgiving usually the second week of October.

Today I wanted to share a school layout that I created for A Flair For Buttons with the Happy Flair and Bowling Flair.

I love placing flair buttons in a triangle so that the eyes look over the entire page.  I also like to place flair buttons in a cluster with other embellishments such as stickers. 

 The star flair button was placed in the front of the journaling strip to lead the eyes to the story of my layout. 

I am loving my manual typewriter that I recently purchased from We R Memory Keepers to create journaling strips.  I tend to journal on the back of my layouts or place it on a tag tucked under a photo. 

The cute collection of papers and stickers are from the Teacher's Pet Echo Park Paper collection designed by Jennifer Gallacher.  I love the cute divider stickers, the school house sticker and also the plaid paper.

I hope you enjoyed your visit.  Be sure and stop by the A Flair For Buttons shop today.

Have a lovely, creative day!

Flair Buttons Used On My Layout

Bowling Flair

Happy Flair 

Chevron Layout

Hello friends! Happy Saturday! Today I wanted to share a layout I created of my teenage son inspired by a layout created by Paige Evans.  I also wanted to bust my stash and use some older papers.


 I love creating teen layouts and back to school layouts and I also love 6X6 paper pads.
 This layout was created with the Off To School Collection by Fancy Pants Designs way back in 2011.

I cut out the title "Clay" on white card stock with my Silhouette Cameo, watercolored it with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Squeezed Lemonade and splattered some Liquitex Black India Ink.

For the triangle paper shapes, I took a one inch square paper punch and punched out square shapes and them cut them in half diagonally.  Then I arranged the paper triangles in a pattern repeating the colors and pattern five times on the page creating chevrons.

Sewing machines are great for adhering papers on a layout so I used some temporary adhesive very sparingly to hold the paper triangles in place and then machine stitched along the papers in a zig zag design with white thread adhering them to the white card stock background.

Matting the photo is simple with the 6 X 6 pads.  I love lots of layering and texture behind the photo.

To complete the layout, I journaled with a black pen below the bottom chevron in a zig zag design, and last but not least, a flair button from A Flair For Buttons and some red embroidery thread to make the flair button pop.

I hope you enjoyed your visit.  Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great Saturday!

Back To School Layout

Hello friends! Happy Saturday! This weekend I am enjoying being together with my older kids whom I don't get to see very often as they live in a different city than I do.  I haven't seen my oldest son for eight months and my daughter for two months so it's great to be together.  Since I have been thinking of them a lot lately and the new school year will be beginning soon, I thought I would dig up an old photo and scrapbook it.  This photo is from 1993 but I wanted to give it a fresh, trendy design.  Triangles are very trendy and I love the pinwheel effect it gives this layout.

I was inspired by Cari Locken on the Silhouette blog recently.  I went ahead and used a black Silhouette Sketch Pen in my Silhouette and sketched out the design on a 12X12 piece of white card stock.  I then offset the design by 0.78 and then put the Silhouette blade in my Cameo and went ahead and cut the design with a 6X6 paper pad of the new Doodlebug Design Back To School Collection and adhered the paper triangles randomly to the sketched triangles. I also  left some blank so it wouldn't be too busy.

I also cut out the title with my Silhouette Cameo with a free cut file at Kerri Bradford Studios and popped it up with dimensional adhesive squares.  

I had some sequins in my stash and some cute wood embellishments and a backpack embellishment so I added them to the layout as well.

This was so much fun to do.  

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you have a great weekend.

Remember Today Layout

Hello friends! Today I have a second blog post and when I'm on a roll, I'm on a roll, so everything has to wait and I go and create.  For this layout, I used a free digital cut file from Paper Issues and cut it with my Cameo and added lots of papers from Bella Blvd.'s Lucky Starz Collection as well as Bella Blvd.'s Tiny Tots Collection.

I loved this cut file and immediately knew that I wanted to scrapbook a school themed page.  This little guy began preschool last September and he was so excited.

I backed the card stock background paper with lots and lots of paper scraps trying to use some bright and some muted papers to balance the layout.  After that I hand cut the photo and popped it up with some pop dots as well as some stickers.  The title was fussy cut and then I dabbed some mist and embellished with stickers, a button and a crochet heart for good measure.

Thanks for stopping by again! Have a wonderful day!

Scrap Our Stash ABC 123 Blog Hop Next Weekend September 27-29, 2013

Come join us next Friday, September 27 at 6:00 PM (PST) to 11:59 PM (PST)  Sunday, September 29!

Lots of inspiration, prizes and of course fun! See you then!

Practical Scrappers Card Sketch

Happy Friday the 13th!  I am not a superstitious person and I love Fridays.  How about you?

Today I have a card to share with the September card sketch at Practical Scrappers.

"To Teacher" Card
Cardstock - American Crafts
Diecuts - Silhouette America
Mini Letter Stickers - October Afternoon, Tim Holtz
Sewing Machine Stitching
Sequins - Darice
Twine - Unknown
Washi Tape - Prima Marketing

 Here is the sketch that I created from:

Practical Scrappers September Card Sketch

For my card I took the sketch quite literally and got busy cutting out some diecuts with my Silhouette Cameo and used some twine, washi tape and letter stickers.  I then took the apple diecut and adhered sequins to it and then used my sewing machine to stitch around the front edge of the card.

I hope you are inspired to try a card today.  I don't consider myself a card maker, but I tried to think of it as a "mini layout".  I think it turned out pretty good if I say so myself.

Have a great weekend and hopefully you have time to do something you love.

First Day Of Junior High School

Well my youngest son went back to school on August 29.  It was his first day of junior high school and first day being in grade seven.  Where does the time go?

He really had the jitters, but it turned out to be a great day.  It was really great that his dad was home to take him to school.