Paper Piecing Tutorial For My Creative Scrapbook

Hello friends! Today I thought I would share a quick tutorial on how I created the paper strip base of this layout using paper strips from the September Creative Kit at My Creative Scrapbook.

Supplies 

1 - 12X12 sheet of white cardstock

Paper trimmer

Scissors

Tape runner adhesive

Several paper strips from the September Creative Kit

Instructions

With a paper trimmer cut four squares of white cardstock measuring 4 1/2 inches by 4 1/2 inches.

Cut several paper strips 1/2 inch wide by at least 4 1/2 inches long.

Starting at the left side, adhere paper strips to white cardstock square.

Add another paper strip to the bottom edge of the white cardstock square being sure to adhere the left edge of the paper strip up against the first paper strip edge as shown below. Trim the edges flush with the white cardstock edge.

Continue adding paper strips to the left hand side and the bottom side as shown. 

Continue in this fashion until paper strips are covering the entire square. Repeat with all four squares of white cardstock.  The four squares are now complete. On another note, I don't know what happened, but I accidentally deleted the last few photos of paper strips to complete each cardstock square, but I am hoping that you get the idea. 

As you can see on my layout below, I added the four paper strip squares to the brown background paper as shown below. I chose to add the squares so they are about half an inch apart matching up the paper strips and having the direction of the paper strips appear like one large square. I thought they looked like two large brackets like these...[ ] . 

To complete my layout I added the the digital cut files that were included in the kit and cut them on white cardstock with my electronic die cutting machine placing them on the page and then adding the photo, title and embellishments. Finally, I tried out my new sewing machine and machine stitched a scalloped stitch in aqua thread around the edge of the brown paper background.

Here are some closeups of my layout.

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial and give this a try. It is a great way to use up papers from the kit.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day. 

Strawberry Pie

Hello friends!  I hope you are having a good weekend so far.  Today I am sharing this layout at A Flair For Buttons using some flair buttons from the Baker 2 Flair Set and the strawberry flair button from the Fresh Market Flair Set.  I love baking pies and in the summer I love to make fruit pies when the fruits are in season.  Strawberry pie is one of those pies that is easy to make and it looks so pretty.

I have been inspired by quilts lately and I recently saw a quilt with strawberries.  The quilt had fabric squares, but thought it could easily be done on patterned paper with a square paper punch.

I looked through some of my Bella Blvd. collections and chose some strawberry patterned papers as well as some red and green papers and punched away.  Once I had punched out plenty of squares, I cut the squares diagonally to create triangles and created a paper strawberry.

I had some perfect flair buttons to add to the layout.  Some were from the Baker 2 Flair Set 

and also Fresh Market Flair Set.  

I fussy cut some strawberries and a jar with strawberries and added some foam squares to give some dimension.  The title was cut with my Silhouette Cameo on black cardstock with a script cut file from Just Nick Digital Cut Files that I welded together. 

To complete the layout, I added some stitching with my sewing machine and inked the white card stock background with some Ranger Spun Sugar Distress Ink to make the title pop.

I loved creating this layout and did some paper stash busting too.  It's always a good thing to find the perfect flair buttons to add to a project.

Check out the A Flair For Buttons store for these flair buttons and many more.  Have a great day!

Scrapping Our Stash September 2015 Blog Hop

Hello friends! It's Lee-Anne here and I am excited that you are here.  A group of us ladies get together once a month to bring you a blog hop using our stash. 

 Every scrapbooker has a stash of papers and embellishments and we wanted to inspire you to get out your stash and use it up.  Be sure and visit all the ladies on the blog hop list as I am certain that you will be inspired.

Lee-Anne  http://lee-annelovethejourney.blogspot.com YOU ARE HERE

Alison  http://alisondaydesigns.com/

Majken http://chocoscrapaholic.blogspot.com/

Katrina http://paperscissorsandglue.blogspot.com/

Cheryl http://patchesandscraps.blogspot.com

Suzanna http://lifestrivialities.typepad.com

Wendy C www.stampingrules.com

For my project, I created a layout of Fall in the country in my area.  I had a 6X6 paper pad that I have had for at least 3 years called Harvest Lane by Simple Stories.  

I began by designing the word "Fall" on my Silhouette Cameo.  I then cut it out on a 12X12 piece of white card stock with my Cameo and set the letters aside for another project.  I wanted to use the negative space for each letter. 

To make the letters pop more, I took out my distress inks and my water brush and painted each letter a coordinating color that would go with the patterned papers and let it dry.

Now it' time to cut your paper strips in 1/2 inch strips and arrange them on the backside of your white card stock.  I make sure they are laying next to each other and for mine I placed them on a diagonal.  I then used some tape and taped them down.

After all the letters were backed with patterned paper strips, I added my photos, the alpha sticker title in the center and some coordinating embellishments such as a crochet heart, leaf stickers, enamel dots and a flair button.

Here are some more closeups.

This layout was so much fun to do and it is a great way to use up your paper scraps.  I hope you are inspired to give this a try.  Next up on the blog hop is Alison.  I'm sure she has something awesome to share with you.  Happy hopping!

Give Thanks Layout

Hello friends!  Happy Thursday!  Today I wanted to share a layout that I created just for the fun of it.  I don't think I have ever created a photoless layout. In the hustle and bustle of getting prepared for our Canadian Thanksgiving Day, which is this weekend,  I am very excited that my older children will be coming to celebrate it with me.  I wanted to scrapbook something from my heart and all the things that I am thankful for.

This layout was pure fun to create!  I used the new Hello Autumn Collection from Bella Blvd. for all the patterned papers, the stickers, chipboard stickers and ephemera and a piece of white card stock.  I cut out a template with my Silhouette Cameo from some free cut files that I found at Chickaniddy Crafts and then used several pieces of patterned paper to make the design.  I wanted my journaling to be personal and from the heart so I wrote it in my own handwriting.

I hope you enjoyed my layout! Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!