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 

You Are My Anchor Layout (A Flair For Buttons)

Hello friends!  Today I'm excited to share my first layout as a new design team member at  A Flair For Buttons.

I wanted to create a masculine layout of my husband but also keep it fun with some nautical accents to support the die cut title that I cut on my Silhouette Cameo.  I created this with October Afternoon's Treasure Map Collection of patterned papers and stickers.  I added some background stamping with a rubber stamp from Creative Embellishments and some sewing machine stitching.

The flair buttons I created this layout with are from these three different sets:

Family Is Forever Flair

Date Night Flair

Just Cruising Flair

All these flair and many more are available in the store:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/aflairforbuttons

Also, don't forget you can save 15% off your entire order from now until Monday, May 4 by adding the coupon code NSD2015 when you checkout.

 Thanks for stopping by!

Sketches In Thyme Design Team Call

Time for a Design Team Call!!

Would you like to be a Sketchy Maven? The 6 month term for
 our talented Mavens is drawing to a close, and while some will
 be staying on, we are looking for new members to join our
 Sketches in Thyme design team! If you enjoy creating 
layouts from sketches, participating in blogs and motivating
 others to take part in challenges, this might be your chance
 to be a part of our Design Team! Your term would run
 November 2012-April 2013, and you would be asked to 
complete 2 layouts per month. If you would like a 
chance to be considered, here's what you need to do:

1-Have an active blog and be on facebook (so you can be
 part of our SiT DT group)
2-Create a new layout based on our sketch below.

3-Post about our DT call on your blog, along with your
take on our sketch.

4-Leave a comment here by October 20th telling us that
you would like to be considered for the DT, along with a 
link to your blog post. Be sure to include your email address 
so we can get in touch with you!!

Don't forget, our Design Team Call runs until October 20th,
can't wait to see your take on our fun sketch!!

I have created a layout of this awesome sketch of my daughter's cute doggie Elly.

I used the new Fancy Pants Country Boutique Collection Kit for this layout.
Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to apply!  It should be fun!!!