Havin' A Ball

Hello friends! I thought I would share another summer layout that I have created for design team work at A Flair For Buttons.

I really had fun with this layout. I began with a cut file designed by Stacie Dietz for Paper Issues and used my sketch pens and my Silhouette Cameo to trace around the design and then I hand stitched with embroidery floss. After the stitching was completed, I watercolored with some distress inks that I stamped on a craft mat and spritzed with some water and applied with a water brush to the flowers and leaves in colors that coordinated with my patterned papers and stickers from the Summer Fun Collection by Simple Stories. As you can see I added several phrase stickers from the the collection's sticker sheet and fussy cut the title and beach ball to create my title. Since I don't do Project Life projects, I like to use the 3X4 cards for other uses such as fussy cutting them and using them for titles, diecuts or words

Embellishing is my favorite part of the process. I always grab for my flair buttons from A Flair For Buttons to see if any of the flair will work for my layouts. For this layout, I chose a flair button from the Fun Flair 1 set, one from the Say Hello To Summer set and one from the Inspirational Word 4 set and placed them in a visual triangle to draw the eyes around the entire layout. Here are a few more closeups:

This layout was a little time consuming, but I like to sit on my deck with a nice cold drink on a hot summer's day and stitch to my heart's content.

I hope you are inspired to handstitch, use watercolors and add flair buttons to a layout. Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Flair Used On Layout

Fun Flair 1

Say Hello To Summer

Inspirational Words 4

Birthday Cake Card

Hello friends! Today I wanted to share a quick birthday card that I created for my daughter-in-law.

For this card I used a design that is at the Silhouette Online Store.  I cut it on my Silhouette Cameo on some Echo Park Paper's Summer Bliss Collection of patterned papers and then adhered some sequins, stamped the happy birthday sentiment on some white card stock and wrapped some twine.

I hope you enjoyed my card.  I think I will be making many more cards in the future to use up some of my scraps and use my Silhouette Cameo even more.  Thanks for stopping by!