Trim The Tree

Hello friends! I hope you are staying warm. It's very cold here these days and when it's like this I like to hunker down in my studio and scrapbook.  Not very often I have the time to play along with some challenges as my design team assignments keep me very busy but I was inspired so much by this sketch by Amy Coose for the Paper Issues Sketchy Saturday Challenge that I had to play along.

I love to add some Missy Whidden style watercolors to my layouts so I used some grey, lime green and aqua watercolors and the packaging technique for my background.

I used some random alpha stickers from various collections of Bella Blvd. as well as some wood veneer trees that have been in my stash forever.  The papers are from the Winter and also the Christmas Collection by Lawn Fawn.  I am really digging plaid this year and can't get enough of it.

To finish off my layout I added some machine stitching, thread, alpha stickers from Jillibean Soup as well as a felt bow from Bella Blvd. and of course some flair buttons from A Flair For Buttons.

It was so much fun to create just for the fun of it.

Have a great day and thanks for sharing your day with me.

Father Layout

Hello friends! Today I am sharing a layout of my husband and son on the A Flair For Buttons blog.
I love this photo of my husband and son when my son was a newborn.

For this layout I used 3 flair buttons from 3 different sets of flair.  

I created the cut file and cut it on my Silhouette Cameo and backed the negative space alphas with a navy piece of card stock and also added the red and white star paper behind some of the words that said "father".  To give it more dimension and shadow, I added small adhesive squares to the backside of the cut out negative alphas.

I used the Faded Denim and Aged Mahogany Distress Inks by Ranger and my water brush to create a watercolor effect on the white card stock.

to make the flair buttons stand out more, I added some navy sewing thread around the flair.  I like the texture it gives the layout.

For the title "father" I used a Ranger Distress Pen in Pumice Stone to outline the letters and make them stand out more.  

This layout was inspired by Ashley Horton's Texture Techniques class.

These are the sets of flair that I used on my layout:

My Life Flair Set 2  

All Boy Flair 2

Gobble Gobble Flair

Be sure and check out all the flair in the A Flair For Buttons shop.  There are so many to choose from.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed your visit.  Happy creating!