Baby Goats Are Too Cute Layout

Hello friends! Happy Tuesday! Today I am on the Just Nick Digital Cut File blog sharing this layout of my daughter and this adorable baby goat or kid, which is the proper term. My daughter is in heaven when she can be around animals of any kind.  When she was a little girl it always was like a zoo at our house.  We had cats, dogs, hamsters, gerbils, fish, and newts.  She had a special way with them and they loved her as much as she loved them.

I wanted to give this layout a country feel and I thought that the woodgrain and gingham papers would fit the bill.  I used the Hand Cut Letters 2 Cut File to cut out the title with my Silhouette Cameo and then I machine stitched it to the background paper.  All the papers, chipboard frames, enamel dots, stickers and embellishments are from the Pumpkin Spice Collection by Simple Stories.  My sewing machine does some cool stitches so I thought I would change it up from the usual straight stitching.  It adds to the country homespun feel don't you think?

The sweet thing about these cut files are that they can be used on several electronic die cutting machines and they are an instant download so there are no shipping costs.  Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out the Just Nick Digital Cut File Online Store for the Hand Cut Letters 2 Cut File and many more cut files.

Cut Files Used On This Layout

Handcut Letters 2 Cut Files

So Very Grateful

Hello friends! Today I am sharing a selfie layout of being thankful and grateful.  On a more personal note, I am celebrating my birthday today and actually I am not sad but happy and reflective.  I don't intend for this to seem that I am self absorbed, it just makes me reflect on how beautiful life is and after being on this earth for a number of  years it makes me realize that I have come through a lot of tragedies and challenges in my life and I can honestly say that I am happier in my life more now than ever. Sure, I physically feel my age at times, but mentally I feel 25.  I just wish I had the wisdom when I was 25. Ha!

It really is all about attitude and making the most of everyday and counting my blessings.  My life isn't perfect, but it's still wonderful.  I also am grateful for scrapbooking.  It really is an amazing hobby that lets me reflect on the memories, the beauty and the loved ones in my life.  If truth be known, I have always loved anything crafty, but scrapbooking by far brings me the most contentment.  I have met so many beautiful people, whom I call my friends, my support network and the people that get me.  Thank you for letting me share my passion with you and thank you for taking the time to read and visit my blog. I hope, if anything, you can take that we all need to do something we love, whether it's art, music, photography, cooking, sports or anything.  We need to do more of what we love and make the time for it.  Life happens and it's easy to get sucked into the monotony of everyday life so now,  more than ever, we need to slow down and take time for ourselves.

Well enough about that….  So getting back to business, I wanted to share a layout that I created for A Flair For Buttons.

I have been blessed to be on this amazing team and Shelley Haganman is so sweet and positive and she makes amazing flair buttons.  It's no surprise that I can't help but use her flair on almost every layout I create.  It always inspires me.  For this particular layout, I used the Fox And Owl Flair Set for the "thankful" flair button and the striped flair button as well as the Gobble Gobble Flair Set for the green patterned flair button.

 The patterned papers are all from the Simple Stories Sweater Weather Collection as well as the enamel dots, die cuts and chipboard embellishments.  I love anything that Simple Stories comes out with.

For the leaves, I actually handcut them using one of the leaves as a template and arranged them in a layered fashion using pop dots underneath some of the leaves to give some shadow and dimension.

  I had some burlap in my stash so I cut it and matted my photos and cut circles and placed the circles on the leaves and underneath the flair button to give it more texture.

Placing enamel dots around the layout gives it more of a Fall flair to gives the appearance that the leaves are falling down the page.  Most of my layouts have either machine stitching or some hand stitching because I love the homespun look and am an old fashioned girl at heart.  It probably has something to do with my cross-stitching days as well. 

Here are the flair button sets that I created my layout with:

Fox And Owl Flair

 Gobble Gobble Flair

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a good day and are able to take time to do something you love.

It's The November 2015 Kits Reveal Day At My Creative Scrapbook!

 Hello friends! Happy Thursday! Today is the 5th of the month, so that means that it is the reveal day at My Creative Scrapbook.  It's always exciting to see all the designers show their beautiful projects with the upcoming kits.  Here are the beautiful kits for November 2015:

November 2015 Main Kit

November 2015 Creative Kit 

November 2015 LE Kit

November 2015 Album Kit

I am honored once again to be asked to guest design for November and I loved working with the November 2015 Main Kit.  I thought I would share one of my layouts today and I will share the other three layouts throughout November.  This is my first layout:

I decided to make a layout of my daughter.  The kit is based on a Fall/Thanksgiving theme, but I wanted to show you how the kit can also be used to create everyday layouts.  My daughter's sweater was a dark maroon color and I thought it would work perfectly with the November main kit.

I used the Lindy's Stamp Gang spray from the main kit and sprayed the wood veneer word "celebrate" and used it as part of my title.  I used my one inch square paper punch and punched out several squares of different patterned papers.  If they are cut in half diagonally, they create a triangle.  I arranged the paper triangles in a pattern as shown above and machine stitched them down to the background paper in a dark green thread.  I also used the spray to color the creme ribbon.  The chipboard frames are so fun to work with in this kit.  I try to use them not only as frames for the photos, but also with die cuts.

Thank you so much for letting me share this kit with you.  Be sure and come back several times this month for more layouts that I have created from this kit as well as some tips on how I created the layouts.

To see the full reveal of all the designers and the kits for November, please go to the gallery here.

Be sure and order your kits from My Creative Scrapbook today!  

Guest Designer At Scrapbook And Cards Today Magazine

Hello friends! Today I am very honored to be a guest designer on the Scrapbook And Cards Today Magazine Blog using the November Freebie Digital Cut File designed by the amazingly talented Nicole Nowosad.

I decided to create a Halloween layout of my friend's two little cuties.

To explain my design process, I cut the cut file on a 12 X 12 piece of black card stock with my Silhouette Cameo, turned it over onto the backside and backed the design with some patterned papers from the Crate Paper After Dark Collection.  Then, I adhered it to a white 12X12 card stock background that I first watercolored with some Tim Holtz Dried Marigold Distress Ink.  To embellish the layout, I glued some adorable bat sequins, orange sequins and star sequins that are also from the After Dark Collection, and placed them randomly around the page.  To complete the layout, I splattered with some Liquitex Black India Ink, let it dry and then added three  flair buttons from A Flair For Buttons.  To make the flair buttons pop and to give them more interest and texture, I wrapped the flair buttons with orange sewing thread.

Here are more layout closeups:

 

Here is the Scrapbook And Cards Today Magazine November 2015 Freebie Cut File

Scrapbook And Cards Today November 2015 Freebie Digital Cut File

Thanks for stopping by and hope you have a great day!

November Sneak Peeks At My Creative Scrapbook

Hello friends! Happy November! It is hard to believe that October is over.

Today I wanted to share with you some exciting sneak peeks of the November kits at My Creative Scrapbook.  There is a kit for everyone no matter what your paper crafting style may be.

November 2015 Main Kit

November 2015 Creative Kit

November 2015 LE Kit

November 2015 Album Kit

Aren't they all fabulous? The designers have all been very hard at work creating some fabulous projects and it's only four more days until the full reveal.  

For my guest design team assignment, I was given the November Main Kit to create with and here are some sneak peeks of my four projects:

I had so much fun creating with this kit.

Stay tuned and come back on November 5 for the full reveal and order your kits at My Creative Scrapbook.  

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!