Emma's Paperie: Today, You are 4

Happy Monday! Today I have a layout to share with you for Emma's Paperie. The design team recently focused on Simple Stories products and this was a fun one for me to put together. For this layout, I actually mixed and matched 3 different collections - Sn@p, Urban Traveler, and 24/Seven. When I usually work with Simple Stories products, I tend to stay with one collection but for this one I wanted to pull out teal and red products and these three collections have them both!

(By the way, you will be seeing several birthday layouts from me over the next few months as I tend to scrap a lot about the girls' birthdays.)

The spinner brad is in the 24/Seven collection and I always love Simple Stories assortment of bingo cards for phrases I can use on my pages. 

Lots of great chipboard and sticker elements in the collections!

I used one of the die-cut Sn@p pages here - I love the look! (And the new I Heart Summer collection has its own set of die-cut cards that you can use for purposes like this - I really hope they keep this up for the new collections coming out). And for the title, I mixed and matched chipboard and alphabet stickers for an eclectic feel.

Love the little phrase stickers in each collection too! 

 

For a complete supply list and instructions on how to make this layout, visit the Emma's Paperie blog here. 

We had a very busy weekend with our garage sale. It was great to clear out a lot of stuff and make a little cash doing so. We did pretty well considering we only had a few larger $30 items - everything else was pretty small dollar-wise. We were also able to donate 4 boxes and 3 bags of stuff to Goodwill and that feels good. I have a few things I am also going to try and sell on Craigslist and ebay. I'm just happy it's over and now I can get my house back in order! :)

Have a great day!

Scrapbook Circle: They Love Him

Good morning! Today I have a layout to share with the May kit "My Favorite" at Scrapbook Circle. This was a fun kit to work with because it was full of great colors and patterns and it was easy to take this kit several directions as you will see when I share all of my layouts. For my first layout, I wanted to highlight a special relationship my girls have with their sweet little cousin. They absolutely adore spending time with him and he always has the biggest smile for them.

The only thing I added that was not in the kit was the ticket die-cut...I needed a little pop of red to balance out the layout.

I played off the triangle patterned paper but punching a few squares and then cutting them in half to form triangles. There are a lot of great label stickers in the kit this month as well.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Have a great day! :)

American Crafts Blog Hop Winner!

I meant to draw a winner after the weekend but forgot so here you go:

Rhonda said...
LOVE your layout. I am already a HUGE fan. Thanks so much.

Congrats! Please send me an e-mail to cornellgj(at)yahoo(dot)com with your mailing address and I'll get your prize out to you! :)

Webster's Pages: Fabulous at 4

Good morning, good morning! Today I am sooooo excited to share this layout because I am absolutely in LOVE with this new collection by Adrienne Looman for Webster's Pages. The collection is called Citrus Squeeze and it is full of fun, bright summer colors! I almost feel like Adrienne was in my head and knew we were going to have a circus themed birthday party for the girls (of which I have yet to blog about). As soon as I had the collection in my hands, I knew I was going to pull out the red and teal for birthday party pictures. Every year I create an individual birthday layout for each girl and this one happens to be Miss Lily's.

The collection has a lot of great patterned papers including ones that are easily cut apart to get the Polaroid frame and tags you see here. 

Love that little "Admit one" ticket and a sweet girl waiting in anticipation... :)

There are mini trim cards included in the collection as well and that red ribbon was perfect! (The blue doily is an older Webster's Pages product). 

Finally, I used a journaling card that I tucked behind a sewn pocket of patterned paper. The designs in the collection are so fresh and fun!

Thanks for stopping by today! I am frantically trying to prepare for our garage sale this weekend so that will keep me busy over the next few days.

Have a beautiful day! :)

Simple Stories: Summer Fishin'

Good morning! Today I have a new layout to share that features the brand NEW I Heart Summer collection from Simple Stories. My family loves to fish and this past summer my girls were able to go for the first time with their grandparents. This was our second trip and the girls were catching fish after fish after fish and they were so excited! I pulled out the fish elements in this collection for my layout.

One of my favorite products from this release is the new Sn@p Cuts. I used the yellow heart die-cut card on my layout.

 

Here I layered several of the Bingo Cards with my wallet size photos.

 

I love the fish border sticker and little individual fish stickers and chipboard. So cute!

 

Thanks for stopping by today! We are going to have a busy week prepping for our garage sale this coming weekend! More to come soon... 

Emma's Paperie: Sweet Pink Piggies

Good morning! Today I have a new layout and card to share with you for Emma's Paperie. The layout was created with a lot of Echo Park's "Sweet Girl" collection and for the color challenge at Emma's Paperie. The girls love having their toes done up pretty and this mama loves doing it for them!

This collection is just so sweet...I love it! That floral washi tape is so pretty! 

I backed the little wood veneer frames from Maya Road with different patterned papers and used them as embellishments. The fabric is a piece of canvas that I hand stitched and it was also a mistake from another project. Instead of throwing it away, I was able to use it here! :)

For the complete supply list, please visit the Emma's Paperie blog here. 

I also have a card to share today that I created for the sketch challenge using the Trendsetter collection from Fancy Pants. My card is mostly monochromatic - love that pretty mint!

 

For a complete supply list, please visit the Emma's Paperie blog here. 

Thanks for stopping by today! :)

Create: Mini Albums Winner!

The winner of the Create: Mini Albums issue is:

Tammy B said...

woot, woot! congrats on the cover. i adore minis and would love to have this for inspiration!

Please contact me at cornellgj(at)yahoo(dot)com with your mailing information!

Congrats! :)

American Crafts: Oh So Lovely Frame

Good morning! This week is mom's week over on the American Crafts blog and yesterday I contributed a step-by-step tutorial of how I created this "Oh so lovely" frame using the Dear Lizzy Lucky Charm collection. Quick and easy and perfect for any mom! :)

I added a lot of texture with tone-on-tone punched border strips that were stacked on top of each other. 

And I added one of my favorite recent photos of the girls in black and white...

To see a complete supply list and my tutorial, visit the American Crafts blog.

By the way, I forgot to mention I ended up keeping the Daniel Rainn blouse from my Stitch Fix #2. I have already worn it once and I just love it! :)

Have a beautiful day! :)

Scrapbook Circle: Hello Spring Day

Good morning! Today I have one last layout to share with you using the April “Happy Place” kit from Scrapbook Circle and then I'll start sharing my work with the May kit. I just love the colors in the kit and created my two-page layout based on photos of my family enjoying a spring day this month. It was finally nice and we were outside all afternoon and evening…it was fabulous!

I cut apart the Echo Park patterned paper and used the natural arch to help draw the eye into both pages of the layout.

I also love the Elle’s Studio snippets in the kit – they are perfect for adding a little text to help tell the story better.

Finally, I added a few embellishments here and there: a Yes, Please journaling die-cut and heart speech bubble, a Scrapbook Circle exclusive tag cut-out and one of the wood veneer speech bubbles.

Thanks for stopping by today! My giveaways are still all open so scroll on down! :)