Stargazer Bookmarks for Paper House Productions

We are doing off-the-page projects this week at Paper House Productions. I decided to make bookmarks. I've been enjoying some good books lately and am always looking for a decent bookmark. Now I'm all set.

The Stargazer collection has lots of cool purples and stars. I even took the manufacturer's strips at the bottom and wove them together for one of the bookmarks.
Supplies
Paper House Productions
- Stargazer Collection (papers, planner stickers, faux enamel stickers, stickers to go, washi tape)
Embroidery thread
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Family Portrait Layout for Scrap Shotz

Hello everyone! I'm excited to be back again on the Scrap Shotz blog to show you more of the Gingham Farm collection by My Mind's Eye. This time I used a picture of my daughter's artwork. She drew some family portraits and they were so cute, I wanted to make sure I preserved them. I cropped the photographs I took of her artwork and placed them in frames or on journal cards. I realised that the stripped paper looked like wall paper so I decided to hang my pictures on a wall!

Step 1: Fussy cut the flowers.

Here is the paper with the flowers before I cut them out.

Here are the flowers cut out.

Step 2: Add a few pieces of chipboard on top.

Step 3: Crop the photos to fit the following frames. Add journaling cards to make them pop off the background. Add some die cuts and wood pieces. Poke a hole in each frame and add a brad so it looks like the frames are hanging on the wall.

Step 4: Add a border along the top. Use a thin strip of black cardstock to separate the border from the "wallpaper".

Step 5: Add a background rectangle of paper. I really hummed and hawed over whether to add this because I felt that all the black and white might get lost but I didn't want to have an awkward rectangle on my wall. In the end, I wanted some extra colour so I kept it.

Step 6: Add a title. These are Dear Lizzy Thickers that are also available in the Scrap Shotz shop. Just be careful not to bend them too much or the gold gets creases.

Step 7: Play around with the placement of your different pieces. The flowers above are in the brad set. The wood piece was to cover a word on the frame that didn't go with my theme.

Here is the result of moving things around to see how they looked.

Step 8: Add journaling and the date. I always do this. I keep scrapbooks by year so I need to have the date somewhere otherwise I can't remember where it goes.

I felt like the green rectangle looked like it was a bit misplaced so I thought I would do faux stitching with a pen around the border. However, I thought it might be fun to do something different so I used some black embroidery thread to make x's to make it look like the rectangle is part of the wall.

Here is the final layout again:

Aside from my daughter drawing my face with an insane sunburn, I like how it turned out.

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Happiness is a Day at the Beach Layout for Paper House Productions

This week we are making rainbow layouts at Paper House Productions. I decided to do a colour blocking grid layout. I used some pictures of my family at the lake so I thought the Sun Drenched Paper Pad would work well.

I used some ink mixed with water on the background. Then I put together squares full of stickers, papers and embellishments of the same colour. The title was easy to include as it is one of the papers in the paper pad and I tore it out so the edges were not perfect. Lastly, I thought the sequins with all the colours of the layout brought all the squares together to look like sand.
Supplies
Paper House Productions
- Sun Drenched Paper Pad
- Sundrenched Cardstock Multipack Stickers
- Color Washed Paper Pad
- Color Washed Cardstock Multipack Stickers
- The Beach 3D Stickers
- Summer Fun Puffy Stickers
- Grandpa Clear Stickers
- Florida Clear Stickers
- Seasonal Sticker Book
- Great Outdoors Puffy Stickers
Color Box Inks
Purple and red embroidery thread
White cardstock
Black pen
Sequins
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Gingham Farm "Family" Scrapbook Layout for Scrap Shotz

I'm so excited to be posting my first layout for the Scrap Shotz design team! It is an online scrapbooking store based in Calgary, Canada. This month I am working with the My Mind's Eye Gingham Farm Collection. It is black, white and grey with a touch of green and teal. It is really unique. Here is the layout I made:

I used white cardstock and a few pieces of paper from the paper kit. Here is what the kit looks like.

There are also lots of extra embellishments in the collection. I used lots of ephemera and the chipboard flowers were handy for elevating my photo. The image below shows half of the chipboard in the collection.

Here are a few close-ups of my layout.

This one shows one of the double sided journal cards that come in a pack of 24.

 

This image shows how the chipboard can be layered under and over the photo to add dimension.

Supplies

My Mind's Eye: Gingham Farm

- collection pack

- journal cards

- ephemera

- chipboard

Black twine from my stash

Black and grey enamel dots by Recollections

White and black cardstock

Black fine tip Sharpie pen

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Cool Cousin for Sketches In Thyme

Today we have a neat sketch over at Sketches In Thyme. There are so many ways to interpret this, I can't wait to see what everyone does! I chose to do flowers and butterflies.

Lots of fussy cutting and a little bit of sewing. Here is the sketch.

Supplies

Pink Paislee - Turn The Page by Paige Taylor Evans

Black fine tip Sharpie pen

White cardstock

White thread

iCraft / Thermoweb decorative black photo corners

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Whooo Loves You? Layout for Paper House Productions

Valentine's day is coming up so we are all about love over at Paper House Productions. Of course I had to scrap a baby picture of my daughter. Even better, she is dressed all in red and matches the theme!

This was one of those layouts that came together one piece at a time. I knew I wanted to use the Color Washed Paper Pad and Hearts Project Pad. I punched out a pile of hearts and arranged them a million different ways before I settled on the heart shape. The hearts from the project pad needed a couple extra sizes, so I punched out a bunch more with my punches. It took awhile to glue them all but it was worth it! The sewing came next and then the stamping. I looked through my 3D stickers and found these owls. They are the perfect colour and match the theme. I just love how it turned out!
Supplies
Paper House Productions
- Color Washed Paper Pad
- Heart Project Pad
- 3D Owl Stickers
- Faux Enamel Heart Stickers
- Banner from Hello Baby Boy paper
- Hashtag sticker from seasonal planner sticker book
White cardstock
Red embroidery thread
Black fine tip Sharpie pen
Black ink
Love stamp
Heart punches
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