Happy Day | Jillibean Soup

It's a Happy Day when it's your Birthday! I used a mini placemat and added popdots behind it to add dimension and then added some diecuts on top. Such an easy card to create.  You can even use some left overs and Jillibean Soup has some of these mini placemats in the Silhouette Online Store ;-)

Supplies Used:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Birthday Bisque / Smidgen of Sweets, Bunch of Balloons
Pea Pods (Die Cuts): Birthday Bisque

Coordinating Stickers: Birthday Bisque

Mini Placemats: Favorite

Sugar Picks: Sunshine Resin Picks - Multi Color

Soup Labels:  Birthday Bisque

Other:   Sewing Machine, White Cardstock, Color Shine 

Layout Class 1 | PageMaps U

PageMaps U’s first layout class of 2015 is here! 

This class is loaded with 18 layouts, sketches, techniques and how-to's, full-color instructions, complete supply lists (including paper names!) and free die cutting files, all created by some of your favorite artists, including me!

This four-week, self-paced, online class begins Monday, February 16th. Stop by PageMaps to see all of the sneak peeks, try out a freebie class, and then register for this one. It’s going to be so much fun!

Here’s a chance for you to win a free spot into this first class of the year!
Just leave a comment on this post and tell me what your favorite color is.
That easy!

We’ll draw a random winner on Wednesday, February 11th. Good luck!

Thank You | Creative Scrappers

In a previous post from Creative Scrappers in December I had mentioned to you that it was time for Creative Scrappers to end. The day as come. It's February and this marks an end to our CS Challenges. To you Creative Scrappers followers, Our Current and Past Design Team Members, Our Generous Sponsors and all sketch lovers I'd like to personally take this opportunity to say THANK YOU !



CS has been a blessing for me, to allow me to inspire and help scrapbookers all over the world, the chance to meet amazing people in this industry and to grow creatively with you all.

Thank you Design Team Members for being so AWESOME in creating layouts that constantly WOW our readers, and give people ideas and inspiration to create some AWESOME pages themselves. This success would never have been possible without you!

Our Sponsors, Thank you for being so generous and giving to our challenge participants. Your interest in supporting me and Creative Scrappers surely isn't going unnoticed. 

Thank you Kathy Skou for being my right hand on facebook, for Taryn Lopshire and Kiki Halbert for a helping hand when I needed it ;-)

Thank you to YOU CS Fans. Thank you for being here ;-) I cherish our friendship, your emails, your comments and support throughout the years!

Creative Scrappers blog will still be here - I will have Sketches 1-286 available for download shortly and of course the 3 ebook of sketches will still be for sale if you want more great sketches and designs. Don't forget to use coupon code V3Creative to save 20% off and the books have been reduced from 9.95$ to 7.95$ permanently.

I will host a few random challenges and those will be posted on the CS blog. If you wish to stay up to date please follow us on your blog readers ( bloglovin ) or social media outlets.  Also, all layouts that have been added using the inlinkz tool will be added to our pinterest boards. If you wish to follow us please do ;-) Those will be updated in the next few weeks.

Thank You Friends!

Be The Best Version of You | Bella Blvd

I've had this layout hanging in my scrapbook room for a few months and I totally forgot to share it with you!  It was created with Bella Blvd patterned papers and a little page about ME.

I love these colors and instead of making the circle place mat a focus I added the papers in front of it and of course added pop dots for dimension ;-)

 

You can see more Bella Blvd Projects on their blog ;-)

#You & Me | Jillibean Soup

Creating Cards is somewhat of a challenge for me. When i notice that i'm struggling or need to do something other than a card - I love creating tags! tags are so cute and you can make them any size you want. You can layer, sew, pretty much anything you want. Yes it's similar to creating a card, but a tag is much more fun!

Here i started just by using a Kraft Tag, and scrap pieces of paper from a few Jillibean Soup Collections. I also added a piece of a Placemat on top of my Kraft Tag just to add more details to my background. So Easy ;-)

Supplies Used:
Jillibean Soup
Mix The Media: Ephemera Pack - Red / Diecut Vellum - Hearts
Patterned Paper: Soup Staples III / Read Me, Record Your Numbers
Silhouette Cut File: Wise Words Love #45076
Placemats: Lattice - Kraft
Clear Stamps: Spicy Social Soup
Kraft Plain Tags: Large Kraft Tag

Other: twine, clothespin, enamel dots, silhouette cameo, sewing, black ink

Please Visit the Jillibean Soup Blog for more Awesome Projects!

CALI | Simple Stories

Nothing is more enjoyable than creating with paper - especially when the paper is full of color and you have a great picture to scrapbook!

This picture is of myself, nicole and jennie enjoying some time in Huntington Beach California a few weeks ago. It was so nice to catch up and enjoy the day -- we have other girls with us and they'll show up on another layout soon!

I used Simple Stories - Life Documented Collection 

 Here is a sketch if you'd like to play ;-) 

I AM | Simple Stories

Nothing says beautiful like this new I AM Collection from Simple Stories. It is really gorgeous in color, in patterns and so perfect for those " ABOUT ME " pages. You know that ones we make about once every century? YES! This paper collection is perfect for those pages about ourselves.

But I didn't use it for myself LOL I used it for my niece! Regardless it's perfect ;-)

Make Sure you Visit the Simple Stories Blog for more great projects!

Here is a short video about the new I AM Collection

 - Tell your Local Scrapbook Store you NEED this! -

Project Reveals | Cocoa Daisy GDT

It was such a pleasure designing for Cocoa Daisy this month and being their guest for the month of February. I was given the Main Kit - Journal Entry and the Dear Diary Scrapbooking Add-On to play with. Both of these kits are filled with some awesome papers and tons of embellishments. I created 3 layouts and 2 cards and I still have tons of supplies to play with!

February 2015 Kit "Journal Entry"

Dear Diary Scrapbook Add On

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Here are my layouts for this month using the kits!

 

For more amazing projects for the Cocoa Daisy designers 

Please Visit the Gallery and of course Join the Forum ;-)