The Paper Addict

For The Love Of Paper

A Delightful, Creative and Bohemian One Page Scrapbook Layout

     Hi Scrappy Friends!  I’m a bit late this morning, but I have another guest layout for the Use Your Stuff to share with you today. The challenge for this week is Bohemian with lots of rich patterns and embellishments.   I’ll be very honest…this was really a challenge for me. I am generally a clean and simple girl so what I tried to combine the two styles and I think I did ok!
A layout of our little girl on her dedication day using products from American Craft, Carta Bella, Heidi Swapp, Crate Paper and Tim Holtz
     The base is American Crafts black textured yardstick.  I buy their big packs so I’m not running to the store every week for more base colors.  The patterned paper and embellishments are from the Carta Bella collection Amour. It’s a very french collection and the rich patterns suited the theme well. 
     The doily base is from Amazon, and you’ll probably see a ton of those on my layouts going forward as you have to buy them in packs of 1,000! White was too stark against the black background so I sprayed it with some Heidi Swapp Color Shine in Bush…it’s my favorite girl color lately.  
    The layout is finished off with some of my homemade enamel dots,  gold color shine splatters, gold thicker title (by Crate Paper) and some Tim Holtz tiny word stickers.
   So tell me….did I mix enough to meet the theme!? 

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Sleepy Time

When I saw the sketch over at Scrap Our Stash I knew exactly what photos I wanted to use. They also for the new year had a challenge of using products in the word goals..that one wasn’t so easy.  
G – Girl Paper by Bella Blvd
O – Orchid color embellishments (I checked the color of orchids to be sure this complied.
A – Acrylic Paint (yellow)
L – Liquitex basics texture paste
S – Stickers and a stencil
The photos were printed at home with my Epson picturemate pm-400…best Christmas present ever! Watch for a process video coming up on my youtube channel soon.

It’s A Girl

I love being on vacation!  I haven’t gotten this much done in awhile, and even then it’s not much!  This is another photo taken during our daughters newborn shoot.  She was so very good.
This is a sketch from Creative Scrappers and a mood board from Scrap the Girls. The mood board had different shades of pink as well as a gold glitter.  I used the shades of pink and the rest of the mood board reminded me of a celebration, and what’s a better reason to celebrate than a newborn baby!
Paper is the It’s A Girl collection from Carta Bella.  I will say I had a really hard time matching the pinks on this one to anything in my stash.  
Well….I better run – the Christmas cookie timer is calling my name.  Have a Merry Christmas everyone!

Soccer Star Layout

Time for another sketch reveal at Scrapbook Challenges. Please go check out the sketch for this week and see just how much I switched it around to fit the photo I had.
This is our son’s first sports photo!  I used an older collection from Carta Bella, and the title is a cut file from Miss Kate’s Cuttables that I bought through the Silhouette Store.
Thanks for checking out my layout today, and I hope to see your entry at the challenge blog.

That Was Awesome

I know it’s not Sunday, but I finally got to sit down and work on the Scraplift Sunday piece from the Paper Issues Facebook group.  
My take follows the form of the layout fairly closely.  My main paper choices were the Carta Bella line Boy Oh Boy.  Several of my embellishments also came from that line, but I also have a few in there from Basic Grey, Close To My Heart, A Flair For Buttons and the title from Heidi Swapp.
Hope you like my take!