How to create a sparkling one year old girl birthday scrapbook layout

     Hey Scrappy Friends!  I’m back today sharing another layout for the Use Your Stuff challenge blog. Our challenge this week was to make a metallic or sparkle layout.  What better way to use sparkle than on baby J’s first birthday pictures.
How to create a sparking one year old girl birthday scrapbook layout
     I started with a sketch I found on PageMaps. it gave me the perfect base for what I wanted to include.  The large photos of obviously of J in her birthday outfit.  The two smaller photos are the cake her auntie made her and the flower we used to decorate inside of paper decorations.  
     The aqua cardstock base is from an old DCWV pack that I wish they still made.  I’ve been hoarding the last bits.  The patterned paper is Echo Park Birthday Wishes.  To make it metallic though I “painted” some of there cupcakes with Wink Of Stella in Clear and Light Green.
     I also added a splash of sequins around the page, and a glitter chipboard title. To finish it off I used glitter pens from Kaiser Craft and some Heidi Swapp Color Shine.
    I was really pleased with how this came out…it’s one of those photos that you have such high hopes for because it’s so special, and it’s just perfect.  I hope you love what I’ve created, and as always…leave me a link with what you created and I’ll be sure to comment.  



Spring Butterfly Card

     So I’ve really been lacking in inspiration lately, but when I saw the new card sketch from Sketch~N~Scrap the mojo came right back.   This card came together in no time flat.

     I flipped the sketch on it’s side, but left the embellishments where they were.  I also moved the scallop to the top of the card and flipped it around as well.  I wasn’t so sure I liked it as I was going, but when it was all done I was actually very pleased with it.

Supplies:
Doodlebug Card Assortment
Pink Paper: The Paper Studio
Brad: Doodlebug
Butterfly: K&Company (I believe)
Scallop Border: Doodlebug

Challenges:

ScrapStuffz Inspired By February Reveal

Happy Valentine’s Day!! Welcome to my February reveal as SSIB.  Let me say right off the bat how happy I am with how this layout came out.  It’s the first layout in awhile that hasn’t felt like work to get it to where I wanted it to be.  
     I started with the amazing colors and designs in the SSIB photo.  They matched perfectly with the flower from my 2005 wedding. I then saw Sketch #50 over at Sketch ~ N ~ Scrap and fell in love with that too.   
    As if that was not enough inspiration I also saw that Cards Galore had an add bling challenge, and I knew I was going to enter that one too. I used my wink of stella pens on the flowers, my thickets are white glitter, and there in bling in the upper right corner.  It’s the first time in awhile that I’m combining challenges, and I think it came out lovely!
     

SSIB Photo
Sketch~N~Scrap Sketch

Get Inky! Farewell & Welcome Blog Hop

     Hi, and welcome to the Get Inky! Farewell & Welcome Blog Hop.  You should have arrived here from La-Vie’s blog.  If you happened to have stumbled into the hop mid-way be sure to start at the Get Inky! Challenge Blog for a chance to win a fun prize.  
     The blog hop is saying goodbye to our old team members, and welcoming our new.  I was a guest designer last time, and am a part-time design team member this go around.  I am happy to be included again as Get Inky! makes a quality stamp, and all the girls are a blast to work with.  
     For my project I choose to use the cricut cartridge A Child’s Year.  I cut out a fairy and then replaced her wand with a flower. After she was glued down I used stickler and glitter for her wings.
     The flowers, and butterflies, are stamped with Blue Moon Creation’s build a flower that is part of the Love Bugs set.  The pink and purple flowers were colored with a blender pen and my stamp pads.  The green and yellow are wink of stella pens.  They give a slight sheen/glitter, but not a whole lot…hence wink I guess.
     Now for the fun part.  Leave a comment on each blog along the way and you’ll be entered to win:
* one of three one-year Inky Moonbeam memberships
* one Crafty Card Gallery app donated from Jennifer Restivo
To see what the club is all about, visit Blue Moon Creations
     
     I will also be offering a prize!  If you leave a comment, and follow my blog, you’ll be entered to win the card I created as well as a 6×6 paper pad to help you create some cool things! If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, and leave another comment for each, you’ll receive an extra entry. The links to where else you can find me are in the upper right corner of my blog.
  I’m so glad you stopped by and look forward to inspiring you further.  Now off you to go to Susan B to check our what she created.
Blog Hop Line Up:


Sketch ~ N ~ Scrap Birthday Card

     I have several things I want to work at this year in my crafting.  One is to make birthday cards, rather than buy, and another is to enter more sketch challenges.  I saw this sketch over at Sketch~N~Scrap and fell in with it.  

     I started searching for my favorite winter scraps, and as I was sorting through I saw my few flower paper items and they called to me.  My SIL’s birthday is next month and I thought they would be perfect for a card for her. I think it came out really cute, and I could see using this sketch again and again.