For The Love Of Paper
Hey everyone! I’m back with another Youtube video for you today. This time the crafty maven girls got together and took letters of our group name and created with them. I chose E and N and used enamel dots and the color navy. Come check my layout out and be sure to look in the video description box for links to all the other ladies videos.
I’m back this month participating in the Stretch the Sketch challenge. For this month I created a baseball layout using the Simple Stories So Rad collection. Come see me create this Stretch the sketch baseball scrapbook layout!
Welcome back crafty friends! I find that lately I have been doing really well at creating new things, but not doing a great job at sharing them. I have a plan in place to try to work on changing that…starting with today’s masculine scrapbook layout.
This layout started with a white piece of cardstock trimmed down and mounted on a piece of navy patterned paper from the kit. I’ve been using liquid glue to do this rather than my tag, and boy has having that wiggle room during drying helped me get my bases down a lot straighter…even if I struggle to get a perfectly straight photo.
I originally completed this layout without the mixed media, but it was just to white. To combat this I added some ink using the packaging technique (color is discontinued), and it went from being a layout I wasn’t sure about to one I really liked. I have tried the packaging technique many times before and I hadn’t been a fan until very recently. What makes the difference for me is taking a tissue or paper towel and sopping some of it up before it dries. It adds the color, but makes it subtle.
Ok – enough about the layout as you can see what I did with the paper strips and embellishments. Let me tell you the story of the photos. Each year for Christmas I fill my husbands stocking. Just recently I have been trying to do themed stocking rather than little tickets. Stuff he’ll really use, but it also kinds of funny.
Last year I did personal things – cigar center soap – dapper dan hair gel from the movie O Brother Where Art Thou – etc. This year I decided to fill the entire stocking with little bottles of liquor like the kind you get in the mini bar. I figured it would be fun to try all different drink concoctions without buying big bottles. My hubby laughed and laughed when he took the third bottle out and pretended he was drinking it all in one shot. It will be a fun memory.
I hope you’ve enjoyed this layout and I’ll be sure to be back with more soon. Until then – stay crafty!
Welcome back craft friends as I share another scrapbook layout with you. I created this layout as part of the scrapping party over at the Secret Not Secret Kit Club Facebook page. There was a sketch created by Eileen that we were able to interpret to our liking.
I stuck pretty close to the sketch except for my embellishments. Since I used a camping collection for this layout the embellishments didn’t match my theme so I had to make my own. I used punches, inked the shapes and added some doodles to make them interesting. The other items are small stickers from a totally different collection that was family themed, but matched the color scheme of the papers.
I really enjoyed this sketch because it lent itself to using a 6×6 paper pad. As with most people I have way to many, and use them way to much. It felt good to get some of it used. I previously used this collection to make a cookout invitation that you can see here.
I originally started this layout on white cardstock, and I kept looking at it and not liking how it was coming out. Additionally, I tried outlining, more doodles, etc and nothing helped. Once I pulled everything up and tried a black background…wow…did it look so much better. The bright colors just popped in a way they didn’t on the white. Don’t be afraid to try a dark background when something just doesn’t seem to be going the way you like.
Thank you for joining me today, and reading about each project I created. I love hearing your feedback and I’d love to see any projects you create as a result.
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Doodlebug Happy Camper 6×6 Pad
Thickers
1 3/8 inch circle punch
Black American Crafts cardstock*
Tim Holtz Distress Paint – Broken China*
Simple Stories Family Frenzy Stickers
