Snow Day

I made this layout for a challenge at ScrapBookClasses, a group on Yahoo.  We were required to use this Sketch from Page Maps.

I'm still in winter mode even though we do not have any snow remaining. 

I used Design Studio to both design the layout and do a little bit welding.  I wanted to use the bracket from the Elegant Edges cartridge so I welded that to a rectangle from George to create the upper background photo mat.  I just didn't want to do scallops.

I did ink all the edges with either Sea Lavender or Dark Blue except for the snowflake and the white part of the sled.  I really like how the Sea Lavender ink looks on the kraft and brown cardstock.

I used the sled from the Joys of the Season cartridge for the journal spot, and just love how this turned out.

Thanks for stopping by.

Recipe:
Paper: DCWV carstock - blue; Recollections cardstock - Kraft (for the photo mats); DCWV Holiday Collection "The Christmas Stack" pattern papers; Unknown -scrap of white and brown cardstock
Cartridges:  Elegant Edges, George, Joys of the Season, MS Elegant, and Winter Woodland
Ink: Martha Stewart - Sea Lavender and Dark Blue; Distress Ink - Vintage Photo
Misc.: pop up dots, adhesive

Bloom Layout

I had a little bit of free time this week end so I finished a layout I had made in Design Studio. It's not a Fall, Thanksgiving or Christmas related just one I have been wanting to do.

 I started by stamping The bird and bee from Nature Walk and the Decorative stamp from Bliss in Soft Suede randomly on my tan cardstock.  I stamped the Butterfly from Nature Walk in Rich Razzleberry.   I then used my glue gun to attach a piece of lace, I had left over from another project, to the back of my stamped cardstock.  I inked my tan photo and journal mat with Soft Suede.

 

I used pop up dots for the branch at the bottom of the layout The other branch I cut apart and placed it where I wanted it to go.  After that I added the large purple flowers then my pearls from the Stampin' Up Pretties Kit.  I then filled in the area around the flowers with the punched purple and orange flowers.  I used two different sizes of pearls for the centers.   I then added the yellow roses after twisting the wire around a paint brush handle. 

 

The vellum butterflies are inked and placed randomly around the page.  I layered the single butterfly wing on the page with hot glue and then layered the other one a little bit off so that it looks like they were flying.  The butterflies that are in one piece I used pearls for the bodies.  This large butterfly was a happy accident as I was originally going to cut the outline out of vellum and the body out of the pattern paper.  I had my papers in the wrong spot when I went to cut.  I liked how it turned out so I didn't recut it.

For the journal spot I was originally going to use "bloom" in the center of it but decided to leave it for a journal spot instead. 

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Click here for the cut file.

Recipe:

Paper: Recollections - Tan; DCWV - Purple background and circle; Scraps from my stash - orange, green, brown, purple, and Stampin' Up - vellum

Cricut Cartridges: Bloom, George and Basic Shapes, MS Elegant

Stamps: Stampin' Up - Bliss and Nature Walk

Ink: Stampin' Up - Soft Suede and Rich Razzleberry

Punch: Stampin' Up - Itty Bitty Shapes

Misc: Recollections Pearls - brown; Stampin' Up - Pretties kit; adhesive, pop up dots, glue gun, Purple flowers - Prima embellishments (I've had forever), yellow roses - Prima Flowers - Fleurs de Prima, scrap of lace