12x12 Scrapbook Projects

A few random 12x12 projects, hope you enjoy them!

This was made from a Studio Calico kit but I can not remember which  one for the life of me.

Lots of American Crafts "Chap" on this one along with Jenni Bowlin Stickers and Crate Paper stickers. I also used the Sew Easy and an EK Success border punch.

Another school layout using a Studio Calico kit-don't recall the name of it but the blue chevron paper is Kesai Art if that helps.

Lastly I have this fun layout using Heidi Swapp Colour Magic and No Limits products(all obtained from Scrap Shotz) along with a bit of Glimmer Mist. I cut an HS memory file in half to serve as a photo mat on the HS colour magic base cardstock. Love how this turned out!

Feel free to let me know what you think!

ScrapShotz September 2012 CT Reveal

I had the pleasure of working with the fabulous My Mind's Eye line "the sweetest thing" which is the Scrap Shotz September 2012 monthly kit (photo not available yet but addons are here).
The papers are fun and super versatile but my favorite item is the stamps!
Here are my projects using this fabulous kit!

The rosettes are made with the Tim Holtz min rosettes die out of the Studio Calico Fabrip included in the kit. I left the backing on this when I cut and folded it which makes keeps the fabric firm like cardstock so it was easy to fold and put together. The journaling block is accented with two strips of fabric folded over like ribbon.

This layout describes my daughter's desire for a pet. The strips along the right side are cut from one piece of paper "Playful" Lively which is chock full of border strips. Love those woodgrain Amy Tangerine{Muse}Thickers.

This layout is inspired our CT sketch created by the fabulous Jess Duerkson. I had lots of fun with the hand stitching but I'm annoyed with myself for not stamping the arrows towards the center of the layout. I used the kit stamp and stamped with grey Staz On ink which I covered with embossing powder and heat embossed. I freehanded the stitching around the circles.

I used the stamp included with the kit to stamp this image. It is inked with Tim Holtz distress markers on watercolor paper. The image is then misted with water. Love how it turned out!

Many great chipboard pieces included in this kit. I made one of them the sentiment on this card and punched the border with a Martha Stewart border punch.

Many great patterns make for a wonderful pieced card background. I cut these squares 1 & 1/2" x 1x1/2" and anchored them in the center with an epoxy dot. Simple, yet lovely!

I had a great time mixing these patterns on this layout and they go so well together being from the same manufacturer! I really like those word stickers, I used two different sets for this journaling/title along with the kit stamp!

This is a simple layout with just a few pieces of patterned paper. The star is the photos of course and that great layered sticker that serves as the title as well "Best Day".

Lastly is this card that is also my Scrap Shotz Design Team Monthly Challenge "keep it simple stupid". I've used three items only; epoxy dot, die cut & cardstock. You can see all our September Design Team challenges here.

Thanks for looking!

Card Creations

I wanted to share some cards I created a couple of weeks ago in an effort to use up some scrapping supplies. I love how these turned out and while I've never considered myself a "card maker", I have been enjoying whipping up cards. It feels good to put all those supplies I've collected to good use!

I love this card especially because the papers are Heidi Swapp "No Limits" which is NOT a Christmas line of papers :) (sentiment making memories rub on)

Patterned papers are American Crafts "Chap", sentiment stamps, Stampin' Up.

Thanks for looking :)!

Project Life 2012

It's time for another Project Life post. I have been working at catching up on Project Life and now am up to Week 31. Here we go with week 22 to 31 :)

Week 22

Week 23

Week 24

Week 25

Week 26

Week 27

Week 28

Week 29

Week 30

Week 31

Feels great to have this much completed, past the half way point of the year. I must admit I was feeling like giving up but I am glad I didn't. Off to work on printing the last few weeks out and getting completely caught up!

Thanks for looking!

Scrap Shotz Summer Kit *Authentique* Pt.2

In my last post I shared the layouts I created with the fabulous SSZ Summer Kit. Today I have the cards I created!
Now I do not consider myself a card maker but as a Creative Team member I like to challenge myself to create a few for each kit reveal and this kit has one sheet of paper that begs to be cut and turned into cards!

This card front is cut directly from one of the kit patterned papers. I used the Easy Bow maker to make this fabulous bow!

This next card features one of the stickers as the sentiment.

On this card I misted the cardstock base with the Studio Calico mask included in the kit, fussy kit on of the patterned papers and attached a MME brad as a the card sentiment.

This card features the kit patterned papers and the washi tape as well. The banner flag is a sticker also included in the kit.

This is a super simple card featuring the washi tape along with one of the blossoms included in the kit as well. 

This final card showcases that patterned paper I started out with. Another easy to create card!

So there you have my card creations from the Scrap Shotz Summer Kit and if me, a non-card maker, can make fabulous cards like these; imagine what a card making guru can do with this kit!

Thanks for looking!

Scrap Shotz Summer Kit *Authentique*

The Scrap Shotz summer kit is full of lovely Authentique papers. The colours inspired me to scrap photos I have had sitting around for a couple of years. Here are the layouts I created:

I also created a bunch of cards and will share those later. You can check out the entire Creative Team's projects here.

A Scrap Shotz Challenge

Each month the Scrap Shotz Creative posts a new challenge here. My challenge for August is all about the photo mat and here is my layout:

I used multiple off set mats and also bordered them with navy twine which I glued down to create this mat for the photo of my son. The "base" mat is also misted with Candy Apple Glimmer Mist.

Here's a close up shot:

All supplies are from a previous SSZ monthly kit. Patterned paper and chipboard is by Little Yellow Bicycle, wood buttons are Prima and pearls are Queen & Co.

Click the link at the top of the post to see all the Scrap Shotz Creative Team challenges and play along with us!

Scrap Shotz Project 12 of 2012

We are carrying on Project 12 at Scrap Shotz and I just realized I haven't posted my layouts since February. So I'm catching up now :)

March

April

May

June

Nice to be caught up, sort of...have to get going on July soon!