Weekend Vibes Scrapbook Layout Featuring Piece Craft Love

 Hi guys thanks so much for stopping by.  Today is the day for the Coffee Loving Cardmakers 2021 National Coffee Day Blog Hop!

So today I'm here working on A coffee themed layout sponsored by PIECE CRAFT LOVE and they are one of the SUPER SPONSORS for this blog hop as well.  Head over there for all of the info about the blog hop, this layout and all things COFFEE!

The paper I used is from Vicki Boutin, it's her 140lb watercolor paper and let me tell you it's AMAZING!  I didn't need any gesso when I added my Tim Holtz distressed inks!  I'm absolutely loving this paper!  I would recommend it for any mix media project!

Here is the layout

To find out how this came together click on my YT video below!

Here is the link to everything I used from PieceCraftLove.com for this layout.

If you haven't had a chance to check out PIECECRAFTLOVE.COM you are in for a treat!  Right now there is a special PROMO CODE you can use to get 10% OFF your ENTIRE order, PLUS anything over $30 ships for FREE!  Use KIMSCRAFTYCREW10 and you will be all set!   

Thanks again for stoping by and leave a comment below to let me know if you have ever done a circle layout before and what you used to make your circle.

Come join us on our MEWE group for more challenges and fun!

Make it a scrapy day!

xoxo

Kimberly

Get Cozy - Prompt #6 of our Fall Themed Challenge

 Hi guys thanks so much for stopping by and following along on this Fall Themed Challenge up on our MEWE group!

So today I'm here working on Prompt 6 of our Fall Themed Challenge - (which is FALL THEMED PAPER) .  The paper I used is from Prima Marketing and the Collection is Pumpkin and Spice but let me tell you these papers are all non traditional fall colors and are gorgeous! 

Here is the layout

I purchased everything from PieceCraftLove.com and here is a link all of the products  I used on my layout.

I did a process video on the layout, which you can watch right here:

Can I just say that this layout was one of those that whatever could go wrong on a layout did, but in the end it turned out just the way I wanted it to...minus a little bit of stenciling work but we won't talk about that, I did enough talking about it in the process video 🤓

If you haven't had a chance to check out PIECECRAFTLOVE.COM you are in for a treat!  Right now there is a special PROMO CODE you can use to get 10% OFF your ENTIRE order, PLUS anything over $30 ships for FREE!  Use KIMSCRAFTYCREW10 and you will be all set!   

Thanks again for stoping by and leave a comment below to let me know if you have ever had one of those layouts that just went wonky on you the entire time but finally came out just the way you envisioned it!

Come join us on our MEWE group for more challenges and fun!  

Make it a scrapy day!

xoxo

Kimberly

Sweet Moment - Layout #24 of the 365 scrapbook challenge and what lessons I learned with this layout

Hey Newbies!

I'm here working on my 365 Page Layout Challenge.  I will try to list everything I used below and try to link up to where you can purchase them if you happen to like any of them.

Today I am working on a layout I call SWEET MOMENTS.  This one is especially close to my heart because it's a picture of me and my granddaughter reading "THE LITTLEST ANGEL", the exact book I saved that I use to read to her daddy when he was just about her age.

I'm not going to lie, this layout took me a while due to the colors I was mixing.  It looks like a simple layout but I wanted all of the colors to blend with the paper I used on the background so it was trial and error.  

Which brings me to LESSON #1, if it doesn't work the first time or second time or third time, try, try again!  That particular blue/purple I was trying to pull from the lights of the tree was tricky.  

I started out with the awesome periwinkle blue card stock I had.  I layered it with a 12x12 acetate sheet with words on it.  I saw it at Michael's and thought it would be different to use and I loved the way it looked.  It's from their Recollections collection called Signature Especial.

The wording was perfect and it really popped on top of the blue background.  I have never used this type of paper before...and here comes LESSON #2 for this layout.  Adhering acetate paper is tricky and I'm sure I didn't use the correct adhesive but when I stuck it down using my crafters tape you could see it.  Luckily, I was smart enough to just do a small amount on each of the 4 corners.  The top was an easy fix because of the border I put up there but the bottom, not so much.  So I had to cover the one corner with the trees...the other corner I couldn't find anything that looked right so, for this lesson..make sure you know your material before starting a layout.

After I glued down the paper I decided where I wanted my pictures and how I wanted to back them.   I found this awesome silvery, iridescent paper at Michael's.  It was beautiful and I wish I would have bought more of it.  I backed both of my photos with it and set them aside.  I wanted to pull a little red out of the Christmas tree in the photo so I used my Fancy Pants Glitter Cut Flurry of Hearts I had gotten from Scrapbooking-for-less.com It pulled out just enough of the red and the purple, so I just let enough peek through to add a splash of those colors.

I adhered the photos down, one straight on the background and the other with foam dots to give a dimensional look.  I added the word LOVE from Thickers Skyler collection.  The word "BELIEVE" I have had in my stash for a while and have no idea where I got it.  I also used the words "SWEET MOMENT" for the Title from Amy Tangerine. 

The Title words are white foam so it took me a while to match the colors using Nuvo Mica Mists in  NEBULA BLUE and some of my Radiant Pearls in WILD ORCHID.  The colors matched perfectly so I did this with the angel border (that I made using white card stock and an embossing tool with an Angel playing a trumpet) at the top as well.  I also loved the color so much that I did the trees in the corner.  They came as plain wood veneer and this color worked out well. 

I did some journaling on my computer and printed in out on clear labels and stuck it to the scrap of that awesome silver radiant paper I used to back the photos.  I also used it with one of my Spellbinders Nestabilities Scored and Pierced Squares Etched Die frames to make the cute frame at the top and added a sticker that says "YOU MAKE MY HEART SO HAPPY".  

The remainder of that paper was punched into 2 circles where I put flairs on top to really make them pop.  I special ordered one of those flairs that says "OMA LOVE" (she calls me Oma).  I get most of my flairs from Scrappin Happy Studios who did this special order for me (I have a few more in different colors and different sayings).  So if you want to really make a special layout, don't hesitate to ask her for a special order!

I added a couple of more flairs, a black heart to pull some more of the black out, 2 small chipboard sticker hearts in red and a Christmas brad in red to pull some of the red out of the tree in the photo.  

ITEMS USED:

1. Epoxy flairs - OMA LOVE, CURRENTLY READING, TIME TO GET COZY AND READ Scrapping Happy Studio
2. "Sweet Moments" foam writing - Amy Tangerine (love, love, love these.  They come white but you can color them any color you want to go with your layout!
3. "This is my Story" puffy sticker - PinkFresh Studio
4. Nuvo Mica Mist - NEBULA BLUE - Acherryontop.com
5. "Remember This" sticker- American Craft Thickers- OneCanoetwo (Hazelwood collection)
6. Silver iridescent paper - to back photo - Michael's
7. Christmas Brad - Echo Park - ACherryontop.com 
8. Nestabilities Scored and Pierced Squares Etched Die - Scrapbook.com
9. Acetate paper - Signature Especial - Michael's
10. Fancy Pants flutter hearts - Scrapbooking-for-less.com
11. "LOVE" - LOVE from Thickers Skyler collection

Well, there you have it...number 24 of my 365 layout challenge for 2019.  Thanks for following along on my journey of 365 scrapbook page challenge 2019 that I am doing, and reading about the lessons I'm learning along the way!

Please join our FB page for more challenges and to share your layouts with the group or come follow me on IG!  Leave a comment below to let me know what you think about the color I came up with!

Happy Scrapping🤗

Kimberly  

Today Seriously - Layout #13 of the 365 scrapbook challenge and what lessons I learned with this layout

Hey Newbies,

I'm here working on number 13 of my 365 Page Layout Challenge 2019 (and the lessons I learned).  I will try to list everything I used below and try to link up to where you can purchase them if you happen to like any of them.

Today I did this 12 x 12 layout using one of my new HOT BUY pads from Michael's.  If you don't know what a HOT BUY is let me tell you.  Every quarter or so Michael puts these HOT BUYS on sale.  They are 12 x 12 pads or pocket cards, or envelopes/cards and these items are nothing to sneeze about!  They are the real deal!  They are usually $19.99 but when they go on sale they are only $5 or buy one get 2 FREE!  

So this layout I started off with one particular pad and then added scraps from an really old stash (I would say that was lesson #1 but that was a few blogs ago...ALWAYS KEEP YOUR SCRAPES)!

This pad is gorgeous!  If you read my blogs you know I love shinny and this pad has it!  You also know I hate fussy cutting but I will do it.  One of the papers had the beautiful flower on it with gold accents and I knew I wanted to use it.  I did some fussy cutting and it came out pretty good, but it took a while.  That same page had a gold border around it so I cut the page in half and then cut the border out and used it as part of the backing of the page.  The rest of the gold border I used around my photo as well as a gold foil card that came in the pad (I'm telling you...so much bling)!  I used a 12 x 12 card stock from the other HOT BUY pad for the first layer, and then used a scrap of yellow to pull some of the gold accents on the page and yellow out of the picture.  I found a black and gold polkadot card that matched my shirt (that was pretty awesome) and used to back the photo as well.  The border came from a really old stash and I thought pulled it all together.

Now for the title.  I saw a video on how to use glitter and your X-yron sticker machine (I have 2 and love them both)!  I put the wording upside down and ran it through the X-yron and made the top of the word sticky.  I dumped some gold glitter on top of it and BAM! Instant gold wording (and more bling)!

The last thing I did was use some Shimmerz Paints VIBEZ in GLORIOUS DAY...it has a sparkle to it and went perfectly with the gold accents on the paper!  If you have never used Shimmerz products...I highly recommend them.  There are a few different types that do different things to your layouts and you definitely have to know what they do before using them!  Missy Whidden has a YOUTUBE video (click here) that goes over a few things about using the different ones.  I'm still having a little bit of a learning curve on the whole splatters thing...some times it comes out great and other times...not so much (but that's for an upcoming blog...)

Thanks for following along on my journey of 365 scrapbook page challenge that I am doing, and reading about the lessons I'm learning along the way!

Please join our FB page for more challenges and to share your layouts with the group or come follow me on IG!  

Happy Scrapping🤗

Kimberly

Learning lessons with a Pink Fresh Studios Challenge - 2019

Hey guys, thanks for following my blog posts about being a Newbie in the Scrapbooking World.  I just want to say, when I'm writing these blogs, it is more of a lesson on what not to do or how I managed to do or what I have learned to do, so far.  I will always try to give the exact products of what I used in case you want to try any of the layouts I blog about.  

I also write these blogs 1)hoping they will help you guys in this big community of scrapbooking; 2)challenge you guys to go out of your comfort zone; 3)let you know what is going on out in the scrapbooking community, like, challenges, sales, new products and techniques; and 4)to let you know this is a hobby that is meant to bring enjoyment.  If you find yourself getting all stressed out over it because you make mistakes, we all do.  The best of the best do.  So remember to keep this fun and enjoyable!  You can find other tips and posts on my FB page.

So yesterday I was going through IG and found that Pink Fresh Studios was having a January challenge.   It is their "2018 challenge in review", so you get to pick any of their challenges from last year and go for it!  So I went through the challenges and found this one.  It's a simple layout, but I liked that it was on an all white background.  I tend to stay away from a lot of white space (yeap, apparently that is a term in the scrapbooking world).  This layout also let you choose any shape you wanted (if you aren't into stars), which for this layout I was not.

So I picked a photo of my sister and I in 1986 (yes, I said 1986)!  We were so young (but old enough to drink).  It was New Years Eve and we decided to dress in black and gold sparkle (I didn't have my jacket on in this photo but TRUST me, it was black and gold, it sparkled and it had big shoulders to match the big hair).  If you were from the 80's you will get the big shoulder and big hair reference.

I started to pull all of my stash together and liked what I came up with and got started!

I picked an off white colored card stock and used some clear Gesso on it before starting since I was using some acrylic paint (black - and really cheap from Target).  When it comes to acrylic paints you don't have to spend a lot of money.  I used my heat gun to help the drying process because I'm a bit impatient.  Once it was dried I sprayed the Perfect Pearls Mists from Ranger on it (and right here comes lesson 1, LET YOUR MISTS DRY COMPLETELY.  Mists are mostly water and if you don't let it dry COMPLETELY any other medium that you use that is water based, say like the acrylic paint I was using, it will run!

Apparently, I didn't let it dry enough and when I did the splatters of black acrylic paint (again, water based) it ran instead of blotching or splattering as the pro's say it.  It was pretty bad.  I thought I was going to have to trash the card stock but I took my heat gun, dried it and turned it around so my photo would cover that part. (and that was lesson #2) if you can cover a mistake with a photo or sticker, do it! No one can tell and you will save some time and money, and a bit of frustration.  It happens to the best of scrapers!

After I re-did my Mist and splatters and the paper was dried I started with laying my gold boarder.  I don't remember where I got it it was part of my stash from my "borders" drawer and not in the packaging any longer.  I really liked the waves in it and it was gold and shiny so I used it.

I also found these circle chip board that have the same hues as my layout.  I used the Becky Higgins Project Life Kit, I believe it's called Midnight Edition Core Set.  After gluing those on top of my wavy border sticker, I placed some tissue paper with cold flakes in it behind my backed photo and glued it down (covering up my first mistake).

I have this amazing gold foil paper, in 8 1/2 x 11".  It's pretty thin and delicate so using it is a challenge some times.  I used this paper for 1 of the photo backing and also to cut out a 3" heart from my Cricut machine (I have the dinosaur of Cricut machines but it works and it was free from a friend who used it once so I'm good with that).  Cutting with that foil paper was a bit of a challenge.  The Cricut machine cut it fine but getting off of the mat was not fun.  I cut 2 of them and ended up throwing the other out because it just ripped and tore off of the mat.  Yes, I have had to trash a couple of my projects when using it. 

I glued the heart down along with the additional tiny hearts (made from my heart punch).  I backed my photo with the additional piece of gold foil paper and Pink Paislee's  TURN THE PAGE collection.  I also backed the photo with some tissue paper with flakes of gold in it that I had left over from a Christmas gift (lesson #3, don't throw away stuff you think you might use...think tissue paper for backing of photos, a Starbucks sleeve you can cut and make a sticker out of, ribbon...you get the idea).  I always say waste not want not and hey, this is a pretty expensive hobby!

My title I did out of the gold foil paper as well and ran it through my X-ryon stickers machine...AND here comes lesson number 4, make sure you have ALL of the alphas BEFORE you go sticking them on a layout.   I managed to leave out the "R" in Sparkle the first go around...2 words....PROOF READ! 🤦🏻‍♀️

So, this black and gold theme came together pretty well with what I had in my stash.  Unfortunately for me, I wasn't able to use any of my awesome stuff from PinkFresh Studios was the backing of my photo so that basically disqualified me from the challenge.  I do love their stuff and have quite a bit of it from my Christmas Sale buys but nothing that matched this layout other than that backing.  But I had a great time making it and I think it turned out pretty good.  I will list all of the stuff I used below just in case you saw something you liked.

Thanks for following my blog and learning all of this amazing and fun scrapbooking techniques and layouts!

Items Used:

1. 8 1/2 x 11" gold foil paper - Michaels.com (it goes on sale for $2.50 a pack so if you can... wait for it go be on sale)
2. chipboard stickers - Maggie Holmes - CRAFT PAPER COLLECTION
3. Perfect Pearls Mist - SUNFLOWER SPARKLE - by Ranger
4. Acrylic Paints - Target.com
5. Pink Paislee - TURN THE PAGE - collection
6. Clear Gesso - Amazon.com (a little goes a looooooong way)
7. Off white card stock - Michaels.com

Thanks again for joining me on this blog, hope to see you guys on IG and FB!

Happy Scraping🤗