Friday, July 24, 2015

Card and Tag Sketch

Sharing another project from the July issue of CREATE, if you haven't taken a look yet you can find it and past issues here.

The card and tag sketch are fun and you can get all the measurements by downloading them here.

Here is my take on the two.
For the card I kept it fairly close to the sketch, opting to swap out the stars for hearts and one doily die cut.

The tag is where I changed up a couple of things, first the overall dimension is different. The other main change was to instead of add a piece inside the strips, which would be great for hidden journaling, I added a heart die cut on top. This would be an excellent set to use for a baby shower, which is exactly what I plan to do.

Finally breaking out my Simple Stories; Hello, Baby collection felt great. Some recent Waffle Flower purchases seem to be made for a card just like this, along with a favorite Maggie Holmes doily embossing folder. I'm happy with how it came out and I can't wait to send it with a gift for a new precious bundle.

Monday, July 13, 2015

July issue of CREATE

It's the second Monday in July and that usually means... New CREATE issue! I'm excited for this issue for a couple of reason, it's incredible and it really pushed me out of my comfort zone.

First let's take a look at the fantastic cover.
 Isn't it beautiful? You can see this issue and past issues here.

The layout I'd like to share today is the one that defintely pushed me out of my comfort zone, it's a product focus of stencils. I'm not a huge stencil user, and usually the rare times I do use them are on cards. I really had no idea how to approach this, to gather ideas I went a craft store and just walked around making sure to take my time and really look over the products to see if anything inspired me.

I was lucky because I found the perfect thing.
iCraft Deco Foil liquid adhesive from Therm-O-Web. This stuff is magic! I love the foil trend that is going on but I don't have a laminating machine to get the look, enter this adhesive. You can get the foil look you love, with no heat at all. I did have to apply some removable adhesive to the back side of my stencil to keep it from seeping underneath. Zig two way glue worked just perfect for this and it was super quick to do. All I had to do was wait for the foil adhesive to dry and rub my foil sheet on top, so easy and a great look!

You can see the foil in action inside the letter  L.
I used some silver cardstock to die cut hearts with some My Favorite Things and Sizzix dies to help reinforce the silver foiling.

It ends up being being a bright and playful layout, perfect for pictures of my niece and son when playing at the playground. The large word Playtime, works as both my title and a great way to spotlight a few of my favorite photos, it's cut on my cameo using the font Impact.

Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope to have process videos back in the near future. My computer is having issues and I'm hoping to replace it when the new Windows operating system comes out.