Take one design and double it!

I love the flexibility of our design books and paper packs! You can do so many things to manipulate the designs to work for your needs...including doubling them! This layout design was perfect for these particular pictures. They were all pictures from when my daughter was born however the color combinations of the pictures didn't really work well together. I choose to use one of the back sides of the B&T paper that was a little more muted, and the Pinwheel design. By having the majority of the space being filled with pictures, I was then able to have just a little of the B&T paper show and balance the remainder out with a neutral color (Colonial White). This worked well because it enabled a little of the pattern to show and it pulled the pictures and the papers together.

I also dyed the Spring Blossom flowers with Juniper re-inker and was delighted with the color result!

This is the last of 4 layouts that is included in my Scrap and Save workshop this weekend.

Materials: Tweezers, Juniper Re-inker, Just Blooms Spring Blossoms, Spring Blossom Mini Medleys - Juniper (Bitty Brads & Bigger Brads), Key To My Heart Level 2 Paper Pack, Colonial White & Juniper Cardstock and CTMH Aristocrat Font. Layout Design: Reflections - Quartet Pinwheel then repeated the same design for the second side. My Ultimate Scrapbooking Challenge: 150 layouts. This would be 1/2 a layout so...6 1/2 down. 143 1/2 to go.

Love Blooms...with a color twist!

The Just Blooms flowers are a beautiful, yet simple, embellishment that can be added to a layout, or card, for just that perfect finishing touch. In Reflections, Close To My Heart illustrates how by folding a paper flower in the center and adding a circular center, you have a beautiful love bloom or daisy. With this layout, I decided to use the same technique but with the Spring Blossom Blooms in the Tulip color. For dimension, I used the Colonial White Designer Brads for the flowers centers and they just popped!

Materials used: Key To My Heart Level 2 Paper pack, Just Blooms Spring Blossom, Colonial White Designer Brads, Tulip, Sorbet & Juniper Cardstock, CTMH Aristocrat Font, Friendship Stamp Set, Tulip Exclusive Ink, fine tip scissors and Mini-glue dots. The layout designs are from Reflections: Front & Center - Space (left design) and Title Topper - Equal Portions (right design). My Ultimate Scrapbooking Challenge: 150 layouts. 6 down. 144 still to come.

This layout is the third of four in my Scrap & Save Workshop on Sat. Feb. 13th. For workshop details, click here.

With Open Arms...

This layout is the second of four in an upcoming workshop: Scrap & Save. I love the paper, and have decided to keep the continuity of the event by using the same paper collection. So, my plan is to use the Key To My Heart paper collection for all of my daughters pictures from her first 3 days of life--her birth, the hospital stay, and her first day home. This creates a new challenge of keeping the layouts fresh and not repetitive, but with 6 B&T (patterned papers) to choose from plus their 6 backs and a beautiful color palette to choose from, I am excited about the results.

Left side.
Right side.

Materials used: Just Blooms Big Pinks, Just Blooms Spring Blossoms, Sorbet Designer Ribbon Rounds, Spring Blossom Mini-Medleys, Hodge Podge Color Ready Alphabets, Key To My Heart Paper Collection, Creme' Brulee, Colonial White & Sorbet Cardstock, Close To My Heart Aristocrat Font, and Primavera Rub-ons (Colonial White). Layout Design: Ensemble Piece from Imagine. My Ultimate Scrapbooking Challenge: 150 layouts. 5 down. 145 to go.

Embellishments with love...

Oh these pictures take me back! It's hard to believe how fast they grow! My little baby girl, Abby, is now 2 1/2 (and yes, I am still scrapbooking her baby pictures) -- where does the time go! I have enjoyed going back to these pictures from her newborn time and reminiscing...and the Key To My Heart Papers are absolutely perfect for her hospital pictures. The pictures speak wonders, but I wanted to use embellishments that would add a soft touch...the knotted ribbons were the perfect touch of love that the layout needed.

This layout is one of four that I will be teaching next week (if we can ever dig ourselves out) in my Scrap & save workshop...a workshop that won't bust your budget! We will create 4 beautiful two-page spreads all for $24...that is $6 a layout! For more details, click here.

Materials used: Key To My Heart Paper Collection, Colonial White Ribbon (from Colonial White Mini-Medleys), Sorbet Bigger Brads (Spring Blossom Brads), Juniper photo hangers (Spring Blossom Mini-Medleys), Primavera Rub-ons, Aristocrat CTMH Font, Sorbet, Juniper & Colonial White Cardstock. The title was created with the Alphalicious Cricut Font. Layout Design: Imagine: Leading Lady.

My Ultimate Scrapbooking Challenge: 150 layouts. 4 down, 146 to go.

On-line clearance sale is rockin'

Looking at the numbers...before shipping and tax, we pay $0.38 a piece for cardstock. The on-line clearance sale prices numerous retired or retiring paper packs for just $5...the level 2 packs come with 10 pieces of cardstock which would be $3.80 then you add 6 designs of B&T paper with two pieces of each...the savings are wowers!!

If you look through the clearance section, you will find a great variety...and one of my very favorite paper packs...Key To My Heart! This was the National Papercrafting Promotion last year...and I could not get enough of this paper. I have savored each and every piece and intricately planned how to cut it so there is little scrap. BUT NOW...the pack is available on the on-line clearance event! For just $5!! Can you guess what item I ordered first???? That's right, this beautiful paper collection.

Because many haven't seen this collection before, I thought I would post a layout that I did with it for you to see!

To order this beautiful pack featuring Sorbet, Creme Brulee, Colonial White and touches of Juniper click here. Just $5 plus shipping and tax.