Gilded Card

Hi all! Just a quick post today to share a card I made for my husband using the Gilded Paper stack from DCWV. I mentioned this stack in a post a while back and said I would share this card. Sorry the photos aren't the best, but I just took a couple quick shots before handing it over. I absolutely love this stack. It features kraft colors and wood grain designs with gold foil details. And then on top of that it has really on trend images. It was hard to decide on one design because there were so many different options. There are a lot of journaling/phrase cards that are perfect for card sentiments. So not only will your projects be super cute, but they will come together very quickly!
Here is the card:

Aren't those gold foil arrows, just the BEST?!

I layered the sentiment over a square of the awesome Burlap paper. 

Hope you like it and here are the stacks if you'd like to pick one up for yourself:

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Do You Know How Loved You Are?

I heard this variation on the 'Twinkle twinkle little star' phrase and just loved it so I had to use it for a title.  Here is the layout it inspired:

The Little Mister stack from DCWV had several pages and cards that featured the phrase- and they matched the colors in my photo (one of my favorites from the hospital).

This stack featured a 3x4 card with banners that read "twinkle twinkle little star" as well as a patterned page of words and phrases that also included it several times. I used all of them just to drive the point home. LOL ;)

Still head over heels for these sequin bows from Freckled Fawn. I thought it looked cute against a background paper that features bow ties! Also love these pearl accents from Doodlebug!

Also can't get enough of the fun title designing on my new Cricut. I love the look of using the negative image and backing it with fun patterned paper.

Hope you enjoyed the project, here is the stack if you would like some for yourself:

First Bath (hated it)

So, Henry was not a fan of baths his first couple months. So needless to say, his first bath photos are of him screaming, lol. But, hey- that's what happened, so that's what I scrapbook! For the record, at 3 months he likes his baths a lot more now!

Once again using DCWV product! This is from the Little Mister stack. The color scheme worked really well with my photos. There are some adorable phrase/journaling cards in this stack. I like the "new little man" one for this page because it has a sorta double meaning- new as in clean, and new as in (literally) brand new!!

Cut and designed the title in Cricut Design Space. I doodled around the main title for a little whimsy.

Isn't this cut the cutest?! It's from Baby Steps. I added some adhesive pearl "bubbles". These are some of the new bling being made by DCWV and they are really awesome.

Thanks for stopping by today! Here's a copy of the stack if you like what you see:

Baby Mine

Hi friends! Got another layout with some fun DCWV product to share with you. This is one of the few usable newborn photos I was able to get of Henry. Little stinker just didn't want to cooperate! I talked about this in a previous post so I won't get into it too much here. Anyway, I used the Baby Boy stack. There are two of these stacks, so they must have updated it and I think this is the older one to be honest, but you might still be able to find it. Here is the layout:

I like the color palette of this stack and it worked so well with the colors of my photo.

So I found these cute little baby image squares in my stash. The colors kind of matched so I thought I would try to modernize them a bit to use on this layout. I used some glaze and was going for a square flair kind of look. I'm not sure how well it worked, but hey, at least I tried something new, right? It always makes me feel good when I can use up something from my stash, and it had been awhile since I broke out the glaze- I used to use that stuff ALL the time!!

The background sheet I chose had this cute little turtle in the lower corner. I knew I would end up covering up at least part of it so I fussy-cut out another one from another sheet and popped it up over the original. He was too cute to cover up!

Cut the title from Baby Steps, and welded it in design space, then I doodled around the edges.

Used one of the cute cut-out journaling cards for my journaling, and used some others as design elements on my page. 

Thanks for stopping by today, I hope you enjoyed the project!! Here's the stack I used in case you would like to hunt it out for yourself:

And what we made was glorious

So I have a little bit of a back story for today's layout. A few months ago my husband thought it would be fun to google our son's name- just to see what came up (as you do, right?! lol).  He ended up finding several images of a cute toddler boy with strawberry blonde hair. We thought it was interesting because our son has strawberry blonde hair (despite both of us being dark! We still get a kick out of that!) and it looked like this little boy could be *our* Henry in a few years. The photos came from a blog called Hey Natalie Jean and we thought it was cute that she called her Henry 'Huck" as a nickname, since we are still looking for a good nickname for our Henry. We're not big fans of Hank. Then a couple weeks later we were at our pediatrician's office for a well check, and one of the nurses mentioned the blog to us again- she was a fan of the blog and recognized our Henry's name and thought for a moment it could be the same one! So I decided to check out the blog a bit more and it turns out I have quite a bit in common with this gal. As I was reading a post about the birth of her son she ended it by saying "And what we made was glorious". I thought that was such a beautiful sentiment I just had to steal it for a layout title. I used one of the first photos of Henry after he was born and I really just LOVE this layout.

The paper is from a  new DCWV stack called Honey Chic. I am really loving the new lines they are coming out with, and you will too. They are really listening to their customers (sending lots of surveys to find what people really want from them, and then trying to accomodate) and also having some very on-trend offerings as well. They have some really great new stacks with nautical themes, blue and coral, outdoors, woodsy and vintage. And you will die for the Gilded stack. Kraft with gold.  Foil. It is AWESOME. I will have to post a card I made for my husband with this stack. It was great for a man card because it wasn't too feminine. But anyway, back to my current project!

Lots of fun colors, and I really like the bright colors against the black. I popped up the flags so they would really pop off the page.

I can't even tell you how I am still so excited to be able to design titles like this with my Cricut Explore! It just makes me giddy! So I took one of the 4x6 journaling cards from the stack. It had a cute glitter-y (it's hard to see in the picture) banner element which I thought mirrored well off of the banner I had on my page. I designed the title, and because of the software I was able to adjust where it would cut on the mat so I could cut the title on the journaling card and then back it with patterned paper. I really love how it turned out. I just added some colorful sequins confetti style to fill in the white space a little bit.

The blue paper in the background has a bunch of sweet phrases in a script font. I highlighted one that said "you make me happy" because I thought it was so fitting for this page. The camera is an SVG cut that I was able to cut with my Cricut (!). I believe I got it from 2 Peas. I still love camera images and use them frequently. The darling 'This" paperclip and flair are from Freckled Fawn. They have the best embellishments. Love them.

Lastly I just added some colorful enamel dots and arrows to add just a little more color and interest in the upper left corner.

I hope you enjoyed my project today. Here is a picture of the stack I used if you would like one of your own!!

Brand New

Hiya! So today I have a layout to share featuring the awesome Vintage Collector stack from DCWV. I'm not sure if you're aware, but DCWV started making embellishments to coordinate with their paper, and they started with coordinating embellishments for this stack. Let me tell you, these embellishments are AWESOME. Really fun, really on trend and a great variety. They have dimensional stickers, alphas, washi, chipboard frames and some fun 3D elements that coordinate with the paper. You should definitely check it out! I happen to be a big fan of this line as it uses a lot of elements that are "my style". Here is what I created with it:

Everything I used on the page is from the DCWV Vintage Collector line. Fun fun line. For the title I fussy cut the letters from a page that has the entire alphabet in these cute blocks. I used letters from both the 6x6 and 12x12 stacks to get the varying sizes.

They have a book of different stickers, many of which have space for journaling, so I used that for my journaling spot. The journaling is telling about the big plans for Henry's newborn photos that I had. I researched posing newborns and pored over Pinterest for ideas. I knew that the shots had to be taken in the first 2 weeks, when newborns sleep a lot. That way you can get them into those cute poses without too much fuss. I was so proud that I would be able to take his shots myself since I had been studying photography and wouldn't have to pay another photographer. Well, life doesn't always go as we plan it and Henry just did not want to stay asleep- or calm- to have his photo taken. I only managed to get a couple good shots. Oh well! He has had many sessions since then where he was cooperative and I've gotten some great shots of him!! The journaling reads: I had very big plans for your first newborn photo shoot. Unfortunately they required you to be very asleep & you didn't want to cooperate! I only managed to get a couple good shots. But there were many photo shoots to come!"

This is one of the many adorable chipboard frames, that I have layered over a dimensional camera sticker.

I LOVE these ribbon paper clips- they add such a fun element. And the heart washi has a wood background. So cute!!

This is another sticker. The chevron border was cut from a full printed page of cute chevron with different patterns.

Here is a peek at the Vintage Collector line- you should definitely check it out so they will continue to make these cute embellies!!

Meeting Papa

Hi my friends! Today I have a special layout to share with you!

This was a moment when my dad was meeting Henry for the first time. Just a little background- Henry was 6 years in the making. There were many (including myself) that had concluded that being a mom just wasn't going to be in the cards for me. But then a miracle happened. Sometimes things just need to happen at the right time, right place and with the right people. So Henry was due on my dad's birthday, and I was around 10 1/2 weeks on Father's Day so we decided that was when we would announce my pregnancy. Because of those ties to my dad we wrote it all up in a card and had him read aloud it in front of everybody, however he figured out what we were trying to say and got very emotional before he could finish reading the card. 

It was a very sweet and special memory for us, so I wanted to do a special layout showing when my dad finally met his newest grandson. As you can probably tell, my dad is a biker and looks like one! So I wanted to marry some harder biker-ish elements with the sweeter baby elements in the layout, so I added some gear shapes, and the "wild thing" phrase in honor of my dad, "Papa".

I love stars on boy pages and probably overuse them a bit, but I love the rounded edges of these stars from the Baby Steps cartridge- so cute for baby boy pages! I used the DCWV My Sunshine Stack for this page.

I seriously love this viewfinder cut- I think I will be using this one a LOT in the future! And I still love Chevron, what can I say? It's not going to be going anywhere on my layouts anytime soon.

I designed the title on my Cricut Explore, and mixed fonts to create one that is softer and one that is harder (Blackletter) to represent the baby and the biker. :)

Here is the stack I used- some really cute design elements (phrases and journaling cards) for kid pages.

Ten fingers and ten toes

Hiya friends! So I had a lot of fun playing with the Cricut Design Space for this project. I never really got into the Gypsy, even though I know a lot of you swear by it, so the designing and manipulating of images is pretty new to me, but now that I have jumped on the bandwagon I just LOVE it. I love how you can take an existing design and tweak it to be whatever you want. I also love that you can use any font that you have on your computer. Gives you so many creative possibilities with titling and journaling, and it's just plain fun!! So here is my layout:

Aren't those tiny little baby fingers and toes just the cutest?! So for this layout I used one of my all time favorite stacks from DCWV- Sunday Afternoon. This really is one of my favorites. The images are a little vintage-y, a little whimsical and right up my alley.

Here is where I had a little fun with the designing element of this page- designing the title. It was fun to have the freedom to use different fonts, to manipulate the size to fit your page, weld, etc all on the same computer screen and then have it print out as one project. As opposed to how I USED to do it which was to cut my letters one cartridge at a time, and being limited to what I could to with the image. Okay, I know I am a little late to the party with the designing aspect of this, but I was really intimidated by the software aspect, and thought it seemed complicated to learn so I just wasn't interested in taking the time. Turns out it was super easy and I'm so glad I dived in!

The hearts were fussy cut from a  page in the stack, and literally every heart on the page has a different design and they are all absolutely adorable!

And isn't this banner the cutest? I just love the patterns in this stack, and yes, I still love banners on my layouts. What can I say, I'm a banner junkie.

Film strips (and vintage cameras) are another design trend that I am really into right now. I simply love this film strip image.

So there's my layout, hope you enjoyed it! If you would like to get some of this darling paper for yourself (and you definitely should! It's adorbs!!) here is a picture of the stack:

Also Known As

So I thought it would be fun to do a layout of all the different nicknames Henry has already accumulated in his short 8 weeks of life thus far. I especially wanted to do it when I bought the Baby Steps cartridge and saw that one of the cuts was a little street sign that says "Scooter St." as this is the nickname Henry's dad calls him the most- Scooter. So this is what I came up with:

All the paper in this layout is from DCWV The Sky's the Limit stack. Really cute prints for a sunny or rainy day page. I liked them for this layout for the color palette and whimsical images. I had a lot of fun designing on my Cricut Explore for this page, and I continue to be amazed by the capabilities! One caveat- when you have a machine that will cut teeny tiny letters, you then have to find a way to get said letters adhered to your page. Not an easy task, especially with sticky fingers!! ;)

I loved the "hello my name is" name tag for this page theme. So appropriate. And here is the infamous "Scooter Street" image that inspired this page! The cardstock I used for some of this is also from DCWV- their Shimmer Stack. Hopefully you can see in the photo, it has a nice shimmer/sheen to it without being too overbearingly glittery. I am not the biggest glitter fan. I know, that is almost blasphemy in scrapbook world, but it just isn't my thing. I do appreciate a bit of sparkle, though and this really fits the bill!

I titled the page "AKA" as in 'Also Known As' and then listed his different nicknames in the journaling. How cute is this banner! There are some really cute cut apart images in this stack- clouds, rainbows, hot air balloons, etc.

Here is a close up of the journaling, with the nicknames listed. Hopefully you can read my handwriting :/
Here are the stacks I used- definitely check them out if you like this page :)

Complete.

Hi all! I'm back today with another favorite project to share with you! This is another one of those special photos that I hoped to do justice to, and I am so so happy with the way this layout turned out. My boyfriend is the most amazing father. He is patient, attentive, supportive and loving (to me!) and he just loves the pants off of our little one. I couldn't ask for a better father for our son. And he's pretty darn handsome to boot!! I wanted to take some nice daddy/baby photos of the two of them, but Henry was being a bit of a cranky pants. I did manage to get a couple nice shots, though, and this one is my favorite. I used a few different DCWV stacks for this layout: Baby Boy and Decor Noir.

I wanted to keep the bulk of the layout monochrome (grey) and then add just a pop of color (blue).  I added blue accents in the circle border strips that were cut on my Cricut from the Elegant Edges cartridge. How cute are they!! I also added some blue washi from my stash.

I ended up finding a lot of the blue pieces from pages in the stack that had a metallic finish and I liked that a lot. 

I thought this tiny little baby banner was just too cute for words! Had to use it, so I popped it up to add some dimension and really make it pop out. All of the phrases, banners and images were fussy cut from pages in the stack.

This title says it all, and it is enough said. Having the two of them in my life now has made my life complete.

Here are the stacks I used to create this layout:

I forgot to mention that the texture of the papers in this stack is different than the usual cardstock you are used to seeing- it has a bit of a slick finish.

The entire palette of this stack is black/white/grey with accents of gold. It is very sophisticated and elegant. Would be great for wedding/prom/special events pages and projects.