Pile It On # 21: Mix Your Scales

Hello bloggy friends! It's time for another fun Pile it On challenge! This week we are challenging you to mix your scales. This week our sponsor is Jelly Park and one lucky winner will get 3 digis! Awesome!! So if you are not familiar with what 'mix your scales' means, you basically are mixing a large scale pattern (like a large floral print) with a small scale pattern (like polka dots). Here is my card:

My card was inspired by this week's sketch challenge at The City Crafter.  For my large scale I used the large floral pattern on the circle, and my small scale are the polka dot background paper and washi tape.I used an adorable Jelly Park image and added some color with copics, and then enhanced with glitter. I used Spellbinders dies to cut the rectangle image mats and the sentiment pennant. Here is a closer look at the image:

For the sentiment I added some flowers, and used some washi tape to make another pleated flower for the center and then topped with a button. I stamped my sentiment on a pennant that I cut from a Spellbinders die. All of the paper I used is from American Crafts.

I hope you have enjoyed my project today and thanks so much for stopping by! Be sure to stop by and see all the other inspiring projects our talented design team has made up for you!

Supply List:
Cardstock: Bazzill (Yellow)
Patterned Paper: American Crafts
Flowers: Fancy Pants Designs
Buttons: Stash
Stamps: Jelly Park (Image, colored with Copics) Hero Arts (Sentiment)
Ribbon: American Crafts
Washi Tape: Queen & Co.
Cartridge: George & Basic Shapes (Circle)
Dies: Spellbinders (Rectanges, Pennants) Cut with Cuttlebug
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink
Glitter Glue: Stickles by Ranger

My challenges:
Critter Sketch Challenge - Flowers
The City Crafter - sketch
Die Cutting Divas - Flowers
For Fun Challenges - Flowers
Card Makin' Mamas - Flowers
Crafty Catz - Girlie
Friday Mash-up - Decorative Edge with Ribbon
Jelly Park Challenges - Washi Tape
Wags n' Whiskers - 1 Image, 2 Ribbons, 3 Designer Papers (FYI- the green paper is also designer paper)
Sweet Stampin' challenge - Fairies and Angels
Totally Gorjuss - Pink and green

Twelve

Hello my crafty friends! I am excited to bring you my second post for ScrapbookPal.com! This time I am showing you a layout. I have this fun photo of my handsome Nephew from last summer. I find it hard to do boy pages, and this one was no exception! But I like to challenge myself! I used one of the new March PageMaps sketches for inspiration, here is my take:

All the paper is from American Crafts. I wanted to find something with bright colors to match the shirt in the photo, but nothing too girly. I used a notebook border punch for the middle strip, but it's a little hard to tell in the photo.

I decided to play around with drawing swirls with my Zig glue pen and then laying my twine down on top. I love this technique, and am excited to experiment more with this. I love how the twine will adhere well to whatever I draw with the glue pen. I cut all the banner shapes and the star from George and Basic Shapes. This was the first cartridge I ever owned, and I still go to it often. It is so versatile. Another favorite cart is Lyrical Letters because of the many fonts included. I used it for the title, and then added some thickers for some more interest.

I drew an outline around the star shape with the glue pen and laid down the twine. Then I added some brads and a border strip at the top.

I hope you enjoyed my project, and please see the supply list below if you would like to purchase any of these supplies for your own projects.


ScrapbookPal Supply List:

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4 Crafty Chick #86: Boys Dig It!

Hi crafty friends!! Welcome to another fun challenge over at 4 Crafty Chicks! This week our theme is 'Boys Dig it'! I have really enjoyed making boy pages lately. Partly thanks to some awesome new paper lines that are 'boy-friendly'. I have already made a page with this Echo Park kit of my other nephew, Sevyn. Now his brother is getting the scrappy treatment. ;)

 

I used a sketch from the April Page Maps release. I thought it was so unique and fun I didn't actually stray too far from the original sketch and I love it. I cut the photo mat from Elegant Edges, it is a postage stamp shape, and I thought it went well with the other postage stamp stickers on the layout.

Still loving banners. Maybe one of these days I'll get sick of them, lol! These banners were a pattern on one of the papers in the Echo Park kit. I fussy cut them and placed brads in between. I inked the edges of all the cuts with brown ink.

I cut the flags from a Spellbinders die. The flag pins were handmade. One was actually a sticker in the kit. I just wrapped them around little wooden toothpicks.

I LOVE these scrabble tile looking letter stickers. And the ones that look like label-maker tape, so fun!

The title is cut from the new Type Candy cartridge. I am really liking this one alot!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Please come join us at 4 Crafty Chicks and show us those boy projects, can't wait to be inspired!!

Supply List:
Cardstock: Close to my Heart
Patterned Paper, Stickers: Echo Park (This & That- Charming)
Cartridges: George and Basic Shapes (Circles), Elegant Edges (postage stamp photo mat), Type Candy (title)
Ink: Bazzill
Brads: Stash

I am entering the following challenges:
Grand Diva's Scrappy Place - Tic Tac Toe (I picked top row: 2 or more flags, inking, mixed alphas)
Getting Scrappy - Banners
Sundays are Lovely Link Party - Jaihart
Scrappin' Everyday Miracles - Someone that makes you laugh (This little boy cracks me up!)
Crop Stop - Sketch

Little Monkey

Happy St. Patrick's Day my friends! I have another layout to share with you today. Two of my favorite challenge sites: The Paper Variety and ScrapFit are joining up this week for a joint challenge. Paper Variety has provided a fun sketch and ScrapFit has a journaling prompt. Earlier this week my sister shared some photos of her boys at the park. As soon as I saw them my crafty brain started spinning, lol. My nephew Sevyn makes the FUNNIEST faces. He always gives me good material to work with. Here is my layout:

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This is from Echo Park's new This and That collection. They have one that is girl oriented, and one that is boy oriented. REALLY cute prints. The little ticket/receipt that I did my journaling on, as well as the word banners are also from this collection.

The challenge at ScrapFit was to do your journaling in a 'list' style. I listed all the reasons Sevyn is like a Little Monkey.

I used some word plaque printed paper to cut out the banner pieces. I hand cut them and inked the edges, then used my glue pen to draw swirls for the twine. The 'Monkey' part of the title is from Cuttin' Up and the 'little' is letter stickers from the collection.

I cut circles at 2", 1 1/2", 1" and 1/2" from different papers and then offset them and added buttons.

One last close-up of some of Sevyn's silly faces!

Supply List:
Cardstock: Close to my Heart
Patterned Paper: Echo Park (This & That)
Buttons: Stash
Twine: My Craft Spot
Ink: Tim Holtz
Cartridges: Cuttin' Up (title) George & Basic Shapes (Circles)

Entering in the following Challenges:
The Paper Variety - Sketch
ScrapFit: List Journaling
Practical Scrappers - die cuts
For Fun Challenges - Circles
Unique Crafters Challenge - (NEW challenge site, yay! ) Anything goes

Whimsical Designs Challenge: Getting Sketchy

Hi everybody and welcome to another challenge at Whimsical Designs! This week the uber talented Nanne has shared one of her amazing sketches with us for inspiration:

For those familiar with my blog you will not be surprised that I turned the sketch into a layout ;). I had this awesome photo of my hubby, and wanted to make a more masculine layout:

I used kraft paper to make the banner flags, and inked them up with Tim Holtz distress ink, and added silver brads. I like the look and think they work with a masculine page.

I also love stars for boy pages (I'm sure I'm not alone in this) and my husband loves stars, so I always like to add stars to his pages :)

I used Stephanie's fun star stamp from her Whimsical Fun Vol 1 set to make this fun border. I love how versatile these stamps are- that is really what I look for in a stamp- I can go from boy to girl, from layout to card and cover any occasion I might need and these stamps fit the bill better than any others I have used. If you would like a set of your own, just go HERE :)

Here is a picture of the stamp set I used, and all the other fun sentiments it includes:

I hope you enjoyed my project, and I can't wait to see how you all utilize the sketch this week!

Supply List:
Cardstock - Colorbok
Kraft - Oriental Trading Co.
Patterned Paper - Basic Grey, Scrap Within Reach, Imagine 'Better Together' print
Cartridges - Opposites Attract (title), George (star)
Star stamp- Whimsical Designs Whimsical Fun Vol 1 set
Brads - stash
Ink: Tim Holtz

Valentine Topiary

If you are looking for the Cooking with Cricut Love Song Blog Hop please go HERE

I wanted to share a project with you that I actually made for Valentine's last year, but I didn't have a blog back then so I am sharing it with you now! This is a heart shaped topiary with paper rosettes:

This project was really very simple, but I'm not going to lie- it is very time consuming! To start with you need a heart shaped piece of foam. I wasn't able to find one in a heart shape so I got a big piece of styrofoam, probably 3 inches thick, and then cut a heart from George and Basic Shapes to use as a stencil and I cut it out with a craft knife.

 When I made this topiary Cricut's Flower Shoppe cartridge had not been released yet, and if I had had it this might have been quicker and easier, but you don't need that cart (or Art Philosophy for that matter) in order to make this. I cut a whole bunch of circles in different sizes from George (2"-4") from different Valentine's themed patterned papers (they need to be double sided as both sides will show). Then I cut a spiral and rolled them up into rosettes and secured with a hot glue gun. I used a petal roller tool which made it much easier. Because my heart shape was relatively flat I could have opted to cover only the front with the flowers, and place patterned paper on the back. I actually covered the whole thing with the flowers, but either way would have been fine. I think in the end there were around 100 flowers. 

I then hot glued a pearl in the center of each flower and hot glued them to the Styrofoam base. **Here is my tip for Top Tip Tuesday: One way to make this step a LOT easier would have been to use a pearl topped pin to secure each flower to the foam, but for me buying the pearls and gluing them was MUCH more cost effective, if not more time consuming. 

In the meantime I got a regular Terra cotta pot and painted it pink with acrylic paint. I painted a dowel in the same color and bought some moss. I secured the dowel to the heart and then to a styrofoam base. I filled in the gaps with the moss and added 3 rosettes at the bottom for decoration. I tied a ribbon up the dowel and added some additional pearls. I haven't yet, but you could also add some ribbon, vinyl or other decoration to the pot to make it more decorative. 

So there is my project! I hope you have enjoyed it! I am entering my topiary in the following challenges:

Top Tip Tuesday - Valentine

For Fun Challenges - Love

Crafty Catz - Pink and white

Wags N Whiskers - home decor 

Totally Gorjuss - Love

Really Reasonable Ribbon - Red and pink with ribbon

Cooking with Cricut Love Song Blog Hop- Day 1

Welcome to PaperCraftingWorld & CookingWithCricut's Love Song Blog Hop! Love is
in the air and our Designers have come up with some great Valentine's Day projects inspired by
our favorite love songs.
If you arrived here from visiting the talented Melin at Cooking with Cricut you're in the right
place. If you're joining us mid-hop and would like to start at the beginning click here to go to
Paper Crafting World’s Cooking With Cricut blog and check out what Melin has made!
I created a layout for my project today, and I have to say, this is probably one of my most favorite layouts that I've done in a long time. Maybe it was the subject matter :) I was inspired by Reba's Keep On Lovin' You. I was tempted to do a REALLY lovey dovey song, but then I realized it just wasn't realistic for OUR marriage. This song pretty much describes our relationship perfectly! :)

I used kraft cardstock by Bazill, American Crafts patterned paper and embellies, and Crate Paper brads. I used George to cut the circles, and one of my favorite font carts-Makin the Grade- for the title. I typed out the song lyrics that I wanted to highlight on my computer, and printed them on matching cardstock. Here is a better look:

I hope you’ll join us and link up your favorite love song inspired project at CookingWithCricut.
One lucky entry will be chosen by random.org to win a $10.00 gift certificate provided by
PaperCraftingWorld!  And make sure you leave a comment, too!  One lucky commenter will also
receive a $10.00 PaperCraftingWorld gift certificate!
I have some blog candy to offer up today as well! One lucky commenter will win TWO Cricut idea books. Even if you don't have a Cricut, these books are fabulous, filled with TONS of ideas and projects to inspire. You do not need to be a follower to win, but if you do, just comment a second time stating that you are a new follower for a second chance to win! Your support means the WORLD to me!
Thanks so much for hopping with us today.  Now head on over and visit Felicia at Scrapper in the Making and see what she has created!


Melin @ Cooking With Cricut
Heather @ The Hunny Pot ------->You are HERE
Felicia @ Scrapper in the Making ------>Go here NEXT
Yolie @ Just Yolie
Michelle @ Michelle’s Crafty Creations
Holly @ Ribbons and Glue
Elizabeth @ Broken Treasures
Celeste @ Touched by a Butterfly
Larelyn @ Handmade from the Heart
Linda @ Linda’s Creativity
Debbie @ Workin’ Scrappin’ Mom of 4

Jen @ Musings of a Crafty Mom

Cooking With Cricut Challenge # 70: Anything but a card adding polka dots and yellow

Happy Wednesday and welcome to a new challenge with Cooking with Cricut! This week we are making Anything but a Card, while adding polka dots and the color yellow. Fun! I (of course, lol) created a layout. I've been sitting on these pics my sister gave me for awhile now, just waiting for the right inspiration. She took these of my cute nephew Sevyn in the tub and thought they would make a great scrapbook page. I am in love with these pics, couldn't be more perfect, right?! One of my fellow design team members said, this "gives a whole new meaning to 'bubble butt'"! LOL!

For the record, he did have slightly less bubble coverage, so I photo shopped a few more bubbles to cover him up a bit more! Didn't want to offend anyone, lol! The paper is from American Crafts. Once I came up with the title, I thought it might be cute to do a play on the road sign so I cut the rounded-corner square from George with the yellow stars, and turned it on it's side like a road sign.  The title is Doodletype and the brads are Doodlebug Design. I fussy cut the little banner from a patterned paper, and used my AC border punches as well. I hope you like my project and will want to join in our fun challenge this week!

Sevyn's New Hat

I don't do too many boy pages that aren't themed around a holiday or occasion, so it was kinda fun to do a boy page with boy papers! These are also part of the windfall I got from American Crafts last month, and I love them, they are so versatile for so many different boy-centered projects. I'm pretty sure it's last year's line, but it's called 'Chap' if you can find it anywhere.

These photos were actually taken on Christmas when Sevs was wearing the new hat he got, but I was kinda tired of Christmas pages, and figured I could make it work for a simple boy-page. I cut the stars from George, and the rest from Boys will be Boys. This cart was a recent acquisition thanks to my super generous MIL- thanks Jeannine!! I simply love this font! The brads are from Basic Grey and the red ribbon from Teresa Collins. I am going to enter this in the 'Boys; challenge over at My Craft Spot- how fitting! LOL ;) Thanks for stopping by today!

Pile It On Challenge #01 Anything Goes

Hello all! I am so excited to be posting my very FIRST project for Pile It On!! This challenge blog is awesome because it encourages you to enter your projects in as many challenge blogs as you can. That means more chances to win prizes, get featured, more traffic to your blog, etc. etc. So please come and play along with us! This week our challenge is...Anything goes! I had a lot of fun with  my project this week. I got some NEW copics for Christmas and have been going crazy learning the techniques and playing with digital stamping. For this project I used a digital stamp from Dilly Beans. Here is my project:

The paper is from Fancy Pants Winterland Collection. I used a border punch from American Crafts and the following Cricut cartridges: George and Basic Shapes (Circles), Joys of the Season (Snowflakes) and Winter Frolic (title). Here is a close-up of the title:

I used an American Crafts Galaxy pen to highlight some of the words. Here is my Dilly Beans Snow mamma stamp (remember, I am still learning the Copics, lol!)

It's a little hard to see in the pic, but I also added some stickles around her 'trim' to give a little more sparkle! :)

Here are the challenges I am entering my project in:

Bearly mine Anything goes
Crimbo Crackers Snowflake
Digi Doodles Anything goes
Frosted Designs Something New
Ginger Loft Winter
Little Darlings Cold
Stuck on you Sketches Snowflakes
Party Time Tuesdays Anything goes
Pollycraft punches
The Secret crafter Anything goes
Sparkles Anything but a Christmas card
Stampin for the weekend anything goes
Top Tip Tuesday Anything goes
Meljen's Challenge Blog  blue