Scraplift Sunday!

Hi everybody! I am so excited about this scraplift! Full disclosure: I am usually the last person you want using a sketch or doing a scraplift. I always start off okay, but wind up going off the rails somewhere along the way. My end product never seems to resemble the sketch or layout I started with, and I worry about offending the original creator. For once, I feel really good about this one! Here's the inspiration layout:

Can we all just take a minute and appreciate how stinkin' cool all Lisa's layouts are? She has this talent for making her pages look like she just flung things hither and yon, but it winds up looking like a work of art. A-ma-zing!

Although her style is very different from mine, I always appreciate the "bones" of Lisa's layouts. In this one, I wanted to recreate the basic structure of her page while giving it my own twist. Here's what I wound up with:

I really love this one! Instead of a large rectangle to anchor the back of the layout, I created a rectangle with my paint and stitching. I just built on from there. The patterned paper is from the Lil' Dude collection by Simple Stories.

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Scrap Soup

Hi everybody. Today, I'm sharing a layout I made for Scrap Soup this month. Here's the recipe:

1 cut file or 5 die cuts 

The color orange 

lined patterned paper 

one triangle 

3 photos 

At first, I was a bit intimidated by this recipe. I don't use cut files, and I was pretty sure I had no die cuts. I was also worried about the three photos. I almost always use one photo. I finally decided to quit being a whiner and look at this as an opportunity to stretch myself a little. Here's what I came up with: 

I used my the Indigo Hills 2 collection from Pinkfresh Studio. This collection is just too beautiful for words. There are so many elements in the patterned papers that are just begging to be fussy cut. I cut out the leaves and arranged them with my white leaf "die cuts". I used orange ink to splatter the background, and there's a little triangle tucked behind my title. 

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