You've Got the Motion

Hi, everybody! I'm just stopping by today to share my layout for the "You've Got the Motion" challenge. I was intrigued by this one, and I immediately knew just which photo I wanted to use.

Years ago, I snapped a picture of my boy running amok outside. It was blurry and weird, but I liked it for some reason. When I saw this challenge, I knew I wanted to use this photo, but how? I also wanted to create motion on my page to match the photo. I finally decided that a combination of rolling "hills" of white cardstock set against fringes created from patterned paper might just do the trick. I used this absolutely gorgeous striped paper from Paige Evans' Whimsical collection:

People, would you just look at it? Seriously, I adore that paper. Anyway, here's what I came up with:

Leaving them slightly connected, I cut each stripe apart, creating a bit of a fringe. I fluffed the fringes to create depth and folded a few of them down. I added the white cardstock and decorated with hand cut clouds and hearts, which I painted. I was happy with the way this one turned out. 

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Let's Get Fussy!

Howdy, y'all! I'm stopping by today to share my layout for the "Let's Get Fussy" challenge. I have a love-hate relationship with fussy cutting. I suppose it just depends on my mood, but I just love it or hate it, there's no in between. For this layout, I pulled out a sheet of patterned paper that I've been thinking of fussy cutting for quite a while. I had used some of the stars in a previous layout, and set the rest of the sheet aside for just such a challenge as this.

Can we just take a minute and appreciate how cute my kid was in a crocheted beard? I am sad to report that he can grow a beard of his own now. Sniffle. Moving along....

As I said, the stars were fussy cut from an older pattered paper by Pink Paislee. The gorgeous, sparkly stars are by Crate Paper. I cannot even begin to tell you how adorable they are in person! I decided to put my stars on a diagonal because I have this strange compulsion to always do something different when I'm making a layout. I hate the idea of all my pages looking the same. 

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Feeling Sentimental

Merry Christmas!!! I'm taking a break from all the Christmas magic to share my layout for the "Feeling Sentimental" challenge. Actually, there was a bit of magic involved in creating this layout. I hummed and hawed and stared at it for about a hundred years, and then, "poof!" It finally came together. 

I had a very clear vision in mind when I began. It involved a "winterish twig thing". My ideas are usually born from a weird thought such as this. I don't question it. LOL! 

I used an old scrap of paper by Pebbles to create the twig branches. The background was created with liquid watercolors by Pinkfresh, and some of the paper behind the photo is by Pinkfresh, as well. 

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Rolling With the Punches

Hi everybody! I'm here to share my layout for the "Rolling With the Punches" challenge. I was excited about this one as soon as I read the description. I don't use punches very often, so I was glad that this challenge left a bit of room for interpretation. I decided to use one of my favorite techniques: rolling patterned paper. Here's my layout:

I love clouds. Clouds are my jam. I've had an idea floating around in my head for a while, specifically, "honkin' big clouds with random stuff hanging from them". My ideas are usually quite specific and make perfect sense. Ahem.

I decided to do paper strips with rolled ends hanging from my clouds. This was a perfect project for using up scraps, which I'm trying to a lot of lately so that I can make room for new goodies from the store.

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Put a Word on It

Hi everyone! I'm seriously excited to share my layout for the "Put a Word on It" challenge! I love hand lettering, and I wanted to try it on a layout. Luckily for me, it seemed to work out on this one.

I hand lettered the title and journaling, then used some water color paint to fill in the title a bit. I love the coloring book effect it created. Next, I fussy cut some leaves from leftover scraps of patterned paper. I used some thread to add interest and added some die cut houses that I had leftover. I also went back and did some splatters with more watercolors.

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Hunger Games

Hi everyone! I'm just dropping by to share my layout for the Hunger Games challenge. I absolutely LOVE baking, so I was excited to have an excuse to document my sweet creations. Here's what I came up with:

I used the gorgeous Indigo Hills 2 collection from PinkFresh Studio for this layout. In order to create the giant cupcake, I just printed out a simple clipart cupcake that I found on the internet. I cut the pieces of the cupcake apart and used them as templates to trace on my patterned paper. I spend a lot of time baking cupcakes, so it worked perfectly with my photo. 

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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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