Vibrant Layout

Wow, it's good to be back!  I explained a little in my last post about why I've been away for so long but it seems I am back now (and hope to stay back)!  Yay!  I have missed crafting so much.  Last night my husband came home and saw me working away in my craft room and commented on the fact that I was actually crafting.  He was happy to see me feeling much better and able to do what I love to do.

So this past Tuesday was my DT day for Trendy Twine but unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances, I was unable to work on a project.  I felt HORRIBLE but the awesome owner and DT were very accomodating toward my situation and I was given a free pass.  Well, I thank them for that but I felt bad about it so I made up my day!


I have actually been working on this layout for almost two months now.  Yea, crazy right?  Well, since I haven't been feeling well it just kind of sat on my craft table for most of that time collecting dust and waiting for me to finish it.  Finally last night I was able to.

 

 

I used Trendy Twine's Valentine's Cherry Cupcake twine to "hang" the little banner.  I also used the same twine in the center of the flower.  I felt the flower was naked so I decided to dress it up by adding some twirled Cherry Cupcake twine.  As you can see, this is not a Valentine's project so just keep in mind that the Cherry Cupcake twine can be used for ANY occasion. 

I used Unity Stamp's Time for Travel stamps and Epiphany Crafts Shape Studio tools to make the epoxy embellishments on the banner.  I also used the Unity Stamps itty bitty collection of Echo Park Banners stamps for the three sentiment banners.

Ooh, I am entering this layout in DCWV's Stack-a-holic Template Challenge.  Wish me luck...I saw some serious competition on their FB page!!!  The layout template is from Sketch Savvy.  

Before I let you go I wanted to let you know that Trendy Twine has two new colors available now!  You can get them in spools and also in a mini pack.    

Stay tuned....Trendy Twine has more colors debuting this year!

DCWV's November Stack-a-holic Template Challenge

I came across DCWV's website post the other day about their November template challenge.  I have been getting more and more into scrapbooking my pictures so this was a perfect opportunity to get a picture scrapped. 

For the challenge you just need to use DCWV stacks and make a layout based on the template posted.  Since I mainly buy DCWV stacks I was all set to get going on this.

Here's the template I had to base my page off:

Template by Susan from Sketch Savvy

Not too difficult and really pretty.

Here's what I came up with:

I used the Rustic Stack for this layout.  I love that paper.   

Umm, one thing I learned while making this layout.  Never, ever use the Sew Easy tool while you are distracted.  My husband came in and was talking to me as I was piercing my paper with the Sew Easy and as you can see, my top stitch line is totally crooked!  Boo to that!  He actually kept laughing at it after that.  Meanie!  Good news is my daughter decided she wanted to stitch the thread in so I let her do about half of it.  Whew, less work for me!  It's not thread but I can't think of the name for it at the moment.

Another oopsie I made was nt paying attention to the fact that this layout was for an over size picture.  OOPS!  Oh well, I adjusted and adapted it to a smaller picture.    

One new tool I used is the Epiphany Crafts Shape Studio scallop circle 25.  I made the puprle epoxy scallops shown in the second picture.  It works just like a punch but it sticks the epoxy to it at the same time.  Genius right!?

And of course another one of my favorite tools was used in this.  I used the Crop-a-dile to set the brads on either side of the title.

Well, off to submit my layout and go on a bike ride.  Hope you all enjoy your weekend.  Join in on DCWV's challenge if you have time!  It ends the 28th. 

SVG Attic DT Project: Fall Harvest

Hello and TGIF everyone!  I am so happy today is Friday and my day off.  I got to sleep in a little which was very much needed but I had to drag myself out of bed much earlier than I wanted to get this post going.  I am behind schedule on this!

For all my new followers, I wanted to thank you for stopping by and to my "oldies" thanks for coming back!  Just a quick little note, I am on the SVG Attic design team.  I work with a bunch of great ladies on the team.  There's a few new DT projects a week so make sure you check SVG Attic's blog for all the latest.  I post my projects the 2nd and 4th Fridays of the month.

Let me get on to the stuff you came here to see!  My project!  In my last post I mentioned I was scared of layout.  I started off making layouts way back when I got into scrapbooking (haha, only a year ago!) but since then I found I loved making cards.  I got so used to making cards that making a 12x12 layout seemed like way too much for me.  How the heck do you fill a 12x12 page?  Somehow I figured it out and now I am loving layouts again...as long as they are one page layouts!  I haven't graduated to two pages layouts yet.  With all that said, I bet you can guess what my project is!

I love how this layout turned out.

I used the Fall Leaves SVG collection as my inspiration and starting point for this project.  I mix and matched the colors and used Tim Holtz Tea Dye distressing ink to make them look a little dirty and not so bright.

I used the super cute Apple Picking collection for my barrel of apples and of course the apples themselves.  I embossed the inside piece of the barrel with the Cuttlebug Distressed Stripes embossing folder.  I then used Tim Holtz Tea Dye distressing ink to give it some additional depth.

I also used the same embossing folder for the yellow frame around the picture.  For that part for the layout I used my Zutter Distress-it-all to distress the edges and again used the Tea Dye ink to make it look older and ragged.  I add red eyelets to the top using a Crop-a-Dile.   

The patterned paper is DCWV's Harvest Gathering stack.

On the left side I framed in the boarder with Trendy Twine's brown and orange fall twine.  Its kind of hard to see but it's there.  

I created the title in Make the Cut.  I love how you can use any font on your computer.  In fact I cut all the SVGs using MTC. 

The finishing touches on the layout are the three cute little brown buttons on the right side.  I tied off some hemp on the buttons to add more color. 

I hope you enjoyed this project and hope you come again!