2nd Merry Christmas with Hip Kit Club

Can you believe that I still have some Christmas inspired layouts to share!? I went all out this year with my Christmas themed projects, I've never created so many layouts about this wonderful Holiday. 

The inspiration for this layout was the awesome Crate Paper velum paper, I just adore the gold doilies and knew they needed to be the focus of my layout. I adhered the velum on white cardstock and stitched some extremely uneven whimsy circles in the centre of the doilies. 

I layered my picture using a lot of die cuts from the Crate Paper collection. I started with the mat for my picture then just randomly added layers until it look right to me. Lately I find that I've been spreading my layout over the page, always ending with a small embellishment, like I did to the right of this layout. I find this style creates a nice flow on the layout. 

So as you have noticed, I haven't created a 12x12 layout in a long time and i'm not sure I will again. I find I am able to be more creative with the smaller format. Which is an odd thought because the 12x12 format just offers more options but for some reason I often struggled to find balance between filling up my page and still leaving white space. This smaller size just works for me and honestly, it speeds up my process by 50%. Its a win win situation for me. 

Good Stuff NYC

Hello friends! Hope you all had a beautiful Holiday Season with your friends and family. I've been meaning to share this layout for a while now, it was created for Hip Kit club using the October kit. Loved the green stripped paper but it was too bold to use as a full background so I toned it down with  misted cardstock. Love how just a bit of cardstock can bring balance to a layout. 

The tag that was part of the kit was ideal for my title, I layered alpha stickers on the speech bubble for a bit more fun. 

Using my Fiskars arrow punch I added a bit of detail to the 3x4 card, just a little fun way to add punch to any card or pattern paper.

Happy Holidays

Hope you have a beautiful Holiday season with your loved ones. 

All the best to your family from my family. 

So Very Loved with Jillibean Soup

That she is!! My sweet baby girl is so loved by her big sisters, sometimes even a bit too much. They love to make her laugh, make sure she has all the toys she needs, she is very lucky to have such awesome big sisters!! So grateful that my girls have each other.

This layout is created for Jillibean Soup and features the Christmas Cheer Chowder and the chevron placemat. I had some leftovers of my favourite placemat and decided to cut it up and use as a focal point for my title. The title was cut with my Cameo, I used a font called SP Purkage that I got many years ago. 

Fa La La with Chic Tags

With Christmas just around the corner I am more than ever inspired to create Christmas themed layouts. Today I'm sharing a layout I created for Chic Tags which features the Good Tidings collection.This layout is for our Sunday Sketch challenge. Ashley has created another stunning layout, it was a blast to play along. All the details are on the Chic Tags blog.

The sketch features a banner along the bottom of the pictures, I decided to use the photo toppers from the Good Tidings collection to create the banner. I find that adding more details such as snowflakes, sequins and stars, always make things more interesting. 

I used white Mister Huey to add splatters to the woodgrain but in doing so I made a mess and it didn't look right. So I used the wonderful gold star rub-ons from the Good Tidings collection to hide my mess, in the end it worked out. 

Noel with Chic Tags

Happy Friday! I'm up on the Chic Tags blog today (link to the left) with a layout using the Good Tidings collection. I really can't get enough of this fabulous collection. The tags are one of my favourite accents in this collection, I really enjoyed creating the velum pocket with the sequins (I elaborate on this on the Chic Tags blog). 

#Broken with Hip Kit Club

Happy Tuesday friends, I'm back today with a layout for Hip Kit club which features the awesome November kit.  Kimberly put together an awesome kit with some of the best holiday themed products released this year. 

I decided to scrapbook an unfortunate tradition, every year someone breaks an ornament and for the past couple of years its been Brianna, poor girl is always traumatized by it. The cut file is from Studio Calico and I used my typewriter to add a second title in the cut file. 

Sunday Sketch with Studio Calico

Welcome friends! Today I'm up on the Studio Calico blog with the Sunday sketch challenge. I just love the sketches and knew I had to do a project for each of them. 

Here is the card I created based on the card sketch. 

The layout and sketch layout are on the Studio Calico website. I hope you will check it out -----> here.

Thank you to Studio Calico for inviting me to play along. 

Believe with Jillibean Soup

20 days until Christmas!! Y'all ready?! I'm not but I've been making Christmas layouts, that counts right?! This layout is created for Jillibean Soup using the latest Christmas collection which I've paired with scraps from a Jillibean Soup placement and Kraft tag. The title was cut with my Cameo using a file from Studio Calico, I just realized that my last 2 layouts have the same title, I guess I really like this cut file! ha!

I can't believe that this picture was taken a year ago, I'm feeling a bit nostalgic lately so I've been scrapping more baby pictures of Lex. The process for this layout was rather simple, my tag is the focus of my page and serves as a mat for the title. I used some die cuts and stamps to layer with the placemat and I kept the layers to a minimum for the picture, since there's a lot going on.

Enough with Hip Kit

Today's layout is created for Hip Kit club using the awesome September kit. Love the mix of papers in this kit along with the awesome embellishments like the Amy Tangerine die cuts, which I used on this layout.

My design process for this layout was rather simple, layers and more layers. I used scraps of papers to mat my picture and then built around it. The journaling was created with my electric typewriter, I thought the Fancy Pants clock was the perfect embellishment to coordinate with my journaling.  I used a fun picture that I took on my birthday, sometimes its nice to take a moment to pause and reflect on the blessings of life.

Cards with Hip Kit Club

Morning friends! Hope you all had a lovely weekend, our Elf on the Shelf has made its first ever appearance and the girls loved him. I'm sure you will see him in some upcoming layouts. 

Today I would like to share the cards I created with the September Hip Kit.

The first 2 cards feature chipboard shapes by Crate Paper. I added a lot of layers with the chipboard, some fun accents with gold and a splash of colour with pink. 

The next one is a simple card, I would even say it has a masculine feel to it, perfect for that special guy!

This is my funkiest card of all 4, I did cut out 3 triangles, thought it would make a bigger contrast, perhaps I should have lined it with a brighter paper as opposed to white. The cute little phone was definitely my inspiration for this card.