bloom street
Lisa Fonseca
mini album
paige evans
pink paislee
scrapbook
scrapbooking
truly grateful
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At Home Mini Album for PINK PAISLEE
Friday, June 12, 2020
Hi scrappy people,
I hope you're all well and getting a lot of scrapbooking done these days. I have been home since March 13th and even if I still have to work for my kindergarten class, I have a lot of time to scrapbook. I hope you do to :)
I decided to use all the pictures I took during the confinement until now and make an AT HOME mini album :)
I used the Bloom Street and Truly Grateful collections :)
For the cover, I used the speciality paper from Bloom Street. It's an acetate page with holographic polka dots and I LOVE it. It's perfect as a cover. I stitched some tulle around the rectangular piece. I used one of the ephemera butterflies, added some stitched details and adhered it to my cover, as well as the title. I did the back page the same way but without the added details :)
For the inner pages, I did a whole bunch of different things... :)
I used ephemera pieces and journaling cards from Bloom Street and Truly Grateful. For every piece, I tried to think of something fun to do with. I stitched, added tulle, created little pockets, even a cute little folder :) I added vellum and acetate and a whole lot of embellishments.
Here are all of the pages. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to leave me a comment here or on Instagram or YouTube :)
I attached all of the pages with a mint ring binder. To decorate the album even more, I obviously needed some tassels. I used the three pompom tassels included in the Bloom Street collection. I also added a flower charm from the collection. I love how it turned out :)
I hope you are inspired to create a mini album using only ephemera pieces and journaling cards. It's a very fast and easy way to create an album and I swear, it turns out cute every time! :) And you definitely have to get yourself some gold tulle... :)
Have a great day, thank you for stopping by,
LISA
Tropical cards for PINK PAISLEE
Sunday, May 31, 2020
Hey guys,
I hope you're alright. Today I'm sharing some cute cards I created using a cutfile by Paige and the 5th & Monaco collection.
When I went through Paige's cutfiles, I noticed this leafy one and I really liked it. It reminded me a tropical forest and I thought it could be cute, combined with a panda bear.
So to start, I let my silhouette machine cut out the cutfile. I cut it out in white twice.
For the first card, I adhered it to a patterned paper with black polka dots. I then let my machine cut out the inner part of the leaves in different green colors and used those to fill the holes. I took some balck ink, diluted it with a lot of water and painted some gray areas on the card, going from dark to light. Then I took a black pen and traced around the whole cutfile, to make it stand out more.
I adhered the background on a pink square card base. Then I created my first cute critter. I wanted to have a panda. So I cut out the different pieces and adhered them tohether. Then I traced some details on the panda. I made him a little bow out of paper and tulle and attached it to his neck. To embellish him, I used a fussy-cut flower and some rhinestones. For the sentiment, I used some Thickers and an ephemera piece. I attached the panda and ephemera piece, using foam squares to make them pop out.
For the second card, I started the same. But instead of filling the holes of the leaves with green paper, I used the original white pieces. I love the look that it gives. I adhered everything onto this super cool striped paper and then onto a green card base.
This time, I created a sloth. I cut out the pieces from different patterned papers and then put them all together. Of course, he also needed a little bow and some embellishments :). I popped him on the card, using foam squares. For my sentiment, I used the Thickers, the puffy words and an ephemera piece. I love the different fonts and styles!! :)
They turned out really cute :)
I hope I could inspire you to create some cards too, to gift to your family and friends. :)
Thank you so much for stopping by and see you very soon!
LISA
12x12 layout
bloom street
cutfiles
Lisa Fonseca
paige evans
pink paislee
scrapbook
scrapbooking
truly grateful
My soul speaks in flowers layout for PINK PAISLEE
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Hey friends,
it's Lisa back on the blog today and I'm sharing a colorful layout I created with one of Paige's spring cutfiles :)
Back in March, I subscribed to Paige's spring cutfiles. For 19 days, we got a cutfile sent by email, every day. This is one of these cutfiles. I really love it.
I started by letting my silhouette machine cut it out. I knew I wanted to have pink boots, so I got into my 2x2 paper pads from various Paige Evans collections and chose the ones that I wanted. With the mini paper pads, it was easy to have a lot of colors and patterns. I cut them into small squares and adhered them behind each circle. Then I used some scrap pink patterned paper and backed the soles of the boots. I also used a puffy apple sticker as a little detail on one of the boots. ;)
I didn't want to back the flowers of the cutfile in a traditional way, I wanted to create more dimension and texture by adding them on top. So I cut out a bunch of flowers and leaves from one of the Truly Grateful patterned papers. I also punched mini flowers from different scraps of patterned papers. First I used a purple patterned paper to back all the flowers normally and then I put one or two fussy-cut flowers on top. I also adhered all the mini flowers on top of the cutfile and to make it even cuter, I stitched french knots into all of the centers. For the leaves, I just randomly hand-cut leaf shapes out of green patterned papers and backed the leaves of the cutfile. They don't match exactly, but that's exactly how I like it... :)
I created my background with a wash of watercolors and let it dry
Then, I adhered my cutfile to it, using foam. To make the flower bouquet even bigger, I added some fussy-cut leaves around the whole thing.
I LOVE all the flowers and colors!! :)
The photo I chose, is one Jen Schow took of me, when we were in Phoenix in 2019 for Creativation. We had fun taking pictures in the flower section at Joanne's and Michael's... :) I matted it on some scraps of paper and adhered it next to the boots. Then I added my title, using the Truly Grateful Thickers and the gold foam Thickers from Auburn Lane.
I finished by adding a flower cluster, topped with a cute puffy rabbit, next to my photo to balance the layout and sprinkled some gold and blue ink around.
I really hope you like the layout and are inspired to create a hugs flower bouquet on your page. :)
Thank you so much for visiting,
LISA
That's me layout for BELLA BLVD
Hey scrappy people,
it's me and today I'm sharing a new fun rainbow layout.
it's me and today I'm sharing a new fun rainbow layout.
The assignment for this week, was to use as many Florence Alpha stickers as possible. :) I really thought a loooong time about this and couldn't really come up with something I liked... haha! :) But then I finally had an idea that I thought could work... I wanted to list all the things I liked and use as many colors of the rainbow as I could.
So to start, I wanted to have a rainbow background. I used watercolors with a lot of water and put down color after color, letting it flow in different directions and letting the next color mix and blend with the previous one. After I had all the colors, I dried them with my heat gun. Then I went back and did some platters of the same colors on top. I dried it again and topped it with white splatters.
I used my stitching machine to create a messy white line and give me a base to put my words on. I used a lot of the Florence Alpha stickers and wrote down a few of the things I love the most.
Then I chose my photo and backed it with some white paper, some vellum and some patterned papers that matched with the colors on the background. I adhered it with foam tape. Then I went through my embellishments and chose some chipboard and ephemera flowers. I placed them on my layout, trying to find the best placement.
Before adhering my flowers, I wanted to create my title. I wanted to write "That's me" but after placing the "me" down, I couldn't find the right way to incorporate the words "that's"...! I tried writing it on pink paper and cutting it out, I tried some Florence stickers, I tried some bold hand-cut letters... but nothing seemed to work. So I just decided to leave it that way... :)
I adhered the title using foam squares and then adhered all the flowers, some flat to the paper and some using foam to create dimension. I also used some tangled thread behind the red flowers and put enamel dots in their centers.
Then I added some white chipboard hearts and used some watercolor to paint the title and hearts. I LOVE the look that gives. :)
To finish, I wanted to have more abstract leaves around the flowers. So I took some vellum and traced some strands with leaves with a black pen and a pencil. I cut them out and added them around the flowers. Some more splatters and I was done! :)
I hope you are inspired to create a rainbow layout with the Florence Alpha stickers. You really need to have them in EVERY color, they are so pretty and easy to use! :)
Thank you so much for stopping by, see you soon!
LISA
You make me happy layout for BELLA BLVD
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Hey friends,
today I'm sharing a layout that is inspired by the BELLA BLVD May mood board :)
I really love this month's mood board, here it is...
today I'm sharing a layout that is inspired by the BELLA BLVD May mood board :)
I really love this month's mood board, here it is...
What I reeeaaallly love on this mood board, is the middle square on the bottom. I'm just in love with the colors, the brush strokes, the way the colors mix and the little details in white and gold. So I really wanted to make a fun, artsy background for my page and I also wanted to include some flowers.
I started with my background. I chose my colors, trying to recreate the color scheme from the mood board. There's no rule to making such a background. I just used my colors, one after the other, painting some strokes of each color and making them blend in some places. At the end, I added the white parts and also some white and black splatters.
I let my background dry and chose a Bella Blvd cutfile in the Silhouette store. I chose this cute cat and cut it out from a gray patterned paper, since my cat is gray. :)
Then I also created three flowers by hand-cutting flower shapes from 3 different patterned papers. I adhered them together, starting with the bigger flower and going smaller. For the center of the flower, I created some wonky-shaped circles in black. I used black to balance the black in the photo and the black splatters. The picture I used, is one of my cat. I printed it in black and white, since I had already enough color going on in the background. I matted it on two different patterned papers.
I laid down all my elements to see how I wanted everything to look like and then I went into my embellishments and chose some pieces that matched. I used some ephemera circles in different colors and I used some puffy stars in two shades of pink. Then I adhered everything on my background, glueing some things directly to the paper and using some foam squares to adhere other pieces.
To finish, I created my title. I chose the word "Happy" from a cardstock sticker sheet. The letters were pink but I wanted something that really popped off the page and I also wanted to come back with more black. So I painted the letters with black ink. To complete the title, I used some black Florence Alpha stickers.
I had so much fun creating this layout and I really like how it turned out. :)
I hope you are inspired to create an artsy background. Just choose a color scheme and brush on some paint. It's very easy and it looks so cool. Also... have you checked out the new Bella Blvd cutfiles?? Soooo cute!!! :)
Thank you for stopping by and see you very soon!
LISA
Capture every moment layout for PINK PAISLEE
Sunday, May 3, 2020
Hi friends,
today I'm sharing this new layout with you.
For this layout, I used the new super pretty 5th&Monaco collection. The beautiful and bright colors combined with the super stylish black and white details, make this collection perfect to document your coolest summer photos.
So to start this layout, I went through all the patterned papers and gathered all the ones I wanted to use. I then chose one for my background and cut/ripped square and rectangular pieces of paper from all of the other ones. I used a ruler to rip the paper, so that the edges would be automatically distressed and fuzzy.
I started laying down my papers, creating a grid design with three rows. I used fun foam to adhere my shapes to the background to make them stand out and to be able to add strips of paper to the sides. I cut a lot of stripes, with different sizes, from the rest of my papers and added them to the sides of each square. I think this gives the design a really cool look.
I added my photo to one of the squares and used the gold photo corners on it. I LOVE photo corners. :) Then I went ahead and fussy-cut a lot of the pretty flowers from two of the patterned paper sheets, colored and black and white ones.
For my title, I absolutely wanted to use the Thickers from the collection. I love them, I think they're so chic with the black and gold. But since, I often want to have different fonts on my layouts, I also wrote the word "moment" on a pink paper, cut it out, adhered it to a darker pink paper and cut it out again. I added the title to the page and then started to adhere all my flowers.
I also used some of the pretty gems to add to the centers of the black and white flowers. I went through my embellishments and chose some stickers to finish the layout. I used butterflies and some word stickers. Finally, I added white splatters to the page and I was done.
I hope you like the layout and are inspired to create a grid design using as many papers as possible :)
Thank you for stopping by, see you soon,
American crafts
bloom street
cutfile
Lisa Fonseca
mini album
paige evans
pink paislee
scrapbook
scrapbooking
Bunny mini album for PINK PAISLEE
Friday, April 24, 2020
Hey friends,
today I'm sharing something I'm really super excited about, my bunny mini album :)
So, in February, I had my second workshop and we made this cute mini album using Paige's new collection Bloom Street. I wanted to create something springy and I came up with this cute bunny album.
To make the cover, I traced a big circle and added some ears to create my bunny head. I cut it out from one of the watercolor patterned papers and adhered it to a white sheet of cardstock. Then I added two pieces of different patterned papers in the center of the ears. I pierced holes around the whole thing and also around the inner pieces of the ears and the nose. Then I back-stitched it, using colorful thread.
To finish the rest of the cover, I drew a cute bunny face, using two hearts, from the colorful hearts patterned paper, as cheeks. I added a flower crown to it's forehead, using the ephemera flowers and popping two of them up, with foam squares.
I also created a bow and wrapped gold tulle around the middle part. I punched a lot of teeny tiny stars and added them to the ears and cheeks, as well as some gold sequin stars. I love how cute it turned out. The best part is yet to come. I added the three pompom tassels under the bow and it just looks fantastic!!! :) I just ordered more of the tassels, they are amazing!!! :) I attached them in between two layers of patterned paper.
This particular album is a gift for my friend, with whom I go on vacation a lot. We've made so many pictures together throughout the years and I chose all the prettiest ones for this album. The title is: The best of us. I used the mini alpha stickers, included in the sticker book, to write it on one of the bunny's ears.
For the pages of the album, I cut out a circle, as big as my bunny head, and used it as a template to trace all of my pages. I chose 8 patterned papers and on each one, I traced two circles, next to each other. I made the circles overlap a bit to create a small (around 3-4 cm) straight line. That line was the point where I folded the pages.
When I had all my double circles cut out, I folded them and attached them back to back. If you want to create a mini album like this, make sure that the pattern that you want to be visible in the album, is on the inside of the folded page. The outsides of the pages, will always be adhered to the next page, so they will not be visible anymore. For a better understanding of this process, make sure to check out my process video on my YT channel. :)
When all the pages where adhered together, I used a small rectangle of patterned paper and attached it to the first and last page, "sandwitching" all of the pages in between. Then I added the cover and back on the top and bottom. I hope you can see what I mean on this next picture.
The rest is all fun and embellishing. I used a bit of almost everything's that's included in this wonderful collection. I didn't over-decorate the album, since I wanted the participants to do their own thing .
Here is a look at the pages...
On this back of the album, I added a cute shakes pocket where I could slide in all of the photos that I couldn't include in the album. I attached them together using a brad.
Here are some photos from the workshop :)
I hope you like how it turned out :)
Thank you for being here,
Lisa
Oh baby! layout for BELLA BLVD
Monday, April 20, 2020
Hey scrappy friends,
it's Lisa back on the blog to share this new layout with you! :)
I hope you're all well and having as much time to be creative, as I am :)
Today's layout is inspired by the monthly mood board.
I was inspired by the pink stripes, the eggs, the title and the colors of the cake. For this layout, I mainly used the Bella Besties papers. I decided to create stripes in light pink, darker pink, blue and yellow. I cut out the four stripes and adhered them to my white, 12x12 cardstock sheet. Then I machine-stitched the borders and distressed the edges.
I used a flower stamp and the coordinating die to create all the cute flowers from the same papers. I created my title with my silhouette machine. I chose a font, wrote "Oh baby!" and cut it out from a darker pink paper from Bella Besties. I also cut it out from white paper with a slight offset so that I could place it underneath the pink paper, creating a frame.
I matted my photo with black patterned paper from Bella Besties and adhered it to my layout, using foam tape. Then I placed down all of the flowers in a way that I liked and used enamel dots in the centers of some of them. To give my layout even more interest, I paper-pieced a cute bunny with a bow, that I placed next to the photo.
Then I adhered my title with tiny foam squares and wrote the rest of the title, using the black Florence alpha. I also used some hearts from the same Alpha sheet to scatter around the layout and create a balance with the black of the letters. To finish, I splattered some color-matching inks.
I really hope you like the layout and are inspired to create a layout using only Bella Besties papers. :)
See you soon!
Lisa
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