Bahamas mini album for PINK PAISLEE
Sunday, June 16, 2019
Hey friends,
today I'm sharing my new mini album, I made using the new Indigo & Ivy collection. The collection is so soft and pretty, I really like it!
So when I got it a few weeks ago, I thought I'd immediately use it to create a mini album.
As a base for the album, I wanted something different to the usual rectangular shape (which I really love too though :) ). I decided to go through Paige's cutfiles and chose this half flower cutfile (284817) (I very slightly changed it). I cut it out two times normally and then cut it out 12 more times, but only the outlines.
I backed the two pieces that would make the cover and back, with different papers from the collection. I used the colors in a rainbow order, so going from pink to blue. I then stitched around the borders with green thread. I also stitched together the other pieces two by two, making six pages.
I punched holes on the sides of every page and then combined them all using metal rings that I had spray painted before.
To complete the cover, I added the word 'Bahamas' using the foam Thickers from the collection and I also added an ephemera butterfly and stitched though it.
I also wanted to create a cute hanging tassel for my album... of course... :)
So I made some paper beads and made a long tassel, adding pearls and a pompom.
The inside of the album, I decorated with pictures I took on the Bahamas (obviously :) and using a lot of the beautiful embellishments from the collection. Stickers, ephemera, enamel shapes, gold alphas, patterned papers...
Here are all of the pages:
I really hope you like it and are inspired to create a mini album from a cutfile :)
Thank you for being here!
Lisa
Saturday, May 25, 2019
Hey scrappy people,
I'm back on the blog and today I'm sharing two cards.
Since it's almost summer and the weather is starting to get better and better (at least in the Nothern hemisphere ;), I'm really in the mood to create things that have a summery feel to them. My assignment was to make cards and I remembered I had seen those adorable ice cream cones with multiple ice cream balls on top on Pinterest. So I chose to make two cards with ice cream/popsicles.
Since I always like to make two different, but matching cards, I chose to make one with an ice cream and one with popsicles.
I went through the silhoutte store and chose some cutfiles that I thought were really cute. I cut out the different pieces from vibrant and summery patterned papers. Then I adhered them to white paper and stitched all around the shapes with gold thread to give them a chic touch. I cut them out, leaving a white border.
The popsicles had faces, so I also gave the cherry on top of the ice cream a cute little face and I added white accents everywhere that I thought looked cool. I adhered all of the cuties on a piece of patterned paper using crafty foam to make them pop up. Then I adhered the piece on another piece of patterned paper that was shaped like a card.
To finish I added some sentiment strips and some hearts from the puffy stickers sheet an I splattered some white and black paint.
I really love how those turned out and they make me so excited for summer :)
Thank you for being here, see you soon!
Coptic book mini album using Boxed Cards
Friday, May 17, 2019
Hey friends,
it's Lisa here today and I'm sharing with you my very first coptic book inspired by Paige Evans.
Since I saw Paige's first coptic book a few years ago, I wanted to make one. I even asked my dad to cut me tons of wood pieces for the cover and the back, but they're still in a box, untouched... ;) Hahaaa... Too much to do, not enough hours in a day...
So when I got the Boxed Cards from the Confetti Wishes collection, I asked myself what I could create with it, except use them as normal cards.
That's when the idea came, to create a mini album in a coptic book style.
So I took one card of each style, 10 in total, for the inside pages. For the cover and the back, I used some thick cardboard and used patterned papers that I wrapped around the pieces.
Then I attached everything together, watching Paige's video tutorial step by step. HERE's the link to her Etsy shop, where you can buy the class to make a coptic book.
What's really cool when you make a coptic book, is that you can use all sorts of cute embellishments to add to the side of the book. I added mini tassels, heart charms and sequins.
In the inside of the mini album, I stitched the cards together on the side and bottom, to create a pocket at the top. I created mini envelopes with my envelope maker, cutting off, the flaps to close them. Then I decorated each of the envelopes. I also attached an eyelet and a piece of ribbon, so that you can easily pull out the envelopes when they are inserted into the pockets.
I inserted one envelope in every second pocket from the mini album.
I didn't decorate the inside too much because I don't have pictures yet too go into my mini album and I plan to decorate the rest when I add my photos. I only used this cutfile by Paige (288398), backed it with vellum and adhered it to one of the pages.
I also decorated the first page of the album by adhering flowers from the Horizon ephemera pack and a chipboard sticker, using foam squares to add dimension.
For the cover, I used a flower cutfile by Paige (288406). I cut out the different layers out of patterned papers from the Horizon collection, creating a rainbow look. On the last layer of the flower, I added a rolled flower (241018) and then a pearl in the center of that one. I think it looks so cool and fun with all the layers and colors.
I really hope you like it and are inspired to make a coptic book mini album too :)
Thank you so much for stopping by!
Glowing smiles layout for Pink Paislee
Friday, May 3, 2019
Hi guys,
it's Lisa back on the blog and today I'm sharing a layout that I'm really excited about... because it's sooo pretty and I'm really proud of it:)
I really could look at it all day... the colors make my heart so happy! :)
When I sat down to make this layout, I had absolutely no idea where I was going to go with it... Normally, I already have a little idea what I want to make or if I want to use a cutfile or make a paper-pieced cutie. Here I just sat down and started looking at the new products I just had gotten from Pink Paislee, which were the project paper pad and the 2x2 paper pads. I decided to make something with the project pad... I looked at the photo on the cover and saw a layout by Paige where she had cut out shapes out of this beautiful patterned paper.
I then knew I wanted to create something with it too. My first idea was to make a tree, where the shapes would be leaves falling off the branches. But then I thought it would be cool to regroup all the pieces from the same color families and make flowers of different colors. So I went with that idea. I wanted to make six flowers and I needed 12 petals for each flower, so I had to cut into a second sheet of that same paper to have enough petals.
For the middle part of the flower, I created some 3D flowers using a Paige Evans cutfile (267510).
When I had all my flowers done, I looked for a background paper... which really didn't take very long, because I already had one in mind... probably one of my top 3 papers from the collection. I love the colors and the style of that paper... just perfect!
Since I wanted to lay all my flowers on that paper and they already had a lot of color, I took some gesso and made similar swatches of white in some places of the sheet to tone it down a bit.
As almost always, I cut off the edges of the paper, adhered it to a second patterned paper to create a border and then stitched around it.
I matted my picture on some scraps of paper. I always do that to frame my pictures and really love it.
When I had my picture and my flowers ready, I started placing everything on my paper. I loved how it looked, the flowers are such a statement piece. I thought that they needed some leaves though. So I hand-cut some out of a green patterned paper and drew some white details on it. I arranged them around the flowers the way I liked it.
I added some embellishments around the photo, ephemera and chipboard flowers. I could use those on every layout :)
As my title, I used some gold alpha stickers from the project paper pad and some tiny foam Thickers from the Pick-me-up collection.
I added some splatter of gold color shine and I was done! I really hope you like it as much as I do!
Thank you so much for being here! :)
Lisa
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Purrretty cute layout for Pink Paislee
Sunday, April 21, 2019
Hi scrappy people, I'm back on the blog sharing this purrrfectly cute layout...
The idea to make this layout came when I saw a new cutfile by Paige Evans. It's a leopard pattern cutfile. I love animal patterns and I thought it would be so cute to document a photo of my cat.
So to start, I put the cutfile in my silhouette program, ungrouped the different parts and deleted some in the middle and on the sides. Then I let my Silhouette cut it out of a white 12x12 sheet. I chose some papers that I wanted to use to back the spots of the cut-out pattern. I wanted to go primarily with the Little Adventurer collection but also wanted to add some other colors. I thought the Turn the Page collection would be a great match. So I chose 8 papers from the two collections, cut 6x2 pieces, placed them on my cutting mat and let the machine cut all the pieces to fill the spots. (I cut those out slightly bigger than the other spots, so that I could put some glue around them and adhere them to the main paper). Then I backed the whole thing.
When I was done, I cut off the borders of my white sheet of paper, placed it on another patterned paper and stitched around with mint thread.
Then I started creating my paper-pieced cat. As always, I cut out the different parts out of different patterned papers, put everything together adhering it to a teal paper, stitching some parts and cutting around it leaving a border.
I matted my photo on some scraps of paper to create a colorful frame.
When I placed the cat and the photo on the layout, I was a little bit lost at first though... I didn't really know how and where to place them... nothing seemed right to me... It took me some time to figure out the exact placement of the two elements. But I had to add something else to make it really work. I still a sheet of this beautiful flower patterned paper left from the turn the Page collection. They were the perfect colors to add to the layout. I cut some out and started placing them around the page.
With those added, it started coming together. For my title, I used the Thickers from Little Adventurer and the speciality sheet from the same collection. That speciality paper a has gold glitter alpha on it. The letters are perfect to cut out. and so pretty.
I found a funny quote on Pinterest and wrote that on my page using the different letters.
I also added some glitter stars from the ephemera pack and some cardstock stickers on my page. Then I made some splatters using teal Color Shine.
I hope you like how it turned out! The color combo is one of my favorites, it's just sooo pretty and soft! :)
Thanks for being here,
Lisa
Happy Summer layout for Pink Paislee
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Hey scrappy friends,
it's Lisa back on the blog and today I'm sharing a super cute and very colorful layout.
For this layout, I wanted to make something very "summery", using bright colors to highlight some beautiful papers from the new Paige Evans Horizon collection. I had seen this cute sun on an image on Pinterest and I thought I'd try to make one for this layout. So to start, I chose a yellow paper. I cut out a big circle and adhered it to a piece of white paper. Then I added some sun rays, a mouth and cheeks using blue and pink patterned papers, When I had everything adhered down, I stitched some parts of the sun to add some texture.
I cut it out, leaving a white border. I love doing that, I think it always gives a more finished look. Then I looked through my pictures to chose a picture. I found one from my last vacation in Italy. The flowers on the photo have exactly the same color as the deep pinkish purple in the collection.
I matted my photo on some scraps of paper, as I always do.
I took a white 12x12 sheet of paper, cut off the edges and placed it on two different patterned papers, a lime green one and an orange one. I love having borders on my layouts... ;) Then I stitched around it white this same deep pink/purple color.
I adhered the sun and the photo on my white sheet and started embellishing. I used a lot of flowers from the collection. Some ephemera, some chipboard stickers and some cardstock stickers. I also used a flowers paperclip.
For my title, I used the collection's Thickers and one of the chipboard stickers. I placed everything on some patterned and white paper and cut around it, leaving a border. Then I adhered my title to the layout.
I also used a little heart ounch, punched out hearts in rainbow colors and placed them all around the sun. This adds a cute little touch I think.
What I also really enjoy doing at the moment, is adding white little details all around the layout. It adds more interest to the page and the different elements. :)
I really hope you enjoyed this, thank you for being here!
Lisa
Altenew 5th Anniversary Blog Hop Day 4 + Giveaway
Friday, April 5, 2019
Hi friends,
today I'm participating in the 5th anniversary blog hop hosted by ALTENEW!!!
For that special occasion I created a layout using my favorite Altenew floral dies :)
For that special occasion I created a layout using my favorite Altenew floral dies :)
The have a special offer and a GIVEAWAY!
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Prizes
Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 5 lucky winners and one Altenew Academy class to 10 lucky winners.
There are also 14 awesome companies/crafty friends who are celebrating with us, and they are offering the following prizes:
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Altenew: 5 $50 Altenew Gift Certificates
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Altenew Academy: 10 Class Spots
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Jennifer McGuire Ink: 2 $100 Altenew Gift Certificates
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My Sweet Petunia: 1 Prize Bundle(Original MISTI, a set of Creative Corners, a Cut-Align and a bar magnet)
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Butterfly Reflections Ink: $25 Gift Certificate
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Seven Hills Crafts: £25 Gift Certificate
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Chameleon Art Products: 1 Pack of 5 Chameleon Pens
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Scrapbook & Cards Today: 1 Copy of Scrapbook & Cards Today Spring 2019 Issue
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Be sure to leave comments by 4/12/2019 for a chance to win! 33 winners will be chosen at random from the comments left on any of the blogs listed below and will be announced on the Altenew Blog on 4/20/2019.
Check out the previous post here and the next post here!
If you want so see what all the other creators came up with, click on the links below:
Good luck!!!
Hugs, Lisa
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