Family Love

This is the layout that I created for the Spotted Canary challenge. It is my first layout for a scrapbook page that I have created on my own.
I did one one other time when I went to Achievers but that was something they planned and I
still didn't add any pictures to that one.

I used Double sided paper from K & Company which I love.

I cut a 9.25" scalloped circle from Winter Woodland and cut it at 5" and used the pink side for the main layout and the rose color was about 4" for the other page.

I took a 12" strip of green paper and punched both sides with a Martha Stewart border punch and applied the lace trim to the center.

The flowers were cut from Elegant Cake on page 42 and using the Gypsy, I used the hide feature for the leaves and cut @ 2.5", 2", and 1.5" with the center circles cut @ 1.25", 1", and 5/8" and attached with a pop dot to add dimension.

The wording came from the paper that I fussy cut and applied after I inked the edges. The words on the bottom were attached using a pop dot to stand out from the flowers.

On the second page, I used the same flowers on the pink border that I used the same punch as the first page and also the green strip on the bottom.
Using a heart card that I made and am using to journal on the inside of the card. The bottom rectangles are for wallet size pictures to be added.

This is a photo of the planning stage as you can see I changed things a little bit from the finished page.

Waterfall card

I do love the effect of the waterfall card so this is the second one that I created but this time I used stickers that I had from a kit instead of the embossed squares. To hold the strip better that holds the carrot strips, I did use 4 flower brads on each corner.

The Happy Easter was cut @3/4" and each letter had the blackout feature with two shades of orange so they would fit going along the sides of the waterfall.

As an afterthought, I found this bunny stamp so he did not stamp correctly because I already used the Swiss dots folder to emboss so then I added Stickles.

And now the inside of the card: I used the green paper to hide the back side of the brads, then thought it looked a little plain so had another sticker with seeds on it and then added the grass and bunny that was cut from Kate's ABCs.

Easter bunny

Here is another cut from Kate's ABCs cut at 3.75". I placed him on this scalloped rectangle that I cut awhile ago so I am not sure what cartridge it is from. Trying to use my stash of cuts for cards and this worked perfectly. then it was too large to put an A2 card so I made the next size to fit in the envelope that I had which was 4.5 x 6.25". I decided there was too much white space and I couldn't find a ribbon to fit the space so the next thing I grabbed was a MS punch. That worked so then I punched a 1.5" pink paper and put that on the inside and also used the same punch in which you can't see. Martha Steward Glitter was added to match the center stones of the flowers. Added a little Stickles and the butterfly to finish.

Easter Card

Another card made with my new favorite cartridge Kate's ABCs. The card base is the Scallop card on page 52 in the Wild Card cartridge cut at 5.5". The base is the blackout feature cut in pink, cut in half using the other half for the the Baby Steps card. There is a circle cut from George and embossed with the Swiss Dots folder. Kate was cut at 3.75" with the dress embossed with a flower folder from Sizzix and chalked and a dot of pink added to the center. Thought it needed something else so I cut 2 bunnies from page 52 and layered it with a pop dot. "Easter" was cut from Designers Calender and the "Happy"was cut from Christmas at .75" to fit the area. A few extra bling was added.

Easter Egg cards

The cards that I am featuring were made for this years Easter cards. Love the shape cards but there was not a cut file for this egg shape from Cricut. Last year I did the same egg shape card with other details but I guess I didn't save it on my gypsy.

I had gotten the new cartridge Kates's ABCs a week ago and they had this cute bunny with grass on it and had made several cuts but didn't want to put it on the same rectangle card as I always seem to do so back to creating the egg.

On Designers Calendar, there was an egg shape that was a little different than last years cards. There was not a shadow feature for this egg, so for all the swirls and dots, I had to go on the Gypsy and remove the them in the hide menu. Just highlight all that you want to remove which will be red and press hide, continue for all parts. After doing this, what you have it just the shape of the egg. Copy the egg shape and paste. Mirror one shape. Line up so they are touching in the center and group together, go to weld and see if they have a gray area in which that part will not cut. The top of both designs should line up at the same number. Cut a stripe paper at 1" smaller. Egg shape card @ 6.5" Stripe @ 5.5" Bunny was cut at 3 3/4" Added a small stone for the eye.
Cut this egg at 5 1/2" at real dial size on. The egg stripe shape on top was cut @ 5". That is how the swirls were cut out and are the gold is showing through to the top layer. I also embossed this with the D'vine swirls folder. This bunny is cut at real size at I think 2 1/2" sized to fit the egg. Found the oval shape from my "stash" and thought it brought the lettering feature stand out a little more. Had to cut the word Easter at 1" from Designers calendar and Happy from "Christmas"

Happy Spring

Spring is almost here and this card was created after such a long winter. Maybe I should have put "Welcome Spring".

The robin and egg was a cut from the new cartridge Kate's ABC's that I finally found at Joann's. One of the hardest cartridges to find since I still have it on my notify from the online store since January but found it in the store.

Using the gypsy, I put the rectangle on the screen from George at 4.25" x 5.5" which is the finished size of the card. I do this so that I could size the robin cut size to fit in the space. Then I delete the rectangle after designing.

I did run the background blue card stock with the d'vine swirls folder and then the green through the distressed stripes folder.

The "happy" was cut from gypsy Wanderings with the hide feature to hide birthday and then the "Spring was also cut from the same cartridge.