Coffee Love

Happy Tuesday everyone! Today I have a layout to share that I made for the Hip Kit Club Design Team tryouts. 

This layout is all about the amazing organic coffee my boyfriend and I stumbled upon while stuck it a hail storm up in Flagstaff. I used the Shimelle True Stories collection because there are so many cute coffee elements, and of course I tried to use them all (but only used three).

I started by matting a plain piece of white cardstock onto the Cinnamon Roll paper. Then took two Heidi Swapp Mists in Butter and Coral and sprayed close up where my photo and layers were going to go. In my layers I used a 6x6 card, a photo overlay that I cut in half, a scalloped border punch, and a manufacturers strip with little coffee cups on it. Then went in with a few embellishments from the collection. 

I also sprayed the two mists in the bottom right corner to bring in the extra colors from the main cluster. The coffee cup here was fussy cut from the Mocha paper and placed right against the edge of my paper. Then I used the left over piece of the manufacturers strip and a wood brad. 

For the title I used the tile alphas that came in the Phrase and Alphabet pack. The giant LOVE letters were cut from the Salted Caramel paper, and slightly layered on top of each other. Then underneath, I took a sticker from the same sheet and cut little fishtails on the ends and used a punch to cut a few more chevrons to place next to it. 

Thanks for stopping by to take a look! Have a great day! 

Snow Layout

Okay, after this layout, I think I will finally be caught up! This is a layout of us getting snowed on, in May, in Arizona! It was totally unexpected! 

I used the Shimelle True Stories collection. I loved all the clouds, so I pulled out the ephemera pieces, and used the cloud paper for my background. Then cut two large hunks of paper, one with sparkly rain drops! 

I matted the photo with a piece of my My Mind's Eye glimmer cardstock, which I LOVE! Right under the photo is one of the photo overlays that has a sunburst on it. To the right of the photo I placed an umbrella which totally fit the situation, my camera was actually sitting underneath out umbrella so it didn't get wet. 

The Thickers I used for the title are from the Amy Tan collection Rise and Shine and are called Alyx. They are chipboard letters with foil stripes. 

I hope you have a great day! Thanks for stopping by! 

Getting Crafty

I have had this layout done for a while now, and keep meaning to post it but my dad was in the hospital for two weeks and then I was super sick, so I never got around to it until now.

I started off using the Shimelle collection and ended up bringing in some ephemera from the Maggie Holmes collection. The title is using Gold Foil Doll Thickers.

I placed a doily down and then started building my layers up. Some of the papers were torn using a ruler and others were cut with my paper trimmer.

The cluster up in the corner has the same papers from the main area with the picture, some torn and some cut. I finished off the cluster with some cute bows I had bought at Target.

After I glued my layers down I tucked in some paper flowers, a camera and a vellum banner I cut. 

While out shopping one day with my boyfriend at Bookmans, I came across a little crafty section. There was a bucket of alphabets so I looked through it. I found these AWESOME gold foil tiny alphas in a cursive font for $1.00!! I wish there were more, I would have bought them all! But anyways, I used those tiny alphas to spell out My Crafty Friends on the pink and white striped banner under the polka dot bow.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful weekend!

Thursday's Post at AWDML

Hey everyone, just writting to let you know that my post at AWDML is up on their blog today! I'm sharing my five favorite things in their store plus a layout using those five items! Go check it out here:

http://www.awdml.com/blog/?p=11480

And here's a little sneak peak

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you're having a GREAT Holiday Season!

A Walk Down Memory Lane

Today is the day that my first post for A Walk Down Memory Lane is up. 

I'm so excited here's a little sneak peak!

 If you want to see the full layout click here. While you're there, check out the rest of the new design teams work! They're fantastic!

Thanks for stopping by! I'm excited for the year ahead and hope you stop by to see the amazing things we over at AWDML create!