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Come On Get Crafty Pocket Card Layout

Hello everyone! I have another vintage photo layout to share with you today featuring my mom in the tub on the front porch. Oh, how fun it would be to return to those simpler days, no?!

I used the Project Life Maggie Holmes Flea Market pocket cards for this layout. I think they are great for vintage photos. I also incorporated lots of stitching and a doily to add to the vintage theme.

You can pick up most of these supplies in the Come On Get Crafty shop! Free shipping in the U.S. on orders of $50.00 or more. The flair is from {a flair for buttons} .

Thanks so much for visiting today!

Chickaniddy Date Night Layout Getting Hitched

Happy Friday, everyone! I'm up today with a Chickaniddy Crafts layout using the Date Night collection! My layout was inspired by the sketch over on the Chickaniddy blog today...my assignment was to take the sketch and change it up.

Here's what I came up with...

I was inspired by the three large strips of paper on the sketch but decided to change it up by using three geometric diamond borders in their place. I added diamond pieces trailing off from the border strips to soften the design up and also filled in some of empty diamonds spaces with the coordinating diamond stickers. For the long embellishment strip, I used flowers and flipped it vertically the length of the page, adding in coordinating words and that fabulous diamond ring. The soft colors and theme of the Date Night collection were a perfect match for this special vintage photo of my husband's parents when they were teenagers.

Here are a few close-ups.

I absolutely love that diamond ring...it is a sticker from the sticker sheet. Love how it looks with string tied around it!

Make sure you visit it the Chickaniddy blog to see two more takes on the sketch!

Have a fabulous weekend...make it a scrappy one!

Come On Get Crafty Grid Layout

Hi everyone! Just popping in to share a quick and easy grid layout I made to showcase a photo of my Grandma with her Dad and their catch of the day.

To soften up the squares I rounded the corners, then embellished some with buttons, brads, flair and other small bits from my stash. 

Look at the size of that fish...it is almost as tall as her! :) 

I used the Crate Paper DIY 6x6 pad. The 6x6 pads are perfect for using when you want the designs on a smaller scale. You can pick up the 6x6 pad and other small embellishments in the Come On Get Crafty shop. The milk cap flair is from {a flair for buttons}.

Thanks so much for visiting. Have a fabulous day!

write. click. scrapbook and Gossamer Blue mini album

Hi everyone, it is mini madness this month over at write. click. scrapbook and I was lucky enough to get to create a mini album with the beautiful Gossamer Blue March kit. It included a great selection of papers from Chickaniddy Crafts (including their fabulous gold foil paper), Webster Pages, Gossamer Blue exclusive papers, My Mind's Eye and more. It also featured some fun charms, an assortment of stickers, twine, enamel stickers, chipboard alpha, some fabulous exclusive printables and cut files and a small gold ink pad.

I loved the soft girly colors which inspired me to create a mini album using a handful of some favorite photos of my daughter from a couple years ago.

 

The Cover

For the cover, I cut two pieces of chipboard and covered them with fabric. Once the fabric was secured in place I sewed a ribbon to the front and back of the album to hold the front and back together and also used to tie the album closed.

The title was inspired by the fun March themed "Lucky" cut file included with kit. I placed it along the bottom and embellished the white space at the top of my photo with a string of garland made from the gold foil paper and cream/gold string. 

 

Inside Pockets

The inside pages are stored inside envelope pockets. I sealed each envelope and then cut one end open. I stacked the envelopes together, with the open end facing out and  glued them together so they would open like an accordian. To finish it off, I glued the inside of the album cover to the top envelope and glued the inside of the back cover to the bottom envelope.

 

Page Inserts

I had a total of six pocket envelopes, so I cut six pieces of paper slightly smaller than the size of the envelopes and used those for the base of each photo. To complete each page, I layered patterned paper, stickers, enamel stickers, and die cuts. I also adhered a piece of paper or die cut extended from the edge of each base to use as a tab to make it easier to pull the page out of the pocket.

I had already created a couple layouts with stories about my daughter using two of these photos so this album was perfect for simply showcasing some favorite photos.

Thank you to Gossamer Blue for providing the beautiful March kit that completmented my photos perfectly. Make sure you visit write. click. scrapbook to see more albums made with the Gossamer Blue March kit and your chance to win it!

Thanks so much for visiting! Have a fabulous day!

Come On Get Crafty Shift Layout

Happy Monday, everyone! I have a quick and easy layout today created for Come On Get Crafty and was inspired by this pin from my Pinterest Inspiration Board.

A couple years ago I selected the word "Change" as my OLW and I didn't do a single thing with it. Here's the thing, I don't like change, I resist it actually. I was scared of the word "Change" and everything that it represented, the unknown. To make up for it the next year I went with Yes, and I had a lot of fun with it. This year I am determined to make some positive adjustments in my life and I decided to go with a gentler approach to the word change and chose SHIFT. Shift does not scare me like the word change did, lol!

I plan to make small adjustments in the way I think and do things and hopefully at the end of the year all those little "shifts" will add up to some great things.

I have something in the works that will be a huge "Shift" for me and I'm super excited about it. I'm keeping it under wraps for now but am looking forward to sharing how I'm putting my word into motion in a couple months.

Enough rambling about my word, here are some detail shots of the layout.

All supplies, except the flair, are from the Come On Get Crafty shop. The flair is from {a flair for buttons}.

One Little Word 2014

We have an awesome new blog and community message board at Come On Get Crafty. Make sure you head over to connect with old and new crafty friends and check out the new blog, which we will start posting to today!

Thanks for coming by! Have a fabulous day!

Chickaniddy Date Night Layout

Hi everyone, Diane here! I'm so excited to be sharing my first Chickaniddy project made with the Date Night Collection with you today.

The patterns in the Date Night Collection are so beautiful that I wanted to incorporate several onto my layout. I did this by creating a cut file with several sizes of circle cut outs that was divided into four sections for multiple prints. 

I filled in some of the circles with contrasting circles in smaller sizes, along with some brads and enamel hearts. 

I'll let you in on a little tip I use for stickers since I'm very indecisive and like to push paper and other design elements around before committing to their final placement. I always put the stickers I want to use on a layout onto plain copy paper and then cut them out. Yes, this is a little extra work, but I like knowing I can move thing around plus it allows the edges to be raised a little which adds some nice dimension, like on the butterfly, date night title and flower stickers I used.

Supplies: Paper (DN140S01, DN140S02, DN140S03, DN140S04, DN140S05, DN140S06, DN140S08), Alpha Stickers (DN14EB01), Sticker Sheet (DN14EB02), Brads (DN14EB06), Enamel Hearts (DN14EB07)

You can make a background like mine using the free cut file I made. Head over to the Chickaniddy Crafts blog to download the free background.

Thanks for stopping by!

Plane Pull layout

 

Hi everyone! I'm so excited to share a layout I made for a post about using enlarged photos for Shimelle's blog. I already had the perfect photo sitting around for the assignment too...a plane pull!

Here is my layout.

This was a really fun day gathering with some co-workers on the tarmac at work for some grilled burgers and a plane pulling contest.

I used a combination of some really fun products on this layout...flair from {a flair for buttons}, puffy stickers from my January Oh Deer Me kit and lots of October Afternoon Travel Girl goodies! 

Thanks so much for visiting...make sure you head over to Shimelle's blog to read her full post on using enlarged photos.

France Altered Book Mini Album

Can you believe that it is already March? Nope, me either! March means mini-madness over at write. click. scrapbook I knew I wanted to put together a mini album of my France trip from last June. Armed with some AWESOME flair from {a flair for buttons}, along with my latest photo app, Waterlogue, I was ready to get to work.

I started by turning a highlight from from our trip into watercolor prints using the Waterlogue app. Next, I printed them on muslin fabric. To print on fabric, spray a piece of card stock with re-positionable adhesive, lay the fabric on the card stock and trim off the excess fabric. Feed the paper/fabric, through your printer following any special instructions in your user manual. That's all there is to it...I was surprised by how easy it is to do.

For the cover, I painted some Gesso around the edges and topped it off with some gold ink and some black ink splatters. I layered on a map background, my fabric print and my embellishments and title.

I finally busted into the Heidi Swapp resist paper I had in my stash for the title page and a couple other pages too! I LOVE them...I really should have tried using them sooner!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I didn't have room on most of my pages for journaling so I used tags in coordinating colors and tucked them in between the pages.

The flair I used from {a flair for buttons} is perfect for travel pages.

Travel Phrases 1 Flair

Travel Phrases 2 Flair

I'll be doing some regular scrapbook pages of my trip, but it was really fun using watercolor prints for the highlights of the trip in this mini album.

Make sure you swing by write. click. scrapbook to see lots more amazing ideas for mini albums and visit all month long for a new mini album each day!