Sweet!

 Happy June! 

This is a quite simple layout that is mostly pictures.  It starts with a full sized deep purple base, the dotted print paper with 1/8"cut from 3 sides (hey, if YOU like purple, you can up this to 1/4"each side), then a 10.5x12 sheet of pink paper with 8.25"on the left page and the rest on the right. Then mat your photos in the sizes that suit you. Simple right?  But it gives you the opportunity to use some nice prints.  Which prints you use is your challenge because these are old CTMH papers from my stash.  What's new here is the ice cream cone.

I only used the dies from Ice Cream Swirl to make the ice cream cone (there is also a stamp set).  The cone is in brown cardstock, the base of the ice cream in white, and the top layer in glitter paper.  While the set is intended to create cards, it does make a very nice large embellishment on a layout.

Come back soon!

Musée d'Orsay - Museum Pages

Thanks for checking in!

In these pages I use the 6x6 Beautiful Gallery papers.  Museums can be hard to find a good coordinating paper pack, but this one does the trick.  I used five 6x6 papers with six vertical photos and my memorabilia from my visit to this museum.  I trimmed 1/8"from two sides of four of the 6x6 papers to achieve the tiny border on the layout.  I placed my photos before trimming and only needed to trim a small vertical slice from one of the photos on each side. This will depend on where you print your photos and what size they actually finish at.  The Selphy (that I use) does not print as a true 4x6.

This is the layout before any decorations.  (Color variation from the top pic is just from my editing of the photos.)  Choose the papers that best match your photos.  This pack includes some great landscapes and shades of blue, should that be more in line with the memories you captured during your visit.  I fussy cut a second sheet of the white flowers, popped them, then added Frosted Lace Stickles, tapping with my fingertip to spread the shine.  Don't forgot some dots to finish off the look!

I hope you enjoy these last days of May and come visit again in June!

Dawn

Mystical Memories

Welcome back!

Mushrooms are not a theme that fit well with most of my adventures, but how often do you meet a troll?  This is Mama Zelda, a new Thomas Dambo Troll at the Huntsville Botanical Gardens.  If you search his name, you can find many locations where he has placed trolls.  If you are travelling, it might be fun to see if you can find one nearby.

The title was created on Cricut Design Space.  The big mushroom in the title and the smaller mushrooms are cut from holographic paper.  The mats are 4x6, with some of the pictures being printed smaller.  On the right page, I let the squares overlap the edge, then trimmed it off.  More mushrooms are stamped along the bottom.  Unlike the layout from last week, I used five 6x6 sheets for this project.  The smaller rectangles on the left page are 2x4, then I used the other side of the remaining 6x4 piece as a mat for the photos to the left of the small rectangle.  I didn't use much of the 5th piece, just the stripes underneath.   I have the stripes overlapping on the left side, with the small gap between pieces covered by mushrooms on the right.

To get the most out of the cardstock, all my largest mats start as 4x6's.  The secondary mat and the pictures are then trimmed 1/4" smaller for each consecutive layer.   

Happy scrapping (and troll hunting!),

Dawn

The Best View Includes You

 Happy Tuesday!

This layout uses a single 6X6 piece of printed paper.  SU has some beautiful 6X6 papers, so it was easy to highlight this one.  It is random stamping at the top and bottom.  You can use any stamp set that works with your pictures, or your basic watercolor stamp like I used.  The photos are 4x6 with a 4x4 mat for journaling. 

The title was created on Cricut Design Space.  I cut the scenery from a photo to go inside the glasses making it appear as if my view is reflected in the lenses.  

Come back next week!

Dawn

Just Add Water

Hello fellow scrappers!

Working with just 6X6 papers can be challenging when you are used to being able to decorate the entire 12x12 layout with single strips.  But you can still create some great layouts.  This month I'll be showcasing a few different ways I've done this.  Most of the layouts can be traced back to Scrapbook Generation page maps, but sometimes it helps to see a finished product.

I created the title in Cricut Design space.  The frog has googly eyes and I used 2 shades of markers and a white gel pen on his stomach.  The gel pen addition added a lot of depth to his stomach.   The photo mats are 4x6, with the two smaller ones being 3x3.  I was able to use 11 brads from my stash!!    

Until next week,

Dawn