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Celebrate Besties | SCT Fall 2021

One of the easiest ways to make a page come together fast is with one big photo!  I love giving real estate to special shots, like this one that features Riely and her friends before their sophomore homecoming dance.

 

S U P P L I E S :
Bazzill White  |  Dark Floral Paper  |  Yellow Gingham Paper  |  Ephemera 1  |  Ephemera 2  |  Puffy Stickers 
Scallop Frame Cut File  |  Embroidery Thread  |  Pink Tickets  |  Silhouette Cameo

 

The photo takes center stage, framed with a scalloped border (a free cut file download from SCT!) This helps set it apart from the patterned background of floral and gingham papers. 

 

 

I created a border across the bottom edge of the photo using die cuts, stickers and chipboard, layering them across the whole page. I tried to pick shapes and icons that worked with the patterned papers, and that also worked with the teenage theme of the page. 

 

 

The pink tickets were not actual scrapbook products, but I love including ephemera that's relevant to the theme. In this case, they tie back to the homecoming dance tickets (but of course all these girls had the digital tickets on their phones, not actual paper tickets!)

 

Do you like using enlarged photos on your pages or do you find them challenging? I'd love to hear your thoughts on using this element in your layouts!

BSD Cut Files | Heart Wreath

There are so many variations of what I call the "wreath" frame and I always love this type of border for scrapbook pages.  The large circle frame provides a perfect space to incorporate your photos, title and journaling - or you could even include photos and ephemera as part of the border. My past layouts have used a wreath of circles, stars, leaves and most recently hearts - I love this cut file for all things Valentine's and love related!

 

 

S U P P L I E S :
Bazzill White  |  Bazzill North Sea  |  Bazzill Rain  |  Market Square Papers | Blue Ledger Paper
Lavender Floral Paper | Aqua Floral Paper | Blue Star Paper | Pink Stripe Paper | Navy Paper |  Vellum Florals
 BSD Heart Wreath Cut File  | BSD Whimsy Script Titles Cut File | Butterfly Stickers | Letter Stickers

 

The cut files include the outer frame as well as the inner portions of the hearts, so it's easy to create a complete page quickly! I cut the interior hearts from a variety of Maggie Holmes and Jen Hadfield papers, keeping the color palette to pinks, lavenders and blues. 

 

The interior of the heart wreath is the perfect spot for my photos and title - a mix of letter stickers and a BSD cut file (which is a part of a script title set that includes five other words perfect for everyday pages!)

 

As a soft embellishment, I added vellum florals in the page corners, along with some hat pins and butterfly stickers. They help create a diagonal visual line that leads the eye through the design!

 

I'd love to see how you'd use these cut files on your next page! If you have any questions or comments, please don't hesitate to leave them below - and have a wonderful day!

SCT Cut Files | Home is Where the Dogs Are

I love a good cut file (and rarely create a layout without one!) and I especially love this free SCT cut file from Paige Evans! This versatile design could be used so many ways - on a housewarming card, as a colorful border a layout about a new house, or for any holiday gatherings at home. Here’s how I used this file and customized it for my page theme!

 

S U P P L I E S :

Bazzill Basics White | Bazzill Basics Kraft |  PhotoPlay patterned papers  | SCT Cut Files |  metal clip  | Silhouette Cameo | twine

 

Our home is filled with three Great Danes and usually an additional foster dog, so when I think of home, I definitely think of canines. (If you look closely, you’ll likely find a stray dog hair on my layout, too!) So I knew I wanted to incorporate this cut file with photos of the many dogs that we’ve shared our home with.

 

 

I filled the center hearts with photos of dogs and the remaining spaces were filled with various patterned papers from the PhotoPlay Autumn Greetings collection. To add additional texture, I added machine stitching along the borders of the cut file and glued baker’s twine along three of the heart edges.

 

 

Colorful buttons adorn the chimneys of each house and another layer of dimension to this cut file. You could also use brads, enamel dots or small chipboard accents instead of buttons.

 

 

Using the font Super Clarendon (one of my favorites for bold titles!) I cut the word home from white cardstock and centered it under my cut file. Then I printed a block of text onto cardstock, filling the text box with red and making the letters white. I cut the piece into a banner and it finished off my title.

 

 

So how would you use this cute cut file?  I'd love to see what you create!

 

BSD Cut Files | Diamond Grid

Hello there! I'm excited to share a new cut file in my etsy shop today....but not quite as excited as I am to see the AC repairman so I can quit sweating profusely while sitting at my computer. Ah, summer!

 

This interlocked background file is perfect for displaying tons of colors and patterns in your page design. The thin borders of the cut file help organize the design and provide the perfect spots for small scraps of paper. Here's a page I created to showcase it!

 

S U P P L I E S:

Bazzill White  |  Jen Hadfield Papers  |   Stickers  |  Die Cut  |  Square Punch
BSD Cut File  |  Silhouette Cameo | Foam Adhesive

 

 

 

 

To fill in the squares of this background, I used a square paper punch (but you could also use a paper trimmer to cut out squares as well!) I applied a liquid adhesive along the borders of the cut file and adhered each square to the backside.

 

 

With all the colorful patterns in the background, this pages didn’t need much embellishment. A few simple stickers and strips of journaling complete the page!

 

 

So are you inspired by the this patchwork technique? If so, I’d love to see what you create!

Spring Fever | SCT Delivered Spring 2021

I'm back today with another layout using the  SCT delivered kit, Beautiful Blooms! I've incorporated one of my favorite techniques - a circle frame - using the exclusive floral cut files that come with the kit. They make it easy to create a wreath-like design that's perfect for spring layouts!

 

S U P P L I E S :
Bazzill White  |  Bazzill Sparkle |  Blue Floral Paper  |  Aqua Floral Paper  |  Pink Dot Paper  |  Pink Stripe Paper
Lilac Floral Paper |  Ephemera  |  Thickers |  Gold Puffy Stickers  |  SCT Tags & Cut Files
Gold Charm  |  Twine  |  Silhouette Cameo  | Foam Adhesive  

 

After cutting the floral shapes from the kit cut files, I inked the edges of each cut piece with pink or aqua ink to create a bit of bolder edge. Then I  layered the pieces together with foam adhesive to create each individual flower. 

 

 

I arranged all the flowers in a circle on the page - I traced a 9" circle in pencil on the cardstock to help me align the florals in a perfect shape.  In between the flowers, i added puffy gold stickers that I cut from larger pieces in the sticker sheet. I love the sparkle they add!

 

Inside the circle I arranged my photos and title, as well as a journaling tag that slips behind the photos.  If you've purchased this kit from SCT, you'll have access to the full video tutorial that I created to show the process of this layout being made!  You can get more information right here.

Hope you are enjoying spring - both outside and on your scrap table!

Spring Fashion | SCT Delivered Spring 2021

The newest SCT delivered kit, Beautiful Blooms, was a welcome sight in my mailbox, with it's happy spring palette and abundance of florals! And I continue to find inspiration in it (since Colorado has decided to make May one of it's snowiest months - argh!) Here's one of the layouts I created with this gorgeous kit!

S U P P L I E S :
Bazzill White  |  Bazzill Peacock |  Rose Floral Paper  |  Yellow Dot Paper |  Floral Puffy Stickers | Ephemera
Thickers |  SCT Tags & Cut Files  |  Enamel Dots  |  Twine  |  Silhouette Cameo  |  Metallic Pen

 

A simple grid of photos from my IG Stories needed to be dressed up, so I filled the left side of the page with a bold floral, stacked tags (a printable pdf from the kit!) and a border of puffy flower stickers. 

 

 

On the opposite side, I repeated the floral and tag theme with my title, using a cut file from the kit ("Spring") and Thickers. Making the connection between the two sides of the page helps lead the eye through the design!

 

So if your yard doesn't have any flowers yet (or is covered in snow like mine) be sure to grab the Beautiful Blooms and at least your scrap table will look seasonally festive! Happy Scrapping!

BSD Cut Files | Triangle Quilt

Since my past few posts here have been all about the circles, I figured it was time to give other shapes some equal time! So today I'm taking a different angle...the triangle that is!

 

S U P P L I E S :
Bazzill White  |  Bazzill Admiral  |  BasicGrey Papers (similar)  |  Blue Buttons |  Yellow Buttons  |  Red Buttons
Enamel Dots  |  Silhouette Cameo  |  BSD Triangle Cut File

I'm such a fan of handmade quilts and while I have absolutely no talent for anything involving sewing, I can create a pretty good quilt with paper (and bonus - I don't have to swear at my sewing machine to create it!)  This technique is super easy with a cut file (available in my etsy shop) and is perfect for mixing & matching lots patterns.

 

Since I only had one photo to use on this page, I opted to fill a majority of the space with the triangle quilt. But this background would work just as well with multiple photos layered over the top of it. You could even add stitching in the seams to make it more like an actual quilt!

 

And because I can't resist a little dimension, I sprinkled some embellishments atop my triangles. It's a relatively simple page, but it looks much more detailed and complex thanks to the variety of colors, patterns and textures!

 

So are you inspired to create your own "quilt"? I'd love to see what you make!

Count the Ways | Scrapbook & Cards Winter 2020

I'm a self-proclaimed font geek, so when my assignment for the winter issue of SCT involved incorporating numbers in a layout, I may have spent an entire day browsing font libraries to find the perfect bold, curvy type to showcase those numbers! Dafont.com is one of my favorite free font sites to get lost on and with more than 50,000 fonts available for download, it's easy to do. 

This is the page that resulted, and I absolutely love the stacked numbers for a list-centered layout. And the cut file I created of the numbers is a free download as part of the Bonus Content in the winter issue!

S U P P L I E S :
Bazzill White  |  Maggie Holmes Marigold Papers  |  Woodgrain Paper  |  Striped Paper  |  Yellow Dot Paper 
Pink Grid Paper  |  Aqua Diamond Paper  |  Teal Green Paper | Blue Floral Paper  |  Stickers |  Alphabet
Silhouette Cameo  |  SCT Cut File  |  Foam Adhesive

 

I loved the colorful stripe paper in the Maggie Holmes Marigold collection and thought it would be a great way to break up my list-style journaling, which is chronicling the many ways I love my hubby! After cutting the numbers from various patterned papers and adhering them to the white cardstock frame (also cut on the Silhouette) I was able to determine the placement of the typed lines.

 

I selected the woodgrain paper for the left edge of the layout since it gave a nice solid background for my photos. I also added some texture to the stripes by machine stitching a zig-zag between each color.

 

The small stickers in the collection were a perfect accent to each of the numbers, and I selected them to color coordinate with the papers. Because the stickers were slightly translucent, I adhered them first to white cardstock and then trimmed them out before applying them as accents to the numbers. This helps them to pop more and makes it easy to adhere them much like die-cuts!

A simple title block that's a mix of chipboard letters and stickers fit perfectly in the lower right corner and completes the page. Hope it inspires you to try a numbered list on your next page - and if you do, I'd love to see it!  Happy Scrapping!

BSD Cut Files | Crazy Daisies

It's no secret I can't scrapbook without my trusty die cutter, the Silhouette Cameo, and I rarely create a page without it! When I first started scrapbooking, I used to hand-cut pieces from patterned paper, or trace stencils to cut out with scissors, (oftentimes with less-than-perfect results and more than a few swear words muttered!) The Cameo truly revolutionized my cutting process and love the crisp, clean pieces it yields to perfectly accent my pages.

On this recent layout, I used my Crazy Daisy cut files to create layered florals to surround my photos. It's the perfect way to incorporate lots of different patterned papers in a neat, organized way!

S U P P L I E S:
Bazzill Vanilla  |  SCT July 2020 Sampler  |  BSD Crazy Daisies Cut File  |  Picnic in the Park papers
Blue Skies papers  |  Enamel Dots  |  Vine Stamps  |  Alphabet Stamps  |  Puffy Stickers  |  Bird Shape
Pink & Blue Ink  | Silhouette Cameo |  Foam Adhesive

 

After selecting an assortment of pink and blue papers, I cut four layers of petals in various sizes to create my daisies. This is a great way to use up smaller scraps or put those 6x6 papers pads to work! Each flower was layered from largest to smallest and topped with an enamel dot center. If you want extra dimension, use foam adhesive between every layer.

 

The stamped vines on the background cardstock help connect the flowers without adding any bulk. I love subtle stamping in the background to bring a design together!

 

Below my photos, I grouped an acrylic title with additional stamping and a typed journaling block, giving everything a solid base upon which to rest. 

 

I'm thinking these floral cut files will be perfect for upcoming pages about spring and easter...which seems like a distant dream as I look to my window to endless snow, ice and subzero temps. Until spring, stay warm, my friends!

BSD Cut Files | Floral Wreath

One of my favorite techniques for framing one or two photos is a large circle, and I've created these frames from stickers, die cuts, punched patterned papers and more. But since a circle frame is a lot like a wreath, I decided I needed to create a cut file incorporating leaves and florals - just like something I'd hang on my front door!

 

S U P P L I E S :
Bazzill Cardstock: Kraft, Yellow, Coastal, Ivy, Lava, Dusk   |  Jillbean Soup Patterned Paper  & Die Cuts
BSD Floral Wreath Cut File  |  Pearls

 

To begin this design, I first lightly traced a 9-inch circle with pencil in the center of my cardstock. I determined the size and number of my photos and where the small block of journaling would go, which I printed directly on the cardstock. Then I set to cutting out the components of the wreath, using a mix of patterned papers and cardstock.

 

For this wreath, I cut 18 of the 3-leaf pieces, 12 of the large leaves, and 6 of the berry sprigs. I laid them out along the penciled circle, curving them slightly along the arc. To form a visual triangle around the center of the wreath, I selected three floral die cuts to position within the leaf cuts.

 

 

A few pearl accents and butterfly stickers embellish the wreath, along with a simple tab & washi tape accent in the upper left corner!

 

 

You can find the wreath cut files in my Etsy shop, along with many other designs I use regularly on my pages. If you create something with it, I'd love to see it, so please share a link!