Goodbye Summer

Post #2 of today...

I was playing around with my AC Shoreline paper and thought it was so summery that I would make a summer card. I'm so sad summer is already over. I will not miss the heat though; I have being hot. I love the winter though. Great time for scrapping, if I do say so myslef! ;)

This card is for the Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday challenge to use fabric on a project. I love adding fabric ruffles to my cards and so I did just that with this card! The fabric is from Moda. Most of these supplies are from The Scrapbook Princess. :)

And a BONUS card! I did not use fabric on this card, but I thought I'd do a little extra on this post because I used the Shoreline collection on this card as well. I have had this ribbon around for a while and I thought it would look cute with this paper!

Fun with some AC Shoreline

Howdy! This is one of three posts I'm putting up today. I have completed a few challenges over the past couple of days and haven't gotten around to posting them until now. I thought it'd be easier for you to comment on if I made separate posts for each challenge I'm participating in.

I bought some lovely American Crafts Shoreline papers at my LSS this past weekend, The Scrapbook Princess. I wasn't sure if I'd actually like using this line, but I really do because it's so SUMMERY! :) It's also great for boy pages too! I used the Paper Bakery Sketch for this page.


And I am trying to add more close-ups of my projects to my blog posts... so here ya go!  

Lots of Pennants

Made a quick card this morning with this week's sketch at Pretty Little Studio. I rotated the sketch, and changed the 2 photos to 1. The polaroid photo paper from the Dear Lizzy "Neapolitan" line was perfect for this card.

In other news, I finished my summer reading last week! Yippee! Hopefully this week will include a lot more scrapping than last week did! :) Only 9 days till school starts again... :(

Thoughtful Thursday

Today there's a new thought up at Thinking*Through*Design! This thought is on chevrons, which I think is a totally AWESOME topic because chevrons are so popular right now-- and not just in the scrapbook world!

Here's my "thought":
"I love using chevrons in my scrapping, especially since they are one of the hot trends right now! I don't have a chevron diecut, so I decided to combine several chevron printed papers. I sketched out my layout to begin with, and used the large circles as focal points of the layout. I used the lighter chevron print (yellow) for the large circle and the bolder pink chevron design for one of the smaller circles. The paper collection I used for this layout is the Amy Tangerine Sketchbook line from American Crafts. There is a lot of doodles in this line, so I added a lot of my own doodles to thie page, namely the title! After I finished the page, I thought the chevron design needed to be a little more prominent on the page, so I doodled some large chevron designs on the background and added some stickles to a couple of the chevrons."

Summer + Sisters = FUN!

I'm sharing a layout I made with a Let's Get Sketchy sketch (you can find the challenge here). I haven't played there in a while because I always decide to play along towards the end of the month and you have to play twice in the month to be eligable to win the prize. So I usually don't play. BUT this time, I printed out the sketch and made a layout with it!

I got out my Echo Park Hello Summer kit that I bought back when it first came out. I bought it and promptly made a layout with it then I just kinda put it away and forgot about it! So, here is a layout I finally made with this collection again! :)

A fun thing about this layout... I made ths layout and showed it to my sister and she goes, "Yeah-- you would go crazy without me!" I really would. ;P

Communicate

I made this layout yesterday for the Frosted Designs sketch challenge (click here to go to challenge). I haven't participated in a challenge over there in a while and I really liked the sketch, so I thought " Why not?!" In case you haven't noticed, I love trying out all sorts of different styles of scrapbooking. When I see a sketch like this one, I automatically think of lots of layering and clustering. I actually didn't use too much clustering on this page, but I made lots of different 'levels' by using pop dots.

I used Jillibean Soup's Neapolitan Bisque Soup line. I received this in a prize kit from The Paper Bakery, so this layout was almost FREE to me. I was really happy to get this line because its one of my favorites from JBS!! I love the little phone icons in this line. :)

Something I did a little differently on this layout is for the Kraft background, I used the back of a piece of Jillibean Soup patterned paper (of course it was printed on Kraft, not white paper) that I didn't really like. But, I love the color of Kraft on the back of the pattern so that was handy!!

A Card... Made from a Layout Sketch

I have a card I made from the Pretty Little Studio sketch over at the PLS Blog. I like to create cards from layout sketches, and this one is no exception! I actually used PLS products on this card-- the Sand Castle line (which you can find here). I love the awesome pastel-y colors in this line. The hexagons and butterflies are gorgeous! I interpreted this sketch kinda different since I was making a card out of the layout sketch. I interpreted the photos as patterned paper pennants and I actually extended the paper at the top so it didn't look so spacious. Then I put the sentiment where the title would be if it were a layout. The stamp is from Pebbles.