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A Cherry on Top NSD Blog Hop!

Welcome to the 2020 A Cherry on Top Design Team Blog Hop for National Scrapbooking Day!

Today we are hopping around the A Cherry on Top's Design Team blogs to celebrate the upcoming National Scrapbooking Day extravaganza! 

ACOT is giving away over 80 prizes during this weekend's festivities!!

We are here to bring you the first of the excitement. You have a chance to win a prize on every blog in the hop today. We have each created scrappy inspiration for you using 6x6 or 6x8 paper pads.

Just leave a comment letting me know you're hopping along, and visit all the other blogs in the hop, leaving comments along the way. You have until Monday, May 4 at midnight to comment and hop along.

Blog Line Up:

Erica Rose Creates

Dillightfully Crafty - You are here!

Sara Scraps - HOP HERE NEXT!

Taking the Scenic Route

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You can find a full process video on my YouTube channel.

I created my layout using the new Heidi Swapp Art Walk line - I used the 6x8 paper pad and a few stickers from the cardstock sticker sheet.

I wanted to do a modern take on a grid design, but with a shape other than squares. I chose chevrons and used my Cricut to cut out 9 chevrons from different patterned papers from the 6x8 pad. I love the smaller patterns offered in the 6 inch paper pads, as they lend well to small designs. They're great for pocket pages too!

I distressed the edges on each chevron and sewed them down. I used a few of the chevron scraps to die cut some palm fronds with my Big Shot.

I used white acrylic paint, watered down, to create the white splatters.

I first tried to use some Thickers as a title, but decided I wanted to keep it bright and white. So I used some of the 6x8 Heidi Swapp paper to cut the word "Palmettos" from my Cricut. I used a free font, isolated the letters, and welded them together.

The rest of the title is cut from the Concord & 9th Double Cut Alpha Dies - always a favorite of mine!

This is literally one of my favorite photos I've ever taken in my life. So it was actually a lot of pressure to scrap it well! I am happy with the outcome, however.

To accompany my tropical layout, these die cut ephemera pieces from Kaisercraft's Paradise Found were absolutely perfect!

I love to mix and match among collections, and this Kaisercraft color scheme works perfectly with Heidi's Art Walk.

I finished the page with clear dew drop enamel bits and fluffed the chevron edges!

I hope you've been inspired to grab a 6x6 or 6x8 paper pad and create! Make sure to hop along to Sara's blog next, and leave comments on all blogs to enter to win the prizes.

Thanks so much to Simple Stories and A Cherry on Top for sponsoring this amazing weekend of giveaways!

There are also tons of prizes in the A Cherry on Top message board and in our Facebook group!

Christmas Cookies

I'm still plugging away at those Christmas layouts! Today I'm using a prompt from Lasting Memories to use more than one photo on a layout.

I sewed a grid design in red thread and embellished with mostly Pebbles dies and stickers to tell the story of our Christmas cookie making this year.

That stamp is one of my favorite hand-lettered sentiments from Ink Road.

I've been wanting to try a grid design, and I'm super happy with how it turned out!

These were cookies "for Santa" because you know they ate most of them! SO. MANY. SPRINKLES! Fun Christmas memories were had.

I hope you'll play along with this week's Lasting Memories challenge to use multiple photos on your page! There's lots of great inspiration on the blog. Thanks for looking!

Hoppy Easter - a NSD challenge!

I'm still catching up on all the lovely National Scrapbooking Day Challenges from Saturday - they're so fun!

Today I'm sharing a layout I did with a grid design for the 4pm challenge over at the Scrapbook and Cards Today Magazine blog.

These little boogers posed for me on Easter Sunday in their Sunday best and a colorful spring layout was definitely needed for their fun little photo.

These are a couple of detail shots of the grid. I got the cute little egg and carrot on super clearance at Michael's after Easter!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Studio Calico
White word paper - Pink Paislee
Colored pattern paper and transparencies - Studio Calico
Stickers, Chick, and Washi - Studio Calico

Thanks for looking! There is still time for you all to play along!