December 2020 Blog Hop with A Cherry on Top

  Hey friends! Natalie here for the December 2020 A Cherry on Top Design Team blog hop!

Today's blog hop uses two gorgeous mood boards to inspire beautiful layouts.

Make sure to hop along to all the blogs in the hop today. If you comment on all 5 blogs, you will be entered to win a $10 gift card to A Cherry on Top!

Here's the line up:

A Cherry on Top

Natalie Dill {You Are HERE!}

Sara Scraps

Laura Alberts

Erica Rose Creates

I was mostly inspired by the pink mood board, but I also added rustic wooden elements from the darker board. You can find my full process video on my YouTube channel.

I used my favorite Large Scallop border punch from EK Success along with a new favorite border punch called the Embroidery Large punch! I punchd white cardstock, vellum, woodgrain and bark-looking papers and layered them.

I used my Wow embossing powder to embellish this wood veneer title and to create my own glitter cardstock from which to cut foliage.

I added some gold cardstock stickers from Pebbles to enhance my foliage clusters.

I scrapped these photos of my parents from our intimate Thanksgiving last week.

I loved how choosing these pictures based upon the mood board inspired my layout! I hope that you will not only hop along with this blog hop, but also create with the mood boards!
I can't wait to see what everyone makes.

Don't forget to hop along!

Good luck!

xoxo - Natalie

A Cherry on Top October blog hop

 

Hey friends!

Welcome of the A Cherry on Top October blog hop!

The design team have each created a pumpkin-themed layout to inspire your fall crafting today.

Here's the blog line up:

A Cherry on Top

Erica Rose

Dillightfully Crafty < You are here!

Sara Scraps

Laura from Taking the Scenic Route

Hop along and comment on each blog to enter to win store credit!

You can also find a process video on my YouTube Channel.

I went for a Halloween theme for my layout, and the terrifying GUTS of the pumpkin as my subject. LOL!

Aren't those Halloween Thickers from Pebbles the best?! They worked great in a snarky way for my "spooky" layout.

I created a large pumpkin shape on my cricut to use as a mask. I slightly adhered it to the middle of my white cardstock and chose 4 Halloween colors to splatter close to the masked edges.

Once removed, the pumpkin shape remains, outlined in splatters!

I chose some papers from my stash in the same 4 colors as my splatters and used them to back my two photos of my son being dramatic over pumpkin guts.

I also backed my white background with a black and white striped border from the Howl collection by Fancy Pants.

I used cardstock stickers from the Hey Pumpkin collection by Crate Paper. The enamel bits are from a Halloween button collection in my stash - I just snipped off the backs of the buttons to adhere them to my page.

OH the HORROR of those pumpkin guts! LOL!!!

These photos crack me up, but I was the exact same way when I was young.

I will definitely include that in the journaling.

Make sure you comment on all 5 blogs in the hop to be entered to win the store credit to A Cherry on Top!

xoxo, Natalie

Bright Mini Album for the Counterfeit Kit Blog Hop!

Hello everyone! Thank you so much for hopping over to my blog. You should have arrived here from Elaine's blog.

Today I have a fun project I created with my Counterfeit Kit, Colorful Love. I made a bright, colorful mini album with instax I took at my cousin's wedding. We had a super great time, and the ground of the location were beautiful (although it was HOT!) and I snapped a few great shots with my instax. I thought a mini album is a perfect way to show off these tiny prints.

For this album I did not want to adhere any paper to the tag base of my album. I wanted to use all washi tape, stamps and ephemera.

This first spread is my son, who was the ring bear. He's holding a stick & said he's Harry Potter. Haha!

I have to say, the instax has never disappointed me on the selfie-taking!

I made these super fun washi feathers from a video I saw on pinterest. They were super easy to make. Won't be surprised if they crop up again in other work!

The wedding venue had a lovely garden & those Maggie Holmes flower ephemera were just perfect!

The dark tent and far away seat did not for a great instax shot make, but you can see the most important thing, the bride! Here they are having their first dance.

I did use a cricut cut from paper for the final page, just because I had the perfect ending, "Happily Ever After!"

Thanks for looking at my work, and make sure to join along at the counterfeit kit club challenge next month!

You should hop on over to Tina's blog next.

In case you get lost, here's the entire blog hop map:


Lisa
Elaine
Natalie <---YOU ARE HERE

Tina <---GO HERE NEXT

Roxanne
Jemma
Princy

Have a great day!

Happy Family - May Counterfeit Kit Blog Hop

Thanks for visiting today! The Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog hop is underway. You should have arrived here from Elaine's blog.

I used my Sparklers kit to create a fun layout using one of the sketches from the Counterfeit Kit blog.

Here's the original sketch:

I didn't have small photos so I improvised. I cut the cute little polaroid frames from my cricut.

And that gold glitter ribbon is to die for! And the puffy stickers - oh so cute!

Supplies:

Paper - Crate Paper Confetti stack
Glitter and turquoise ribbon - Maggie Holmes
Frames - cut with Cricut
Happy, alphas and star stickers - Studio Calico

Here's a list of all the blogs in the hop in case you get lost!

CKCB
Jemma
Tina
Jane
Julene
Elaine
Natalie <--You are HERE
Lisa <--- Go HERE next!


Thanks for looking!

A Parisian banner - The Counterfeit Kit Club Blog Hop!

Hope you're enjoying the Counterfeit Kit Club's Member Blog Hop!

You should have arrived here from Julene's blog.

Next you should jump to Jemma's blog, but look around first! :)

Today I'm bringing you a home decor project that I made with my April Counterfeit kit, Les Voyageurs. I have a bit of a Parisian theme going on in my guest, half bath, and I've been meaning to make a banner to cover a beat up old shelf in there for ages. So this month's kit was perfect to inspire me to finally follow through!

I threw in the navy paper, because that is a predominant color in my bathroom. I cut banner pendants, rosettes, accents and letters. I used an Eiffel Tower cut file for the A to add a little extra Parisian flair.

For my banners that need to be durable in the home, I like to use a hot glue gun to secure the rosettes. Since they're not in the scrapbook and need to be acid free, that's a good adhesive to use to ensure they're not falling apart while hanging up!

I used some giant eyelets I had to reinforce the holes to hold the hanging yarn... Not too sure about that gold yarn yet - I may change it eventually.


And here is the banner in all its glory.

I got the navy vase at Goodwill. I got the two lovely old books at a local thrift store, and the brass tower is from Paris! The glitter tower is from the Target dollar aisle, I think, a long time ago.

I have a strangely shaped 1/2 bath, so I have accented these two walls.

Here we are with my canvas of a photo I took in Paris.

Thank you for looking & be sure to hop on over to Jemma's blog next!

Here is a list of all the pages on the hop today in case you get lost. Hope you enjoy it!

CKCB http://counterfeitkitchallenge.blogspot.com
Lisa http://lisahausmann.blogspot.de
Princey http://princy1010.blogspot.com
Elaine http://chidkids26.blogspot.co.uk
Julene http://julenebydesign.blogspot.com.au
Natalie http://thebigdills.blogspot.com
Jemma http://just-jimjams.blogspot.co.uk

Blog Hop - The Counterfeit Kit Challenge!

I'm participating in the member blog hop today for The Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog. I'm pretty excited about it! You may have arrived here from Sally's Challenge Chatter. After Dillightfully Crafty, you can hop right on over to Snaps and Snippets.

So today I've prepared some photos to document my process of creating a scrapbook page with my March kit, which I named Snappy Pack.

Here's the page I've created for the Challenge "May you Live in Pinteresting Times." The challenge was to find a pin to inspire your project, but it could not be another craft project or scrapbook page.

Here is the pin which I used as inspiration:

The image came from Sarah Hearts.

Now to get a little bit into my process... So I grabbed my Snappy Pack CFC kit and picked out the papers I loved that I wanted to use for this photo. I knew I had to use the chevron with the fall colors, as that is what I had in mind when I printed the photo, so I was working around that piece.

First I grabbed my favorite orange paper:

But it was a bit darker than I wanted, so I decided to save it for a future project.

I liked this neutral (with a little glitter), but it needed something more.

So I added the orange flower paper, which sort of mirrored the flowers in the photo - and I thought, "perfect!"

I had this sweet pocket card that I thought would work well for the kids' photo, but I had to figure out where to place it. The top of the photo did not work...

Boom! Moved to the bottom left corner & it just fit perfectly. I think the black in the top most square is different in this type of palette, so I decided to accent it and add a bit of the black camera paper from the CFC kit.

An extra layer is always a good idea. This orange paper softens the black & worked perfectly.

Then I spotted my new Studio Calico punch that I found on clearance recently, so I figured it needed to be used. This is literally the "process" of my creation - it's always in the process of evolving as I work!

After I punched some chevrons, I inked all my papers. I ink papers a good portion of the time. I just feel like it gives a good dimension, as well as it tends to hide imperfections, so if you have some tattered edges (unintended) or maybe a not-so-straight edge, it's much less noticeable when inked!

Now it's my favorite time! Embellishment time!

I had this cute little veneer circle that I felt needed a little something. (Confession: This stamp was not included in my CFC kit, as it just arrived in the mail the day I made the layout! But it was just too perfect with the Snappy Pack photo/camera/click inspired kit, that I just had to use it!)

These flowers were screaming to be included on my sunflower page!

I stuck everything down once I had visualized where everything was to be placed, then done!

Here are some detail shots:

You can see that I added a couple more punches once I had the paper placed exactly and felt there was still too much blank orange space.

Look at those sweet baby smiles! I love seeing my baby have fun with his friends!

Thanks for looking!

Don't forget your next hop at Snaps and Snippets with Susanne!