November 80/20 layout - Kiss

80.20 video here!

 

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

Show me your TACO face - Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Happy Cinco de Mayo, amigos!

Today there is a new prompt over at Lasting Memories for my month of stamping on your scrapbook layouts challenges! Today's prompt is to use a pattern stamp on the backgound of a page.

I stamped this polka dot stamp in an oval with v tips in Versamark, then I used WOW embossing glitter powder in black and silver. I knew I wanted the page to be bold since my photos were black & white, so I thought bright pink would be so fun!

The glitter embossed dots resisted the misting spray and alcohol inks so perfectly and I got a bright, messy, glittery background peeking from behind my paper and photos.

I used this stashed octogon cut from my Cricut as extra texture as well.

And of course I had to use my favorite little taco stamp from Ink Road Stamps! 

We'll be at the ballfield today and I've been drooling about these fab nachos they have at only one stand in the whole baseball park. My Cinco will be perfecto if I get my chicken nachos!

I hope you have a fabulous day and are inspired to stamp on your layouts. There are still so many fun iNSD challenges going on online, so have so much fun and incorporate stamping into them!

Beachy Vibes with IRS

We are having the rainiest February of all Februarys in Tennessee, and I'm dreaming of the beach!

You can find this layout on the Ink Road Stamps blog today, along with all the details of how I created it.

Thanks for looking! 

Dino Obsession with Momenta

Hey friends!

Today I'm sharing a fun page I created for Momenta about my dinosaur-obsessed boy.

These embossed foam stickers of dinosaurs were perfect to document my oldest son's current obsession with dinos.

I embossed a woodgrain stamp on the background paper with gold powder. The green triangle is from the gemtones paper pad from Momenta.

I cut some green leaves with Momenta dies to embellish around the page with my stamped ephemera as clusters.

The "DINO" was cut with Momenta alpha dies as well.

I loved how the dino stickers complimented the colors in the photos.

I like how the journaling tags bring the white from the top of the page to meet the stamped cluster at the bottom. then I placed the dino stickers around the page.

Don't forget to document the little everyday moments!

Thanks for looking!

Hello from the IRS side

Another car for the IRS and SMS card hop today. Check out the details on the Ink Road Stamps blog.

Thanks for looking!

Spreading Cheer with IRS and SMS!

You can find me over on the Ink Road Stamps blog today with another card for the card hop with SpeigelMom Scraps!

Pop over to the IRS blog and check it out. You can read all the details and find out how to participate.

You can also get 15% off your first order with my referral link or 10% off returning orders with the code natalie10.

Thanks for looking!

Mermaids! IRS and SMS Instagram hop

Hello friends!

There's tons of fun making a SPLASH over on Instagram today! Ink Road Stamps and SpiegelMom Scraps have teamed up for an Instagram hop.

There's tons of inspiration in the hop featuring the IRS mermaid stamp sets and the exclusive sequin mix from SMS. These ladies have seriously blown my mind with their creative projects!

I used these adorable sets to create a fun 6x8 pocket page. The mermaids fit perfectly in these 2x2 squares.

I used alcohol inks to create some aqua mixed media and stamped the mermaids on top..

I added some sequin clusters with these ladies.

The MERMOM stamp was just perfection with these photos of me playing with my boys in the ocean.

Of course I had to add some glitter! I did two sequins pockets with my fuse, and embossed the Mermaid at Heart stamp with some light blue glitter and adhered it to the outside of pockets.

Some lightly stamped bubbles made a great journaling square for my page.

Grab your own bundle with my referral link for 15% off your first order! Or use the code natalie10 for 10% off for returning customers.

Make sure to complete the IG hop for your chance to win tons of fun prizes and see some beautiful inspiration.

Thanks for looking!

Friends PL for my FRIEND!

Hey y'all!

I'm just popping in really quick to show off the pocket letter I created for my friend Ali as part of Feature Friday over at Ink Road Stamps. Today we focused on the set, The One with All the Stamps, a set about the show Friends, clever title, huh?

I had not created a PL in so long - it was really fun! I used the WRMK Urban Chic collection since it's city themed and Friends is set in NYC.

Go grab you a set at The Ink Road! 

If you're a first time buyer, you can get 50% off your entire order using this link: http://i.refs.cc/5O2JveE4u=152171801902 (you should  probably buy more than one, am I right!?)

If you're a returning customer, you get 10% off with the code natalie10, so treat yo'self!

Thanks for looking y'all!

Olive Gold TNs! - a RYN project

Hello friends!

I have a project for Rock Your Notebook today - complete with a YouTube process video.

I used my mixed media black and white TN from the RYN store to create this embossed, stamped layout.

I have a discount code for you to get your very own mixed media, or any other custom designed, notebook!

I really love how the gold shows up so beautifully on the black paper! I want you to definitel check out the video, so I'll just pop a couple detail shots on here and hope you see more on YT.

Thanks for looking!

Happy Fri-YAY, y'all!

Today is Feature Friday over at Ink Road Stamps & we're using the Just a Number stamp set as inspiration.

I've created a New Year's Eve inspired #goals page using some of the fun sentiments and balloons from the set.

I embossed the balloons on white and black paper in gold and fussy cut the lot.

This stamp set was  meant for a birthday, but some of the sentiments really worked so perfectly for encouraging amazing goals!

I have food and health goals, travel goals, crafty goals and financial goals listed. This year we're either making some big changes or really settling down in our home - we haven't yet decided & it's a bit scary!

Here's to that success!

Go check out the fun stamp sets over at The Ink Road & get you a set - they're on sale!

Thanks for looking!

Merry Mail!

I'm sharing the holiday greeting cards I created for my crafty friends this year. It's nice to make pretty cards for those who you know appreciate a handmade item. These were actually the only ones I sent out! I feel like everyone get enough photos of my little ones throughout the year on social media, so it's a bit redundant.

But these were super fun to create. I did a non-traditional Christmas color palette, added sparkle, sparkle & more sparkle & tada!

I used Pearly shimmer something or other from Stampin' up for this wreath embossing, and I love how it turned out.

I used an Ink Road stamp from the Fir Real set for the merry and bright sentiment. I stamped it in a rose gold and embossed with iridescent glitter.

I found this adorable little Christmas Card list book at the thrift store - completely blank! The pages were old looking & I knew they would be wonderful for some Christmas projects.

I used some white glitter ribbon, tulle and a snowflake button here with some hot glue.

This wreath was embossed with heat and stick powder & I added fine, green glitter.

I cut all of the branches out of glitter cardstock on my Cricut.

I had so much fun creating these girly cards!

I always try to think of what I would like to receive in the mail, and the answer basically always includes lots of glitter.

I inked all the edges with the same rose gold I used for the sentiment to bring all the elements of the card together and give it an aged look.

 

I hope my crafty friends enjoy their holiday cards! I also hope they all make it in fair condition. I put a piece of cardboard or bubble envelope over each card for safe mailing.

Thanks for looking!