IRS and Thermoweb blog hop!

Hey friends! Today is another round of a fun hop going on over on the Ink Road Stamps blog! 

We are collaborating with Thermoweb, and I had so much fun playing with their products.

I created this fun card for my son's teacher, since it is his last day of school today.

I used the IRS Frond of You and Thank You stamp sets & the Thermoweb flocking. I also used some fun dies with the flocking and decofoil. It was so fun to combine the two!

Make sure you check out the entire blog hop for a chance to win! 

Thanks for looking!

Milk - it does the body good

Find me over on the A Cherry on Top blog today with this fun double page spread:

All the details are on the cherry blog with tips on how to correspond two 12x12 pages that can be stand alone as well!

I hope you'll Check it Out!

Beachy Pockets with Momenta

Hey Friends!

I'm sharing with you a 6x8 pocket page in my summer vacay album using lots of fun Momenta products. I even have a different kind of process video for you here.

I normally don't film my pocket process, but I thought it might be nice to talk through a few design concepts I used in case anyone is new to the pocket game and would like to try! They're super fun!

I had all these little, random beach photos, so a 2x2 square grid was perfect to hold them all.

You can heard all about the process in my YouTube video, so I'll just post the photos of the project here.

To keep the pocket pages interesting and dimensional, I love to think outside the pocket and stretch my photos or embellishment accents across more than one pocket.

That gold glitter anchor is ADORBS!

Adding tiny embellishments right on top of the photo adds interest as well!

I hope you've enjoyed my project and video and are inspired to try some pockets yourself if you have not already. They can be as fun and intricate or as clean and simple as you'd like!

Make sure to pop over to Momenta and fill up a cart of goodies to embellish your pockets!

Thanks for looking! 

Sandy Toes, Sea Water NOSE! with Lasting Memories

Hey friends!

I hope you're enjoying our stamping challenges this month at Lasting Memories.

This week's prompt is to use a tiny stamp on your layout. I didn't have many papers in the color scheme I wanted for this photo, so I just created my own with a tiny cross stamp!

I stamped in Navy, Seafoam and Rose Gold, then added splatters.

I used Concord & 9th Alpha Dies for my title.

The mermaid scales is a Momenta die, as well as the little sticker embellishments.

I hope you'll play along with this week's stamping challenge!!

Thanks for looking & Happy Mother's Day!

You 2 Light up My Life!

Hey Friends!

I have a new layout to share today! There is a process video as well!

This layout was created using a fun May 2019 sketch from Page Maps.

Thanks for looking friends, and Happy Mother's Day!

Farm Life

Hey friends!

I created this page with supplies I picked from the A Cherry on Top store. I grabbed a few farm themed goodies because my son had a farm-themed kindergarten program.

This aqua backed farm theme paper is so cute! I paired it with a royal blue gingham because that is my son's favorite color.

The thickers were from Dear Lizzy. I love these adorable stickels from Doodlebug! They're like this awesome enamel dot material in such cute shapes.

The wood grain paper is Simple Stories

I created a pocket between the background paper and the base white cardstock. I put a woodgrain tab on the top of the program from that evening and tucked it in the pocket. 

The tab goes with the photo and embellishment cluster, and notifies the reader to pull out the ephemera!

New items are added to the ACOT store every day, so check back often to see all the adorable new goodies!

Thanks for looking! 

Just another Gameday with Momenta

Hey friends!

I'm here with another Momenta page for you today - this one is themed with what is currently taking up most of our time - Baseball! Ha! I really do love watching my little guy play. I even found myself getting a bit too competitive last night - LOL.

I decided on grid style. I used a cream paper background with navy splatters. Then I used red thread to adhere the paper to a Kraft page and to adhere my patterned paper squares to the page.

I loved embellishing with the Momenta mixed media baseball stickers & different Momenta dies!

This sticker worked perfectly for the page title.

Roughing up paper edges and turning them up some adds great texture to the page. These 3d embellishments add to that awesome lift on the page.

Pop over to the store and check out all the fun, 3d stickers Momenta has to choose from!

Thanks for looking!

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!

Happy International Scrapbooking Day!

Hey friends! I hope you're having a particularly scrappy day today! There are so many fun, online celebrations - challenges, prompts, giveaways, hops and freebies - it's like the best day of the year!

I am carving out a bit of crafty time today, and I've participated in a YT hop with my fellow Cherry DT members. Check out my video of First, Let me Scrap a Selfie, and hop along for a chance to win a $25 ACOT gift card or 1000 cherry points!

You can see all the details in the ACOT gallery as well. Head over there and to the message boards for so many fun challenges!

I will also have a giveway on my Instagram later today!

Have a fabulous International Scrapbooking Day, my friends!

Story of Love with Momenta

Hey friends!

Today I have a new 6x8 page created for Momenta. I used this Kaisercraft Rosabella collection with the gorgeous Momenta dies to create this page about us at the Biltmore.

I used the pink background paper from the Momenta 8.5x11 floral paper pad. I cut the floral border with my new, Momenta floral border die.

I embossed the patterned paper butterflies and cut a simple white base for each. Then I used hand embroidery to combine the two. I glued down only the base, so the butterflies can flap!

These adorable mixed media embellishments were perfect for our lovey adventure.

I hope you're feeling inspired to scrap today! Head over to Momenta for some great products, and watch my Instagram for a little something special later this week!

You are the Sky

Happy Sunday!

I'm here today with another layout inspired by a fabulous promp at Lasting Memories. Today's prompt is to scrapbook about the sky.

I used the Friday Freebie from The Cut Shoppe for these adorable frames with clothespins. I also used one of my favorite outdoor collections from Wild Whisper.

I had these photos of us jumping into the sky in front of the mountains in Cades Cove, so I found this fab quote by Pema Chodron to use as my title.

I used distress oxide inks to blend my ombre effect then cut sky on my Cricut. I also used the oxide inks to color the white Thickers to match.

I wonder if Amy Tan has ever done one of her jumpy photos while holding another human....

Some embellishments from the new Pinkfrest Studio Out & About line worked great with this WW paper.

Thanks for looking & I hope you'll play along with us at Lasting Memories! There is a prize up for grabs this month. Have a happy day!

Under the Sea with Momenta

Happy Hump Day, friends!

I'm here with another fun, Momenta layout today.

I just adore this hombre paper from the peony paper pad, and it perfectly matched this aquarium photo from our recent trip to Gatlinburg.

I cut diagonal strips and individually sewed them to a background paper, an idea I borrowed from Steffi Ried over off instagram.

Then I used these adorable, sparkly, puffy sea creature stickers to embellish the page.

This silhouetted photo was one of my favorites from the entire trip, so it had to get it's entire, own page!

Best "FINS" forever, get it!? LOL! I just know these kids will always be buds. I used the Momenta mermaid scale die for the texture background behind the photo, as well. Dory and Nemo had to embellish near the title, well really I guess that would be Marlin, since he's the friend with Dory, huh? Hmmm, I digress.....

Seriously, make sure to grab these shimmery little beauties for your summer pool photos, or all kinds of other summer crafts!

Thanks for looking!!

Life behind bars

Hey y'all!

 I used the awesome sketch challenge in the A Cherry on Top gallery this month to create this fun, boy, jeep page.

Here's the original sketch:

I used torn paper windows instead of tags.

I had cut these "chicken wire" bits on my cricut ages ago, and this page seemed perfect to finally use them.

I added texture with some ranger texture paste, my new fave polka dot stencil and some black watercolor.

These Heidi Swapp chipboard stickers from my stash were perfect for this boyish page. Love these Kaisercraft papers too, they're textured and fab!

Hope you'll play along with this sketch challenge in the Cherry gallery!

Bunny Banner!

Happy April!

Today I have a new video on my YouTube channel for A Cherry on Top!

I hope you'll pop over and watch, meanwhile here's a sneak photo:

You can see all about how it was made in the video. Have a beautiful, spring day!

xoxo