April Roundup

Youtube Birthday Card

Hello lovelies...

I just used my FUSE tool for the very first time and it was so much fun!

When I asked my sister for theme ideas for my niece's birthday card, instant reply was Youtube.  Hmmm, what could I do with that? The app symbol is simple and boring color wise, but I wanted to stay true to the look.  So I decided to dress it up by making the center a shaker!

Thanks to my bff google images and my crafty sidekick Cami (Silhouette Cameo), I cut the Youtube icon out of textured red cardstock, and typed up my sentiment to resemble a video link. BEFORE YOU ASK, unfortunately no that's not a real url address. Even if I'd uploaded a video, YT assigns random letters and numbers to the videos and there is no way to customize it.  I tried other websites to make custom links, but they only work to embed them on other websites, not for someone to type them in.  *sad sigh*  I will have to investigate this further when I have time.

I use an old page protector from my PSB binders (that I'm trying to switch all my old products out of).  At first I made a pocket that was triangular shaped, just an inch or two bigger than the opening, but the stars didn't really shake much.  So I switched to a rectangular pocket that was about 75% the size of the Youtube icon.  That did the trick.  And the FUSE was SO easy to use!  This plastic is thick, and the tool had no problem fusing it shut. I can see myself making more shaker projects with it.

Those cuuuuute acrylic stars are from Color Cast Designs.  After feeling like I miss out on acrylic exclusives from all the kit clubs, I finally shopped around for acrylic pieces and placed a healthy order back in the spring.  Let's just say, acrylic pieces have become the new obsession.  Not that I've given up my obsession with wood veneers just yet. *ahem*

This was a quick project because my niece's birthday is tomorrow and I was rushed, so I do feel it's not as polished as I'd like it to be.  But, I'm sure she'll get a kick out of it.

~ whimsy

Our Great London Adventure

Made this 2 pager for the Mercy Tiara 27 Day challenge for May - scrapbook with at least 3 photos, 1 being 4"x6".  

This was inspired by this single page made by Mandy Reedyk from Mandy Reedyk Happy Scrappin.  I fell in love with the cityscape silhouettes she cut from grey cardstock and vellum using a Mama Elephant die and wanted to replicate that look with my most favorite skyline of all, the London skyline.  In comes the helpful hubby, who is so much better at Photoshop and spacial things than I am.  He spent a couple hours on the weekend laying out different London iconic architecture in a pattern of layered silhouettes which I then traced and cut on my Silhouette Cameo.  Total LOVE.

I also used an Ali Edwards digital brush, Follow Your Heart, to trace and cut the word adventure and Studio AE journal card which I rounded corners. Other supplies include Stylist Thickers (which I colored darker with Stazon in Stone Grey) London Memories Air Mail Arrows paper by Scrapbook Customs, enamel heart from Amy Tangerine, and Colección London stamps by lora bailora.

Those intricate silhouettes cut so well and I love them so much, I'm doing a similar layout with them cut in various vellums for some night pictures from our trip.  Stay tuned!

Live Life in Color

Here's the page I created for challenge 1 of the Online Scrapbooking Weekend at Shimelle.com  This challenge was to use one or more of the ideas from previous challenges (that I'd missed out on): selfies; hearts; mixing old with new; monochromatic; maps or globes.  I managed to tick off the boxes for ALL of those! :D

Monochromatic was the hardest thing for me, not something I've ever done before and at first I had no idea what I could do with that.  But I remembered that I had selfies of different hair colors and thought how perfect would it be to do the opposite effect of a black/white photo matching any color scheme - instead have color in the photo be THE focus.  Of course I couldn't resist making the word "Color" in the title in color!  I'd never die-cut watercolor paper on my Silhouette Cameo before, and forgot to double cut, so it was a bit of a pain to detach and I had to go over it with more color... but in the end I made it work.  The "Journey" metal tag is the old (like so old I don't even know who made it or what year, maybe around 2007 ish?) while everything else is actually really new.  Just my luck to have a map print in grey!  And this layout is about a journey, both metaphorical and real, so I didn't just throw that in to round out the challenge.  I didn't have white heart-shaped enamel dots (on my list!) so I used Tim Holtz enamel accents on some wood veneers.  The die-cut hexagon mat came from Ashely Horton's Old Favorites with a New Twist class at Big Picture Classes.

This is a layout that is so outside the box for me (literally, since I went with hexis!), something I would never have come up with on my own if it weren't for the challenge and the BPC class.  And I'm totally smitten by it.