Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Ho Ho Ho/Fancy Pants Designs

 Hello everyone!  Yvette here with a Christmas layout using the gorgeous Wishmas collection from Fancy Pants Designs

The light-strand border cut file from Paige Evans, backed with an assortment of beautiful patterned papers from the WISHMAS collection, give this page such a festive feeling! 

Christmas morning at our home is always pack with lots of crazy FUN, with our dog Titan, who so want to be included in all the excitement of opening gifts and checking out the goodies in the stockings.             






I hope you like my layout today and it has inspired you to create your own.
Thanks for stopping by :) xx

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                            Wishmas-tags
                                Light-strand Border cut FILE by Paige Evans 


Saturday, December 19, 2020

Paige Evans + Silhouette / Guest Designer

 

Hello, crafty friends!  I am super excited and honored to be guest designing for Paige this month! You can find me on Instagram, Facebook, Blog and Pinterest

Here are the projects I created using Paige's beautiful cut files, and her gorgeous collections

For my first project, I had these awesome photos of my son trying to skateboard and decided to use the Skateboard cut file and the beautiful Go The Scenic Route Collection to document this fun moment. 


  I resized the Skateboard cut file on my Silhouette to about 4 inches and cut it multiple times using paper 21. Next, I selected some of the beautiful border strips from paper 23 as well as the Skateboard cut files and arranged them diagonally onto a piece of 12x12 white cardstock. To create a bit more texture on my page, I simply distressed the edges of the border strips and then added some machine stitching. I couldn't help myself, I just had to add a cluster of fussy cut flowers from paper 18 to the bottom left corner of my photos and then used the Everyday Fun Cardstock Sticker as a title and place it in the center of the floral cluster. To finish, a smallest cluster was added to the top of the photos using a Cardstock Sticker, a Journal card  and a fussy cut butterfly.  


         Since my son is a big Lego fan, the Building Bricks cut file were perfect for my next page. I started by cutting the Building Bricks cut file from white cardstock and then selected several papers from Paige's Bloom Street collectionpaper 10, paper 2, paper 22paper 24 and paper 6  to back it. Machine stitching was added first to each of the cut files and then adhered to my background paper...paper 13 from Go the Scenic Route collection with foam tape.

With the awesome Building bricks cut file as the main focal point of my design, I decided to add my photo on the left side and slightly tucked it underneath the cut files.  A few small clusters of Bloom Street Stickers and die cuts was added around the page to create a wonderful overall balance.           
 



My next project is featuring the gorgeous Flowers cut file and Paige's Go the Scenic Route collection. The Flowers cut file was cut from white cardstock and backed with paper 13, which was then adhered to the right side of my page using foam tape. With the beautiful paper 2 as my background paper, I decided to create a bit of a vertical interest with some machine stitching and the colorful puffy word stickers. Once, I had my photo exactly where I wanted it, I started to embellish by using a combination of cardstock and chipboard stickers. I also added a paper clip from Paige's Take Me Away collection in the upper left corner of the photo, as well as a couple of stapled die-cut tags.          
    

    

For my fourth page, I wanted to create a beautiful winter layout, so I chose Paige's Holly Wreath cut file and her gorgeous Go the Scenic Route collection to document our very first holiday photo as a family. I started by cutting the Holly Wreath cut file from white cardstock and backed it with paper 10 and paper 6. I selected paper 4 as my background page and then, I decided to add a piece of vellum in the middle of the wreath, which soften the dark blue background paper.  The wreath cut file was then adhered to the center of my page using some foam tape. My title was added down the right side of my photo, using both the Go the Scenic Route colorful alpha thickers as well as a phrase sticker. To add a bit of holiday sparkle, the beautiful glitter Enamel stickers was added to the bow area. I then, fussy cut some of the smallest flowers from paper 18 and place them around the wreath.  I finished the layout off, with a few stitched, pieces of sentiments cut from paper 13 from the Bloom Street collection.   



For my last project, I decided to create a couple of feel good cards! Everyone loves receiving a feel good card, sometimes it's just to cheer them up or simply to let them know that they're doing a great job!


  For my first card, I decided to use a couple of Paige's cut files; the Folk Art Flower Frame, and the Awesome cut files. Both were cut from white cardstock. Next, I backed the Awesome cut file with paper 13 from the Go The Scenic Route collection. I used Paper 24 to create a background, which was then adhered onto my card base. Add the cut files, that cute bird sticker, a few pieces of bling and this card is finish!    
      

For my second card I used the Stars cut file and the Go the Scenic Route collection. Resized the Stars cut file in my Silhouette Cameo and then cut it from white cardstock. Backed the cut file with paper 6 and used paper 17 as my card background.  A chipboard sticker from the Whimsical collection were perfect to used as a sentiment.   


Thank you so much for stopping by today! It was a pleasure working with Paige's beautiful cut files and her gorgeous collections. I hope you like them!!!  



Monday, August 31, 2020

Summer in the City/Fancy Pants Designs



Hello friends! It's Yvette here with you today, and I have my first layout to share, using the super fun Sidekick Optional collection from Fancy Pants Designs

The Cityscape paper in this collection, was the inspiration for this layout. I fussy cut the skyline from both of the cityscape paper, found in this collection, one was glued to the background cardstock and the other was adhered with foam tape, which created a bit of dimension on my page. Added a drawn city skyline in the background and embellish. 

As you can see, I chose to use this collection to document a fun trip to Little Italy, instead using it to create a Halloween page. Inspiration is everywhere, so have fun creating!           

            







I hope you like my layout today and it has inspired you to create your own.
Thanks for stopping by :) xx

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Prepare for Takeoff / Fancy Pants Designs



Hello Friends! Yvette here, and I have a fun page to share, using the new Just Plane Fun collection from Fancy Pants Designs!

This collection is absolutely BEAUTIFUL....from the fun designs on the patterned papers, the colors and those cute embellishments, it's sure to get you motivated in documenting your travel photos!

I added layers of paper strips, hand-stitching, as well as a stamp to create this awesome page to document a photo of my son, sitting in the co-pilot seat. 

I hope you like my layout today and it has inspired you to create your own!          









Thanks for stopping by :) xx

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Friday, July 17, 2020

Summer / Fancy Pants Designs




Hello my crafty friend! Yvette here today, and I have another layout to share, featuring the beautiful Vitamin Sea collection.

I started with a background cut file, backed the flowers with the Happy Strips patterned paper and then backed the entire cut file onto a solid blue piece of cardstock.

Selected two pieces of pattern paper from the collection, as well as my photo and cut then into circles. The circles was then stacked one on top of the other and place in the middle of the page. Next, I created a large cluster below the photo, using some chipboard stickers, die cuts and a tag.

I hope you like my layout today and it has inspired you to create your own!











Wednesday, July 08, 2020

Proud Of You / Fancy Pants Designs



Hi Fancy Pants fans! Yvette here, and today I used the beautiful Cake Smash Collection to document a photo of my son in his graduation gown. (High School here we come!)

To give my page a feeling of celebration, as well as adding some dimension, I selected one of the pattern paper from the collection, cut it into thin strips and wrap the paper strips around a pencil which created these cute streamers. The streamers was then added to my layout.

Have fun creating your own embellishments using pattern papers from Fancy Pants collection, just by simply thinking outside the box!   











Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Sun Kissed / Fancy Pants Designs




Hello Fancy Pants fans! Today I have a super fun vacation layout to share with you today.

The entire Vitamin Sea collection is absolutely beautiful, from fussy cutting those tropical leaves, adding a few tags and labels, as well as all the cute embellishments......and don't forget the gorgeous pattern papers found in this collection, make the process of pull this page together fairly easy. 



           





Sweet / Fancy Pants Designs




Hi everyone! Today I have a new project for Fancy Pants!

   I started by stamping a few flowers and leaves to the bottom half of my page using soft pastel colors. My cut file was cut from white card stock and the colorful pattern papers from the Vitamin Sea 6x8 paper pad was used to back it. Embellish with a few chipboard stickers from the Cherry on Top collection and finished off the layout,by adding a speech bubble to make it look like my son is thinking of Ice-Cream!       

 
  



I hope you like my layout today and it has inspired you to create your own.
Thanks for stopping by :) xx


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Monday, June 29, 2020

And Then, My Heart Burst / Fancy Pants Designs




Hi everyone! I have another fun layout to share with you today, using Fancy Pants Cake Smash Collection!

The Cake Smash collection has such a beautiful selection of pattern papers that can be used to document, so much more than just Birthdays. On this layout I used it to document a photo session of my son when he was about one. I used a large title cut file and backed each of the letters opening, with some of my Favorite colored papers from this collection. I then added a small amount of embellishments around the page to give it a nice, overall balance. 

Challenge yourself to use a theme collection such as the Cake Smash, to document a park outing or maybe some art projects your kids made. Remember to think outside the box and most of all have FUN! 





Sunday, May 03, 2020

Yum / Fancy Pants Designs




Hello Fancy Pants friends,  I'm back with you today with another layout featuring the Cherry on Top collection. The cute ice cream embellishments found in this collection were perfect for documenting my son love for vanilla ice cream and how about those adorable felt pieces....the bright, cheerful colors in the letters YUM were the ideal title for this page. 
              









Tuesday, April 28, 2020

To The Beach / Fancy Pants Designs



Hello everyone!  Today I am sharing my first project featuring the beautiful Vitamin Sea collection from Fancy Pants. With all the bright, happy colors and gorgeous paper in this collection.....it had me thinking of the fabulous vacation we took last Summer.

I love creating different layers on my layout, and the patterned paper in this collection was absolutely perfect for this. Patterned papers was cut at 6x6 inches and the edges distressed a bit. Next, start layering them one over each other until you're happy with the end result. 

          At this point I added my photo and a few embellishments from the Vitamin Sea Ephemera.....aren't they just adorable! 

   It's not too late to document those vacation photos, so why not pick up the beautiful Vitamin Sea collection today and have FUN crafting!