Three with Lily Bee

This year I'm trying to get into my stash and use some of it up.  I have a bad hoarding habit and I need to get stuff out and not be afraid to cut into papers, so yesterday I pulled out the Lily Bee Sweet Shoppe collection to make some cards even though I was saving it for scrapping.  It's a really sweet and pretty collection, and I challenged myself to do at least two cards with the same papers.  This first one features the Jenni Bowlin's Quilt Star Punch.



I punched a bunch of stars and stacked using the front side of the paper on top and the backside on the bottom, and turned the star on the bottom so that it looks more like a sunburst that a quilt star.  A little bit of stitching was added to accent them.

I scored the cardstock to create a grid and placed one star in each grid.  The sentiment piece is one of the stickers that comes with the collection.  I popped it up with foam tape and added some Lawn Trimmings.

Some SC wood veneer stars finished off the top and bottom stars.



For my next card, I used the exact same papers, cutting them into 2" by 1/2" strips and arranging them above and below the center of the card.



I knew I was going to stitch them on, so I just tacked them in place and then stitched around.  The alphas come in the kit also.  So simple and easy and now I've got another birthday card for Andrew's students.



I figured I would make one more birthday card while I was at it and challenged myself to make one with a different look and feel.  I went brighter, funkier, and bolder for this card.



I love that there are some black patterned papers in this collection as I think they are a great contrast with the other papers.  The little pennants were cut from the pennant patterned paper and then stitched together on the sewing machine.  I added a bit of vellum under the polaroid piece to soften the background paper so that the banners stand out a bit more.



It's been COOOOOLD here, and it was fun to pull out some bright, summery papers to play with.

Thanks for stopping by, hope that you are doing well and staying warm and safe where you are!

Supplies Used
Paper/Cardstock:  Lily Bee - Sweet Shoppe Collection; Avery Elle - Silver Fox and White Cardstock; Bazzill Card Shoppe - Peanut Cluster Cardstock; Recollections - Vellum
Other:  Lily Bee - Sweet Shoppe Collection Alphas and stickers; Studio Calico - Wood Veneer Stars; Lawn Fawn - Natural Cord Lawn Trimmings; Tombow - Mono Adhesive; CTMH - Dimensional Foam Tape, Liquid Glass

Mesmerized by the Lawnmower - Lily Bee Sketch and Simon Says Stamp Dotty Challenge

Hey everyone, trying to stay true to my goal to do at least one layout a week.  This week I'm playing along with a couple challenges, and continuing to work on some photos from our family vacation last summer.  I'm actually making a dent in those photos, and am hoping to be done relatively soon (don't ask about the Budapest/Hungary trip...).

Here's the Lily Bee Sketch:

I'm using papers from Lily Bee's Destination collection as well as a sheet of CTMH cardstock in Buttercup.  The circles were all cut with my old CM custom cutting system circles, and I did a fair amount of stitching on this one too (it's a little wonky...my stitching and curves is not always the best combination).

For most of the decorative circle/chevron elements I pulled out Ronda Palazarri's Well Rounded stencil again.  It's such a versatile stencil and I used three of the different circle elements.  For the chevrons I cut an arrow shape from a scrap piece of paper and used a sponge dauber with gray ink, dabbing away from the arrow.  It's subtle, but I think it works.

Since I've got lots of polka dots/circles on this one, it's perfect for the Monday challenge at Simon Says Stamp.

Thanks so much for coming by!

Supplies Used
Paper/Cardstock:  Lily Bee - Destination Collection; CTMH - Buttercup cardstock
Ink:  CTMH - Grey Wool
Other:  The Crafter's Workshop - Well Rounded; CTMH - Sponge Dauber; American Crafts - Crate Little Boy Blue Red Thickers; Lily Bee - Destination alphas and stickers; Sewing machine; Pigma - Black Micron Pen; CM - Custom Cutting System

Budapest/Romania First Page - Lily Bee/Gossamer Blue Challenge

I've been buried under end of school activities, birthday parties, DT assignments, and I finally came up for air.  Cleaned (or at least mostly cleaned since you can see the table) my craft area/dining room, and decided it was time to work on a layout!

Lily Bee and Gossamer Blue have a challenge this month - create a summertime layout.  I recently received the Destination collection, and will be incorporating it into our Budapest/Romania album.  I thought making the cover/first page of the album would be perfect for this challenge.

I started by painting the center portion of my page with some Dylusions ink sprays - just dip your paint brush into the bottle and paint away.  I painted the whole thing blue, then added the brown to deepen the blue color as well as add the brown tones in there.  Then I splattered a bit of both of the colors on the page.

Once it was dry, I went about picking out the papers.  Destination is full of blues and woodprints with some red and yellow sprinkled in too.  I wanted this to be a summery layout, so I opted for some of the lighter blues/yellows.

The light blue pattern that is layered beneath the yellow airplane print I modified a bit.  It was a softer blue and I wanted to lift/brighten the color a little, so I added some of the blue mist to some water and applied a light wash to the edges.  It's subtle, but I think it ties it together with the background a little better.

I tucked a little glassine back behind the photo to hold a tag with the journaling.  Some of the stickers from the Destination collection, some stitching, and some strategically punched globes from the woodgrian globe paper embellish the page.  Another little trick, I left the strings from the stitching free.  Instead of adding enamel dots or something else to secure them, I just tucked them under the closest sticker/thicker.  It's subtle, but adds some great texture.

Thanks for coming by, the weekend has flown for us, but lots of fun going on here!

Supplies Used
Paper/Cardstock:  Lily Bee - Destination collection; CTMH - White Daisy Cardstock
Other:  Dylusions - London Blue and Melted Chocolate Ink Sprays; American Crafts - White Journal Thickers; Lily Bee - Destination Collection alphas/stickers; CTMH - Dimensional Foam Tape; The Twinery - Denim Twine; Curtsey Boutique - Glassine Bag; Cricut - Art Philosophy Cartridge; Tombow - Mono Adhesive; Creative Memories - Circle Punch