January pages for Scrapbook Circle

The Scrapbook Circle kit All You Need is Love is up for sale! Here are my pages with this kit:

I used a lot of add-ons for this page, since the main kit is about love and is all pink and delicate. I mainly used the add on Shine Bright, plus a lot of printables.

And then I used a lot of the main:

This date with my husband fit perfectly in a Valentine's Day/Halloween mash-up. I also used a lot of printables and tags. Next, a more traditional page:

I do this page a lot, every year. The kit fit perfectly for my traditional design.

And then a more traditional love page:

This page was a little more experimental. I used glitter. Enough said.

The gorgeous Word stickers come from the kit Hello Love. A good get, I think.

Next was  a page about my boys' yearly insect/butterfly fair:

I loved that the add-on Hello Love had butterfly paper in the 6x6 pad. I didn't want to make it really frilly for my boys, so I kept the strong lines and just added a few butterflies in a graphic manner.

Finally, my last page:

My son loved spending time in nature, so I made this page to commemorate it.

All in all, this kit has a romantic name, but I hope I showed how versatile the kit and its add-ons are! Thank you for checking out my pages!

My December pages for Scrapbook Circle!

A very busy month is almost done, and it's time for me to share the pages I made for Scrapbook Circle's December kit We Are Made of Stories! (Be aware that there is also a special on past kits right now for $15; have fun shopping!) Here's my first page for December:

This first layout is one I tend to do every year, a page about December with representative photos of the month. I used the main plus silver word stickers and die cut bits from the add-on Favorite Elf. The page design is usually a grid for me when I have this many photos; the Elle's Studio diamond paper called Holiday Quilt; I cut it to randomly cover some of the photos. I like the look.

(Embarrasssing note: I'm pretty sure these photos are from 2012. Sigh. I'll have to change the date.

 Next I used my FAVORITE paper from the main, the Elle's Studio Star of Wonder paper. The circles inspired me to use circles on this page. I used the Favorite Elf add-on for the 6x6 pad, which is perfect for punching embellishment circles and getting small strips without cutting into bigger sheets of paper. The wood snowflakes also came from the add-on. Just lovely.

(Interesting note: I design the page before I picked the photos for it. Then when I went to pick the unscripted sledding photos from last year, I found that it had been too cold to go sledding! We had only gone once, and those were scrapped. This was a good enough excuse to go sledding for us, what with this early winter!)

Any time I have Holiday papers and products, I try to make pages that are not holiday based. I made two, including this page about my son, who stood so still the birds docked to him, no small feat with his ADHD. I love the mix of aqua and gold and wood.

Finally, another page made with the kit and not about the holidays. The deer paper made me think of Renaissance hunting parties in England, which inspired this page about this autumn's Renaisaance family feast. I mainly used the main kit, plus silver word stickers and the 6x6 paper pad for banners from the add-on. I also used the stamps (the stamped images I trimmed and adhered them with dimensional stickers) and the tags from the main.

Thank you for checking out my pages! I had so much fun playing with this kit. So versatile and fun! Please check out Scrapbook Circle for the kit and add-on, and have fun scrapping!

A happy announcement!

I am thrilled to share that I will be a part of the design team at Scrapbook Circle! Here's a little about the company, as taken from their website:

Scrapbook Circle is a monthly kit club that designs a unique scrapbooking kit each month and mails it to their subscribers.  We create a kit each month filled with the most current scrapbooking products including patterned paper, custom embellishments and digital downloads.

When you become a subscriber of Scrapbook Circle kits, you are guaranteed a kit each month. We also will be offering our subscribers exclusive downloads, an idea gallery filled with kit ideas from our design team and fantastic customer service.

We also have a community page on Facebook where you can share ideas, share your layouts and interact with other Scrapbook Circle members.  You do not need to be a subscriber to join us on Facebook.

I love so much about Scrapbook Circle: their eclectic kits, their colors, their digital designs, and their sketches. I am thrilled to be working with them, and I hope you will check them out as well!

These were the pages I submitted as a part of my application:

These were some of my favorite pages from the last year, and I am honored to be selected for the team. I look forward to working with the kits!

I'm wearing my Fancy Pants today

Last week I got an email with some wonderful news! Here it is:

I will be a member of the Fancy Pants Design team! Ever since The Daily Grind and All Fall came out a few years ago, I have been a big fan of their collections, and I am thrilled to work with their products this coming year.

Here's one of the pages from my application, using Fancy Pants October 31st collection:

Since I love to layer embellishments, as you can see on this page, I look forward to working with Fancy Pants. So much fun!

Thank you for sharing the news with me!

A new source for inspiration

I'm very happy to share with you that I will be a part of a new inspiration blog called Thinking Through Design. You can see my introduction on this post, and you can see the wonderful first post here. I hope you can visit it often; we will have a rotating cycle of inspiration. This week you'll get ideas about starting your page with color inspiration. 

Thanks for letting me share this wonderful place filled with wonderful, supportive scrappers!

Terrific news!

Last Friday I was blessed with a phone call by none other than the super-talented Heidi Sonboul of GCD Studios. I had applied for their design team a few weeks prior, and she was calling to let me know I'd been selected!

I am honored to be a part of this talented team and so excited to work with their fabulous products! Their booth at CHA required repeat visits, it was so cool.

If you want to see the link for the announcement, go to the GCD Studios blog here.