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All of the gold doesn't show up well in the photos, but hopefully you can see it better during the video.




As I had explained in the video, I had a really hard time coming up with a title for this layout. It was a photo that showed Sam and I in our everyday lives. Nothing fancy, nothing special just pure, simple happiness. Then, when I saw the Heidi Swapp sticker pack this one sticker jumped out at me, "Simple Love". It was perfect. I often find that when struggling for a title, something miraculous seems to always happen.

This picture is of me and this adorable cat named Snuggles. He was up for adoption for quite a few months. I'm going to take this opportunity on behalf of Snuggles to encourage everyone to adopt and not shop. It seems that everyone has heard of puppy mills and the horrible things that happen there, but people often neglect that very similar things happen to cats. If you are thinking about adding a furry friend to your family check out your local shelters! Now continuing on with the layout details. :)


I have started with a base of white cardstock and then pulled out some watercolors! I was inspired by a cut apart card in the Dear Lizzy Day Dreamer Collection. It had pretty blue flowers in a watercolor fashion on one of the sides and I just had to give a try myself. The watercolor set I used was actually from the dollar store and it worked great! Don't be afraid to look for craft things in unusual places!

Time seems to be absolutely flying by! There's nice weather in my neck of the woods, but I want to spend all my time inside crafting! The struggle is real! Don't worry though because I have just the ticket if your weather isn't the nicest. I'm sharing another process video with you all using my homemade kit. This is my third one so far and I'm really happy with the different looks I'm achieving with all of pages. Of course, I've been pulling in different bits and bobs from here and there, but I've mainly just stuck to the kit! I hope your kit making is going well too. Here is the overview of my layout.




This layout is a breath of fresh air to me because of all the white space! I love how fresh and light it feels. Plus, the color scheme makes me so very happy. Yellow and blue were meant to be together. I hope you enjoy my process video and I'll have some close up pictures down below!






I used embellishments from Michael's (buttons), flower die-cuts (from Studio 112), stickers from the dollar store (hearts), and a die-cut from Dear Lizzy. I also stamped a little bit using one of the Heidi Swapp stamps.


One of my favorite parts of this layout is the title. I put down a fun base coat of yellow to add a pop behind the photo and title. The title is made out of a stamp by Heidi Swapp and some Prima white letter stickers. To finish off the layout I used some of the butter colored Heidi Swapp Color Shine to add a few drops of yellow. I hope you all enjoyed and thank you so much for watching!!

I picked out the yellow mainly to neutralize how yellow the photo was. The lighting in this store that we took this photo in was horrifying. Since I did a big batch of photo prints I didn't edit any of my photos and this was the result. So, if you ever have photos that might look too yellow try giving them a competing background to balance them out!


I couldn't just leave it as a yellow striped background so, I used my floral stencil from Plaid once again, but this time using some gesso. I found that the gesso added more texture than acrylic paint and that it didn't seep under my stencil nearly as much. After I finished the background, I set it aside to dry. Next, I had decided I wanted to use some of my scraps in my catch all tray. This is a little white dish that I keep on my desk for little leftover punch outs and such. There I found these pink flowers (by Studio 112), the scalloped circle of patterned paper and the punched out butterflies.


Sticking with this pinkish theme I decided I wanted to use up some of these American Crafts Thicker shapes. I found this pack at a garage sale once so I'm hoping to finish up the pack this year. Slowly, but surely. To add a but more interest, I layered some scrap papers behind my photo. I believe the pink one is by KI Memories, but I'm not sure about the other one.


To add the final touches to this 12x12 layout, I added some silver and white twine (I scored it at Target for .90!) and some silver half pearls from Michael's. A question for you all while we wrap things up, why does it seem that everyone loves gold?! What about poor silver?! I love them equally! I hope you enjoyed this layout! Be sure to come back for more, thanks for stopping by!

I used so many components on this layout and to start off I used some acrylic paint (I mixed two colors Apple Barrel cornfield blue and white) to add some background texture behind the photo. Whenever you want to add some brush strokes like this I would recommend using a wide flat brush. It really helps to add to the brush stroke effect. Then, I added a very thin layer of dark green behind the photo (you can barely see it, but I promise it is there).

You can see the 5 products I picked in my video or you can see them when I type them out right now! ;) I picked some cork stickers from Oriental Trading (I love these things), a die-cut pack by K and Company and designed by Brenda Walton, a floral stencil  by Plaid, a pack of Thickers shapes, and last, but not least, some small sequins. I hope you enjoy this process video and I'll have some extra details down below!




I really love these die-cuts from K&Company. The pinks and gold foil throughout are beautiful. My gold Heidi Swapp Color Shine matches beautifully. If you are using a lot of die-cuts on your layout, try adding dimension to one or two so they stand out a bit more.



These photos of this layout turned out beautifully! Those Heidi Shine droplets shine so nicely! In this photo you can see how much of my stencil seeped. I'm still happy with how it all turned out though.


That's the end of this layout! I hope you all enjoyed! If you have any questions about products or techniques let me know. Thanks for watching!

The background paper I chose is from the Dear Lizzy Day Dreamer 12x12 paper pad. Then, I chose this fun blue pattern from the Sea Glass paper pad from the hot buy section at Michael's. After I had my papers chosen, I pulled out this sticker sheet from Crate Paper that had all these Easter/Spring time themed stickers in it.



This cluster is so beautiful. The light coming from my window made it so soft. The beautiful flowers I have had forever. They are by Little Yellow Bicycle (is that company still around?!). I love how these flowers had some stitching details and dimension.


Then, for the bottom right cluster I layered some stickers. This cute egg shaped one is so perfect! I also used a scrap of the photo layer paper to make a quick little banner to ground the stickers. By "ground" I mean to make sure the stickers don't seem like they are floating around on the page.


As for the title, I used...you guessed it! More stickers. It was too perfect not to use them! But you all should be proud of me since I didn't use a doily on this layout like I do on every other layout haha. That's it for this layout! I hope you all enjoyed. Also, I forgot to mention this is from Easter 2015, I haven't scrapped much of 2016 yet! Thanks for stopping by!

Hi again everyone! I've got a vibrant layout share for you all today. This is one of my favorite pages so far from my Disney album mainly because of all of the colors, but I'll get into that later. Here's an overview of my layout.


These colors are beautiful together! I love the red, mint(?) and gold! In case you are wondering, this photo of my boyfriend and I is at a beach near Cocoa Beach/Cape Canaveral. This was the morning that we boarded our Disney cruise. Yes, we all had matching t-shirts and yes I made them myself! Also, beware these shirts cannot go in the dryer people!


I only created two main clusters on this layout which really balanced the page. I know it seems like everyone follows the rules of threes, but it's okay if you don't all the time! The bottom cluster features a chipboard sticker from Michael's, two chipboard pieces (star, and speech bubble) are from EK Success, the little flag is by Basic Grey (along with the background paper), the flower punches are from EK Success as well. Then the papers I used to punch out some of these things are by Echo Park the Happy Days collection and American Crafts.


Have I told you how much I love these gold script Thickers by Amy Tangerine?! So gorgeous! I found mine at Tuesday Morning, so for all of you that need some enabling here's your sign! I decided to title this "meet me in the sunshine" because this was my first time to Cocoa Beach and our first time vacationing together. I cannot wait to go on another trip with him and to share with you all of my pages of our other adventures. To incorporate more gold into the layout I grabbed my gold Heidi Swapp color shine to add some splatters.


Then, for the final top cluster I used a wood veneer by Basic Grey, a cloud die-cut from Shimelle, a transparency piece from Basic Grey, some red enamel dots from Michaels, and then some of the same things from the other cluster. I also used some Echo Park paper to layer my photo on. I prefer my journaling to be hidden, so I snuck in a Recollections tag under my photo.

I hope you all enjoyed the first of many vacation layouts! If you have any questions I would be happy to answer them! Thanks so much for stopping by. :)