At Summer's End

Summer is a little different for my family. Most families are prepping for vacation and road trips. My husband usually finds himself busy, preparing for the many tourists who will visit his place of work. You see, my husband works in the theme park and resort industry. My son and I stay close to home, spending our time poolside.

We do have something to look forward to. At summer's end, when most kids are headed back to school. We spend a little time together as a family. When we lived in Orlando, we often swapped tickets so that we could visit Disney World. I have so many wonderful photos from those trips and it's about time I get them onto layouts.

I loved the car themed paper from the June kits. It was perfect for documenting my family on the go-carts. My son steered and my husband worked the pedals. I added one of the Vintage Sew On buttons. It reminded me a bit of a car tire.I cut the journal card in half which allowed me to slide it above and below the photo.

This colorful scalloped paper reminded me of waves. It seemed destined to help me document our ride on the paddle-wheel boat. Since we saw a Moose on our journey, I chose to add the vintage label from the May Antiquarian kit.

We still haven't decided where our end of summer family adventure will take us this year. I do know it's a tradition I look forward to every year. What summer traditions does your family have?

Christy

Baubles for Sale ...

... in digital form that is!

Pearl Baubles at 25% off through the weekend!

It's nice to have "3-D" images for digital scrapbooking, isn't it?  With some simple shadowing, the images can appear to pop right off the page and make you want to reach out and touch them!

Our creative team member Chantalle McDaniel has also used them in her hybrid cards by printing and cutting.  Let's take a look at her beautiful examples!

Materials:

Me & U card

Digital:

JBS Pearl Baubles kit

JBS MercantileMixCutFiles1 Graphic Feathers

JBS Printable 1inch Watch Faces

Traditional:

JBS Wren Accessory sheet

JBS Flash Cards Wood Veneer

JBS Scattered Stars Gold Rub-ons

JBS Harlequin clear stamp

JBS Doilies Gold Rub-ons

JBS Gold Pennants Rub-ons

JBS Feather tags

JBS Chalkboard Flatbacks

Chantalle even sewed through her digital buttons with thread in this Make a Wish Card.

Materials:

Digital:

JBS Classic Backgrounds - Quilt Star

JBS Pearl Baubles kit

Traditional:

JBS Wren Accessory Sheet

JBS Wren ‘Blueprint’ paper

JBS Butterfly Red Stickers

JBS Reader Flatbacks

JBS Buttons Wood Veneer

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How would YOU use digital baubles?!  

The Pearl Baubles digital kit is on sale for 25% off through Sunday midnight PT.  

It's Summer!

I feel like I have been waiting on summer for FOREVER!  I don't know about you but the end of the school year is hard and long and filled with stuff and makes me want summer to hurry up and get here.  This is my kid's first week off for summer and so far it has been filled with pool time and hanging out.  It's nice.  And we needed it.

Summer mostly to me is about the beach.  Ahhh...  I love the beach.  And this year it is even better because we have two beach trips planned.  One in June and one in July.  I can't tell you how excited I am and the countdown is posted and reviewed daily!

So in anticipation of my be achy summer...

I took this picture over Mother's Day weekend this year.  Maybe that was just the kickoff for summertime for me.  The page is simple.  I used the May Jenni Bowlin kits.  I am down to bits and pieces of these kits left, but used the Heidi Swapp stencils from the Historian Add On and some spray ink as the main way to create this page.  It was a perfect way to keep my page colorful yet simple so the awesome photo really jumped off the page.  I think this will be the first page in my summer 2014 album.

So what summer plans do you have this year?

~Corrie

Getting messy with paint and rub ons

I love that this month we are spending the time getting messy.  There are so many fun things to play with and get messy on a scrapbook layout.  My favorite things!!  Gesso, paint, mist, ink, and rub ons all are perfect messy supplies.  These products are the best for me to use to really create a page that feels like my page.

For this page about my daughter being 16 (how did that happen???) I started by covering the background with gesso.  This is a great way to create a stronger paper base.  I then combined gesso and Speckled Egg paint from the paint dauber and brushed it down the page.  I used washi tape, some sprinkled ink, rub ons and sequins to finish off the background.

Everything else is a fun embellishment.  Plenty of reminders that she is sixteen.

I hope you play with paints and rub ons and really allow yourself to try some messy techniques.

~ Corrie

One Buck Wednesday

It's digital sale time again and here's what we've got today:

Sunny Skies designed by Lisa Dickinson at 50% off

and Flags & Stars for only $1 !

Creative Team Member Chantalle McDaniel so loved creating her first digital layout a couple months ago that she's done another for us!

She's digi scrappin' like an expert to me!  Here are some tips she's sharing:

1.  Create a cut file look by welding complex shapes and/or words to simple shapes:

2.  Mix up how you use patterns and papers, by experimenting with layer blending modes:

3.  Consider giving items some texture to give the feeling that it's printed material:

Wish Upon a Star

Digital Materials:

JBS ‘Flags & Stars’

JBS 'Sunny Skies’ papers

JBS MercantileMixCutFiles1 - Silhouettes

JBS PlayfulButtons

JBS SpeechBubbles

JBS VintageBling - Rhinestone brads & stars

JBS VintageWhimsy - Wish Upon a Star

JBS Wren Washi Tape

JBS WrenBorders - Blueprint border

Chantalle has inspired me to try each of these digi techniques.  You'll be able to grab these two sale kits at the sale price through midnight PT Wednesday.

Have a creative day!

Brand New Cutting Files - Classic Backgrounds on Sale!

There is so much going on at SnapClickSupply.com!

You can find the new releases with sale prices through midnight tonight at this link.

Jenni Bowlin Studio released a GREAT new kit of cutting files:

You can use them with your Silhouette or other cutting machine and as brushes or masks for your digital scrapbooking.

Here are a couple of detailed shots of how I used these cutting files with my JBS Mercantile Monthly Kits:

And!  If you spend $5, you can get Part 2 of the Designer Samples Kit FREE.  This is one awesome kit!  Get all the info on getting this free kit here.

I used the free kit to create a hybrid layout by printing a digital page and adding my own embellishments:

You can see how I did it ... and why I started scrapbooking this way on the SnapClickSupplyCo blog right here!

Whew!  There are a lot of deals going on and so many layouts to make, so head on over and check it out!

Getting Messy: Resist Stamping

All this month on the blog, we have been sharing evidence of how much we love to get a little messy on our layouts. As for me, "messy" is an adjective that I embrace wholeheartedly, in all of its forms. At times, though, even a little disorder can stand to be balanced with a sense of order, and that is just what I did on this layout, incorporating a simple design and a few layers with a technique that illuminates order within disorder -- resist stamping. 

I started by reaching for this month's exclusive stamp set, which includes four individual retro images enclosed in squares. The stamp featuring the girl playing with sand was quite fitting for a layout about an impromptu morning visit to the beach. 

Using watermark ink, I repeatedly stamped the image on a rectangular piece of cardstock. Watermark ink is pretty much invisible, so while I tried my best to line up the images, I didn't worry too much about it. I filled as much of the page as I could -- about four blocks down and five across. 

I then sprinkled clear embossing powder over the stamped images, shaking off the excess powder and returning it to the bottle.  Using a heat tool, I applied heat. At this point, the images started to make themselves visible, taking on a raised or embossed texture. 

I tilted the paper at an angle and misted the left side of it with a few sprays of yellow, and then focused a few more sprays at the top of the paper, allowing the color to drip from the top to the bottom so that the intensity of the color varied slightly. I repeated this on the right side with blue mist. With a paper towel in hand, I dabbed away lightly at the misted cardstock, and in the process, the "resist" effect emerged, revealing the stamped and embossed images. 

I love the effect! It definitely makes getting a little messy worth it.