With the craziness of summer vacation upon us I did not get last week’s Get It Scrapped layout posted. I have to say I love this concept and I really had fun with it. The article is on using collections on your layouts. I initially assumed I would fill a page with buttons since I have done that before and because I tend to hoard buttons BUT as I started looking through my photos I found these shots of my daughters with butterflies and I thought to myself “hey, I think I have a lot of butterflies I should see how many I could dig out of my stash” Here is the result;
Supplies: cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper; patterned paper: Lillybee Design and Basic Grey; denim: Canvas Corp; pearls: Queen and Company; stickers: Basic Grey and Crate Paper; butterflies: SEI, Studio Calico, Maya Road, Jenni Bowlin, Queen and Company, Prima, American Crafts, Crate Paper and Basic Grey; other: thread
I found butterflies from 9 different manufacturers and managed to get them all on a page together. One of the butterflies is colored with Copics, one is painted and all the others are as I found them. I was amazed not only at how well they all matched but also how many I had tucked away. Click HERE to see some other AMAZING collections!
And of course as soon as I was finally getting around to posting this layout here comes the next. Today Get It Scrapped tackled a fun new challenge, Combining Plaid and Paisley. I am telling you this was not as easy as I figured. These two patterns don’t play nicely together but I found some great help in two places! First I was inspired by one of the other articles posted this month, Polish Your Paper Mixes with Borders I also recently had the pleasure of taking one of Debbie’s Scrapbook Coach classes and I used one of the brilliant lessons from that class to help me create my layout. Here is my attempt at plaid and paisley:
Supplies: patterned papers, die cuts,brads, tag: SEI; lettering: American Crafts and Jillie Bean Soup; ribbon: Celebrate It; ink: Sharpie
Make sure to check out the other amazing layouts HERE
Happy summer all!
