Author: Michelle

We explored the color “emerald green” over at Get It Scrapped this past week.  It gave me the perfect excuse to find the perfect product to go with my photos!  I knew before I started this layout that I wanted to use navy and kraft colors to go with all the water and the wood of the kid’s rafts but i was not sure exactly how to tie in the emerald green.  I had these hexagon wood veneers in my stash already so tried several products to color them to their bright emerald color.  Acrylic worked the best for this particular color but I tried a few inks and stains as well.  The letters are chipboard and were a wood looking finish so those got some Copic color added to continue the green.  I added touches of sparkle with gems and a glitter pen around the kraft cardstock.  Make sure to check out the rest of the emerald green inspiration HERE!

I am late in posting this because i have been out of town so I will post a little about that later.

My latest contribution at Get It Scrapped is for an article on Scrapbooking Theme Parks.  The layouts from all the Creative Team are amazing.  If you are visiting Disney, or any other park this summer you will want to take a peak!  Here is my layout;

Breck Alpine Slide by Michelle Houghton | Supplies: patterned paper and die cuts: American Crafts; ribbon and tulle: unknown; ink Sharpie

This particular layout came together fairly easily.  It helped that I had hung onto the background paper for the perfect occasion.  The other elements fell into place fairly easily 🙂 make sure to check out the rest of the inspiring layouts HERE!

Hugs all, I hope you are having a happy crafty day!

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!