With Sugar On Top Scrapbook Layout!

I hope all my US friends had a wonderful Thanksgiving Weekend! I had lots of fun playing in the 15 Minutes 2 Scrap with SpiegelMom Scraps this weekend. It is such a great community of creative, crafty girls, and one worth checking out! There were some awesome challenges and lots of inspiration going on as well as some great sales over at the SpiegelMom Scraps Store! I'll post a code below for the Cyber Monday Sale!

One of the challenges was to create an 8 1/2 x 11 layout using gold letters, a stencil, and mixed media. This was a bit of a challenge since I'm a 12 x 12 scrapbooker! But it was definitely fun, and I love how it turned out. I started off using a sketch from the October Sketchy Challenge on the Creative Scrapbooker Magazine website and adapted it to fit my page. Using an off white background I stenciled white snowflakes using a Dina Wakley stencil and white Ranger texture paste in three different clusters on my page and then splattered some pretty Christmas coloured mists on my page using Tattered Angels Mists in Sage and Wild Currant along with some Tim Holtz Mica Mist. I also used the Glimmer Mists to colour in the seam binding ribbon on my journaling tag.

I used the gumdrop stamps from the Pretty Cute Stamps Gingerbread House clear stamp set on some white cardstock that I had misted with the Glimmer Mists, as well as a couple sentiments - one stamped directly onto my photo. The diecuts are from the Winter Frolic Cricut cartridge, which was a free cut of the week. I created three distinct clustered areas on my layout with the stenciled areas, diecuts, stamps and sequins to create a visual triangle around my photos.

For the gold lettering element, I used Emerald Creek Charred Gold embossing powder on my diecut letters. This embossing powder is fantastic! I love the gold with pops of black in it.  I was so excited to recently pick up this embossing powder, Gold Confetti SpiegelMom Scraps sequins and amazing Holiday Style patterned papers from the new Canadian Wild Whisper Shop, and to use all these wonderful goodies on my layout! I had lots of fun using these pretty papers on my diecut images and fussy cutting out the pretty stars from one of the papers. I even added a bit of sugary Stickles to my letters for some extra detail.

Here's that code for the SpiegelMom Scraps Store if you feel like doing a little Cyber Monday shopping ;) 

Thanks so much for stopping by today! As December approaches we're looking forward to doing lots of Christmas activities and enjoying a happy Holiday season once again. I hope you had a wonderful weekend and have a creative and joyful week ahead!

Linked to:
Emerald Creek Dares - AG (You can get 10% off your order at the Emerald Creek Store just by entering!)
Lasting Memories December Challenge - Glitter and Glam
DL Art - Nov Linky Challenge

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper - Nov Link Up

CHNC - #309 Use a Sentiment - Christmas themed

CHNC Challenge Extra - Nov Link Up AG Christmas

Sunny Day Crafting - AG

Little Scrap Pieces - Show It Off Saturday

PDE Linky Party - Anything But A Card

SSS Wednesday Challenge - Christmas To Die For (diecut & Christmas)

SSS Monday Challenge - Trio Tastic (3 clustered areas of embellishments)

DCD - AG

Creative Scrapbooker Magazine - October 2016 Sketch

Goody Goody Gumdrops!!

Oh my gosh, I love the new releases from Pretty Cute Stamps this month! and this sweet Gingerbread House stamp set is going to be one of my favourites!! P.S. It's on sale right now!!

I saw the sketch at Mojo Monday this week and I just had to make another card using this set (you can see my first card here)!

I love using non-traditional colours for Christmas cards - and these pinks and blues just feel like candy to me - so to combine them with a gingerbread house and gumdrops.... Perfect!

I cut my house out with my Cricut Explore using the coordinating SVG files and then stamped directly on the diecut. Can I tell you how much I'm loving stamping on the precut images?!! I used Prismacolor Markers, which are alcohol based, to colour in my image and added some glitter gel pen and Glossy Accents. I had to add this little gingerbread man (and the light garland on my tag) from the Oh Christmas Tree set, of course!

On the tag that nestles behind the gingerbread house I added a couple gumdrop diecuts and stamps and this awesome Goody, Goody Gumdrops! sentiment. I just love that! Inside, I added a sentiment from the set, layering it on some paper that matched the front of the card.

Thanks so much for joining me today! You can see all the fun that is happening on the Pretty Cute Stamps blog celebrating the new release by checking out this week's blog posts, and make sure to check back here first thing tomorrow for Day 2 of the PCS Blog Hop!! and your chance to win a PCS gift certificate!

Linked to:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Use a diecut

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Fav Technique (stamping on a diecut)

Die Cuttin Divas - fun with puns (I think this qualifies as a 'sweet' home)

Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge - #415

Pretty Cute Stamps September Release Sneak Peek!

I'm so excited to be sharing a sneak peek with you today for the Pretty Cute Stamps September New Release stamp set Gingerbread House! This is such an sweet set and one that you will definitely want to use for creating the most adorable Christmas cards!!

I used some new Echo Park paper from a 6x6 pad, The Story Of Christmas to paper piece my little gingerbread house (one of my fav techniques!). I just loved the woodgrain paper and thought it would be perfect for a bit of a twist! I absolutely adore this sentiment included in the set!! And, I had to sneak in this little gingerbread man, which is actually from the Oh Christmas Tree set ;)

I used my Prismacolor Markers to color in this yummy candy and I popped up the heart on the house with a foam dot to add some dimension. Some gems from my stash and a white gel pen added some final details.

Inside, I added two more sentiments included in the set and a couple of the single gumdrops (I'm so craving gumdrops right now, lol!) I was able to use the SVG cut files that coordinate with this stamp set to easily cut the outlines before stamping, which made this go so quickly! 

Thanks so much for joining me today!! I'm so excited for you to see the full sets of the new releases - you are going to love them! I will be back on Friday to share my project for the Pretty Cute Stamps Blog Hop, so be sure to check back. In the meantime you can check out the Pretty Cute Stamps blog to see all the projects the awesome Design Team has come up with this week! There are three days worth of Sneak Peeks and then Thursday and Friday are both Blog Hop days full of so much inspiration! Here's wishing a you a happy, crafty week!

P.S. Here's the Freebie Cut File for today!! Head over to the PCS blog for the link to grab it!

Linked to:
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Love this technique (paper piecing)
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Use a Stamp