My April kit began with pulling scraps and deciding to make some page decor with scraps & ephemera. This is a project that has been needed to be done for a long time. I am not sure that the April kit inspired Erin any way but what colors to start with. Some were created into pages becauseI have photos in mind but they have not been printed yet. I have done groupings and will explain each set
1. A set of green clover background aperture with pink & yellow flowers.The center of the flower are old gem flowers
2. Is another set of tags that compliment each other. The one in the picture is a dark aquamarine with a cream berry strips & pink cherry stripe. The other tag is the berry print with a pink cherry stripe. On the dark aquamarine has berries over the hole.
3. A large lilac tag decorated with flowers. The pink flower has swirls of many colors. The white flower has a pink button center and a pale blue heart button the pink. The butterfly was created with a punch on another scrap a scrap of slightly different lilac. A yellow sparkle flower brad is used in each hole of the tags. The butterfly was backed with a pink & light blue scrap.
4. The pansy banners can be used together or separately depending on what is needed or wanted. The top one : the background is a light blue-purple. The red-purple has a bluish purple floral print. The pansy is n it on on. The butterfly is stamped.The bottom one is triple layered; the back is the light blue - purple. The second layer is the red-purple with bluish print. The top layer is a move scrap. The pansy is an iron on. The butterfly is stamped with Close to My Heart B1034 Butterflies stamp.
1. A pale lemon yellow background A piece of red & yellow circles creating circles. The bear nurse was cut out of a magazine and goes with the quote "To Love is to receive a glimpse of heaven" the quote & circle embellishment came off a of daily calendar.
2 Black is not a color I normally use in scrapbooking. It is a harsh color. This scrap of tulip paper I have had for a long time; I never seems to quite go with tulip pictures. The two scraps, pink with baby blue spots & sky blue with pink spots went well together but needed something more. The quote came off a border sheet and fit perfectly across the blue. All these colors were in the black tulip paper and seemed to tone it down. Using Close to My Heart stamp W329 Dream Big set I stamped mini tulips on the ends.
3. I found the jellyfish border when I was going through stash. I wasn't sure how to use it. While looking for something else I found the cute jellyfish. As I was looking through pictures I found a series of Aquarium pictures featuring jellyfish. I choose a light aquamarine with a print that kind of looked like water.
1. A full sheet left side banner. The light blue paper is covered in stars and reminds me of twilight when you begin to see fireflies. Fireflies remind me of my youth since I have been an adult I haven't always lived where I they can be seen. The jar of fireflies embellishment came off of an envelope I received in the mail.. The lantern was stamped with clear stamp camp equipment set and the flame colored with a Lemon Yellow Nuvo Glitter Marker. The fireflies were stamped using Close to My Heart stamp B1210 Flutter set.
2. Sapphire piece of paper that I used both sides of. One side was plain and the other has sapphire confetti on light blue. I punched out the butterfly and cut the scrap in half, the bottom one has confetti up giving the butterfly a pattern. The large layered florals are fabric flowers with dragonfly button centers.
3. Is a two tag set that compliment each other. (Only one in picture). The one shown is green & pink holy berry with a cherry pink trim. 4. The tag background is a two tone green, olive & spring, with bright pink dots. Along the bottom is a light spring green with florals. In the center. In the centers one is a button the other is a cloth covered brad. of each floral is a mini cloth bright pink flower. The large pink flowers are layered cloth flowers. The mini tag started with a punch butterfly that was backed with a scrap of pastel spring green & light pink.
5 & 6 go together.. The smaller one was made from left over scraps of the agrees.. I used a corner rounder punch to obtain the shape. On either end I used olive green tiny eyelets to hold all layers together.. The larger tag is all scraps. The background piece is a polka dot tone on tone. Along the bottom is a scrap that has 3 shades of green and looks like grass & turned into a tag. The 3 tags down the sender were 3/4 inch strips that I cut to size & used the corner rounder punch. In the top of the tags are mini brads wrapped with embroidery floss. Both the bottom tag & the large tag have eyelet brads. A oval tag stamped with a butterfly from Close to My Heart stamp W329 Dream Big set.
To finish of the month I made some base pages with embellishments. Most of these pages are just waiting for the photos to be printed.
1. Is a brown & pink layout a color scheme that I don't use very often. The scrap on the right is a light pink with dark pink scribed words & along the edges are chocolate swirls. This scrap influenced the whole page. The background is chocolate brown. On the left I used Close To My Heart D1330 Connections set to create a large flourish. I used embossing ink & blush pearl embossing powder to bring the flourish across the page. Across the left flourish I added a scrap of the scrap on the right and layered a pink & brown floral vine scrap. Both small scraps have rounded corners from a punch
2. The background is bright pink with light pink hearts. Down the left side is light pink with baby pink & white hearts cut into a banner On the left of this scrap is a 3/4 inch trim of two shades of pink hearts cut into a pointed banner. About 4 inches from bottom I have another banner strip of multiple colors of hearts. Tucked into the corners of the two smaller banners is a tag hook perfect for hidden journaling. The tag is a pink & white stripe with a heart placed over the hole.
3. A double page layout. The beginning of these pages was the sheet from the daily calendar about garden. I then added Ed the yellow gingham with seed packs. I cut the yellow into a fish tale banner. I felt it needed something more and found the dark green leaf paper with light blue &;yellow leaves. I created clusters using Journal for Life ephemera and magazine cut out butterflies.
4. This one was again influenced by the a daily calendar sheet. I placed this on a wood grain packaging from Some Assemblage Required. I added some small scraps that were just lying on the desk that reminded me of Robins. I stamped a flying clear bird in chocolate and colored with alcohol markers in the color of Robins.
5. This one was inspired by the turtle scrap. I went through my green scraps and pulled the polka dot green and the florals. I turned the polka dot into a large tag. And added the turtle border as well as a floral border. I used the scraps I cut off as a border on the upper right. The words were stamped from rose art stamps and fussy cut out. The greens remind me of Spring so thinking spring arriving pictures will be used.
6. This is another 2 page layout. This one was inspired by circle scrap. This was a piece I wasn't sure I even liked but I do like these pages. These pages will be base pages for a Christmas layouts. I found a brown snowflake sheet I cut in half and placed on the left & right sides of the layout. I layered the circle scrap on top of a brown snowflake after cutting it into 2 large tags. On the left side tag I placed cup washi tape across the bottom & across bottom of snow flake paper. The deer is a foam sticker. On the right I added a large cup cut out on the Cricut and added Journal for Life ephemera. I added cup washi tape across the left end of the tag. I created a upper cluster on the right starting with cup washi tape as a shelf..on the shelf I used a red gnome foam sticker and added a Journal for Life ephemera.
Waiting to see May kits and what I accomplish.
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