Elle's Studio: February Kit & New Releases Inspiration!

 Hi Crafty Friends! 

Welcome back for more Elle's Studio awesomeness! 

The February Kit and new releases will have you swooning! Check them out...

Exclusive February 2020  Kit

Oh, just look at all those happy colors and pretty patterns! Yay! So much to love in the February Kit!

And the new releases are just as impressive...

Stamps, rainbows, hearts, veneers - everything is SO good! 

And let's not forget the fabulous February Digital products...

Awesome!!!

These lovelies are sure to sell out fast - shop ALL the new release HERE before they're gone!

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Time for some inspiration!

Here's a couple of projects I have created with these fabulous new products...

"Happiness Captured" 8.5" x 11" layout

Oh how whimsical & fun!!!

Elle's Studio Supplies: February 2021 Kit, February 2021 Cut Files, Happy Little Moments Chipboard Stickers, Heart Of Gold Wood Veneers, Tiny Acrylic Hearts, & XOXO 6 x8.5 inch Paper Stack

Other: Machine stitching, watercolors, enamel dots, staples, & twine.  

Such a fun and dreamy page! Let's take a better look...

The February 2021 Cut Files are all kinds of awesome, and I just couldn't resist going large with the rainbow tag file. Such a fun way to incorporate cut files into your memory keeping pages! I backed the rainbow with one of 6 x 4 inch note cards from the February 2021 Kit as well as one of the pattern papers from the XOXO 6 x8.5 inch Paper Stack. Cute!

I also made a sweet bow from the XOXO 6 x8.5 inch Papers, and adorned the  clouds with those cute Tiny Acrylic Hearts. 

I backed the cut file cloud with my darlings' black & white photo. I love how effective this looks! And that veneer sentiment is just perfection!

FUN, indeed! Such a soft and pretty page! 

My next layout is bright, and bold and well, it's just Good Vibes Only!

"Love This" 12 x 12 layout

Oh WOW! 

Inspired by all the rainbows, and fun, bright colors in this month's kit!

Elle's Studio Supplies: February 2021 Kit, February Labels, Bright Die Cut Tabs, Happy Little Moments Chipboard Stickers, Tiny Acrylic Hearts, & Good Times Tab Stamp. 

SO much awesome here! The multi colored, repeat stamped, Good Times Tab Stamp really looks amazing!

For the love of color!!!

Rainbow grids for the win!

You ARE golden! Love this! 

As I mentioned earlier, these products won't last long in the shop - 

***Get your Elle's Studio new releases HERE***

I hope my projects have inspired you today! I'll be back a little later on this month to share more February 2021 Kit goodness with you. 

Thanks so much for visiting, 

til next time, 

Happy Arty Days, 

Amanda xo 

Shimmerz Paints: January 2020 Color Kitz Inspiration & Video!

Hi Everyone! 

Welcome back for more bright, colorful & shimmery inspiration with

my latest scrapbook layout (& process video) with the stunning new 

Shimmerz Paints: January edition Color Kitz!

I know, amazing right?! 

The Shimmerz Paints Color Kitz are bigger & better than ever before! 

The new 2020 Kitz include exclusive colors and products to tie your whole page together. The January 2020 Collection includes the following colors and products:

Into The Woods Vibez

 A new exclusive color to this kit. 

This color is a vibrant hunter green hue with silver shimmer.

Before Dawn Vibez

 A black pigment spray with shimmer.

Sage Advice Shimmerz

 A new exclusive color to this kit.

This color is a soft and neutral sage green hue with shimmer mixed within.

For Shore Creameez

 A cool neutral hue watercolor.

Silver Fox Shimmerz

 A new exclusive color to this kit. 

Silver fox is a silver hue paint with shimmer mixed within.

Sheer Bliss Inklingz

 A skin tone neutral hue watercolor.

PLUS

4 journaling cards

1 exclusive Forest cut file created by Paige Taylor Evans

1 teaspoon package of Country Buttonz

1 set of "Happy Day" Dotz

Wow! That's one super impressive kit! 

The creative possibilities with this Color Kit are endless, but I wanted to create a page that featured all.the.things!!! Here's what I created, 

"Explorer"

Whoa! How awesome is this?!

The January edition Color Kitz was perfect for documenting my lil explorer! 

Think great outdoors, adventuring and lake life! So cool!

You'll spy that I even added one extra color to the mix - Ultra Marine Shimmerz! This stunning hue of deep blue coordinated beautifully with the greens and grays of the January Kit! Love it! 

Here's a closer look at my layout......

Yep, this is one super cool page for my little guy! 

As soon as I saw the Forest cut file created by Paige Taylor Evans, I knew I would create a masculine layout! If you look closely at my darling boy's photo, you'll notice that his top has a very similar design on it! Awesome!

To create this layout, I began by filling sheets of paper with all the kit colors. While they were drying, I prepared the cut file. I cut it in plain white cardstock, and removed some of the cut pieces, while keeping others intact. The mix of inset and paper backed sections really added interest to the cut file. 

The inset sun rays are left untouched, but I used the neutral For Shore Creameez to paint the mountain peaks and clouds....

Simple, but so effective! 

The remaining sections of the sun are backed with the paper which I painted with Sheer Bliss Inklingz, and the mountains are backed with the new Silver Fox Shimmerz. SO good! La la love this new Shimmerz!

The trees are mostly backed with varying depths (paint coats) of Into The Woods Vibez, except for one which I backed with Sage Advice Shimmerz for a point of difference and interest. Here's a closer look at them....

Trees 1,2 & 4 are Into The Woods Vibez and tree 3 is Sage Advice Shimmerz. Such gorgeous colors!

 I added in the Ultra Marine Shimmerz for the water element of the cut file, and I'm so glad I did! This bright pop of color adds just enough playfulness to the design without distracting from the beautiful January Color Kitz colors. 

Before I adhered the Forest cut file to the Cocoa Vanilla Studio: Boys Rule pattern paper, I added lots of inky droplets, splatter and brush strokes to the pattern paper with the Before Dawn Vibez. Once dry, I foam mounted the cut file, and glued it to the inky base. 

I have used the Cocoa Vanilla Studio: Boys Rule collection to embellish my page too, but it's those Happy Day Dotz that won me over! Aren't they fabulous?! I couldn't help myself, & used all of them to adorn my photo with! Yes, that good!

 You'll also spy that I layered my photo cluster onto one of the journaling tags, and sprinkled a few of the teeny tiny buttons around the page. Told you I used all.the.things!

Such a cool kid page! 

You can see how it all came together in my process video below....

Thanks so much for watching!

I hope I have inspired you to get creating today! 

Remember! The Color Kitz are limited edition, so be sure to get yours HERE, before they're sold out! Type AMANDA in the comments section of your order & you'll receive a freebie paint too! 

Yay! 

Thanks again for stopping by, 

til next time, 

Happy Arty Days, 

Amanda xo 

Shimmerz Paints: December Color Kitz!

Hi Friends! 

 I'm so super excited to be sharing more Shimmerz Paints inspiration with the brand new December Color Kitz! 

This month's kits are just stunning and look like this....

All the cozy Christmas feels with the new "Farmhouse December Color Kitz".
 This kit includes the following:
1 1oz bottle of Snow Storm Vibez
1 jar of Wed Wagon Shimmerz
1 jar of Run! Forest Shimmerz
1 package of exclusive Dotz "Cozy Christmas"
1 jar of Gold Glimmer Blingz

& 

Make this season the sweetest ever with "The Sweet December Color Kit"

This Kit includes the following:
1 1 oz bottle of Frost Bite Vibez
1 jar of Pip-Pip Cherry-O Shimmerz
1 jar of Twinkle Twinkle Inklingz
1 package of exclusive Dotz "All I want for Christmas is You" Set
1 jar of Bubblegum Blast Shimmerz
1 exclusive Christmas Candy cut file created by Paige Taylor Evans

WOW!!! 

I'd be racing to the Shimmerz Paints store to shop these kits now - before it's too late! 

Shop both Color Kitz HERE

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Both kits are absolutely divine, and for today's inspiration (& process video) I am using the Sweet December Color Kit!

Here's my layout, 

"Magic of Christams"

Whoa! Isn't this pretty?!! 

Such gorgeous colors and those exclusive, All I Want For Christmas, Dotz are just the best!!!

You'll notice that I did miss using the beautiful Christmas Candy cut file (it wasn't quite available at the time I created this layout) but I did use another Paige Taylor Evans cut file from the Silhouette store. I think this different choice of cut file just demonstrates how versatile the month's colors are! So beautiful!

Let's take a closer look....

That Vibez Frost Bite blue has my heart! 

Such a stunning color to spray the cardstock base with! I also flicked this color around the layout to add more interest. Love it! 

For my cut file, I painted both the Shimmerz Bubblegum Blast and Pip Pip Cherry-o onto sheets of scrap paper. I used these pretty pink papers to fill the bow and berries. To add soft texture & dimension I foam mounted the cut file and layered it onto the super pretty Frost Bite base. This looks so effective!

The "All I Want For Christmas" Dots were too pretty to ignore, so I used all three of them on this page. Such a sweet adornment!

I also combined the Pretty Little Studio: Glitter & Ice collection with the SpiegelMom Scraps Winter Delight sequin mix for the 'scrapbook' element of the design. The Inklingz Twinkle Twinkle is the perfect amount of shimmer & shine to complete the look. 

So much pretty! 

You can see me create this pretty page over on the Shimmerz Paints channel HERE

https://youtu.be/MwROxXofLpA

Thanks so much for watching! 

I hope I have inspired you to get a lil painty today! 

Shop ALL the Color Kitz HERE

And if you're adding extra paints into your cart, type AMANDA in the comments section of your store order to receive a FREE paint! Yay!!

Thanks so much for visiting! 

til next time, 

Happy Arty Days, 

Amanda xo 

Cocoa Vanilla Studio: The Sweet Life!

Hi Friends!

Welcome back for some super pretty Cocoa Vanilla Studio: UNFORGETTABLE inspiration! 

This week the Design Team have been asked to create scrapbook pages that feature pattern paper as the background - so no white cardstock! 

We're aptly calling it 'white out' week! 

Here's what I came up with.....

"The Sweet Life" 

Sweet indeed! What a delightful page!

You'll spy that I used the beautiful woodgrain paper, CV-UF008 NATURAL BEAUTY as my background paper. However, once I started looking at all those pretty papers I just couldn't stop at one - so.much.gorgeousness! Naturally, there are lots of pretty pattern papers featured on my layout today! 

Let's take a better look....

Isn't this just gorgeous?!! 

And truly, life couldn't be any sweeter with my two darlings!

To the top of my layout, I added a one inch strip of that divine floral, CV-UF001 GLORIOUS. This paper makes me swoon every single time I lay eyes on it! Such a stunning floral design! And speaking of florals, I used that coordinating floral swag DIE CUT EPHEMERA piece to embellish the GLORIOUS trim, and act as an anchor for my title and overall design.

My large title is a digital cut file courtesy of Cut To You, and I have backed it with a few of the 6 x 8 PAPER PAD papers. 'The Sweet Life'  papers happen to be the smaller variation of the B-side designs to CV-UF003 GARLAND and CV-UF005 LACEWING. Love!!! 

The 6 x 8 PAPER PAD is the perfect choice for backing cut files with!

I embellished my larger title with a few carefully selected pieces, the first of which was my photo cluster. I tucked my photo just beneath the edge of my title and attached them together with the 'treasured' ACCESSORY STICKER. I used another sticker beneath my photo, as well as a DIE CUT EPHEMERA tab to support my photograph. 

Here's a closer look for you...

The Cocoa Vanilla Studio FLAIR BUTTONS are always amazing, and I added that sweet camera one to complete the look.

To balance my black & white photo on such a colourful page, and create that second point of interest to the title, I foam mounted that sweet DIE CUT EPHEMERA camera embellishment. Subtle, simple but so effective!

In keeping with the rule of three, and the sweet camera embellishments, I also featured the pretty black camera ACCESSORY STICKER. So cute!

The final adornment to that big title is the fussy cut the florals from pattern paper, CV-UF003 GARLAND. I foam mounted them just below the title, and ensured that they reflected the swag at the top of the page too. This really added that wow factor to my overall design.

The CV-UF008 NATURAL BEAUTY paper is so stunning that I had to use both sides of it. The pretty B-side (that striking black & white foliage print) trims the base of my layout. I ensured that the GARLAND floral arrangement overlapped this trim & in turn, created a more cohesive design. For a polished look I added the 'best things in life...' sentiment ACCESSORY STICKER and a good sprinkle of ENAMEL DOTS.

And there you have it! 

Beautiful, classic creating that highlights the gorgeous UNFORGETTABLE pattern papers!

I hope I have inspired you to use more pattern papers in your projects this week!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

til next time, 

Happy Arty Days,

Amanda xo 

SpiegelMom Scraps: Scraplift Challenge!

Hi Friends!

Welcome back for more sparkly inspiration with my latest project for the Sparklers DT! 

Today's layout is for the scraplift challenge being hosted in the Spread The Sparkle Facebook group!

If you haven't seen it yet, we're lifting this fabulous layout by papercrafter, Katie Scott....

Gorgeous, huh?

Apart from those stunning sequins, 

I was instantly taken in by that fabulous heart cut file, the partially backed puzzle pieces & the embellishment cluster at the base, on the right hand side. 

Here's what it inspired....

"Baby Girl"

Sigh! Soooooo pretty! 

I have combined the That Summer Feelin' and Happy Vibes sequin sets to create this gorgeous page!

Best part? These sequins are still available in the SpiegelMom Scraps Shop HERE & code AMANDA15 will save you 15% too! Yay!!!

Here's a closer look for you....

Just stunning!

I have also used the beautiful Just A Lil Lovely collection from Pinkfresh Studio, as well as one of their brand new digital cut files, Heart & Floral. Inspired by the partially backed puzzle pieces, I decided to partially 'fill' my cut file with sequins. In particular, the leaves and blooms!

I just LOVE how effective this looks....

Super sparkly, & just divine!!!

And how cute are those tiny scattered hearts from the That Summer Feelin' sequin set?! 

LOVE!!!

Here's a look at those sequins adorning my sweet girl's photo....

Absolutely gor-jus!!!

And there you have it!

My take on the October Scraplift Challenge!

I hope you feel inspired to play along too! 

And good luck! (There's a $15 Gift Card prize up for grabs!)

Get all the details in the Spread The Sparkle Facebook Group HERE

Thanks so much for visiting, 

til next time, 

Happy Arty Days, 

Amanda xo

Cocoa Vanilla Studio: Unforgettable Little Moments!

Hi Friends!

Welcome back for more Cocoa Vanilla Studio inspiration!

Today I am sharing another super pretty layout with the gorgeous UNFORGETTABLE collection. For this layout, I wanted to create something really special for my sweet girl - I hope she likes it!

Here's what I came up with...

"Little Moments" 

Oh how preeeeeeeeeetty!!! Such a beautiful, floral page for my darling daughter!

Here's a better look for you...

 

Absolutely stunning!

You'll spy the B-side of pattern paper CV-UF 001 GLORIOUS taking center stage! I fussy cut this paper along its own pattern line, and took advantage of the directional quality it posesses. Not only does this clever cut paper encourage movement and flow, it essentially draws attention straight into my sweet photo - LOVE!!! Such a clever way to trim & use this paper! For added impact, I adorned this paper with that sensational floral cut file.

***Note: The cut file is called: Floral Bouquet Set and is courtesy of Cut To You***

It really is something, isn't it?!

 I used papers from the 6 x 8 PAPER STACK, as well as some peach coloured cardstock to back this file. I filled the flower centers with ENAMEL DOTS pollen, and then embellished on and around the cut file with DIE CUT EPHEMERA blooms & leaves. To complete the look, I positioned a DIE CUT EPHEMERA butterfly in between the two large cut file flowers. 

Perfect! 

Like the GLORIOUS pattern paper, these cascading blooms lead you straight to my beautiful photo.....

Beautiful, indeed!

I tuck my photo into that gorgeous array of blooms, which are from the DIE CUT EPHEMERA pack. I also anchor my layout with a half inch trim of the reverse side of pattern paper, CV-UF007 SPRIGHTLY. This trim is errrrything!!! I just adore how it encompasses my overall design and forms the perfect base to this page!

I embellish this photo cluster with tiny fussy cut butterflies from the 6 x 8 PAPER STACK, more DIE CUT EPHEMERA flowers, and a couple of ACCESSORY STICKERS which I position beneath my photo!

For finishing touches, I add a few of the sentiment stickers from the ACCESSORY STICKERS sheet.

Simple. Sweet, and oh-so pretty!

A beautiful little moment captured! 

I hope it has inspired you to document your little moments too!

Thanks so much for visiting!

til next time, 

Happy Arty Days,

Amanda xo