CWC #92 - It's HOT Outside!

Today is challenge #92 over at CWC.. It's HOT Outside... (celebrate fun things to do in & around water). I made this Pool Baby layout using the Pack Your Bags cart.

I love this cart it's got all sorts of great cuts for summer time and vacations, beach trips, swimming, cruises, plane trips, car trips etc etc. Anyway.. I did both cuts from the same page and added some Stickles to give them a little shine!

I added stickles to the baby's swim suit in the title as well as dots around parts of "BABY". This is popped off the page with pop dots.

this cut as stickles on the eyes, in the water around the baby and in the water inside the inner tube.

I hope you like my layout and consider joining in the fun with us this week at CWC!

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Splash Layout

I made this layout using the sketch from Sketches in Thyme #51.

I used the Pack Your Bags cart (definitely one of my favs!) to cut the title, the waves, the sun, and the circles that I wanted to look like bubbles (for these cuts I used Layer 1 of the boat steering wheel one). I outlined the title with a light blue gel pen and some of the waves too. I added some buttons (I love buttons and have a HUGE collection that I never use cuz I never want to give them up lol) for bubbles. I got the buttons to stay by using Terrifically Tacky Tape.. this stuff is the best!! It holds ANYTHING! I cut the frame out at 5.5 x 7.5 and then cut the inside at 4.75 x 6.75. Then I used my Sew Easy and some brown floss to stitch on the frame. This was my very first time actually stitching on a project and my first time using my Sew Easy.. which really is SO EASY! I can't even imagine how much time it saved me to have this awesome tool. The pic was a 5x7 and I had to cover some of it with the frame but I love how it turned out. You wouldn't believe it if I told you but I spent at least 2 hrs on this one layout.. Layouts take me forever but I love making them more than anything.. Im still working on my style thow.. so I love having sketches to work with. The journaling strips are cut at different lengths and heights.

And this is a pic of Adam snorkeling in John Pennekamp State Park in FL while on a little "Vacation".. Adam really got sent down to FL for work but we ended up basically getting a few weeks of vacation for free which was SOOOOOOO nice. I mean we went ALL over. We drove from IL (which was where we were living at the time) and saw tons of stuff on the way down and back.. and since we took our truck we were able to go anywhere we wanted so we drove all the way down to the Keys for this trip.. and actually ended up taking a ferry to the Dry Tortugas and camping ... super fun stuff!!

So Im entering this layout into the following challenges:

Sketches in Thyme - #51

Scrapbookaholic By Abby - #10
The Paper Variety - Tic Tac Toe (I was actually able to get 2 different lines in here lol: stitching, water theme, 1 pic layout, & journaling strips, buttons, 1 pic layout.. not bad!)

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1st TP Mini Album

This is my very first attempt at a toilet paper roll mini album... I think it turned out pretty good for a first time! I would have liked to done more pages but I only had 2 empty toilet paper rolls lol. If you don't know how to make one it's pretty simple. Basically you just get a toilet paper roll flatten it (I would have used my cuttlebug but I have NO idea where the plates are lol).. I used a bone folder.. I've seen online ppl use books and such to flatten them. Pick out paper, cover the roll and tuck into the inside so you can see any of the roll. Make tags to fit inside.. (mine are a little less than 4in x 2in approx.) and add embellishments. Punch holes (or in my case 1 hole, I could only find 1 binder ring) into one end of the toilet paper roll pages and close with binder ring.. add ribbon to the binder ring for looks. Pretty simple! I've seen other people use a bind it all or something similar to bind their toilet paper albums.. If I had a binding maching (I wish!) I probably would have done so also.

My entire album has embellishments from Pack Your Bags cart (1 is from Life's A Beach the whale on the front cover, and the ice cream is from Nifty Fifties). All of the stamped sentiments in the mini are from K Andrews Splashtastic Summer stamp set (you can purchase from her site HERE!), which I LOVE!

I am entering this mini into the following challenges:

Pause Dream Enjoy - Toilet paper roll mini album challenge

Really Reasonable Ribbon - #28

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Beach Fun Layout

These are the scraps I started out with.

This was a fun layout to make because I had to use all scraps.. which I love to do! I cut the beach ball at 4 inches and the title at 2 inches both from the Pack Your Bags cart. The strips are all different sizes ranging from 3inches wide to 4 inches wide. I inked the title with a light blue chalk ink and used a blue zig marker to darken some of the items in the title like the beach ball and the umbrella.

I am entering this layout into the following challenges:

Artful Delight - ASC #10

Papercraft Star - #54
Whimsical Wednesday - Use Your Scraps

Wee Memories - #62

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