Gosh, where have I been to miss such an awesome color as navy blue? I love the crisp-ness of it!
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I have a few partial layouts hanging around and the
Amber 2 scrapbook steals sketch was one of those. I have been in love with Stampin' Up's (SU) new "Sent With Love" paper so I grabbed that as well as some textured white SU paper. Oh and I stared at that sketch knowing exactly what pictures I wanted to use. My daughter is stunning in these pictures so I wanted it to be all about her and her innocence.
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You'll notice that this layout is all Stampin' Up products except for the cardstock stickers (both Jillibean soup). To create some dimension I punched out some vellum hearts and doodled with my white signo white pen around the edges of the hearts. I added some pearls, as well as the doily. You'll also notice that I often don't smooth out my letter stickers. I often let them just "lazily" stick off the page. I love that look but I know when I put the page in the page protectors they will stick on. :) But it turns out that I haven't put a page in an album for years... (quite a daunting feat and quite stressful so I avoid it all together).
To create the circle, I first used the crumb cake marker and traced it in a semi-circle (my photos were already taped down. I didn't like just that so I took shimmer paint and dropped some re-inker in it. I then used a q-tip to spread it along the page.
I then realized there was two boys' birthdays coming up over the weekend so I grabbed the "Goal" Stamp set that was laying on top of my stamp set piles as it was recently was used my a friend. I then grabbed an old Stampin' Up paper pack called Night and Day (Retired). Oh what nice navy color has Night of Navy. Since I like to use up all my scraps and play around with things. I came up with three cards. Scrapbooksteals.com has a weekly challenge each week called the Monday Craft Madness challenge. This week it was "Stamp It" so I decide to include this as part of this challenge. You have until the end of the month to complete this challenge.
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You'll notice on a couple of these cards there's a shade of blue. Its simply the night of navy ink smeared on the card using the sponges (its not bashful blue... I am not the best at adhering to my own rules!). There's also some doodling on the pages with white signo pen, as well as just the basic black journaling pen (scribbles).
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Not wanting to stop there I thought I would play along with my local scrapbooking store's weekly challenge -
use ribbon or lace. I saw a lady from Stampin' Up do something similar with the Stampin' Up trim using the dress form framelits (a must-have that I have not yet ordered!!) but I sadly don't remember her name. My inspiration for the trim dress comes from her. Instead I used a stamp set, as well as the labels framelits. Again, I used night of navy cardstock. The pearls added some gorgeous bling.
Also, Stampin' Up is offering a monthly kit that you can subscribe to. It's only $25 including shipping (but not taxes) and includes absolutely everything n eeded for a particular project. So its fantastic for both beginners and "oldies". Check it out by clicking the icon below!
It's bed time! Good night!
Cathy
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