Create Interest with 3D Elements

Hi everyone! It's Kate Vickers here today. I would like to share this layout that I made using Studio Calico's Hey Day collection, available at the Let's Capture Our Memories store.



I created the 3D butterflies with the Studio Calico Hey Day Ephemera Pack. The butterflies will collapse almost flat when I must my layout in an album, so they add a lot of interest but not a lot of bulk. Here's how I did it:

1. Take 2 of the Studio Calico butterflies and lay them on top of one another. 
2. Secure with a tiny bit of glue in the centre. 
3. Place them on your layout and machine stitch through the centres. 
4. Gently bend the edges up. That's it!

I added interest to the page title by popping up the title sticker with adhesive foam squares. I inked the edges to make it stand out a bit more.



Thanks for dropping by today! As always, I would love to hear what you think. :)

Some More Smash and Some Friday Faves

Hi everyone! It's Kate here again today. I would like to share more of my Smash book with you and show you some of my favourites in the store right now.

Here is one of my favourites from the shop. This is the 'Journal' Smash Folio. I like this one better than the pink one that I'm using. I find this one more versatile.

Here's another page out of my Smash book. This page documents how my horse, Cash, was really green (untrained) when I got him and that he was especially afraid of water. It took quite a lot of convincing to get him in the water. This is a must for an Eventing horse, so I was pretty determined to get him in! Once he was in, he thought it was fun to splash around.

You can see my background stamp a little better in this photo. I created the horse Silhouette file myself.

That brings me to another of my store favourites. I used this Pretty Party chipboard in my Smash book quite a bit. I can't get enough of Crate!

This is my favourite page from my Smash book so far. I love these pictures of my youngest on a horse for the first time. You can tell by the look on my face that I'm a lot more excited about it than she is! I want my kids to love the same things that I do so badly; scrapbooking, horses and skiing.The folded doily is a Silhouette America die cut. You can see that I used a lot of Crate's Pretty Party here and some of the new Studio Calico Hey Day combined with some Sassafras stuff that I have been hoarding.

Here's another close up.

If you miss Sassafras as much as I do, you don't want to miss out Studio Calico's Hey Day. It was designed in collaboration with Sassafras. Basic Grey's Soleil collection was also designed in collaboration with Sassafras, and it will be in the store soon as well!

Here's the last page that I would like to share with you. This one is a journal page about things that I want to change about myself or that I feel I need to work on.

Here's another of my recent favourites in the store. Aren't they the most amazing buttons ever? They are part of Basic Grey's Paper Cottage collection.

Last, but certainly, not least, there is so much new Maya Road stock in the Let's Capture Our Memories store right now that I don't know which one I'm most excited about. I think that my favourite item is probably this vintage trim. It would go very well with just about any of the paper collections currently out.

Thanks so much for making it down to the bottom of my very long post! Have a great weekend! Kate