Inspiration Station: Carta Bella!

Hello everyone! I'm back with an inspiration post today featuring Carta Bella's So Noted patterned papers and sticker sheet. If you're unfamiliar with these papers, you can view them in the store HERE. The specific pattern papers I used are: Dear Jane, Script & Scribbles, Note Cards, and Always You.

Here were my inspiration pieces:

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I especially loved the Jimmy  Buffett quote (even though there is no doubt about Heaven for me). In the second inspiration piece, what I really liked was the splash of orange at the top and the bottom. So with those pieces, are you ready to see what I came up with?

If you're unfamiliar with these Carta Bella papers, they are thick and textured. You can view larger photos of the patterns on the Carta Bella website HERE. I also have a couple of close up shots so you can see the layers, patterns, and stickers.

I hope you can find some inspiration in my pieces this week. Hope to see you share your work in the LCOM gallery. For more details about my page, be sure to stop by my blog today.

Product Shuffle : Using your sticker stash

If you are like me, you have a very big stash of stickers.  I have a tendency to purchase collection packs that contain matching stickers and I never use more than a few stickers on the sheet.  So what can we do with those mountains of sticker sheets and scraps of matching papers?  Well I decided to step a little out of my comfort zone and make cards!  All of these cards I made in an afternoon, most of them only using paper and stickers!  Super easy and super fun!  It made me look at sticker sheets in a whole new light. Who knew they were so versatile!  If you like any of those yummy stickers, all you have to do is click on the link and you will find them in the LCOM store.

Card no.1 features paper from the Basic Grey Kneehighs collection.  How cute is that owl on this sticker sheet!

It's so adorable that it had to be the star of this card!  I also used banner and border stickers also found on the same sticker sheet.  I added some alphabet stickers by Simple stories.
 

Card no. 2 features Bo Bunny's Pincushion collection. 

The balloon image with the clouds and border is a fabulous sticker.  All in one!  How easy is that?  All I needed to add was a ribbon from Webster's Pages and small alpha stickers from Pink Paislee.

Card no.3 features paper and stickers from Simple Stories' Say Cheese collection. 

For a little dimension,  I added some foam squares under the balloon sticker to make it pop off the card.

Card no.4 features Jillibean Soup Grandma's Lima Bean Soup. 

This awesome sticker sheet has it all!  Alphas, tags, stars, hearts (plus it's now on sale in the LCOM store!!  Go check it out!).  All I had to add to this Jillibean soup card was some CTMH hemp and that's it!

Card no.5 was the easiest one to make.  This sticker sheet is from the gorgeous My Mind's Eye Up and Away Collection.

The paper base is Studio Calico's Lemon Lush paper.  Gorgeous papers!!

So now I challenge you to take those scraps and stickers and create cards, tags or journaling spots.  It is so easy and it was so rewarding to see what I could create from leftovers.

Happy Scrapping!