Lucky Dune Crew

If you're a thrill seeker, than these pages are for you! This year we celebrated St. Patrick's Day at the Sand Dunes. We ran with a great group of guys and gals and celebrated a Birthday with lots of food and fun! The title is fitting for this weekend, "Lucky Dune Crew", not only because of the Irish Holiday, but because we had no major "break downs". If  your not aware of sandrails, it is in there nature to have constant mechanical issues.

My layout design comes directly from the Magic How To book. I've always loved this design and wanted to use it for something one day. Well, this was the day! It requires a panoramic photo and this one was perfect with all the sandrails lined up.

{All products used are Close To My Heart except a few stamped images on right page from Stampin'Up}

Relax with some Faux Stitching

Hello and happy Monday to you all! I've got a great layout to share with you today. I've used the Dotty For You papers to create this layout, which is available to order tomorrow! The page on the left side is from the artwork inspiration insert that you will receive with this kit. On the insert it is indicated that the design is from the Magic how-to book. So I pulled the book from the shelf and looked at the design so I would be able to create a companion page. Funny thing is that the page in the insert is shown to be the right side of the layout. I just felt like it needed to be on the left though and switched them up. I also rotated the right page, because it looked better to me with the pattern of the Dotty paper.

I also wanted to incorporate some stitching on my page as that is the challenge on Heart 2 Heart Blog this week. I enjoy all types of stitching on my projects, but like to do Faux stitching more often. I figure that I'm not very good with my little sewing machine and by the time I get it out, set it up and thread my needle, I could have my pages faux stitched already!

To achieve this type of faux stitching, I started by stamping in Grey Wool with the Simple Stitches stamp set. When you get to a corner you can simply mask the edge with a post-it-note.

Once all the stamping is done, I lay a foam pad under my base page and poke holes along the stitched line with the piercing tool.

You can see here that the stamp I used already has little dots indicating where I would poke my hole. If you were working with a straight line you would want to use something like Close To My Hearts ruler with piercing holes in it to guide you.

A couple of years ago I did a wreath for my home that shows a couple more ways you can stitch your projects. You can see it here.

As always for even more inspiration, please visit the Heart 2 Heart Blog. If you have other clever ideas, share them with us at Heart 2 Heart and enter your artwork. You could be eligible for our monthly top 10!

Mischief Rub-Ons Layout

Are you scared by Rub-Ons? They can be a little bit intimidating, but once you get the hang of them you'll find that they are fun and easy to use on any project. You can find the Mischief Complements Rub-Ons in the Autumn/Winter Idea Book on page 46. Two sheets are a Halloween theme and the other two are an Autumn theme. In this 2 page layout I kept it all in a Halloween theme.


I used the Mischief papers for this layout and the design is from the Magic book. {Magician's Choice}


When you take a closer look you will see that I've created quite a bit of dimension with them. Rub-Ons would typically be used in a very flat manner. So what I've done here is rubbed them on the cardstock, cut them out, and then used 3D foam to pop them off the page.

Notice that with the jars I was able to rub-on a spider's web on top of another rub-on creating more layers. It really appears that there is depth on a shelf or counter.

Hmmm.... I wonder if anyone would like some Halloween pages ; ) !!!

Beach Cruisin' in Cali'

I hope you have enjoyed my challenge projects this week, however it's National Scrapbooking Month, so let's look at some pages!

Using the Mayberry papers, Level 2 Stickease and a template from the new Magic book, I was able to scrap some recent photo's from our Spring Break. Following one of Close To My Hearts How-To books makes the page assembly so easy. Completing the page with Stickease images and just a few small embellishments takes no time at all.

That little bicycle stickease is my favorite! Just a few more days left in May. Come back soon for more scrapbooking inspiration!