For today's focus project, I wanted to showcase how versatile KI's products are, not only in using as scrapbooking products/embellishments, but for titles and journaling! I mainly used the POSH line here and while I was going through photos, I came across this photo of my daughter and thought it would go so well with the POSH title!
My daughter Kendal and her friend Ian have had mutual kid crushes on each other since Kindergarten. I think they get along so well because they love to play Legos together! I wanted to document this special friendship on a layout. Who knows, maybe one day the two of them will marry, and will look back on this layout and laugh!
Is there a special friendship that you would like to document on a scrapbook page? If so, please post your layout in the comments section below.
Here we are, back to Saturday again! This week for our Silhouette Saturday feature we are going to play with a couple of the new KI Halloween Icons available in the Silhouette store. I chose three shapes to create playful tags for candy treats, Happy Bats, Happy Skull, and RIP Gravestone. I cut each out of patterned papers and even Glitter Cardstock. (DT Member Lisa Dickinson had a great tip to cut your Glitter Cardstock in the Silhouette, turn it over.) I put my settings on thick cardstock and checked double cut for the Glitter Cardstock and it worked perfectly! Punch a hole in the edge of the candy package and the shaped tag, then tie together with some festive ribbons. This is a quick but cute way to dress up simple candy treats!
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Supplies: KI Patterned Paper, Glitter Cardstock, Haunted Ribbon
Who doesn't love a colorful array of alphabet stickers? And KI Memories has some of my favorites, including the Simply Cute font in an amazing array of colors:
I love finding new ways to incorporate them into my projects and I wanted to share two of those ways with you today!
On this page featuring the new Good Folk paper line, I used the Heirloom alphabet as part of my title, but also as part of my grid design. To make some easy patterned squares, I applied the alphabet stickers to kraft cardstock and used a scallop square punch to trim them out:
The result is a unique pattern that coordinated well with my papers.
Another way to use these stickers is as a mask - perfect when you don't have all the letters in the color you need! Here I applied the stickers to white cardstock and misted over them with pink spray ink. Once dry, I removed the letters and adorned the card with Puffies, baker's twine and buttons.
So what can you do with KI Memories alphabet stickers?
Do you ever pay attention to the fine print on the scrapbooking supplies you buy? I just happened to glance at the back of a pack of brads from the new Holly Lane line. This is what I noticed:
How fun!
It says, "Recycle this packaging...use the patterned above for a project!" So I did! I used the packaging from the new Christmas Puffies to make this card to send to my mom.
Can you see the packaging that I used?? Knocking out a birthday card and going green all in one!
I am saving the packaging from the Holly Lane brads to use on a Christmas card. It will work perfectly with the patterned papers from that new line!
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Have a great day!
Welcome back to another Silhouette Satruday! Today we are featuring a card I made with the GLOBE icon. I cut the shape twice, using the blue and green patterned papers. Then pieced together the parts on a white card. I loved the way this shape looked handcut so I added a couple handcut shapes on top of it. A couple little tags with the sentiment finish it off!
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Supplies: Daisy Designer Cardstock, Stiletto Designer Cardstock, Bright Blooms Paper Pad, Posh Petals Paper Pad, (tags cut from Puffies packaging insert)
One of my new favorite things to add to my photos, is texture. You can find all kinds of free textures on the internet, or you can create your own. I added this dot texture to the top of my photo in Photoshop, and played with the blending modes, opacity, and fill. I then created a mask, to remove the texture from my daughter's face and hair.
This simple spring card was featured in the April issue of Scrapbook Trends and uses bright KI Memories papers for the backdrop and for the flock of die-cut butterflies flying across it. I used my Silhouette to cut out the shapes, but you could use a punch as well.
For our FIRST EVER Silhouette Saturday, we are featuring a project by Shannon Tidwell. This adorable 12x12 layout features a new Silhouette shape uploaded this week!
The CAMERA and FLASH icon are originally from the Love, Elsie • Toby Collection. Although the original theme was travel-oriented (and had a masculine twist with a blue and green color palette), Shannon turned this camera icon into an *all girl* accent for her project by cutting it from black & white polka dot paper.
There are so many cute things you could do with this icon...from scrapbook pages to tee shirts to a vinyl wall decoration in a photography studio!
Also in the last week we've uploaded some awesome shapes from Love, Elsie • Roxie (these have already been super popular, but in case you didn't know they were available, go check them out!)
Have fun creating with Silhouette and KI Memories :)
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Supplies: Snow Sew-Cute Calendar, Office pockets, Puffies (lips), sequins
Did you know that there are only 104 more shopping days left until Christmas??!!
Whenever the weather starts getting a little cooler I start thinking about Christmas. I love it!
And you know, it is never too early to start thinking about Christmas cards!! So that is your challenge today: Work on your Christmas cards! It is much more fun to make them if you are not stressing trying to get them done last minute.
KI's new Holly Lane line and the new Christmas Puffies are just the things you will need to get a jump on those Christmas cards!
Here is the best advice I can give for making your cards:
1). Keep them simple! Find a design that is easy to recreate over & over again.
2). Use your scraps! Don't "waste" an entire sheet of pretty patterned paper when you probably have lots of scraps that you can use instead.
:)
Now go make some Christmas cards!
Then come back here and link them up in the comments so we can see them!
Happy card making!
{and Merry Christmas!}
