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Love to Create

Today's layout features Shilmelle's Sparkle City collection and Concord & 9th's Oh, Snap! stamp and die set.  
I wanted to include a photo of myself in my scrapbooks since I am often under-represented in my layouts.  I chose a recent photo of myself taken in my crafty space and centered the layout around some of my favorite projects that I have recently completed.

The inspiration for the layout came from Missy Whidden's "Love My Girl" scrapbook page.  I decided to use a patterned paper for the background of the layout rather than try to reproduce Missy's mixed media background.  The camera patterned paper from the Sparkle City collection was a perfect choice for the focus of this layout.  


Using my Cricut machine, I cut doilies out of teal paper and purple glitter cardstock. I also cut flowers and foliage using the lavender paper and pink holographic dotted paper from the collection.  I staggered the doilies on the background paper and added the photo in the center of the page.  I arranged floral clusters around the photo.


Using the Oh, Snap! stamp set, I stamped the Polaroid camera and photos on dark purple paper and heat embossed the images with white embossing powder.  The images were cut using the coordinating dies.  I printed small photos of some of my favorite cards that I have created and glued these to the Polaroid photo die cuts.  I popped up the small photos on the sides of the layout using craft foam.  I embellished each of the Polaroid photos with hearts cut from the die set.  


For the title, I die cut the word "LOVE" and used stickers for "To Create".  I cut two strips of the pink holographic dotted paper and glued one to the top and bottom of the layout.  I also added a pink dotted holographic arrow near the top of the photo.  I added holographic chipboard stickers to each of the floral clusters and title.


For the finishing touches, I added Wink of Stella clear glitter to the foliage and camera.  I also added Nuvo Crystal Glaze and Nuvo Drops to the camera.  


I love the holographic papers within the Sparkle City collection.  The colors of the collection match the decor of my craft room and perfectly display the emotion I feel when I am in my favorite room of the house.

Love to Create
Supplies:
  • Missy Whidden's Scrapbooking Process #668 Pinkfresh Studio / Love My Girl https://youtu.be/kO9K2pzKPMk
  • Shimelle Sparkle City Project Pad
  • Shimelle Sparkle City Paper Pad
  • Cricut Images
    • Circle Lace Doily Pattern Overlay (#M3F6EC)
    • Decorative Doily Set (#M837870)
    • Fern (#M2FD98)
    • Flower (#MFB71B)
  • VersaMark Ink
  • Recollections Snow Embossing Powder
  • Craft Foam
  • Tim Holtz Alphanumeric Shadow Upper Thinlits
  • Tim Holtz Idea-ology Alpha Metallic Stickers
  • Indigo Foam Letter Thickers
  • Hello Friend Silver Holographic Chipboard Stickers
  • Zig Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Brush Pen
  • Nuvo Crystal Glaze
  • Novo Crystal Drops - Ivory Seashell
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