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Born to Shine

Today's layout was inspired by Day 13 of @christys_beautiful_life 30 Days of Sketches Series 8.  Today's star sketch was created by Lottie Loves Paper.  The Scraptember challenge for this sketch was of course stars. 



This layout was a labor of love as it took me all week to create it.  I knew I wanted to do some stitching, but I also wanted some color to come from behind the paper.  I designed the larger starbursts and stars in Cricut Design Space.  I cut the starbursts from a 12x12 piece of black cardstock.  The stars were cut from holographic cardstock.


I popped up the larger solid stars using black foam tape. After gluing the rest of the stars to the black cardstock, I used a ruler and a pencil to draw in the rest of the lines in between the stars and radiating out from the center of the layout.  I used an embroidery needle and silver sparkle twine to stitch over the pencil-marked lines.  I filled in the rest of the spaces with assorted sizes of holographic stars die cut from the Tim Holtz Falling Stars Thinlit die set.  I found a piece of purple cardstock that matched my daughter's dance costume and adhered it behind the piece of black 12x12 cardstock so that the purple paper would show through the larger starburst lines that were cut using the Cricut machine. 


I took two 3x4 photos and matted them with purple cardstock.  I placed them in the center of the layout on top of a holographic doily.


The title was created using a combination of purple Thickers and some Thinlit dies.  I placed the Thickers onto white cardstock and matte them with purple cardstock.  These were placed in the upper left of the layout overlapping the photo.  


The die-cut portion of the title was placed across the doily.  To protect the stitching and to give the layout more stability, I adhered the layout to a piece of white 12x12 cardstock.


This layout was created in several stages over the course of the week.  It was worth the time and effort and I love how it turned out. 

Born to Shine
Supplies:
  • Recollections Cardstock - black, white, and holographic foil
  • Cricut Design Space and Cricut Explore
  • Dear Lizzy She's Magic 12x12 Project Pad - Purple Solid Cardstock
  • Tim Holtz Sizzix Thinlits - Falling Stars and Alphanumeric Shadow Upper
  • Thickers Foam Stickers - Indigo
  • Embroidery Needle
  • Martha Stewart Silver Sparkle Twine
  • Martha Stewart Holographic Doily
  • Black Foam Tape
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  1. JessicaSeptember 22, 2021 at 4:22 PM

    Oh, it looks so good! All of that extra time and effort was worth it. Way to go! 🤩

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