Fancy Pants + some sketches!

 I was asked to contribute a couple sketches for a great Canadian online store called

Let's Capture Our Memories. I used to be part of their design team a few years ago so I happily said yes!

I created a layout sketch and this co-ordinating card sketch.

Here was the card that I made with this sketch, using some of my Fancy Pants Summer Sun (I really love this collection).

I started with this type written "paper". Basically this is a paper I made by simply typing out text over and over in Word and printed onto plain white cardstock. I added some watercolor red/pinks to it and then some black mist droplets too.

Once that was all dry, I layered it over some papers from the Fancy Pants Summer Sun collection, and a leftover triangle I had diecut out of some vellum in my stash. I stamped a Technique Tuesday sentiment and added that over a chipboard heart from my Fancy Pants Wood Veneers.

I really love how that typewritten paper turned out and will do that again for sure!

Next up is the layout sketch I created!

As you can see, it is a pretty basic sketch. The fun parts are all around the outer edge of the page. This is really up to your own creativity! I have a few different ideas for that outer edge, but here is what I came up with this time.

(oh! and can you see that I typed my name wrong on the sketch ! DUH)

I used the Fancy Pants Designs Making Waves collection for this page - I used the large alphas for my title and started with a navy paper from the collection. I added some trimmed down white cardstock and then went  crazy trimming down strips of the Making Waves collection for around the edge. Once I had them all in place, I just added a bunch of stitching around the edge and then finished off the page with some die cuts, wood veneers and Fancy Pants sequins.

Look how awesome the large title letters are ! I love that you get a mix of solid and prints in the package :)

That's it for me today! I hope you will check out what the Let's Capture Our Memories team did with these sketches!

Fancy Pants Summer Sun + Let's Capture Our Memories!

Just stopping in to share a page and card that I made this month using some sketches I created for a great Canadian website - Let's Capture Our Memories! If you play along with the sketch challenge, you can win a GC to the store! (find all  the details HERE)

I decided to use one of the fun new collections from Fancy Pants to create both my layout and card. Here are the sketches I created - one for a layout and a similar one for a card.

Now, here are the projects I completed using them:

I love the big alphas and combined them with the Summer cut file word from my store Just Nick 

 

 Here is the card I made using up some simple scraps from my Summer Sun scraps and a Technique Tuesday stamp from my stash.

Thanks for stopping by!

Make sure to join in on the sketch fun on the Let's Capture Our Memories blog HERE

Summer Sun with Fancy Pants!

Good morning!! I am popping in to share a project I made this month using the new Fancy Pants Designs collection - Summer Sun! I love the pretty colors in this collection - they scream summer and are pretty girly, which I love :)

I used a lot of the Summer Sun brag cards for this page and layered them on a slight angle along with tiny tags and strips of paper from the collection. I kept it all pretty simple and finished it off with the fun oversized letters for my title.

That's it for me today! Summer is here and I am trying to enjoy the sun and outdoors more now that my kids are officially done all their activities and school is out tomorrow !

Fancy Pants Making Waves collection!

Really quickly popping in today to share a page I made using the fun and summery Making Waves collection by Fancy Pants Designs.

I love the rich combination of colors in the collection and thought they would look cool with this photo I took in Florida last summer

You can see that I used a lot of little bits of this collection to back this diecut from my JustNick store (Rocky Road)

I attempted a bit of an ombre thing, going dark on top to lighter on the bottom of the page with a thing band of paper from the Summer Sun collection, also by Fancy Pants Designs.

That's it for me today!  I have another super simple Fancy Pants project to share with you this week, along with a process video too! Stay tuned :)

More June Hip Kits!

Good morning! For us it is the countdown to the last few days of school and soccer... only a few more days and we get a bit of a break for summer :) I am excited to be off for a few days next week too :)

I am stopping in today to share another page using the June Hip Kit Club kits:

The kits have lots of the new Fancy Pants collection Summer Sun in it - I used the triangle paper as a background and a few of the tags to embellish my page.

I added in some enamel dot/wood button embellishments and stickers from Crate Paper to embellish and some mist-painted wood veneer words too.

I love the bold diecut title from the pink cardstock in the add on - I cut it 4x on my Cameo and layered them with adhesive. It looks dimensional in real life and holds up well so that I don't need to put pop dots behind the thinner words in the title.

This title is available in my cut file store - you can find it here:

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!