This wonderful Red, White and Blue Patriotic America Layout from Andrea is perfect for Fourth of July, Flag Day or even Memorial Day photos. Along the bottom half of the page she stitched down strips of pattern papers adding a … Read More ...
Epic Birthday Boy Layout
Wow, this Epic Birthday Boy Layout from Michelle is just bursting with stars! In the center is a large star cut from the middle of a white cardstock background then another open die cut star is off center over top, … Read More ...
How To Make A School Memories Envelopes Mini Album
This sweet little project from Carol is a great way to document a years worth of School Memories. She created her mini album with colorful envelopes, decorating the cover with stamped images. Inside the envelopes create the perfect pockets to … Read More ...
“Woo Hoo” Graduation Layout
This festive Graduation layout from Monique has lots of wonderful layers and color! Using a star stencil she ink blended her background, stitching lots of little pattern paper flags to create banner all around the page along with layers of … Read More ...
House Shaped Album with Box
Wow, check out this House Shaped Album with a Box from Celes, isn’t it amazing!? The front cover of the album looks just like a little house, there’s even shaker elements for the windows. Inside are simple pages that follow … Read More ...
6 Star Wars Layouts
Last year on our Disney visit one of my favorite places was Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge so I was super excited to come across these great layouts to inspired me to get started on my pages. The team over at … Read More ...
Ampersand Layout
I love the bold graphic design of the large Ampersand (&) on this page from Kerstin. She die cut it from the center coral cardstock, adding a striped coordinating pattern paper behind and stitched around the edges. Along the bottom … Read More ...
Different Ways to Create Interactive Page Elements
Natasha loves to add interactive elements to her pages. Over on her blog she’s showing different ways to add some fun to memory keeping designs like lift the flaps, pull tabs and envelopes. She’s included a process video on how … Read More ...
3D Shadow Box Frames Project
Madeline used Shadow Box Frames dies from Sizzix to create this wonderful home decor project. She die cut and folded up three 3D frames and connected them together for a photo frame tryptic. She embossed and added Distress Inks to … Read More ...
“Adore” Baby Layout
I “Adore” the yellow and teal with black color combination on this sweet Baby Layout from Tracy. She used lots of chipboard elements and a sentiment on the page that she colored with embossing inks and powders along with some … Read More ...
Design Theory with a Stitched Grid Layout
A new article over on the Close to My Heart blog talks about learning to look at scrapbooking layouts and pick up techniques that you can then use on your own designs. For their example they share a beautiful page … Read More ...
Crafty Creative Mini Album
Traci used products from Simple Stories to design this wonderful “Creative” Mini Album. Check out that pretty cover she decorated and inside are pages to celebrate being crafty and creative. I love that she’s got pages that are different size … Read More ...
Paper, Scissors Glue Layout with Free Cut File
Celebrate your craftiness with this fun FREE “Paper, Scissor, Glue” cut file. Perfect for adding to layouts featuring your craft room, projects you’re working on or attending crafty classes or crops. Lisa is sharing what she created with the file … Read More ...
Congratulations Graduation Layout
A great way to fill a page is by repeating words, images, or a title like on this wonderful Graduation Layout from Sarah. She used a “Congrats” stamp and inked it with a rainbow of different ink pad colors, die … Read More ...
Stamped Beach Traveler’s Notebook Spread
How much fun is this Beachy Traveler’s Notebook Spread from Nicole!? She used stamps from Brutus Monroe, colored with markers to decorate most of the layout, adding some die cut accents with a yellow sun and die cut crab covered … Read More ...