After a year and a half of not scrapbooking any of our photos, I finally finished 4 pages in one day! I felt like I was a novice at first and it took me a long time to get back into the swing of it, but I’m happy with the results.
Not having access to all my supplies and tools has made me dig a little deeper into my bag of techniques. On this layout, I started with one of our how to pattern books a group of photos, and a pack of paper that worked with the colors in the photos. From there I added some homemade stencils, used some flip flaps, and just had some fun.
There is a video of me walking through the creation of these pages if you want to see more of what I did.
Back before our family moved to California, and then before the Coronavirus was an everyday concern, I hosted a free monthly crop. Ladies would come and work on their own projects during the day and in the evenings everyone would be given the materials for a project. Often the project was a card workshop, but sometimes we did home decor items or learned new techniques. We have all missed this, and I have started hosting zoom chat & crafts for everyone in my VIP group. (Got to Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/CraftingwithAmanda and request to join)
This month I decided we needed to try and do more together and I designed this card for our third Thursday chat & craft.
Aug 2020 Club Project
I originally designed this card for a color challenge and a scraplift challenge.
Color & Scraplift Challenge Cards
I used the August 2020 Stamp of the Month for all the background stamping. It was fun doing some random stamping again!
Do you recognized any of the shapes? They all came from the first Close to My Heart Cricut Cartridge, Art Philosophy. I think this card would be great for any occasion. What would you use it for?
Each month I am putting together challenges in hopes to inspire more crafting. There will be a winner drawn from all the entries and that winner will receive a RAK from me.
For each of these challenges, they must have been done during the month of August 2020. Only Facebook VIP members that complete a challenge and post a photo in the August Challenges album are eligible for prizes. To join our facebook group, go to this page and submit a request to join. https://www.facebook.com/groups/CraftingwithAmanda
For the card challenge create TWO cards using this sketch as an inspiration. Post a photo of your cards in the August Challenges photo album.
For the Layout challenge you can create two cards, or one layout, planner page, or paper crafting item that is inspired from this sketch. Post photo in the August Challenges Album.
For the Color challenge, create two cards, a layout, planner page, or other paper craft item using only these colors. You may add White, Black or Kraft cardstock. Post a photo of your creation in the August Challenges Album.
For our last challenge, you can double dip as they say. I want you to use 10 of your embellishments that have been in your stash for a bit. The 10 embellishments do not have to be on one project but can be spread over multiple projects that you have created THIS month. So you can embellish your card challenge and your color challenge with 10 embellishments, post the photos of your creations in the album and wah-lah you have earned multiple tickets for the prize drawing.
So vibrant and fun! CTMH continues to create great paper packs. They can be used for Summer fun photo and cards, but I could see me using the red gingham and leaves paper in a fall apple orchard trip, or the waves lend themselves to bath time photos with baby!
After you decide if you will be able to use all the great stickers, then you can add stamps, thin cut sets & other embellishments as you need.
Z3742 Card Making stamp & thin cut set Can be purchased separatelyz3745 Scrapbook stamp & thin cut set Can be purchased separately x7258E Acrylix Shapes
As great as the acrylic shapes are, I think my favorite are the picture my life cards. They can be made into a card front just on their own, or tucked in behind a photo on a layout. For me they are wonderful.
x7258D Picture My Life Cardsx7258C Card Stock
If you are low on some colors of cardstock, no worries, just select the Summer Vibes cardstock pack and you’ll have variety that coordinates with the Summer Vibes papers.
If you are behind on your scrapbooking and you want some WOW layouts quickly, check out everything you can do with the Scrapbook workshop.
Summer Vibes papers & stickers, some Cardstock, acrylic shapes, (exclusive to the kit) laser cut die shapes and directions. Everything you need to create three 2-page layouts. You can order the kit with or without page protectorsSummer Vibes LO1Summer Vibes LO2Summer Vibes Lo3Papers & cardstock with stamp & thincut exclusive to the Card Kit
Need to send some happy mail? This kit is sure to bring a smile to anyone who receives one of these cards.
Card 1Card 2Card 3Card 4
I could see some of these popcicles or ice cream cones on a layout or two!
Be sure to check out my youtube channel (search for Crafty Amanda) as I walk through putting together kits & giving idea of how to make any CTMH kit work for you!
