Thursday, June 25, 2009

Summer Fun Layout and a Freebie

I did this LO for my little girls. I don't usually do the layouts with the paper pieced bears, but I have seen so many that I love, so I thought I would make one for this page.I used papers from Basic Grey's Marrakech line for this LO, and I did a lot of cutting with my Cricut and SCAL for this page. I cut the swirly sun behind the title with my Cricut , and you can find the svg file for that here: Swirly Sun paper piecing
The title itself is a Soft Spoken sticker from Me And My Big Ideas. To make the swirly sun, I cut it out of yellow cardstock using SCAL, then again in Shadow Blackout mode from white cardstock. I sprayed the yellow pieces with my homemade shimmer spray (Thanks for the idea to make my own, Lindsay!). To make the shimmer spray, I put a little Wilton's Pearl Dust (which I had in my cake decorating stash) in a travel sized spray bottle that I got at Wal Mart for about $0.50, squeezed a small tube of cheap yellow watercolor paint I had in to the bottle, and filled it the rest of the way with hairspray (cheapo stuff). I LOVE the shimmer it added to my sun!
I cut this bear using a svg file that some one from my surecuts alot group shared a while back, and a bathing suit and beach ball freebies that I stumbled across (sorry, since these are not my own designs, I am not free to share them) I did have to manipulate them a bit, to get the look I was going for. I paper pieced, chalked the edges and the cheeks, and added the final touches with a black pen and my trusty white Uniball Signo pen.The flowers on the skirt and ear are also from Marrakech's sticker sheet. Thanks for stopping by!

9 comments:

  1. Thank you! Your blog post will be advertised on the DigiFree Digital Scrapbooking Freebie search engine today (look for timestamp: 25 Jun [LA 07:00pm, NY 09:00pm] - 26 Jun [UK 02:00am, OZ 12:00pm] ).

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  2. Thank you so much for this Freebie. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in Creative Busy Hands Scrapbook Freebies Search List, under the Page 5 post on Jun. 26, 2009. Thanks again.

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  3. Oh MY!!!!!! What a BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL fun layout!!! So bright and colorful and your eyes just want to travel around the page!!! GREAT job girl!!!

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  4. ADORABLE!!!!
    Thanks for the sun.....
    **U**
    Nance

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  5. I love this! Can you point me in the direction of the creator of the bathing suit and beach ball files? I'm making pool party invites for my DD's 9th birthday!

    Thank you,

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  6. I absolutely love this layout. It is so fun and summery. Thank you for shaing.

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  7. Thank you so much for this Freebie. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in Creative Busy Hands Scrapbook Freebies Search List, under the Elements post on Jun. 27, 2009. Thanks again.

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  8. Hello-thanks so much for offering the SCAL file for the sun. It was just what I was looking for. I have linked back to your blog on my post.

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    1. You are very welcome! Thanks for linking back to me!

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