Valentine's Day Decor

Valentine's Day is right around the corner, so today I have a bit of Valentine's Day decor to share.

This past month at Creativation, Glue Dots® debuted a new product: Glue Dots Adhesive Sheets for die cutting. I've been having a lot of fun playing around with them. There are a ton of fun uses for them. They work beautifully with my Silhouette Cameo and my manual die cutting machine!

Just peel the paper backing of the adhesive sheet.

 Place it on the paper you've chosen to cut, and run through your die cutting machine.

Peel the liner off. 

If you peel slowly, the liner will do most of the weeding for you (which is my favorite thing about the new adhesive sheets).
 

I added my die cut heart and a die cut phrase to a simple Mix the Media frame from Jillibean Soup to create my Valentine's Day decor.


I wrote this post while participating on the Glue Dots® Design Team.

2 Page Travel Layout

It's a brand new month (and a brand new year, and a brand new decade!), which means a new kit from the Scrapbooking Store. This month's kit is a wither themed kit featuring Simple Stories, but today I have a 2 page travel layout using the kit.

The papers in this kit have a snowy, cozy feel to them. There are lots of cream, vintage soft blue, burgandy red, and forest green. There are also pops of mustard, grey, and light brown.

We traveled to Germany at the end of March. When we were in the Bavarian Alps there was still snow on the ground and it snowed the 2 days we were there. The woodsy, cozy feel of this collection lent itself well to scrapping those early spring snow travel photos.

My travel layouts (especially when there's as much gorgeous scenery as there was at Neuschwanstein Castle) tend to be pretty photo heavy, so I keep my embellishments simple. These layouts are all about getting my photos and notes into a scrapbook. I find 2 page layouts to be a great way to get a lot of photos down in one spread.

If you have some cozy winter or travel photos, you're going to love January's kit from the Scrapbooking Store. This is just the first of 3 layouts I've already created with it.

I wrote this post while participating on the Scrapbooking Store Design Team.

Mini Christmas Cards

We're well into December now and that means there is a wonderful Christmas themed kit for December from the Scrapbooking Store. Today I have a dozen mini Christmas cards I created using it.

During the busy holiday season I like to keep things simple. These little cards are 4"x4" and are perfect for dropping in gift bags with a gift. These ones are going in my kids' teachers' gifts.

Scrapbooking Store's December kit has a lovely vintage vibe and is full of classic Christmas colors.

I hope you're having a wonderful an not too stressful December!

Discover the World Travel Layout

I'm continuing to work my way through our photos from Germany. Scrapping our travels is almost as fun as going on the trip. Today I have a discover the world travel layout to share.

Paper House has a couple of travel collection. For this layout I used one that is a bit older called Discover the World. I thought the map papers throughout the collection went really well with the theme of my layout.

The walls in Rothenburg are super old and provide some amazing views of the city and surrounding area.

When doing a large travel album like this Germany one will be, I tend to keep my layouts a bit more simple. It's all about getting my photos and memories down in one place.

It's always a big undertaking, but I just work at it one layout at a time.

I wrote this post while participating on the Paper House Creative Team.
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Scrapping Maps

I'm working on more travel scrapping. Often, I like scrapping maps and memorabilia from my travels as part of my layouts. The layout I'm sharing today is one way I do that.

I keep lots of maps, tickets, and the like when I'm traveling. Some things I know for sure I want to include in my layouts and some things I keep because I might want to use them. This map was definitely a piece I knew I would include. What I wasn't expecting to include was the great snippet about the history of the city of Rothenburg that was also in the map.

I had some paper and embellishments left over from the Scrapbooking Store's May kit (featuring My Mind's Eye Happy Days). In fact, I used up the last of my paper left overs from the kit on this layout.

Sometimes my memorabilia is an accent, and sometimes (like in this layout) it's more of a focal point. Either way, I'm always glad I saved the little bits and pieces I pick up when traveling.

I wrote this post while participating on the Scrapbooking Store Design Team.

Fall Camping Layout

It's November, and that means a brand new kit from the Scrapbooking Store. I've already made a few layouts with it, and today I'm sharing a fall camping layout.

First, a little about this kit. You can find all of the details on the November kit reveal blog post over at the Scrapbooking Store. The kit is full of lovely fall themes and colors; rich golds, browns, reds, oranges, and a touch of blue.

My kit showed up while we were on our last camping trip before the camper went into storage. I knew this collection would be perfect for some photos from that weekend.

The Scrapbooking Store has a core kit and an upgrade kit. Usually I use a lot of embellishments from the upgrade kit, but this month I thought it would be fun to show what you can do with just the core kit for a few of my projects. Everything on this layout - every paper, every sticker - is from the core kit. The only additional tool I used was my Silhouette Cameo, which I used to cut the "CAMPING" title.

I hope your November is off to a great start, too!

I wrote this post while working on the Scrapbooking Store Design Team.

Outdoor Layout

Hello! This week I have an outdoor layout to share.

I used Paper House Great Outdoors for everything on this layout. The papers, alphas, and all embellishments are from that collection. It's one of my favorites, because it's so versatile and there are so many great embellishments to chose from.

Paper House rice paper border stickers are some of my favorite embellishments. They're similar to washi, but have a softer texture to them. In the layout above, I used them to ground my photos. Without the lines of rice paper border stickers (especially the grey and gold stripe stickers), the photos looked a bit like they were floating in space.I used a mix of card stock, epoxy, and 3D for the rest of my embellishments.

The title of this layout tells the story as much as the journaling does. This kid is so in his element when he gets to drive anything with a motor, especially his 4 wheeler. He's even happier when there is mud to drive through!

If you want to pick up some Great Outdoors or anything else from Paper House, remember to use my code PH19SAMANTHA for 20% off your entire purchase.

I wrote this post while participating on the Paper House Creative Team.