Be Yourself Scrapbook Layout

Hi Connie Nichol here today with a scrapbook layout featuring the Be Yourself dies and the You can do Anything stamp. These were perfect for a page about my son getting ready to graduate from high school.

The paper and journaling cards are from Prima.  I simply stitched around the edge of the page with my sewing machine and tucked journaling cards next to and behind the photos.  I stamped on one of the cards.  What a wonderful encouraging sentiment this is!

Add a few punched shapes or die cuts, a paper doily and some journaling.  My title is from this die set:

A simple page to put together another memory captured.  Thanks for stopping by, Connie

Using Quietfire Design dies with mixed backgrounds

How often do you change your mind on a design as you're making the card?  For me, lots! Only once in a while does it actually turn out how I pictured it.

So my projects today utilizes Quietfire Design dies combined with those perfectly good "leftovers."  There are quite a few dies to pick out of but with back to school still in mind, I went with Be Yourself and Good Luck.  From my stash of backgrounds I found a couple of wreaths I had just painted to make table setting number placards as well as a colored stamp from a recent play date.  (The older the scrap, the longer they stay in the scrap pile unfortunately.)

These first two cards could easily be swapped with any word die (I was really tempted to use the small Happy Birthday in them).  The wreaths were my first attempt at painting tiny roses and greenery - my Koi clean color brush made it very easy to mass produce these.  If you have other tiny artwork that are in your practice piles, consider turning them into cards! 

This cute boy card combines Be Yourself with this tiny superhero from My Favorite Things - just another good fit, I thought.  Hope you like my rather random post.  :)

Be Brave Bold Yourself metal die set

Good Luck metal die

Using Photos to Make Quick Cards

Hi Connie Nichol here today with some super quick  cards using photographs as a base.  Simply add a Way with Words die of your choice from Quietfire Design.  I used this idea a couple of years ago on this blog and felt the urge to make some more of these kinds of cards.  If you need some more ideas, check out the posts from 2017 here and here.

Simply take a 4x6 photo of landscapes, flowers, animals or other interesting things, adhere a die cut word to the photograph and mount on a cardstock base.  You can embellish lightly, but really, it's all about the photo and the word.  Simple, huh?  Here's some ideas:

You can even cut out part of the picture and use it as an embellishment.  I had this 4x6 photo of a rooster, so I just fussy cut him out and glued him to a sewing pattern background.

Quietfire Design Supplies Used:

Metal Cutting Dies:  Be Brave, Bold, Yourself; Congrats, Happy Birthday - small,  Bliss, Celebrate

Other Supplies:  Bazzill cardstock, Crafter's Companion mirrored cardstock, dollar store gems, unknown ribbon

Mixed media "Amazing" butterfly jar

Hello Crafty Friends!  Kathy Jo here sharing a bright and cheerful upcycled mini-jar.  The jar was too cute to put in recycling so I decided to create a happy and inspirational jar for my work desk.  The stamps "You are Amazing":

and "Be Yourself" (from The Woods Would Be Very Silent stamp set):

were perfect for the project!

After cleaning the jar, white gesso was layered.  Distress Crackle (in Picket Fence) was applied and air dried.  Next Distress Spray (Mowed Lawn) and Dylusions Spray (Cut Grass) were both spritzed on the bottle.  Inka Gold (in Gold) was added along various edges.  Last, white paint was flicked randomly on the bottle.  The bottle was now ready for the papers.

Both sentiments were stamped onto Graphic 45 papers, fussy cut and mounted on Graphic 45's Nature's Sketchbook papers.  Butterflies were also fussy cut and layered as shown.  Below are photos of the completed jar:

 The stamps make me smile!

 Such a bright and cheerful jar...will be so pretty on my desk.

 Be Yourself is such a gorgeous stamp!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I do hope you enjoyed the upcycle project.  :)

Have a happy, crafty day!
Big Hugs,
Kathy Jo