Hip Kit February Layout #4

JUMP FOR JOY

I like to make two page layouts, you can put a lot of photos on them to help tell your story.  Melanie did a tutorial this week on the trend of Banners.  So I decided to take that trend and put it on this layout. 

You have probably figured out the I am obsessed with punches/dies right now.  Jenni Bowlen has some new punches that are super cute and trendy.  On this layout, I used her Scallop Banner Punch.   

I also took the half circle chipboard shapes and traced the pattern onto the Echo Park Tag Paper and hand cut the words to add to my borders.  I also added another accordion flower made from my Tim Holtz die.  They are so cute and add some dimension.

Hip February Kit Layout #3

WHY WON'T THIS CRAZY THING WORK?

Each month the Design Team gets a sketch to work off of.  I always think it's really fun because everyone interprets the sketches differently.  Our sketch this month was from Jillibean Soup. 

For my layout, I pretty much stuck to the design above as I thought it was really cute.  Sometimes it is nice to just whip out a layout in minutes and sketches help to do that. 

I used my new Lucky 8 punch from WeR Memory Keepers and just punched out the inside design.  I thought that the stars fit the picture perfectly as Sami is trying to get her magic wand to work.

I drug out some of my old Spellbinder dies to cut out the circles for the title.  Punches and dies are a fun way to jazz up your pages.  Even pulling out those old edger scissors can add a great bit of detail to your page.

Feb Hip Kit Layout #2

I LOVE YOUR UNIQUE SENSE OF STYLE

The butterflies in this kit are so much fun.  So far I've put them on both layouts that I have done.  My daughter is only three and is turning into such a little fashionista.  She is very opinionated on what she wears and won't take any input from me.  She was especially proud of this outfit and wanted to do a fashion shoot.  The colors in this kit worked with her crazy outfit perfectly.

I really liked the Echo Park Teal Damask Page.  It has all these great tags on the flip side.  I cut mine down to little banner tags that are so trendy now. 

I also hand cut out some butterflies and them put them on the border strip to make a few of the pop.

On the corrugated letters, I sprayed a little bit of the Mister Huey Mist (that was in last months kit) onto a plate and took a makeup sponge and dabbed into the mist.  I then lightly rubbed on the letters until I got the color I wanted. 

I am obsessed with punches and dies right now.  A new punch that I just got was from WeR Memory Keepers.  It is their Lucky 8 Floral Burst Punch.  I cut out the craft paper with it to get the huge brackets.  It is very simple to use and you get really big die cuts.

Tim Holtz has this wonderful Mini Rosette Strip Die that cuts and perforates those cute little accordion flowers that are everywhere.  It is my favorite die right now as you can make those flowers in seconds and you can make them to match your layouts perfectly.   

The cute flower above was made with one of the new Cuttlebug Quilling Dies.  This is the Daisy Pattern.  It is a easy way to made a very dimensional flower in a couple of minutes. 

Hip February Kit Layout #1

Kimberly has started a new schedule for posting layouts on her blog. (Hip 2B Scrapbooking). So my layouts will be in separate posts.

CUTE NEW DO

I love how the papers worked perfectly with the colors in Sami's shirt.  I tend to match my pictures to the papers by colors.  I loved the canvas butterflies.  I stitched an outline around the butterfly to make it pop.  I put down a bead of paper glue in a curly pattern for the butterfly trail to put the Baker's twine.  The flowers were made from circle punches and I cut some dimension into one of the layers. 

January Hip Kit Layouts

The January Hip 2B Square Scrapbooking kit was full of bright colors and was fun to work with.  We got to go the Hawaii in January and the colors of the kit were perfect for some of my Hawaii pics. 

O'U KAMALI'I (My children)

I love this picture of my kids.  The are both looking at the camera and are being loving towards each other. 

Occasionally I will tune into HSN's scrapbook days to see what there is for sale.  The other day they sucked me in and I HAD to buy their new Lucky 8 Punches from WeR Memory Keepers.  They make really big die cuts.  The circle on the page above was cut with one of their new punches.

KAMELONU (Cameron)

When we were at the International Market there was a vendor that had a book of names and their Hawaiian name.  I took pics of both the kiddos so I could remember them.  This is Cameron's Hawaiian name.

I love this picture of Cameron taken on the beach at Waikiki.  We had a breakfast picnic at Fort DeRussy park right on the beach.  It was such fun.  Sami dropped an entire scone and we watched this pigeon try to eat it.  It was quite funny.

I just got the new Tim Holtz Decorative Strip Accordion flower die.  It is AWESOME!  It makes these flowers in seconds.  It is a super easy way to add texture in a flash!

KAMEIO (Sami Jo)

This is Sami's Hawaiian name.  She is very hard to get to look at me.  She wouldn't smile but at least she is looking at me.

I found a layout that I really liked on October Afternoon's website.  It had these really cool flowers and I made one for this layout.  It is made out of 7 1" circles.  Here is a tutorial that I made on how to do it, or you can go to the link above to October Afternoon.

BFF'S

This is a really cute pic of Sami and her BFF from preschool Ella.  They had a playdate and had to dress up.  It is so fun to see Sami make friends.

I just got a new border die that makes really big scallops.  I love love it.  I have been looking for one forever.  It is a Sizzix Sizzlets Decorative Strip Die.  I have a feeling it is going to get a lot of use.

Another Pinterest Project

I know I've said this in the past, but I LOVE PINTEREST!!  It is the best for getting ideas for home decor, scrapping and crafts.  I saw this post on Pinterest for a teacher valentine box full of little goodies.  Here is my take.  I made three of them.  I had a hard time finding the little boxes.  I found mine in the fishing area.  I had bought some little hand sanitizer to put in also but they were too big.  I needed to find some boxes that were a little bit bigger. 

I used one sheet of 12X12 paper and it decorated 3 boxes and the candy bars and clips inside.  I think they turned out super cute.

I also got to use my newest Favorite Scrapping Tool.  The Tim Holtz Sizzlets Decorative Strip Die - Mini Rosettes.  It is so awesome.  It takes seconds to make those cool Rosettes that are such the rage now. 

Valentines

I have been searching Pinterest for neat ideas for the kiddos valentines this year. There are a whole bunch of them that are super cute. Right after Christmas I found these super cute candy jars marked down for a dollar.

The first thing I thought was eat the candy and them used the jars for scrapbooking embellishments. But then I remembered seeing a cute valentine using banana candy and a monkey saying "I'm bananas for you"





I found these really handy instructions to make the monkey on the Fiskars website. Well it is now getting closer to Valentines Day and I don't have time to make all of those little monkeys so I designed my own card. 

Front of Card

Back of Card

hen I printed them out and mounted them on some card stock.  I filled some treat bags that I got from Michaels.  They turned out super cute and were easy for my three year old to help with.

If you would like to have a file of the above Valentine Card, leave me a comment and I will email it to you.  I am new at blogging and don't know how to upload a document for download.