1. Cut a 5x7 frame from white cardstock and use a decorative border punch around the outside edge. Mount a 4x6 photo onto mat. 2. Cut a 4x8 strip of green pattern paper, a 2x10 strip of red with white dots, and a 1x12” strip of diagonal stripes papers. Use an edge distresser on the edges of each piece. 3. Layer the green, then the red with white dots, and then the diagonal strips towards the top left corner of the page 4. Use the decorative scalloped circle included with the kit for your journaling and adhere the circle transparency... Continue reading

“Our First Christmas” 1. Cut the following from patterned paper: red houndstooth-5x8”, red with cream flower pattern-3x6”, multi colored stripe: 1 ½ x 12”, and green houndstooth-1/2” x 12”. Distress the edges of each paper. 2. Layer the red hound’s-tooth, and then the red with cream print towards the left side of the page oriented vertically. 3. Add the dark green strip, and the multi-stripes piece about 2” up from the bottom of the red hound’s-tooth going across the page. 4. Distress the gift tag cards with brown inks and crumple to give and aged effect. Layer behind where photo... Continue reading

What I Like by Audrey Yeager Cut out eight 2” square from various patterned papers. Using the yellow paper with the measuring lines, cut out three 2” squares with no pattern on them. Use different stamps and stamp a design on each of these squares. (mine are the first row, square 3, and the third row, squares 2 and 4) Measure out a 4x4 grid on your page, leaving about 1/4” in between each square for stitching. Machine stitch the lines. Cut a 2” square from scrap paper to use as a template to paint around. Use this template and... Continue reading

Finger Foods by Audrey Yeager Cut the polka dot paper to 11x11”. Mount on light green cardstock and zig zag stitch around the edges. Cut a 2.5” x 10” piece from the measuring paper being sure to see the lines and possibly the numbers. Adhere vertically to the right side of the page about 1” from the right edge. Cut out the white with brown polka dot strip from the patterned paper and leave the green scalloped border. Adhere horizontally across the center of your page. Cut 2 brown scalloped strips and 2 pink scalloped strips from the paper (all... Continue reading

1. Spray grey cardstock with dark purple and white glimmer mist. 2. Draw lines with a pencil in a “netted” pattern. Stitch over lines with black thread. 3. Cut the black and orange printed paper 5x10.5” and ink edges black. Adhere to cardstock on right side, slightly tilted to the right. 4. Cut orange newsprint paper 8x8” and distress edges. Adhere over black and orange paper slightly tilted to the left. 5. Add journaling block under bottom left side of orange paper. 6. Cut a strip of striped paper ½” x 9” and use decorative scissors or punch on one... Continue reading

Your challenge this week is another simple one: journal right on your background paper. No journaling spots, no typed strips....just get out your pen and write right on your page. You can draw lines if you'd like to help guide you! Continue reading

Take the “Profit/Path” double sided cardstock and the Buttercup Cs and cut in half. Use the buttercup one on the bottom, and the grayish side of the other on top. Tape the seam on the back with heavy tape. Mist the grey side with some blue mist. Take the orangey BoBunny paper and cut two strips 2”x12”. Tear one long end of each. Repeat with a strip of light blue 3”x12” and dark blue 3”x12”. Cut a 10” circle out of the brown BoBunny paper and stitch around the edges. Cut about ¾ of the circle off for the left... Continue reading

On the green background paper, cut out all the little flowers with an exacto knife (SAVE THEM!). Using the red, light blue, and striped paper, add some small scraps to the back of the page behind your cut out flowers. Doodle a flower center with a white pen. Use a small flower punch to cut out red flowers. Cut out some white flowers from the blue and white flower paper. Use the green flowers you cut out, your red flowers, the blue flowers included in the kit, and the white flowers. Arrange on the lower half of your page. If... Continue reading

I decided to use the "other" meaning of the word "bum" for this summery LO using the August Kit! :) Here are the instructions to make this page: Cut a circle from the light blue paper about 6” in diameter and scallop the edges by hand. Use a white pen to outline the inside edges of the scallops. Use the text paper and cut a circle about 5-5 ½” in diameter and adhere to the large blue scallop circle. Glue this to the left side of the coral colored cardstock. Add two, 2x3” photos on the scalloped circle. Doodle around... Continue reading