Get out your square punches and your scissors scrapbookers, its time to lift the latest from Winter 2012 CHA.
I admit I am totally addicted to Pinterest, I can't watch tv or do the stepper anymore without having my iphone in hand with the Pinterest app on. Lately I've been watching the sneak peeks and product releases for Winter CHA 2012. Since I'm not going to Anaheim, I've been having a CHA knock off party with my scraps. Click Here for a link to my blog posts about the first three CHA inspired layouts. I'm kind of on a roll and last night I kicked out three more.
1. Lift of the Handmade Collection from Lily Bee Design.
The Lift: The original layout "patchwork" uses a patterned paper with the quilted squares already made; but I made my own. I used a simple square punch, I think I used a size slightly larger than the size of the squares on the "Handmade" paper. Ok, isn't it just a bit funny that the pre-made paper is called "handmade" but comes already assembled.
Subject of Page: I took three photos of my kids from each of the last three leap years (2004, 2008, and 2012) to see how quickly they've grown on one page - I love this sort of progression on one page. I created the banner at the bottom of the photos with various punches and hand cut scraps.
Supplies: The label stickers are from October Afternoon and the papers are a mix of American Crafts, Martha Stewart, Dear Lizzy, DCWV, and KI Memories; all of these papers and embellishments and tools used are at least a year or more old. I think these older patterned papers look new again using the new trends and it was just plain fun to mix them all up in a quilt pattern.
P.S. My daughter's shirt in the 2004 photo is a quilted shirt.
2. Lift of the Jenni Bowlin JBS Mercantile February Peeks. The original layout "Backyard Botantist" is by Briana Johnson.
The Lift: Here is how I created the triangles from square punched scraps: I punched a bunch of scraps and then hand cut them in half and arranged them on a piece of cardstock into the quilt like pattern:
Subject of Page: The original page was about a boy in the backyard which made me think of what my boy does in the back - or more correctly - sideyard; he plays secret agent man and sometimes he'll have stashes of actual treasure. This photo shows him with his very own "briefcase full of cash" - insert your best Dr. Evil meniacal laughter here. So I thought the colors of the papers reminded me a bit of money and pyramids have long been associated with money so I turned the layout upside down and used the valleys as mountains so they looked more like pyramids.
Supplies: Second verse same as the first - these supplies are older product cut with a square punch, one of the papers was actually from a soap packaging from the health food store - I love repurposing actual papers from real life. I think some of the other papers are My Mind's Eye, Basic Grey, and GDC Studio, but I could be wrong - all of these papers are from scraps, very old scraps.
3. Lift #2 of American Craft's Dear Lizzy Neapolitan. The original layout is "All Smiles" by Kimberly Congdon. I didn't intend to scraplift another from the Dear Lizzy line but they made an adorable video and it is just so pretty and seems to be a bit different than the rest of the releases this Winter CHA - it seems soft and happy and it is very easy to work with - at least the knock off version of this line. (wink).
The Lift: I hand drew on the back of a piece of patterened paper the pattern for this and then hand cut the pieces. My pattern came out in the reverse of the original layout and I had some problems with the corners and had to post-trim the papers at the top and then that made the top of the cardstock all wonky, so I did the border punch across the top (which is also a bit wonky), but in the end I like the imperfect-ness of my layout. If you were trying to recreate this look, I would recommend more precise cutting if you want a more perfect look, but if you don't mind wonky, cut away.
Subject of Page: This was admittedly a "fluff" page - a pretty photo of my child with not much journaling, but it is fun and pretty and will go in an album about her with lots of pages that do include lots of journaling and stories, so this will most likely be a nice visual rest in that album since I also don't do a lot of technique heavy one photo layouts. And I love how the sunburst cut of the pattern papers make it feel happy and like it is shining; it reminds me of how my daughter used to sing "This Little Light of Mine" which I should maybe have journaled about on the page, but for me at least that memory is triggered with this page. And Allison loves to play with those big flowers and for a time she was making lots and lots of them and decorating everything with them, so using those flowers triggers that memory for me too.
Supplies: Embellishments are all from scrapbook yardsales so I have no idea where they originally came from; the border punch is a very old one from Fiskars, papers are an older Dear Lizzy line, DCWV, KI Memories, My Mind's Eye, and cardstock. The letters are American Crafts. And yes, I actually tied all those little bits to the page which was probably the most time consuming part of making this page, but the "stick" from those epoxy buttons was really gone so I really needed something to make sure they didn't fall off the page.
Do you want to join in the CHA Knock-Off Fun? I have created a flickr group for exactly that, here is the link: FLICKR GROUP: WINTER CHA 2012: THE KNOCK-OFFS
If you add a page to the flickr gallery, please leave a comment here so I can be sure to click over and check it out. Now go make a page!
