Day 260: One Last Nevermore Layout

I'm winging my way home today after days of fabulous scrapbooking in Utah with CTMH. I know I'll have a ton of fun projects to share with you this week. Today I'm sharing the last of the 6 pages from my monthly scrapbooking kit. I'll reshare once I get pics on these - Max's Harry Potter pics are going to be so cute on this layout! 

Day 241: Whale Hello There Card

I love punny stamp sets. So with 15 adorable animal puns, Animal Greetings has stolen my heart.

I wanted to play with the new sketch from RetroSketches, so I started with a panel of White Daisy cardstock. I splattered the background with grey watercolor paint. I stamped on a frame from one of the Artistry sets in Memento Tuxedo black. Then I layered on three kinds of washi tape.

I added a 1/2 in banner stamped with the punny sentiment using Pomegranate ink. I added a wooden arrow from the Black Fundamentals line. The cute little whale is watercolored and popped up on thin 3-D foam tape. I added a Bitty Sparkle colored with a black alcohol marker for his eye. 

Day 168: Zoe Artistry Thanks Card

 I've been scrapping with Zoe all day, but I'm not quite ready to share yet, so I pulled up the new Mojo Monday sketch instead and whipped up this sweet little card with some Zoe scraps.

I stamped a White Daisy card front with the THANKS sentiment from the August Stamp of the Month in second generation Slate ink. I layered some of the Zoe Arrow print over the bottom of the card front. Then I stitched around the edges of the small White Daisy panel. I stamped the sentiment again on that stitched panel in 1st generation Slate ink and adhered it to the card front. I added two banners instead of one wide banner to add in a bit more of the Coral Shimmer trim I used in the floral Cricut embellishment.

I've been playing with paper piecing some of the Artistry die cuts with the new Zoe papers. For this one I pieces some of the flowers in the Sorbet Dot print, and all the leaves in the small Sweet Leaf Dot print. Then I used my water brush to add some touches of Canary yellow ink, but left the biggest roses on this cricut shape just the base white daisy. Them I backed the whole panel with Coral Shimmer Trim. I added some medium and bitty sparkles, and lightly filled the main sentiment image with a bit of clear Wink of Stella. 

THANKS for stopping by to take a peek, Stampin' Friends!

Day 166: Artistry Blog Hop

Welcome to the CTMH Artistry Blog Hop. We've got thirty talented consultants sharing fabulous creations using the awesome new Artistry Cricut Cartridge. You may be arriving here from TERRIE'S BLOG. Let's hop!

For this hop I decided to play with the new sketch from Cardabilities. I love the layering on their sketches and I knew I could get the all the images I needed from the new Artistry cartridge. I stamped my background of Glacier cardstock with a sentiment from the August SOTM in Glacier ink. Then I added the circle from Doodled Designs in White Daisy ink. I added a strip of the new Coral shimmer trim, and stamped on some leaves from Lovely Birthday.

Then I started layering on the Artistry cuts. I grabbed some leaves from the swirly wreath banner on page 26, trimming off just the bits I needed. The flowers are the bottom layer of a two step cut from page 11. I colored them using Sorbet and Canary inks and my waterbrush, then formed the leaves as they dried. I gave the butterflies a similar waterbrush treatment. I trimmed the sentiments from the top half of the background on page 42 (which is where the butterflies reside too). I outlined the HAPPY portion in transparent shimmer gel pen for some extra sparkle. 

One project doesn't even begin to show how awesome this new 700 image collection is - lucky you've got 29 more blogs in the hop, eh? Next up is BETH'S BLOG. Have fun with all the Artistry goodness!

Other Artistry Projects I've made:
Zoe plus August SOTM Creative Board
Zoe Merry Christmas Card
Zoe Thanks Card
Thinking of You Heart Card
August SOTM Layout