Illuminasia

Hi everyone,

Welcome back!  Today I used the Wild Whisper "City Lights" collection on a 2nd project. 

To create this double page layout, I used Creative Scrapbookers June Sketch.

The word pages were cut 9x12, the green photo mats were 4.5x4.5, the blue mats were 4x4, and the photos are 3.5x3.5.  I used word strips at the top and bottom of the word pages, and the title was cut out on my cricut.

In 2015 the Calgary Zoo hosted the Illuminasia Lantern & Garden Festival that featured 366 handmade Chinese lanterns.  It was incredibly beautiful and the City Lights paper collection was perfect to highlight all the amazing colours.  My grandchildren were 9, 5, and 1 years old.  The two oldest ones had great fun posing in front of the lanterns, while the littlest one was mesmerized by the lights!

We were at the Zoo to celebrate my daughter Melanie's birthday.  

I kept the embellishments pretty simple on these layouts and just used some of the City Lights flair buttons here and there.

Except for this guy!  This is another cricut cut using the yellow paper from the Back to Basics collection, which I blinged up with sequins from the Talk Foodie to Me collection. 

If you haven't been to the Calgary Zoo, aside from the fabulous animals, they also have a Prehistoric Park full of very realistic dinosaur robots that breathe, move, roar, and even blink when you walk up to them.  My grandchildren love them!

The Chinese lanterns were just incredible and it was a beautiful, out-of-this-world experience to walk through the dark zoo full of glowing, life-sized animals!

I love the bright colours in City Lights, and the city names that we Canadians are familiar with!

Thanks for stopping by!

Linda

A Valentine's Card - Wild Whisper Style!

Hi everyone!  

With it being Valentine's Day tomorrow, I figured I better get a card made for my husband!

This card is a mixture of papers from "Crazy Motivated" and "Life Isn't Perfect", plus some black cardstock from the "Back to Basics" collection. 

The paper collections all coordinate with each other so perfectly, that you really are able to stretch the number of projects you can make, by making use of your scraps and incorporating pieces from "Back to Basics".

Here are the dimensions for all the layers that were used:

Bottom orange mat - 6"x6"                                                                                        Large black mat - 4.25"x6"                                                                                        Square orange mat - 3.75"x3.75"                                                                              Square black mat - 3.5"x3.5"                                                                                  The heart image was cut out of the die cut page from "Life Isn't Perfect"

I made a round shaker to put over the heart image and filled it with the beautiful "Crazy Motivated" sequins.  Then, I coloured the top of it with Copic Sketch marker E08 to help it blend with the rest of the card.

The sequins are so pretty, that I added them to the top of the card as well and finished off with a piece of cording that I had in my stash.

"#inlove" is a cricut die cut.

I hope you all have a wonderful day tomorrow... sharing love with family and friends. 

Life Isn't Perfect

Hi everyone!  I'm so excited to be sharing my FIRST design team post for Wild Whisper Designs featuring February's collection "Life Isn't Perfect"! 

To create my layout I also used a piece from January's collection "Crazy Motivated", as well as a piece of cardstock from "Back to Basics".

I dug back through the years to find this photo of my granddaughter after she tangled with her bedframe!  This paper collection was perfect for THAT story!

To begin, I thought I'd share with you a bit of the process that I use when I'm planning a layout.  In this case, I started with Creative Scrapbooker Magazine's February Sketch.

Once I figured out what papers I was using, I cut out the centers that wouldn't be showing, in order to have scraps for my journaling and umbrella embellishments.

I cut out a couple of the umbrellas and ran a black copic marker around the edge to make them look more "finished".  In the photo below, the top umbrella has been finished with the marker, and the bottom one has not.  The difference the marker makes is quite dramatic!

To further jazz them up, I applied Ranger's Glossy Accents to the umbrellas and on the white parts of the boxing gloves.  The little flair button "Just Breathe" was the perfect addition.  I don't know if that advice was needed more for her or for her parents!

Then I got playing with the Pineapple Paradise embossing powder and OH MY... what wonderful stuff!  I fell in love and had to hold myself back from putting it on EVERYTHING!!!  It is such a pretty colour and SO sparkly.  

It turned these metal leaves from ho hum to fabulous!

How yummy is THAT!

With a little bit added to the top of the letters, my title now POPS!  

One last peek at the finished layout!

Thanks for stopping by and letting me share with you the fun I had with this paper collection AND the Pineapple Paradise embossing powder of course!

Do stop by Wild Whisper's store and check out "Life Isn't Perfect".  It is perfect for telling those stories that are begging to be told!

Happy creating!