“Playtime” by Helen Croft

This layout is perfect to use with scraps paper, so use whatever leftovers you have from the kit.
I used:
#1. Cosmo Cricket “Saturday” paper -striped side
#2. Cosmo Cricket “Thursday” paper-orange side
#3. Pink Paislee “Enthralling” paper

• 1. Start by cutting 4 strips (1/3 inch) from paper #1. Make them about 11.5” long.
• 2. Glue them app. ½ inch from the edge around the white cardstock, like a frame.
• 3. Adhere a 1” x 10” piece of paper #2 about ¼” under the frame on top.
• 4. Align the three photos (3.5” x 5”) underneath it.
• 5. Then add a 3.5”x 10” piece of paper #3 under the photos. Leave a ¼” gap between photos and papers.
• 6. The chipboard is painted and when it was dry I doodled the edges (of course ). Then I cut out some flowers from the Cosmo Cricket paper and doodled them and glued it on to the chipboard. I finished off those flowers with some dots in the middle from the Pink Paislee alphabet.
• 7. For the journaling I used some leftover from the Fancy Pants transparency and cut out a semicircle. Use a slick writer for the journaling and when you write, use a sheet of notebook paper underneath so it’s easier to write straight. Then just put a bit of glue/tape on the very top of the semicircle and then tuck it in under the photos.
  8. Finish off with a ribbon along the bottom of paper#3.
  9. Put the title on top of paper #1 and place the chipboard flowers, sticker and bird together under the photo to the right.

“2 Cute” by Jenn Emch

 

• 1. Cut three sides of the round die cut Making Memories paper.
• Place them on the orange scallop die cut Pink Paislee paper so they look like small hills.
• 2. Place blue scalloped ribbon on bottom to cover edge.
• 3. Cut three strips of the Cosmo Cricket striped paper (.5 inches wide) to use as stems for the two flowers. Save the third.
• 4. Take apart the layers of the pink Prima flower.
• 5. Take the third .5 inch strip of CC paper and just start twisting and folding in a circle so that both sides of the paper
  show. Adhere with adhesive of choice. I used glue dots.
• 6. Then adhere paper flower to one of the Prima petals. Stick a button in the middle. Reform the Prima flower with the rest of the layers and stick a button in the middle of that flower too.
• 7. Adhere the two stems to your paper and place the flowers on top.
• 8. Now just add your photo, title and journaling. I used one of the pretty labels to go under my number 2 in my title. I also used the
  blue flowers from the Pink Paislee alphas as embellies.

 

 

 

“Al Fresco” by Paula Gilarde

• 1. I printed my photos in a pre-made digital frame by Katie Pertiet. It’s very easy to use – just drag the frame onto a new 11×8.5 canvas and add photos – print and cut around the edge of the frames. I love the carefree look it gives. *You could also crop 5 small pictures to go across the page.
• 2.  Then I cut the center out of the Cosmo Cricket paper – can’t waste all that patterned paper! I cut about an inch inside the edge and use that center piece on another layout.
• 3. I trimmed the white cardstock and the transparency down to 11 inch squares. I attached them together using a paper clip so I could sew around the edges.
• 4. Then I adhered the transparency/white cardstock to the patterned paper I had prepared earlier.
• 5. I sprayed the chipboard stem with some green maya mist and topped it with a disassembled Prima flower. I removed all but the bottom 2 layers of that flower and added the Heidi Swapp sticker to the center.
• 6. Then I added my title, journaling spots and butterfly. I popped the 2nd spot on pop dots to give it some dimension.

 

 

 

“Slurp” by Danielle Holsapple

 

 

1. Paint the chipboard flowers.
2. Use an 8.5×11 piece of black cardstock as your background (the black polka dot patterned paper in the kit would work fine as well).
3. Cut a strip of the pink Prima paper (1×7.5 inches) and adhere along the bottom edge.
4. Cut another strip of the pink Prima paper (3×7.5 inches) and adhere along the top edge.
5. Cut a strip of green striped Pink Paislee paper (1.5×7.5 inches) and adhere below top pink piece.
6. Cut a piece of orange Cosmo Cricket paper (6×7.5 inches) and adhere between green paper and bottom pink paper.
7.  Mat your photo on white and black cardstock and adhere to top left side.
8. Punch a scalloped circle from black cardstock and place a Heidi Swapp sticker in the center.  Adhere it with 3D adhesive to the right of the photo, almost even with the bottom edge of the photo.
9.  Adhere painted chipboard flowers to bottom of orange Cosmo Cricket paper.
10.  Punch 7 mini scalloped circles from the black cardstock.  Place 4 of them in the center of the chipboard flowers.  Place one on the left hand corner of your photo.  Place one halfway under your photo on the right side.  And place one to the right of your photo.
11.  Add the title above the green piece of paper.

12. Add buttons to the center of each small black circle.

 

“Oh Boy” by Anita Letts 

 

• 1. Start by using the Pink Paislee Enthralling paper as your background
• 2. Choose a photo sized 2 x3 in size.
• 3. Now cut out a corner of the Pink Paislee Bewitching Die cut paper the size of the photo and adhere it one 1 inch from the left side and 1 inch from the bottom.
• 4. Adhere the photo with about a 1/2 inch showing on the left side and 1/2 inch from the bottom.
• 5. Now cut a piece of the lined side of the Cosmo Cricket Sunday paper to the size of 3 1/2 x 4 1/4 and place long side right next to the photo.
• 6. Cut a 4 1/4 inch piece of the Making Memories Flower Patch die cut paper and adhere in next to the Cosmo Cricket paper on the right side.
• 7. Now choose your title and place it over the Cosmo Cricket Sunday paper and place a chipboard flower with button on it.
• 8. Now obtain your large Fancy Pants chipboard flower and trace around all the edges with a black pen for definition.
• 9. Next, using the flower as your journaling, write things that describe your photo on each petal.
• 10. Place a button in the center and then adhere to your layout.

 

 

“Dreamy” By Anita Letts

I know sometimes you feel like you title is a little blah.  Well here’s a quick tip on how to spruce it up and using everything from your kit! 

1. Choose something from your patterned paper that you think would make your title stand out.  Like a specific detail, a box, or a shape.  (I chose a cloud in the American Crafts paper provided in your kit).
2. Next, take your exact-o knife or scissors and cut out your pattern.
3. Now adhere it to your layout wherever you would like your title to be.
4. Next thing I did to help my title stand out is, I chose some of the paper ribbon provide and accordion folded it the length of the cloud.  This really makes the title POP.
5. Decide your title name and apply it over the paper ribbon.  I chose to not press my letters completely down to give it some dimension. 
6. This step is optional but you may embellish around your title to give it even more ZING by using buttons, brads, or whatever you have handy.

 

 

“Super Boy” by Paula Gilarde

1.  I used a sheet the Scenic Route paper as my background and placed an 8×8 square of kraft cardstock in the center.

2.  I trimmed my photos to about 3.5×5 and placed them on my layout.

3.  I covered the chipboard shape with some Basic Grey patterned paper – first I traced the shape and cut around it to fit. After I adhered it to the shape I filed the edges to remove any extra paper.

4.  I put a strip of crepe ribbon along the top and embellished it with the shape and finished it with the title.

5.  I added one of the Jenni Bowlin date label stickers to the top right of the page.

6.  For the journaling I cut out three cloud shapes from the American Crafts paper. I scanned the shapes and in Photoshop I positioned my journaling to fit on the shapes (using a different text layer for each line). I printed a test version of the journaling and using repositionable adhesive I stuck the clouds onto the test paper and printed the journaling onto the clouds. I added the journaling clouds around the photo.

 

 

 

“Simple Pleasures” by Helen Croft

To get the most out of the kit and not to waste those yummy papers, I used a solid cardstock for the background. Pick any color, since it will not show.

·         Glue a 3”x12” piece of the yellow Crate Paper to the bottom of the cardstock.

·         Glue a 3”x12” piece of the striped October Afternoon paper to the top.

To get the curved shape paper, I made a template by drawing on cardboard and then cut it out.

·         Trace the template on the back of the lime green October Afternoon paper. Cut out.

·         Trace the template on the back of the yellow Crate Paper. Cut out.

·         Glue an aprox. 2” piece of the yellow curved paper under an aprox.  7 ½” green curved paper. Let the yellow paper show 1/2”.

·         Glue the green/yellow papers to the background in the middle of the page.

I used (2) 4”x 6” photos, but you can use any size and number of photos.

I matted the photos with the black cardstock.

I used a notebook paper from the Chipboard Album to write the journaling on. I also matted it with black cardstock.

·         Tuck the journaling under a photo.

To make the bottom border, I cut out circles from the Scenic Route paper. I also painted a chipboard shape.

·         Attach some of the circles with 3D foam.

·         Add buttons and chipboard.

·         Make one of the circles into a flower, by adding hand cut stem and leaves.

·         Doodle stem, leaves and chipboard.

Cut out some clouds from the American Crafts paper and doodle on them. Attach them to the striped October Afternoon paper on top. Use 3D foam.

·         Add your title and rub-ons along the top of the curved cut out.

“Big as the Sky” by Jenn Emch

1. Build page on American Crafts cloud paper.
2. Cut a 4×12 piece of the green October Afternoon paper and place in the
middle of cloud paper.
3. Next, cut some strips from the October afternoon paper and adhere to the
green. (This is the backside of the green paper)
4. Adhere photo.
5. Place Jenni Bowlin labels under photo.
6. Cover chipboard heart with red October Afternoon paper.
7. Cut two strips of Jenni Bowlin Crepe paper and adhere to left side of
layout. Place heart on top.
8. Adhere buttons on clouds.
9. Place title on layout.
10. Place Scenic Route rub-ons (the ones that look like stitches) above and
below strips of paper.
11. Journal.

“Sky High” by Danielle Holsapple

1)Use Kraft paper as background. 
2)Draw a wavy line on the green paper and cut it out.  Adhere it to the bottom of the layout.  Stitch around the edges of the green paper.
3) Cut a circle from the bright orange paper.  Stitch 2 circles in the center and place a button in the middle.  Use foam adhesive and put it in the top left corner.
4)  Cut out clouds from the patterned paper and adhere along the top with foam adhesive.
5) Attach blue buttons randomly.  Stitch circles around them.
6) Attach letter stickers for title.