Have you ever experienced being in your Craft Zone? For me, it normally happens after I've made a card or a layout, and suddenly the creativity juice keeps on flowing. It's the total opposite of a creativity block where I spend a while day and struggle to create anything!
Anyway, I'm going to make the most out of my craft mojo right now. I made the following card for a very generous lady that I know. Not only is she generous, she has also been so supporting and encouraging in my craft journey.
The inspiration for this card actually came after I made these butterflies.
Aren't they just so pretty? I stamped them using the Butterfly Gala stamp set and punched them out using the Butterfly Duet punch (more detailed listing of products used below).
After I had butterflies 😆, everything else just kind of fell in place......and here's the end result.
I didn't go too over the top with embellishment because I wanted to keep this card simple, yet elegant.
After that I couldn't put down my duet butterfly punch, and I have another special person in my life that I needed to make a card for. This time it's for a very dear friend who is always there for me. Who listens to all my problems (bless her!) and shares laughter with me too.
Her favourite colour is blue, and she has expensive taste, hahaha! So I added some silver foil to the card 🤣
I also added some stamped leaves to make the silver foil pop more and to add more dimensions to the card.
Pearls are perfect for the butterflies, don't you think? 😊
Thank you for stopping by, I hope you've enjoyed reading this post and I also hope it'll inspire you to create something too!
Yeah my third video is up! Sorry this was a week late (I was aiming fortnightly), life got in the way!
This is a scrapbook layout of my little one when she turned 3 last year. The photo doesn't really have any particular colours that pop, making it great for any patterned paper of my choice. I decided to go with the Forever Greenery Designer Series Paper as the base and two of the circles. The paper for the brown circle is from In Good Taste Designer Series Paper. I cut these circles out using Layering circles dies.
I trimmed a white cardstock to 10" by 10", and stamped on it using Tasteful Touches Cling Stamp Set, around the corners and strategically stamping some images beside the photo.
Next, I used the Forever Fern bundle to create all the different leaves - some are stamped on off-cuts from the white cardstock using different green inkpads, and then die-cut out, and some are simply die-cut from different green cardstocks.
Hi all, welcome to this month's Scrapbooking Global Blog Hop! I hope you are having fun visiting all the blogs in the hop!
Our challenge this month is the Sketch below:
Here's my take on the sketch. This is my first time joining a Blog Hop, so I'm very excited and I think I didn't do too bad 😂 What do you think?
The photos I used for this layout was a New Year celebration dinner last year. I had to cover the photos because there were so many people it's too hard to get permission from all of them 😝
Here are the materials I used for this layout (clicking on the link will take you to my shop 😀):
Hello! Thanks for stopping by! I'm so excited that my second Scrap with Juanita video is up.
As I mentioned in my first video, the idea is that you can scrap along with me. I use predominantly Stampin' Up products because I'm a Stampin' Up demonstrator, but you can use whatever you have on hand. If you like what I'm using, I have linked them below.
Once again thanks fro stopping by! I hope you will enjoy video. If you did scrap along with me, I would love to see it, so please comment below to show me!
Happy Scrapping!
Juanita 💗
TOOLS AND MATERIALS ARE LISTED BELOW
Welcome to my second video where I show you my scrapbook layout, explained the materials I used and then hope you will scrap along side me!
Thank you so much for watching! I had just as much fun as my first video putting this one together. As mentioned in my video. I have listed the tools and materials I used below. I’m a Stampin’ Up demonstrator, therefore I predominantly use Stampin’ Up products, however, you can use whatever you have on hand.
-------- MATERIALS USED --------
In bracket is what I have used and link to my shop https://bit.ly/3hmFnKD:
- 1 x blue cardstock for base (Seaside Spray from 2019-2021 In Colour 12x12” cardstock https://bit.ly/3fOVyjw) - 1 x green cardstock for matting (Mint Macaron from Subtles 12”x12” cardstock pack https://bit.ly/39aWvjA) - 1 x white cardstock for background stamping (Whisper White 12”x12” https://bit.ly/2CNuwdA) - 3 x patterned paper (Flowers for Every Season M&M card pack https://bit.ly/2ODnP0i) - 1 green cardstock for punch/die cut (Shaded Spruce A4 cardstock https://bit.ly/39pmQKZ) - 1 x white cardstock for stamping (Whisper White A4 cardstock https://bit.ly/39badTy) - Some gems/pearls (Flowers for Every Season Gems https://bit.ly/3gmaWnI) - 2 x 3.5” by 5.5” portrait photos
-------- TOOLS -------
In bracket is what I have used and link to my shop https://bit.ly/3hmFnKD.
Besides the basic tool kit (scissors, trimmer, adhesives etc), the following is what you need: - 1 x leave punch (Sprig Punch https://bit.ly/2ZKipXF or you can use leave dies) - 1 x butterfly punch (Butterfly Duet Punch https://bit.ly/30ouGAg or you can use butterfly dies) - Light blue inkpad (Seaside Spray inkpad https://bit.ly/2ZNgSAl) - Light green inkpad (Mint Macaron inkpad https://bit.ly/39fyYy4) - Handy to have Take your Pick https://bit.ly/3hgJ30j for picking up tiny gems.
At the end of my video, I showed a sneak peek of my next layout. Below are the tools and materials, if you like to prepare ahead of time 😊
-------- MATERIALS USED --------
In bracket is what I have used and link to my shop https://bit.ly/3hmFnKD:
- 4 x patterned paper one for base and three for embellishments (Forever Greenery Designer Series Paper https://bit.ly/2BOOwMI) - 2 x white cardstock one for background stamping and one for stamping flower/leaves (Whisper White 12”x12” https://bit.ly/2CNuwdA) - 1 dark green cardstock for photo mat and die-cut (Pretty Peacock A4 cardstock https://bit.ly/30iNwtB) - 1 lighter green cardstock for die-cut (Old Olive A4 cardstock https://bit.ly/2Xj0EwV) - 1 brown cardstock for die-cut title (Early Espresso A4 cardstock https://bit.ly/3k4nC4I) - 1 x 3¼” by 4.5” portrait photo
-------- TOOLS -------
In bracket is what I have used and link to my shop https://bit.ly/3hmFnKD.
Besides the basic tool kit (trimmer, adhesives etc), the following is what you need: - Stamps and die set for background, flowers and leaves (Tasteful Touches Cling Stamp Set https://bit.ly/3fkV43t, Forever Fern bundle https://bit.ly/3i4s2XL) - Circle and rectangle dies (Layering circles dies https://bit.ly/3i38DX7, Rectangle Stitched dies https://bit.ly/33e3BCV) - Dark green inkpad (Pretty Peacock inkpad https://bit.ly/3k33xvF) - Medium green inkpad (Shaded Spruce inkpad https://bit.ly/3k3ffGI) - Light green inkpad (Old Olive inkpad https://bit.ly/2DsW5ZQ) - Pink inkpad (Melon Mambo inkpad https://bit.ly/2XdU5vN)
Hello and thanks for stopping by! Here's a little bit about me, I've been a scrapbooker for almost 8 years. I started when my first child was born and decided that I want to keep memories of all her special milestone. Forward to today, I have another 4 year-old, and I've filled up about 10 scrapbook albums. I absolutely love Scrapbooking but I do feel that my progress is too slow.
I go through periods where I don't scrap for months, sometimes it's because life gets busy, but a lot of times it's also because I get creativity blocks (a bit like writer's block). I started looking for YouTube videos where I can scrap along, and surprisingly couldn't find any! So I decided, why not I start one?
That's how Scrap with Juanita started!
With Scrap with Juanita videos, I encourage my viewers to use their products of choice preferably what they already have (many of us scrapbookers have too big a stash, don't we?). I use predominantly Stampin' Up products because I'm a Stampin' Up demonstrator, which simply gives me access to fantastic products. If you 're new to scrapbooking or would like to use the products I'm using, I do have link below to my shop and the tools and materials that I have used for this video. This is why Scrapbooking is so fun, once you know the general layout idea, you can use whatever products you like to complete it. It might be from the same layout, but everyone will end up with a different looking page!
Ok without further ado (sorry for the long intro), here's a brief instructions for my first page, the video has the steps in more details.
First, you need the following Materials:
In bracket is what I have used and link to my shop:
2) Optional - Cut out the middle of your pink cardstock leaving approximately 2.5cm border. I like to do this to save paper as well as making my album lighter.
3) Stick the white cardstock onto your pink piece, leaving an even border around the page.
4) Trim your patterned paper into four squares, 2 of each pattern, 14.5cm by 14.5cm. Stick this onto the white cardstock leaving an even border.
5) Next, make your large embellishment. I'm using my sunflower bundle, so I stamped my sunflower with yellow inkpad onto white cardstock, and then using my diecut machine, i cut out my stamped image, as well as the sunflower outline (in brown) and leaves (in green and dark green for outline).
6) Stick your large embellishment onto the top right corner of your page using liquid adhesive so that you can move things around until you are happy with the positioning.
7) Decorate the bottom left corner with stickers and/or titles for your page.
8) Last but not least, stick your photos in the top left and bottom right corner!
Once again thanks fro stopping by! I hope you have enjoyed my post and my video. If you did scrap along with me, I would love to see it, so please comment below to show me!
