Bayberry Cottage Page Kit: Layout #2

We are all back from the beach today and already wishing for our next scrapbooking retreat!   We had a wonderful time scrapping together and can't wait to show you all the fabulous stuff we made.  I finally finished up my second layout I made using my pink paislee Bayberry Cottage kit - a layout for my nephew's album about his first haircut:

From Flamingo Scraps: pink paislee Bayberry Cottage, Prima Say it in Crystals

Other Supplies: Bazzill Basics cardstock, black sharpie pen, Simply Sweet cricut cartridge

Here's a close-up of the left side:

And the right side:

Not only was this kit great for girly layouts, it also worked well for masculine ones.  It's all in how you put it together!  So in review of my page kitting process... I started with this:

And ended up with these five completed items:

In the end, all that was left is a really small amount of scraps!  I feel like it's a great way to stretch three pieces of patterned paper, 8 pieces of cardstock and get a lot done in a limited amount of time.

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Bayberry Cottage Page Kit: Layout #1

So on Monday, I showed you the three cards I made using pink paislee's bayberry cottage.  Today I'm going to show you one of my 2-page layouts I made using the rest of my kit!  Up until now, I had trouble finding just the right paper to use for my bachelorette party....

From Flamingo Scraps: pink paislee Bayberry Cottage patterned papers (houndstooth and lime green), Prima flowers

Other supplies: bazzill magenta and grey cardstock, Sigma white pen, Basic Grey romani rubons, Cricut Simply Sweet cartridge and Doodlebug mini simply sweet white rubons

And because it can be hard to see up close, here's the left side:

And the right side:

It is a very girly layout that the pink paislee Bayberry Cottage collection is perfect for!  I'm off to a scrapbooking weekend at the beach tomorrow and I'm looking forward to scrapping with some great friends.  I'll be back on Friday to show ya what progress (if any) I have made during my scrappy retreat, including the completion of this page kit!

Hope you all have a great week!

Bayberry Cottage Page Kit: Cards

This pink paislee paper line is gorgeous!  Today, I'm going to show you three cards I made:

So a few weeks ago, I pulled together this page kit using the pink paislee Bayberry Cottage Collection:

With the plan to make two 2-page layouts and three cards.  On Saturday I figured out which pictures I wanted to use and on Sunday I had them printed.  First, I cut down all my patterned paper and sorted into my five separate projects.  Then I set aside my two layout kits and I was left with supplies to make three cards!  The first card I made is this mother's day card for my Mom:

The double sided paper makes for a great base for the card -- look at the fun pattern on the inside!  I doodled some stitches on there, added some of the fabulous new Prima bling and it's all ready to go!
Next up, this all occasion card:

I fussy cut out those cute "flowers" from one of the patterns and glued down some others on scraps.   I finished it all off by adding happy birthday and some stickles in the centers of the flowers.  You could also leave the senitment blank. That way, you could just add a sentiment when I'm in need of a quick card to send out for thank you, congrats, sorry, happy birthday, get well and so on! 
The last card I made is this thank you card:

I ran the top piece of blue cardstock through my cuttlebug, added a die cut from the bayberry collection and a butterfly punched from a scrap.  This whole card took less than five minutes to glue together!

I hope you liked the cards and I'll be back on Wednesday to show you the two, two-page layouts I made using the rest of my scrappy kit!

Planning to Scrap

By nature, I'm a plan ahead kind of girl.  Heck, I planned our wedding for 125 guests at a bed and breakfast four hours from home in less than ten months on a small budget!  When it comes to scrapbooking, I tend to batch my layouts and plan ahead.  It's really hard for me to pull everything out and just do one layout at a time.  I have a limited amount of time to get scrapping done during the week, so usually I plan ahead by working for 15 or 30 minutes at a time planning out pages to get done.  In the last few months my trusty printer has been aging on me (almost ten years now!) and has stopped working on thicker paper like photo paper, leaving me to rely on photo printing services.  This definitely forces me to plan ahead even more than before! 

So I love using sketches and I also love the Easy Patterns from Creating Keepsakes.  And in one of my 30 minute power planning sessions, I pulled together two kits.  One is a layout from Sketchy Thursday's April 1st sketch using some pink paislee 365 Degrees collection paper (& die cut), a scrap piece from the pink paislee bayberry cottage collection and a pink paislee ribbon pleat.

All supplies from Flamingo Scraps except one piece of Bazzill Swiss dot cardstock.

My second kit is far more complicated since I decided to build my own kit using the pink paislee bayberry cottage collection.   This kit will make two 2-page layouts and three cards! 

All supplies from Flamingo Scraps except colored and white Bazzill cardstock.

I also write myself some quick notes about what I want to do on post-it notes and stick them all over the pieces of paper and sketches or magazines. Sometimes I even put my own mini sketch on a post-it and stick it to the kit.  Now all I have to do is order the pics I want to get printed for these layouts.  I will probably spend another 30 minute session cutting all my paper down to the right sizes and prepping for the pictures.  Then spend a final 30 minute session gluing the pics down and adding the final embellies.

So hopefully tomorrow morning, I can cut everything and get it ready for pics, get them printed so on Sunday I can finish them all up!  Hope you all have something fun planned for the weekend!