Kit-Tastic with May Flaum: Week 1

It is time for another fabulous class at Big Picture Classes with the wonderful May Flaum! Her new class is called Kit-tastic and it is all about helping you create with kits and getting the most from your stash. I always get drawn in to the beauty and one-stop-shopping of page kits, but the reality is, I am horrible at using them. There are many unopened kits taking up valuable shelf space and collecting dust in my room. With this class I am hoping to finally dive into some of them and create some fun pages.

Today, I decided to break into an old Basic Grey Kit from a CKC class that I ran out of time and never finished. I am currently working on a baby girl album and want to make a bunch of pre-made pages that I can use once baby arrives. For this page, I swapped out the recommended blue patterned paper for a pink design. These pictures are placeholder (and are actually my nephew!), but I bet we get similar pictures when baby is born.

 I also decided to hand stitch my title. This was a new technique for me. I had purchased May's Scrapbook Workshop technique book when it came out and then I never did anything with it. This class has inspired me to try new things to enhance my kits. There is an easy tutorial for how to hand stitch. I will say this title took me 2 hours to complete!! But hopefully I'll get faster the more I do.

Big Idea Festival Day 8: Joy

I've been doing my best to keep up with the Big Idea Festival over at Big Picture Classes. I don't have a photo printer at home so I have to work with the photos I have available until I can order more. They don't always map to the daily challenge so I either get creative or have to skip some days. Day 8 was to scrap something that has happened to your recently that brings you joy. I happen to be working on pages for my baby shower album and had some fun photos for this page.

Big Idea Festival Day 5: Happy Challenge

If you haven't had the chance to experience the Big Ideal Festival at Big Picture Classes I cannot encourage you enough to go check it out. It is 14 days of guest designers, challenges and prizes and all of it is FREE! It is a great place to find inspiration and to learn about the different teachers and classes they offer. This is my third year participating and each year I am more amazed at the event that they create.

For Day 5 of the challenge, May Flaum's Big Idea was to play with your supplies and create a layout in a way that makes you happy. What makes me happy are simple scrapbook pages with lots of white space that highlight an important photo. This is my favorite photo from the summer (and maybe ever) so I thought it was perfect for this challenge.

Baby Shower Card

One of my co-workers is also having a baby girl this fall and I wanted to get her something extra cute for her shower. I found this adorable pink elephant set and designed a card to match.

Elephant onesie, bib & card

Elephant cut from Create a Critter cart

Baby Shower Thank You Notes

I really wanted to make all of the Thank You notes for my shower. I started off with a design that matched my birdie theme. I got through about 10 of them before I realized that it was going to take too much time and I needed to simplify the design. Here's the card that a handful of family members will be getting.

I actually think I like the second design better. They were much easier to produce which is great since I needed 30 of them! The hardest part was I Sticked a border around the edge of the cut out.

Now I need to write them out!

Baby Thank You Cards

I have a good friend who has been so generous to us and has given us boxes and boxes of old baby clothes ranging from Newborn to 24 Months! I started doing a few loads of laundry today and am just in awe. Baby Girl is going to have an amazing wardrobe. Here is the thank you card I'll be dropping in the mail tomorrow. I love this onesie cut from the New Arrival Cricut cart. Definitely one of my favorites.

Another friend of ours gave us the absolute most adorable onesie ever so I put together a second version of the onesie card for her. The color is distorted in this pic, but the onesie is light pink with Thank You stamped across the front.

Toddler Birthday Cards

We have two birthday parties in the next few weeks for some special little girls who are turning 3. I wanted to put together fun colorful cards to help celebrate.

Birthday girl #1 happens to love sunglasses. This pair is from the Paisley Cricut cart. I just realized after looking at the picture that one of my green dot decorations fell off! I'll need to fix that!

Birthday girl #2 loves the beach. The crab cut is from the From My Kitchen Cricut cart.

Both of these papers were from an old Target $1 spot package that I have been trying to figure out how to use up.