XOXO | Tarrah McLean

Hi creative friends,

It's Tarrah back with you and today I have a new love themed layout using the Love Ya cut file.

I cut the cut file design out of white textured cardstock and then backed the shadow parts with black cardstock. I then used a black pen to outline the outer edge and also the shadow pieces.

The Love Ya cut file

Going through my stash of bits and pieces of love collections I found I had lots of things with the XOXO on to add to my page. These were mostly from the Hello Love and Main Squeeze collections by Crate Paper. 

I adhered the XOXO to some red cardstock using some craft foam underneath the cut file to give some height and dimension. 

Over the top of the cut file, I layered lots of things like a pocket, some tags, a few stickers and some wood veneer hearts. 

The fabric X and O are from my stash and I layered a heart puffy sticker and a gold glitter sticker. The flair button on the left of my page is also from my stash and it goes perfectly as it is a bicycle with hearts in the top basket!

Thank you so much for stopping by today, I hope I have inspired you to create a love themed layout and to check out all the gorgeous cut file designs in the shop!

Happy creating!

Play | Tarrah McLean

Hi creative friends,

It's Tarrah back with you and today I am sharing a new back to school themed layout using one of the Freebie Friyay cut files called Uncharted Territory.  

Uncharted Territory cut file

I cut out the design from white textured cardstock and then chose some older coloured papers by Bella Blvd to back the cut file with. I used red on the very outside, then came in to yellow and then used the light blue/aqua colour in the centre.  Once the cut file was backed I adhered it to the centre of another piece of textured white cardstock.

I matted my photo using a star paper and adhered it slightly to the right of the design. I didn't want to cover up all the blue from backing the cut file. I added the strip of paper with the apples under my photo, I then used this as a place to adhere my acrylic title 'Play'. 

I used a mixture of embellishments including a felt bow, stickers, chipboard stickers, puffy stickers, die-cuts, enamel dots and shapes, a flair button and wood veneer.  I placed the felt bow under the apple paper strip, I love that pop of yellow here. Over to the right of my photo, I placed the backpack die-cut and then layered a Back to School flair button over the top. 

Thank you for stopping by today! Make sure to check out The Cut Shoppe store for amazing cut file designs for all types of projects!

Happy creating!

Jingle All The Way | Tarrah McLean

Hi creative friends!

It's Tarrah McLean with you today to share a Christmas themed layout using the newsletter subscriber exclusive recent free cut file - Jingle All The Way! 

The newsletter free cut file - Jingle All The Way

I chose to just use the title for my layout today, I left off the baubles. I backed each word with a different Christmas patterned paper and then added craft foam underneath the whole title and adhered it down towards the bottom of my background paper.

I chose a small photo of my boys from Christmas Day last year and changed it to black and white to co-ordinate with the colours in the collection. I added a small piece of striped patterned paper underneath my photo and also added craft foam under the photo to pop it up off the page. I then added the white tree card beside my photo and added some enamel dots to the tree! 

I continued to embellish using some wood veneer pieces both layered on top of my photo and straight onto the background paper. The ampersand and Good Times together piece went perfectly right there in the centre of my title. I also added a couple of acrylic pieces like the star to the right of 'Jingle' and the present to the left of 'Jingle'.

If you aren't a subscriber to The Cut Shoppe newsletter, you need to be because otherwise you will miss out on some awesome free cut files only available to newsletter subscribers! I hope you enjoyed my layout today!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Happy creating!

Summer Is Coming | Tarrah McLean

Hi creative friends!

It's Tarrah back with you and today I am sharing a new Summer themed layout featuring the awesome 'Summer Is Coming' cut file. Its getting pretty hot down here in Australia and we are never short of Summer photos to scrapbook, all the Summer themed cut files are perfect to document our Summer! 

The Summer Is Coming cut file

I started out by cutting the cut file design from white cardstock, I then chose lots of the fun papers from the 6'x 8'paper pad from the Sunny Days collection. to back behind each letter in the title. I love how all the colours and patterns look together! Once the letters were all backed, I used craft foam underneath to pop it up off the pink background patterned paper. I placed it down the bottom of the page so that I was able to add my photo and some embellishments at the top. 

I layered a few die-cuts underneath my photo and just had to add that super cute girl transparent die-cut piece to the left of the photo too. On the right of the photo, the Sun Shine Sun die-cut was perfect to add, I like the pop of yellow. I added one of the blue puffy hearts to this piece as well.  I also added some embellishments overlapping the cut file to bring some more interest to the design. 

I hope my layout had inspired you in some way today? Don't forget to check out The Cut Shoppe for all your cut file designs!

See you next time!

Happy creating!

Pumpkin Patch | Tarrah McLean

Hi Cut Shoppe friends!

It's Tarrah back with you and today I am sharing a new layout using the Pumpkin Patch cut file. This cut file is gorgeous for Fall/Autumn themed projects! I have teamed it with the soft and pretty 'Just a Little Lovely' collection by Pinkfresh Studio.

The Pumpkin Patch cut file

I started out by backing the title in a soft pink paper and then backed the main part of the pumpkin with another of the soft papers. The stalk and leaves were backed using 2 of the papers from the 6' x 6' paper pad. I then added craft foam underneath and adhered to the background paper. 

I placed my photo up in the top right of the pumpkin and layered some of the 6'x 6' papers from the paper pad underneath the photo. I also added one of the dimensional banner stickers under the photo. I also added one of the wood beads to the centre of the 'p' in 'Pumpkin'.

The florals in this collection are gorgeous, I added one of them to the top left of the pumpkin and also added some of the gold glitter enamel dots to the centres of the flowers. I also added a small single flower above the floral cluster.

Thank you so much for stopping by today! I hope you have been inspired by layout? Make sure to check out The Cut Shoppe store for the Pumpkin Patch cut file so you can use it your next project!

Happy creating!

October 31st | Tarrah McLean

Hi Cut Shoppe friends!

It's Tarrah back with you and today I am sharing some Halloween inspiration!

I am getting a little low on Halloween embellishments but still have loads of papers! I decided to enlarge and cut out the 31 in the star from the Wicked Fun cut file set. I cut it out from a multicoloured stripe paper and I was happy with how it turned out. 

The Wicked Fun cut file set

I decided to adhere the cut file straight onto some white cardstock, tucking part of my photo under the top right of the cut file. Because the paper I chose to cut it from has lots of colours in it, I was able to add lots of different coloured embellishments too!

I have been wanting to use up some of my Thicker stash lately too so I added 'October' over the cut file using some black chipboard Thickers. I had a web doily left over from another project so I tucked that into the bottom right of the cut file design. I then added a spider sticker over the top, it was the perfect addition to add to the web. 

I used lots of other stickers, die-cuts and a super cute flair button too. I added some black cotton thread underneath the flair button and tucked some in over on the right hand side of the photo to balance it out. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you are inspired to create a Halloween project using some of the awesome cut files in store!

Happy creating!

Seek Adventure | Tarrah McLean

Hi Cut Shoppe friends,

It's Tarrah McLean back with you today to share a new layout with you featuring the stunning new Full Heart cut file!

The Full Heart cut file

This cut file design is one of those ones that you can take a busy paper and cut out a busy design with and still get an awesome look! I love cut file designs like this as the paper may have been one I would never use because of its busyness.

I cut the design out from a paper from Paige Evan's/Pink Paislee Horizon collection and I love how it turned out. I decided to adhere it to a plain white cardstock background to allow all the colours in the design to pop.

I layered some of the 6' x 8' papers under the photo as well as tucking in a few die-cuts for extra layers also. I also layered one of the title die cuts at the top of my photo as the words suited the girls and blended in with the colours in the photo. I kept other embellishments to a minimum as I wanted the cut file and the photo to be the main focus on my layout.

You can see lots of the detail of the Full Heart cut file design in the photo above. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Happy creating!

My Happy Place | Tarrah McLean

Hi Cut Shoppe friends!

It's Tarrah McLean back with you and today I am sharing a new layout using the awesome Geometric Frames cut file. 

Geometric Frames

I cut the design from white cardstock and then adhered straight onto another sheet of white cardstock. I really like how the white on white looks. I didn't use any patterned paper on this layout, instead I chose to use just cardstock and embellishments.

I placed my photo in the very centre frame and placed a die-cut frame over the photo,  I love this butterfliy so much. I then picked out 2 round frame die-cuts to go on either side of the photo. I placed another die-cut inside to frame on the left and also layered a flair button over the top. On the right side, I placed an ampersand die-cut, a wood veneer heart and an enamel dot inside the frame. 

I added at least one die-cut to each of the other frames also, sometimes even adding more than one. I mixed things up a little by adding some wood veneer pieces, some enamel dots and some phrase stickers to embellish. My title is the blue 'My Happy Place' die-cut, it was the perfect title for my page about my nieces being in one of their happy places, which is outside! 

To finish my page I added the date stamp and one of the metal clips just below my photo. Make sure to check out this very versatile cut file in the store, there are so many fantastic ways you could use this design, it would look great with different papers or photos behind each frame, you could fill each one entirely with embellishments too!

Happy creating!

"Rides" with Kira

Hey there!  It's Kira and I am back with another layout in my Harry Potter vacation album, using a cut file from The Cut Shoppe.  I have been neglecting this album for a bit because I have been in a crafty funk since we returned from Florida (3 months ago!!).  But I decided I needed to push through, and get some stories documented!  So I created a kit from my stash, and have been working on it, story by story. 

I knew I wanted to document the rides we went on, so I thought this would be a perfect place to start.  Are you a fan of amusement park rides?  My husband and I most certainly are not.  But being Universal, we decided to try some out...bad idea.  Lol! 

I should've taken pictures of us right after some of the rides we took.  I am sure we were sheet white, sweaty and looked like we just cheated death, because that's how we felt.  Ha!  But I wasn't thinking about it at the time so I just used a photo of my husband as we waited in line for the Hogwarts Express. 

I chose the Midway cut file to document this story, and decided to do one page of four arrows.  I cut them out of a 5" x 8 1/4" piece of white cardstock.  Then I backed them with patterned papers and hand stitched around the arrows with coordinating embroidery thread.  I decided to type my journaling on vellum, cut it out in the arrow shape and staple over my patterned paper arrows.  Since we only rode three rides (yep, that's all we could handle!), I used the sticker "relax!" on my remaining arrow. 

On the reverse page, I used one of the white arrows to add my title "rides" to using some chipboard pink alphas.  I built a cluster with a variety of embellishments under my title and over my photo.  I added a final embellishment cluster on the bottom left of my page. 

Thanks for stopping by!