christmas magic | iris fox

Hello friends, Iris here with a layout I made for #scrappychristmasinjuly using the fabulous Floral Leaf Cut and Fold file. I am usually too busy during the holidays to do much scrapbooking, so I like to get some Christmas projects done in the summer.

I started off by cutting the Floral Leaf design out of a Bazzill Swiss Dot Cardstock in Salt, which is one of my favorite cardstocks because of the texture. I added foam dots to every single leaf and to ensure I that when I glued it all down to the backing green cardstock, those leaves would really pop. I added lots of adhesive in the spaces between the rings.

I made sure to press down to get maximum adhesion, and those leaves did pop!

Then I built up a bunch of layers from scrap pieces of paper and vellum I have in my Christmas stash. I added a title made up of scripty puffy alphas from Freckled Fawn and a "magic" chipboard from one of the past December Daily kits. One of my layers is the top piece of a tag that I added twine to.

I also added a couple little stickers from a December Daily word sheet, a star clip from Felicity Jane, and I made a holly cluster out of felt balls from Amy Tangerine and two loops of ribbon. 

I wanted the cut file background to be the star of this layout, besides my photos, so I sprinkled just a handful of acrylic shapes from Color Cast Designs and gold Heidi Swapp Colorshine. Then I typed up my journaling in Photoshop by making a circle path, saving and opening it in the Silhouette software, drawing two cut circles around the journaling, then doing a print and cut on vellum.  That worked awesome for tucking the typed journaling within the leaf rings!

I had so much fun experimenting with new techniques to get the look I was going for with this cut file, which you can find in the shop! I made it look like Christmas wreaths, but you can line it with any color to get a whole different look!

Thanks for stopping by.  I do plan to have a tutorial on how I created my journaling up on my youtube channel after I get back from vacation, so I invite you to bookmark this and come back to check it out in a couple of weeks.

Costa Rica by Caroli Schulz

Hi there! How are you today? Caroli here, and I'm sharing my very last project as part of the DT here at The Cut Shoppe.

In this layout I've used The Floral Leaf cut file as background, and also used The Funky Floral cut file.

I created a simple but fun layout using The Bright Side collection by Fancy Pants and this lovely photo of all the ladies that attended to my scrapbook workshop in Costa Rica last March.

I love the volume of this cut file, it makes a great effect as background. As embellishment, I created these cluster flowers I cut using some dies by American Crafts. 

I really love all the volume and texture of this cut file, love it!

I wrote my journaling in a bunch of tags lined one over another, I think this is a really eye-catching effect.

I am very pleased with the result of this layout, it's full of color and volume, I love that! I hope you liked it too and got inspired to work with this cut file.

I want to thank Ashley for the opportunity of being part of her DT, I've really enjoyed working with her cut files and I hope I got the chance to inspire you all. Thank you very much and see you around on social media!

Grateful | Tarrah McLean

Hi there Cut Shoppe friends,

It's Tarrah McLean back with you and today I am sharing a Fallish themed layout using the gorgeous new Cut and Fold Floral Leaf cut file!

The Cut and Fold Floral Leaf cut file

I decided to cut the cut file from white cardstock so that the colour underneath would pop through. I love how the pretty pink colour shows through after I folded the leaves back and stitched them down.

I used bits and pieces from both the Cedar Lane and Twilight collections by Pink Paislee from my stash for this page. The wood veneer leaves are also from my stash! 

I wanted to showcase loads of the gorgeous design of the cut file so I kept the focal point in the centre by placing my photo here and embellishing mainly just around the photo.

I added a little bit of black and gold mist to finish off!

Thanks so much for stopping by The Cut Shoppe blog today!

Happy creating!