Simple Stories & The Cut Shoppe Product Swap Day 6!

Hello and welcome to day six of the Simple Stories and The Cut Shoppe team up! I'm excited to share three projects with you today, all using the beautiful We Are Family collection from Simple Stories and some fun cut files from The Cut Shoppe!

For this first layout, I used the Word Art and A Banner Day cut files. I love all the words that come with "Word Art"! I added lots of fun layers using stickers and the Bits & Pieces from the We Are Family collection, and then I experimented with some yellow paint splatters to complete the look.

Next, I cut out a giant heart from the Pie Hearts cut file. I backed each piece of the pie heart with a different patterned paper. I left one piece open to place my photo in.  After it was all filled in, I adhered the heart onto a paper splattered with coordinating mist. I kept the rest of the layout pretty simple, just using stickers to title and embellish it. 

My third layout uses the Sweet Hearts and Picture Perfect cut files. I loved the string hearts in the patterns of the paper, and loved that the Sweet Hearts string art heart matched them! Once I had my photo and string hearts placed, I built the layout around it. I tried to fit as many hearts as I could onto the page!

Thank you for letting me share my layouts with you! I've hope you have enjoyed this wonderful week of inspiration on the Simple Stories and The Cut Shoppe blogs! In honor of our collaboration, The Cut Shoppe is having a 30% off sale through September 15th. Be sure to check it out!

And there is also a giveaway!! One random winner will be chosen from the comments on The Cut Shoppe blog to win a Pumpkin Spice collection pack from Simple Stories. Simple Stories is giving a way a $25 gift card to The Cut Shoppe on their blog! The winners will be announced on September 15th. Thanks for joining us!

Love You Always

Hello everyone, it's Gina with you today.  I have been playing with the new Rosey Posey cut file and I just couldn't wait to share today's post with you!

To create my layout, first I dropped a few drops of yellow and pink spray mist against a white cardstock background.  Next, I cut the Rosey Posey cut file from white cardstock and adhered it to my layout.  I used a wide tipped foam brush and painted over it with watercolors to make the cut file stand out.  I also cut out the cloud and hearts from the Sweet Hearts cut file, painted over them with watercolors and adhered them to the right side of my layout.  I trimmed a strip of word patterned paper from the Amy Tangerine Rise and Shine collection and added it to the top of my page. I finished by adding my title, die cuts, journaling and embellishments.

Sweet Hearts

Rosey Posey

Supplies: The Cut Shoppe: Rosey Posey cut file, Sweet Hearts cut file; American Crafts: patterned paper, die cuts, thickers, paper clip and stamp; Other: watercolors

I HEART Valentines's Day

Happy Valentine's day everyone!

It's Cara here and I tried to use as many hearts sets as I could to make this layout, Sweet Brotherly Love, since it is Valentine's day after all.

I started with the 'sweet' heart from the Candy Hearts cutfile and I cut it out pretty big, then I added various sizes of different heart files to make all the hearts that are layered down the side of the layout.

The other hearts came from the Sweet Hearts cutfile.  I used the heart cutfiles in many ways: as is, the little heart cutout from the inside of the XO one and just the outline as well.  ETA: the larger heart on the bottom right came from one of the free cutfiles given out in the newsletter.  You can sign up for that in the navigation bar at the top :D

Have a SWEET day and hug on the ones you love :D

Valentine's Day Tags

Hello! It's Heather here with some fun and simple Valentine's Day tags to share with you. Valentine's Day is tomorrow (whoa, right?!) and I just LOVE making little things to give others. I decided to make these tags to put on some treats for my family. 

I used the Pack Your Bags Tags diecut for the base tags. You could use any of the tag cut files in the shop, though, since you're only going to be cutting the basic tag shape. I diecut those, and right around that time I happened to be watching a Wilna Furstenburg video where she paints her tags with chalkboard paint, and I had the epiphany to chalkboard paint the tags (I had totally forgotten that I had chalkboard paint). As you can see, some of the tags just had diecut shapes in the tags, so those were really simple to make. Note: I diecut them before painting them. ;) 

I used the "Sew Loved" cut file for the x covered heart and the Sweet Hearts cut file for the ME+U tag (I used only the text from one of the hearts).

The tags with the "hugs" and "love" diecuts stapled to them are from the Candy Hearts cut file set. I cut them out of watercolor paper (double cut!) and painted them, of course with watercolors. I wrote the TO and FROM with a white Sakura Jelly Roll pen AKA the best white pen ever. 

It took me a long time to decide whether I liked the tags. Honestly they didn't look that awesome. But then I thought that if I added some white paint splatters, that would help them out. So I used some basic white acrylic paint and a paintbrush to splatter the paint onto the tags. I knew I couldn't use white mist because it would probably smear on the chalkboard painted surface. And voila! I liked them much better. It's so crazy how one small thing can help the whole project out. :)

So there ya go! Some fun and relatively- quick Valentine's Day tags! 

xoxo, 

Beautiful Life....

Hi there!!

It's Tarrah here with you today to share a recent layout I created using one of the brand new cut file sets...Sweet Hearts...you can find this one and many more amazing cut files in The Cut Shoppe Etsy store now! 

I decided to enlarge the String heart from the Sweet Hearts cut file set (the bottom right one) so that I could back it with some different patterned papers.

I used Pink Paislee's 'Bella Rouge' collection to help create my layout... 

Thank you so much for stopping by today...I hope we are inspiring you to get your cut files from The Cut Shoppe so you can get creating!!

You & Me

Hello and Happy Friday!  Gina here with you today and I have a layout using the brand new Sweet Hearts and Love Letters cut files!  I loved taking one of the hearts from the Sweet Hearts set and enlarging it to use on my layout.

To create my layout, I began by painting watercolors on a white cardstock background.  I also flicked white paint and gold spray mist across the page.  Next, I enlarged my heart and cut it out of white cardstock.  I backed a few of the open spaces with patterned papers.  Next, I cut out my title a small heart and a few + signs and added them to my page.  I added my photo and a few cardstock embellishments, thread and buttons.

Supplies: Sweet Hearts cut file, Love Letters cut file: The Cut Shoppe; cardstock, patterned papers, stickers : American Crafts; Other: paint, watercolors, spray mist

Love Your Adventure & a Process Video!

Hi everyone!  I'm really excited about today's post, because of course it's new cut file day and time for a new layout, but I also have a PROCESS VIDEO to share with you today!  I started tackling the process video last week, and this is the first one to go along with my layout for today, Love Your Adventure.  I used the new Sweet Hearts cut file and the Love Letters cut file on this layout!

 

 

And I'll let the Process Video tell you all about how I put this layout together!  Enjoy!

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And don't forget to visit The Cut Shoppe today, to check out the other new cut files sets that are now available!

Supplies:  Sweet Hearts Cut File & Love Letters Cut File:  The Cut Shoppe; Patterned Paper, Rub-Ons, Stickers, Cork Embellishments, Enamel Dots:  American Crafts; Flair Button:  A Flair for Buttons; Wood Veneers:  Elle's Studio; Color Shine:  Heidi Swapp; Mister Huey's:  Studio Calico; Sprinklers & Phrase Stamp:  October Afternoon; Die Cut Machine:  Silhouette Cameo