Campervan Adventures! | Elsie Robinson

Hey friends, it's Elsie here! I have a really fun layout to share with you today using one of the new cut files available in the store: Wheels on the Bus.

Paper-piecing is my favourite scrappy technique and so I was really excited to use this cut file. But this cut file is especially great to use if you're a paper-piecing beginner!

Once you've download the cut file, you'll see that all of the individual elements you'll need to piece together the campervan image are already seperated. This means that all you have to do is choose the patterned papers you want, send them to your cutting machine and glue them together! It's so easy and the cut file takes all of the annoying guess work and measuring out of doing a paper-piecing technique!

However, if you don't have a cut file machine you can also recreate this campervan image. You could print out the individual pieces of the camper, trace around them and cut them from patterned paper with some scissors. It will obviously take a little longer, but you will get very similar results.

And to add more detail I hand-stitched around the camper to add some cute and whimsical detail.

I also sized the cut file quite large, so it would be the main design element on this page. This meant that all of the embellishing was very quick and simple, as I didn't need to add much to finish off this page!

I hope you also give this cute paper-pieced campervan cut file a try on your next project!

'Leaf It To Me' Layout | Elsie Robinson

Hey TCS fans, it's Elsie here again! For today's post I had a very simple idea to create a border of leaves on a layout, which was inspired by all of the flowers in the Maggie Holmes Flourish collection.

To create this, I chose the three leaf cluster from the Leaf It To Me cut file set and separated each leaf with the knife tool in my Silhouette software. I then cut the leaves from white cardstock and backed each of them with a different patterned paper.

Since the leaves are such simple shapes, they didn't take long to back with the patterned papers. So in no time I was left with a very colourful pile of leaves!

I arranged them in a rainbow border around the edge of my 12x12 paper, and adhered them with some foam to create some dimension. I also made sure that the leaves overlapped each other to create a much more full and substantial looking frame!

This kind of design is perfect for using large photos. I only have a standard-sized printer, so I printed my photo onto some A4 paper, which luckily fit inside my leaf border. I also printed the photo in black and white, which contrasts nicely with the colourful cut files and makes them stand out even more!

I love the Leaf It To Me cut files, because it's such a versatile set to have in your libraries and it can be used all year round. So I hope you're inspired to use it on your next projects!

Hello, Lovely | Donna Espiritu

Hello, pretty peeps! Donna here with a layout using the Flutterby cut file. This is a sure hit among DT members so make sure you check it out at The Cutshoppe Etsy Store.

I cut the file and used a white cardstock then backed it with a patterned paper. I mounted it with foam tape for dimension.

Before adhering the photo in place, I splattered a mixture of pink, yellow, coral, white and black mists. Then I embellished in clusters/layers with some stickers and ephemera.

I also mounted some stickers/ephemera with foam tape for a bit of dimension.

I super love how my layout turned out.

This is the cut file I used:

Thanks for dropping! Stay inspired and happy crafting.

"Grow Love" with Kira

Hey everyone!  It's Kira and I am back with a 12x12 scrapbook layout to share with you!  Are there any collections out there that you're loving at the moment?  One of my favorites is the new Maggie Holmes Flourish collection.  All those florals, am I right?! 

For this layout, I combined two cut files.  I started with Spiral Scallop from The Cut Shoppe, erasing the two inner scallops.  Then I added Geo Globe, sized it to fit inside the smaller scallop and welded them together in design space. 

To easily back the Geo Globe/Spiral Scallop, I sized a circle to fit and cut the circle out on this gorgeous floral paper. 

I adhered down the larger scallop circle to my background paper, then stitched around the edge with some white thread. 

I stitched down all the lines of the Geo Globe along with the edge of the spiral circle before bumping it up with some craft foam. 

I embellished my page with bits and pieces from the Flourish collection, including die cuts, stickers and those awesome gold leafs. I bumped a lot of the embellishments up on foam, creating a ton of dimension on this page. 

I finished it off with my date stamp and some gold splatters. 

Until next time,

Framing It! | Elsie Robinson

Hey friends, it's Elsie here! I had a bit of a tidy-up in my craft room last week, and as I was sorting through some of my paper stash I realised I had a lot of woodgrain patterned papers, like... a lot! I knew I loved woodgrain papers, but I didn't quite realise how much - haha! So I set them aside to use on my next TCS project.

I've had this gallery wall layout idea in my mind for quite a while, but have never gotten around to making it for one reason or another. But with my pile of newly-found woodgrain patterned papers and the Gallery Wall and Picture Perfect cut file sets, I finally got around to making this page! 

I started by arranging the frames in my Silhouette software to plan the design I wanted for my page. This streamlined my whole process, because I could cut the frames out in one go, rather than "winging it" and being left with frames that aren't sized correctly and wasting my beloved woodgrain patterns!

Before I backed each frame I realised that I wanted some white borders on he inside of the frames as this helped all of the patterns stand out. You could do this on your cutting machine, but I traced the outline of the frame and cut them with some scissors, which wasn't too difficult to do.

This design is a great way to show off lots of your favourite designs and colours of patterned papers, in a very neat and tidy way! 

And since this was the first layout I made with the Crate Paper Maggie Holmes Flourish collection, I was like a kid in a candy store and wanted to use everything, so this design was perfect to use a lot of patterns in one go!

There really wasn't much more to add to this page because the beautiful cut files made this page come together so effortlessly. But I popped each frame up onto some foam and used a white brick patterned paper as my background (also from the Flourish collection).

I love the combination of the brick and woodgrain frames, as it adds a lot of texture and kind of creates a realistic look!

This page turned out so much better than I thought it could and I really love it! So much so that this gallery wall layout is currently hanging on the gallery wall in my craft room... so meta! ;) 

Thanks for stopping by everyone, I hope your inspired to use some of the frame cut files available in the store!