Summer Shower

TGIF!!  Hopefully everyone has had a great week, but if not, hey the weekend is almost here so get ready for a little R & R!  And if things are going really good for you this weekend, maybe you'll even get a little time to sit down and work on some layouts or projects!!  If you do, come stop by Frosted Designs today and check out our Fabulous Friday challenge to use Brads and/or Eyelets on your layout or project.  I love using Brads on my layouts, so this was a fun challenge to work with.  

 

I used several of the small Bazzill brads to create the look of raindrops falling from the cloud embellishments.  And I also used some of the copper-toned brads from The Paper Studio in the centers of the circles that I fussy cut from some Jillibean Soup papers.  I really had a lot of fun designing this page and actually submitted it to one of the Scrapbook Trends calls, but never got a response...but oh well, I still ended up with a fabulous page that I absolutely love!!  :)

To create the umbrella for this page, I used my Expression to cut an SVG file and then traced it on a piece of white paper.  Then I drew off the umbrella sections, cut each one and then re-traced it onto the Jillibean patterned paper.  I cut out each of the sections and then matched them in place on my SVG cut piece.  I added the dark brown stitching to give each of the sections a little more definition and then dressed it up with the pom pom trim, baker's twine, and button at the top.

For the word "Summer" in my title, I also cut the word on my Expression.  Then I placed the negative of the word on my background paper and used orange acrylic paint on bubble wrap to stamp in the word.  Then I went back and outlined each letter with the marker side of my brown Zig pen.

So don't miss out on this fun challenge!!  You can win an awesome prize from our Sponsor this week!!  And be on the lookout at the beginning of March as we start welcoming the newest Team members to Frosted Designs.  We have a lot of very talented women on this Team and I am very honored to work with each one of them!!

Products Used:

 

Patterend Paper:  Jillibean Soup & Bella Blvd.

Pom Pom Trim:  October Afternoon

Embroidery Floss:  Janlynn

Brads:  Bazzill & The Paper Studio

Acrylic Paint:  Apple Barrel

Thickers:  American Crafts

Baker's Twine:  The Twinery

Buttons:  Michael's

Tools: WRMK, Provo Craft, Sizzix

Pen:  Zig Memory System

Font:  Coaster

Adhesives:  3L Scrapbook Adhesives, Recollections, Zig Memory System