Baby's 1st Christmas Mini Album

Hello friends! Happy American Thanksgiving to all my American friends that are celebrating today.

I wanted to share with you another mini album. I created it with some medium size red paper bags that are found at Michael's in the party supplies section. This one is for my grandson's first Christmas.



I am in love with printing design papers at home lately. I find it works for me as I can print only what I need and resize it to be suitable for cards and mini albums. This collection is designed by Nitwit Collections and is from the Baby's First Christmas Collection.

I also shared this mini album on the A Flair For Buttons blog as one of my design team projects. I love flair buttons and they work perfectly for this album.  The cute penguin flair button on the front cover is from the Christmas Fun 2 Flair Set.



There are lots of pockets and tags to house photos and journaling. On one tag I added a an adorable snowman flair button from the Vintage Snowman 2 Flair Set. 
       



On another tag, I added the cute reindeer slippers flair button from the Christmas Fun 2 Flair Set.




I love the way the paper bags work as extra pockets to tuck in more photos and journaling tags.
This paper bag mini album has lots of places to add photos.



For the spine, I added red, green and silver ribbon and tied some cute little christmas themed buttons using "Dress It Up" buttons.




I found some cute red ribbon with Rudolph at Michael's and added it to the album so it can be tied in a bow to close up the album.


Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out the A Flair For Buttons shop for these and many more flair buttons for the holiday season or any season.

Have a creative day!


Flair Used On Mini Album
Christmas Fun 2 Flair Set

Vintage Snowman 2 Flair Set

Lori

Hello friends! Happy Friday! Today I wanted to share a layout that I created of my daughter in law Lori. She is such a beautiful soul and I am so proud of her.

I added two flair buttons from A Flair For Buttons. The "Be Brave" flair button is from the Inspirational Words 4 Flair Set and the orange circles flair button is from the Pastel Circle Flair Set. 

I began creating the layout by purchasing  the A Flower Bunch Cut File designed by Paige Evans. I cut it out on white card stock with my Silhouette Cameo. 

I used the cut file as a "stencil" and created two layouts. For this layout I used the positive shape. First I took my Vicki Boutin Small Stencil Brush and Vicki Boutin's Art Crayons and dry brushed the cut file. Then I backed the cut file with patterned papers from Vicki Boutin's All The Good Things 7X10 Paper Pad. 

I began by blending some Abandoned Coral Distress Oxide, with a round foam applicator, onto Vicki Boutin's All The Good Things 12" X 12" White Foundations Mixed Media Art Paper. I placed the cut file on top and popped it up with several foam squares to give it some depth. To embellish the layout,  I added ephemera pieces and stickers from Paige Evan's Pick-Me-Up Collection and sprinkled some enamel dots from Pinkfresh Studios and the title of the layout "Lori" with some gold alphabet stickers that were also from Pinkfresh Studios.

I am happy how this layout turned out. Be sure and check out the A Flair For Buttons shop for hundreds of flair buttons that are suitable for so many themes.

Have a creative day!

Supply List

Adhesive - Liquid Adhesive - Tombow,  Adhesive Foam Squares - 3L Adhesives, 

Alphabet Stickers - Pinkfresh Studio - Gold Alphabet Stickers 

Art Crayons - Vicki Boutin Art Crayons (Cool)

Background Paper - Vicki Boutin 12"X12" White Foundations Mixed Media Art Paper 

Cardstock - (Cut File) - American Crafts (White) 12"X12" 

Cardstock Stickers - Paige Evan's Pick-Me-Up Collection 

Cut File - Paige Evan's - A Flower Bunch Cut File 

Electronic Cutting Machine - Silhouette Cameo 3

Enamel Dots - Pinkfresh Studio

Ephemera - Paige Evan's Pick-Me-Up Collection

Flair Buttons - A Flair For Buttons (Inspirational Words 4 Flair, Pastel Circles Flair)

Ink - Ranger -Tim Holtz - Distress Oxide - Abandoned Coral

Ink Blending Tool - Ranger - Tim Holtz Mini Ink Blending Tool

Patterned Paper - All The Good Things - Vicki Boutin 7"X10" Paper Pad

Stencil Brush - Vicki Boutin Mixed Media Stencil Brush  

Bloom

Hello friends! Today I wanted to share a layout that I created for A Flair For Buttons using some flair from the new Watercolor Splatters Flair Set. 

As soon as I saw these flair, I knew that I wanted to add them to my layout. I chose the green, pink and blue flair buttons from the set to add to my layout. The colors coordinate perfectly with the colors of my layout. I strategically placed them in a triangle to draw the eyes around the page.

I put my We R Memory Keepers Stitch Happy Sewing Machine to work and machine stitched in pink, aqua, and citrine thread on the white card stock background. When I planned out the page, I wanted to stitch a design that would draw the eye to the flower. 

The photo was matted on some papers from the new Photoplay Paper Mad For Plaid Happy Collection. I really love the plaid and the colors in this collection. Also, I added some stickers popped up with foam dots, and die cut some butterflies on vellum and wrapped some citrine thread around the centers of the butterflies.

The cut file and title were free digital cut files from Scrapbook Nerd. I cut the title on black card stock and the floral cut file on white card stock with my electronic die cutting machine. I wanted the title to really pop so I added some faux stitching with a white gel pen.

 For the floral cut file, I used some Vicki Boutin Art Crayons and water to paint the flowers and added some enamel dots to the middle of the flowers.

 

I am really pleased how my layout turned out.

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out the A Flair For Buttons shop to view hundreds of flair sets for every theme.

Thanks for stopping by.

Flair On Layout

Watercolor Splatter Flair

Epic Alex

Hello friends! I am sharing a boy layout over at A Flair For Buttons today of this cute little guy.

I've had this collection of papers, stickers from the Max Collection by Bella Blvd. in my stash for quite a while. I used flair buttons from A Flair For Buttons to add some more pizzaz to my layout. The black "epic" flair button from the Epic Flair Set was used as part of the title of the page. 

and I also placed the "boy" flair buttons from the All Boy 2 Flair Set to the right of the photo. I glued it on top of round green sticker to make it more visible. I wanted to draw the eye to the photo. 

Flair can be used not just as an embellishment, but it can be strategically used to draw the eyes to the photo.

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out the A Flair For Buttons shop for these and many awesome flair sets. There have been many new sets added to the store recently.

Happy creating!

All Boy 2 Flair

Epic Flair

Boys Rule

Hello scrappy friends! I hope you are enjoying your weekend. Today I wanted to share a masculine layout for A Flair For Buttons.

Yes, it's been quite a while since I've made a boy page and it felt good. I decided to do some major stash busting so I dug deep into my paper stash and found this older paper collection by Bella Blvd. that is perfect for boys. It's the Max Collection, which I believe is a winter release from 2014.

I arranged lots and lots of patterned paper strips along the bottom half of my white cardstock background  and machine stitched them in place with my vintage sewing machine in white thread.

For the photo of my son, I backed it with some scraps of Bella Blvd. papers from some various older collections and then added some stickers and of course a black heart flair button from A Flair For Buttons Just Hearts 2 Flair Set. Everything is better with hearts. I love hearts and heart flair buttons are no exception.

Just Hearts 2 Flair

For the title "Boys Rule", I added some old green chipboard alpha stickers, that have also been in my stash for some time, that are also from Bella Blvd. To make the title even more fun, I added a yellow star flair button from the My Life 4 Flair Set to replace the "o" in the word "Boys".

My Life 4 Flair Set

Finally, I added some star enamel shaped stickers in black, yellow and orange to give it a little more interest and dimension to the white cardstock background. I also added my son's name and date, when the photo was taken, with an acid free black fine line marker.

Voila! The layout is all done.

I really had fun creating this boy layout and flair buttons are my absolute favorite embellishment to add some more pizzaz to any paper project.

Be sure and check out all the flair buttons in the A Flair For Buttons store today. There are virtually hundreds to choose from in so many colors and themes.

Thanks for visiting and happy creating!

Santa Layout

Hello friends! Today I am sharing a Christmas layout of my two oldest children when they were sitting on Santa's lap.

I am not going to lie, this layout took me a few hours, but it was created with love and I am happy with the result. 

I first began with a beautiful Silhouette cut file (Design #228022) designed by Paige Evans and cut it on my Silhouette Cameo with a sheet of Silhouette white adhesive card stock. I backed it with some red and green patterned papers from Bella Blvd. and embellished it with some black sequins, red and green enamel dots, Bella Blvd. die cuts, a bow and fun flair buttons from A Flair For Buttons. They are all from the Christmas Fun 2 Flair Set. I clustered, layered and arranged the flair buttons, stickers and die cuts in a triangle around the photo to direct the eyes around the photo.

I also added some black sequins from Fancy Pants Designs that I had in my stash as well as some red and green enamel dots from Bella Blvd.

I completed the layout with some machine stitching along the outside edge in red thread. 

Thanks for visiting today. Have a wonderful day!

Flair On Layout

Christmas Fun 2 Flair