Scrapbooking With Posh

Welcome to The Cherry On Top's, Traditional Tuesday.

I had the best day ever on Saturday!  I went to another Pizza Box Scrapbooking event at Tiny's Hobby in Kortrijk, Belgium.  In this Pizza Box, we got Simple Stories, Posh collection.  Well, some stuff from the collection.  It sure is a super, super collection.  I love the colours and the lack of a theme.

Keep reading for more inspiration and a few tips.

The morning of the event, I hit up Pinterest and drew some sloppy sketches from layouts I liked.  Although Tiny's always provides a lot of pages, I have this thing with scrapping the exact same thing as my neighbour.  Hehehe...I do realise that is a great idea for those who don't even know where to get started.  The ladies are always there to help, too.

There was a paper with these pretty hearts.  I left a sticker type of edging on them and placed them to form a flower.  Give your pedals a little push forward or back for added dimension and depth on your page.

Layering is also a great way to add colour, texture, softening a page and adding pop and contrast to make particular aspects of your page stand out more than others.  

I finished off my flower with a huge button brad I bought at the Action for next to nothing.  I kept bending the prongs until they fell off and used a thick glue dot to adhere.

I thought it would be pretty cool to use the circle in the camera as another photo spot, but I didn't bring pictures.  I didn't start organising early enough.  I also didn't bring a lot of card stock and none of my ribbons matched.  Hehehe...The things I should learn by now!  Hehehe...

The layered up tag on the above layout will provide an excellent spot for a title.

Here's my second page.  Reverse layering for extra interest and more of the same neat shaped flowers so I could place these two pages side by side for a posh, coordinating double page layout.

This time I added some leaves under the flower.  I just drew this shape and traced it for all of the others so they were all basically the same.  Then I inked around the edges to make them contrast more against the background.

These clear stickers were really nice.  I backed it up with some coordinating scraps I had, inked around the edges again for a cohesive look with the rest of the page, added this tiny, fine gold cord because this entire collection seems a bit fine and dainty and then topped off the cluster with these hearts.  I took a tiny glue dot and rolled it up so that hearts would be higher than the mason jar, lending more depth to my page AND you don't see the adhesive.

I just love all of the bling.  So, I added a bit more with my own bling from Action.  A bit of pretty, gold script from the collection and coordinating hearts to polish it up.

This is what the basic kit looks like.  Sweet, eh?!

Thanks for hanging with The Cherry.

Here are a few of our other traditional projects:  They are linked.


I LOVE this project.  I've got a FULL TUTORIAL and a FREE TEMPLATE for you.  Maybe you could still use a gift idea?

This project was really fun, easy and fast.  There's a full tutorial and another free template so you can scrap this up, too.

Needing a party favour holder or just LOVE shoes?  Try out this project.  I have a tutorial and a link for the free template.

We had several weeks worth of card ideas.  Here was one of my favourites.  Scrap fast and economically with the stash you already have and by all means, save those cards.

Graphic 45 is one of my favourite paper suppliers.  Check out what I did with a cereal box and just a few scraps of paper.

If you like what you see, Follow us here, on Pinterest and on Facebook.  I've also got a group if you want to show off your projects there, too.

Happy scrapping!!!

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Tiny's Hobby and The Cherry On Top, A Mini Album

Welcome to The Cherry On Top.

We're back with another mini album.  This one was designed at a workshop at Tiny's Hobby in Kortrijk, Belgium.  They have a brand new store and it is totally awesome!  It's all new and full of "leuk" sweet hobby crafts.  From Pixel Art to crochet, clay, scrapbooking, stamping and tons more.

Isn't it awesome?!  What a transformation!  They have a Facebook Page where they show off pictures of workshops, goodies and the shop.  I actually travel over an hour to get to this shop because I don't know of anything in my area this good and with all of these awesome workshops.

My favourite part is the beautiful new workshop areas.  The last workshop, in November I attended we received a pizza box FULL of delicious scrap stuff.  Most of the goodies were from the Jillibean Soup collection, Spicy Social Soup.

How fun are these colours and prints?!

I went for a layered look on all of my pages and I used a Graphic 45 tag, mini album.

The embellishments were small in numbers and we mostly had to use just patterned papers and the paper goodies from the collection.  That makes you think extra crafty creative, though!

As you can see, I inked around nearly everything to give the entire mini album a cohesive feel.  I always think layers and edging with paper or ink gives all of my projects a more polished, finished feel.

You don't always have to fill each each and every page with photos and goodies.  I left the back cover blank.  Hehehe...

Bind it all together with a ring and if ya feel like it, tie a bunch of ribbons around the ring for more fun.

Use different kinds of adhesives to put your projects together.  Glue, glue dots, double sided tape and foam tape for extra added dimension is always recommended.  Dimension adds more variety and interest to your projects.

I'm off for another pizza box workshop at Tiny's in just a few short weeks.  This time I have the box first and it's from one of my all time favourite paper produces, Basic Grey.  Yay!  I bought another cardboard mini album with ring binding when I was at Tiny's and I'll be using that for the base of my pizza box goodies.  I'm thinking of scrapping a weekend get away with my hubby because the papers and goodies are way grown up with subdued colours and class.

I'll be back to show you that one when it's finished.

Thanks for stopping by The Cherry for a peek.  We love when you do that!