Scrapbook page theme - Bugs, Butterflies, Bunnies

Today's theme is Bugs, butterflies or bunnies on a scrapbook  page.  I recently go the Elegant Edges cartridge and fell in love with it even more than I thought I would. This page came from my initial experimenting with the cuts.  The main frame is the negative from another cut.  I tend to save the negative spaces a lot from my Cricut cuts and am finally using them more often.

Here's the closeup of my butterfly, I used stickles and liquid pearls

 Here is a closeup of one of the photos, I used my trendy twine rope I created to swirl in the center then ringed it with the liquid pearls.

 I hand wrote the word love and then dotted stickles and the liquid pearls in the points.

I hope you like my page, thanks for stopping by today 

Scrapbook page continued

Today's project is a continuation of pages for my scrapbook page from Monday's project for Imagination So if you missed it, scroll down and check it out, I'd love to hear what you think.

So, this is the back of that same page, I've started a new thing trying to make my scrapbooks thinner, by flipping over the paper when possible and creating the next page right there.  

I used the Best Friends cartridge again for the pattern of the words. Splash and Just Chillin.  They came from the Create a Critter phrase keys. Splash is with the octopus on page 41 and Just Chillin is with the penguin on page 39.  Recognize the frame around the page? Yup, it's the negative from the piece I used on the front of the paper. ;) smart huh?

 Here is what the page looks like, that is my sister and her daughter in the water, just enjoying and and trying to find good shells. The Family Fun title I welded on my gypsy using the Cricut font cartridge and cut from the real red paper and the frames for my sister and niece are also red.  The cloud is the same as the one from the other side of the paper and filled with the Best Friends pattern.

I added stitching around the main edge of the 12 by 12 and inside the cutout.

The bottom pictures are of my mom and adorable daughter having at blast with her first trip to the beach and then sitting with her Uncle trying not to fall asleep.

The adorable starfish are again filled from the Best Friends cartridge.  I find that when I get a new Imagine cartridge it lives in my machine until I get a new one. Unless I find a particular project requires it go back in it's box. Sorry for that tangent, The starfish are cut form the accessory feature from page 41.

Imagination Monday

Today I decided to pull out a few pics that need to be on a scrapbook page and design around them instead of just making up a page.  

This is from last summer during our family vacation.  My sister and her family come here one year and the next we go up there so this was our vacation here and we went over to the west coast to my Aunt's house and had a fabulous time at the beach.  

 I used Elegant Edges for the large pink background piece, this is one of the main reasons I wanted this cartridge, I love these big pieces but hate to pay the price for them in the stores.  Now I can make my own, among other things...

I used red paper (real red from SU, my fav red paper) then layered the picture of my daughter with dark purple to match her bathing suit.  There is black stitching around the red frames and the pink background piece and white stitching around the purple frame.

 The adorable sun is from Create a Critter, I used the Best Friends Imagine cartridge to fill the pattern on the pieces.  I splayed out the layers so the edges all show.  I used a scrap piece of pink paper I had on my desk to put behind the cheeks and mouth.  There are foam squares between each layer on the sun. The picture above shows you the dimension.  

The title is also from Create a Critter and filled with the Best Friends Imagine cartridge.

I added little twine bows to the title. The cloud is a base image from the Imagine and filled with pattern from the Best Friends Imagine cartridge.

Thank you for looking