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Mojo Monday at My Kreative Pursuits

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I was honored when Lisa Harris from MyKreativePursuits.com asked me to participate in her Mojo Monday, where she provides a variety of inspiration pieces as a jump start.

The piece I finally chose was a color inspiration featuring a pomegranate. The color combination is not something I would normally use, and felt it would be a good stretch.

pomegranate color inspiration

Pomegranate Color Inspiration

While just coming back from out of town, I had a lot to catch up on. Then something exciting happened – my daughter knocked my coffee cup over on my laptop. (I didn’t say it was good excitement!) I immediately grabbed it up and held it upside down. After spending a lot of time trying a variety of things to help dry out any moisture, I still have several keys that are doing odd things, or nothing. However, plugging in my old keyboard to find I could actually get ALL the letters and numbers, made feel a litter better. What does that have to do with my project? Well, I wasn’t feeling very creative or happy after all that, so I decided to go digital!

I decided to use Close To My Heart’s Studio J online software. I realized Jubilee was a kit that I could make work with this color inspiration. In the original papers, I only loved one piece of paper, from the kit, and it wasn’t going to work with this color scheme. Going digital, I could tweak colors and papers to do what I wanted! Since Jubilee has a country feel, I decided to look for some photos taken at my parent’s, which is in a rural area. I found five photos I hadn’t scrapped of myself and my girls riding horses, and I chose the Top Hat pattern for five photos. Next, I selected Kit Mix 3 to start. I don’t really spend much time on the Kit Mix choice, because I know I can do whatever I want to personalize the papers and colors.

Two of my photos were of me and were black and white, while the other three were of my three girls and had less than lovely, old photo coloring. The layout featured two photos on the right page and I thought about just leaving them there. However, that really messed with my timeline feeling, so I just clicked the little arrows at the top between the pages in Studio J to swap their places. Voila! My pages were instantly swapped, and in the end here’s what I ended up with!

Kristie Sloan horseback riding layout

Horseback riding with four generations.

I hope you will periodically try new color schemes, as you may be surprised with the results. I think the colors of these older photos look fine with this color scheme, and I had never really tried to scrap them all together. There is really more of this story that should be told, and since this is a digital layout, I may go back and add a journaling block at the bottom of the right page to tell a bit more.

If you haven’t tried digital scrapbooking, you may like to see Studio J in action on this video I made.

Be sure and visit Lisa for Mojo Monday!

Cheers to YOUR creativity,

KS

Travel Theme Scrapbook Page – Wanderful

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Whether traveling near or far, travel themed pages are nothing new. However, the Wanderful paper pack and accompanying items are new as of August 1st!  I used this paper pack to create a layout as one of the inspiration pieces for the Take Heart Idea sketch challenge.

Here is the sketch along side my layout. You can see I followed the sketch very closely.

Take-Heart-Ideas-2014-8-SketchTake Heart Ideas ctmh august challenge Kristie Sloan

When I saw this paper pack I had a great idea for the photos I would use. Although I have not been a world traveler, my husband has. I had several photos in mind that I planned to use for a layout. However, when it came time to get this done, they were nowhere to be found. I’m sure none of you have ever had that happen! Well, I found a couple of other photos to use. They aren’t all that far from home, not even out of the state, but it was a fun adventurous weekend that just the two of us had!  I’m sure I’ll find the photos and there is plenty of time to use the paper again. It will be in the new CTMH Idea book until July 2015.  Here is a closer look.

Take Heart Ideas ctmh august challenge Kristie Sloan

Travel themed layout featuring Close to My Heart “Wanderful” papers

The blue polka dot paper is the reverse side of the black passport print. The stamps I used were from the following sets: World Traveler #C1592, True to Life #C1575, and Take Note – #D1574 from the Cricut Artbooking Bundle.

Circles 814 THI Scetch

White pigment ink stamped on black card stock, with faux stitching in white.

A bit of baker’s twine was used for the pennant banner, with glue dots securing each of the little triangles. Faux stitching was done with a White Signo Uniball pen.

Pennant 814 THI Sketch

Triangles cut to make a pennant banner. Mounted to baker’s twine with glue dots.

A journaling spot was created by stamping on white card stock and using a punch on the side. The edges were scruffed up a bit to add a bit more dimension.

814 sketch journal square

Journaling square stamped and edge punched.

Here are items that go with the Wanderful product line that will be available August 1st.

Wanderful WOTG -G1088

Wanderful Workshop on the Go. Includes exclusive stamp set.

 

Wanderful Paper Pack

Wanderful Paper Pack, plus card stock.

World Traveler Stamp Set, #C1592

World Traveler Stamp Set, #C1592

Here We Go SS-D1600

Here We Go Stamp Set – #D1600

Wanderful Assortment, #Z3010

Wanderful Assortment, #Z3010

Wanderful Complements, #X7191C

Wanderful Complements, #X7191C

 

Not only are these cards perfect for pocket page scrapping, they can be used in many other ways! You can use them on a traditional scrapbook page, are card, or whatever your little desires!

Wanderful PML, #Z2019

Wanderful Picture My Life, for pocket page scrapbooking and more! #Z2019

Remember that there are many current CTMH items retiring, and July 31st is the last day to pick up what’s still available. The new Idea Book is available on Friday, August 1st!

CTMH 2014 July SOTM-framed

Click on this image to shop at the Close to My Heart online store.

KS



Insta-Summer Adventure

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summer by the poolNo matter what kind of creating you like to do, you probably take a few photographs along the way! There are always special moments we like to capture, but what about everyday moments?

My friend Danielle over at Scrapper On the Street is always full of ideas to help you capture more than just the special events! She is kicking off a series for a great summer adventure in photos, where she’ll share ideas to capture your summer!

Check out her short video today and join the Insta-Summer Adventure! It’s free!

School Theme Scrapbook Layout

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Although this site is about much more than scrapbooking, I do talk about it often! If you come to my site for other ideas, I hope you will see the value in the variety of things offered here. My hope is that you find things that inspire you or prompt you to want to try something new. Even if you don’t scrapbook, you can find something about a scrapbook layout that may inspire you in other ways. For instance:

  • You may look at a color scheme in a new way and use it in your next creation.
  • A layout may give you an idea for a smaller version to translate to a card layout.
  • The embellishments may remind you of stamps you could use in a new way.
  • The combination of papers, embellishments, quotes or word art may spark an idea for a mixed media or art journal page.

It’s all about the journey and having FUN! So if you see several posts about one thing or another, I urge to check back, because we’ll be on to something else soon.

Here is a 2-page layout with a back to school theme. You could even use this as a beginning and end of the school year layout, or anything in between. It was created with Studio J, using:

      • Kit: (School/Friends) Class Act
      • Pattern: (4-photo) Backstage
      • Kit Mix: 6

School Theme Layout
Join us for Studio J Live! to see pages done right before your eyes! Here is how this page was created.

Get started on your own digital layouts now!

Until next time!
KS

Mini Summer Art Journal

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Have you ever seen a handmade art journal that has decorative edge cuts as part of the page design? They are beautiful — and time consuming! I adore their appearance, but don’t usually have the time to devote to their creation.

In recently going through the handbook of one of my Cricut cartridges, I decided that instead of cutting one of the little booklets from card stock, I would use mixed media paper. That way, I could create the small size I wanted, yet use it for whatever suits my mood! I have a large pad of Canson watercolor, 90 lb. paper, which I had picked up on sale. It is heavy enough to take whatever I decide to dish out on my pages. It is 12×18″ so it was easy to cut a 12×12″ sheet to place on the cutting mat. So that’s what I decided to use.

I used the Artbooking Cricut cartridge from Close to My Heart. To maximize my paper, I cut the pages at 5 inches. Now I have a sweet little booklet to use however I want. I may even just do background treatments and still put some little photos in it.

Mini summer art journal from Cricut Artbooking cartridge

Notice the bonus letters from the cut-outs of “summer” and “fun.”

Once I picked out which pages I wanted to use, it was a breeze! I love the fact that there are various sized page heights. I could have made two of the scrolled pages and flipped them opposite ways! Maybe next time.

Check out all the cuts you can do in the Artbooking handbook, and pick yours up here.

What would you do with a little summer art journal? Draw, paint, use it for photos….? Share your ideas in the comments!

KS