Core'dinations & Authentique Project Inspiration Blog Hop

All this week Core'dinations and Authentique have been hoping on their blogs with project inspiration from each Design Team.  If you haven't check out the posts from the past four days.  You absolutely must!  Not only is the project inspriration absolutely awesome, but there are prizes, too.  

Today my pretty layout of Lily is on the Core'dinatons Blog.  I used lots of the Brights Core Essential Collection from Core'dinations and the very pretty Be(you)tiful Collection from Authentique for this layout.

Thanks for visiting today! Now, head right on over to the Core'dinations Blog!

Silly Lily

This past Saturday, Lily and I took some time to do a photo shoot. She is always a ham for the camera and is pretty photogenic.  What I love most about doing photos of her though is her ability to make it fun, be silly and totally true to herself.  Today's layout is composed of just a few of the silly photos from Saturday's shoot.

I knew I wanted the color palette to be blues and greens for this layout.  Blues to pull out the color of Lily's eyes and greens from the photo backgrounds. I spruced up the UmWowStudio chipboard with Distress Paints to match the color palette.  Have you tried this chipboard?  I love it! I'm linking this layout up to Paper Issues Chipboard Link Up.  

Supplies:

American Crafts Patterned Paper

Core'dinations Cardstock

UmWowStudio Chipboard

Ranger Distress Paints

October Afternoon Washi Tape

Jillibean Soup Alphas

Xyron Mega Runner

Hope you have a silly day! 

Kate

Beginnings Mini-Album

Happy Thursday!   Many of my regular followers may realize that I am not a big mini-album creator.  I love them and really appreciate the talented women at Quick Quotes who create AMAZING mini-albums, but I struggle with them.  Today I am sharing how easy it is to create with the Quick Quotes Beginnings 6"x8" Wire Bound Book, even for me!

In my previous Quick Quotes video, I shared the Beginnings Wire Bound Book in its entirety. Today I am showcasing completed pages from the Beginnings Wire Bound Book and a video tutorial on how I altered some of the pages in this fantastic album from Quick Quotes.

The cover of this album was simply altered by adding Powder Puff Chalking Ink in Blue Hawaiian and Baja Blue. These colors created a wonderful sky effect! A few pearls were added to middle of the resist flowers that on the cover 

All the pages in the Beginnings Wire Bound Book are 6"x8". I altered my album to have different size pages and created a couple of pockets for journaling tags.  You can see how I did this in my video:

To decorate the album I used several instagram photos of my daughter, Lily, and the May Club Q Page Layout Kit.  This kit came with lots of great papers and embellishments.  Plenty to do this whole album!  The edges of each page are inked with Blue Hawaiian Powder Puff Chalking Ink.

 

This album is fun and spirited just my Lily!  It really is a reflection of who she is at this moment. I love how easy the Beginnings Wire Bound Album and the May Club Q Page Layout Kit made this project come together! 

Quick Quotes Supplies:

Beginnings 6"x8" Wire Bound Book

May Club Q Page Layout Kit

Powder Puff Chalking Ink - Baja Blue, Blue Hawaiian, Coal Miner 

Other Supplies:

American Crafts Thickers

Fab Scraps Black Pearls

Helmar Premium Craft Glue & ZapDots & 450 Quick Dry Adhesive. 

Hope you have a lovely day,

Kate

In True Lily Fashion

Lily's fashion and her love of color have been a theme on my blog this week.  Partly because I embrace color as she does and partly because she is such a sweet, photogenic subject and partly because she is  home living her every day life with us (and my Instagram). 

As Lily headed off to 8th grade this past September, she had her own idea of what she was going to wear. Her informing me that "No one wears a dress on the first day of school, Mom!" told me that me  my days of picking out her first-day-of-school outfit are long gone.  While it was a sad moment for me, it sure did lead to a first week of school "In True Lily Fashion!" 

I broke up the title work in order to have "In True Lily Fashion" stand out.  To give the title spots some dimension i overlapped embellishments with the help of some Helmar ZapDots.    

Supplies used:

Paper & embellishments by "Story Teller" by Crate Paper

Title Alphas by Studio Calico

Helmar 450, ZapDots and Craft Glue

While I can't wait to see what Lily choses to wear on her first day of high school, I definitely do not want to rush this year of fun Lily fashion in her small, everybody knows everybody school.