RED, WHITE & BLUE HOME DECOR FRAME | with Traci

Happy 4th of July!!  I hope everyone is enjoying this red, white, and blue holiday with lots of family and friends. Here's a fun little home decor project to inspire some crafty fun.

This is a Foundations Decor shadow box that I filled with papers and embellishments from the Yankee Doodle collection.  

The lily white chipboard alphas made a fun title at the top of my frame, and I love how the clear acetate pieces look like fireworks are exploding right off the frame.

I filled the die cut wagon with fireworks and a cute little mouse from the mini icon stickers. I love these tiny sizes!

The Odds & Ends are some of my favorite Doodlebug products for any collection, but the silver and acetate pieces in the Yankee Doodle line are so great! I hope this simple little project has inspired you to create something red, white, and blue today! Enjoy!

Doodlebug Supplies Used

Yankee Doodle 12x12 pattern papers

Yankee Doodle Odds & Ends

Yankee Doodle Mini Icon Sheets

Yankee Doodle This & That Stickers

Lily White Chippers Alpha Stickers

Other Supplies Used

Foundations Decor White Shadow Box

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RED, WHITE & BLUE SUMMER LAYOUT | with Virginia

July greetings, our family kicks off the Summer with celebrating the Canada Day holiday at our cottage, it's the perfect time to enjoy water activities and campfire s'mores! I chose as many red/white elements from the Yankee Doodle line to create my page.



As a clean and simple scrapbooker, I love anything linear or grid pattern so I used a calendar daily doodle (cut to 8.5x11) as my page base. I filled in all the little grid squares with the red/white gingham and red paisley patterned papers from the 6x6 paper pad. I achieved a paper quilt look by machine stitching little floral triangles onto the little square patterns.

Have you tried 8.5x11 scrapbooking? I like to have a mix of formats in my albums and as you can see you can still fit many photos to tell your story on an 8.5x11 page.

Thanks for dropping by the blog today, hope you have a wonderful day!

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MINI ALBUM FOR THE RED, WHITE & BLUE | with Traci

School's out here in Georgia, the heat has kicked in, and the pools are open! Before we know it, we'll be planning for July 4th fireworks so here's a little red, white, and blue inspiration for you!

For this mini album, I used the Yankee Doodle collection and lots of petite prints. I combined 6x8 pages, pockets, and fold-out elements in a binder from Simple Stories. And yes!, this album is available as a do-it-yourself kit in my Etsy shop at Artsy Albums.

The patterns and die cut odds & ends pieces for this collection are perfect for lots of activities ... fireworks, BBQs, parades, family fun, and anything red, white, and blue!

The tab stickers above, and several of the cute border stickers, are from the Stars and Stripes Fancy Frills sticker sheet.  I love how cute they look on the chipboard tabs of this binder!

The Odds & Ends package has lots of great acrylic pieces like the "America" above, and the "July 4th" on the cover. I hide clear glue dots behind these pieces to adhere them to my pages.

I don't want to rush my summer along too much, but I do always love the July 4th holiday. Stop by my shop if you're interested in making this album for yourself, and until next time, happy scrapping!!

Doodlebug Supplies

Yankee Doodle Collection Kit

Yankee Doodle Odds & Ends

Stars & Stripes Fancy Frills

Red Chunky Twine

Floral/Graph petite prints

Dot/Stripe petite prints

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Viva Chile Layout | with Caroli

I love the Independence Day holiday, in my country, Chile. It occurs in September, when we are starting Spring down here, and we have the perfect excuse to get together with family and friends, drink and eat like there is no tomorrow.

Most of the kids get dressed in our typical customes, included my two little ones. Last year I tried to snap a shot of my kids wearing their typical Chilean dresses, but my baby boy decided he was not much into photos, so we literally had to run after him and just got this hilarious attempt of a photo.

I love this kind of stories, so of course I had to scrap these pics of my very well behaved daughter and the earthquake I call my son :)

Something I love is that our typical colors in Chile are the same as in USA, so all patriotic collections work perfect for my own patriotic documenting, yay! I used Yankee Doodle collection for this layout.

Although I am trying get out of my confort zone and avoid white backgrounds, in this one I had to work on a white base because I love how blue and red pop from white. Here's my layout:

I used a stars cut file by The Cut Shoppe, and used my scissors to cut it into different parts, this way I was able to use it in opposite corners of the page. I backed some of the stars with patterned paper and left some of the just blank, love the effect.

I had a main rectangular photo and also two little circle shaped photos to complement the design. I love how the circle ones seems like hiding behind some of the stars, I think they look nice.

For my title I cut some big letters in patterned paper and completed using a word I cut on my Silhouette Cameo machine using free font Better Together. I also used my sewing machine to stitch over this latter, just to add an extra detail to the title.

As you may know, journaling is a really important part of all my layouts, for me scrapbooking is all about the photos and the stories behind them and journaling is in charge of telling the stories. In this case I wanted my journaling to be an active part of my design, so I  wrote it in the middle of my page using red pen and also highlighted few words using Teensy Typo alpha in blue color.

Finally, I randomly stitched on some of the star of the cut file and plastered some blue ink here and there, just to make the design funnier and messier, but in a controlled and clean way :)

I love how this layout came out, it tells a funny story and documents a happy memory for me, I'm glad I was able to work on it and add it to my scrapbooks. 

I hope you got inspired by this and start documenting some of your fresh patriotic memories, let me know if you use some of the ideas I explained here or if you lift this project. 

Thank you for stopping by today, have a great scrappy time!

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Happy Fourth of July and a Wagon Full of Flowers | with Kathy

Happy Fourth of July everyone!  To celebrate I decided to create a fun table centerpiece using the Yankee Doodle Wagon and Flower Cut files!  These files can be found in the Lori Whitlock SVG Shop (Wagon, Flower Cluster) as well as the Silhouette Store ( Wagon, Flower Cluster).  Take a peek...

I will admit, converting a 2D file to be a 3D project was a challenge, but it certainly was fun!  I was just so happy that it turned out like I had envisioned in my head!  For papers, I used some Gingham Linen Petite Prints in Ladybug, Bubble Blue, Blue Jean, Limeade and Beetle..  I also used Starry Stripes and Declaration Dots from Patriotic Parade;  Colors of Courage and Land that I Love from Patriotic Picnic; and Horsin' Around from Down on the Farm.  I embellished the wagon with some Red, White & Blue Star Sprinkles (side of wagon); Red, White & Blue Matte Sprinkles (wheels) and Silver Glitter Sprinkles (for the rivets) Here are some more close-ups:

I've put together some instructions on how I converted the Wagon and Flower Cut files to go from 2D to 3D in Silhouette.  I will say this is not a beginner project!  You do need to be comfortable with your Silhouette and it's design functions.

I've included wagon assembly instructions on the image. 

Below is how I assembled the flowers...

I started by curling the petals with the handle of a paint brush.  I then added glue to one of the petals next to the cut line, and overlapped the petals so that the flower formed a "bowl".  I did this for all three layers of the flower then stacked them, with some foam tape between the layers for more dimension.

For the stem, I took a piece of flower wire, bent it so there was a small circle at the top and inserted it through the hole in the center of the stacked flowers.  I wrapped floral tape under the flower to hold the wire in place.  I then added some of the greenery to the wire using floral tape.

I finished the flower off with a center that I borrowed from this flower in the Lori Whitlock SVG shop.

If you decide to take the challenge to make this, we would love to see your projects!  That's it for me today, thanks for stopping by to peek!

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Independence Day Mini Album | with Traci

Can you believe it's already July?! This year has flown by for me, but I'm really looking forward to tomorrow and celebrating Independence Day!  I've got my mini album ready to fill with pictures of our family BBQ, a local parade, and lots of fireworks.  

I used Doodlebug's Yankee Doodle and Patriotic Picnic collections for this mini, and mixed in lots of wonderful petite prints.  The print on the cover is blue jean Daily Doodles card stock.  

One of my favorite things about Doodlebug is that everything matches so it's very easy to mix and match collections, embellishments, and petite prints!

The silver foil on the Yankee Doodle die cuts is hard to see in photos, but trust me ... it's so pretty!!  Perfect for celebration projects.

Isn't this pocket cute?  I cut it out of the red bandana cardstock from Down on the Farm, but it works great in my July 4th book!

My favorite washi tape of all time might be ant parade .... so cute!!

I hope I've given you a little red, white, and blue inspiration today!   Have a wonderful 4th everyone!

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Uncle Sam Hat Treat Box | with Brigit

Here's a cute 3D Uncle Sam hat treat box for the Fourth of July. I used the Yankee Doodle paper collection to put this project together, makes a great celebration gift!

The hat box svg file is from Svg Attic, it comes with a collection or you can get just the hat from the Silhouette Design store here.

Paper used to create the hat, yankee doodle petite print assortment (lily white swiss dots), stripes foiled, patriotic paisley and lily white textured cardstock.

Embellishments used, pinwheel doodle-pop, patriotic posies sprinkles, red, white & blue sprinkles vellum, yankee doodle this & that sticker sheet, red, white & blue twine and a button from the ladybug assortment pack.

Hope you enjoyed this treat box, thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

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