Scrapbook Circle and The Cut Shoppe BLOG HOP!

This week Scrapbook Circle is teaming up with The Cut Shoppe to bring you loads of inspiration using our June Have a Little Fun Kit plus our favorite cut files from The Cut Shoppe.

Hop along with our Scrapbook Circle team and comment as you go. We will be selecting a winner from all of the blog hop comments to receive $20 to The Cut Shoppe Hop. Be sure to stop by The Cut Shoppe blog and hop along to see what their team created with our June kit. Comment on The Cut Shoppe hop and you are entered to win one of our June Kits!

Hope you fund loads on inspiration are you blog hop here at Scrapbook Circle and then over at The Cut Shoppe too!

And here is my page that I created with the June kit!

I cut out a starbust pattern from the Authentique paper in the kit and added a few rays of some other papers as well.  Some stiching, cork arrows from the Crate Paper Journey stickers, and the exclusive Scrapbook Circle flair were thrown in, too!

I used the "Food for Thought" cut file and the "Now I Know My ABC's" file from the Cut Shoppe store and cut them out using some kraft paper.  I LOVE working with an alphabet cut file....its just awesome to be able to make the title the exact size you want!  For the "O's" in my title, I just made a circle with some smaller circles to look like cookies!

I used this circle from the "Food for Thought" file and backed it with some black cardstock to make is stand out more.  I love how this circle have a little "wedge" that you can kinda clip it onto another paper or photo.

Thanks for stopping by!  Be sure to follow this list below and leave comments to be eligible for the prize!

Scrapbook Circle Blog - http://www.scrapbookcircle.com/2015/06/the-cut-shoppe-blog-hop

Diana W-http://wonderwoman-diana.blogspot.com/2015/06/shes-back.html

Rebecca http://www.myclutteredcorner.com/2015/06/scrapbook-circle-cut-shoppe-blog-hop.html

Audrey- http://audreysreflection.blogspot.com/2015/06/scrapbook-circle-and-cut-shoppe-blog-hop.html

Jenni - http://papercardinal.blogspot.com/2015/06/scrapbook-circle-cut-shoppe-blog-hop.html

Gina - http://canoncreativegirl.blogspot.com/2015/06/scrapbook-circle-and-cut-shoppe-blog-hop.html

Valerie - http://www.valeriehuangdesigns.com/2015/06/scrapbook-and-the-cut-shop-blog-hop.html

Jennifer - http://midwestscrapgarden.blogspot.com/2015/06/blog-hop-with-scrapbook-circle-and-cut_8.html
Diana F. - http://designbydiana.blogspot.com/2015/06/cut-shoppe-hop-scrapbook-circle.html

Tessa - http://precociouspaper.blogspot.com/2015/06/scrapbook-circle-and-cut-shoppe-blog-hop.html

Lisa - http://lisaandrews.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-cut-shoppe-scrapbook-circle-blog-hop.html

The Fourth...my last for BOAF

Well this is my last project for Birds of a Feather Kit club.  Time FLIES!  (Did ya' get the pun?  Yes...intended...)

Anyways, when I got my kit in early JUNE, I printed these photos from LAST July 4th to do a double page spread.  I had been waiting for the perfect kit and this was it!  PLUS, I want to start working on my double pagers a bit more...i need to start feeling comfortable with them....here is what I came up with.

I love the burlap stars and the sparkly ones, too, and I thought they had a nice contrast with each other.  I also used the red mesh in the kit to cut out star shapes, too, and layered them on my clusters.

I wanted to add a bit more sparkle, too, so I used some shiny silver paint and painted some stars in the background with a mask.  And to make my large blue stars stand out a bit more, I stitched around the inside edges with red thread.

I really like the design of this 2 pager, so I decided that I would share it with you in the form of a sketch!  Hope you can use it!

Some Red White and Blue GLORY

The July kit at Birds of a Feather features the beautiful Glory collection from Authentique as well as some papers and embellies from Jillibean.

This kit is perfect for me right now because I have photos of my brother's HS graduation (and his mascot was the Patriots and colors were RW&B...how fitting), plus my grandfather was selected to be part of a WWII Honor flight, which needs some patriotic papers, AND I still have photos from last Independence Day to scrap, too!

So let me start with a page that I did about my little bro's graduation.  He graduated from the same school I did, but 18 years later!  :)  He was so excited to have Charlotte there and we were so glad we could make it.  Kyler was taking his nap and never would have made it through the ceremony!

When I started this page, I was thinking about the square mortar board graduation caps and how the kids throw them in the air.  I wanted to mimic the caps and the movement.

I started by using a ringlet stencil and some molding paste on the background and then splattered with some red ink.  I used a wavy line stitch on my machine to stitch with some red thread to represent the movement.

On the navy squares cut from the patterned paper I added a "tassel" and some small navy seed beads to the string.  These are supposed to be the graduation caps!  :) My brother's class had some clever t shirts made up with their class year and all the students names.  It said BHS 2012...You Wish You Were 1(one) 2(two).  I used that as part of the title!  :)

I also had to make some cards from my brother and a few of his friends since they had a joint graduation party.  I wanted to include stars on each and some paint and ink splatters, too!

I can't believe that my little brother graduated high school.  He is off to Syracuse University next year (also my alma mater for grad school) and I couldn't be more proud!!!!

Stay tuned in a few weeks for my July 4th LO and a mini album for my grandpa about his WWII Veterans Honor Flight. In the meantime, check out BOAF...there is a DT call going on!