Making Flourish Stencils

A really quick and easy tutorial today about making your own flourish templates using Momenta's blank stencil sheets. I love doing this, and they don't even have to be perfect - which makes it so much better! The supplies you will need: hole punch blank stencil sheets (I'm using 4"x5") sharpie flourish pattern

For this first stencil, I made a copy of a set of crystal flourishes I purchased - this isn't the first time I've used my copy either. 1. Place the blank stencil sheet on top of your flourish and use the sharpie to dot where the crystals would be.

Here you can see that I didn't copy all of it - just the parts that I wanted to use.

2. Use your hole punch and punch holes where you placed the dots. They don't have to be perfect either - you can fix that when you use them on your page.

Here is my punched out stencil. You can see in the upper left corner where my holes got a bit crooked.

Now take your punched stencil and use it on your projects.

You can use a pencil to make dots on your project for places to put gem stickers, dots of glitter or just to go back and add a bit of a doodled flourish to your page.

And I wanted to share, you don't have to do this solely with a copied print. Here is a photoshop brush that I printed off to do the same thing.

I told you - super easy! And you'll get much more mileage out of the stencil than your purchased gem flourish. :)

And just as an example, here I used the new One Fine Day line from Momenta and used Dimensional Pearls with my stencils to create the flourish.

CTS April Challenge 2

Yesterday I posted my second challenge for April over at Citrus Tree Studio. For this challenge, you must use liquid in some form on your page (emulate it with paper, use mist, use water to distress, etc) and additionally you must use flowers on your page. Here is the page I created following the guidelines, using the Citrus Tree Studio April Kit "Hello Spring".

Additionally, I have to apologize to those involved in the CSN Giveaway. It totally slipped my mind to draw a winner. So here it is (better late than never)...

Sherri R. said... I'm not sure exactly but maybe a kitchen scale.

Please contact me so I can get your code to you!

CTS Challenges

Over at Citrus Tree Studio, I will be posting a new challenge every Monday during the month of April! You have until Midnight EST the following Sunday to upload your creations to the gallery for a chance to win the prize. And the prizes are rockin'! I posted the first challenge this morning - to create a page using 2 of everything you choose to use!

Here is my example. I used Momenta products to create this page with 2 pieces of cardstock, 2 pieces of patterned paper, 2 blue crystals, 2 white crystals, 2 blue acrylic bubbles, 2 chipboard hearts, 2 pictures and 2 flourishes.

If you have a few moments, definitely stop by the message board at CTS and check it out. And while you are there, check out the details about the Design Team call going on right now!

Scrap That Baby - Messy

Time for a new prompt at Scrap That Baby! This prompt is all about being messy, and I have to be honest.... that is the one side of motherhood that I could honestly care less about. Grayson is constantly leaving icky spots everywhere. So here is my page for the challenge - a digital page using elements from lots of different designers. Be sure to stop by the Scrap That Baby blog to participate in the challenge, we would love to have you!

ordinary kinda day

Another survivor layout from the TallyScrapper challenge. I am honestly amazed that I have kept up with it each week thus far. This one is just a simple page about Braelyn's ordinary day.