American Crafts Layout

I am still in disbelief in being on the American Crafts' design team.  So very honored. 

 American Crafts has an enormous amount of product.  Even I get overwhelmed by so many options.  So I wanted to share how this layout started.  It didn't start as a layout.  I pulled out an assortment of American Crafts papers and supplies from Sketchbook, Dear Lizzy, and Shoreline.  I picked a few sheets of pattern paper and vellum and started stamping this frame from the Sketchbook line over and over again.  After cutting them out, I wondered how they would look grouped together.  So I pulled out a neutral and simple pattern paper.  Did I mention, I brought everything into the living room, and sat side by side with my daughter.  Something about not being where I normally create and just "playing" can really help when you don't have any idea what you want to make ;)

...that's where it began.  I basically started moving these stamped frames around to see what I liked.  I ended up liking them kind of overlapping each other rather than how I first started by having them go in different directions.  Once I had the overlapping frames of vellum and pattern paper down, I started layering on top and around.

I only did a little bit of cutting with the Silhouette...mostly used scissors and trimmer to start layering and seeing what I liked.  I even used two leftover frames that didn't get used as mats for the two photos here.

One of the last things I added were the stitching, drops of mist, date stamping, and journaling...

This was a very fun layout to create and the best part about it, I felt like I got to play and experiment with being creative, not knowing if this would turn out to be a layout or who knows what. 

You can see a list of supplies on 2 Peas, here.