CTMH Feels Like Home – Crafty Concepts with Erin

Hello there! I hope you are as excited about spring as I am! We have had so many rainy days this season but all is well, the water is much needed and it gives us more time to retreat to our scrapbook rooms. It’s a win win. Here is a fun layout I’m excited to share with you. If you are a mother of teenage boys you might understand how challenging it can be to create masculine layouts. So many of us are attracted to bright colors and florals. I love florals but they’d have no business adorning this cool layout of my awesome dude! Check out the video below to see how this all came together!

I started this page with some patterned papers from the ‘Feels Like Home’ collection from Close To my Heart. Having already created several layouts I had a lot of scraps left over to play with. It is a little goal of mine to use up an entire kit. I will browse through my photos in search of something to jive with whatever collection I’m working with. When there isn’t enough to make another layout I’ll whip up some cards to have on hand. It feels great to utilize every last bit.

I love the way the grey flannel plaid paper compliments my son’s shirt in the pics. I chose to accent his blue jeans with this lovely shade of Indian Corn Blue card stock, a retired color from my stash (I’ll link to a similar color below). I built up the layers with patterned papers then added the title. I cut the word #Awesome from the Cricut Artistry collection along with the large circle element. The gears and arrow are from the Artisite Cricut collection. The letter stickers in the title are from the ‘So Much Happy’ compliments. They worked perfectly to bring in a little blue to that area of the layout. As you can see I also balled up some blue thread from my stash to add some pops of color and texture.

Thanks for stopping by. Leave me comment and share your thoughts! Here’s the links to the items I used to create this page: Feels like home paper pack, Cricut Artistry collection, So Much Happy compliments, Bluebird card stock

Hello and welcome back to Crafty Concepts with Erin! I’m excited to share all the projects I created featuring the ‘Feels Like Home‘ paper collection. This is a beautiful kit with an elegant design. It inspired me to create several layouts of captured moments with my family.

This photograph is of my husband and his three sisters. I am so blessed to have such an amazing extended family and my sister-in-laws share my love for scrapbooking. Talk about lucky! The brick background in this photo inspired me to create my own brick like embellishment using texture paste. This was my first time playing with this fun new product and I will definitely be using it again to see what else I can come up with. Check out the youtube video for a step by step tutorial on how to use texture paste! I will also show you Close to my Heart’s new shimmer pens and how I incorporated them on this layout.

I’m drawn to the farmhouse color palette and these papers just scream Joanna Gain from Fixer Upper. I love the old fashioned floral elements and the watercolor dies that come with this kit! What special family moments or memories from home could you capture? A visit from Grandma or perhaps lazy backyard picnics on a sunday afternoon? Sounds good to me!

Here is the list of supplies I used to create this layout: Feels Like Home workshop your way scrapbooking kit , Picture My Life Cards- Feels Like Home , Opaque Matte Texture Paste , Palette Knives , Shimmer Brush in Sugarplum , All Purpose Mat , VersaMat , Micro-tipped scissors , Cricut Artbooking Collection , Exclusive inks stamp pad in Black , 3-D Foam Tape ,

My second project is a two page layout. My husband and I along with our two boys headed out for a family day. We decided to snap some pictures hoping to get a good one to use on our family Christmas card. It was such a fun day and I will always remember my husband saying ridiculous things so that the boys would have real smiles in the pictures!

I used a picture my life card to make a quick title then layered the water colored die cuts, stickers from the coordinating compliments and a zip strip to create a cluster and draw your eye to the title. I did add in some extra black cardstock from my stash and created the scalloped black border using my corner rounder.

Let me know what you think and leave me a little comment. I look forward to hearing from you! Oh and just a note, this beautiful paper pack is available through the end of April while supplies last.