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Using Die Cut Papers On Scrapbook Pages

Sometimes it's just fun to play with your stash! With my various design team commitments, it can be difficult for me to find time to do this. Over the past several months, I have been getting together with a friend, who lives close to me, to scrapbook. We try to meet about once a month and I have been trying to make that a day of scrapping non-design team things. A day to play with my stash and just have fun!!!

The scrapbook page I am sharing with you today, using die cut papers and products from the Pink Paislee Hey Kid and My Mind'e Eye Cut and Paste collection, is one of the pages I created during one of the "just for fun" scrapbook days.

I started with the Hey Kid Red Rover Die Cut Paper. I loved the paper, but I wanted to do something different with it, so I fussy cut around the center grouped circles and trimmed off the top and bottom border strips. Next, I cut some of the designs from inside some of the circles using a craft knife. Next, I positioned my "new" die cut piece and the border strips onto a piece of patterned paper from the My Mind'e Eye Cut and Paste collection. I then filled some of the new circle openings with pieces from the Hey Kid Ephemera pack.

It is a subtle change really, but I had fun "playing" with paper because of the fussy cutting and layering. The final steps to completing the layout were to add my photo, embellishments, title and journaling.

SUPPLIES | COOL SCRAPBOOK PAGE

Patterned Paper: Pink Paislee | Hey Kid - Red Rover, My Mind's Eye | Cut and Paste - Adorbs Striking

Stickers: Pink Paislee | Hey Kid - Cardstock Stickers, My Mind's Eye | Cut and Paste - Charm Cardstock Stickers

Enamel Stickers: My Mind's Eye | Cut and Paste - Charm Enamel Shapes, My Mind's Eye | Cut and Paste - Charm Enamel Dots

Die Cuts: Pink Paislee | Hey Kid - Ephemera

Spray Ink: Heidi Swapp | Colorshine in Mustard

Entwined Hearts Free Digital Cutting File

It's time to share another FREE digital cut file! This time, I've got one that is perfect for everyday scrapbook layouts and cards, or maybe even a framed home decor piece?! It's called Entwined Hearts and I want to share it with you today along with a layout I used it on.

DIGITAL CUTTING FILE | ENTWINED HEARTS

Entwined Hearts was created to be used as a lace or stencil style background for use on scrapbook layouts, cards and other paper crafting projects. Along with the large background cut file you will also receive four hearts made to fill the various heart shapes that create the "Entwined Heart" image. This digital file is available in both SVG and Studio formats and you may download this digital cut file for FREE for your own personal use.

For more of my Digital Cut Files, please visit my Free Digital Cut Files Page!

Entwined Hearts Free Digital Cut File by Juliana Michaels 17turtles.com

INSPIRATION | THE CLOTHING & THE ACTIVITY

The lime green color of my favorite fleece inspired the color palette and I was drawn to using Echo Parks Here & Now collection, along with some Heidi Swapp Serendipity patterned papers. The activity of going flying with my Dad inspired the elements I choose to document this awesome event. It was a fun experience for two reasons. One, I love to fly, no matter what size the plane. And two, I got to fly with my Dad! How cool is that?!

Love This Moment Layout by Juliana Michaels #freedigitalcuttingfile

Love This Moment Layout by Juliana Michaels detail #freedigitalcuttingfile

SUPPLIES | LOVE THIS MOMENT LAYOUT

Patterned Paper: Echo Park / Here & Now Collection, Heidi Swapp / Serendipity

Enamel Dots: My Mind's Eye

Stickers: Heidi Swapp

Letter Stickers: Jillibean Soup

Digital Cutting File: Juliana Michaels -17turtles / Entwined Hearts

As always, thanks for stopping by and if you use my cut files, I would love to see what you have created. It brings me so much joy!

Top 10 of 2013 Blog Hop & Giveaway

Welcome to the Top 10 of 2013 Blog Hop!

Twenty two fabulous scrapbookers and paper crafters have gathered together for a fun little blog hop to share with you some of our favorite layouts and projects from 2013. Scroll down to the bottom of my post to see the full list of participants and links to their blogs.

I'm going to tell you right now that my Top 10 turned into my Top 12. I was having a difficult time picking my favorites, so I attempted to make it easier on myself by picking one from each month of 2013. It is a combination of scrapbook layouts and home decor projects, both of which are my favorite things to create. For each of my projects, I have included a link back to the original post if you are interested in more details.

GIVEAWAY

To make this blog hop even more fun, I've also included an AWESOME GIVEAWAY that you can enter to win using the Rafflecopter widget below. Included in my prize package are products from Pebbles, Inc., Little Yellow Bicycle, Elle's Studio, Paper Smooches, Faber-Castell and Bella Blvd.

You will have until December 31, 2013 to play along for your chance to win my prize package. (I apologize, but this giveaway is only open to United States residents. If you live outside the United States and are willing to pay the shipping, let me know in the comments section below.)

a Rafflecopter giveaway

January | Together Layout and Rusted Metal Chipboard Tutorial

Together Layout and Rusted Metal Chipboard Tutorial by Juliana Michaels

February | Loved Layout

March | BoBunny Easter Eggs Tutorial

BoBunny Easter Eggs Tutorial by Juliana Michaels

April | Round Pen Warm-Up Layout

Round Pen Warm-Up Layout by Juliana Michaels

May | You Are My Sunshine Layout

You Are My Sunshine Layout by Juliana Michaels

June | Smile Dad Layout

July | Howdy Sunshine Layout and Free Cutting File

Howdy Sunshine Layout and Free Cutting File by Juliana Michaels

August | Celebrate Good Times Layout

Celebrate Good Times Layout by Juliana Michaels

September | Working Together Layout

Working Together Layout by Juliana Michaels

October | Fright Delight Witches Hat

Fright Delight Witches Hat by Juliana Michaels

November | Friends Forever Layout

Friends Forever Layout by Juliana Michaels

December | Julie Nutting Be Inspiring Canvas

Julie Nutting Be Inspiring Canvas by Juliana Michaels

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoy the blog hop! Here's the full list of designers. Just click on their name to hop on over to their blog for even more amazing inspiration! And don't forget to enter my GIVEAWAY using the Rafflecopter widget above!!!

Happy Hello Layout | My Mind's Eye

This is my fourth and final layout that I created for my October Guest Designer post for My Mind's Eye. This was truly a wonderful experience and I feel so blessed to have been given this opportunity to guest design with them. I want to send out a special THANK YOU to Stephanie Howell for asking me to do this!!! I also want to THANK everyone who has left sweet comments on my blog, my Facebook page and on the My Mind's Eye blog! It means so very much!!!

Now to my Hello Happy layout! I took this photo of my nieces standing outside the American Girl Place on their very first visit to the store. It was so cute how excited they were to just look in the window and see their dream doll, McKenna. When, I went to scrap this photo, I knew that the Cut and Paste Adorbs line with all the pink and bright colors was a perfect fit to capture this special and happy day for my two nieces.

Hello Happy Layout by Juliana Michaels details

You can see here that I created another handwritten title (like the one I used on my Always Be The Best You layout) and cut it out with my Silhouette! Would you be interested in these as a free cut file? Let me know!

SUPPLIES | My Mind's Eye

Patterned Paper: Cut and Paste Adorbs/ Recollect, Unique, Call, Thrive, Cards, Live
Tape: Cut and Paste Adorbs/ Decorative Tape
Journaling Card: Cut and Paste Adorbs/ "Hello" 4x6 Journal Card
Stickers: Cut and Paste Adorbs/ 5x7 Bits and Pieces, 5x7 Sticker Sheet, Tiny Words Stickers, Labels
Enamels: Cut and Paste Adorbs/ Enamel Shapes, Enamel Dots
Buttons; Cut and Paste Adorbs/ Decorative Buttons

Other:
Sewing Machine
Digital Cutting File by Juliana Michaels
Electronic Cutting Machine: Silhouette Cameo Digital Cutting Machine
Doilies: BoBunny 4"

Thanks again so very much for stopping by!!!

Feelin' Carefree Layout and FREE Digital Cut File | My Mind's Eye

I'm back as promised, with my third My Mind's Eye October Guest Designer layout and FREE digital cutting file!!! I know that winter is coming for those of us in the northern hemisphere, but I am still going to enjoy summer and warm weather as long as I can. Even if it is just while scrapping my summer vacation photos! This layout, Feelin' Carefree, features a photo from our vacation this summer to Mexico and uses the My Mind's Eye Cut and Paste Charm collection.

INSPIRATION | Summer Sun

I was inspired to use the sun die cut and then carry it over onto the layout with the My Mind's Eye Decorative Tape to help remind us just how hot it was the day we went deep sea fishing! In fact, there wasn't a cloud in the sky, but I couldn't resist using that cute cloud patterned paper and stickers as part of my design.

Feelin' Carefree layout by Juliana Michaels

Feelin' Carefree layout by Juliana Michaels details

DIGITAL CUTTING FILE | You Are My Sunshine

You can download this digital cut file for FREE! I can't wait to see how it inspires your next project!!!

You Are My Sunshine Free Digital Cutting File by Juliana Michaels

SUPPLIES | My Mind's Eye

Patterned Paper: Cut and Paste Charm/ Spin and Delight

6x6 Paper Pad: Cut and Paste Charm

Stickers: Cut and Past Charm 5x7 Bits & Pieces, Tiny Words Stickers and Labels

Tape: Cut and Paste Charm Decorative Tape

Enamel Dots: Cut and Paste Charm
Journal Card: Cut and Past Charm "Carefree" 4x6 Journal Card
Other: Sewing Machine

I have one more layout to share with you, so I'd love for you stop back by tomorrow to see it!

LINKED AND SHARED | Saturday Share on SnapCreativity

Always Be The Best You Layout | My Mind's Eye

I was up on the My Mind's Eye blog this week with my October Guest Designer posts! Today I am sharing my second of the four layouts I created using their new Cut and Paste collection.

INSPIRATION | My Minds' Eye Journaling Card

This layout, Always Be the Best You, all started with the "Be" journaling card. I knew it would be the perfect title for this photo of my niece. The layout came together so easily using the Cut and Paste Adorbs collection! Even though my niece is wearing purple I felt like the blues and pinks in this collection coordinated well and helped to keep the focus on her!

Always Be The Best You layout by Juliana Michaels

Always Be The Best You layout by Juliana Michaels detail

I also added to the title with a digital cut file I created in Adobe Illustrator using my own handwriting. Once I cut it out with my Silhouette, I wrote over it using a white gel pen to help it stand out a little more.

SUPPLIES | My Mind's Eye

Patterned Paper: Cut and Paste Adorbs/ True, Thrive, and Cards

Stickers: Cut and Paste Adorbs 5x7 Sticker Sheet, 5x7 Bits and Pieces, Chipboard Stickers and Tiny Words Stickers

Buttons: Cut and Paste Adorbs Decorative Buttons

Journal Card: Cut and Paste Adorbs "Be" 2x6 Journal Card

Decorative Tape: Cut and Paste Adorbs

Other:

Cardstock: American Crafts

Pen: Uniball Signo Ink Pen in White

Digital Cutting File: Juliana Michaels

Digital Cutting Machine: Silhouette Cameo Digital Cutting Machine

Sewing Machine

White Crafting Thread

Stay tuned tomorrow for a fun Halloween altered project I created using Pebbles Thirty One collection!!! I will resume my My Mind's Eye projects on 10/19 with another FREE digital cutting file that is full of sunshine!!!

How Sweet It Is Layout and FREE Digital Cut File | My Mind's Eye

How sweet it is indeed, that I was given the amazing opportunity to be the October Guest Designer for My Mind's Eye!!! It still feels like I'm dreaming!!!

As I mentioned yesterday, I am now going to begin sharing the four layouts I created using the awesome Cut and Paste collection. This was one of my Summer 2013 CHA favorites, so I was beyond thrilled to get to work with it for my guest designer projects!

INSPIRATION | Houndstooth

This is a photo from our summer vacation to Mexico...our traditional vacation "selfie". Since we first started dating, we have been taking self portrait of ourselves when we go on vacation or take a trip. It's just one of those things we do! I was inspired to create the houndstooth die cut background from the Cut & Paste Charm Bliss "Jovial" paper. After I cut the background piece, I then cut some extra houndstooth shapes from the 6x6 Paper Pad and attached them here and there with double sided foam tape. I then had fun creating a vertical border using a combination of chipboard, buttons and enamel dots.

How Sweet It Is Layout by Juliana Michaels

How Sweet It Is Layout by Juliana Michaels detail

DIGITAL CUTTING FILE | HOUNDSTOOTH GRID

You can download this digital cut file for FREE!

Houndstooth Grid Free Digital Cut File by Juliana Michaels 17turtles.com

SUPPLIES | My Mind's Eye

Patterned Paper: Cut and Paste Charm/ Twinkle and Trend
6x6 Paper Pad: Cut and Paste Charm
Stickers: Cut and Paste Charm 5x7 Sticker Sheet, Tiny Words Stickers, 5x7 Bits & Pieces, Chipboard Stickers, Labels
Enamel Dots: Cut and Paste Charm
Buttons: Cut and Paste Charm Decorative Buttons,

Other:
Sewing Machine
Digital Cutting File: Houndstooth Grid by Juliana Michaels
Electronic Cutting Machine: Silhouette Cameo Digital Cutting Machine

Tomorrow you can stop back by and see the second layout I am sharing from my guest design post with My Mind's Eye! Thanks so much for your visit!!!

Halloween Altered Frames and a Scary Spooky Halloween Banner | My Mind's Eye

I have such exciting news to share today!!! I was up on the My Mind's Eye blog yesterday and again today with my Guest Designer post! Several months back they contacted me and asked me to be the My Minds' Eye October Guest Designer. Of course I said YES while jumping up and down and totally doing the happy dance!!! I have loved My Mind's Eye for as long as I can remember, so this opportunity felt like a dream come true!!!

Since I absolutely LOVE Halloween, I HAD to create a couple projects using their Happy Haunting collection to help decorate my home for our upcoming Halloween party! I absolutely love the mix of chalkboard and orange glitter that is used throughout this line!!! Besides these Halloween projects, I also created four layouts using the Cut and Paste collection. I will be posting each of those layouts separately starting tomorrow and over the next few days after, so that I can share more details on how I created each project. I will also have some FREE cut files for you to download, so stayed tuned for that to begin tomorrow!!!

This first project is a set of Halloween Altered Frames. I used an assortment of 4x6 photos frames that I already had. Some of them were already black, but the ones that weren't I gave a coat of black spray paint before I began to decorate them with the paper and embellishments from the Happy Hauntings collection. The images inside the frames were cut from the "Cards" patterned paper. I then added the stickers, chipboard and other embellishments to further decorate the frames.

Halloween Altered Frames by Juliana Michaels

SUPPLIES | My Minds' Eye Happy Haunting Collection

Patterned Paper: Happy Haunting Cards

6x6 Paper Pad: Happy Haunting

Chipboard: Happy Haunting 12x12 Chipboard Accessories

Stickers: Happy Haunting 12x12 Sticker Accessories

Brads: Happy Haunting Decorative Brads

Other:

Ranger Distress Ink in Black Soot

Assorted Black Frames with 4x6 photo opening

Black Spray Paint

Now for my second project, a Scary Spooky Halloween Banner! I created this banner, by cutting out the letters from the "Spooky" 12 x 12 patterned paper and from the same print in the 6x6 Paper Pad.

Scary Spooky Halloween Banner by Juliana Michaels

The tiny bats that I used to embellish some of the letters are fussy cut from the back side of the "Word Art" Paper in the 6x6 Paper Pad. If you look closely you can see that I stamped the images from the Happy Haunting Decorative Stamps with both grey and black ink on the "Spooky" Paper before I attached the other layers.

Scary Spooky Halloween Banner by Juliana Michaels detail

I layered the different pieces together with materials varying in height to help give it more dimension. Some of the things I used were chipboard, cardboard and double sided foam tape.

SUPPLIES | My Minds' Eye Happy Haunting Collection

Patterned Paper: Spooky, Morrocan
6x6 Paper Pad: Happy Haunting
Stamps: Happy Haunting Decorative Stamps

Other:
Grey and Black Ink, Black cording, Seam Binding, Black Fringe Ribbon, Corner Rounder and Hole Punch

I hope you liked my Halloween creations! And make sure to stop back by tomorrow for a FREE digital cutting file!!!

Pie Chart Love | Free Cut File

It's been awhile since I shared a free cut file, so I thought today might be a good day to do so. I originally created this Pie Chart Love cutting file for the Oklahoma Online Benefit Crop back in May to benefit the victims of the tornadoes. I have since added to the cut file and created two versions of it. I used the outline version of it on the layout I am sharing today.

Sometimes it is wonderful to scrap everyday photos. In fact, I took this one with my camera phone. I was at one point trying to take a photo every day, but I have since fallen off that wagon. I started missing days this summer and when I was on vacation I didn't even have my phone turned on. Maybe, I'll start it back up again though. Who knows...

Love To Read Layout by Juliana Michaels using Pie Chart Love Digital Cut File

FREE DIGITAL CUTTING FILE | Pie Chart Love

You can download it and use it for FREE. I just ask that you let me know if you have used it and it would be awesome if you would link up to my site if you use it or share it. I would love to see how it inspires you! As you will notice, the pie chart on the left is going to cut an outline shape, like the one in my layout above. The one on the right will cut a more solid, stencil shape.

PIE CHART LOVE

SUPPLIES | My Mind's Eye, Teresa Collins, Webster's Pages

Patterned Paper: My Mind's Eye, Teresa Collins, Webster's Pages

Cardstock: American Crafts

Stickers: Webster's Pages

Jewels: BoBunny

Punch: EK Success

Digital Cutting File: Juliana Michaels

Digital Cutting Machine: Silhouette Cameo

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed my layout and the digital cutting file that I share with you!

SUPPLIES | COOL SCRAPBOOK PAGE

DIGITAL CUTTING FILE | ENTWINED HEARTS

INSPIRATION | THE CLOTHING & THE ACTIVITY

SUPPLIES | LOVE THIS MOMENT LAYOUT

Welcome to the Top 10 of 2013 Blog Hop!

GIVEAWAY

SUPPLIES | My Mind's Eye

INSPIRATION | Summer Sun

DIGITAL CUTTING FILE | You Are My Sunshine

SUPPLIES | My Mind's Eye

INSPIRATION | My Minds' Eye Journaling Card

SUPPLIES | My Mind's Eye

INSPIRATION | Houndstooth

DIGITAL CUTTING FILE | HOUNDSTOOTH GRID

SUPPLIES | My Mind's Eye

SUPPLIES | My Minds' Eye Happy Haunting Collection

SUPPLIES | My Minds' Eye Happy Haunting Collection

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