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Friday, August 10, 2012

Fun with Puns: Layout and a Card Set with Little Yellow Bicycle

I’m back today with more projects from the August creative kit at My Creative Scrapbook. This kit featured the Splash collection from Little Yellow Bicycle and is such a happy paper line, perfect for summer.

We live in the South and the local spraygrounds are a favorite hangout for kids of all ages. My little boy is 3 and he just loves to go play in the water. The sprayground is basically a bunch of sprinklers, and, really, what could be more fun when the temperatures hover around 90 degrees?


I love the big die cut circle with the colorful scalloped edges and wanted to mimick that look with a half-circle banner. To make the banner, I punched circles, then folded them over a length of twine.


At the bottom of the page, I used some of the LYB vellum strips to make little pennants. I backed the vellum with white cardstock then wrapped it around hat pins.
 

I also used the collection to make a pair of summer cards. This Splash line had the cutest “fabric favorites" embellishments. The bathing suits called to me and I knew right away that I would want to make coordinating boy and girl cards.
 
For the boy card, I made a tag from patterned paper then affixed the swimming trunks and a sentiment. I made pennants with the washi tape and hat pins as described in the layout above.
 

For the girl version, I used the same base and made a tag from coordinating patterned paper. To complete the card, I added the swimsuit and umbrella from the fabric fabrics and a sentiment with letter stickers from Jillibean Soup. Love these alphabeans.


I love making coordinating cards. It makes fast work of a card set to use similar designs and the same card base.


Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you have a great weekend.

25 comments:

  1. oh what awesome projects izzy! the cards are just sooo fun! awesome awesome

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  2. Stunning, stunning..where's the favorite button...LOVE, LOVE it Izzy!!!

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  3. Super fun page! I love that die cut circle background. It just screams summer fun. These photo are perfect and adorable cards too. :)

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  4. Every single one of these projects brings a smile to my face. You completely captured the meaning of summer and fun in all of them. :)

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  5. What a fun page - love how you did the banners and I'll be lifting that idea. And the fun cards. I agree with Lisa - you rocked all things summer.

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  6. love these colors. great job with all of them

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  7. Wow! Beautiful work! Have a wonderful weekend!

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  8. ALL these projects are sooooooo FUN and sooooooo DARLING! LOVE!

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  9. #1 LOVE the fishy detail on the LO

    #2 LOVE me a pun...and you had 2 :) Thanks for posting these. Consider them pinned :)

    Julia

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  10. Love the banner so sweet and the puns are just cute!

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  11. Love the circle design on the wave paper!
    And adorable cards!!

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  12. These are all fabulous!!!!! I love love love the colors and loveeeeeeeeeeeee the swimsuit cards!!! ADORABLE!!!

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  13. Those cards are SO clever, love them and so cute too! I love the half circle banner on your layout. My 3 y/o DS LOVES the spray ground area at the pool :)

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  14. I don't know how you manage, but every project you make is out of this world adorable!!! Those coordinating cards are adorable....a really great concept. Believe it or not, I am trying to make cards with my scraps after creating layouts. Love the half circle banners on your layout...the colours and your design capture that joy of running through sprinklers! My kids used to love spray parks too :) Thanks for the inspiration, Izzy!

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  15. These are absolutely ADORABLE! I love the happy colors and great use of pattern, texture and layers. So cute!

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  16. These are adorable!! Love them!

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  17. totally fun projects!!!

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  18. OMGosh! How stinkin' cute are these projects....every single one! Great colors too. Just perfect in brightening up my day today! Have a wonderful weekend! xo

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  19. Super cute layout! Your son is so darn cute and you capture the best pictures of him! LOVE your design on the layout! And those cards are too cute!

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  20. I so like that collection anyway but your examples are oh so cute! LOVING your fun little titles.

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  21. wowsers.. you are SO good. I love each of these projects.. those tags are particularly incredible, Izzy! <3

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  22. Really cute flags, thanks for sharing with us at ScrapFIT!

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