Strawberry Picking Layout - Too Adorable!!!

It's Kendra here again with a fun and exciting layout that I wanted to share with all of you!  Strawberry Picking was created using the Cricut Expression and The Cricut Design Studio as well as the following Cricut Cartridges: Preserves, Storybook, Calligraphy Collection and Live Simply. Various colors of Bazzill, Cricut and American Craft cardstock were used as well as Flower Soft for the centers of the flowers.

 When creating a layout like this I really like to start out by placing my photo mats.  This is going to give you a great base to work from.  My preference it to create a double mat but it is entirely up to you when you create your own layout.  I find that it is really fun if you let your layout play a little with your photo mats thus the overlapping of leaves, flowers, strawberries, frogs and insects.  The areas that overlap are not glued down so you can slip your photo into place easily.

Using Design Studio the title Strawberry Picking was welded togther and cut out twice.  I layered one on top of the other just to a little dimension.  Up close it seems to just hover over the Strawberries.

My glue of choice is Tombow Mono Aqua Liquid Adhesive (The blue lid).  It is super easy to use and if you happen to wipe your hand on your jeans guess what...it washes out!

Head on over to Inspired By Jinger Adams to check out what is happening in her neck of the crafting/shoe world!  She is creating a brand new design team and I am so excited to be one of the many hopefuls to be part of it!  Go check out all the other entries and be sure to tell her that Kendra sent you!  :-)

I would love to know what your favorite part of this layout is?

I love comments! :-)

Happy Scrappin'



American Crafts: Check out the Goodies I was given at CHA to play with!

When I went to CHA this year, I was not exactly sure what to expect since the show was so much smaller than last summers show. I did know of a few places I wanted to visit though, as they are the companies who make some of my favorite products! One of those places was American Crafts. I had the pleasure of talking with the American Crafts people and guess what they did? They sent me home with tons of there product to blog with. Coming up in the near future, you will be see me creating with these products. I will be reviewing them. and giving you an honest opinion of what I think of them. The photos below show all the goodies I brought home! Hope you enjoy!

All of my American Craft Goodies

American Crafts Glitter Chipboard

American Crafts Glitter brads and Cardstock

American Crafts Thickers: Glitter Puffy Letter Stickers

American Crafts ZING! Flourescent Embossing Powder! How cool is that!

American Crafts ZING! Embossing Powder: Opaque, Glitter & Metallic

American Crafts Cardstock Swatch Book

I have already created my first project using the AC Glitter Chipboard but you will have to stay tuned to see the completed project as it will be in the Chirp in the next week or so. It is a layout using Hannah Montana and Plantin Schoolbook. I think you will all love it! Once the layout is seen in The Chirp, you will have to oportunity to download the .cut file and create on for yourselves. Just be sure to check back in the next week or so!

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