May Blog Hop with Kiwi Lane Designs

Thanks for stopping by my blog. I am so excited to share a new layout I created using Kiwi Lane designer templates. I love to scrapbook but life so often gets in the way of my ability to do it as often as I like. Between work, home, and writing a novel, I have so little time to craft lately. That's why I was especially thankful for the chance to pull out my templates and actually make a layout. The templates make designing scrapbook pages so fast and easy.

My process is to first design my page by laying out my templates on my cutting mat. Next I select my paper and start cutting and inking. My pages don't always end up quite as I designed (like my layout below) but the templates provide me a great jump off point for layout. I know that if I didn't have my Kiwi Lane Designs templates I would take probably three times as long to make a single page.

On this layout I used the FLORAL template set. A great accessories set that can be used in a number of ways. I love making 3D flowers with them as well as using them as  focal points on my pages. This time I used one of the FLORAL templates as I would a doily and I really loved the result. To give my flower the full on doily look I embossed it in my die cutting machine. The embossing folder gave my cardstock flower nice detail which I further enhanced by running white ink over the raised portions.

And here is my finished layout.

Templates used: Floral3; Scallops2; Mini Strips (1/2" & 1"); Brackets3; Tiny Floral3

As you can see my complete page is not quite the same as the design I made with my templates. While my initial design had space for two vertical photos, I ended up modifying it for one horizontal photo that I liked so much better with the papers I selected. 

Thank you for hopping with us!

Be sure to check out all the awesome blogs in the hop this weekend to find so many ideas to inspire creativity. 

1. Kiwi Lane - http://kiwilane.com/blog
2. Lissa Mitchell - http://mightycrafty.blogspot.com/
3. Leslie Prinkki - http://www.scrapsofmine.blogspot.com
4. Connie Wallenbrock - http://conniecancrop.blogspot.com
5. Sandi Pressley - http://lifeatthebeach51.blogspot.com/
6. Christine Meyer - http://scrappingwithchristine.blogspot.com
7. Alicia O'Bryant -http://goldengoddessdesigns.blogspot.com/
8. Suzanne - http://scrapwithsuzy.blogspot.com
9. Roselyn Riley - http://prettylittlepackages.blogspot.com/ YOU ARE HERE!
10. Arin Flinn - http://apieceoflifespie.com

YOUR CHANCE TO WIN!

A random winner from ONE of the participating blogs (including the Kiwi Lane blog), will be given a $25 gift certificate to the Kiwi Lane Shop, for leaving a comment and will be announced on the Kiwi Lane blog on Thursday, May 8th.

Also if you subscribe to my blog and leave a comment below I will also choose ONE random winner to receive a brand new FLORAL template set along with another mystery set. So please leave me a comment for your chance to win two KLD template sets.