Skylark Birthday Card

My oldest daughter recently celebrated a birthday and, of course, I wanted to make a special birthday card for her.  My goal was a quick, but beautiful, card so I turned to the Skylark Picture My Life Kit.  Here is the results...

Here is a peek inside...

And finally, a close up of some of the details....

Here are the details of how this card was made:

• Skylark Paper Pack, B&T Duos paper scrap, 2 x 4" segment and 4 x 4" segment for card front plus additional paper scraps used to make paper strips shown in the close up shot above.
• Skylark Picture My Life Kit
• Desert Sand Exclusive Ink Pad
• Sweet Leaf Card Stock, 4 x 6" segment for inside of card
• Colonial White Card Stock, cut 4 x 12" folded to a 4 x 6 card base with a 2" left side and a 4" right side
• Card Chatter - Birthday, D1475 (Retired)

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Picture My Life Skylark Program - Card Project

I love the Skylark Picture My Life Scrapbooking Program.  I must be honest...I am a traditional scrapbooker to the core!  I have yet to use this program to make a pocket based scrapbook layout.  I do see the fun and the appeal of a quick layout that you get with the program, but I just love the creative aspect that comes with traditional scrapbooking.

With that being said, I do love this program and the idea of using the cards on other projects.  Today, I will share a 4 x 5.25 inch card that features a card from the Skylark Picture My Life Scrapbooking Program.

 

Here is a close up picture that gives a great peek at the beauty of the dry embossing and the dragon fly from the Skylark WOTG stamp set that I stamped using lagoon ink and then fussy cut.  While I wouldn't enjoy doing tedious fuzzy cutting very often, even a Cricut loving girl like me can find it occasionally a bit relaxing and rewarding!  

With a few simple additions, this card quickly and easily came together.

Here are the supplies that I used to make this card:

Skylark Picture My Life Scrapbooking Program

Skylark WOTG, retired (Stamp set and a few scraps that were left over from previous projects)
Lagoon Cardstock
Kraft Cardstock
Lagoon Exclusive Ink Stamp Pad
Quatrefoil Embossing Folder

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Picture My Life - Traditional Scrapbook Layout

I love traditional scrapbook page layouts, but I also was drawn to the variety and unique looks that are available with the Picture My Life Kits.  No wonder one of my first projects using a Picture My Life Kit would be a traditional scrapbook page....

Left Hand Page of 2 page Layout

Right Hand Page of 2 page Layout

I used some flip flap on this layout in order to maximize the number of pictures that I could include on this layout and also to provide a generous space for the journalling.  Although I still need to add the journalling, I have plenty of space for all I want to say.  Here is a peek inside the flip flaps...

 

I also want to share a few close up shots of some of the beautiful details that are on this layout...

I will close today's post with a list of the items I used to complete this project.  Thank you for stopping by.

Flip Flaps, 4x4 inch and 4x6 inch
Bohemian Alphabet Stamp Set, retired
Skylark Picture My Life
Skylark Assortment , retired
Slate Striped Twist Ties
Artbooking Cricut Cartridge, page 62 <Icon>, cut at 1 inch from Lagoon Cardstock
Sweet Leaf Cardstock
Desert Sand Cardstock
Lagoon Cardstock
Lagoon Exclusive Ink Stamp Pad
Lagoon Zipper Lace, retired

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Skylark WOTG - Timeless Beauty

When I sat down to make the second layout in the Skylark WOTG, I knew that I wanted to scrapbook pictures from my daughter's birthday.  However, I knew that the pictures featured their fair share of pink and pink was nowhere to be found in the Skylark papers.  I also knew that it would accommodate pink quite well, so my solution was to randomly stamp the dragonfly image using Cotton Candy Ink onto the B&T paper and use some Cotton Candy cardstock.  I was very pleased with the results.

Left-hand page of the 2-page layout

Right-hand page of the 2-page layout

I did change some of the photo sizes and I needed a larger portion of my layout to hold my journaling.  Overall, I mostly followed the WOTG instructions, but tweaked things here and there to suit my pictures and my taste.  Here are some close up photos of some details on each of the layouts...

The title

Design cluster, includes a couple of the shapes from the Skylark Assortment.

Design cluster...a cutout stamped image of the dragonfly, a couple pieces from the Skylark Assortment, and some of the Slate Striped Twist Ties that I colored using Cotton Candy Exclusive Inks

A beautiful bird from the Skylark Assortment.

Skylark WOTG Primary Layout

Well, I just can't say it enough - I love this paper pack!  It is just so beautiful and the Skylark WOTG was so much fun to work with.  Of course, I almost always tweak the layout to make it my own, but that is one of the things that make the WOTG so great.  The basics are done, you just follow the instructions and go off-road when the mood suits you. 

Left-hand page of 2 page layout

Right-hand page of 2 page layout

I won't go into detail to describe all of the elements that follow the WOTG instructions, but I will describe a couple of the changes that I implemented.  First of all, I felt that the "Live in the Moment" title was better suited to this particular subject matter - my daughter's piano recital.  But, given the size of this stamp, it fit more readily on the right hand page.  So that is why I ended up replacing the title on the left page with an additional picture.  This was a simple alteration that didn't change the overall feel of the layout, but did work better with the photos that I had and the title that I wanted.

Another change that I incorporated was the journaling box.  While I did like the one on the original layout, I wanted more color on my page and I liked the idea of using a tag.  I decided on the tag from page 50 of the CTMH Artbooking Cricut cartridge, which I cut at 4 inches.  I then used MS Word to print my journaling, embellished it with a small segment of the twist tie and then adhered it to my page.

I decided to include a close up of the design detail that showcases a flower from the Skylark Assortment and a couple of the Slate Striped Twist Ties.  The flower is an adhesive backed resin piece that adds texture, depth and beauty to the layout.  Such a simple, but powerful detail that I felt it deserved a moment in the spotlight...

Design Detail