"Scrapping School Memories"

Good morning crafty friends. I hope everyone had a great Labor Day Weekend. I am really looking forward to the cool fall weather! Today is the first Wednesday of the month and that means the Whimsical DT is scrapbooking. This week we are scrapping school memories, with a twist to use a chipboard element on our LO's. Here is what I came up with:

This will be a future LO for when my three year old starts Pre-School. This needs to be very SOON or I think the men in the white jackets may come and take me away. Anyway, this week Regina from the Cutting Cafe donated two cut file packages for us to work with, School Days, and School Years. I chose to use the apples from the School Years printable stamp set. I cut them out on red cardstock and then painted the stem with my Creative Paints, and put some Stickles on the leaf. To make them nice and shiny I added some Glossy Accents. All of the other cuts, with the exception of the tree and the title, are from Create A Critter. The tree, all the leaves, and the title are from the Silhouette Store. I cut the leaves out in two different colors and distressed them with Chocolate Chip SU ink. When I layered them I did not layer them directly on top of each other, instead I scattered them a little bit to give them a cool shadow effect. I added Tim Holtz Clear Rock Candy to them so they would have a bit of a crinkled up look. Hint..when applying this stuff dab, don't paint it on. I found that out too late so only a few of my leaves have the effect I was looking for. I embossed the pumpkins with the Distressed Stripes Tim Holtz Folder, and added Perfect Pearls to all of them. For my chip board element I used a Tim Holtz On The Edge Die called Brackets. Here is a photo:

I cut it out twice once in chipboard and then once in the yellow cardstock then I glued the cardstock onto the chipboard. This will be the journaling spot. The little face on the squirrel is from the Wide Eyed and Bushy Tailed Face Assortment. All of the patterned paper is from the DCWV Amber Autumn Stack.


This week our sponsor is Regina from the Cutting Cafe. Regina is going to give one random winner who enters the challenge this week, three cut files of their choice. She has such a fun variety of printable stamps and cut files in her store. In addition, there is a bunch of videos and tutorials to help get you started. Thank you Regina for your sponsorship, and generously giving us your cut files to work with this week. :)

Thank you for visiting my blog today. Be sure to hop on over to the Whimsical Wednesday Blog, to see what the talented Whimsical Designers have done with their "Scrapping School Memories" Lay out.