Wrapping up September part 2

In this quick post, I want to remind you about the National Stamping Month stamp sets.  All three sets work together well to help create simple embellishments, beautiful cards and additions to your scrapbook pages.

For an event earlier this month, I used this month's featured paper packet, Zoe and the "pocket scrapbooking" stamp set which is part of this month's special.  Excuse the quick photos I snapped on my phone but allow me to quickly walk you through how this layout came together.

I knew from the begining that I wanted to use "love & life" for the title for this page so it was an easy choice to stamp this in colors of ink which match Zoe perfectly: Sorbet, Glacier, Sweet Leaf and Whisper.

Next, I turned to Close to My Heart's Artfully Sent collection which allows anyone to make their own Picute My Life (PML) cards quickly.  A quick run of a scrap of Whisper through the machine and I had this card with the chevron arrows cut out of the bottom.  I added the scrap of blue and white chevron paper with the winter stamp and used the month and date portion of the zip strip to include the winter months on it.

I randomly cut and corner rounded different patterns of Zoe paper which will become the photo mats or will have solid paper journal boxes added to them.

Next I made two more quick cards...the Spring flower accent took less than a minute and I used a scrap to dovetail for the title.

The Love Summer accent card was cut with Glacier and has the sorbet/white dot paper behind it.  A quick stamp on a zip strip with a dovetail cut...and this was done.

So far I think I spent about 10 minutes on this layout, including loading the scraps of cardstock in and out of the Cricut.


The camera accent below is also from Glacier paper with the same Zoe paper mounted behind it...just something fun because I know this layout will be just miscellaneous photos of my family.

Next is the Autumn accent card cut by the Cricut with a zip strip dovetail addition.

At this point I just cut random pieces of printed paper from Zoe in 4x6 and 3x4 sizes and moved them around until I liked the way they looked.














And here is the finished product...15 minutes later! This album is a mixture of pocket and regular layouts...sometimes you just need something quick and fun.

Last but not least...I have a few Zoe kits remaining...all pieces are pre-cut and pre-stamped (except the summertime title as you may have a different title in mind) for just $5.  First come, first served...here's a reminder of what it looks like: