A Touch of Elegance

Hi everyone! I want to share a design that I made with my daughter's fifth grade graduation photos. I knew that I wanted something elegant for this one & loved the beautiful butterflies from the Urban Lily "Bliss" paper. However the colors just didn't go with the photos that I had taken. The perfect solution was to cut them out and use them on another sheet of Urban Lily that did match! I chose the "Bloss" paper for the background and then just adhered several butterflies onto the page and bent their wings a little for more dimension and to make them appear to be in mid flight. I love the way it turned out! Urban Lily papers are perfect for paper piecing and can be used in so many different combinations. Give it a try for yourself!

Supply list:
Patterned paper-Urban Lily Bloss & Urban Lily Bliss
letters-american crafts and carolee's creations
flowers-heidi swapp
bling-prima
brad-My Minds Eye

~Mooch Collection Layout by Mandy~

Urban Lily has some super cute collections and I'm excited to dive into more of them. Right now I get to show you a little bit of the Mooch Collection!! For this layout I used a pic of my daughter that she took of herself. Check it out!!  You can find Urban Lily products like this and lots more at Scrap-Tastic!!

 Mooch Collection

- Hyperactive

- Smooch

- Raw

I also used a tiny bit of one of the Urban Cuts sheet.

Good Monday morning US Girls!!! This is my niece and my son. 

I really love the clean and simpleness of this paper line and the color is perfect!

Have a great week ladies!!! until next time!

Adora

MayElla collection by Petra

She loves to be outdoors my little girl. When I saw the papers of the MayElla collection and those big green circles I just knew I wanted to make a rather strict graphical design and let those fussy cut green circles extend outside the borders - outside the box - I also added some punched leaves that peeks outside the borders.

Supply (Utomhus / Outdoors):

Urban Lily MayElla Collection: Petite (ULP323), Sassy (ULP320), Impish (ULP325)

I used the left over pieces of the MayElla papers to create a second layout in a more wimsy style. I added a Photocard and cut the journaling spot from Urban Cuts accents. The layout is a bout my favorite Paul Frank flippflopp that has past on to a life after this :).

Supply (R.I.P):
Urban Lily MayElla Collection: Petite (ULP323), Impish (ULP325)

Urban Lily Photocards Posh (ULP540), Urban Cuts Accents (ULP340)

DT-Petra Offrell aka Pysselpetra

ATC's by Mandy Harrell

I haven't made any ATC's in a really long time, so I decided I would make a couple. Urban Lily has some perfect little premade ATC cards that work great!! Here are the two I made a few days ago!

ATC #1 Supplies

1. Urban Lily Ready to Use ATC Cards

2. Urban Lily MayElla Collection - Cheeky Papers

3. Urban Lily Chipboard Circles

4. Stickles, Random Brads, and Ribbon

ATC #2 Supplies

1. Urban Lily Ready to Use ATC Cards

2. Urban Lily Everyday Lily Collection - Linen Stripe

3. Urban Lily Urban Cuts

4. Stickles and Lace

Don't forget to check out Urban Lily products at Scrap-Tastic!!!

Fast and Easy Cards!!!!

Hello hello!! Today is all about quick and easy.  And that's what I love with these papers, you really don't have to do a lot to create a great project.  Fast and easy!!! :)

Thanks for looking and have a Great Day!!!
Adora
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Think pink! by Eli

Today I  want to show you a monocromatic LO. Black, white and pink. I had two photos about my little Noemi, sleeping in her pink bed. She is so sweet when she sleeps! So I want to wish her, today and forever, pink dreams.

I choosed as background the Blackout paper from Blink collection and I underlined the swirls with liquid pearls.

I added the big hearth from Smooch paper and a frame from Mini Book B&W paper. On this part I wrote the title.

In the other side, I used 4 circles from Hyperactive paper, as a scalloped border for the photos that I have matted with acrylic paint and two embroidery threads, pink, of course.

As embellishment I choosed a big flower rub-on and I did the center with a chipboard.

With the remains of the papers, a stripe from Polka Dot photo cards, and another rub-on, I preparared a card for a new baby.

Supply list:
Urban Lily Papers and Chipboards
Rub-ons Creative Imaginations
Liquid Pearls Ranger
Paper frill Doodlebug Design
Acrylic Paint Adirondack
Dymo
Alphabet Toga

See you.
Eli

My Little Rock Stars

Hi everyone! It's Janet here today.

I've been trying to get some of my older photos scrapped so I used a sketch from Frosted Designs and pulled out these pictures of my 3 children from almost 30 years ago! Take a look at the wallpaper and flooring in the photos!! Yikes!! lol!!



For my background paper I used "Cheeky" from the Mayella collection. Love those swirls.
The circle behind my photos was cut from "Forever" from the Happy Everything collection. Aren't those stripes of colour and the dots great?



All those polka dots in the 4 corners of the Cheeky paper were originally white but I just coloured some of them in with my Copics to mimic the dots in the Forever paper.



I added some embellishments including the chipboard circle from the Number It collection and ended up with a great memory finally scrapped!



My children were definitely My Little Rock Stars!!!

Beautiful Sweet 7

I love that the design of this paper makes it so easy to complete a page quickly. The page already includes the title. I just added the picture, mat, the 7, and some brads. They come together so easily. I also added some stickles to the flowers on the paper for some sparkle.
Urban Lily products used:
Beautiful
Impish
Number
~designer Julie Detlef

A gift for dad

Hi everyone, Andrea MacDonald here and I am absolutely thrilled to be posting my very first post for the Urban Swank design team. The ladies have been doing a fabulous job showcasing the awesome Urban Lily products as well as their amazing talent!!!

Today I wanted to show you a great little idea to use up the fabulous Secret Keeper Cardstock! Since Fathers Day is fast approaching I thought I would make a little book for my girls to give to their daddy. We had family photos taken a few weeks ago which are amazing, and wanted to show them off.

I used the heart Secret Keeper Cardstock and used a polka dot stamp and clear heat embossed the entire page. I then misted it with Riptide Glimmer Mist and using a paper towel rubbed over the surface so I didn't create any splatter marks. I cut out some Urban Cut Alphabet letters and Glimmer Misted them in Apple.

On the inside flaps I used the "Just add color"- Chic Urban Lily paper (that's the green paper).

For the pages I accordion folded a piece of paper that was 8 inches long and about 6 inches wide. Folded it 6 to 8 times (depending on how many pages you want to add) and just used different sized pieces of the Everyday Lily line and corner rounded the outside edges.

Here's the first page:

I fussy cut inside the frame and adhere the photo on the backside of the page.

A filler page using a "Happy" stamp and one of the Urban Lily ATC cards and adhered a punched butterfly.

For this one I just threw on some paint splatters using Apple Glimmer Mist and found a dad poem online.

Next page I fussy cut around the flowers so I could slip the photo in without covering those gorgeous flowers. I also pleated the paper to make it look like a ribbon and then stitched over top to hold it all down.

This last page I fussy cut out the flowers and pop doted them to give a little dimension to the final page. I also inked the edges in Tim Holtz Distress Ink Broken China. The colour matched great! There is also a little page I did not photograph. I am saving it for the girls to write an I love you for their dad.

So there you have it. A little album for that special guy. Super easy to create with the fabulous Secret Keeper Cardstock. You seriously need to get your hands on some because they really are fun to play with. For all of your Urban Lily needs visit Scraptastic.

Thanks again for joining me today and I hope you enjoyed the album.

Andrea MacDonald

Blog: Andrea's Metta

Supplies used:

Urban Lily Secret Keeper Heart

Urban Lily Everyday Lily Collection

Urban Lily Just Add Color- Chic

Urban Lily Urban Cut Alphabet

Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist- Riptide, Apple

Tim Holtz Distress Inks- Broken China, Olive

Martha Stewart Punches- Butterfly, 1 inch Sunburst

Studio Calico Stamps- Polka Dot, Special Date Stamps

Echo Park Letters