Cutie Pie
I hate to jump on a bandwagon, but this pie chart layout just begged to be made. Everyone is incorporating pie charts into their design, and I was looking through my list of title ideas, and when I saw Cutie Pie, things just clicked. It helped that I Just got my first kit from ScraptasticClub.
Yes, it’s an older kit, but kit is better than no kit? Living in Canada means ordering anything online is cost-prohibitive in shipping fees (oh, you want to add a 25 cent piece of paper to your kit order? That will be an extra $4), so when I won a gift card to ScraptasticClub, I waited and searched through sale pages until a kit I loved went on sale. And I already have SO much in my stash…..
So I opened my kit, and immediately went for the yellow KaiserKraft Lens paper. I also pulled out some of the vellum shapes from the Maggie Holmes Open Book pack (look at me name-dropping my new designer stuff <3). Lastly, I picked out the adorable Mushroom Gravy Jillibean Soup alphas. Next I went to my existing stash like a good girl and pulled out some scrap papers that would match the yellow Lens paper (including pink and green paper from Crate Paper’s Flea Market pad). I cut the background paper down to 8×8 (I love working in 8×8 because if you use 12×12 paper and cut it down you have extra scraps to work with later; this is especially nice when you want to use both sides of a double sided paper).
I could have made the pie chart myself, but I remembered I already had one downloaded, that was a freebie from Jillybean Soup. I cut all of my papers by placing 3-4 scraps at a time on my cutting mat and placing the cut lines on the corresponding places in Studio.
I also cut little squares for the journaling area/data legend. I adhered them to a piece of textured white cardstock and took a picture of that on my PicScan mat.
I wrote the words exactly where I wanted them to go, put in a black sketch pen, and let it write it out for me in lovely neat little fonts.
Ta-da! I simply adore the PicScan Mat. You definitely have to calibrate your camera, but once you do it works so well!
I stuck on the vellum shapes (as well as one of the tabs from kit and a cut out arrow to match the vellum shape). I took two of the vellum circles from the Open Book pack and cut a little wedge out of both. I glued one down on a circle of woodgrain paper from the pie graph, and the other just as is, and brought it all together with a brad from MME’s Cut & Paste.
For the photo, I used one of the ones that didn’t really go anywhere in particular in the album, and matted it on the pink Flea Market paper. The finishing touches included sewing machine lines down the arrows, around the photo and to hold down the middle of the pie chart, as well as brown and gold splotches.
No free cut file today (check out Jillibean Soup’s blog for the pie chart!), but I will share with you my favorite website for helping me choose a font for my stuff. If you’re like me and have about a gazillion fonts on your computer, wordmark.it will help you visualize which fonts would look good with your words. You just type your word in the top space and click load fonts. You can click on ones you like to select them, and then filter selected to choose between favorites.
Do you have any useful resources for scrapbookers?
xoxo
-A
