Gypsy Fun!!

This week I have been playing with a girlfriends Gypsy and I sorted out a little system while planning pages to maximise paper use. Especially for those pages which use similar colours. Elmo, superman and Toy playing pages always tend to have the same bright colours in the photos, so I pumped out the cutting of three layouts in the one sitting!  

When I was planning my pages, I opened up three layers for plans and then about eight layers for seperate colours. On each page, I used a boring font to label what the page was...

eg.

These were two of my plan pages.

Then as I planned an item and liked it, I would think about what colours I need them cut on and while I remembered sizing/shapes, I would duplicate that shape on the right colour layer.

eg. The above drum shape I wanted a mix of red and yellow, so I pasted them in both coloured layers...

I kept going with my planning and pasting until a lot of the 12 x 12 was used up in lots of different colours.

then when I got home I layed out three background colours, grabbed each of the colours I needed and spent only ten minutes loading and cutting! (Remember to take off the page colour label before cutting!)

Three layouts cut and done ready to be glued!  I know the gypsy page appears to look busy, but you can see everything clearly as the layer you are looking at is much bolder and it was such a time saving way of getting the job done!

My i rock page turned out a little different from the plan, but the same things needed cutting!

The bus page will be shown tomorrow... Its cricut mad!  :)

I love creating a gorgeous page using just the basics! I used a scalloped piece of 12 x 12 and then sponged across the page using different coloured blues from a Sea Scape inkpad I won at a scrap retreat by Scrap Away in WA. Look what a plain white piece of 12 x 12 can turn into!

Of course the Peachy Keen Stamps had to feature (only two more nights!) and I played with a girlfriends Gypsy to make the Paper Doll and the boat!

*Tip* When using a Gypsy and you want to make all the layers fit together when making complex layered shapes like the paper dolls and boats, instead of resizing and layering, just set the height of each selection to the same number and cut pieces by colours.... like you would do with the Cricut. MUCH easier than trying to overlay and judge sizing.