The Creation Museum Gardens and Petting Zoo
Featured products: Circle Tiles and Arrow Dies – Pattern #311 and #340
MM CM Gardens showing off the new Circle Tiles and Arrow Dies
MM Pattern #311 a Pinwheel Pattern with mostly squares
MM Circle Tiles and Tab Die
MM Arrow Die
To show off the Circle Tiles and Arrow Dies I have chosen Pattern # 311 a pinwheel style pattern one of our newest patterns. I thought it was perfect for showing off our circle tile and pattern # 340 (just slightly different from pattern # 311) was perfect for allowing me to use the Arrow Die as a journaling spot!
MM Circle Tiles page 1
The Fresh Cream Grid is a beautiful shade of yellow and I thought it would be a nice compliment to the varying greens from the garden. I’ve used Bazzill dotted Swiss colors in green and yellow as accents and mats. I used MM Robin’s Egg Paper Tiles and ran them through a Swiss dot embossing folder so that they would match the other tiles.
MM Wood Shapes from Pat Catan’s Darice Consumer Crafts
I’ve used wood shapes for accents and instead of leaving them natural this time I thought I’d bring out my Twinkling H2O’s water colors to paint them up a bit to add a little bright spots with a little bit of glimmer to catch your eye.
MM Wood Pieces painted with Twinkling H2O’s details
MM Circle Tiles as a frame on top of the photo
MM Circle Tiles used to embed a photo into the frame
MM Circle Tiles watercolors that still allow the wood grain to show through
MM Circle Tiles inked edges foam mounting tape wood bits painted with Twinkling H2O’s
I’ve used the circle tile a few ways on page one. The first way is as a frame on top of the large 3×3 block photos. On one, the close up of the rubber plant leaf, I actually cut the photo and embedded the photo to the frame.
MM Circle Tiles Die to layer a photo and use photo as frame
The third way I used the die was to highlight a photo by cutting the photo and using the whole photo as a frame and to pop up the center of the photo for a layered look. I used foam mounting tape and inked the edge of the photo. I’ve seen greeting cards stamped in layers and always thought I’d like a way to do that on a scrapbook page…I think this might be one way to do that.
MM Arrow Die as journal spot
On page two (Pattern #340) I used the 2×3 block arrow die in place of a 2×3 sq. rectangle. I arranged the photos so that the arrow would point to the photos that were being journaled about.
MM Title block using a purchased postcard. and ladybug and snail wooden embellishments
On page two I also trimmed a postcard I had purchased to use as a title block.
MM Colors from the title block become the palette for the layouts
It wasn’t until page two I decided that I needed another color in addtion to the yellow and green I began with on page one. When I added the postcard title block I looked for a color to pick up and incorporate. I liked the aqua butterfly and the muted colors of the dragonfly. The Robin’s Egg Paper Tiles were a good fit and I used it on both pages.
If you are looking for a quick layout idea I think you will love this pattern and if you’d like to highlight photos with the circle tiles and arrow dies you will find it perfect to try several ways. With or without embellishments it just may become your go to pattern!!
Andrea Fisher
MM Circle Tiles and Arrow Dies Mosaic ideas for summer gardens vacations using the new dies #CreationMuseum2016