Happy Monday! We’re ready to kick off the week with a FREEBIE! Today, you’re not only receiving a free cut file from our own Creative Editor, Paige Evans, but you’re also getting inspiration to go along with it from a special guest in our own SCT community, Ali Skifton! We’re not ready to stop celebrating mom just yet, and we hope today’s free cut file will help you to get a special photo of her in your album. Let’s take a look!

Hi, everyone! It is Ali here with you today and I am so excited to guest design for Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine using the May cut file from Paige Evans! Take a look:

Click HERE to download the free cut file today!

With this file, I created a lovely layout of my beautiful Mom:

I first started to back the title Mom with a gold foiled printed on an acetate sheet from Paige Evan’s Garden Shoppe collection. I wanted to try something different to showcase the title. It is just absolutely breathtaking when I held the cut file up to the light. You could even leave the layout as is and not do anything else to it. Of course, the center of the attention should be Mom and there she is! I added a pretty pink bow to match the flowers I sent to her for Mother’s Day.

I backed the flowers with one piece of Paper 6 from the Splendid collection. I was able to cut each square individually to back each flower with a different color. For three of the flowers, I used the acetate sheet for the flower centers. You can see the light come through the flowers in the upper left-hand corner and bottom right-hand corner in the picture above.

I embellished some of the centers of the flowers with sticker buttons from the Splendid collection. I also added a few butterfly stickers to the page. I backed the cut file using foam tape from Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L to add dimension to the page, then I attached it to an 11 x 11-inch piece of Bazzill cardstock and centered it on the 12 x 12-inch Paper 2 from the Garden Shoppe collection. It includes the same flowers as in the acetate sheet that I used for the title.

Thank you for spending time with me today and I hope everyone enjoyed their Mother’s Day celebrations!

Hi everyone! My name is Alexandra, but my family and friends call me Ali. I am so excited and honored to be joining you as the Guest Designer this month for Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine.

I have been scrapbooking for over 25 years and am thankful for this community that I get to be a part of. I have been honored to be published in this beautiful magazine and I am lucky to be currently creating for five design teams. I look forward to spending time in my craft room on the weekends after working my full-time job in Finance. I consider my style to be on the whimsical side using a lot of bright colors. I also enjoy reading, traveling, photography, and living life to the fullest.

Find more of Ali’s work here: Instagram | Facebook 

Thanks so much, Ali, for sharing such a beautiful layout with us today! Don’t forget to download it for yourself and be sure to share what you create with us by tagging us, @sctmagazine!

Click HERE to download the free cut file today!