You Rock! By Tya Smith!

You Rock! By Tya Smith!

Hi there friends! I hope you are all doing well! Tya here today and I am up once again sharing my latest batch of handmade cards with you. I got the pleasure of using the awesome “Bro & Co.” collection and I have to say – I LOVED working with this collection so much!  Maybe it’s because I have a 19 year old son who lives with me so this collection just “spoke” to me. All the funny sayings and icons were like they peeked into my son’s bedroom and read his text messages – it was so fun.

I made 8 cards with this collection. I had a ball using all the different pattern papers as well as the Bits and Pieces Ephemera, the chipboard, foam stickers, combo stickers, decorative brads and a stencil as well. All the products mixed and matched so well! Here are some close ups!

I loved the big, bold words in the Bits and Pieces- like this card with the big “cool” sentiment!

This is the card that I used the stencil on. I laid the stencil over some of the Cream Color Vibe cardstock and used some yellow ink to get the triangles on the paper. I love this geometric look!

If your teenage boys are anything like mine, they are bottomless pits when it comes to food right? I thought the addition of the tacos and this cute tag made for a fun card!

I had some fun with my watercolor paints and made a paint splattered background on this card base. Sometimes the little extras you add to cards tie into the theme and make the cards that much more fun!

This card features one of the super cool foam stickers that are part of the collection. It made for an “awesome” sentiment indeed! The foam is great for dimension on the card as well!

This card shows off some of the fun pattern papers in the collection. The denim and black and white checkerboard papers were some of my very favorites!

My son has those exact checkered Vans in his closet that are on this card as we speak! This is such a trendy collection - it has so many great icons that match exactly what teenage boys are into right now in their lives!

This last card was just a fun way to use some of the products that had the same color scheme. I challenged myself  to only use gray, red and black embellishments and papers and I think it turned out  pretty cute, if I do say so myself!

If you have a teenage boy in your life – you HAVE to pick up this collection today! Sometimes teen boy scrapbook collections can be hard to come by and this collection knocked it out of the park! It is one of my very favorite collections to date and I can’t wait to create more projects with it! I hope I have inspired you to make some of your own cards with the “Bro & Co.” collection. It would be great for birthday cards, or anytime you want to send those little studs some love with a little hello telling them how awesome they are. Thank you for stopping by today! Happy Crafting friends!