Red, White, & Blue Pages

Paper Issues blog is hosting a link up for pages focusing on Red, White, and Blue. These pages were documenting the Fourth of July last summer.

These Simple Stories papers and stickers were fun to cut apart and layer.

Crazy stitching is fun to do to add a touch of imperfection to a page of circles.

Let's Celebrate was a fast way to add several Instagram pictures.

Sometimes you need a fast scrap photo collage page! The stickers help to move your eyes to each of the photos. Boom! 4th of July documented in a few pages with one collection.

Taking Time to Gather & Celebrate

Turning 40 has given us reason to celebrate with family and friends.  The word gather for the title was created by using Ali Edwards kit acrylic word "gather" as a mask for the watercoloring.

The other elements for the page are mainly found in Studio Calico's Carolina Moon May kit.

Celebrating a birthday is the perfect topic to link up to Paper Issues current issue.

Love Today

Paper Issues had another fun Scraplift Sunday which prompted me to use the sketch to create this fun grid.

A fun day at the beach during Spring Break! Ryan was loving the water and was so brave! He loved running back and forth.

I love adding wood veneer and trying out new stamps. The gold sticker from Seven Paper was a bit flimsy and hard to peel/stick. I love to cut my stamps apart and did that trick with Let's Go! It had been horizontal and I needed it to fit in the square, so I chopped it. Done. And done!

Hope your day is fabulous.

Love You Two

This was for Big Picture Classes Rainbow class. I adjusted Jen Chapin's pretty 8.5x11 page to a 12x12. I stamped the Kelly Purkey Sketchbook stamps for the kids names. 

I went with bold black Thickers to draw your eye into the photos. 

I added dimension to some elements and added tone on tone stamps as well as flair. Hope your day is bright and full of color!

My Happy Place

I have been loving all of the bold layouts on social media from Felicity Jane monthly kits, so when I saw Jeana was offering a box of several parts of her kits from the past few months, I ordered one.  The black and white striped box alone was beautiful on my doorstep!

I watercolored the left side of the paper and sewed a stripe of the neon yellow-green color from another FJ kit paper to match my daughter's swimsuit.

 I added a piece of Studio Calico plus signs to balance the busy left side. I layered one of the photos on vellum.

I love the plastic title piece, flair, hearts, pink gem, and tags included with the Felicity Jane kit. It made this page come together fast.  The tag was written in chalk ink and I linked it up to the current Paper Issues Link Party  "Chalk One Up!"

Friday Fan Feature

Hope you have time to be in your happy place today, too!