Week 39: 52 Friday Favorites

Happy Friday! It's week 39 with our series 52 Friday Favorites! 

I am up on the Paper Issues blog today sharing my week in review!

This week I documented how proud I am of Brooklyn as a 7th grader 

playing up in high school tennis. I think she is so brave and has rose to the challenge.

 I think it definitely worthy of a shout out in my family's notable 52 weeks of highlights! 

I stashbusted some of the Pebbles Girl Squad stripe paper, Wild Child by Pink Paislee embellishments, and Thickers by Vicki Boutin for AC from the Paper Issues August kit Blue Ain't Your Color! The Pinkfresh enamel hearts added the perfect amount of color and shine, too! I adore the Crate Paper Rose two-tone alpha Thickers that you can still grab from the store!

I love this format to use small photos that I've printed and it's a great way to use up favorite scraps of paper and embellishments on a smaller scale. Some weeks I document on a single page and other week's like this one I wanted a larger title to create a double-pager entry.

I love these stripes and how they make all of the green in the tennis pictures pop! It was fun to get them to meet up in the middle at opposite angles in a V-design.

Sometimes my journaling is anything but straight when I am done.  

I think it looks pretty intentional when you add messy/wonky lines to your writing!

Let's see what is your favorite memory of the week! 

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Sparkle and Shine

Today we are up on the Paper Issues blog with a new Roll the Dice challenge. This month Danielle rolled a 6 for number of photos and three for how many stickers you can use!  I was going to do a grid design and then came across this photo collage of my daughter donating 11-12 inches of her hair this past June.  It had exactly 6 photos on it, so that was just what I needed!

I got out my stash of Simple Stories Posh for this challenge.  I love the Simple Stories ephemera pack of bits and pieces. It had just what I needed to add designs, layers, and title work without having to use stickers.

The embossed papers and gold embossed ephemera bits and pieces add the fancy feel to this memory of her giving the gift of her hair to cancer patients.  I layered several Posh papers to the photo mat layers and used 4 papers in the background layers.

These are my three stickers:  I used them all from the 6 x 12 Posh chipboard stickers- the camera, big pie chart heart, and word sparkle.  The rest of the Posh bits and pieces and the cutest tassel is from Cute Girl by Crate Paper.

Here's my message to my girl- I often don't show my journaling or even write on my pages, but when I do, I want my family to know how loved they are.

Thanks for taking a peek today.  I sure hope you will join us on Facebook Paper Issues Friends & Fans and show us how you tackled this roll the dice challenge for October.

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Take Me Away: Paige's Page Kit Product Spotlight

Today we are shining the spotlight on Paige Evan's newest Pink Paislee collection called Take Me Away!  Check out all of the inspiration on the Paper Issues blog.  Here's my project using her mini kits called Paige's Pages.  It comes with foam adhesive, acetate pieces, embellishments and the background layers.  I usually can use the extras on multiple layouts.

I decided to make the white die cut quote into a mixed media color bomb.  I started out with gesso over the die cut background.

I matched watercolors to the Number 5 map paper that I used behind the die cut quote.

I tucked my daughter's photos behind two of the letters.  I then stitched down the die cut quote to the map paper.  I added embellishments from the ephemera pack and foam heart Thickers.

I added the word phrase stickers to the top and bottom to follow the background color.  I used Paige's roller stamp hearts and xxxxx's in various spots in the background.  

Thanks for checking out how to alter a Paige Kit and make it work for your photos and design.  My daughter loves that she can see part of Minnesota, California, and Florida peeking out through the letters. I hope you'll give one of these pre-made kits a try! They are stocked in the store and you can save 20% with my code: Stacie