Take 5 Tuesday May Edition

   It's time for Take 5 Tuesday at Paper Issues with all new prompts to get you motivated and inspired! Mary Ann always has a great list to jump start a LO design!

Here are the May prompts:

I used:  blue(paint through a stencil), cardstock, Lawn Fawn patterned paper, rainbow paint splatters, thread, diamond, stickers (AC alphabets), & enamel dots.

 I went with a rainbow confetti vibe background to add to the magical feel!  This birthday event for Ryan at the resort was all kinds of special touches!  Creating a Build-a-Bear style stuffed animal on vacay was just perfect for him!

A closer look at details:

I love the clear alpha stickers included in past Amy Tangerine collections.  

The enamel dots partnered with groupings of Fancy Pants Designs puffy stickers completed the rainbow sprinkles.

The unicorn cut file was included in the Spring Crop cut file grouping for PI.

A stencil was used with the teal blue paint.  Rainbow paint splatters were added at the end.

 I used Crate Paper Cute Girl sticker words for the secondary titles closest to to the photo. Cocoa Vanilla Studio flair was the perfect match and saying for this design.

I can't wait to see what you create. 

 Use any five of the list items to make your LO design complete!

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My Girl-Scraplift Sunday

Today it's Scraplift Sunday at Paper Issues and we are lifting the creative Kathy Skou and this amazing layout of hers with gorgeous handstitching that she made for the Knock My Fox Off issue at Paper Issues.

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I love how she used Doodlebug Flea Market for this sweet layout.  I was inspired by the woodgrain background and her handstitching.  I went with Crate Paper's Cute Girl for my take.

We took these beautiful fall photos at my friend's house and I am such a sucker for birch trees. I love the look of the bark on the photos.  The golden leaves behind my daughter make autumn just glow in beauty!  I followed Kathy's design almost exactly as I wanted this layout to come together fast for me after stitching the flowers to match the colors on the Rainbows striped paper.

 I sketched a floral design similar to the Cute Girl ephemera pieces and then just added more stitching to make them look different. It was fun to mix up the colors of the flowers.  I fussy cut the Be You patterned paper black scallops for the top edge.  The Be You paper from the collection was one of my favorites.

The Cute Girl ephemera pack was my go to for the florals as well as the 6x12 sticker sheet for hearts, title banner, phrase strips, and  flower stickers. 

I added Cute Girl patterned papers for the layers under the photo. I love the colors in this collection and how they truly coordinate from paper to paper.  I love the My Girl patterned papers aqua triangles and Sweetheart soft pink side B of the pocket card paper.  I added more of the Rainbows paper with the stripes of soft yellow-green, as I wanted the colors of the leaves in the photo to pop with the color added behind the photo.

I hope you are ready for next weekend and our PI Fall Crop online on our Facebook Group.

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Sketchy Saturday October

Today is Sketchy Saturday on the Paper Issues blog!  Amy has created a fabulous new sketch for us to use for the month of October!

I am always inspired to try out the sketch!  It is also fun to think of it flipped or rotated as another way to make the sketch your own.  This month, I kept the sketch as is and worked with Crate Paper Cute Girl.

I love the cute Cool Girl mermaid chipboard sticker and pink acetate ephemera heart!

My daughter took a summer vacation with her grandparents, and they sent me pictures of her swimming with the resort mermaids!  How cool is that?! That honestly became the inspiration for working with Crate Paper Cute Girl and this sketch!

 Also, they have the cutest ephemera bucket list with "swim with the mermaids" listed.  This piece was too cream colored, so I cut this version out of a pocket page card Sweetheart paper since it was white. For the sketch circle, I went with stitching multiple circles in the teal color to tie in the mist "water drops." For my title I used the accent sticker LOVE and Puffy Thickers.

I added the black chipboard scallop to the bottom where the sketch had a banner placed.  I also added the puffy Thickers sticker scallop under the title to define it more against the bright yellow "mermaid scale" Cheery paper.  The clear acetate pieces in the ephemera packs can be a bit trickier to use, but in this case, I loved how they showed the patterns through in the layers. I am crushing on these versatile little cardstock "washi tape" look text/phrase accent stickers. I used my fave paper from this collection--the gorgeous "Rainbows" stripe.  I used it across the yellow paper and as a photo mat layer.  The puffy hearts scattered throughout are from the Thicker pack and they help connect the LO from top to bottom.
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Paper Issues Scraplift Sunday: My Layout!

I am so excited that my mixed media layout that I shared for September's Mix It Up Monday was selected to inspire our feed today at Paper Issues.  Here's my first layout using Crate Paper Cute Girl:

I played along today and used Crate Paper Cute Girl once again for this scraplift.

I busted out the fringe scissors to create these two strips of striped Rainbows paper.  I gessoed the background cardstock ahead of time to let it dry.  I then used the mixed media packaging technique with a scrap of plastic packaging.  I added the watercolors in layers to recreate the colors on the Cute Girl paper.

I stitched them on and added the additional CP Cute Girl ephemera, rubber shapes (I had similar stickers), and chipboard. I kept it simple as the background has a lot of color and all of the texture from the fringe!

Cousins are best friends!  These two are so imaginative and think of fun things to fill their days.  With American Girl dolls and a Grandma that custom sews for them, they get to have lots of matchy-matchy moments like this!  Of course since the photo session, they now have exact dress replicas for their dolls.  Grandma makes it all coordinate perfectly!!
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Mix It Up Monday

It's Mix it Up Monday on the Paper Issues blog.  Orange always has a great idea to spark the mixed media challenge.  This month it's all about using scraps or creating mixed media and then punching shapes or borders out from it to add texture and depth to your pages or background!  

Here's the process I used for this project.  I started with two 12x12 white cardstock papers.  I added gesso all over one and on the second one, I just added gesso to the middle of the page.

  I used the packaging technique to layer the watercolors and added splats.  Next, I started the background page.  I did the straw blowing on opposite sides of the paper to ensure that most was dry before adding more watercolors nearby. That keeps it from getting muddy looking with too many colors blending.  I kept working inward to the yellow and green.  As it dried, I layered more paint and used the straw to add more lines of paint in both directions.

My preschooler loves dressing up or being silly. He modeled these star glasses this summer.  He definitely knows how to make me smile!  Who says Crate Paper's Cute Girl has to be just for girls??  I had fun making it work for a boy page! The last step was punching out all of the stars grouping them by color, and sewing them down!

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