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It's my fave day! Scraplift Sunday is always a way to boost

 my creativity and gets me cutting into collections I haven't used yet!

  Today we are lifting the super talented Rachel and her holiday design using CP Falala. 

 I didn't go too crazy switching up her design.  

I made it super easy by using Crate Paper Main Squeeze. 

I am such a fan of pop dots to add some dimension to the layers.  I adore the puffy Thicker pack for this collection! The added puffy hearts are always needed!  I love the ephemera pack with the cutest
 b & w hearts with faces. The scripty ephemera sayings are such the cute addition to paper layers.

I love how last season's Crate Paper Heart Day also coordinates to Main Squeeze so I was able to stashbust items in this design. They were the perfect layers, details, and colors that I needed.

Play along with this awesome Paper Issues Scraplift now through Feb. 4th.  

We can't wait to see your beautiful designs and take on this lift!

Scraplift Sunday: Things I Love

Today we are lifting an awesome layout by Amy Coose on the Paper Issues blog.  I was inspired by the use of the frames and little embellishment clusters.
 I had fun stashbusting Crate Paper Heart Day, Maggie Holmes, Cocoa Vanilla Studios embellishments, and more.  I had been hoarding the pink woodgrain paper from We R's Love Notes collection.  A picture of peonies and Starbucks were epic enough for me to bust out this pretty paper!

This LO was a two day adventure in placing items, moving things, adding embellishments, and then finally coming back to it to glue it down and commit to it!

It's such a sense of accomplishment when you can pull together multiple manufacturers and make products work together.  It was fun to stash bust so many random bits for this one. Crate Paper Heart Day for a non-Valentine's Day layout, sure did.   Love the phrase chipboard Thickers from Maggie Holmes' Chasing Dreams!  The Crafty Pocket flair was the perfect fit for this design.

 I loved pulling out Cocoa Vanilla Studios Make a Wish collection and using the florals and wood veneer.  A bit of AC Hazelwood got added in for this mash up of all things pink!

  I hope you get inspired to play along with the awesome challenges at Paper Issues. Scraplift Sunday is just one of my faves!  There are sooo many to try.  There's definitely something for everyone!  Post your projects now through June 4th.

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Pedal/Petal to the Metal/Medal New Issue

I love Lisa's fun play on words and puns!  This month I interpreted the new issue at Paper Issues as Put the Petals to the Metal as I used florals and gold as an accent!  These florals from Crate Paper Heart Day were still in my stash and were begging to be cut apart for this new issue!

A few close ups:

I loved this Crate Paper Heart Day floral paper.  I fussy cut an entire sheet of florals for this page.  I wavy stitched over all of the layers of florals.  The center part of the cardstock was a mixed media green background I painted for this. It was layers of acrylic paint and splatters.

This pic of Brooklyn was snapped in West Palm Beach, FL over our spring break. It was nice to get some new pictures of the kids.  Also, I totally love the gold fabric stuffed hearts with the new Maggie Holmes Chasing Dreams collection.

I also used the Maggie Holmes gold Thickers that are hot pink foam on the bottom. These were perfect for my pink florals! See the subtle pink in the close up? Super fun pop of pink and gold!

If you haven't been to the Paper Issues blog, be sure to stop by to see several more team members' takes on this fun new issue.

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Swag Bag February

I am always excited to get a monthly Paper Issues Swag Bag in the mail!  Cassie jam packs the kits full of page making bliss!  Of course, these are perfect for so many other types of projects- Project Life, card making, off the page, and planner spreads!

Check out the amazing February Swag Bag:

I used the January Swag Bag kit to make this banner layout.  I was inspired by the sweet banners, ephemera, and stickers included in the kit!  It made this design come together so quickly.  I cut several more banners and flags from other cards and layered the heart day cards with paper scraps and my 2 x 2 photos.

I love starting with gesso and the packaging technique with watercolors for random fun! 

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 This is how it started:

I layered the pieces and bits from the January kit to make the two strands of banners. The title is You & Me which is a free PI cut file included with the Poppy flowers cut file.  This worked perfect as it is all about our summer date nights. Several papers and ephemera pieces are from Crate Paper Heart Day and others from Pebbles My Funny Valentine!  Those glitter heart stickers added a fun look and texture.  I also glued on a smattering of the sequin hearts included in this kit!

When in doubt--machine stitch it out!  If I get sloppy on the first pass through--I make it part of the design to go over the stitching multiple times! Also, fringe scissor love--I added texture and style to the bottom of several tags by cutting the tags with the fringe scissors.  Love the Simple Stories clear stickers that were included in two of the recent monthly swag bag kits.  These added fun sentiments and helped add interest to papers that were plain!

Thanks for taking a peek today at all things Swag Bag from Paper Issues!  Get your hands on the 6 month subscription to never miss out on the bliss that comes your way-- don't forget that you can use code: Stacie to get 20% off of your subscription to swag bag bliss!

There are always a limited amount of single month to month swag bag kits that are released.  Check in the store today to see if there are any February swag bag kits available! You will love the fun things that are included each month.  I love sneaking them onto so many of my projects!

Take 5 Tuesday: February Edition

It's one of my fave days to play along with at Paper Issues! Take 5 Tuesday on the PI Blog is back with all new prompts to kick start your design!

Here's my take using Crate Paper Heart Day. 

I went with these items off of the list: 4. paper clip 5. stitching 6. heart 10. cardstock 11. xoxo 13. arrow  

I used a PI free cut file as my background and added hand stitching to the solid hearts on this beautiful striped paper.

Crate Paper's Heart Day fringe paper always begs to be fringe cut at the bottom edge!  Layers of torn tissue paper and paper under my photo collage.  Chipboard pieces to add depth and draw the eye around the page away from the black cardstock..  Pops of gold from the fringe stickers, chipboard and acetate pieces for layering.  Loving the look of the white stitching on the hearts. 

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Layers of paper and chipboard around the photo collage of my older three and their photos for their dad's valentine photo gift for his office.  

I can't believe these pictures are 7 years old already!  Time flies when you are not watching the minutes tick by!  The brush script chipboard XOXO pieces are so much fun.  I hope you bought all of the Heart Day things earlier in the season!

Have so much fun playing along with Take 5 Tuesday!  We can't wait to see what you create with the list of prompts! 

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Love Vacation Adventures

It's all about LOVE this month and at Paper Issues we are working that vibe right into our titles.  Join the Working Title challenge this month by using the word love or using a heart in your title.  Here's my take using a photo of me on vacay in Florida.

I used Crate Paper Heart Day and my title word Love is from a PI cut file.  I watercolored the background paper and I loved how the black patterned paper hearts had the same look at the Love title heart.  I stitched around my paper mat layers and fringed the fringe paper from this collection.

I  hope you will play along with this fun challenge this month.  If you are checking out the design team inspo on the blog, be sure to stop by the store to check out all of the new things in stock!
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