Summer Adventure

Today's new challenge at Paper Issues is hosted by Amanda and she is challenging us to work our title!  This month she wants us to use the word SUMMER in our title along with other words!  This was so much fun to look over my stash and the free cut files in the store to create a vertical and horizontal mix title.

A closer look at the mixed media using Shimmerz paints and the beautiful Fancy Pants summer collection, Hello Sunshine to go with my Caribbean cruise pic. The cut file words are found in two different cut file sets.

 Loving the gold details on the Fancy Pants Hello Sunshine ephemera pieces.

Roll the Dice February: State Fair Time

Happy Valentine's Day!  I hope you are off to a sweet start on your day!  We are Rolling the Dice at Paper Issues today and Rachel rolled 5 photos and 3 circles.

I went with Sweet Nothings by Fancy Pants Designs to celebrate this day of LOVE!  This page documents a trip to the MN State Fair.  We love the fair food and the Super Slide!

I went with a banner style layout design to incorporate 5 little pictures in a way different than I normally do--use a photo collage print!  The scraps and strips of Fancy Pants Sweet Nothings paper came in handy to cut at a diagonal and layer!  I added pop dots under them to add dimension above the bold stripe FP paper!

 I played by the original roll and only used three circles!  The rest were the awesome puffy sticker hearts that I absolutely love!  They are so much fun to sprinkle all over!  The black puffy alpha stickers are a classic font that is so pretty!

I added a few bits of ephemera and sprinkled India ink all around the background.  It's the fair--it better have  a fun vibe to it!

We are looking forward to your creative ways to sneak in 5 photos and 3 or more circles.  I hope you play along with Rachel and Roll the Dice!  Post your new projects between now and March 5th to have an entry at the PI gift cards.

 Don't forget Friday, Feb 17th is another edition of Scrap n Chat on Facebook!  We are excited to see you online!  Make plans to chat it up, play the game and complete the challenge!

Have you checked out all of the new bliss in the PI store?  I am loving all of the new things that Cassie has in stock!

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Happy Valentine's Day!  Happy Galentine's Day!  Happy Friendship Day!  Enjoy!

Joy Parade: Barbados

Today on the Paper Issues blog we are spotlighting the colorful collection by Kim Watson for Fancy Pants Designs- Joy Parade.
I was inspired by this ombre teal blue paper and it made me pull out our summer cruise pictures.  These photos from our Pirate Ship Snorkel Cruise worked great with this collection.  No need for a birthday or other celebration only for this collection, it's quite versatile!

I love the fun puffy stickers-the shapes, words, and alphabet sets! 

The ephemera die cuts worked so well with my vacay photos.

 The papers are bright and fun. I loved using the B sides for the photo mat layers. This citron color paper works so well with the teal.

And one more close up of the fun details included in Joy Parade!

There's not much left of Joy Parade in the store, I sure hope you grabbed it earlier this winter!  I hope we have inspired you to pull out Joy Parade from your stash to create some beautiful projects.

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Hello Summer Love at the Beach

Fancy Pants has such fun summer collections. I mixed them together using the side A and B of them. 

It was fun to use a cut file from The Cut Shoppe for the Summer Love and cut out BEACH separately and pop the A for the connecting title work. 

I added stitching and a Jillibean Soup Hello sticker to add to the title and tie in the colors.

The texture on Fancy Pants new collections is incredible. I used a few gel pens to add journaling and a few items from Felicity Jane kits at the top. Summer fun almost always includes water and flowers in bloom! I'm linking up to Paper Issues blog for Seas the Day.

Looking Out At The World

I have had this Fancy Pants paper waiting to be used. I thought it worked well with this story of Ryan in the Summer of 2013. He would longingly watch his siblings from the deck at the lake, so badly wanting to be big!

I added a cut file Hello from Paper Issues store and little alpha stickers from October Afternoon.

I added rows of stitching to the top and bottom as well as over some of the alpha stickers.

It was fun to play along with Paper Issues Facebook group's Scrap And Chat.