Pinspire Me: November

It's time to be Pinspired!  We are up on the Paper Issues blog with a new moodboard thanks to the talented Mary-Ann. Take a peek:

I was inspired by all of the leaves and the golden yellow colored leaves in the upper left, the blue around the turkey eye, and the sentiment of thankful. Dear Lizzy florals were the perfect match with my photo of my family. I also added the layer of mint green to match the leaves and the bold mustard gold stripe paper.

The copper metallic chipboard Thickers worked so well to scatter throughout.

I love how the mixed media turned out on the base layer. I added lots and covered up most of it. It still looks fun peeking out from under the flowers.

 Dear Lizzy flair just had to be used as another pop of metallic . I also love the Maggie Holmes Carousel gold puffy sticker word phrase for the title.

Thanks for stopping by! 

I hope you check out the Pinspire post on the blog

 and get inspired to play along!

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Take 5: My Sun, My Moon, & Stars

Today it's all about Take 5 Tuesday on the blog at Paper Issues. Mary Ann has some great prompts for November.  Pick 5 and play along! This striped paper Paper 22 from Turn the Page by Paige Evans for Pink Paislee was begging to be used with the stars and rainbow painting.

Grab those 6x6 pads of paper and Thickers and hand cut letters or use your cutting machine to create your quote or title. I love the look of tone on tone patterns for subtle dimension and a title that isn't too distracting.

I started with the gesso and watercolors with a straw to get the splatter and drip look. Lift up some of the letters edges to create shadows.

 The Turn the Page collection has a few papers that can be fussy cut along with sticker sheets or Thickers that have stars. I put on my fave movies or shows and cut the paper 12x12 and the 6x6 version to create the rainbow  of colors I needed to coordinate with the striped paper.  I added foam adhesive to pop up some of the layers, stars, and my photos.

Thanks for stopping by. Enjoy your time picking at least 5 prompts to play along. Paper Issues has a big sale going on this week. Check the Facebook group or Instagram for more details.

Free File Friday Florals

Hello!  I am so excited to be up on the Paper Issues blog today with my new post featuring all of the free files available at Paper Issues!  

Since it is the beginning of May and all of the April showers should've brought the May flowers, we are all about the floral cut files that you can find in the shop.

Here's my take using the Rhapsody floral cut file.  I was wanting to fussy cut the beautiful Crate Paper floral paper from the Oasis collection and this fun cut file was so much fun to do paper piecing with all of the leftover scraps.

I kinda love how this turned out.

The gold accents from CP Oasis were perfect for a pop of glitter and shine. I absolutely need more of the gold puffy phrase and heart stickers that you see next to the 6x12 Oasis stickers.  

They are so pretty!

I added pink watercolor splatters in a few places throughout the layout because there wasn't quite enough pink already!!

The cut file was also cut out of pale pink cardstock.  Once again chime the pink bells! 

Paper piecing on the back of cut files is a fun way to attack your pile of scraps or use 6x6 paper pads.   I love the way the random pattern pieces look inside of the cut file.  I also tend to add foam adhesive under the cut files to add dimension and shadows to the project.  When I added the fussy cut flowers from Crate Paper Oasis to the background cardstock paper I only added adhesive to the centers so that I could curl up the edges of the petals.

Please check out the Paper Issues blog and see more floral inspiration.  Here are just a few of the 100s of cut files that are FREE at Paper Issues.

Here's the new free file going into the PI shop today made especially for iNSD at Paper Issues.  We can't wait to have you play along with our challenges tomorrow during our NSD Scrap n Chat.

  

I hope you'll play along with one of them and post your project in the PI Facebook group this month. 

 If you post on social media, make sure you use #paperissues or #PIcutfile or #PIfreefileFriday so we can send some love your way!

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Thanks so much for checking out our first Free File Friday!
Stacie

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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