beautiful fall

The new Shine collection by Maggie Homes was fun to personalize with this golden tone picture of my daughter in the leaves. Check out the Paper Issues online store for the free Fall list printable I used on this layout. 

I cut off the corners of the paper and alternated neutral papers in its place. I added layers of golden floral vellum, Shine's gold glitter Thickers, quote cards, tone on tone stickers, flair, and a button to bring in another diamond shape.

Here's a close up of the gold stitching, roller stamp phrases, and PI printable.

I added American Crafts gold acrylic paint splatters to finish off the page and bring your eye around the page. Hope you have time to soak in some golden days of Fall, as well!

Love this Girl!

I love the fun quick videos and classes at Big Picture Classes. This layout was inspired from Paige's Pages 3 on using scraps to create a concentric star. The new Amy Tangerine line Finder's Keepers, was perfect to make a school themed page with the skinny pencils.

Her new Thickers are the best! I can't wait to use them on more projects. The white acrylic paint is always a good idea to add a bit of random interest to a page.

The painted wood Thickers are super fun to use and added another texture to the layout.

My go-to technique of stitching is used to adhere the paper pieces to the Silhouette sketched stars and the border layer on the edge. Happy fall and busy school  schedules!

Cherish This Today

The fall leaves are changing and it prompted me to bust out some pictures from last year. The Cut Shoppe does it again with these fantastic leaf cut files and block-out words to back with paper scraps. I stitched the leaves down in swirls.

I added American Crafts gold acrylic paint to the background and added Seven's Amelia gold dot vellum to float my pictures in the leaves.

I added Freckled Fawn washi tape and arrow paper clip to finish off this fun fall page. As for my favorite Kal Barteski script white Thickers for Amy Tangerine, yes, I may have stocked up!! 

First Day of School

It was fun to showcase first day pictures in speech bubbles with sentiments from Amy Tangerine's Stitched collection.

I'm a big lover of stitching all the things. I added several layers and bits from her papers.

I finished with spray mist drops.

Paper Issues blog has a link up and this fits the back to school theme option. Check it out!

You Shine...Like, Totally

The card's central focus is the free printable from Paper Issues. I stitched the   sunburst and fit papers in between the stitched wedges. I added stitching over the paper pieces and added the sun center. I inked the edges of the sentiments and added enamel dots.

This card is linked to the newest issue on Paper Issues blog.