Scraplift Sunday at Paper Issues

Hello, today I am up on the Paper Issues blog to show you this week's new scraplift Sunday!

Here is Olivia's beautiful layout that we are lifting this week at the Paper Issues Friends and Fans FB group.  I was so drawn to the stripes and the amazing layering that she used.  I couldn't wait to cut into my stash of Pinkfresh's travel collection: Out & About.

I was obsessed with the Riverwalk colorful umbrellas lining the river ways! Talk about color bliss!! We visited right before the 4th of July so there were lots of luminary bags all lining all of the edges.

 It was magical! Pinkfresh was the perfect match for the pictures!

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 The mini alpha and mixed/layered embellishments were also included in the amazing March Paper Issues Scrapbook Kit. It was so much fun to pop things up with foam or to layer them similar to Olivia's beautiful design.

Grab the newest PI May Scrapbook kit "Fishin in the Dark" now- and the bold rainbow stripe paper from Pinkfresh is included!  I want about 5 more sheets!  I love the subtle map details in it and the colors are so gorgeous!

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April Showers: Dream and Wonder Wanderlust

Here's a look at the April Showers challenge this month at Paper Issues. I was inspired by this challenge to find some fluffy clouds and document a sweet moment with my littlest!

I love when you find the paper that coordinates with your photo, looks like you got messy, and really all you did was color match embellishments.  The Vicki Boutin watercolor background is so beautiful!

My littlest was fascinated with the sea birds that were landing and flying near the beach, so he decided to follow them for miles down the beach and back.  My friend and I ran behind him and captured so many sweet pictures.

I wanted to go for lots of textures to bring in the soft clouds and the mix of water along the beach, so the torn paper edges, messy threads, and soft color palette was my mission!

I love the Vicki Boutin Color Kaleidoscope mixed media paper pad and that was the perfect watercolor base for this beach photo. The colors were so much fun to coordinate threads in several blues, paper layers, and soft vellum to back the cut file clouds from the PI free file: Sky's the Limit. 

I used the April Paper Issues Bohemian Rhapsody kit for the sticker title Wanderlust and for paper mat layers! The PI kits always have just the perfect embellishments or papers that I need to finish off so many design projects!

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Here's what I used:

Sky's the Limit cut file

What's App? Living that Starbs Venti Life

Hello and What's App?  I'm here today on the Paper Issues blog!  It's no shocker that I love coffee and of course, if you would ask me list my top 10 apps, my fave coffee apps would be on it!  The new Vicki Boutin Color Kaleidoscope mixed media paper pad had the perfect colors to document my Starbucks pic, gift card, and gold title details. I love a big circle swirl of paints!

I kept the photo full 4x6 size, for the sake of the purpose of this page, I wanted to show that the "starbs app life" is so convenient, as I can order ahead and pick it up at the drive thru! Simple as order ahead and instant bliss is waiting for you in winter or on all the days ending in y!! Coffee is life.

To balance all of the pops of gold, I added wood veneer embellishments-the Elle's Studio coffee cup, Shimelle wooden buttons, and mini hearts from a past swag bag kit. The gold Heidi Shine mist drops covered parts of my journaling, but you can still kind of read it. The ephemera is from Vicki Boutin's past collection and her current Color Kaleidoscope collection.

The cool cat clip just fit the colors and needed to be the focus of the upper cluster of embellishments. I love how it clips the layers together and brings the perfect burst of pink.  Layers and layers of VB Color Kaleidoscope papers from the March kit and available by the sheet in the store!

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This or That: Pretty Great Spring Break

I am blogging today with a fun choice challenge hosted at Paper Issues for March called This or That.

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 Here's what I selected:

I started with the white cardstock background and added gesso. 

 I then used mist to layer using the packaging technique 

to bring out colors in the sunsets from the pictures.

The free PI cut file heart is from Stuck Like Glue and it was the perfect layer to add to the central focus sunset photos of the layout.

I brought my scrap supplies- (Hello, easy packing with Paper Issues monthly kits!!) along during Spring Break and this was the view when I was snapping pics!

I used ephemera, Pink Paislee alpha stickers, and papers from the Paper Issues January kit: She's a Rainbow.  I adore the colors and who doesn't love a good rainbow vibe?!  If you like to create with kits, be sure to grab them as soon as they are posted in the store each month.  They are amazing and include so much! It made this layout come together so quickly!

I doodled repeated lines for the border of the page for the last element of the this or that list.

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Puppy Pals: Kali and Ryan

Hello! I'm on the Paper Issues blog with the Secret Life of Pets
 is always a fun challenge to capture the cuteness!

My seven year old absolutely adores spending time with our friend's

 mini-petite golden doodle.  They definitely enjoy

 each other's company and all the extra attention that comes along with it!

The Carta Bella Our House woodgrain heart paper was the perfect color to coordinate with the focal point of a pet page--the puppy!  I also love that Carta Bella is such a thick textured paper that I could rough up the edges because what puppy doesn't like to tear stuff up! The rough stitched layered edges also bring in more texture and dimension to the page besides the heart cut file in the center!

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  It made coordinating this page design come together soooo quickly. 

 I adore these monthly kits that are so full of items to use immediately! 

I used the February swag bag kit for the photo paper layers and the embellishments. 

The hearts in the Love You Hearts cut file were watercolored

 to match the variated striped Heidi Swapp Color Fresh paper border.

 I add watercolor, dry it with a heat tool, then reapply lighter

 and darker colors in various spots immediately drying

 to minimize warping. The final step was flicking water onto the paint

 and letting that do its magic of taking away color in those spots.

Have you tried it?  If not, get out those paints and play!!

  It adds such cool colorations and subtle design within the cut file. 

 Next, I used white cardstock that was painted using the packaging technique

 and then backed the cut file with it. I popped the whole cut file with foam dots.

I adore that I could tuck two 3x4 pics on this page and they fit right into the cut file hearts!

I love that the sweet wooden Pinkfresh alphas that are in the

  December Hard Candy PI scrapbook kit, and how they worked so well

 with this design.  I added some white acrylic paint splatters to

 the background and called this design done! 

I think it speaks to the sweetness of these two!

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