Scraplift Sunday

(Originally posted on the Paper Issues blog 3/29/20)

Good morning everyone! It's my favorite day of the week...Sunday, otherwise known as Scraplift Sunday! This week I scrapped about the delectable oranges that grow on my daughter's tree. It may not be in my backyard, but we get to share in its bountiful harvest. Lucky us!

Here's the page I lifted, Happy created by Lacey:

See those scallops? When I saw the rainbow paper from Amy Tangerine's Picnic In The Park, I immediately knew that flipped upside down, they would make cute colorful scallops. For the horizontal strips I went to my tear strip jar and picked a few with colors found in those rainbows. I never throw those tear strips away; I keep a tall vase on my desk and add to it constantly!

My three orange slice embellishments were created from a free Paper Issues cut file, How Sweet It Is. 

Backed with orange patterned paper, they look good enough to eat!

The leaves were also cut from a free file, Leaves and Laurels.

In clusters around the matted photo, they provide a nice contrast to the bright colors elsewhere. 

Sun Kissed indeed! I love having an orange tree in the family. ;)

And I'd love to see your scraplift! Share your page on the Scraplift Sunday thread on the Paper Issues Friends and Fans Facebook page for the chance to win one of the monthly prizes. 

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Shades-Paper Issues Spring Crop

Every summer my sisters and I take one day from our week at the beach to shop/window shop and go to lunch...just us. No kids, adult or otherwise! We always end up at the same stores, and eat at the same restaurant, taking a sisters' photo in front of "the frogs" at George's. Somehow we ended up taking a photo elsewhere this year, in sunglasses!

This layout is for the Bohemian Rhapsody challenge during Paper Issues' Spring Crop. The challenge is to create a page full of color and pattern by using 5 or more patterned papers and 3 or more die-cuts. Done and done!

The background paper is a cool worn wood from Heidi Swapp's Art Walk collection.

Other papers, stickers, tags, etc. are from Vicki Boutin's Let's Wander collection.

They look so pretty together!
And we look so much better with our shades. ;)

Thanks for stopping by today!

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Take 5-Rock On

(Originally posted on Paper Issues blog 3/24/20)

While I was awaiting the arrival of Vicki Boutin's new collection, Let's Wander (now in the Paper Issues Store), I pulled out some of her Kaleidoscope collection, and created a page for the March Take 5 Challenge.

That background paper worked so well with my photo, a stunning mural painted on a brick wall!

And here is the list of items that I tried to incorporate:

See if you can pick out 5 or more elements on my page 

that fulfill the requirements for this challenge:

Actually, I was able to use seven things from the list:

GREEN

YELLOW

TRIANGLES 

TAB(S)

CIRCLES

FLORAL

STRIPES

I also used elements from the following free cut files: Tropic Like It's Hot and Rock N Roll. 

I hope you've been enjoying the March Challenges. 

Check them out over in our Friends and Fans Facebook Group. 

We love it when you play along! 

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Random Embellishments=Super Fun Page

I don't get too many photos from my college kid, so when I found this one on his cousin's Instagram, I took advantage of the situation! They were at an Ariana Grande concert, tickets a Christmas present from his aunt. His pink shirt and the Paper Issues That Was Random challenge inspired the design.

Talk about random! I gathered everything pink that I could find. 

Some of the die-cuts relate pretty well: the Favorites cassette tape, vinyl record, music notes, the words Saturday, Lovely, and Sweet Treats. 

Others were truly random...but pink! A sock, flamingo, umbrella, coffee cup, button, suitcase and trees are prime examples. 

Sweet, indeed!

F.R.I..E.N.D.S

Our neighborhood has become the hot spot for ducks. About a year ago over 50 Mexican Whistler ducks came to roost in our neighborhood. I figured they would head back home when fall arrived, but it came and went and they're still here. Every evening they gather on the lawns, roofs, and telephone wires, waiting for one of the neighbors to throw down corn or bread. Yeah, they know a good thing when they have it.

Another group of fowl making themselves known in the neighborhood are six domestic ducks and their ringleader, a large rather obnoxious goose. I caught them parading down the street one morning, snapped a photo, and scrapped it, using the Friends free cut file from Paper Issues for the title. 

I double mounted my photo then combined a gorgeous background paper from Vicki Boutin with a garden of fussy cut flowers from Shimelle's Never Grow Up collection for this colorful page.  

Those ducks really Quack Me Up!

This page was created for the Paper Issues Best Buds challenge. 

Check out all of the March challenges in their Friends and Fans Facebook group.

52 Friday Favorites-Twenty

(Originally posted on the Paper Issues blog 2/28/20)

My 52 Friday Favorites Week 5 was all about my youngest turning 20. It's a big milestone, leaving those teenage years behind! We celebrated with King Cake one night, then went out to eat crawfish another. He loves having a birthday in February, with Mardi Gras on the horizon and crawfish season in full swing.

For my spread, I spelled out Twenty, creating letters from many of my favorite colorful washi tapes, then cut tags from Pebbles' Happy Cake Day collection papers. More of those papers were used to cut and piece a King Cake embellishment. 

What is your favorite thing from this past week?

Document it on a page, in a planner or mini album, with a traveler's notebook or a tag, then add it to the 52 Friday Favorites challenge thread in the Paper Issues Friends and Fans Facebook Group.
See you there!

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Let's Wander-Create A Cluster

Here's my page for the Paper Issues Create-A-Cluster March challenge. But can you really call it a challenge, when it's so easy and such a fun thing to do?! For this page I created two clusters: 

The first is a cluster that embellishes my title, a simple die-cut from the Vicki Boutin 

Let's Wander collection: 

The second is a small embellishment cluster anchoring the map ephemera on the bottom left:

I love to add circular elements to my clusters; enamel dots and decorative brads are some of my favorite. What do you like to use in your embellishment groupings?

I have many more pages in the works with this beautiful Vicki Boutin collection.
Here’s a peek at one of them:

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