You & Me

Happy Friday friends,

Have you seen the new Pink Paislee Portfolio Collection?  I just love it.  yellow, cream, and grey seem to be very big right now in the industry, and Pink Paislee mixes them perfectly in this new line.  I had this photo of my little buddy Nyah and I kicking around since summer.  I love this photo of the two of us.  She is one great kid!  I knew I wanted to create a great layout with this sweet photo of us.  With this collection, and the help of my Silhouette Cameo, I think I did pretty good.

 

You can see the Portfolio papers in the shop here.  I added some old Echo Park brads, and some mist from my stash to this layout as well as some flair from a fun new shop I discovered on Etsy.  I hid the journaling on the tag with the pull out ribbon under the banner flair badge.  It reads "I couldn't love this girl anymore if she were my own.  I remember praying for her while she was still in China.  She's been here 4 yrs now, and she blesses us all."

I hope you have a great weekend in store.  I'll be back next Friday with my very last post as a member of the Marketing Team. 

Sherri

Hello Sunshine with Simple Stories Summer Fresh

Hi everyone! It's Kate here today sharing a Simple Stories Summer Fresh layout. I think the thing that I love most about Simple Stories products is how fast and easy it is to come up with a really beautiful page. They really do make it simple. There's so much interest and fun elements on their products.

This layout is of my youngest daugher in her cute little strawberry bathing suit from Gymboree. I swear that Gymboree must look at scrapbook paper and plan around that, or maybe scrapbook companies look for inspiration from Gymboree! We are at Great Wolf Lodge in Niagara Falls in these pictures. She loved the outdoor pool and wanted to spend most of her time there. That was fine with me, we had a lot of fun playing together in the water. The pool has a gradual slope at the front of it instead of stairs making it very toddler-friendly. It's almost like a beach. She doesn't want to be held all the time in pools - we're in the "I do it!!!" stage, so this spot was perfect for her.

I got some inspiration from fellow design team member, Michelle Gallant here. She added rhinestones to the centres of the flowers on her recent layout and I liked that idea, so I have done it here as well. Thanks Michelle! As usual, I have used my sewing machine a lot to add a little extra fun to the the page. I made the flower out of an old pair of jeans and a sizzix die. I just added some bling from My Mind's Eye, a red button, some pins and an epoxy shape from Epiphany Crafts. Fun and easy! The 'hello' part of the title is Simple Stories alphabet stickers and the 'Sunshine' part of the title was cut out of some Simple Stories paper with my Silhouette Cameo.

I poped up the mason jar sticker with 3D foam adhesive, and added the twine around the top of the jar and some brads to the centres of the pinwheels.

Thanks for looking.

Kate
www.scrapsation.com

Supplies

• Simple Stories Summer Fresh papers and stickers
• Twine from The Twinery
• Thread by Coats & Clark
• Silhouette Cameo
• Pen by Staedtler
• Adhesives by Helmar
• Rhinestones
• My Mind's Eye Miss Caroline stick pins and pearl stickers

Heidi Swapp Sugar Chic and Crate Paper Card

Hi Everyone! It's Kate Vickers here today and I would like to share some of my favourite products in the store and a card that I made.

First, the card. I created this card with Crate Paper's Paper Heart Collection (on sale in the store!) along with some Heidi Swapp Sugar Chic embellishments and a Sassafras die cut (I hoard these).  This card is a tri-fold spin card. I got the cut file from The Silhouette America store and cut it out with my beloved Silhouette Cameo. If someone asked me to decide between my husband and my Cameo, it would be a difficult decision!

Here's a photo of the card lying flat.

...And a close up shot.

Here are a few of the products that I used from the store. These papers are on for only $0.35! You can't go wrong! These papers are so versatile, you can mix and match them with a lot of different collections.

I also used these two products from Heidi Swapp. I love the sparkly Pennants and the Sugar Stix are a lot of fun too.

Another product that I'm really loving right now is the Sugar Chic Buzz Words. These are epoxy stickers with a lot of shine.

I find that they go with a lot of different papers and they are quite versatile. I love to combine them with alphabet stickers for page titles. For example, you could use American Crafts Thickers to spell out, 'You are' and then add either the 'Fabulous' or 'Beautiful' buzz word stickers.

Thanks for dropping by today! I would love to hear your thoughts on my card.