Hey hey its a favorite day! It's Scraplift Sunday! Boy are you in for a treat because today we are lifting a phenomenal layout by Jennifer McMurtrey. I'm sharing my take on the  Paper Issues Blog.

I gotta tell you I was really intimidated by this LO. It is so freakin' spectacular I wanted to do it justice!

Well, a few ideas began to swirl around in my head. There's rainbow colors, Ombré, decisions decisions... How about Vicki Boutin Color Study! It's bright and oh! oh! the Thumbnail paper is speaking to me. It says the colors will be pretty perfect for all of the photos I took at the tulips fields!  

My photos are vertical and a little larger, so I flipped the sketch. After sifting through all the flowers in the icon ephemera. I realized  there weren't flowers in all the colors in the paper. I've never been so happy that I purchased the Hello Stamp Set! I stamped a bunch of flowers in different sizes, then fussy cut them! Boom. Custom flowers! I tucked, layered and lifted them around the photos to mimic the effect that Jennifer created on her LO. I'm pretty happy with the result!

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Snow Chill

Hey there snow there! Who's ready for a little Sunday Scraplifting? That's right, friends. Another Scraplift Sunday is upon us and today and I'm sharing my lift of Kelly's layout on the Paper Issues blog today.

I love a good vertical design and this lift did not disappoint! To be honest, there wasn't much I wanted to change up. I thought about flipping it horizontal, but where's the fun in that? I even knew how I would do the title!

It doesn't snow here regularly, so when it does, its always a huge ordeal. The upside is new photos! My dog loves the snow. LOVES. He prances and hops around all over. He digs with his nose then bites it too! It's so much fun to watch.  

The challenge for me today was paper!!! I have no wintery snowy themed paper right now. Nope.  I had to improvise. Enter PinkFresh Days of Splendor! Yup. It's a fall collection, so kinda the same thing right? I lied the cool minty colors on the Grateful Heart paper and the purples in the Ephemera were icy perfection.  Before I glued anything though, I made the background with distress oxides in Speckled Egg. I used Weathered Wood with a stencil to create the 'snowflakes' around the page. Oh, the most fun I has was making the title using the Elle's Studio Medium Jane Alpha stamps. I used both the Solid and the Outline stamps with PinkFresh Studio Urban Raincoat ink. Amazing and so much fun to layer. I highly recommend them!

Well, there you have it! Hope to see you playing along with us. You can find this Scraplift Sunday,  along with all of the other challenges in the March Challenge album, in our Facebook Group. Shop the Paper Issues store for new PinkFresh Studio and so much more, Use DEVRA at checkout for 20% off your purchase. Thanks for stopping by today. See you again soon

Birthday Selfies

Oh hello and welcome to my favorite day of the week. Yes that's right, it's Scraplift Sunday! I'm on the Paper Issues blog today sharing my take on Sindi's always awesome creativity. 

Do you ever feel like you are in a creative slump? Let me tell you, this scraplift was just what I needed to get me out of mine! I love the detailed simplicity of Sindi's LO. You know me though, I had to give it my own twist. 

I had put together my own little kit, if you will, made out of pieces from the July, August and September Swag Bags. Red blue and yellow? Yes please.  Love the triangles, so I trimmed a few of the papers into triangles. I felt like I needed more of a background, so I used Distress Oxides with the new Well Rounded stencil. Ahhh, that's better, or ummm, louder. i sifted through all the swag bag embellishments to find ones that fit my page. I scored with Dude, you & me and Birthday! Then I threw down some red splatter, (and yes I know red splatter is always a risk, but I did it anyway) added some Nuvo drops and called it a day!

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Up One, Down Two,

Hello there! I'm on the Paper Issues blog this finest of Scraplift Sundays! Oh my do we have a LO to lift today! Stacie created a masterpiece. Man, I don't know if I can do it justice, but I sure tried!

I don't know what is more striking, the background stitching or the fact that it's on a chalked black background...It's genius. All of it. I wanted to recreate it, but in my own way. Well duh, that's why it's called scraplifting... anyway. I thought of using paint, creating streaks with ink, even layers of paper. Then I saw these photos and realized I had to stitch, but in a different way. At the same time, my August Paper Issues Kit and Swag Bag arrived giving me my colors. 

I have a whole bunch of old stitch templates. I used several of those to hand stitch the background, as well as the Pretty Little Studio Clear Stitch Stickers. Once I was done stitching, the rest was fairly simple. As in Stacies, the background speaks for itself! I layered several swag bag papers under the photos adding a few select pieces of PinkFresh Let's Stay Home ephemera and Chipboard flair.  Really, deciding on the background was the hardest part! ok, maybe teaching my son to sew as, but we won't tell him that!

Yep. I think the monotony and isolation of this never ending quarantine has finally gotten to him. He's like me and cant sit and do nothing. He asked me to teach him how to sew. He came home a few weeks ago to visit and that's what we did. He found it calming and relaxing. Mission accomplished. 

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Decade

Hey there! I'm on the Paper Issues blog   on this favorite of days, Scraplift Sunday! Today we are lifting Kelly's bright cheerful LO.

I couldn't wait to lift this! Can you say awesome design?!?! You know what else? I was dying to cut into PinkFresh Let's Stay Home! Oh right. Let me get back to the design. Yep. Love it. But you know what? The photo I chose is bigger. So, automatically this was going to be different. But hey, that's why we call it a lift right? 

I started with the Hold On paper as the background. I mean why use plain white when you can use an awesome stripe?  I love the rainbow Better Things Ahead paper. I cut it apart to make my wonky strips. Remember I mentioned my photo being larger? Well, that meant I needed to simplify the layering behind it. Since this page is about my family and our house, I used some of the family oriented ephemera. And that was pretty much it. Oops, I almost forgot a title and some Nuvo drops. Now it's done. 

I can't believe we've been living here for 10 years. In a lot of ways it seems like a long time. In others it seems like yesterday. 

Thanks so much for stopping by my creative view today. Head over to Instagram @thebeachygal to find more of my crafty projects. 

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School At Home

Hello there! It's Scraplift Sunday and I'm sharing my lift of Lacey's page on the Paper Issues blog today!   

This is such a fun design and super different than what I would usually do. To me that's one of the best things about scraplifting: trying other styles, then adapting them to your own. That's exactly what I did here. 

I left the design alone, but played around with everything else.  I love the two wonky triangles! I have been taking pictures of my son while we try to do school everyday. I thought Shimelle Never Grow Up would be a good choice for them.  That Alphabet paper couldn't have been more perfect! I clustered a bunch of Stickers and ephemera. I love using sentiment stickers for my son. The words are inspiring just like him. 

Want to know a secret? I smudged the paint at the bottom of the page.  I tore piece out at the top too. This is one mistake that worked in my favor. 

Thanks so much for stopping by my creative view today. Check out more of my work on Instagram @thebeachygal. See you again soon!

Winter Wonderland

Hello there! I'm up on the Paper Issues blog today. You know Sunday is our favorite day of the week right? It's not just Sunday, it's Scraplift Sunday! This week we are lifting A bright and colorful layout by Manda Jane. 

I love a good diagonal design. There are so many ways to make one design look unique. That's exactly what I did. I lifted this design and made it my own. I narrowed it down to two photos, used stars as my primary shape, adding splatter instead of spray mist. It's a cleaner look, which is definitely my style! The best part for me is I don't have to think about a design. All I have to do is decide what paper I want to use!

We got a little unexpected snow a few weeks ago which meant I would have a chance to use Crate Paper Snowflake! I started with the Wonderland paper for my background.  I layered die cut ephemera and stickers all around and under the photos, then created a cascade of stars and snowflakes.  I even used some little bits from Swag Bags as well. 

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Cherry Picked

Hey there! I'm on the Paper Issues blog sharing my take on today's Scraplift Sunday. This is one of my favorite challenges. It's the perfect 'go to' when the mojo is missing!  Today we are lifting MandaJane's lovely layered page. It pretty much has everything. Lots of photos, patterned paper, layers... so where should I start?

Well, here is my lift.  I started with the photos. I liked the idea of all the small photos, so that stayed pretty much the same. Next up, papers and stuff. Hmmm... what do I have that I can layer up? Well, anything really, but I still can't get enough of Vicki Boutin Color Kaleidoscope, so I went with that. I stuck with a lot of the naturey ephemera pieces...birds, flowers, leaves. 

All I did was matte the photos on one paper, layer another under that one, then tuck and layer all the embellishments. I put them mostly at the sides instead of all around. That's what makes scraplifting so fun. Being inspired by someone else!

Ever since we moved here I've wanted to go cherry picking. We finally did it! I had no idea the trees were so big, or how the cherries grew. I loved every minute of it!

Thanks so much for stopping by my creative view today. Come back again soon! I have more to share!

Soar

Hey there! It's Sunday and you know what that means...It's Scraplift Sunday with Paper Issues. I'm  sharing my lift of Angie's page on the  Paper Issues blog today.  

I love the diagonal design in Angie's page!  You know what else I love? Crate Paper All Heart ! It's so inspiring! All the flowers, photos and girl power?  I just can't get enough. I started with the Wild paper as the background. I used one of the cut apart papers to create my diagonal design, filling in spaces with the Ephemera,  6x12 Stickers, and  Dreamer Thickers . I couldn't think of a better way to use the Girl Boss and Lovely Words A Flair for Buttons flair!  Seriously, this couldn't have been any easier. 

I've been really feeling like I need a boost of confidence. I chose a lot of these powerful words to remind me that maybe I don't. 

Thank so much for stopping by my creative view today. Come back agin soon, I've got more to share!  You can get Crate Paper All Heart in the Paper Issues shop for 20% off your purchase when you use DEVRA at checkout. 

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Good Vibes

Hey there and good morning! It's Scraplift Sunday at Paper Issues and I'm on the blog sharing my
take on Kat's phenomenal page!

Oh I became giddy as soon as I saw we were lifting this page. I may have even squealed! I love the original so much I didn't wasn't to stray too far from it. Well. that was my intent anyway.

I decided to do some stashbusting, mixing some Crate Paper Good Vibes and Wild at Heart. I stayed with  black & white for the triangle pieces, adding color with the embellishments. The triangles are so large they don't need much else! 

My guys were digging' in the crates so the good vibes and high vibes sentiments fit this page well! 

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Let's Do This

Hey there! I'm on the Paper Issues blog today sharing this project for Scraplift Sunday. This week we are lifting this amazing layout by McJen.

Mine? It's totally different. I don't follow directions well. I took inspiration from the grid design. And I love how each space is embellished. From there I went my own way.  I do have the nine little spaces, But I filled then with the Webster's Pages Changing Colors  Smile cut apart paper. Some of them I layered, some I embellished with bits and pieces from some of the Monthly Kits, one houses the title, another the journaling, and oh yeah... one is the photo! Tying it all together is the Stripes paper backing the whole thing. 

For the past few years I've started the year with a 'fresh start' type of layout. This page really spoke to me. Everything fell into place easily. Small sentiments, big reminders.

Thanks so much for stopping by my creative view today. This is the first of what I hope is many posts this year. Check back again soon for more.  In the mean time, The January kit as well as several new items have hit the Paper Issues shop. Get yours now for 20% off when you use DEVRA at checkout. 

Hotel California

Good morning! It's Scrapift Sunday at Paper Issues . Guess who we are lifting this week? Me! I originally created this layout for a July challenge, On the Edge. 

So I kind of had to play along don't you think? I changed it up a bit by flipping the page from side by side to top and bottom, which gave me more room for this title.  I didn't realize it until just now but I also used PinkFresh for this page as well.  Today it's A Case of the Blahs, with its funny sarcastic sentiments that were perfect for my silly photo. The finishing pieces for me are the flair. They also have some great sentiments that I used to further the humor on my page.

A couple of years ago we went to Knott's Berry Farm. We did everything while there, including, yes, the prison photos. Why not?

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Candidly Speaking

Hey there! I have a layout in today's article on the Get It Scrapped blog. We are talking about unique ways to scrapbook pages about Parties.  Not only the photos, but the stories and the products used to enhance the stories. I had fun with this one. 

Whenever we have a family party, my Dad and sister manage to capture the best candid photos. Each of our expresssions are unique to our personality and are eveident in each photo.

I used Echo Park Good Day Sunshine for it's bright summery colors, with icons that indicate summer as well as photos such as the camera, the banner and sunglasses. These all indicate the season, as well as the candid nature of the photos.

I scraplifted with Paper Issues which really worked in my favor for this project. It's a simple design so I could get all the photos on the page with out them getting lost or overwhelmed by product. 

My son graduated High School last week. We celebrated with a very casual brunch party. This is a big life changing event for him as well as us and it is an event to always remember.

Thanks for stoping by my creative view today. Come back again soon, I have more to share.

Supplies: cardstock & alpha-American Crafts, Patterned paper, stickers, die cuts and chipboard-Echo Park, Flair-A Flair for Buttons, pen-Tombow

Do

Good morning! I have another project to share today for Paper Issues.  It's our week 3 Scraplift Sunday, when we lifted this lovely page byAmanda-Jayne

I did change the design a bit by creating 3 solid clusters. I played with the awesome Swag Bag to create this. Really. that's all I used. The Feb bag was filled with all these bright colors, inspiring sentiments and springy embellishments. I sorted through everything first, then grouped them by colors and item type. From there I zeroed in on the sentiments and all the butterflies. I cut, placed and layered and was pretty much done. 

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Wonderland

Hello! Just a quick little post today sharing a page I made for Scraplift Sunday today at Paper Issues.  We are lifting Mary Ann's LO from the January Issue.  I love it's simplicity, but of course I had to give it my own spin.

 I didnt change the design much, but I did use all photos instead.  As usual, I had to throw down some layers of paper and tags under them too. You see, I had a hunch I would need this Carta Bella Cabin Fever. Even if it didn't snow, I'd have some great plaids to use for some masculine photos! Lucky for me it snowed! I also used a few of the snowflakes that were left over from the Snowflake grid cut file I sued on another page. 

I'll be honest. I'm not a fan of long snowy winters. I dont like it in my driveways, or on the roads.  I much prefer to admire the snow as it sits upon mountain tops. However, I do love to see fresh white snow on the trees, which is always a chance to grab some new photos.

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Supplies: PP, die cuts-Carta Bella, wood pieces, Crate paper, Nuvo drops, Stickles, Silhouette, Dylusions mist.