Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Mixing Things Up at Paper Issues

Hi everyone! Please tell me I’m not the only one who has trouble sticking to one collection when they scrap. I just always seem to find myself mixing and matching like a crazy lady. For this layout, I mixed some gorgeous gold-stripe paper by Teresa Collins and some adorable red Christmas-ish paper and black/white plaid paper from the Falala collection by Crate Paper.


I love the look of red and gold together! For this layout, I decided to tackle my arch-nemesis: hand stitching. I really love the look it adds to my layouts, but, man! It takes forever and a day! I will also go ahead and confess: I am terrible at this! It looks ok from the front, but the back of my layout is hilarious, full of piles of tangled thread and knots galore. Good thing no one will look at the back. At least, let’s hope so! I’ll spare you any more of the gory details, but it ain’t pretty, people!


This layout features a photo of my son, who has just changed so much recently that it’s scary. Why on earth do they have to grow up so quickly? It just isn’t fair.

I decided to do one of my favorite designs, a sunburst. The rays of paper are fairly easy to make by creating a long rectangle, and then cutting it on a diagonal. It gives you a nice, long triangle to use for a sun ray.

Don’t forget to join in the fun in the PaperIssues facebook group! And, of course, when you're shopping in the store, don’t forget to use my discount code for 20% off your scrappy wonderful-ness!



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