June Papercraft Business Challenge

This month's challenge involved Father's Day. The layout below is of my husband. To say he loves fishing is an understatement. On this particular day, he went on a halibut fishing excursion and caught the largest fish of the day!

I love a good grid layout because it's easy to achieve balance and symmetry. Layer a few elements on each square, and it's a recipe for a classic sketch you'll got back to again and again.

November Papercraft Business Challenge

Hi there! This month's challenge theme is focused

on gift giving. One of my sweet friends has been going through a really rough time with their mother. She absolutely adores Halloween! So I made her a cute little personalized Wicked Weeks of Halloween book!

Using my Cricut Maker, I used a pumpkin template to cut out 28 pages and 2 covers. For the pages, I used the outer covers of the paper pack, lined with cardstock. The pages were comprised of 2 pages adhered together. If you do this, don't forget to change the orientation so the sides match!

Afterward, I punched two holes on the outer left hand side, and threaded two binder rings through them. I found a pack of 6 at Dollar Tree!

To help speed things along, I made sure I had a stash of pre-cut Halloween related items (ghouls, ghosts, bats, haunted houses, spider webs, skulls). That way I could assemble, glue and go!

All in all it was a fun project to do! I hope you hop on over to Papercraft Business Challenge Blog to check out future challenges!

Tag! You're It | October Papercraft Business Challenge

Hi all! And thanks for joining me for another Papercraft Business Challenge! October features tags of all kinds and types. 

I had picked up a pack of purple tags for $1.50 at Michael's. But I had absolutely no idea what to do with them. Until I saw this photo. 

The tags gave me a two fold interpretation: as a flower (since my daughter brightens up my day), and the eyelets mirroring her eyes in the photo. 

I focused on her eyes because they've always been such an interesting color. Even now, they are a fiercely dark gray/green. I sure hope they stay that way, and that you hop on over to Papercraft Business Challenge Blog to check out future challenges! 

For September, we over at the Papercraft Business Challenge Blog are celebrating bears of all kinds! As the scrapbooker of the group, I whipped up the layout below using a cut file for the very first time! It took no time at all to back it using different patterned cardstock.

This layout is all about my leap of faith of moving from San Diego to Seattle. Spoiler alert: it was the best decision I ever made! There is a bear on the Californian flag, and a circle of pine trees amidst a starry night sky--representative of both cities.

Thanks for checking this out, hope to see you join us for the next challenge over at the Papercraft Business Challenge Blog!

August Papercraft Business Challenge

For August, we over at the Papercraft Business Challenge Blog are celebrating circles of every type and size! As the scrapbooker of the group, I whipped up the layout below using some of my leftover ephemera from American Crafts' Head in the Clouds collection by Shimelle.

This layout is all about my little one and their 18 month milestone (and the incredibly long, constantly growing list of nicknames they've already accumulated! I love that I will be able to look back on this one day.

Thanks for checking this out, hope to see you join us for the next challenge over at the Papercraft Business Challenge Blog!

Papercraft Business June Challenge - Up in the air

I loved the Papercraft Business Challenge Blog's theme challenge for this month. It was a great way to highlight our trip to Tombstone, AZ this past fall. It was everything we thought it would be!

I mainly used the wonderful Amy Tangerine's paper pads to complete this. To give it dimension, I fussy bladed a cloud and a few mini airplanes and mounted them with foam tape. Some journaling, sequins (because shiny is life), and pen work made this complete!

Hop on over to the Papercraft Business Challenge Blog and make sure you are following along with the monthly challenges for exciting prizes!

Hope you all had a happy scrappy holiday yesterday! Despite our recent loss, crafting was calling to me. I completed this layout for the Mother's Day themed May challenge on the Papercraft Business Challenge Blog, using the JAW-DROPPING Stargazer collection from PaperHouse Productions. How gorgeous are these colors?

This is my first two pages of my super soft and pretty PHP vegan traveler's notebook.

Love it! My page is about my bond with Baby Chunks. I'm counting this as my first Mom's Day, since last year my daughter was a tiny thing.

Hop on over to the Papercraft Business Challenge Blog and join in on the fun!

Not to compare myself with a Superhero, but momhood definitely has the ability to make me feel like I can do ANYTHING! Especially when it comes to your kids. I’m on the blog today with a simple, fun, 20 minute layout using Paper House Productions' beautiful Wonder Woman collection!

To complete this layout, I started out with blank white cardstock. From there, I cut out 2″ circles from the Tags Foil paper, all from the collection. I fussy cut the word “Fierce,” along with a couple of branding strip pieces, and some gold for the tiny background strips. I began layering different pieces, including the incredibly cute matching stickers, to form mini clusters.

Next, I cut a circle frame slightly larger than 2″ for my main photo in the center. I’ve recently become obsessed with free-form pen ink borders, so I threw a couple around the outside. To add a different texture, I added some stepped black splatter, and some quick journaling. And that’s it! Hope you try this one out!