Happy Independence Day!

Hello Friends - Happy 4th of July!

Today I'm bringing you a festive layout to celebrate the holiday. I used another wonderful sketch from Stuck?! sketches.

It's hard to take a perfectly square photo, btw!

Here's the original sketch:

This sketch was just meant to be for these photos of my boys I had waiting to be scrapped.

My boys are 3 years and 1 day apart, so all the hand-me-downs are seasonally appropriate. I love to compare the sweet thangs in some special outfits (usually holiday related). This is the first age comparison page I've done of the two of them!? How is that possible?!

I stamp embossed the stars, and filled in the hollow stars with watercolors. Then I went a little splatter crazy.

They're definitely brothers, that's for sure. But they also have their own look too. Lachy quite a bit chunkier too!

I love this Pebbles Americana collection. It just took a couple of tiny scraps for behind the photos.

The ephemera pack is super fun too.

I added a little journaling at the bottom that is not in the sketch. Seems like Lachlan got a little jipped on that beach view too! Haha.

Thanks for looking & I hope you have a great holiday!

Little Summer JOY - Celebrate Lesson 1

Happy Independence Day, fellow Americans! (And Happy July 4th to you non-Americans!)

Today, I'm bringing you a little page I have created in my Little Summer JOY traveler's notebook for Lesson One at Little Paper Projects' - Celebrate the Little Things.

First, can I say that I'm just celebrating this little moment right here - I'm sitting on the front porch, drinking coffee, all the people in my home are still asleep (late firework/boat night last night), and catching up on photos and blogging and all the gorgeous crafty inspiration in my virtual world. It is glorious!

This moment could be short lived, so on I go, to share with you the first page I've created for Alexandria's lesson.

How appropriate for today's holiday - but I didn't even plan it like that! I just snapped these cuties on the way to school Friday, both in their red, white & blue, dnd the photo turned out SOOO cute I had to create with it.

It's hard to tell with photography, but the background card is red metallic. The washi is gold stripes and stars, and I just love the whole patriotic feel of it all.

I used a Studio Calico Christmas stamp set for the stars, and an Ali Edwards digital summer passport stamp for the celebrate word. I tell ya what, Ali's digital stamps were literally the best accompaniment to this Little Summer JOY summer project, and I do not believe there was even a collaboration there!?

I had fun creating this super simple page of my boys! This amazing project will continue through the summer so please, JOIN US!

Thanks for looking & hope you play with a little sparkle & fire today!