Paradise Found

I'm super pumped to have my first Shimmerz Missy Whidden Color Kitz layout up today!

You can find more about my process on the Shimmerz blog & on my YouTube Channel. I am so pumped to be a part of this talented, inspirational team! 

Thanks for looking! 

A colorful vacation - a SBC mood board challenge

Hello everyone!

Today I'm bringing you my inspiration piece from the mood board challenge at Scrapbook Challenges.

This is a photo from Honolulu, Hawaii. The mood board had so many fun colors, I decided a rainbow look was in order.

Supplies Used:
Background paper, pink, orange, turquoise and green papers - Pink Paislee Citrus Bliss
Red Paper - Fancy Pants Designs
Blue Paper - Pink Paislee Atlas
Blue swirl chipboard and glitter flower - me and my big ideas
flamingo - Chips by Pebbles
vacation veneer and puffy stickers - Studio Calico
Flair by Scrapbook Circle

Thanks for looking & go play along with Scrapbook Challenges!

Mr. Wonderful

Today's layout was created for a couple of June Challenges.

First, over at Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge, the June prompt is to use the word Wonder or Wonderful on your page.

Also, at Paper Issues, they have a "Let's get Knot-ical" Challenge. The Fancy Pants Making Waves collection was perfect for this challenge!

So I created this page for these two challenges:

This photo is my husband at the North Shore in Oahu, Hawaii, where he was born. His family used to live in the North Shore and his mom took this pale baby to the beach every day. Sounds like quite the life to me!

The stamp and Cricut drawing collection in the top corner didn't quite turn out how I wanted, but that happens sometimes, huh?

Supplies:
Cardstock - DCWV Coral Couture
Stamps - 7 Gypsies
Letters and patterned paper - Fancy Pants Making Waves
Rub on - Studio Calico

Thanks for looking!

Worth it! - A SBC sketch

Hello!

Today we have a layout from Hawaii for a sketch challenge over at Scrapbook Challenges.

Somehow all my Hawaii pages end up in the orange/pink/red family! Ha - these were also pre-kids (sort of, prego here), so my husband and I were in front of the camera a lot more.

The title of this page is Worth It because it was a struggle to drag my prego butt up Diamond Head on Oahu, but the gorgeous view was totally worth it!

Supplies:
Cardstock - The PaperStudio
Patterned Paper - unknown
Hawaiian flower and Heart chipboard - Me and My Big Ideas
Red and Yellow cardstock - DCWV
Vellum Stickers - Amy Tangerine

Go play along on with the sketch crew!
Thanks for looking!

Go With You - An April Mood Board Challenge

Today's layout was super fun to make! I used the April Mood Board over at Jot Magazine.

This photo is from our Hawaii trip. It's at Maui's Iao Valley State Park. Everything is beautiful in Hawaii!

This is the lovely mood board, and I used all but one of the colors.

I saw this adorable "tech tip" over at Scrapbook Circle about how they used a fringe CUT FILE to make their fringe! I said, "Hey! I can do that!" So I whipped up a little fringe cut file, and it made the process SOOOOO much quicker than I had previously done with my little fringe bee. I decided on a sweet little hot air balloon as my fringe shape for this travel page.

I had to use the glitter gold shoes from the mood board - insert lovely GOLD alphas!

The pink really got me too. I had a bunch of pink items from a past Studio Calico kit, so they got put to good use! The I love you ephemera matches perfectly too, even though it is from a Becky Higgins Project Life kit!

Supplies:
Blue, Grey and Pink background papers from various Studio Calico kits
Pink number transparency - Studio Calico
Pink and red stickers - Studio Calico
I love you paper ephemera & clear flower - Becky Higgins September Skies kit
Fringe papers from Studio Calico and Pink Paislee
Die cut - Cricut
Gold Alphas - American Crafts
Pink alphas - Studio Calico

I'm really loving how this turned out & reminiscing about our "babymoon" before our firstborn came along! :)

Thanks for looking!

Pineapple Love!

I got a new pineapple washi tape, and it inspired me to create a pineapple page - very trendy currently! What better photos to use for a pineapple page than those from a trip to Hawaii!?

My husband was born in Hawaii & we took a trip back there with his family when I was pregnant with my first son. It was beautiful and amazing! This is us at a Polynesian village before attending a luau.

I got this free cut file a while ago from Scrapbook and Cards Today & it was just perfect for this layout! I had to do some of my new favorite technique - watercoloring!

There you can see the delicious gold foil pineapple washi I was dying to use. I got that gem from Pretty Packages - she has great washi deals.

And the sweet little pineapple brad is from a scrapbook store I visited in Maui! Ahhhh.. the scrapbook isn't complete, but I'm ready to go back! :)

Thanks for looking!