So Cool | Paper Issues Scraplift Sunday

Today it's my turn on the Paper Issues blog. Here's my post:

Sunday is my favorite day of the week for so many reasons, one of which is...Scraplift Sunday. My heart skipped a beat when I saw Mary-Ann's layout that I got to scraplift. Here's my page, which I've made for one of my students.

Here is Mary-Ann's amazing layout, which is complete perfection, so I pretty much decided I wanted to scraplift the entire awesome design. I was tempted to go monchromatic because of how beautiful hers looked with all those shades of green, but I decided to use multiple colors so as not to copy TOO much!

Like Mary-Ann, I used the Stitching Star Galaxy free cut file and backed it with a Vicki Boutin Mixed Media paper.

I used Echo Park Teen Spirit collection and a few odds and ends from my stash. I had to use triple layers of adhesive foam to mount my photo because the straw was so thick.

That rainbow-burst paper is this sheet from Vicki Boutin's Kaleidoscope collection.

I used pop dots to lift up the stars, and added Nuvo drops here and there. I'm seriously in love with those things!

I always love the opportunity to add some buttons to my page. I probably have a million of them.

Mary-Ann's page is truly a unique masterpiece, and I was so lucky to be picked to lift it. I hope you'll give this challenge a try. And make sure you share it with us in our Facebook group for a chance to win a gift certificate to the shop.

While you're checking out the free cut files, be sure to hop over to the store and see all the cool new stuff. Please use my discount code, Debbi (no e on the end), and you'll receive 20% off of everything in the store.

You're Awesome | Paper Issues Scraplift Sunday Challenge

If you've been reading my blog, you know I'm on a mission to make 29 layouts, one to give to each of my students. Here's my latest, created for Paper Issues Scraplift Sunday challenge:

Here's Amanda Ulmer's awesome page we got to lift:

Here are some details. I used Echo Park's Imagine That collection, one of my favorite boy collections of all time! I just love the colors and motifs. How cute is that little dog flying the plane?

I used Amanda's basic design of the 3 long rectangles in the back but made mine a little thinner and positioned them wonky. I used the packaging technique in the background, which I love but often mess up, but it looks okay here, I think. I added texture paste with a stencil over top of that and partially outlined some of the stars. The car looked funny with no driver, so I cut a little dog out of one of the patterned papers and stuck him inside.

My title. I added some old Studio Calico wood veneer chevron arrows. Those word stickers are really old K& Co. stickers. The enamel dot looking things are actually Nuvo drops. I'm seriously in love with those.

I had the SUPER HERO words cut out of a patterned paper an was just going to place them sort of overlapped, and then it came to me that the airplane should be trailing them like you see planes doing at the beach. I always put a heart on each layout I make for other people, and I found a wood veneer one for the cloud.

I hope you'll come play in this or one of the many other challenges at Paper Issues. You could win a gift certificate! And if you shop at the store, please use my code, Debbi (no e on the end), and you'll get 20% off your entire purchase!

You Rock | Bramble Fox DT Layout & Paper Issues Free File Free-for-All challenge

When I received the very cool "You Rock"  from the So Cool Perspextives from Bramble Fox, I knew I had to scrap these awesome pictures of my friend's son.

I used Echo Park's Teen Spirit collection and an awesome free Paper Issues cut file as well as some French stamps I had recently gotten from my husband's trip to Paris. How cool is that You Rock title? The font is perfect!

The Musical Notes were a perfect accent to go with the title. How fun is that panda stamp?

And the rabbit! I just love him! How awesome is the cut file? It's called Right on Target, and it's FREE! Paper Issues is so generous with their cut files. I backed it with some patterned papers from my stash that went with the colors of the Teen Spirit collection (the red paper is from the collection).

And I found a black Perspextive star in my stash which was a perfect piece for this page.

You Are a Super Hero {Bramble Fox DT work + Paper Issues Free File Free-for-All Challenge}

I'm up on the Bramble Fox blog today. I also played along in the Paper Issues Free File Free-for-All Challenge.

Here's my post:

Hey, Bramble Fox Friends! I'm back with a boy-themed layout I created for one of my fourth grade students using three pieces from the May Fox Box plus a piece from the Fancy Hearts.

I have this Imagine collection by Echo Park with that fun superhero sticker, so that was my starting point. I love using lots of patterns but not in a way to overwhelm the photo, so I like using them with cut files. I used Paper Issues awesome free cut file called Circle Burst. Next, I set out to choose my Perspextives. I knew I was going to use some of the words from the May Fox Box because the colors went well with this collection, and then it dawned on me that I could use the word "here" and just cover the line in the "e" with part of the paper airplane and make the word "here" into "hero."

I love the words in the May Fox Box. They're so versatile, and by adding some additional words, either with letter stickers as I did in the title at the bottom or on a cloud, like I did at the top, you can make just the right title or message. So many possibilities...

You & Me Together {Bramble Fox}

I made another page for a student using some of the beautiful Bramble Fox Perspextives:

Here are some details. I used Echo Park's You & Me collection. This beautiful title piece was in a recent Bramble Fox Fox Box. I highly recommend subscribing to the Fox Box, as you get a lovely assortment of Perspextives each month, including some exclusives pieces.

Most everything on my page came from the You & Me collection,  but I added a few things from my stash besides the Bramble Fox Perspextives, like the phrase stickers and the purple pearls. And I found these sweet purple kitty puffy stickers that I had to have peeking out from the embellishment clusters for a playful touch.

The lovely hearts are from the Fancy Hearts pack. I added some pink acrylic paint to texture paste and added that to the background with a stencil.

Paper Issues still has several items from this beautiful collection. Use my code, Debbi (no e on the end) for 20% off your entire purchase.

Adventures Ahead {Paper Issues Scraplift Sunday}

It's my turn on the Paper Issues blog today. Here's my post:

Hey, everyone! It's Debbi here today. I love scraplift challenges because it gives me to try on another scrapper's style. I fell in love with Mary-Ann's layout the minute I saw it, and I was thrilled when I was assigned to scraplift her amazing layout. Here's my take:

Here's Maryann's phenomenal layout that I scraplifted:

I couldn't for the life of me figure out exactly how she made arranged those pie pieces, so I just winged it using the Slices of Life cut file, which you can get for free from the Paper Issues store.

I used Echo Park's Imagine That collection. I scrap 8 x 8, so the 6 x 6 pad was perfect for my layout. I also used the sticker sheet and chipboard pieces from that collection, and I elevated everything on the page with pop dots.

A few enamel dots and wood veneer stars added the finishing touches.

I hope you'll come play with us and add your layout to our Facebook group for a chance to win a gift certificate at the Paper Issues store. Speaking of the store, make sure you add my code when shopping, Debbi (no e on the end), and get 20% off your entire purchase!

Just Imagine {Paper Issues Scraplift Sunday Challenge}

Scraplifting is fun, and Paper Issues has several Scraplift Sunday  challenges going in July. One of the challenges was to scraplift me! I already scraplifted this once before with my Sleep in a Pineapple layout, but you can always do a different twist, and here's what I came up with:

Here's a reminder of my layout we had to scraplift:

As you can see, i used the same basic design, and instead of the chipboard alpha behind the photo, I used mesh and stamping. Here are some details.

I used Echo Park's Imagine That, which is so adorable and perfect for little boys. I thought the little cars were perfect to go with this photo. There's a shark on the sticker sheet, which would've also been perfect, since he's got a shark on his sleeve, but I couldn't make it work.

I know the pterodactyl doesn't go with the cards, but he was so cute and I thought he'd be good to go with the clouds, plus the title is "Just imagine," so I thought what the heck! I added a googly eye for playfulness.

The orange car was cut from a patterned paper. That chevron stamp is by Kaisercraft. I'm making some pages for my husband's grand-nephew, and I decided I'd add a heart to each page, thnking that might be fun for him to find the heart on each page.

I hope you'll play along. Be sure to post your creation by August 5 in the Paper Issues Friends & Fans Facebook page for a chance to win a gift certificate to the Paper Issues store.

And speaking of the Paper Issues store, check out all of their cool new stuff, and if you use my code, Debbi (no e on the end), you can get 20% off your entire order!

Celebrate Freedom {CSI Case File No. 258}

Our mid-month challenge at CSI: Color, Stories, Inspiration is just perfect for beach-inspired pages, like the page I already shared in the post below, but it's also perfect for all those 4th of July photos you might've taken. Because of the color scheme, I just had to make a second page to scrap a photo from this year's 4th of July celebration.

Here's the Case File. I drew inspiration from the colors and the stripes.

I also played along in the Keep it Sketchy challenge at Paper Issues.

Here are some details. I used papers from Echo Park's Celebrate America collection and Pebbles' Land That I Love collection. I fussy cut the jar of flowers from one of the Echo Park papers. You can sort of see that the big letters I used for my title are shiny silver, not black, as they appear in the photograph of my layout. It's so frustrating to photographic metallic elements!

Here are some more things I fussy cut from some of the papers. That blue paper perfectly matches the color of the jar, though for some reason it doesn't look like that in the photograph. It's really old textured paper. the "4th of July" is a free cut file from Paper Issues. They have so many awesome free files. So generous!

The word Freedom and the label it sits on are both cut files form the Silhouette store, and the fireworks and stars are cut from papers from the Echo Park collection.

I hope you'll come play with us at CSI. Check out all the awesome sponsors donating prizes and gift certificates this month: