Hi, Katie Watson here with you all this morning.  Today is focus on Trends.  I’m kind of combining two different trends together (Well, maybe a whole bunch if you consider the glitter, the crackle paint, the vintage stuff, the old game card etc….) but these are the main two that I am focusing on.

  #1 and most important, YoU!  With the recent passing of a family member and the loss of the much loved Aleida (from the scrapping world) I have spent lots of time thinking….and what I have realized is that I have a lot to say.  Some important stuff…but mostly just little things, the kind of things that make me tick.  Not big things….just a lot of little things.   So I am committed to start scrapping more of myself.  The important and the unimportant.  I sure wish my great grandma had left a scrapbook sitting around that gave me clues to what made her tick. 

 #2- The second main trend is the use of “everything but the kitchen sink”.  People are getting super creative on pages and projects.  They are using packaging, vintage pieces, odds and ends of stuff….and just filling up pages with anything and everything.  Well, this is actually a very freeing process.  You really do just have to sit and let your mind go…not worry about how much “sense” it makes or if it matches perfectly….but just do it.  Mix colors and patterns that you wouldn’t have thought of mixing.  Add lots of texture, dress up an ordinary embellishment with glitter…just let go and let it happen!  It is so fun.  I seriously talk to myself when I am nervous, I say, “Katie, just do it…it’ll work and if it doesn’t, you’ll make it work. Do it, just let go”.  Yes, I know..it’s probably because I have a deployed husband, but I do cheer myself on and I have to talk to someone!

  OK, so back to business.  My project.  I used an 8×8 chipboard binder by Maya Road and filled it to the brim. 

  These are all the little things that bring a smile to my face, inspire me or make my heart light…..just little pieces of me.  Love the silver pressons btw.  They are so elegant.  Do you recognize the Goodwill Roses? 

 Yes, I did paint the leaves….white first and then aqua…and then stamped them with turquoise paint using the end of a drinking straw and then glittered them.  I love how they came out…!

 I used almost every Pink Paislee line in this book and every type of product also….papers, stamps, pressons ,letter stickers,topsiders and diecuts.  Like  I said, “everything but the kitchen sink”. 

  So I challenge you to make an album….and leave a little bit of you in a book for someone to find one day.  They’ll thank you!   Have a Great Day, Katie

There are so many things that I love about Pink Paislee products! One of those things is that the lines are unique from one another, yet they have such a similar style. I have found that this makes it easy to mix and match the papers and still have a cohesive looking project.

Today, I’m sharing a few layouts. This one is from Alicia Giess. I just love how she mixed the Pop Fashion Leg Warmers paper with the flowers from the Spring Fling Spring Flowers paper . Adding pink to the flower centers really tied it together.  On top of that, she added a splash of the Office Lingo Lunch Hour paper. It’s such a gorgeous page!

This next page is one that I did a few weeks ago. I mixed the Spring Fling lines (Green Lace, Spring Flowers and Rain Showers papers) with Vintage Moon (Harvest Moon and Moon Pie papers). These two lines blend together so well! I added a couple of PP stamps and some Holly Doodle letters, too.

Finally, I decided to challenge myself and see how many lines I could use for the layout I created for today’s post.  How many do you see???

Well, I used the Office Lingo Roundtable Scallop as my base and adhered it to Vintage Moon Moon Glade. Then, I cut that to leave just a bit of the edge showing. I cut a large circle from the Pop Fashion Jellies paper and used Office Lingo Fast Track  and Outside the box to frame my photo.

Then, I used the Vintage Moon Moon Pie papers to create accents for my flowers and used a bit more of the Moon Glade paper as trim.

So, I ended up with three of Pink Paislee’s lines on this page! It was fun and easy.

The next time you go to create a layout, take a look at the range of colors that Pink Paislee has to offer. Then mix it up! I’m sure your results will be stunning.

Have a great day, Anabelle

We are getting a good response from blog readers, kit clubs, and online store owners who want us to share their Pink Paislee galleries and we are happy to spread the news!  So….today that means we are able to bring you more inspiration from your fellow crafters. 

First take a look at the gallery over at Tarisota Collections in Australia.  This is a beautiful gallery full of some fabulous Vintage Moon goodies.  Designs are from Nic Howard, and Tamar Bostock just to name a few.  There are some fabulous examples showcasing our Paislee Press Ons; and honestly the silver metallic letters from Heidi Swapp look so good with these papers!  I can’t wait to pair those up myself!

Here are a few samples below…but be sure to click on the gallery link above to see the entire range of projects!  There is LOTS more to see.

Look for more gallery inspiration later this week!  I have a few more to share in the days ahead!

I don’t care that we had unusual high weather yesterday, into the ’90′s.  It’s September!  School is in session, the summer shorts should be packed away.  I am ready for Fall.

Monday September 22 is the first day of fall, but I am too impatient to celebrate it then, so today the word I am thinking about is FALL.

The Vintage Moon line is the perfect line to bring in the cooler temperatures.  The warm colors are perfect for pumpkin patch photos, but the dark colors and coordinating embellies celebrate Halloween and those October activities as well.

The following layout used some of the delicious papers from the Vintage Moon line. 

I used the shimmery Moon Glade as the base of my layout.  I then trimmed the Moonrakers paper and used the die cut at the top of my layout.  AFter that I used a very fun fall/halloween punch from Martha Stewart on the Hollow Moon   paper.  Don’t you just love the look?  I bought the punch to use in a class I’m teaching next month at my LSS, but I haven’t been able to stop using it.  I just love the effect. 

I used a shaped topsider with some yellow cardstock to the left of my photo of Morgan, and covered it with some of the Vintage Moon pressons.  I then finished with some fashion script alphas in blue.  The flowers were made with some felt flowers from American Crafts and some vintage buttons.  I also added some Kaiser jewels on top, and some leaves that I think I got at Walmart ages ago.  The Dill Blossom line from SEI and their ribbons goes great with this line as well.  I used some of their fall fibrous ribbon here, along, of course, with some hand stitching, and a fun price tag.

With the same papers, I made a Halloween card:

I added the some Fancy Frames from the Pop Fashion line, as well as a trick or treat stamp from the Trick or Treat stamp set for this card.  And yes, there’s that punch again, lol!

I hope Fall treats you well!  Ijust checked out the website for my local pumpkin patch, and noticed that the maze this year is a princess theme…  a great big castle.  Morgan is going to LOVE that.  We get to go twice this year, once with her preschool, and once as a family with friends.  We do it every year.  We take the kids’ Halloween costumes for a photo of all the kids amongst the corn, and then we change and walk the maze.  It’s one of the best parts of fall!

Have a great Wednesday!

Davinie