:: mix it up monday : explore ::

It's Mix It Up Monday on the Paper Issues blog!  Here's what I made this month:

I also made a process video if you are interested (feel free to subscribe to my youtube channel)!

Play with us and share it in the March Challenge Album on the Paper Issues {Friends & Fans} Facebook group and you just might be featured or win a prize, yo!

Most of the papers I used were from the 6x6 pad in the Dear Lizzy Happy Place collection. I also used stickers from the same collection, items from my stash and, of course, a bunch of Heidi Swapp Color Shine. Grab some from the store (or anything else) and use the code 'orangegearle' for 20% off your entire purchase!

Here is a free link to the explore cut file (and a couple of other words).

:: bring on spring ::

Have I mentioned it's March??!  YAY!!!!  I'm ready for spring! We've got a super fun Pinspire Me mood board happening on the Paper Issues blog today!

Here's what I came up with:

I took the rainbow paint splatters, the hearts, and the green from the board as inspiration and this popped out!

I used watercolor in the back ground.  Then I made a cut file (you can grab that free cut file from here). I splashed a bit of color on the cut file, and then decided to use some of the inside hearts too -- so I added a bit of uneven color to those.

I backed a few of the hearts with paper from Amy Tangerine's Better Together 6x6 pad -- the colors are perfection for this Pinspire mood board!

I also used some of the same paper pad for my layers behind the photo.

I realize it's not officially spring yet, and it was February when these photos were taken, but it also was 50 degrees in February, in Iowa, so it sure felt like spring.  :-) Bring. It.

Don't forget to check out the new stuff in the shop -- and use the code 'orangegearle' for 20% off your purchase!

:: bea mine ::

Design Team members at Paper Issues are featuring the We R Memory Keepers Crush collection today, and I got to play along.

I absolutely love the kraft, red, pink, and aqua combo of these papers (not to mention a few pops of black)! I started with white card stock, added a few splashes of pink and aqua water color, and then splattered a bit of black -- all in a diagonal across the page. 

I love going BIG with the title by cutting it freehand out of patterned paper. Then I sewed it all down with dark aqua (teal-ish) thread. 

I just had to add this perfectly matching PaperPOPs arrow by Parker On the Porch and available here in the Paper Issues Store!

You can get, PaperPops, WRMK Crush and oh so much more at the Paper Issues Store. Use the code 'orangegearle' for 20% off you order!

Thanks for stopping by!