PaperHaus Magazine news for June!

The Summer Issue of PaperHaus Magazine is nearly ready and we are quite excited about it. We'll be hopping and RAK-ing it up for you to celebrate. Make sure to stop by and see what all the fuss will be about.

In case you missed it (to hold you over until the Summer Issue), here is the link to the Spring Issue.

Window gift bag {sei guest blog}

Last Wednesday I was a guest blogger for SEI. I whipped up this cute window gift bag and gave the tip/trick to use packaging from your embellishments for the plastic covering over the window. I love when you don't need to put a bag inside another bag — that never looks very polished. 

I used paper from SEI and the chocolate covered cherries are from Trader Joe's. YUM! 

Thanks for stopping to see my gift bag. I know I'll be making many more of these. It was so easy to cut on my Cameo and makes a great little gift.

Cool Summer {samantha walker}

Today on the Samantha Walker blog I'm sharing a short tutorial on using 6x6 paper pads to add dimension and layers without adding bulk to your pages. Stop on by and see my tips & tricks for getting this effect on your next layout.

Don't you just love this paper/collection? It's the Cool Summer line by Samantha Walker for Carta Bella. It was so fun to work with!

Thanks for stopping here today — and thanks for popping over to Samantha Walker's blog to see my tutorial!

Be real {scrapbook circle}

One Friday a month, Scrapbook Circle calls attention to Project Life or layouts that use camera phone pictures. We want to see the real moments we live everyday and document those.

Using the My Favorite May kit from Scrapbook Circle, I made this page with pictures of some of my fave outfits. Bestie Sara Zenger and I have been taking pictures of what we're wearing while we are at work and messaging them to each other. I have to admit it is fun and a highlight of my day. It's been fun to see we have a very similar style and would love to raid each other's closets.

The My Favorite kit has some really fun little envelopes, tulle ribbon and bows that added a really pretty feminine touch to my page.

I also printed my pictures out on white card stock to give it a softer look compared to the rich shine you get with photo paper. The end result coordinates so well with the theme.

I had a lot of fun taking the pictures as well as making the page. We haven't stopped taking pictures, so there might be another layout to come. Thanks for stopping to see my page!

Go for it all! {scrapbook circle}

I have another baseball layout to share with you. I'm going to apologize in advance for the heavy concentration of baseball pages that have been (and will continue to be) saturating my blog for the beginning of the summer months. I hope you like the color blue! (LOL)

As I said on Monday, the Scrapbook Circle kit for May is chock full of great blues and yellows that make for really great boy pages. The baseball-themed stickers are from Jillibean Soup and I grabbed those from my stash. I've been hanging onto them for baseball pages.

My son plays short stop, so I am very lucky in that he has the ball quite often during a game. I've managed to capture a few great action shots, and I love his face — so much concentration! You can tell that even at six years old he is taking this so seriously.

Thanks for stopping to see my layout today!

Badges for baseball {imaginisce}

This week at Imaginisce we are using the i-top to show off a variety of projects you can make with one tool. It's badges and buttons day, and I made these badges for my son's fans. LOL — OK, just his family that cheers him on at each game, but we feel like his raving fans.

All I needed to make these was the i-top, the extra large badges from Imaginisce, the extra large punch tool and pictures of my son edited to 1.5" circles. I did that in Photoshop. I should add too that I printed these out on regular letter paper because the photo paper was too thick and didn't fit onto the badge very well (it wasn't smooth coverage over the top of the badge and it creased a bit at the edges).

Once I punched them out, I put the top of the badge into the i-top and squeezed, like you can see below. I squeezed again for the bottom and it was finished! Such a fast and fun project.

Since I was handing these out as gifts at a game, I mounted them easily to some paper cards. 

Make sure to stop by the Imaginisce blog this week for even more ideas on what to make with your i-top tool!

Arrows and 007 {pink paislee}

Pink Paislee is talking about the arrows trend this week over on their blog. I made this layout for today's post using arrows from the Luxe rub ons, Artisan chipboard, Luxe chipboard and Cottage Farms die cuts. Lots of arrows choices with Pink Paislee! 

To make this arrows black, I rubbed a bit of Heidi Swapp Black Velvet mist on the chipboard. It has a resistable finish, so it works really well.

I love adding the pops of pink and yellow from Cottage Farms. It makes the black arrows stand out even more next to those pastel colors.

If you are wondering about the title, my son is just days from turning 7 years old, and it seemed like a fun title for my little man. He looks mysterious in this picture and in his mind he is just seconds from his next birthday.

Thanks for stopping to see my layout!

Always smiling {scrapbook circle}

Hi! Dropping by here today to share some more of my work with the My Favorite May kit from Scrapbook Circle. I love the stars and stripes that are in this kit along with all of the blue and yellow. Without meaning to be, it is a great boy kit.

How cute are the corrugated potty people? And I love the Lily Bee labels for layering.

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope your week is off to a good start.

Project Life {part 8}

I attended a crop last week for National Scrapbooking Day and was able to catch up a bit on my Project Life binder. Here are two pages I made using the Echo Park All About A Boy collection. 

I love the bright fun colors in this collection. There are also a lot of fun design elements and stickers that worked out great for this baseball PL spread.

My son has been having such a blast playing baseball, I wanted to make sure I caught some of the candid moments while he plays. I wrote a little bit about playing short stop and made sure I documented that his friend Andrew played on his team with him.

Thanks for stopping to see my PL for today. Nate has his birthday and end of the school year coming up, so I'm sure I'll be adding to this soon!

Have a great weekend!