Pol Prince

I decided to pull out an older collection for this scraplift, and one of my all time favourites is the 'Wildflower' collection by WRMK.

I rotated my page by 90 degrees anticlockwise, and did lots of fussy cutting! 

I decided to use the fun and colourful 'Oh My Heart' collection by Paige Taylor Evans, with this precious photo of my parents, taken recently on a family walk.

As you all know, I absolutely love fussy cutting, and there's some awesome papers in this collection just made for this purpose!

For the title I used gold acetate Heidi Swapp words, and I thought the title was perfect, because I really am thankful for every day with my parents and family, especially since they moved close to us last year. There's many more of the precious moments and good times together.

Hi guys! It's time for Product Spotlight over on the Paper Issues blog and today we're shining the spotlight on Simple Stories Emoji Love.

I only had the ephemera and cardstock stickers so I dug out some perfect paper from my stash - I think it's Bo Bunny Calendar Girl. 

I distressed the edges and matted it onto matching cardstock, I think the distressing gives a bit of interest to an otherwise plain straight edge.

I then used white texture mousse in the middle of the page to create a 'background' area where I wanted the focus to be.

I chose this awesome photo of me and my bestie, and picked out the perfect pieces of ephemera and stickers. Only she will understand the poop emoji reference! I love this girl to bits!

This photo was taken at a scrapping retreat weekend, and we were trying to print it out on her Selphy to scrap straightaway, but it kept printing out the wrong size. We ended up with loads of the same photo so we gave them out to people - to scare their kids with. One lady even asked us to sign one for her, it was like being a celeb for the day! LOL!

I absolutely love those little squares on the background! They are so effective with the brick effect border that I wanted to replicate that and not use many embellishments. I think Cat's are from a Websters Pages paper, so I used this gorgeous cut apart sheet from the Websters Pages Nest collection, along with this cute photo of my youngest son.

The border sheet is from the same collection, as are the stickers, and the flair is from 'A Flair for Buttons'.

This turned out to be one of my favourite recent pages!

Hi guys! It's time for a new Cut It Up challenge over on the Paper Issues Blog today. 

Here is the new cut file that the talented Stacie Ebnet Dietz has designed...

I used the Pink Paislee Oh My Heart collection for my layout. I also decided to try using my sewing machine on a page for once. I do lots of hand stitching but me and sewing machines have never got on so I thought I'd give it another go! Big mistake!!!

Let's just say I'll be sticking to hand stitching from now on. 

I cut a border off my background cardstock, distressed the edges and matted it onto the lovely patchwork style paper. All looking good so far.

I got my sewing machine out ready to stitch a border round the edges of the cardstock. Set it up, all going well. Position my paper, put the foot down on the needle, turn the machine on.... and woah!! It ran away with my paper - literally zoomed off and snatched the paper out of my hands! I managed to get it slightly under control and you can see the result below. Some very wonky squiffy borders, and lots of loose thread! 

I was inspired by the gorgeous flower plates on the top row. I sat and thought for a while how to make my own cut file but my Silhouette designing skills aren't quite up to that level yet! So I used a reverse image search on Google and found a clear picture of the plates. I imported a screenshot into Silhouette Studio and traced the image to make a cut file. I had to tweak a few little bits as the leaves were very intricate, but that's about the limit of my skills! Lol!

I searched high and low for black card, and this was my last piece!! So I pressed print and crossed my fingers that it wouldn't go wrong! Luckily it didn't, and I managed to create a beautiful cut of the flower.

I used Pink Paislee Oh My Heart to back the cut file and embellish my page. I wanted to keep my page fairly simple in order to showcase the gorgeous flower cut.

This photo of my youngest son and stepson is one of my favourites, so I converted it to black and white so it didn't clash with the yellow flower.

I chose a few colourful pieces of ephemera and stickers, and added my title along the bottom.

Hi guys! It's time for a new Take 5 Tuesday on the Paper Issues blog today!

Here are our prompts...

I used...

1. turquoise,

3. colour of your choice (pink)

4. patterned paper

5. polka dots

7. two or more fonts

Hi guys! It's time for another Scraplift Sunday over in the Paper Issues facebook group, and this time we're lifting this gorgeous layout from Cassie Box!

Hi guys! It's time for a new Notable Quotable challenge over on the Paper Issues blog today!

Here is our inspiration...

I was immediately inspired by the boots, the clouds, and the quote. I had some blackboard type thickers that I knew were perfect for this challenge. 

I decided to use Paige Taylor Evans' Oh My Heart collection, and the dark background paper looked just like a dark overcast sky! 

I printed pictures of an umbrella and wellies off the internet and used them as templates to cut the patterned paper. I glued them onto white card, stitched around them, then carefully cut them out.

I fussy cut some clouds from a Shimelle Little by Little paper, and after tucking my photo under the umbrella, I arranged the clouds around. 

I also fussy cut some flowers from one of the Oh My Heart papers and tucked these around the wellies and the photo. The photo is of me and my boyfriend, and was perfect for the quote as he really is my sunshine and always cheers me up when I'm down!

I had to doctor some of the alphas slightly as I had run out of E's and had to use upside down 3's, and I even cut up an 8 to make an S!