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Paper Issues - Spring Crop Weekend

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Hi everyone! 
I hope you managed to join us over on Paper Issues over the weekend for our Spring Crop! There was 23 different challenges altogether, so it kept me busy! I was also at a scrap Retreat this weekend so I had plenty to do! 
I've popped pics below of the layouts I managed to participate in.

Let's Get Fussy: Pull out those scissors and show us your fussy cutting skills. Make a big impact with a hand cut out design for this challenge.


Stick It to Me: Use stickers of all types on your project. Let's see how many stickers you can pile on your page!


Live Out Loud: Create a project using no cardstock or solid colour paper. All paper must be patterned.


 Somewhere Over The Rainbow: In a primary rainbow the colours are in the order of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. Use at least 5 of these colours in a project for this challenge.


 Selfie Saturday: Design a page about you. Pull out your best selfie and show us who you are.


 Stitched Up: Get out that thread, ribbon and twine. Design a project using stitching of any kind - machine, hand or faux.


 Spaced Out: Two thirds of your layout needs to be negative/white space. Show us something light and airy.


Firstie Friday: Share a project documenting something you have done for the first time, the first thing you do in a morning, or even include numbers in the title.


Are You Feeling Lucky?: Use the word luck or lucky in your title or use the colour green in your layout.


Sketchy Sketch: Let's see your take on the following sketch.



All the Pretty Flowers: Design a project using a floral background.


Cut The Crop: Use one of our free cut files to create a project.


Freaky Friday: Let's switch it up! Use holiday papers on non-holiday photos, or vice versa. You could also use masculine colours with a feminine phot or vice versa.


If you've joined in any challenges don't forget to enter them in the album on the facebook group.

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Paper Issues - Roll the Dice

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Hey guys! Today I have a layout on the Paper Issues blog for the Roll the Dice Challenge. February's challenge is to use 5 or more photos, and 3 or more circles.

I made a different layout before this one, but I wasn't keen on it, so I wanted to do another. I was struggling with 5 photos, I only ever usually use 1 photo on a page, 2 at most. 

However, when I took these photos of my little cutie covered in bubbles in the bath, I knew they'd be perfect for this page!

I used Cocoa Vanilla Studios Love Always collection, and added a sheet of paper from the Free Spirit collection. 

I cut the bath shape with my Silhouette Cameo, then punched out the photos and bubbles with a range of different sized circular punches. I stuck them all on the page to give the effect of bubbles in the bath, then poked holes and hand stitched around the bath and each of the bubbles.

I felt it was missing a bit of sparkle so I sprinkled a handful of the Cool Breeze Sequin Mix from Lucy's Cards over the top.

I then added my title 'Adorabubble' using my brand new Thickers Alignment Guides (which are fantastic!), and some little groups of ephemera tucked in so as not to spoil the overall look.


If you fancy buying yourself some new stash, pop on over to the Paper Issues store and remember to use code: Pol at the checkout for 20% off your entire order.
If you've done any new layouts for Roll the Dice challenge, please do share them with us on the Paper Issues Friends and Fans Facebook group.
Catch you all soon, and thanks for visiting my scrappy blog!