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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.

cocoa vanilla studios

Paper Issues - Pawsitively Pets

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Hey guys! I'm on the Paper Issues blog today with this fun layout for the Pawsitively Pets challenge.

The prompt was to scrap what you love most about the animal in your life. I have 3 kids and a stepson so I have plenty of animals in my life! Ha! 
However, as we don't have any actual pets I used this cute photo of my youngest son and my stepson with the Gruffalo! 
We did the Gruffalo trail at a local forest last weekend and the boys loved finding him. He fits right in with the family!

I used Crate Paper Cool Kid and Cocoa Vanilla Studio Totally Rad collections. 
For the branches I used American Crafts wood grain cardstock. 
I've had both these collections in my stash for quite a while and I'm really enjoying scrapping lots of boy photos with them at the moment. They are perfect for these 2 cheeky little, always on the go, monkeys!




I do hope you'll join in this challenge over on the Paper Issues Facebook group. Share your layouts and you can be in with a chance of winning a Paper Issues voucher!