Featuring Ali Edwards │ June projects

Hello friends and hello July! I am personally really hoping that this month doesn't bring any new crazy surprises and that things start to level off. While I really want things to be back to normal I realize we have some ways to go so its baby steps over here and we're taking things in stride as best we can.

The good news is the creative fun still continues and I'm here to share the projects I made for Ali Edwards this past month. First up is a pocket page spread I made using the July Stories by the Month kit. I really loved the bright pops of yellow and the floral cards were just gorgeous! I had fun overlapping some stamping underneath the oval die cut on the title card and really loved how that turned out.

Next up is a project I made using the Kindness Story Kit. I really loved that denim background on that beautiful quote card. I modified it to be travelers notebook sized and added in some journaling below the sentiment. I really loved the tones of this kit and the felt hears were so cute as were the copper die cuts.

Lastly was a spread I made using the June Digital Stories by the Month kit. I loved the sun journaling card and modified it to be travelers notebook sized. I cut two so I could raise up the center section of the sun and that circle paired well with the other circle embellishments in the kit.

Take care,

Featuring Ali Edwards │ April Projects

Hello there, I can't believe April is over, thankfully it went much faster than March, right! So happy the temps are warming up here and we're able to spend more time outside enjoying the sun and stretching our legs a little bit.

I had a great time working on April projects for Ali Edwards and I wanted to share them with you.

First is a pocket page spread that I made with the May SBTM kit. It was perfect to document two fun days in May, a girls brunch and Mother's Day with our friends. I love that pop of bright yellow!

Next up is a Travelers Notebook spread using the April Digital SBTM kit. I loved the daisy print so much I created a custom background to hold my photos. On the left side I adjusted the size of one of the journaling cards and cut a curved slit to make a pocket for my journaling. I just love this spread so much.

Lastly I used the Progress Story kit to create a tag mini album about my daughters first week of distant learning. I used the addon 3x8 tags as the jumping off point for this and created more tags from the jouranling cards to hold the story and photos and I just love how this turned out. I'm really glad I have a memento of this crazy time of distant learning.

Take care,

Citrus Twist Kits Guest Designer │ Project Two

Hello everyone, popping in quickly today to share that my second project as Guest Designer for Citrus Twist Kits went up on their blog today. You can see that post here. I had a lot of fun putting this project together and it was such a pleasure to be a guest for them. I hope you check it out.

See you soon,

Featuring Kelly Purkey Shop │ August Shop Update

August is such a big month around here and it feels like a new beginning more so than it does in January. Summer break is over and my daughter is officially back to school which means things start to get hectic again and the lazy days are over. It also means I have a little bit more creative time on my hands during school hours so I had a little extra time to make a special back to school mini album using the Kelly Purkey Shop August kits and stamps.

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Lets start with that because it was a big-ish project for me this month. Not so big that it took a lot of time, this took about two days to finish, not working full days but it was a fun bigger than normal project for me to make for the shop update. The A+ Mini kit designed by LifeLovePaper was the base and the heart of the album but I also mixed in some of the other cards, papers and stamp sets from the shop update. I won't go into a lot of detail but will call out when I added in stuff from the shop. The album I used is an older acrylic album from Jamaica Makes and I sprinkled in some embellishments from my stash and loved the little postage stamp stickers from Studio Calico.

For the front cover I wanted a bold number so I stamped using the Highline outline and then used the new Dalton lower case alpha. The stamp set that came in the A+ mini kit is so cute and I loved the interchangeable globe stamps.

The today card is from the Love Language Project Kit and so is the document stamp on the left side.

I adored that little pencil stamp in the A+ kit

I used the writing guide stamp as a little road for the bus stamp and loved stamping directly on top of the acrylic star. It worked fine using stazon ink I just had to pat off the top layer that wouldn't dry.

I couldn't let that book stack stamp from the Well Read stamp set go to waste and it found a home on this spread along with the Love Language kit stamp phrase, which was a favorite too. The long paper on the right side is from the Bad Place travelers notebook kit just cut down to 3x8.

I used the Love Language kit stamp set on this spread and loved the versatility of that stamp set and the Bee paper in the Bad Place kit was perfect to tie in her first day outfit tshirt.

Love all the orange on this spread. That people paper is so cute!

The It's Fine stamp set from LifeLovePaper was a favorite this month and you will see it used again down below but I had to make a little embellishment cluster with them for this spread.

And the end, I always sign and date my mini albums, not sure why but I do and its fun to know the date something was completed.

My next project was a travelers notebook spread using the It's Fine stamp set and papers from the Bad Place travelers notebook kit. I poked a little fun at myself and made a list of some things I may or may not be excelling at lately and it was fun to put together. I typed all my journaling on to vellum and then stamped the icons onto pink vellum and cut them out to make little embellishments.

Lastly I made a little insert for my pocket page album about our back to school shopping using the Love Language project kit. I kept the color scheme tight with lots of yellow, orange and blue to tie in the colors of the photos and love the bold impact the stamping adds.

There are lots of other cute things for book lovers in the shop and plenty of alpha stamps so make sure you check them out. There is also a book themed Swag Bag so don't miss that either.

Take care,

Featuring Kelly Purkey Shop │ July Shop Update

OMG, one day left of July and I cannot believe it. I feel like summer is just getting started and its almost August already. Crazy!

The Kelly Purkey July Shop Update went live this past Sunday and I wanted to share the projects I made. The themes of the kits and stamps this month were so much fun!

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Here is my first project using the Me, Myself and I Travelers Notebook kit. I love this kit for many reasons, firstly the pattern papers are gorgeous, I loved all of the cool mosaic patterns and can't wait to use them and second, the stamps! The sentiments can be used for lots of projects and the dancing girl emoji is just too cute.

For this project I used two photos that my daughter snapped of herself to help tell the story of how much she is changing before my eyes and how awesome it is to see her from her own perspective instead of my own.

I mirrored the stamps and tab stickers on each side to create the balance and let the rainbow stripe papers ground everything together. I love this format for a TN spread.

My second project was made using the Gone Fishing mini kit which is sadly sold out. But the Under the Sea stamp set could be used to make a very similar spread like I did below. It has many of the same elements like the under sea plants and fish that you could easily stamp on a transparency to achieve the same look.

I did print the digital paper on to a printable transparency to create the clear page but sadly the digital version of this kit is not part of the shop update so I would totally suggest grabbing some StazOn ink and creating your own stamped transparency which would be super cool.

The stickers that came in this mini kit are sooo cute!!

There were so many other great stamp sets this month especially the National Park Explorers and the Leave No Trace stamp sets.

The July Snapshot kit is perfect for documenting all the fun pics and photo booth fun you have waiting to be documented.

There is also a Summer Stamp Sale going on so make sure you check that out to get some discounts on some great stamp sets.

So much fun stuff to add to all of your projects this month! I hope you enjoy it all!