monday . . .

Hello everyone!!! Hope you had a fabulous Monday :) As I mentioned yesterday, I have a fun reveal to share with you!!! Aphra, the owner of Paper Poppy, asked me if I would guest design for her new kit club & of course I said YES!!!! I have been a BIG fan of her wonderful scrappy talent for a while now & had the AWESOME pleasure of working with her on 52 Sketches 52 Weeks. She is not only a talented artist but has really put together some FABULOUS kits!!!

First up I wanted to share the sketch I created for her - the design has LOTS of layering which I love!!! She is hosting a challenge with it on her blog HERE - be sure to play along if you have time :)

And here is my sample using the sketch - LOVED all these Jillibean Soup goodies!!

As you all know, I LOVE alphas & creating fun title work - the Jillibean Soup corrugated alphas are a personal fave of mine - added a bit of cream paint to them to change the color up a bit :)

Between all the stickers, journaling sprouts, buttons, and patterned paper, I was in layering heaven!!

There was also some FABULOUS GCD Studios paper in the kit & LOVED this color combo of teal, yellow, and white!!

Again with the title work obsession of mine :) The "2" was cut with my Slice from the Prima packaging in the kit & I added a bit of sewing to pull in the yellow.

Close-up on the journaling . . .

Okay - I got a bit artsy on the last one - I always admire scrappers who can do this successfully - I am just playing around a bit with this style but love it. The kraft paper is misted with brown Maya Mist & I just loved working in these FABULOUS Maya Road envelopes!!!

This GORGEOUS bookpaper was included in the kit - perfectly vintage & went so wonderfully with these Prima flowers.

A close-up of the tags I created - finally, broke out the Crop-A-Dile & my eyelets!!!

And last but not least, this altered frame. Simple but I really LOVED how it turned out. Oh & by the way - the frame was totally a $7.99 Marshalls purchase!!! The butterfly chipboard from GCD Studios was covered with bookpaper from the kit & then I created this fun little tissue rosette to layer on top. I wanted some pattern within the plain tissue so I used the butterfly stamp that was included. I cut squares of tissue and stamped the image on each of them. Then I layered about 12 sheets up on a flower Sizzix die & cut them all out. I layered the tissue flowers, folded them in half, and then added a staple to the bottom center. Fold back all the layers & TADA!!! Instant rosette :) I added one of the GORGEOUS GCD Studios buttons to the center and a few pins peeking out for antennae.

Thanks so much for looking!!! Hope you enjoyed these projects & hope you head on over to Paper Poppy to check out this kit!!! It's AWESOME!!

ttyl - julie