Fancy Pants and Taylored Expressions

Head on over to the Fancy Pants Designs blog this week for three days of collaboration with the stamps and dies of Taylored Expressions!

We’re giving away some killer prize packs and showing off how we’ve mixed the latest Fancy Pants collections with some really fun stamps and metal dies.  Check out my cards today (and more from team member Laurel and the gals at Taylored Expressions!):

Mr. Cool

It’s a rare thing these days when my four year old cooperates enough for me to take photos of him! Smiles and everything! I love this photo set and used the app “Photo Grid” to make a collage of these shots for one cohesive collage on this page.

I used a pretty linear approach for this page using Pink Paislee’s Pen Pals collection combined with bits of their Hello Sunshine.  I love the masculine colors that perfectly coordinate with the photos.

I offset all those sharp lines with a cool double row of circles that I cut on the Cameo and stitched down.  They pop and ya gotta love circles for the guys.

Check out what I had to say about the “Photo Grid” app on the Pink Paislee blog!

I’m linking this up to Paper Issues newest issue “The World is a Circle” and YOU should be linking up too!  This round is sponsored by the awesome company, Ruby Rock-It and they’ve offered up a super generous prize pack for a lucky linker.  Link up your round stuff, travel pages, or anything else you can think of that fits the theme.

It's Raining Cats and Dogs

When I saw there would be a pet related issue at Paper Issues I had to get in on some of that! We're totally crazy cat people in this house, with three hilarious orange guys that think they run the house.  Simple Stories generously sponsored the issue and I got to work with their Sn@p line of adorable cat themed products.

I layered lots of the cards, using both a-sides and b-sides because some of these patterns are just too fun.  I love the whimsical but not overly cutesy look of this line.

I added stitching and pen detail, twine, and some fun wood veneer circles. 

Please join us at Paper Issues until the 25th with YOUR "It's Raining Cats and Dogs" themed projects!  Link up pets, critters of all kinds, a trip to the zoo, safari, an animal-themed birthday party, rain, spring time, umbrella embellishments, singing in the rain, something using Simple Stories products, and anything else you think fits the theme in some way. 

There will be THREE prizes for this issue: one winner for posting a dog-themed project, one for a cat-themed project and one winner who posts something other than a pet-related project. The prize is a package of Sn@p Insta-squares & Pieces and a package of Sn@p stickers from either the cat, dog or summer set!! 

Get linkin'!!!