St. Patrick's Day Inspiration

It's almost St. Patrick's Day and we're lucky to have some great green inspiration for you.  Check out these lucky projects!

Practical Scrapper Wendi Robinson created a "lucky" card

Practical Scrapper Nicole Laha used Copic Markers to color this lucky leprechaun.

Practical Scrapper Majken Pullin created a Good Luck card.

Practical Scrapper Jessica Arrant journaled about how her family is "lucky" to have brought this kitty into their lives on this green layout.

February Card Sketch

Need a good card sketch to work with?  Today we have two new ones ready for you to try!  Check these out and all the designer samples to go with them!

Practical Scrapper Cathy

Practical Scrapper Jennifer Haggerty

Practical Scrapper Kim Ryden

Practical Scrapper Christine

Practical Scrapper Wendi Robinson used the sketch and flipped it

Practical Scrapper Patty

Practical Scrapper Charity

January Sketch

We have been so blessed to have the talented Liz designing our layout sketches for a long time now.  Today we have our last one from her to share with you!  Thank you Liz, you will definitely be missed!

Practical Scrapper Christine

Practical Scrapper Wendi Robinson

Practical Scrapper Lissa Mitchell

Practical Scrapper Patty

Practical Scrapper Jessica Arrant

Practical Scrapper Cathy

Practical Scrapper Kristy MacKeen

Practical Scrapper Alison Day

Practical Scrapper - Lee-Anne Thornton

Practical Scrapper - Kim Ryden

Practical Scrapper Jennifer Haggerty

Want to join in?  Create a layout with this sketch and share it with us here!  We'd love to see it!

Birthday Inspiration

Today is my son's first birthday!  So as I prepared the schedule for this month, I had to make today a birthday inspiration day!  We've got a diverse set of layouts today to highlight all the fun of birthdays!

Practical Scrapper Christine created this layout with her favorite pictures from her daughter's birthday party and then created a life project style spread to cover all the highlights and fun!

Practical Scrapper Wendi Robinson used the Crate birthday line for this page of her lil one on her first birthday

Practical Scrapper Mary Pat used Imaginisce

Practical Scrapper Krissy used an old Bella Blvd for her daughters 2md Birthday!

  Practical Scrapper Cathy used a Heidi Swapp folder to add even more photos of Addie's special day to this layout.

Practical Srappers Julie used colorful papers from Simple Stories.

Practical Scrapper Malika used Chic Tags birthday line for her layout.

Cards and Layouts Using Word Bubble Phrases

When I think of those little word bubbles my mind immediately draws me back to my childhood of looking at my Wonder Woman comics and stealing my grandparents insert to "the funnies" in their Sunday newspaper. In all honestly here, I have never used a speech/word bubble on a card, layout, or any other project for that matter. It's hard to step away from using things in the way that you are use to seeing them, but if you are going to stay "on trend" you have to be willing to take that extra step. Check out how some of our designers used word bubbles to highlight their projects...

Practical Scrapper Julie add bubbles behind her title.

Practical Scrapper Wendi Robinson used bubble phrases to show her kids talking to each other

Practical Scrapper Claude cut out thought bubbles from patterned paper to emphasize the fact that her daughter loves to talk... a lot!

Practical Scrapper Jayma used Word Bubble stamps to create mini 3"x3" cards. This is a great way to use up your paper scraps!

Practical Scrapper Claude
 

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