Paradise by Esther

Aloha. The Bo Bunny papers are so colorful and exciting with the stars and red patterns that they were meant for the page map. Some of the motifs reminded me of the hibiscus and Hawaii. For this layout, I chose a solid blue Bazzill as the base with three & 3/4" x 12" of Avocado green from the BoBunny green dots page adhered 1/2" above the bottom. The gray textured paper was added to the right using 3" x 10" under the title. I overlapped a portion of the other side of Picnic at the bottom with a concave circle line. That way the colorful flowers and stars were shown.

The pictures were mounted to show the red stripe and the flowers on the Picnic pattern and corners rounded with the Chomper Corner Rounder. Block Party Picnic was used to obtain the flower that was adhered to chipboard with a white center and copper Stickles. Also two orchids by Prima were attached with the acrylic worded base allowing the colors to show.

Stickers: Mrs. Grossman's (Hawaiian shirt, thongs & lei) and the Block Party letters & Honolulu by Stamping Station. A red and white circle of a star design was added from the sticker sheet. A transparency was printed and cut for the journaling. It is anchored under the other elements at top and the thongs at bottom. This was a fun page that highlighted a fun memory of Honolulu. Aloha until my next entry.

1 Cute Chick

Start with some Cream of Mushroom, add equal parts Ground Corriander, a dash of Orange Sugar, and a pinch of Chopped Parsley and what do you get? A layout using papers from Jillibean Soup! I really am in love with this stuff! The little birdies on the Cream of Mushroom paper were actually the inspiration for this layout because they led me to the title, which led me to this picture of my daughter from this summer!

To emphasize the "chick" theme, I looked around Scrapbooks Plus and found those cute chicken stickers from Mrs. Grossman's. I could not believe how absolutely perfectly the colors worked! Then I pulled out my Modge Podge and decopauged this little wooden birdie element with a brown on brown patterned paper from Anna Griffin.(By the way - the orange grid paper in the background is the flip side of the Orange Sugar polka dot I used in the layout - sweet!) I gave this guy some fancy tail feathers with a wide, striped ribbon and added a small black button for an eye.

Back to the Cream of Mushroom paper - I pulled the dark brown color from the trees and used it to mat the photo and the different layers of paper. It's a color blocking trick I use when I am working with papers with strong graphic design.

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I think every layout needs journaling, but I often hide that journaling. Do you see a pull ribbon just to the right of my daughter's smiling face? It is attached to a "Journaling Sprout" from Jillibean Soup. They come in die cut packs of 24 in a variety of sizes and designs.

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For the title - One of my favorite products from Jillibean Soup is the corrugated alphabet!! You will see in my other layouts this month that I played around with some different techniques on this embellishment. For this particular layout, I just swiped the letters with an orange ink pad and sat back and enjoyed the results! I like mixing up different fonts and textures, so I added vinyl thickers from American Crafts for "chick". I used my Base Camp Cricut cartridge to cut the rather large numeral "1" from coordinating blue cardstock and ran it through a paper crimper to match the corrugated alpha. Voila!

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"So where is that "pinch" of Chopped Parsley?" I hear you wondering. Good question! You have to look carefully. At the top of the layout on the Cream of Mushroom paper there was a red swirly tree that really didn't work with the other colors in the rest of the layout. No worries - I just pulled out a circular punch and cut a new tree!

Yesterday I promised you a picture of the "free with purchase" bonus. Take a good look at the wooden birdie element from the layout, because that is the freebie! Yep! If you buy any (3) items from the Design Team kit this month, you can pick up one of those cuties at the register - but only one per customer because we like to spread the love!