Adventure - Fancy Pants

Good morning!

It almost seems fitting to have a great big road sign for a road trip, right?  Well I found a FREE cut file from Paper Issues that works perfectly for the On Our Way Collection from Fancy Pants.  It is called Travel Signs.  

I started with the road map paper, cause its my fave!  I then cut out the cut file and layered my ephemera and photos.  Thats it.  With the large road sign, there was not room for much else.  

I wasn't sure where to place my journaling.  So I printed it really small across the white stripe on the cut file.  Perfect place for it and it does not interfere with the flow of the page.  

Thanks for stopping in today.  Get out those travel photos and get them scrapped!  

Let's Go - Fancy Pants

Morning!

Are you a collector of postcards?  Recently (like several months ago now!) we went to Hershey Park in PA and I collected 2 different ones.  I was thinking that I would use them in the scrapbooking layout that documented the trip.  I did not think that I would cut them and have them be part of my title!  But I love how it looks and you can still can see the advertisement on both of the cards.  I used the On Our Way collection from Fancy Pants and this is only half of the color explosion the collection offers!

Since the title was busy and I had lots of photos, I kept the embellishing to a minimum.  I did use one of the cute frames from the ephemera pack and a few geo tags.  

Instead of my traditional strips of journaling, I contained my information on one of the tickets from the ephemera pack too. 

Simple layout.  But lots of fun.  I included both post cards and I call that a win!

Oh, the cut file is from Paper Issues and it is FREE!  It is called: Let's Go.

Field Day - Fancy Pants

Fancy Pants collaborated with PageMaps for a fun change for the Design Team.  We were assigned a sketch and were asked to use Fancy Pants products.  

Here is the Sketch...

I used Family & Co. for my layout and had fun documenting my boy at his preschool field day.  Unfortunately, as happy as he looks in these photos, later in the day he wasn't so thrilled.  His little pal fell on him and he broke his arm.  Poor kid.  We realized something was wrong after 10 days, he could not sword fight with his Dad!  #truestory!  Actually, at the time of the fall, he had X-rays and the break did not show up.  AND - I was out of town for the weekend!!

I did shrink down the sketch a bit, made my papers smaller and used horizontal photos instead of 4 vertical ones.  

Every Family Has a Story - Fancy Pants

What do you think of the new Magnolia Moments Collection from Fancy Pants?  Soon as I saw it, I went all nostalgic and homey with it.  I knew immediately, that I wanted to created a ‘wall’ with all the shelves and ephemera.  I used an old photo and some journaling, to get started decorating my ‘wall.’

My base is just white cardstock with the Shiplap FREE cut file from Paper Issues.  I used the white brick paper and left some of the openings open.  I layered the first shelf, just like I would on a real wall.  I used the Letter board Embellishments as wall hangings.  Then I kept going!  I used all the shelves on this layout!!  Oops!

You can see that it looks like a real wall!!  Or I think so anyway.  I love how it turned out.

Thanks for stopping in.

Splish Slash - Fancy Pants

Remember me saying that I was on a mission to document a fun summer day from last year?  

Well, I am working very hard at it. 

 I have got another layout with what I think is the "photo of the day!"

I used the wicked fun Poolside collection from Fancy Pants to document this photo.  

It has the perfect embellishment to accompany what I had in mind.  

I used a FREE cut file from Paper Issues called Spraying Water Background.

In the photo below, you can see the small shark fins.  I used a small punch and the sheet of paper from the 6x6 paper pad.  The details in the 6x6 are a much smaller scale, which was perfect for collection fins for this layout.

You are Way too Sweet - Technique Tuesday

Good morning!

I have been asked by Technique Tuesday to play with some of their new releases each month.  

They have asked if I could incorporate them into scrapbooking layouts.  

It is a challenge sometimes, but challenges keeps you on your toes, am I right?

For this month, they sent me:

Funny Fruits Stamp Set

Jam Jar Label Crafting Dies

Sweet Summertime Stamp Set.

All with matching crafting dies!  I mixed all three and came up with this.....

I also Fancy Pants Poolside for all the papers.

Take a look and head over to Technique Tuesday to see what else they have created new for the month.  You'll be pleasantly surprised!

Instead of your traditional stamping and coloring, I stamped on several different papers and cut them out and layered them.  This gives them detail without all the mess!  

Plus, I avoid coloring if I can:o) Unless it is with crayons of course!

I have found, with 6x6 paper pads, the patterns are often shrunk down and will give you smaller pattern detail for ideas like this.  

This is the Life - Fancy Pants

Morning!  I am on the Fancy Pants blog today.

We are in the mood to splash and splash around here but the weather is not cooperating!  The pool is open and the kid has his bathing suit ready.  Instead of getting fun photos for this year, I reverted back to last year and a fun day we had with friends at the beach.  The Poolside Collection from Fancy Pants is not just for pools!  I have used it for 2 different beach layouts and could keep going!  

You can see here that I topped the patterned paper with a FREE cut file from Paper Issues.  I used the Wheel from the Seas The Day File.  I backed some of the openings with the 6x6 paper pad, but I ended up covering most of that.

If you look close, I used Nuvo from Paper Issues to add detail to my splashes of water.  I used it on all of the water pieces and in the center of the flowers.  It may not translate well here, but in real life, it looks super cool.  

So, if you don't have any pool photos, grab out those beach photos and get to documenting!

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Pool Party Tags - Fancy Pants

Morning!

Eeeeek!  I love the Poolside collection from Fancy Pants!  So MUCH!

I decided to create some tags for either pool party invite or on gift bags from the pool party.

Wanna come to my house?

Water Country - Fancy Pants

Morning!  

For a few years now, we have gone to Water Country with some friends.  We always have a fun time. This year, the crowd grew even more!  It was fun trying to capture a complete group photo with smiling faces.  

I used Poolside from Fancy Pants, and it has the perfect colors to match my photos.  Also, since there are girls in the photos....... I get to use a bit of PINK! Win Win!

See that cut file?  It is FREE from Paper Issues.  This one is called Sunny Day but there are hundreds of FREE files to choose from.