Broom Hair - Paper Issues

 Friends!  

Things have been a little crazy here lately. We were out of town for a few weeks unexpectedly and just returned home.  I finally did a LIVE video over at Paper Issues Friends & Fans page.  It's my first in quite a while.  I called it Broom Hair!  That sentiment has to be the cutest!  While hanging out one day,   I was missing the Paper Issues crop and everyone was sending in selfies.  So, I jumped on board and sent in some Snapchat selfies of myself.  It was super fun.  Then, I saw people scrapping those photos so I decided I would too!  So here are my crazy photos using Crate Paper Hey Pumpkin.  As always, everything you buy from the Paper Issues store is 20% off with code: Mary-Ann.  

I also condensed the LIVE video for my YouTube channel and you can find that here....

Hefe - Pretty Little Studio

Hey friends! Today I am sharing a layout using Chasing The Sun Collection. I have seen frame papers used in so many ways and was excited to give it a try myself. With so many photos from our fun trip to the Dominican, the frames are perfect. Meet Hefe. He is an 800 lb Sea Lion. He has the worst breath EVER!

For more information - head over to the Pretty Little Studio blog. 

Summer - Paper Issues

 

Nothing like vacation in the Dominican and swimming with Dolphins.  We had the best time last year.  We all want to go back so bad.  Maybe our next trip will be Jamaica.  It is in the planning stages.  Hope we can travel next summer.  

Anywho, we are playing Follow the Leader over at Paper Issues right now for the Summer Crop.  We started with a layout by Jennifer McMurtrey, it gets siphoned throughout about 10 people and I am the last one!  Right before me was Sindi Jeffers.  I'll show you their layouts below.  

I used Pretty Little Studios' Chasing The Sun collection. 

Here is the original layout by Jennifer.....

Here is the one by Sindi that was right before me....

It is pretty cool to see how they change so much as they go through people.  It is almost like the telephone game we played in Girl Scouts when we were kids!  Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Camper - Paper Issues

 You guys, my title may be happy camper but I gotta tell you he was NOT!

We dropped him off at a Boy Scout Camp for the week.  Randy went and met him 1/2 way through but he still hated it.  Hated it cause he always wants his dad to go to.  I bet later in life he will have fond memories and say it was a good time.  I hope.  

Over at Paper Issues, there is a Camp Crop going on.  It doesn't have to be about camping but I saw this Happy Camper FREE cut file and had to use it.  So this layout is more about the art and the love of crafting than the itty bitty sized photo that I shrunk to fit in the door! 

I did a FB Live video to create this bad Larry.  You can find it HERE. Along with the Free file, I used Simple Stories Vintage Great Escape.  For the love of mushrooms, I just can't get enough.  I have more ephemera and sticker but have run out of paper!  Who would have thought mushrooms would be all the rage?  

Love My Mama - Paper Issues

I love this pic of my mom and I on Mother's Day from 2018.

That, and I love a good brunch!  That would probably be my favorite meal ever.  

I wanted to create something really girly and used the Flower Market Collection that I grabbed 

from Paper Issues.  Maybe you grabbed it too?  If so, creating a sideways layout was kinda fun! 

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Your entire order!

Happiness Insta-Parade - Paper Issues

Paper Issues has opened up an Instagram Hop with friends of 

Paper Issues and a few design team members.
This parade is to create a page about something that makes you happy.  

Could be anything from people, to things, to the paper you choose to use on your project.

I chose a photo of me and my favorite little girl.
I used Love Notes by Doodlebug.  Not only does the photo make me happy but the papers do too!
You can grab anything from the Paper Issues store for 20% off with code: Mary-Ann

Head over to Paper Issues Instagram and get started on the Hop.  

There will be prizes.  So be sure to make comments along the way.  

Make Your Magic Together - Paper Issues

I was able to create a layout today.  A day I normally don't touch paper.  

A day that I am usually at church and hanging with the fam.  Since the world is in a weird place right now, I decided to create a rainbow if happiness.  Got crafty to kill time since we will be together as a family EVERYDAY for the ext 2 weeks.  Stay safe all.  

I mixed together 3 different Shimelle collections to get this rainbow of goodness.  

It is a scraplift so under my layout, I'll show you MandaJane's so you can see where the inspiration came from.  

Field Trip, Box of Crayons and Never Grow Up

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Rock the World - Paper Issues

I did another LIVE scrapbooking video over at Paper Issues.  

I thought that I would gather random items that coordinate instead of a collection that already matched.  It was really a lot of fun.  I don't think I have done that in a really long time.  I also used a plate to cut a big circle!

I did use some Amy Tangerine, Shimelle and Bella Blvd.

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Download a gazillion FREE cut files while your there.  

This photo of my boy getting his training wheels off his bike.  I swear, he would still have them on to this day if we let him.  He is not one to be off his own feet.  As a matter of fact, the last time he was on a bike, he fell off and broke his wrist.  It has been a couple years since he has even attempted to get on one.  Wonder how he is going to teach his own kids??  

Head over to Paper Issues Friends and Fan Facebook page to get notified when there are LIVE scrapping videos coming up, what challenges they have and loads of inspiration too.
In my video, you seriously enter my head.  I tell you everything I am thinking. How I use the dinosaur as the Loch Ness monster.  The circle of fish as the ocean.  Bugs and spiders cause they hang out near water.  So, in the end, I'm not sure if its the ocean or a lake but who cares!  It is all perfect!

Happiness - Paper Issues

Today, I am playing along with the Keep It Sketchy challenge over at Paper Issues. 

There are challenges all month long over on the Paper Issue Friends and Fans FB page.  You can play along for a chance to win a prize. 

I used a FREE cut file, Rustic Wreath and layered over the floral section with the gorgeous florals from the Happiness Collection from Cocoa Vanilla Studio.  

Shop from the Paper Issues store for all the FREE cut files you want and grab the newest paper collections out there.  Use code: Mary-Ann for 20% off you entire order.  

Everyday - Paper Issues!

Yo!

Hello there PI friends. 

Today's challenge is to pick 5 things from a list called Take 5.

You can play along with us over on the Paper Issues Friends and Fans page.

I used the November kit - Cover Me Up!  

My base paper is in the kit.  It is amazing.  I cut it up and cut it some more.

My 5 things that I used are:

Patterned Paper, Stickers, layers, frame and tags.

Thankful - Paper Issues

You've Got to be Kittin' Me!

It is a challenge over at Paper Issues!

Paper Issues has two kits released each month. A large Kit - Cover me Up and a smaller "Swag Bag"- Make Memories. We would LOVE to see what you create using our kits. Use this month or any past month for a chance to be rewarded! They give away two gift cards each month to our Friends & Fans. 

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Oh Snap - Paper Issues

Hey peeps!

Today, I am sharing a layout that I created loosely based on the November sketch!

The challenge is called, Keep it Sketchy.  

Play along over on PIFF FB page.  You can enter for a chance to win a prize.  

I used the November, Cover Me Up Scrapbooking Kit.  

Lovely - Paper Issues

Hey there!

Mary-Ann Maldonado here today, sharing my take on this weeks Scraplift Sunday over at the Paper Issues blog. 

If you head over to PIFF, or Paper Issues Friends and Fans Facebook page, you can see all of the fun challenges for the month of September, along with this one, which is my favorite.  

I used lots and lots of PinkFresh Just a Little Lovely for my layout.  I also, flipped the layout on the side and had my half circle dropping from the top.  Instead of triangles to create a circle, I used a FREE cut file called Rustic Wreath.  

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Here is MandaJane's original.