Beach Bonus

     So I promised a bonus item this week, and here it is!  I made a pop-up card from my Echo Park Paradise Beach sticker collection.  This card was a free download on their website.  If you sign up for an account they have tons of free project ideas for each collection.  The card took maybe five minutes in total to put together.  I’ll tell you…that’s my kind of project…instant gratification 🙂
    Since several of the stickers go over top of the card I think I’m going to press the card to tissue paper ,and then cut each shape out so it’s not sticky anymore.                         I haven’t decided who will receive this yet, but I’m thinking it will be my nephew with a strip of photo booth photos of Michael on our beach vacation this year.  So much more fun than a postcard!
     That’s for checking my bonus project out, and stay tuned as I’m working on two new scrappy video tutorials for you.  Hope you’re all getting lots of scrap time in now that it’s getting to hot to enjoy outside.  Well, it’s to hot for me….I could send you all some of this 90 degree weather if you want it 🙂

Beach Part Two

Today is beach layout part two!  For these layouts I used the Echo Park Paper collection called Paradise Beach.  I thought the colors were fun, but also cool enough to bring the brightness of the picture’s down a notch.  I again used ribbon to enter into the 3 Girl Jam Challenge, and even though this is straight across the page, I liked the application much more than the last ribbon I used.  I think it’s because of all the other patterns I used as well…it just seems to blend more.  The surf title was also attached with pop dots to give the page even more dimension.
    I took a close up picture of the side detail so you can see the little embellishment.  The paper collection had a ton of matching alphabets and I used two of them to make a little tag with the month and year the pictures were taken.
   I did the second page with the same collection, but used some of the more toned down colors so that the pages matched, but also contrasted nicely if that makes any sense.  I really liked knowing that everything I picked from the collection matched so I just needed to get creative.  I think Echo Park in my favorite company right now, and I wish more of their items were sold locally.
    What is your favorite paper company right now? Oh, and stay tuned for the bonus item I made with this collection…it came out really cute!