Looking Sharp Layout by Heidi Lewis

Hi friends, it's Heidi Lewis back on the blog today sharing a layout that utilizes Paige's Cactus Border cut file and her Adventurous collection to document a photo of a beautiful botanical garden in St George, Utah!

I colored the Cactus Border with watercolors and then backed it with vellum. Then I tore the edges off of a sheet of white cardstock and adhered it to the center of Paper 7. I arranged the cut file towards the bottom of the page and added a 3x4 photo to the right-hand side. I created custom embellishments for the layout including garden tags made from flag-shaped pieces from the 8-Page Sticker Book, Washi Tape, toothpicks, and a fussy-cut Stamped image. I finished off the garden scene with cute little plants and animals pulled from the Mini Puffy Stickers, Cardstock Stickers, and Floral Die Cuts. I used an acrylic piece from my stash for the title (I can never resist a good pun lol), and there you have it, another easy peasy summer breezy layout!

SUPPLIES: Patterned papers, die cuts, stickers, embellishments: ADVENTUROUS; watercolors; white cardstock; vellum; Cut file: Cactus Border by Paige Evans

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So Happy Layout by Danielle Miller

Hi friends, it’s Danielle Miller with a new layout using Paige's Heart Frame cut file and her Adventurous collection!

I just adore how all these gorgeous patterned papers work together. I could not stop layering!

I sized the Heart Frame cut file cut file to 8.5" square, cut it from white cardstock, then backed it with Paper 22. Those yellow flowers just pop off the page! Then I layered Paper 1, Paper 9, Paper 15, and Paper 24. Each one is slightly bigger, depending on how much color I wanted to show. The solid aqua paper is from the 12x12 Project Pad. I used Floral Die Cuts, Ephemera Die Cuts, Puffy Phrase Stickers, and Cardstock Stickers to embellish. I hope you enjoy!

SUPPLIES: Patterned papers, die cuts, stickers: ADVENTUROUS; white cardstock; Cut file: Heart Frame by Paige Evans

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Love This Lake Life Layout by Audrey Mutschall

Hello friends!! Audrey Mutschall here with a new layout featuring Paige’s Love This Lake Life cut file and her Adventurous collection!

I always love a large title design because you can use so many pretty patterned papers together without overwhelming the layout. I cut the Love This Lake Life cut file from white cardstock and backed it with a variety of papers from the 12x12 Paper Pad, 12x12 Project Pad, 6x8 Paper Pad, and Boxed Cards. I adhered the cut file to a white background using foam tape and tucked my photos beneath it at the top right and bottom left. Next I embellished the cut file with Floral Die Cuts, Cardstock Stickers, Mini Puffy Stickers, Chipboard Shapes, and fussy cut butterflies from Paper 19. I also tucked tags from Paper 5 behind each of my photos and added journaling on one of them. Lastly, I created a border at the top and bottom of the layout using strips of Paper 13 and Paper 22. I had so much fun making this layout and I hope it inspires you to try a large title cut file for your next project!

SUPPLIES: Patterned papers, die cuts, stickers, embellishments: ADVENTUROUS; white cardstock; Cut file: Love This Lake Life by Paige Evans

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Adventure Awaits Layout by Ashley Neu

Hi friends! It’s Ashley Neu here for the Paige Evans Cut File Design Team to share my next project! Have you had the chance to pick up any of Paige’s Adventurous collection? It’s amazing! I have said this before and I’ll say it again - Paige’s collections are so versatile. You can use this collection for vacations, outdoor adventures, girl-themed layouts, boy-themed layouts, and so much more! I used it to document a trip we took to a local waterfall. Using both the Adventure Awaits cut file and the Splash cut file, I was able to scrap 27 photos on a double page spread!

To begin the assembly of the left page, I cut the Adventure Awaits cut file from white cardstock, backed it with patterned papers from the 6x8 Paper Pad and added the words “Falls Park” with the Mini Thickers on top. I layered 3 photos above the title and then added the Splash cut file, which was cut from a piece of tone-on-tone blue patterned paper from my stash. To add some fun dimension to this page, I did hand stitching over random splashes and over the trees next to the word “awaits”. The Pops of Color - Sky Blue was perfect to add in smaller splashes amongst the Splash cut file. This was achieved by adding a small dot and dragging it out with a needle. The right page was super simple to create: using Paper 18, I added (24) 1.75” square photos. This patterned paper is perfect for this kind of technique. I embellished some of the squares with the Sticker Book, Puffy Phrase Thickers, and Cardstock Stickers. Thank you so much for stopping by and have a great day!

SUPPLIES: Patterned papers, stickers, die cuts, embellishments: ADVENTUROUS; white cardstock; ops of Color - Sky Blue; Cut files: Adventure Awaits and Splash by Paige Evans

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August 2024 Highlights

Here's what we were up to in August 2024!

Fox started 8th grade and Jane started 7th grade so they're both in middle school which here is just grades 7 and 8 so they rode to school together.

Off they go!

Jane lasted 2 weeks and then we decided to homeschool her. Hopefully she'll thrive being at home. Middle school girls can be so cruel, I remember very very vividly.

I needed some pictures for an upcoming double-page spread (yes you read that right, a DPS instead of a single 12x12 layout!) and since she's home with me all day now, I assigned her a photoshoot with me :)

She's my darling daughter.

One night for dinner we went to Steakhouse 10 which is a Greek steakhouse. This soup was delicious!

We celebrated Chris turning 39!

It was pretty cold one day so I got to wear this fun embroidered jacket.

Deciding on checkerboard tiles for our upcoming bathroom reno.

Sunshine & rainbows!

Family date night.

We took Tom & Margi out to dinner to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary at 801 Chophouse.

So much yummy food.

I enlisted Fox's help to make ribbon bundles.

The only part of the Olympics we watched was the last round of golf.

It was fun to watch Scottie receive the gold medal and tear up during the national anthem.

I'm a new golf fan after watching both seasons of Full Swing on Netflix and seeing the reign of Scottie has been so cool. This guy!

When we found out the BMW Championship was going to be right in our backyard (seriously, only 15 minutes away) we hastily bought tickets and counted down the days until the tournament! We invited Tom Evans to come with us and took the back roads to the Castle Pines Golf Course.

Huge fields were turned into parking lots and then buses shuttled the thousands of spectators to the entrance. It was all very organized.

Checking out the course.

So fun!

I told people to be on the lookout for us on TV ;)

Gorgeous.

We walked up to the Club House. It was very hilly.

Of course I took a lot of pictures of flowers.

As we were walking through the Club House, Wyndham Clark emerged and almost bumped into me! I wish I had said hi or ANYTHING but I was too shy.

We watched the players warm up.

I spy Scottie with my own eyes!!

THE Scottie Scheffler!

I'm also a new fan of football but I must admit I didn't know who John Elway is. But there he is!

Fly by!

Scottie and Xander walking to tee off.

Scottie and Xander are teamed together often, I hope they're good friends.

Such a beautiful day!

The houses around the golf course though... holy moly!

While Tom was sitting we decided to walk around the course. All of a sudden a ball almost hit us so we gathered to watch Billy Horschel correct course.

We walked up to the 14th tee box and found front row seats to watch some of the players drive, including Scottie and Xander. 

Since they were a "Featured Group" on the TV broadcast, every one of their shots was televised and we showed up in the background! That's Chris in the mint shirt to the right of the guy holding the yellow signs and I'm just to the left in the hat. 

I'm chuffed that we made it on TV for a split second lol.

Then we walked back down to Tom.

For the rest of the tournament we sat in our seats at the 16th hole and watched all the players. It was really fun!

We got to see: Sahith Theegala / Matt Fitzpatrick / Will Zalatoris / Austin Eckroat
Tommy Fleetwood & Chris Kirk / Viktor Hovland / Sahith Theegala / Ludvig Åberg
Scottie Scheffler / Rory McIlroy / Rory McIlroy & Wyndham Clark / Wyndham Clark
Hideki Matsuyama (Olympic bronze medalist this year) / Collin Morikawa / Akshay Bhatia / Tony Finau

We'll find out TODAY (Sunday September 1st) if Scottie wins the FedEx cup for 2024!
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We saw 2 movies in the theater in August - It Ends with Us & Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I love that our movie theater plays old movies!

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Onto our cute kitties! :)

Copy, paste, repeat.

Silly & sweet Sandy! Always getting into nooks and crannies and open spaces.

She does not like to be alone so I have pics of her from all over the house, wherever I or anyone else in the family may be. I bet she wishes there were 4 of herself so she could be with all 4 of us at any given time.

Adorable Amy mostly follows me around and sleeps on my legs every single night. It's the best thing in the whole wide world.

Amy likes to sleep a lot more than Sandy and prefers super soft and plush blankets stacked 5 deep if possible :)

Snoozing in my happy scrappy space while I work.

On the left pic, Sandy is asking Amy, "How do I get wings?". It's an inside joke ;) The night before I go on trips the cats must know because they always get super snuggly. This was the evening before I flew to Georgia.

Whenever Phoebe the bunny is running around the cats come investigate her.

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Onto scrappy things! I shared 6 of my own projects throughout August: a scrapbook, two mini albums, and three layouts! Tap the links to see each project more in depth:

Adventurous 6x8 Scrapbook // Frames Layout // Backpack Mini Album
Grid Layout // Butterfly Mini Album // Frames Layout

I met up with Jessica of Color Cast Designs to pick up my order of custom black acrylic haunted houses! These are for our upcoming Tricks & Treats Weekend in-person event which is sold out but you can still email me to get on the waitlist.

Andrea Lake will be using these for the base of her mini album. I'm so EEKcited, it's going to be sooo BOOtiful!

At the beginning of August I created my class samples for the in-person event in Alpharetta, Georgia!

Making kits with Adventurous for the event.

I had enough leftovers to make some Adventurous starter kits but they did sell out quickly - thank you to those who purchased one!

Remember last month when I flew to Seattle and started a project with my dad - making MemoryDex trays? I bought all the necessary supplies to continue assembling them at home.

I got a good system down and was able to make about 20 boxes a day.

5 days later, I had all the boxes ready to be sanded! Time to order a sander.

It took a very circuitous route to finally reach me (Kansas City to Denver to Salt Lake City, back to Denver, down to Colorado Springs, and finally to me south of Denver!) and then Chris put it together.

A couple days later I rolled the heavy duty sander outside and went to town sanding down all the boxes.

It was messy lol. But sooo much faster than sanding by hand!

A couple coats of orange paint, a metal label super glued on the front, and a fun memento for the weekend and we're set for the event!

Always fun things in the works - Andrea, Lindsay and I are planning an in-person event in Omaha in March 2025 - stay tuned for all the details!

I drew a sketch of a super fun flag sequin album, sent it to Gi DeMello, and she made my dreams come true and then some! It turned out SO FREAKING CUTE!

There will only be 50 of these albums made in the entire world and they will only be available to those attending my in-person event in Wallace, Idaho next July 5th & 6th 2025!! Hope to see you there so you can get your hands one one of these cuties! Register HERE.

Speaking of Gi DeMello, we are also planning 4 more collaborations! First, this Christmas-tree shaped sequin album. It's amazing. Simply amazing. We'll have two colors schemes: traditional & pink/blue/winter wonderland, as well as a traditional 6x8 Christmas sequin album.

And last but not least a 6x8 pastel Disney sequin album! Just waiting on the last 2 samples and then I'll open pre-orders so keep an eye on the SCRAPBOOK SUPPLIES section of MY SHOP!

My box of ribbons leftover from classes was overflowing so I had the idea to make ribbon bundles.

Trimmed them all, counted them all, collated them all, and bagged them all.

Amy su"purrrr"vising hehe.

These also sold out quickly - so grateful for my scrappy friends!

I have resumed Make With Me Monday on a monthly basis and started up again on August 19th!

You can re-watch the live HERE (as well as all of my previous MWMMs in a YouTube playlist HERE) and the next one will be September 16th!

The 4th weekend in August I flew to Atlanta, Georgia then Sarah picked me up and we drove to Alpharetta to attend a scrapbooking event with 60 friends! Read my recap of the event HERE.

Instead of waiting for my Tricks & Treats order to be delivered I drove up to Denver and got it myself so I wouldn't have to wait 5 more days lol. I'm impatient ;)

Putting Tricks & Treats pre-orders together!!

Because 2 of the items were super duper delayed (still no sign of them as of August 31st) I added a pre-cut Halloween title and custom sequins (from Gi of course!) to the pre-orders. Be sure to pick up Tricks & Treats whenever and wherever you can as it's flying off the shelves, woohoo!!!

On August 31st I taught a virtual class for Scrap & Learn! We made a double-page spread and two single 12x12 layouts using my Adventurous collection. Time always flies when teaching because I'm having fun!

My next kit & virtual classes are dropping soon!!!!! Can't stop, won't stop adding ribbons :)

 Featuring the lovely Gingham Garden collection and these custom acrylic flower covers, we'll learn how to make a pretty mini album and TWO double-page spreads! I'll open orders to my PaigePals first so stay tuned - planning to release within 2-3 weeks!

I'm hoping for maybe, possibly, hopefully a slightly slower paced September?? :) 

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