Good Monday to y’all! Hope everyone is having a great start to their week.

I have created a layout for today’s muse using the new Sweet Cakes papers!  When I started this page I began to realize that I have taken to one of the latest trends. The trend where you don’t end up with flat pages, but bulky pages. I love them! I love the look and the texture it brings to the overall layout. I have been doing this with my pages for a while but it really stood out to me while creating this piece. So what I wanted to do was share some of my techniques in doing this and of course if you have any tips or tricks you do to make things POP POP POP off of your pages please post them in the comments, I’d LOVE to hear them and try some new tricks.

So here’s are some of my most common uses for POPPING as I like to call it… I usually have a big fat roll of the 3M Double Sided Foam Tape. You can find this stuff at Target or Walmart. I LOVE it. And I probably use it on every page. Mostly I use it on my pictures and paper and for added POP I stack the tape on top of each other. For other things I like to use is my hot glue gun. This works well for stickers or alphas. All I do is squeeze a bit out and then blow on it a few second and then press it down on my page. This helps the glue to dry a bit and won’t squish out all over the page, but instead gives it a POP. And for things like chipboard shapes or things I cut out of paper I get out my cardstock and cut out a small rectangle and then glue the two ends together so it forms a circle and then use glue dots to adhere it to my shape and another glue dot to adhere it to my page. A little effort and a big payoff! I love things to POP off of my pages!

I hope you’ll try some of these tips and do share if you have.
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Hi All, Katie Watson here.  I hope you’re having a beautiful Fall morning.  I live in California and we are having our very first week of Fall weather!

Despite loving this Fall morning, I have been working on some Holiday gifts already…yep, I am trying to be a good boyscout and “be prepared”!

I am a traditional girl…I really am…but somehow the colors of Tinsel Town have won me over and I am IN LOVE with the hues of Magenta in this line.  Really, I am.

But, while working on my 3rd decoration…I spied the Strawberry glitter….it just sparkled out at me…and thought to myself…”hmmmmm….let’s make this a traditional color decoration”…So I did.  I also found a super cute place to hang it!

I took a banner book and flipped the pages upside down to make the trees.  Lots of glitter and I have a vintage looking verticle banner!

I ended up using 3 different colors of Pixee Stix, Strawberry, Silver Berry and Chocolate.  I also used the “Happy Holidays” stamp, “A Christmas Carol“ paper and the “White Christmas” paper.  I love the way it turned out and hope my daughters teacher likes it, it’s her Christmas present!!

Nothing too juicy, lol…just an observation.

Having been a part of this WAY talented team for almost a year now, there is one thing that I notice every time I see one of the new projects posted.

These ladies have an AMAZING ability to use lots of beautiful Pink Paislee products at one time…tons of detail, a million places for your eyes to look for something you didn’t notice before…it’s often overwhelming to take it all in!!  So here is my confession.

I am not that kind of girl, lol.

It isn’t that I haven’t tried in the past to add pieces here and there and make them ‘fit’…but it just isn’t ‘me’.

And I’m ok with that!

So here is a layout I just finished with ‘Tinsel Town’.

I used a piece of Top Sider chipboard and covered it with the ‘Christmas Story’ paper. Folded a strip of ’34th Street back and forth and placed it under the Top Sider to make a ‘ruffle’ and then cut the trees out of the ‘Polar Express’ paper and plopped them onto the page with a pop dot. Just a few ways to add a bit of dimension to your pages without getting too ‘crazy’, lol.

I also used a few of the new stamps from Tinsel Town to make a few ‘tags’ that I layered together in the top right corner…I am still impressed every time I use one for the first tiime that image is just so darn clear! The border on top of the block of ’5th Avenue’ paper was made with a remnant of that ‘Polar Express’ paper that I punched with a Martha Stewart border punch and then i sanded it a bit. Add a few Pop Fashion alphabet stickers for a title and BAM!! Page completed.

So in the end, I just wanted to stress that while not everyone may be comfortable with layering/lots of detail, etc…it’s ok to be a bit more ‘simple’ in your own work, if that’s your style. I know I’m definitely in that category myself!

Have a great day…and be sure to check out the new Pink Paislee website…HERE!!