Good Morning Everyone! It’s been a great week for me and I hope it is for you too.

It’s sketch day again and I’m happy to show you what I did with my sketch using a mix of Queen Bee and 365 Degrees. Just a couple of months ago, my best friend Alicia finally got married to the love of her life. I’ve been waiting for years for her to get hitched and I’m truly happy she’s now happily married to her best friend Jeff! It was truly a beautiful wedding, a simple affair but worth a lifetime memory. I was one of her “unofficial” photographers and I’m using one of the pictures I took of them in the church in this layout.

Here’s the sketch that I came out with.

And here’s my layout, which I intend to give them as a post-wedding gift even though I’ve already made them many other gifts.

I love how the Queen Bee and 365 Degrees collections compliment the picture so well and I’m so glad I have them with me. I cut out and popped up the Bee Hive die cut paper as the centre frame of the page and used the Daydream paper from 365 Degrees as the background, which adds a contrast to the whole layout. I created a collage using the 365 Degrees Flip Notes and Queen Bee’s products, the Honey Bee (flourish cutouts) and Worker Bee papers, Punch Outs Die Cut, Ribbon Pleats, Cork Buttons, Bellas Brads and I used the Expressions Ambrose Alphabets “Licorice” for the title “Journey”.

So, do you have any pictures that you think it would look great with these collections? Once they hit the store in March, which is real soon, get ready to grab them, create something worth remembering and don’t forget, you can use this sketch to create as many layouts as you want! If you can’t wait, just share with us and post a link in the comment box what you did with this sketch with any other Pink Paislee’s collection. We would love to see them!

Have a great Sunday and thank you so much for dropping by!

Hi everyone,

Amanda Muirhead here with my very first blog post since joining the creative team at Pink Paislee (someone pinch me!).  I was pretty excited to learn that my first blog post would be on a Friday.  I think the Take 5 Friday idea was made just for me. I’m the kind of gal who loves to use lots of lots of product on my page so 5 was easily attained. Actually, I think I used closer to 10 products but who’s counting that closely!?!

This layout is about how happy it makes me to watch my daughter, Larissa, just playing. I snapped this photo of her during an unusually warm Canadian November.

When I am creating a layout, I always reach for the die cut paper first. I am just drawn to any shape other than a square. I love the flip notes and the die cuts for creating all those fun layers. The pleated ribbon…oh I could go on and on about it. I don’t own a (working) sewing machine right now so it’s just perfect that Pink Paislee has done all the hard work for me. I just need to glue it down. Here are some more products that I used on this layout: 365 Degrees Borderlines Clear, 365 Degrees Bella Brads, 365 Degrees Punch Out Die Cut Tags, Expressions Weather Wood – Cotton Chipboard Alphabets and Artisan Tape Orange and Expressions Whimsies Alphabets – Pear

Thank you for taking the time to stop by.  Be sure to show off what you make using your favourite Pink Paislee products at LivePink!

I hope you all had a wonderful Valentines weekend.  My husband had to work, so we’re celebrating with a weekend out of town next weekend, but I had a very special little Valentine – a four year old who loves chocolate, posing for me, and blowing kisses…

For this layout, I wanted to do a handcut title.  I wrote the word “kiss” on patterned paper, then cut out around my pencil lines. I used a small piece of Love Potion from the Cupid line for the title, because I had a scrap of it.  After I had the word cut out, I erased my pencil lines and adhered it to the bottom portion of my layout.  Be very careful not to tear your word when adhering, as some parts of your word may be very thin.

To add even more detail, I added machine stitching over my letters.  This took a lot of patience and caution, to be sure that I didn’t stitch off of my letters.  I went at a super slow space and did close stitches in narrow places.  I imagine this might be a little less complicated if you handstitched, just a little more time involved.

Everything here is Pink Paislee except for the black square letters.  I love that each of the lines are versatile and can be mixed for any theme or type of project.

Patterned Papers: Love Potion, Dream Big, Be Free, Think Big, Honey Bee, Front Porch; Other products used: Ribbon Pleats; Bella Brads; Cupid Press Ons.

Have a wonderful week!

Hello Everyone! Karola here, in my first post on the Pink Paislee blog, so I’m a little nervous, but most I am thrilled!