Monthly Moments: July...

Good morning, Papertrey Ink fans!

The Monthly Moments stamps and journal cards by Papertrey Ink for July are all about travel and adventures! I had to scrap one of my favorite pictures from our trip to the Rockies a few weeks ago. We traveled up Trail Ridge Road to the top of the Rocky Mountains, what a scary but gorgeous ride!! Most of the road does not have guard rails and has huge drop offs. I wouldn't want to have a tire blow out! Up at the top, we got out and walked even higher, where I took this pic of my husband. Did you know it's considered tundra up here? Everything above the tree line is tundra. It gets VERY cold, yet it's hot and you get sunburned while up there. So strange, but darn was it ever amazing!!! A trip everyone should take, truly.

So I printed out this photo at 8.5 x 11" at home. I would have liked to do a 12x12", but I don't have a large format printer. Then I cut a few of my favorite pieces out of the Monthly Moments: July Journal cards and a few from the free July download (free with purchase), added some stamping from the Monthly Moments: July stamps and the Monthly Moments: Travel Plans stamp set.

The colors in the Monthly Moments Journal Cards this time work great with outdoor photos, I must say! "This" is cut from the new Wet Paint Cuts II dies.

I love that I have a large photo of this to keep....it was one of my favorite pics from our trip.

Every Day Is An Adventure layout:

(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)

STAMPS: Monthly Moments: July, Monthly Moments: Travel Plans

INK: True Black, Aqua Mist

PAPER: Monthly Moments: July Journal Cards, Canyon Clay cardstock, free July download

DIES: Wet Paint Cuts II dies

OTHER: none.
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This one is a pocket page from the 4th of July, just a few of my favorite pics from that day. I used the Monthly Moments: July stamps and dies, Monthly Moments: Travel Plans stamps, Wet Paint Alphabet stamps and the Monthly Moments: July free download.

We stayed home on the 4th and attended some of the functions our neighborhood had put on, then later watched the town's fireworks from our back deck! The top right-hand pic is of my family hanging out waiting for it to get dark enough for the fireworks to start. You can even see my little dog. lol 

"Destination", "lodging" and "details" are cute little stamps from the Monthly Moments: Travel Plans stamps. Even though we stayed home on the 4th, I thought it was fun to incorporate them into my journaling! I cut the July die from several colors of cardstock and stamped the "4th".

Our rec center does such fun things for the holidays. For the 4th, they had a parade, pool party with DJ, games, lunch and free cotton candy. Nothing like a holiday without cotton candy. Ha. I was bummed I didn't get pics of the fireworks, because some friends stopped over later and we were too busy chatting. I completely forgot about getting pics of the fireworks!

July 4th pocket page layout:
(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)
STAMPS: Monthly Moments: July, Monthly Moments: Travel Plans, Wet Paint Alphabet

INK: Pure Poppy, True Black

PAPER: Monthly Moments: July Journal Cards, free July download, Pure Poppy cardstock, Canyon Clay cardstock, Harvest Gold cardstock, Spring Rain cardstock

DIES: Monthly Moments: July, Heart Border die

OTHER: none.
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I'd love to know, do you scrapbook? Or make pocket pages like these? What do you think of the July products? Visit Nichole Heady, Ashley Cannon Newell, Heather Nichols and Melissa Phillips for more Monthly Moments inspiration!

Video tutorial: Creating felt roses...

Well, hello there! Long time, no see. I am currently working on the next release for Papertrey Ink, which we will show you in just a few short days! Meanwhile, I forgot to post this video that I made. Had a few people ask me how I do these little roses on my baby booties last month, so I put a short video together! You can watch it HERE. I'll be back very soon with more new projects! (For more info on the baby booties, visit my blog post HERE.)

more Monthly Moments: June...

Hello, June memories! For my last project with the Monthly Moments: June products, I wanted to document all of the fun things we did this month. It's been a really busy month for us! I focused on the journaling and printed it out with a font called "Bombshell Pro", then dressed up the edges with washi tape and cardstock strips. I was SUPER inspired by this page and used it as my inspiration!

The multi-colored butterflies were made with the arrow stamp in the Monthly Moments: June stamps. I just played around with a pattern with the arrows, then cut out some butterflies from it with the Life Is Beautiful butterfly dies.

Some of the butterflies are layered with Papertrey Ink's linen vellum cardstock over the top. Some of the them are cut from the June Journal Card paper collection like the yellow one.

I added one of my favorite photos of us from our trip to the Rockies when we went pedal boating on Grand Lake. The picture was printed very small, 1 1/4" wide, then I die cut it out with the Tremendous Tags die. This was really fun, think I'll try it again with a bunch of smaller pics!

All of the little sayings stamped around the page are from the Monthly Moments: June stamps as well.

Here is a look at the journaling, which I wanted to be the focus of the page. Washi tape or paper strips are great ways to add color to any project! If you don't have washi tape, you could even stamp your own little colorful strips to get the same look.

On the bottom right, I added a few Crate Paper chipboard pieces from my stash, a stamped saying and another linen vellum butterfly.

 Want to see more projects made with the Monthly Moments: June products? 
Visit:  Ashley Cannon Newell, Heather Nichols, Melissa Phillips, and Nichole Heady.

Hello June Memories:

(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)
STAMPS:  Monthly Moments: June
INK: Pure Poppy, Hawaiian Shores, Simply Chartreuse, Harvest Gold, Melon Berry by PTI
Butter Bar and Soft Granite by Hero Arts
PAPER:  White, Classic Kraft, Aqua Mist, Hawaiian Shores, Linen Vellum cardstock, 
DIES: Life Is Beautiful, Monthly Moments: June, Wonderful Words: Memories
OTHER: Papertrey Ink twine, washi tapes - unknown, chipboard by Crate Paper.

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