Autumn Birthday Card

My grandpa’s birthday is at the end of November, so today I’m sharing the autumn birthday card I created for him. 

For the papers I used Autumn Woods from Paper House. This is one of my all time favorite fall collections. I love the pops of blue, and the pretty plaids included in this collection. I also added some coordinating 3D leaf stickers from Paper House. They have gold foiling all over them and really up the wow factor of the card.

The Happy Birthday was a gold rub-on I had in my stash. It was a little bit faster than stamping a greeting, but that would work just as well on the rustic wood grain paper. 

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I wrote this post while participating on the Paper House Creative Team.

ColorWays Layout

 Paper House has a brand new collection! Today I want to share my very first ColorWays Layout. 

 

The new ColorWays collection is 30 double sided sheets of paper. They come in a rainbow of colors. Most of the papers are a single color pattern, but a few contain a rainbow of journaling tags.

I'm really loving the ability to mix and match to get just the right colors for my photos. I'd been waiting for the right papers for these Germany photos, but the red table made the photos clash with lots of papers that I tried. Being able to use a grey background with pops of coordinating red and yellow worked out perfectly.

I embellished with just a few Paper House Germany 3D stickers and a Paper House hot dog faux enamel sticker. 

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I wrote this post while participating on the Paper House Creative Team.

Explore Scrapbooking Layout

Today I have another travel layout to share. I'm getting so close to finally finishing up our Germany album. Here is my Explore scrapbooking layout.

I used one of my favorite travel collections. It's Paper House Explore Your World. I think the colors are just so great for a travel collection. And, as always with Paper House, there are so many great coordinating stickers. I used a mix of puffy, sculpted, and card stock stickers.

These photos are of City Church in Wittenburg, Germany. This is the church where Martin Luther married Katherine Von Bora and preached there often as well.

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Quick Travel Layouts

 Today I have a set of 3 layouts to share. They're all pretty quick and basic layouts. They all use some pretty old papers and embellishments from my stash while trying to finish up my Germany album. Here are my 3 quick travel layouts. 

 

All of these layouts are photos from Erfurt Germany. I didn't really need to make the outdoor pictures in the layout above a 2 pager, so I used small (a little bigger than wallet sized) photos to pack a lot in. 

I also like to take photos of all of our hotels when we travel. This was the most "normal" looking hotel room we stayed in, so the layout is pretty basic, too.

Finally, I had a few photos from St. Augustinian Monastery where Martin Luther was a monk. 

We only had about a half day in Erfurt, but it was definitely worth the drive to cross some of these cool places from church history off of my bucket list.