Pie Chart Art

I found a really fun inspiration piece in the Mini Boden catalog and decided to use it as the inspiration for today's challenge on the October Afternoon blog:

I thought this idea was a neat twist on the pie chart trend and decided to interpret it using the new October Afternoon Travel Girl collection (with a bit of Daily Flash Snapshots thrown in), using four amazing photos I was lucky enough to capture:

Here's a closer look at the pie chart map:

For additional details, and for a closer look at another project inspired by the inspiration piece, be sure to check out the October Afternoon blog. 

I Love Daily Flash. I Really, Really Love Daily Flash

Some of you may have tracked that October Afternoon is coming out with a new line, well, a new system, really, called Daily Flash. I've been working with the first Daily Flash mini collection: Snapshots, and created this layout for today's sketch challenge on the October Afternoon blog:

What's not to love about this line? Bold patterned papers, bright colors, paper you can use in big bits and little bits, lots of fun embellishments...sigh...

Here are the products I used on this layout:

Daily Flash Snapshots Snap Caps

Daily Flash Snapshots Flash Blurbs

Daily Flash Snapshots Click!

Daily Flash Snapshots Compose

Daily Flash Snapshots Memory Cards

I think I'm going to need about five of everything in this line! :)

I Got Sappy Thinking About Mother's Day

I created this layout for Mother's Day Week on the Pebbles blog. Check out the blog post there  for more info about this layout.

Parsnips? Yes, Parsnips.

Catching up here with a layout from the Pebbles blog:

Anyone else out there with a parsnip obsession? Or are we Maskets weird? (Okay, okay, I know the answer to that question. :))

 

Travel Girl and Daily Flash in My Hot Little Hands...

Yup, that's right. My box came on Thursday, and I put together this layout for today's inspiration piece challenge on the October Afternoon blog:

I used spray ink differently on each of the three tags - at the top, from left to right - an even coat, a masked portion, misted from further away:

Here are the Travel Girl products I used:

Travel Girl Plane Ticket

Travel Girl Guide Book

Travel Girl Train Case

Travel Girl Postcard

Travel Girl Shape Stickers

Travel Girl Tin Pins

Travel Girl Doo-dads

Travel Girl Tidbits

and here are the Daily Flash products I used:

Daily Flash Travel Catch Phrase Stamp

Daily Flash Snapshots Snap Caps

Daily Flash Snapshots Flash Blurbs

I love how these two lines combine and can't wait to cut into both collections again!

Pebbles Mix and Match Monday

It's Mix and Match Monday on the Pebbles blog. I combined products from five different Pebbles collections to create this set of two cards:

Here's a closer look at each individual card:

The cards are built on card bases from the Basics Cardmaking Pads, both Pad 1 and Pad 2:

These pads are fabulous resources, as they include such a great mix of colors and basic patterns and coordinate with multiple Pebbles lines. For my cards, I grabbed two small-scale tone-on-tone polka dot print card bases and rounded the corners for a unique look. These card bases really make it easy to quickly pull together colorful cards!

Be sure to check out today's post on the Pebbles blog for more information about my cards.

 

My Favorite Mid-Season Release

Mid-season releases will be hitting stores soon, and here is the one collection (besides the Pebbles and October Afternoon collections, of course) that I am coveting:

The Pier, from Crate Paper:

Frankly, they had me at the logo. I immediately thought of summer and birthdays and loved the color palette. Here's a look at the collection as a whole:

As I looked more deeply at the products in this line I was struck by the sheer genius of many of the patterns, which take trends and turn them on their head. For example, while hexagons have been popular for a while, I can't remember anyone else interpreting them as beach umbrellas:

Another paper from this line combines two popular trends that have been around for a while: doilies and clouds, leaving me to wonder why I have not yet before seen doily clouds:

One more fun paper from The Pier takes the chevron trend and turns it into a flock of birds:

The embellishment I love most from this line is the set of slide frames, which nest to create lots of fun combinations:

This line is clever, colorful, fun, and offers lots of possibilities. 

What mid-season releases are you eagerly awaiting?