Happy Together with Fancy Pants Designs

As a scrapper, I'm pretty predicable. I'll admit it. There are certain color schemes, patterns, and embellishments that will always catch my attention. This month, I was in big trouble. Since CHA, I've been anxiously awaiting all of the new Fancy Pants Designs Collections.  Which one is my favorite? Happy Together, Traditions, Birthday or Lilac House? I still haven't decided. But, this reveal is all about being "Happy Together"! 

"Happy in the Summer Sun"

As an avid photographer, capturing the little things about every day life gets me excited. Towards the end of the summer, my family took a day trip to Plymouth, MA. We had a fabulous lunch looking out on the water, played at a fabulous sand bottom playground, and then spent an hour walking on the beach collecting shells and looking for crabs. The kids were so happy and content that they didn't even notice mom had the camera. Love those days! The photo that I used on this layout was one of my favorite from the day. My son, Colin, enjoying the warm weather and trying to find the crab that got away! 

On this layout, I had a lot of fun cutting and layering from the many patterned papers of the Happy Together Collection. I used the Cheerful Paper as the background and then began layering embellishments from the Happy Together Notebook Journal Book, Happy Together Glitter Cuts, Happy Together Tags and Titles, and Happy Together Rub-on's. For additional texture, I added machine stitching on the top and right side of the layout and added some beautiful KaiserCraft pearls in Chocolate. 

"Together is the Place to Be" 

Lately, I've been very lucky to actually get into some photos with my family so I wanted to scrap them right away.  I knew that I wanted to use the diamond patterned paper as my background and that I wanted to created a die-cut background of some kind. Ironically, I've been using the Happy Hauntings Cricut cartridge a lot lately for Halloween projects. The die-cut image that I created is supposed to be used to make a plate holder, but I thought it made a great background paper.  I used the brown Make Me Smile Paper and cut the scalloped circle found on page 70 of the Happy Hauntings manual.  Next, I layered the gorgeous flower arrangement from the Happy Together Glitter Cuts and carefully cut the Happy Together Printed Transparency to use bits and pieces of it throughout the layout. 

"Happy with Nana and B" 

For me, it always comes back to the photographs. Consistently, I struggle to get good photos of my kids with my in-laws.  I don't know why, but someone always has there eyes closed, someone is not smiling, or a million other things. For once, I captured a photo of both of my in-laws with my daughter having a great time! Eyes were open, smiles were big, and I even had one person looking at the camera. To me, that is progress! This photograph will definitely be framed and used for a Christmas present for them this year! 

For the layout, I started with the Happy Together Grin paper as my background.  I decided that I wanted to use a piece of the beautifully flocked Happy Together transparency. I cut a 1.5"x12" strip of the transparency and placed it near the center of the layout. I took two journaling 5"x 8" journaling cards from the Happy Together Notebook Journal.  One of the notebook pages I placed vertically and the other I cut out the pattern and used it horizontally in the layout. I used additional embellishments from the Tags and Titles, Glitter Cuts, Rub-on's and other elements that I cut from several different patterned papers. Finally, I added two scalloped stickers from the Happy Together Element Stickers to the top and the bottom of the layout.

"The Best Thing About Me Is You" 

I created a few cards with some of the extra embelishments that I didn't use. I used the Happy Together Spirited paper as the background and one of the Tags and Titles for the center of the card. I cut up a few flowers from the half of a sheet of the gorgeous transparency I had left over and added rub-on's, elements stickers and pearls. 

"Make a Wish Sweet Thing"

For this card, I used the Happy Together Always paper as the background and layered a Happy Together Glitter Cuts Frame with one of the Tags and Titles embellishments. Additional elements are from the rub-on sheet and Element Sticker sheet. 

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