Rainy Day Bug Hunt | Paper Issues 30 Days of Sketches - Sketch 23

I'm finally done with all 30 sketches, just a little behind in sharing them. Here's my page for sketch 23:

And the sketch, which I pretty much followed except I added the journaling.

Here are some details. I knew I bought that Bella Blvd Bug Explorer paper I bought would come in handy! The rainy day bug hunt called for some watercolor in the background. I found some perfect 7gpsies phrase stickers to add. And I used Magic Mesh. I still can't believe how many rolls of that stuff I have!

I dusted off some old Heidi Swapp chipboard letters an combined them with my current favorite alpha, Bella Blvd Florence. I fussy cut some teeny-tiny bugs to crawl on the title.

How fun are those jars and a magnifying glasses cut from one of the papers?

There are still several more bits from this collection in the shop. I may have to snag some more! When you shop at the Paper Issues store, please use my discount code Debbi (no e on the end) and you'll get 20% off of everything in the store, every single day!

Gone Buggy {Paper Issues Scraplift Sunday Challenge}

I just love Scraplift Sunday over at Paper Issues because I can try on another fabulous scrapper's style! Here's the page I created for this challenge:

Check out Angie's amazing layout we lifted. Mine doesn't do hers justice, but I sure enjoyed trying!

Here are some details from my page. I used Bella Blvd's Bug Explorer collection and fussy cut all of those bugs from one of the papers. The black chipboard letters are really old Heidi Swapp letters. They never go out of style, and that's a good thing because I have a million packages of her letters.

I was so happy to use up some of my gazillions of little brads.

I love Tim Holtz's Tiny Attacher. I wish he'd make one with a longer reach, though. We should all petition him to do that! I've sent messages before, but he hasn't listened yet!

There are so many great challenges over at Paper Issues, and I think you should give this one a try--what a fun and unique design. So happy I gave it a whirl! If you upload your layout over at the Facebook Friends and Fans page by December 3, you could win onoe of two gift cards they give away every month!

There's still  lots of the Bug Explorer collection in the store, along with tons of new stuff. Use my code, Debbi (no e on the end), and you can get 20% off your entire purchase!