Awesome Motivation to use my Echo Park Stash!!!

I know that you have gone into your LSS and just fallen in love with a line of paper, gotten the paper, had a million ideas, but then....the paper never gets used because you are waiting for just the right project for this perfect paper. For me, that is what happened with Echo Park!! So now, in an effort to use my awesome Echo Park papers on some great projects, I am submitting some projects for their Fresh Faces monthly design call!

First, I created an 8.5 x 11 layout from their Sweet Summertime Collection. I had this great pic of my agility dogs, Foster & Lexi, that was just screaming for the happy colors of this collection!

So I cut down a piece of Flower Garden, using the gorgeous orange side. Next, I matted the photo on the blue side of Pinwheels, leaving 1/4" border around the photo. This collection has a great page of pinwheels, and I wanted to incorporate those on my page, so I cut a few out. I had laid the picture out on the page, and decided to add a pop of white and color by creating a banner out of Flower Garden and Whimsy Stripe, and color twine. I freehand cut some triangles out of both sheets. Lay the triangles down in a row, points down, on your non-stick craft sheet. Apply your adhesive in a thin line along the top of the triangle, and lay the twine on top, and press to adhere. Then, I added some Ranger Rock Candy stickles to the pinwheels (very hard to see in the photos)

and added them to the banner.

I really love the letter stickers from the Alpha Sticker sheet too. Cute, bright, and so easy to use and create a great title. I just eyeballed the layout of the stickers, starting with the border stickers. I lined those up with the edge of the page, and adhered one on top of the other. For the letters, I cut each one out of the sheet with the backing still on & arranged them above the borders with the pin wheel. Then I went back and adhered each one. The last bit was the great journaling card from the Journal Card Paper. I added an extra pinwheel with a pop up glue dot, added a cute heart sticker on top of that, and adhered it to the page with craft glue dots.

Next, I altered a wood picture frame with papers from the Walk in the Park Collection.

I painted the frame off white, so that the back and sides would be finished. Then, as orange is one of my go to colors of the moments, I covered the front of whole frame with Playground. I grabbed these 2 great patterned papers, the other side of Playground & the blue side of Blissful Days Border, trimmed and layered them over the top. I believe that they were scraps from some previous cuts I had done, so at the time they looked good, so I didn't measure them and just cut them the length of the frame. (I went back and they are 3.5" and 1 3/4" wide respectively, and cut the length of the frame.)Use an exacto knife to cut out the hole for the picture. I inked all of the edges with Ranger Vintage Photo Distress Ink. On the Blissful Days Border sheet, there were these great little flags. I decided to cut them out and make a banner with them using twine (same method as I described above on the layout), and adhered that in the corner. Last, but not least, I used Tim Holtz Large Rosette die and Mother Nature paper to make the Rosette flower. I adhered one of the great cutouts from the Element Card paper to it.

I had all of these scraps from the above projects, these cute little green cards, and these next 2 cards just came together.

For the Happy Birthday card, I just layered the 2 scraps from Playground (Walk in the Park), adhered the balloon sticker from a Walk in the Park Element Stickers, and cut out and adhered the sentiment from Element Card Paper with pop up glue dots. Simple and just too cute!! (I did no measuring or cutting on this one...so lucky! But the dimensions of the card are : 5.5" x 4.25", and the scraps: 3.5" x 5.5" & 1.75" x 5.5")

The same process for the Thank you card, except that I added the extra Rosette (Mother Nature paper) that I made for the picture frame, and didn't use. (Card dimensions: 5.5" x 4.25" and the paper ( Walk in the Park Blissful Days Border) is 2.25" x 5.5")

I think I may make a couple more and give the set as a gift :)

Thanks so much for stopping by!!! Please go check out Echo Park's brand new collections!!!

Supplies: All papers, stickers, or embellishments on these projects is either from Sweet Summertime or Walk in the Park Collections from Echo Park. Honeydew Twine from The Twinery. Tim Holtz Rosette Die, Ranger Vintage photo Distress Ink, Glossy Accents, Glue Dots - Craft and Pop Up, Antique White Acrylic Paint