May 2026 Designer Tip With Connie Prince

 

   

Paint Chips: Blue Skies

Introducing Paint Chips: Blue Skies — a fresh and uplifting scrapbook collection inspired by open skies, peaceful moments, and the beauty of slowing down to enjoy life’s simple things.

Designed in a cheerful palette of vivid sky blues, sunny yellow, and soft creamy white, this collection captures the calm, hopeful feeling of a perfect day beneath endless blue skies.

The kit includes beautifully detailed watercolor elements such as a monarch butterfly, a delicate bird’s nest with eggs, a brown thrasher, fluffy clouds, glowing sunshine, and dreamy blue sky imagery that bring warmth and serenity to every page. These nature-inspired pieces pair perfectly with the soft, airy feel of the collection.

To make layering easy and versatile, Paint Chips: Blue Skies also includes plenty of coordinating fillers and embellishments including flowers, greenery, ribbons, ephemera, paper bits, labels, and textured accents designed to add depth and softness to your layouts.

The word art focuses on peaceful living, gratitude, and everyday beauty with phrases like:

All Is Well
Breathe It In
Keep Looking Up
Simple Days
Peaceful Moments

Perfect for documenting quiet mornings, spring and summer days, outdoor memories, nature walks, family moments, or simply the beauty found in everyday life, Paint Chips: Blue Skies is a calming, heartfelt collection filled with light, hope, and fresh air. ☀️☁️🦋

 

PaintChips: Blue Skies

 

Lovely layouts using this kit! 

 

 

 

 

 

Have a lovely day!

Connie
 

Use It All Challenge by ScrapChat Designs

Make Me Happy is the Use It All sampler for May at MyMemories. The mermaid and mermaid journal card were optional pieces in the challenge, and in my first blog post this month, I chose to include both of them.

For this layout, I decided to go in a completely different direction and create a page without the mermaid elements and without true mermaid-themed photos. These photos were taken in September 2023 when I flew to San Diego to meet up with my son and his family.

The soft pastel tones in the photos work beautifully against the bolder colors found in the papers and elements from the sampler. Once again, I used the busier patterned paper in smaller amounts to help balance the page while still adding movement, color, and visual interest.

Be sure to check out the MyMemories forum for details about the challenge and to download the mini sampler.

If you like the sampler, check out the Make Me Happy Collection.  It is only $5.00 for the month of May.

Free Weekly Kit by Featured Designer: ScrapChat Designs

 

Let’s welcome ScrapChat Designs as this week’s Featured Designer! Layout from Hello From Paradise Q&A With The Designer: ScrapChat Designs 1.If you had to delete all but three apps off of your phone, which ones would you keep? Messaging and phone calls to keep in contact with my kids and family.  Camera to capture memories.   2.What song have you completely memorized? Cheeseburger in Paradise by Jimmy Buffet 3.When was the last time you tried something for the first time? Last month during my birthday outing with my kids, we did laser tag. It was so fun! 62 years old and running around like a five year old.   4.What's the weirdest thing on your bucket list? I always wanted to marshall an aircraft into the gate. I got to do that in 2008 while working for an airline.   5.What’s the best way to start the day? Coffee delivered in bed!   It happens at least one day a week. Nice way to wake up. To finish off we would love to share some of ScrapChat Designs’s favorite layouts: Layout from You are One Derful Layout from Bloom and Gather Layout from Hide and Seek Layout from Sunny State of Mind Layout from Rain Drop Dash Spend $20 or more and receive this kit from ScrapChat Designs for free! This week's free kit is Lake Life by ScrapChat Designs. This kit will give a cozy warm feeling. Perfect for fishing photos, outside photos, and more ! Normally priced at $6.49, the kit includes 26 papers and 70 embellishments. To make sure that you collect your free kit please follow these steps: Add $20 (must total $20 before sales tax) of any of our talented designers kits to your cart, but DO NOT add this kit to your cart! Once entered, the promo code will add it to the cart for you! Enter the promo code May25SCDJ (code is case sensitive) in the promo code field on the checkout page. Code will add this kit to your cart and then you can proceed to checkout as usual. More from ScrapChat Designs:

Kaleidoscope of Color with Aimee Harrison

 

This month I wanted to concentrate on the color of bright yellow!

I have the perfect collection for this and it is Limonade.

You can find my Limonade Collection HERE

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Inspirational Layouts!

Here is a Free Quick Page to provide inspiration!

Go to the store to download!

 

Please be sure to go to my Forum Challenge and create a layout to receive a free gift! 

Thank you!

Aimee