August 2026 Designer Tip With Connie Prince

      

PaintChips Girly Girl

Celebrate all things pretty, playful, and perfectly feminine with Paint Chips: Girly Girl! Filled with shades ranging from soft blush pink to vibrant hot pink, along with pops of coral, crisp white, and bold black, this collection has just the right mix of sweet and sassy.

Girly Girl celebrates those little things that make everyday life extra fun—from skincare routines and pretty nail polish to bubble tea, iced coffee, and colorful açaí bowls. You'll also find plenty of adorable hero elements, including a Stanley-style tumbler, cute pink sneakers, a charming boutique storefront, scrunchies, bows, beauty products, and other girly favorites.

An assortment of beautiful flowers, leafy greenery, ribbons, coasters, labels, and coordinating ephemera makes it easy to layer, embellish, and create layouts for everything from shopping trips and coffee dates to self-care days, girls' weekends, and everyday moments.

Finish your pages with fun and encouraging wording such as Girly Girl, Pretty in Pink, Just Be You, Love Yourself, Shine Bright, Stay Fabulous, and more.

Sweet, stylish, colorful, and full of personality, Paint Chips: Girly Girl is perfect for celebrating the fabulous girls and women in your life—or simply documenting all the pretty little things you love! 

PaintChips Girly Girl

 

Creative Team Layouts:

 Have a wonderful day!

Connie 

 

 

 

August Use it All Challenge by ScrapChat Designs

 

August Use It All Challenge at MyMemories

This month’s ScrapChat Designs Use It All challenge at MyMemories features the Blue Skies Ahead Mini.

And don’t let the name fool you. Blue Skies Ahead has plenty of lovely patterns, florals, greenery, and accents that are not blue at all.

This mini is so much fun to work with and can go in all kinds of directions. My first layout and this one both happen to feature a dog, but the collection could just as easily be used for bridal showers, date nights, newborn pages, family memories, outdoor photos, and so much more.

Visit the MyMemories forum for all the challenge details and the free Blue Skies Ahead Mini download.

Join the August Use It All Challenge

Once you create your layout, post it in the challenge thread so everyone can enjoy your creativity and see what you made with the same mini.

Blue Skies Ahead Collection

If you want even more to play with, the entire Blue Skies Ahead Collection is only $5 this month.

Shop the Blue Skies Ahead Collection at MyMemories

Free Weekly Kit by Featured Designer: PapierStudio

 

Let’s welcome PapierStudio as this week’s Featured Designer! Layout from Mother Earth About The Designer: PapierStudio Hello, I’m Silke! My creative world is all about turning little moments, beautiful details, and everyday inspiration into art for memory keeping. I love combining watercolor, expressive brushwork, vintage textures, delicate sketches, and unexpected little details to create collections that feel warm, artistic, and full of character. Nature is one of my greatest sources of inspiration — flowers, changing seasons, weathered objects, quiet landscapes, and all those small imperfections that make something feel truly special. When I design a collection, I don’t simply think about creating beautiful elements and papers. I imagine the stories they might become part of — a favorite photograph, a family memory, a journey, a quiet afternoon, or one of those ordinary days we later realize meant so much. For me, scrapbooking is where art and memories meet — and I feel incredibly lucky to create pieces that can become part of someone else’s story. To finish off we would love to share some of PapierStudio’s favorite layouts: Layout from Mother Earth Layout from Crisp & Clean Layout from TBL-Everday Stories Layout from Floral Creative Art Layout from Nature’s Artistry Spend $20 or more and receive this kit from PapierStudio for free! This week's free kit is Moonlight by PapierStudio. This kit will give a cool feeling. Perfect for moonlight moments, night photos, and more ! Normally priced at $6.99, the kit includes 20 papers and 66 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 August17PSSL (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 PapierStudio:

MyMemories August Blog Train

Time to ride the blog train...whoo whoo!

Join the designers at MyMemories on this month's blog train!

Here is the color palette used to create August's beautiful kits!

You will be directed to each designers store at the MyMemories site. If you have not already done so, you will need to sign up for an account (note: this is a one time sign up and no purchase is necessary).

There is a special link to each designers gift that must be obtained from each designer. That link will take you to their store and their gift.

The new process is:

1. Visit each designer’s blog or FB posting for their preview & special link

2. Click on the link provided you will then be taken to their MyMemories store

3. Place their gift in your shopping cart

4. Check out when you have all the gifts collected

*August's Blog Train ends August 31st*

Twin Mom Scraps

Designs by Lisa Minor

Shmooangel Designs

ScrapChat Designs

Happy Scrap Arts

Elizabeth's Market Cross

Songbird Scraps Designs

Connie Prince

Cutie Pie Scraps

Aimee Harrison

LLL Creations

QueenBrat Digital Designs

Use It All August: Blue Skies Ahead by ScrapChat Designs

Use It All August: Blue Skies Ahead

This month we’re working with the Blue Skies Ahead Sampler by ScrapChat Designs, a cheerful mini filled with fresh greens, sunny yellows, sweet florals, and pieces perfect for documenting bright days, garden moments, outdoor memories, hopeful stories, simple joys, and all the little moments that feel like a fresh breath of air.

Yes, even though it is called Blue Skies Ahead, this sampler is very green. Sometimes the sky sends flowers instead.

Visit the MyMemories forum to download the sampler and join the August Use It All challenge.

I created this layout using this month’s sampler. The only change I made was to desaturate the ticket, clip the cardstock to it, and set the cardstock layer to Soft Light.

If you love the mini and want more, be sure to check out the full Blue Skies Ahead Collection by ScrapChat Designs. It is just $5 during August only.

Free Weekly Kit by Featured Designer: ScrapChat Designs

 

Let’s welcome ScrapChat Designs as this week’s Featured Designer! Q&A With The Designer: ScrapChat Designs What is a movie or TV show you can rewatch anytime? Any of the Harry Potter Movies or The Longest Hour What is your go-to comfort food? Meatloaf and scalloped potatoes Do you prefer texting, calling, or voice messages? Texting hands down! Are you usually early, right on time, or racing the clock? A mix.  Either 15 minutes early or 6 minutes late.  No in-between. What is your favorite ice cream flavor? Vanilla To finish off we would love to share some of ScrapChat Designs’s favorite layouts: Layout from Bloom and Gather Layout from Hue Knew Layout from Main Character Energy Layout from Red White and You Layout from Screenager Spend $20 or more and receive this kit from ScrapChat Designs for free! This week's free kit is Sisterhood by ScrapChat Designs. This kit will give a warm feeling. Perfect for sisterly photos, family photos, and more ! Normally priced at $6.49, the kit includes 28 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 August10SCDJ(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: