Notes & Totes for Paper Players 732

Thanks to everyone who played along with LeAnne's Tic-Tac-Toe challenge last week. It's alway's great to see the variety of projects inspired by the same starting point. 

At The Paper Players, it's theme week. I'm the hostess this week and my choice was TRAVEL. Maybe it's the destination, maybe it's the joy of the journey, maybe it's the style of transport you used to get there. Whatever take you have on travel, we'd love to see it at The Paper Players this week.

When I chose this theme, I didn't realise how timely it would be for me, since I'm just back from Stampin' Up's On Stage event in Australia. My husband and I followed that up with a week at the beach before we came home. So, some real life travel in the last month. It seemed a great chance to both do some memory keeping and to try out another of the pre-orders I picked up from being at On Stage. 

Disclaimer: Before I go further, I must make it clear that my husband does not really have a sea-shell face! Because he's a little social media shy, I just covered him up a little. 😁

Taking pride of place in one photo is my Stampin' Up! On Stage conference bag. It has a great insert for transporting all your crafting goodies and the insert lifts out so you can easily get your things. Take it out ahead of time and you have the perfect beach bag!

It was the bag that got me thinking about using another pre-order item Notes & Totes. This is a great bundle that offers things for cardmakers, scrapbookers and 3D item makers. It makes up a perfect little tote bag that can be used for gifting and it can be made to look just like the conference bag. This was my original plan but it was just too big for the layout I had in mind. 

Thankfully, there are plenty of other bits in the set to use. Both stamps and dies got use!

The sea splashes, the 'relax & enjoy' and the tiny sun are all from Notes & Totes, as is the hibiscus flower on the suntan lotion bottle and the tiny flowers on the Blueberry Bushel photo mat.

I used Textured Notes dies to frame the smaller photo.

The tiny tags, the starfish and seashells and suntan lotion tube are all from the Notes & Totes dies as are the heart shaped sun-glasses at the top of the larger photo.

To make the title, I also used the Notes & Totes dies  - this time, the fence post dies. I cut each picket in two to make a shorter fence for the letters to sit on. The letters were cut with the Mini Alphabet dies and I sponged the bottom half of each letter with Azure Afternoon so it looked like the ocean. 

Notes & Totes will be available for ordering when the 2025-2026 Annual Catalogue goes live on 6 May.

We'd all love to see what you do with my travel theme. You can see what the rest of the design team have done, and link up your entry, at The Paper Players page.

Here's a quick recap of our challenge rules:

1. Create a new paper-craft project specifically for this challenge.
2. Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us.
3. Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
4. Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL, including ours
5. Have fun, and thank you for playing with us!

Don't forget to check out the great inspiration from the rest of the design team.

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Claire Broadwater

Joanne James

Anne Marie Hile (on leave)

Ann Schach

Jan Clothier - You are here

Stef Perry

Eliz Stewart

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