The assignment: Choose a striped patterned paper that has a MOOD and make a page that goes with this mood. The print’s mood will come from one or more of: regularity of stripes, width of stripes, evenness of stripe edges, color pattern of stripes.

Beach Trip by Heather Awsumb | Supplies: Happiness Is (patterned paper) by Zoe Pearn; Carson Park Element Pack, Evergreen, Rise and Shine by One Little Bird; Classic Curled Photo Frames (staple), Dog Park Element Pack, Little Layette Kit (frame), Painted Lace Edgers No 1 by Katie Pertiet
This was an easy one for me – I LOVE stripes. I almost never buy a digital scrapbooking kit that doesn’t have a multi-color patterned paper like a stripe or plaid and stripe is definitely my favorite. I started by searching my stash and when I saw the patterned paper from the Happiness Is kit by Zoe Pearn the color pattern just screamed summer for me. At the time the photos from our beach trip were new and still needed to be scrapped, so it was the perfect pairing. I added visual interest by breaking boundaries of the horizontal band by including the clouds (to remind me of the rainy day we had) and also the lace pattern below. I also added the dog bone charm for a subtle reminder of the dogs on the trip.