Summer Smiles
Jinny Newlin • June 23, 2026

Morning, y'all! It's Jinny here today with a playful page, inspired by the You Are My Sunshine and Good Vibrations collections. The heat has set in, over the past couple of weeks, in my neck of the woods; so, because we're cooped up indoors, we decided to get back to our homeschool books and take our break at a more weather-convenient time. Needless to say, I've had my plate full lately; so, let's just dive right in. Shall we? Enjoy!

I started this page by adding a puddle of teal watercolor to the 12x12 watercolor paper, base page. I then rubbed Tattered Rose Distress Ink, through a hash stencil and over the puddle, before splattering everything with teal, red, yellow, green, and pink watercolors, as well as Gold Color Shine and Pure Black and Titanium White acrylic paints. Once everything was dry, I anchored a 4"x12" strip of the Never Better 12x12 print, down the left edge of my prepped page, with black-threaded, straight, machine stitching. From left to right, the bits of the Play It Cool 12x12...

Happiness 12x12, and Think Positive 12x12 prints framing my photos, which were matted with white cardstock, were anchored with more of that same black-threaded, straight, machine stitching before being topped with the photos themselves...

and crowned with a collection of Fresh Bloom Stems Floral and Fruit Salad Die Cuts, popped up with foam tape and combined with a "PERFECT" Keep Going Die-Cut pendant, as well as a Sunkissed: Smell the Flowers Die-Cut bee.

Another collection of blooms, hailing from a combination of Apple Blossom Floral Die Cuts and further embellished with Fruit Salad Die-Cut cherries and Sunkissed: Smell the Flowers Floral Die-Cut bees, all popped up with foam tape, ground my photos.

A Hello Happy Cut-Apart "awesome", popped up with foam tape, tops the whole cluster...

while an Out of the Blue Tag Die-Cut, laced with white string, tied in a bow; Good Vibrations 12x12 Cut-Apart label for journaling...

Picture Day Frame Die Cut; and Hello Journaling 3x4 Pocket Card, with its center removed, anchor it. 

A Geoffrey 6" Vintage Die Cut, popped up with foam tape and topped with an Apple Blossom Floral Die-Cut butterfly, flanks that same cluster's left side.

A "SUMMER smiles" Just Peachy Word Title, popped up with more foam tape, as well as a "sunshine" Lemonade Mix Die-Cut, "LOVE YOU SO MUCH" Everyday Life Word Sticker, and scattered trio of Wildflowers: Honey Bee Clear Stickers, completes the look.

Thank you ever so much for humbling us with a visit, Pretty Little Studio friends! Be blessed!

Jinny Newlin
My name is Jinny Newlin. I am a wife, homeschool mom, and teacher at heart, living in El Paso, Texas. From cooking/baking to gardening, photography, and even home design/remodeling, I have always been creative; but scrapbooking, especially with my three musketeers and our family zoo as the subject matter, has held a very special place in my heart now for almost 25 years.