I am getting SO close to finishing my 10 Studio J layouts to get one FREE this month! I have 8 complete so it just might happen :) I was lucky enough to take my kids camping to the Beach last weekend. Although it rained the whole drive there, and most of Saturday, Sunday was a gorgeous day! This first layout features the super cool, retired paper pack: Moondoggie. I love the "sandy" look that the stubble brush distressing tool gave to the background cardstock. Notice the stitching I created around the 1/2 circle on the left side. I placed a few stitches, rotated them the way I wanted. Then I selected them all, pressed copy, then pressed paste. Then I could move the set of 5 stitches to the next spot around the circle. It would have taken me forever to do one stitch at a time. This next paper pack was Simple Pleasures. This paper set is so beautiful. It has some touches of barn red in it, so I changed the colo...