show me your chevron: blog hop & giveaway

Welcome to the Show Me Your Chevron by Paper Issues blog hop.

 

 

Chevron is all the rage these days. Everywhere you look you see it!

 

I have seen this image my whole life.

 

And to share a silly blonde story:

 

My parents are older and they always called this gas station “The Standard Station” cause I guess back I the day that was the name.

 

Well my generation knows it as “Chevron”. Just a couple years ago someone referred to this wavy pattern as chevron. I know hound’s-tooth, gingham, etc. I guess I never really paid attention to this “wavy” pattern. Until one day it clicked that wavy pattern is the design on the chevron sign! OMG. And everyone was calling this wavy pattern Chevron. Since I always had known the Chevron station to be the “standard station” I never thought twice till that one day where everything clicked.

 

Ok blonde story over.

 

 

I looked at pintrest for some inspiration for this theme.

Here are a few things I came up with

 

SO I want all of the above items!

 

chair//bedroom//nail//spoons//clutch

 

 

 

 

My first LO was inspired by this photo:

 

 

It was really simple instead of painting a piece of wood

I just found a chevron print paper and went from there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My second LO was inspired by this LO:

 

 

 

I saw on the Studio Calico blog just this past week.

{i did a little scraplifiting}

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I went through my Scrapbooks and I found a ton of LO’s with Chevron in them. Here are a few of my favorites.

 

you can see 2 different chevron patterns in this LO

 

 

 

 

using chevron as the background

 

 

 

 

using chevron as a pop of color and matting

 

 

 

 

And now for the giveaway…

 

Cassie at Paper Issues is giving away this Jenni Bowlin collection-featuring chevron of course!

 

 

 

 

 

 

All you have to do is…

Make a comment on my blog, Like Paper Issues on Facebook,

& follow Paper Issues blog! And let them know you have done the following.

This hop is going on for 2 weeks so you have plenty to do the above!

random winners will be drawn sometime around 4-14-2012

 

 

Now if you haven’t visited the other girl’s blogs get going! This is a blog hop ya know

 

Leah

 

Kelly Jo

 

Sarah

 

Heather

 

Aimee

{your here}

 

 

 

And don’t forget to visit the paper issues shop

 

When you place an order put in the code AIMEE and receive a 20%

and let cassie know I SENT YOU!