you want a little sneak peak of what's coming in July....

from Scrapbook Circle?

SERIOUSLY so excited to be working with this kit--that's all I've got to say! :)  Thanks for the visit, hope your weekend was a GREAT one!

Easter 2011--Garden party

So I figured out I hadn't shared this layout from the Garden party kit from Scrapbook Circle.  I had SO much fun with the layering--yummy stuff!

 A little closeup:

 bright cheery butterflies:

 woolie and butterfly:

The gate looking punch at the top is my new Martha Stewart punch--it's awesome!  It punches really clean.  Also, there are still a few of the Garden Party kits left (I just checked!)  Today is REALLY hot here in AZ, SO glad we have a pool and air conditioning that works! :)

I hear my timer going off on the rice cooker, must go see how my brown rice cooked up.  I also did a chicken fryer in the crock pot with Northwood Seasoning, smells yummy!  AND it didn't heat up the house!

first day--october afternoon style....

Today on the october afternoon blog they had a sketch challenge:

I've seen the challenges before but not done anything about it, so today I decided I would pull out my stash of october afternoon (I hoard the stuff--I REALLY do!)  And this is my take on the sketch, simple and clean, and yes there is some machine stitching.  I had to take this indoors as it's like 106 outside!  (yes, grateful for air conditioning today!)

just love how it came together quickly!  Also, the reason I chose the school theme?  Scrapfit had a challenge on their blog to do a layout that incorporated school items!  I just happened to have two little pictures and away the layout went--love when things come together so nicely!

So unmotivated to get out of the house because of the heat I decided to do a little Taebo with Billy Blanks--dang I'm sore--right where I want to be but still....beauty is pain--right?  That's what I tell my daughter when she watches me pluck my eyebrows.... :)

thanks for the visit, hope you are enjoying your day!

Catchin' up!

Well, here I am again a week later!  I was in Washington state for a celebration of life for my beautiful Aunt who passed in February.  It was a wonderful tribute to her, she truly was amazing.  I made this page as a tribute:

 products used:

pattern paper, stickers, and pop out: Echo Park

pearls: Kaiser

doilie: wilton

While on my short vacation away I received several GREAT pieces of scrappy news.  My wave card was selected and featured HERE on the create blog.

My "Hike" layout was featured on the Bella Blvd. blog HERE.

And finally I made the design team at Cardabilities!  You can see the announcement HERE.

Pretty exciting time to receive so much good news in one of my favorite places with some of my favorite people!  I promise to share some of my adventures and what I saw through the lens of my camera in the next few days.  I'm playing catch up and have some different things I need to be working on!  Thanks for stopping in for a visit!

sketchy thursdays 6.2--take 3

a closeup:

 title closeup:

 same papers--almost:

 

 last take:

 title closeup:

yes, I did this 3 times.  they are gifts for family members--this sketch was awesome ladies and I wanted to thank you for helping to make this gift special for my family.  I lost someone in this picture in February, she was AMAZING.  I miss her, even if I hadn't seen her in a long time.  We will celebrate her life Saturday.  Remember to tell those around you that you love them.  Take pictures of them and with them, record your memories.

lots of love....

oh, let me tell you!  I LOVE how this layout came together--I had it pictured in my mind for a while, just itching for the time to do it!  the veneer butterflies from Studio Calico are AMAZING!!  I would love to get more of those!

 I used them as a mask to get this affect, after the paper was dry I used my paper piercing tool and traced around the edge and then hand stitched:

Here's a little closeup of their misted beautifulness, I added more mist to get them to this color, after they dried I added some bling from my stash:

little closeup of the title, it's from the printable from this kit--FANTASTIC!  I even got to use my new Martha Stewart punch for the crown border:

supplies:

came from the Garden Party kit

This picture was another from my photo shoot last month with the borrowed 50mm lens, so glad I got one of my girl and ms. Ella.  She is such a funny dog, she is LOVING having the kids home.  she gets in the pool with them and swims like crazy, sort of nice because i don't have to stand out in the hot throwing the ball at the park! :)

this first week of summer with the kids home has me SO busy!  We've had some fun this week.  on Thursday we went to the farmer's market, bought strawberries and black berries then made low sugar freezer jam (next time I will use 3/4 C water for thicker jam)--it's SO yummy!

my goal today is to get this messy desk of mine cleaned off so I can see the bottom!  THAT would be a miracle!  thanks so much for popping in!

sketchy thursdays 5.26--silly

I really liked the simplicity of this sketch from sketchy thursdays, left some room for interpretation...

I used the new Grandma's garden (Scrapbook Circle) for this layout.  See you can make a masculine layout with some flowers!  I took these pictures about a month ago when my kids had no soccer practice.  we went to the park to play and I brought the camera, these boys are goof balls!

I don't know if you can tell but I used some crackle paint on the center of these scalloped circle thingies...

on the clouds I used some matte accents on the clouds, looks pretty cool in person.

this is just a closeup of the title on pop dots.....I know you can't see it but I also but the matte in the center of the flowers on the green.  It's actually pretty cool, feels like the paper is embossed.

 I've been trying to use of the stash that I have, hence the use of the matte accent, crackle accent glue.  I've had the matte accent for a while now, when I bought it I thought I would use a lot.  Ummm yeah, I brushed some dust off and was happy to see that it still came out of the bottle!

summer break is now in full swing, we are home from our weekend away.  we have plans let's hope that no one gets bored! :)  thanks for stopping in!

Hello...clean & simple stamping #141

I was inspired by a card made by fellow design team member Diana Fisher, she got her sketch from Clean & simple stamping, I loved the sketch so i thought I would play along:

the paper is from the Garden party kit from scrapbook circle--just love these papers!  The stamp is from hero arts, the ticket was cut with my cricut, and the rubon is American crafts.

I had such a fun time putting this fun little card together, it came together quickly as everything was out on my desk from playing! :)  thanks for the visit today!  hope you have a good one!

Graduation gifts....

I had a couple of graduation gifts to make this year:

For my niece:

I even made a matching card from the scraps:

I used the For the Record Line from Echo Park to make this set.  the rubons are actually 6 years old!  they are made by making memories....BTW she loved it!

For my second journal set I used the Garden Party kit, the june kit from scrapbook circle:

Here is a closeup of the leaves, I used crackle accents, the effect is REALLY cool, so much better in person.  I used my stickles to color in the center of the flowers and the roses.

and here is the card of course:

 these journals are SO quick and fun to make!  I used my bind it all to bind it all together.  have to make this quick the kiddos are wanting to play!  thanks for popping in for a visit!   happy memorial day weekend hope you are enjoying it with your family!

  

Yeehaw it's the last day of school! Garden party is LIVE!

and that means teacher's gifts! :)  the year seem to fly by--THANK GOODNESS for that!!  I wanted to share with you what I made this year:

first off is this clipboard (which I picked up at Walmart for a little more than a dollar)--I decided I wanted another color other than the kraft that it was so I spray painted it with black paint (leftover from the pinewood derby).  I really like how it accents the subway art.  The subway art came from the Eighteen 25 blog, just LOVE their creations!  (they have SEVERAL different subway art, just look to the right in the labels section and select subway art.) I had this printed at staples on their laser printer, it just looks SO professional.  my 7th grader was really excited to give this to her language art teacher, they are ALWAYS reading in that class....

 

secondly, I felt like the teachers needed some cards too so I used the scraps from THIS project and made a set of 10 cards for each teacher.  one teacher received a set of 4 1/4" x 5" cards while the other teacher received a set of 3 1/2" x 5" cards.  so basically I got three cards from a 12" x 12" sheet of cardstock.

 the rubons have been in my stash for who knows how long.  they are by American crafts and were bunched all together in a set of so I had to individually cut them.  the "plaque" was cut with my cricut off of the Mother's day cartridge 2010.

the newest kit for Scrapbook Circle Garden Party has gone live!  here is a sneak of what it looks like

FUN stuff I'm telling you!

well, I've got a bunch to do before the kids get home from school, we have a little movie party planned.  and I think I've decided to make home made pizza instead of going to buy it--that is of course unless someone has eaten the turkey pepperoni! :)

Thanks for stopping in!