For Connelle: Swap on the Cricut board

I made a total of four items for the swap but was in a huge hurry and did not get pictures of the other two items (altered bath salts and a personalized tote for her). Maybe she will have pictures. The first item I made was a "banner" with her initials on it for "Let Banners Wave" day. The other items that I have a picture of is for "Key to my heart" day. I hope she likes them.

3 special steps

Very quick layout as an ode to Special Agent OSO on Disney Junior, one of C's favorites.

SoCal Scrapbooks-Lala stamps and American Crafts

Good morning today I am happy to share another creation for SoCal Scrapbooks. The wonderful Sandy sent me a La-La Land Marci with flower stamp (isn't it cute!?!?) and a few other things (you will see those another time). Here is my first try at coloring with bic/sharpies. I am not ready to invest in Copics, I don't color that much. I also used an American Crafts Bits circle to frame my sentiment which I typed and sized on the computer with my amazing hubby's help. It may be hard to read but it says "If friends were flowers, I'd pick you." I figured this was a good general card to have on hand. I hope you like it!

CKCB: Layouts 10-17

Good morning. Today I have 8 layouts to share with you (some doubles and some singles). Tea Time with Friends is from the main July kit and the rest are from my pirate add on kit. I can't believe I got 6 layouts of that kit and have two sheets I did not cut that will go back in my stash. WOW! So far this month that is 17 layouts, 2 cards (pics to come soon), and three altered projects. I would say that is pretty good. Now in August/Sept and half of October I probably won't get that many done if any since we will be moving/packing and relocating twice.

Counterfeit Kit Blog hop-FLOWER POWER!

Happy Hop day! I hope you are enjoying the hop so far. You should have came from our wonderful Guest Designer HELEN. I am sure she had something cool to show you. Today I am here to share my first attempt at making and USING recycled dryer sheet flowers. There is an awesome video link HERE that our great leaders posted. I did not watch it, just sort of winged it. I like them for altered projects but do not think I would include them on my pages.

So this book is a Kraft journal from Michael's, on clearance, are you surprised? LOL! I tore off the cover and altered it to it my needs. I am using this one to explore into the world of art journaling. It is rather fun I must admit.

For the flower I took several (I think five) dryer sheets and randomly hand cut (GASP!) circles from them. Then inked them up, layered them, attached with a fabric brad, more ink and there you go! I like the layers, wish I would have done more but maybe next time.

Now it is time to go and see what MELISSA has for you!!!

Easter Party

Sorry for the glare, it was BRIGHT when I was outside taking these and trying to keep Caitlyn from running into the street! These are from this past Easter (YAY ME!). I used a sketch from Sketches for Scrapbooking. I love how simple and quick they make my pages and I can still put my own spin on it! I did add the letters to my kit, ran out of the other ones!

I can tell the future.

Pretty simple, all from my July Counterfeit Kit. I am so happy that I am using up all the thickers! WOOHOO! I am almost down to no vowels so I will have to come up with a different way to use them. What do you think? I believe this is layout 7, but don't quote me on that!

Gallery Standout-Wendy McKee

I took my inspiration from Wendy McKee from Jillibean Soup HERE. I was intrigued by her use of tags, and bits and baubles. I am trying to get out of my comfort zone and try other styles so that is what I did here. I loved the white space, the butterflies, all the corrugated, the colors, the journal strips, OK I loved it ALL!


So here is my try. I am excited since I just received my big shot and was able to EMBOSS CHIPBOARD!!! WOW! Mine is a bit different than the wonderful one that Wendy did but I wanted it to be Me. So there are LOTS of polka dots (imagine that LOL), I only used three tags, and everything but the corrugated pieces were from my kit. What do you think? I had fun making this one so I can see me doing more of this style for my book of me.

I AM "PUBLISHED"!!!!!!!!!!

I am so EXCITED! I had to make myself NOT write this WHOLE post in CAPS! LOL! OH my gosh! I am so excited. I have known since Saturday that I would be PUBLISHED on the Creating Keepsakes blog this week but I did not know WHEN! WELL IT IS TODAY!!!!!!! It is for the CK & Me portion (where you are inspired by layouts in the actual magazine). I NEVER thought I would be featured or picked, but my awesome and supportive hubby and my good friend Jamie made me submit and I am SO GLAD that they did!!!! Yes it is just the blog but boy that is awesome in my book. YAY!

Here is a link CREATING KEEPSAKES BLOG

Crazy for faux stitching!

This layout is half from my kit and half from other kits. I went nutty with the faux stitching. I think there may be a half of a Signo pen on this layout! I cut 2X2 pieces of brown and blue paper, inked with white chalk, rounded outer four corners and put it all together. Then my Signo and I became great friends! See those two blue and one clear flowers? I made those! They are resin embellishments! I did ink them a little bit to make them pop. A thicker title, some journal strips and there you go. What do you think?