Blog break

Good morning! As we are about 2.5 weeks (or less) out from having baby boy I wanted to let you all know that I will be taking a blog break until at least mid August. I sure hope you understand. I will try to get back on and post a pic (or two!) of baby boy once he graces us with his presence! See you all soon!

Let's get MOVING!

Good morning! Here today to share the last of our three challenges using the kits we put together this month at CKCB. The challenge this time was "Let's get moving!" Something had to move on your layout. I made a spinner to demonstrate the love/hate friendship/relationship that DD has with her BFF. DD loved that it moved! What did you make move on your layout?

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CKCB Layouts 6-11layout 6

Layout 6

Layout 7

layout 8-9

layout 10-11

Here are the next few layouts from this months make your own CKCB kit. I am pretty proud of the number of layouts I accomplished this month but I am ready to break this kit up and put it back into my stash. A girl can only do so many pastelish layouts LOL! The last two layouts are for the challenges coming up this month! How many layouts/creations did you accomplish from you kit? I can't wait to see.

I will be taking a break from CKCB for July and August as little man is due to appear July 23 and I know I will be busy doing all the little final things to get ready and then enjoying him when he gets here. I will still try to get around and leave some love though! Have a good couple of months!

CKCB: Challenge two: Let's get messy!

Welcome back! Today I am sharing challenge TWO for CKCB: Let's get messy (aka PAINT!). For this one I hand painted the sun, stamped some clouds, painted a swatch of yellow on the white cardstock AND changed my white thickers to a light pink! I was covered in paint after this on but it was fun!

CKCB Layouts 1-5

For the Travel challenge

Added the butterflies and thickers from stash

using one of my favorite starting points

a different spin on one of my favorite starting points

plain simple and to the point, lots of stamping

Good morning just wanted to share the first five layouts I have gotten done with this month's kit. I am up to 13 I think so more to come soon. One of my favorite starting points that makes layouts go faster is to use the 6X6 pattern paper in a quadrant. I love that is uses things up, I get multiple patterns without overwhelming the photo(s). What is one of your favorite starting points?

Happy Father's Day!

Good morning! Happy Father's day to all the daddies and step in daddies out there! Today I wanted to share the two cards I whipped up for Fathers day for my Daddy and hubby's Father. I hope they enjoyed them!

Drawing DD did for my Dad, his smaller gift and card

Closeup of Dad's card

Father in laws card.

CKCB: challenge ONE Travel

Oops! This is late! I must admit that my blog is taking a backseat to getting everything ready for little mans arrival in less than six weeks! Please accept my apologies!

Today I am here to share the layout I did using the kit I put together for this month's challenge at CKCB! The challenge was to use TRAVEL as your inspiration. So I tackled a few photos of DH's trip to Australia (yes still jealous!). Enjoy!

Birthday gift

Seems like May/June are going to be busy birthday making months for C's friends. Here are two little altered notebooks I made for her friend that just turned 6, loves pink and keeps stealing her Moms paper. I used DCWV Spring Fling and Summer Days stack. Now to just get them to her.

Name frames

In my circle these are a a huge hit, everyone wants one. I usually place them into 12X12 frames from Michaels but mine has been out for weeks. These two caused me TONS of issues and I am not even sure why. Thanks to Jamie for helping me get it together. I sure hope it was not because they are boy themed LOL! The names are dry embossed and inked for more texture. Everything was cut using the Cameo (still loving that thing). The Mom loved them so that is all that matters.

Bookmarks for a friend

I belong to a Crafty Chicas Celebration (scrappy birthday club) and this past month May we spoiled another lady. She loves to read and has lots of books going at once so I decided to make her three of these. The corner one is the first I have done of that kind. All of them are made with grungepaper as I thought they would last a bit longer.