Happy Tuesday

Hi Friends,
I hope that your Tuesday is off to a great start. I have a vacation layout that I completed yesterday that I would like to share with you using a fun quilting pattern. Quilting patterns have taken over the scrapbooking world and I am really loving them!


Enjoy a day in Vegas layout:

I used a combination of new Hambly papers, American Crafts, Studio Calico and Echo Park. The flair button and camera die cut are from Ormolu. Have I mentioned my obsession with them? Love their stuff!

Here is a close up:

TFS, right?


I also wanted to let you know about a fun giveaway that Natt Smith is having on her blog.
You can enter her giveaway for a free Dear Lizzy date stamp here.
Thanks for stopping by!

vintage luggage love and some fun news!

Hi friends,
I hope that your Friday is starting off well. I have a couple more layouts that I would like to share with you and some fun news. So lets get started.
I recently discovered a company called Ormolu. I love their flair buttons and tags. Here is a layout that I completed this weekend using one of their buttons.

Vintage Luggage love:


and a close up. I used a flair button from Ormolu, new Hambly paper (airplanes) and Echo Park paper (tickets). I just love how this page came together.


And now for some fun news.....
I have been asked back for a second term at Epiphany Crafts. I am super excited about this because they are an amazing company to work for and I love their products.
Here is a recent layout that I made using Simple Stories paper and Epiphany Crafts star shape studio tool.



Thanks for letting me share my fun news. You can view the announcement about the new EC team here.

Laugh so much

Hi friends,
I would like to share a couple of layouts that I created this weekend while the fabulous Suzy West was visiting me. Every time that we get together the creativity gets flowing and we have so much fun together. I also noticed that I emboss a lot more on my pages when she is with me (hmmn, maybe it is because she is the US Marketing coordinator of an amazing company called WOW embossing powders?) Or maybe it is because she threatens to cut me if she doesn't like my work? Totally kidding. See my post yesterday, we like to joke that Suzy created my injury last weekend, but really, it was just a silly blonde moment where I picked up my rotary trimmer the wrong way. Ouch!

Here are a couple of layouts that I had fun embossing kind of sporadically on.

My quirks:
This page is appropriately titled my quirks because I have a lot of them, including being clumsy. I embossed on this page using a template from Crafter's Workshop and WOW blueberry powder.

I got to use some new Hambly special edition paper on this (love)and Dear Lizzy thickers (so fun)

Future Photographers:

a fun layout that I did about my daughter and her cousins learning how to use SLR cameras and wanting to become photographers.

I embossed on this page using WOW Opaque bright white (title), and WOW Opaque primary Azure regular (love this color). The glitter paint is Tattered Angels and the papers are from Echo Park (This & That boys collection) and new special edition Hambly (chevron)

and one more layout that I would like to share with you. This is for my friend Ashley N. Newell who went with us to Green Tangerines last Saturday. Ashley is a cardmaker, and whenever we are together we are always trying to get her to make a layout. So, we took a photo (together at the store)and challenged her to use it on a layout.
Here is what I made using our photo:
Laugh so much layout:

I embossed on this page using WOW Opaque bright white and a template from Pink Paislee.
I stitched an overlay on top (Hambly), I just love how it came out.


Thanks for stopping by and letting me share my work with you today. Ashley and Suzy, I am still waiting to see your pages that you made for the challenge girls, and I am going to hold you to it! lol.
Take care everyone.

Cards Magazine September

Hi friends,
I wanted to share with you a card that I made that was recently published in the September 2011 issue of Cards Magazine. This was for a Grandparents call.

Grandpa tell it like it is:


I used the For the record line by Echo Park (I just love this collection) and the round 25 shape studio tool, and bubblecap from Epiphany Crafts. TFS!

Here is a peek of it in print:
My copy has not come in the mail yet, so I took a picture of the magazine at the store. I just get so giddy (and thankful too), every time I see my work in print.

thanks for letting me share! Have a great day!

Back to school blog hop

Hi friends,
Thanks for joining us for our back to school blog hop today.


If you came from April's blog you are in the right place. If you would like to start at the beginning of the hop please go to Rebekah she is the wonderful host of our hop at http://colorkraft.blogspot.com/

I would also like to thank Rebekah for hosting this wonderful hop.


Have your kids gone back to school yet? Mine will go back to school on Monday, so we have spent the last few days getting well care visits, dropping off shot records at the school office, picking up new school supplies and shopping for new clothes, backpacks and shoes. It has been a little exhausting and I will feel better after the kids go back to school and we get back into a routine again.

I wanted to share with you my first project that I made for our back to school hop. A couple of weeks ago we stopped by the Old Sacramento school house and I was able to get some fun pics of my kids sitting in an old fashioned classroom. They got to sit at the desks, write on the chalkboards, and learn about what it was like to go to school in the 1800's. So, I was so excited to get the chance to document our trip on a layout, and this is what I made:

Old Fashioned School house layout


Here is a detail shot up close:

*Tip- a quick and easy way to add interest to your page is by layering custom buttons to premade flowers. I used my button studio maker from Epiphany Crafts to make these fun buttons. Then popped them up with foam tape on top of the premade flowers.

Thanks for stopping by today. Be sure to come by again tomorrow for more fun school themed projects and prizes. Leave me a comment today, and I will enter you in a drawing for a sheet of 4 Prima mini stamps with rhinestone jewels.



Be sure to check out these crafty girls next for more inspiration and a chance to win more prizes.

okay, go......

Blog Hop line up:

~ you are here ~ Gina
next ~ Rebekah
~ Doreen
~ Nicolette
~ Amanda
~ Melissa
~ April

Next stop on the hop is Rebekah, so stop by her blog to see what wonderful project she has to share with you.


Old Fashioned school house credits:
pattern paper: table cloth paper, borders paper, fabric store paper - For the Record collection (Echo Park);
play fair paper, How you've grown paper - Life of the party collection (Basic Grey);
recipe box paper - Cherry Hill collection (October Afternoon); sweet score paper - Ellie's tale (Sassafrass Lass)

stickers: thickers (American Crafts), teeny alpha (Glitz), entwined blooms (Sassafrass lass)
pen: brown (American Crafts)
tools: round 20 button studio maker, round 14 button studio maker, round 20 acrylic buttons,
round 14 acrylic button (Epiphany Crafts); postage stamp edger scissors (Fiskars)
fibers: licorice twine (Divine Twine)
adhesive: glue glider pro (Glue Arts), foam squares (Scrapbook Adhesives)

class is in session

over at GCD studios and I have been busy working on my very first DT assignments for them. The whole process has been very exciting. I am having a great time getting to know my fellow GCD girls and learning so much from them. Wowsers, there is some serious talent on that team. I can't share with you what I have been working on. So I thought that I would share some other recent projects that I have created.

This one I made for Mother's day using the Echo Park for the Record line:

this card was a lot of fun to make and I even snuck in a custom button made with Epiphany Crafts button maker.

Next,
is a fun card that I created with Crate Paper's Emma's shoppe collection.

Pretty girl card:


that's all I can share for now. I have been busy with my DT assignments and submitting to publications.
I just got another card picked up for Cards Magazine October issue using Epiphany crafts. woot woot
I promise I will share it with you when I can :)
Thanks for stopping by!

enjoying spring break

I love April, it is one of my favorite month's of the year. The kids are home all month (off -track), the springtime weather is really nice which means lots of outside play, visiting parks and long walks around our neighborhood and lake.

Another thing that I love about April is Kalee's birthday. Yes Kalee's birthday was on Saturday and I am now a mother of a 12 year old. How did that happen so quickly? Seems like just yesterday she was in diapers, and just learning how to walk.





I am very proud of her. She is growing into a beautiful young lady and I am very lucky to be her mother.
Since the kids have been home all week I haven't had a whole lot of time to myself. I have been finishing up some projects but most of them are for calls so I can't show them yet. I got a card picked up the other day for the September edition of Cards Magazine. :) woot woot! I wish I could show it to you, it is one of my favorites (using Echo Park for the Record and Epiphany Crafts). Hopefully September will come soon, so that I can show it to you in print. :)

Be back tomorrow with some fun cards that I am finishing up today!

Friends layout

Last month I particpated in a challenge with my friends over at Scrapbook Territory in Berkeley, Ca. We got together one night and took lots of fun pictures. Our challenge was to create a layout using pictures that we took that night. Here is what I came up with using papers from Echo Park Life is good collection.



The wallet size photos were printed using Canon's portable ES40 printer. I altered the large photo in Photoshop and added a grid to the photo for texture. Then printed it on glossy 8x10 paper using Canon's MP640 printer.