Love This Moment

 Hi Everyone,
I hope that you are having a great week so far!  I am really excited to share today's American Crafts Gallery layout with you.  It's my first project that I have made using the new Polka Dot Party collection from Dear Lizzy.  I was so excited when this collection showed up at my door!  It has so many fun patterns and pretty embellishments :)


Love This Moment Layout

I absolutely adore working with large photos.  Once I picked my pattern papers and embellishments this page came together rather quickly.  I love the way that die- cut tag looks layered on top of my photo.  This collection is turning out to be a favorite of mine and I'm not sure if I can make it last 6 months.  I'm thinking that I'm going to need to order extras :)

This collection is a must have, if you think it looks amazing online - let me tell you, it is even more amazing in real life!!

Supplies:  
Warm Welcome Paper (366160) - Polka Dot Party, Flourishing Flowers Paper (366180) -Polka Dot Party, Luminous Lights Paper (366175) - Polka Dot Party, Delectable Desserts Specialty Paper (366181) - Polka Dot Party, Wood Veneer Shapes (366204) - Polka Dot Party, Perforated Sticker Book ( 366196) - Accent & Phrase Stickers, Remarks (366195) - Accent & Phrase Stickers, Adhesive Layered Resin Flowers (366203) - Polka Dot Party, Clothespins (366208) - Polka Dot Party, Extra Large Tags (366206) - Polka Dot Party, Die-Cut Card Set (366209) - Polka Dot Party, Foam Alphabet Stickers Black (366187) - Polka Dot Party, Bakers Twine Naturals (366306) - Premium Ribbon

American Crafts Blog Hop Winner Revealed!!!

Hi everyone!  Just wanted to pop in and announce the winner of my giveaway for the American Crafts Blog Hop!  Thanks to everyone that stopped by and commented, I appreciate all of your comments! To be fair I used a random number picker to choose my winner!

So here we go.... the winner from the Hop is:

Congratulations Andrea Garland!!!

Please contact me at myfrogprince@comcast.net.  If I have not heard from you by Wednesday, September 18, I will choose and announce a new winner.  Thanks everyone for playing along!

 

Hello Happiness

Hi Everyone,
I hope you are enjoying your week.  I have a layout up on the Bella Blvd blog today that I would like to share with you using this sketch that was given to us.

I have loved being a part of the Bella Blvd team this year, it is hard to believe this is going to be my last assignment for the term.  I wanted to end the year with a sweet and cheerful layout about friendship. The Snapshots collection worked beautifully with the sketch that was given to us.  I stuck with the three main vertical columns in the sketch but incorporated bigger boxes so that I could use 4x6 photos.  I also used the daily details cards, I love the way they complete the layout.


Hello Happiness Layout

Supply List:
Snapshots: Borders Snapshots, Daily Details Snapshots, My Point Of View, Rise & Shine
Cardstock Stickers: Alpha + Bits Snapshots, Captions Snapshots, Arrows Gulf
Die-Cut Shapes: Paper Pieces Snapshots
Crochet Heart: Pickle Juice
Feathers: Punch
Button Market: Pink Flowers, Stars

American Crafts Blog Hop

 *** Comments are now closed, thank you to everyone that commented.  The winner will be revealed tomorrow morning***

Hello!!
and welcome to the American Crafts Blog Hop!  I am so excited to be a part of the 2013-14 Design Team at American Crafts.

Today 20 of our talented American Crafts design team members have put together amazing projects to share with you!
Here's the deal: visit each blog, leave a lovely comment on each post, then come back to the to American Crafts Blog to be entered to win a grand prize!

Here is the full hop list (in case you get lost along the way):

Becki Adams

Meghan Andrew

Jill Cornell

Lilith Eeckels

Katie Ehmann

Paige Evans

Davinie Fiero

Madeline Fox

Elizabeth Gardner

Kelly Goree

Angie Gutshall

Ashley Horton

Corrie Jones

Heather Leopard

**Gina Lideros**

Patricia Roebuck

Erin Stewart

Diana Waite

Allison Waken

Janna Werner 
American Crafts

For the blog hop each Design team member was asked to create a layout focusing on them.
Here is the "Me layout" that I created about me for the hop:

Live Simply by Gina Lideros

To create my "Me Layout" I used American Crafts Shamrock cardstock as my base (did I mention this is my favorite color) and then added chevrons punched from papers from the Yes, Please collection.  I journaled a little bit about what my current likes and interests are on this fun card cut from Yes, Please paper.

Supplies:
Shamrock (71059) - Cardstock, Commitment/Kraft Paper (35937) - Yes, Please, Currently Paper (35934) - Yes, Please,
Share Paper (35930) - Yes, Please, Details, Stitched Vellum Shapes (85628) - Yes, Please, Clothes Pins (85663) - Yes, Please, 
Chipboard Thickers, Kitten/Black (MGTH-53448) - My Girl, Capture, Embroidery Stencil Kit (63070) - Yes, Please,  Border Punch Value Kit (63013) - Knockouts,
Gold (AM714-17 ) - Glitter Cardstock,  Ocean (AM714-23) - Glitter Cardstock, Yellow (71828) - Glitter Cardstock,  Cricket (71426) - Glitter Cardstock, 
Wood buttons and Epoxy Accents (85598) - Dear Lizzy 5th & Frolic, This To That (AM617-13) - Adhesive




Giveaway Time!!!  I have a fun prize pack that I would like to giveaway to one lucky commenter.  Here is the list of what is included in this prize:

1- Pack of Fabric Doll Thickers
1- Dear Lizzy 5th and Frolic Daybook
1- Dear Lizzy 5th and Frolic Phrase Garlands
1 - Pack Dear Lizzy 5th andFrolic Brads
1 - Roll of Pink/White Bakers Twine
- assorted sequins


Sound good?  All you have to do is leave me a comment below telling me what your favorite American Crafts collection is and I will randomly choose a winner (open to international commenters).  Comments will stay open till Friday 9/13 at 12pm.  I will announce the winner right here on my blog on Saturday 9/14 morning.  Good luck!!

Thanks for visiting me today,  make sure you go through the hop and stop by all of the designers blogs (some of them have giveaways)!

Next on the hop is the talented Patricia Roebuck

LPS Sketch September

Hi friends!
I hope you all are enjoying a nice start to your weekend.  Today is the day to share with you the September Sketch Challenge over at Life.Paper.Scrapbook.  I love that this sketch boasts lots of layers, totally fun!

Here is what I created..


Sun and Sand Layout

 I was inspired by all the fun layers in the sketch to cut strips of pattern paper and layer it behind a sequin vellum pocket.  I  used the Pier collection by Crate paper on this layout, it has been a favorite of mine lately.

This month's sponsor is Polly! Scrap Kits..

Polly Scrap Kits is a small Australian kit club that offers monthly kits for scrapbooking and project life. We offer fun and happy kits for a really great price. We have a blog filled with inspiration for using your kit each month and with a subscription you know you will get a monthly box goodies that will bring a smile to your face when you open it and some motivation to get creating.

This year we will be offering a December Daily kit and our Design team is going to show you how to make use of it, whether you want to use it for a daily mini album, incorporated into your regular project life, or to make 12x12 layouts for your traditional scrapbook album. We will have inspiration several times a week to scrap along with you and use the kit together from late November right through to early January, so you will be motivated and inspired to get started, keep going and to finish your December projects!

Polly scrap Kits will be giving one randomly selected participant in the LPS Sketch challenge a free Project Life kit. In addition, based on the submissions to this challenge, Polly! will be inviting one person to be a guest designer for an upcoming kit, we will send you the kit for free that month and feature your work using the kit on our blog and facebook page, so please show us your best work in your challenge submissions!

You can submit ANY kind of project that you can use the sketch for: layouts, cards, PL, off the page projects 

- You can use the sketch and colour challenges together, just make sure you link it up to each so you have a chance to win in both. 

- September Sketch Challenge runs until 11.59pm 27 September. (Don't forget we are in Australia)

- The winner of the prize will be randomly drawn

- We will also feature three of the favourite layouts and the selected layouts will be asked to guest design for the next colour challenge. 

You have to be in it to win it, so link up your project up on the right over at LPS. Please make sure you link to the correct challenge, there is both a sketch and colour challenge to link up to. If you are linking to a blog, please link to the actual post the layout is featured in, not just the general address and make sure you link back to Life.Paper.Scrapbook.

I hope that you play along with the sketch this month and share your amazing creations!

You Ampersand Me

Hi there!

I have a fun project to share with you today for Bella Blvd  using this fun Pinterest Inspiration image:

You Ampersand Me Layout

I had so much fun using this pinterest inspired image.  I took the idea from the image to use 3 items (2 photos and a title)
in a vertical line.  By keeping my 3 focal images in a line and using limited embellishments, I found that it gave my
layout a very clean and linear look and kept the focus on my photos.  The Daily Chevies papers were the perfect way to
showcase these special photos that I took of my kids at the park having a brother-sister moment.

supplies:
Christmas Countdown: City Sidewalks
Daily Chevies: Chevy Oreo, Chevy Peep, Chevy Carrot
Die Cut Shapes: Paper Pieces Trick Or Treat
Crochet Hearts: McIntosh Hearts

Crate Paper - August Creative Challenge

Hi There!

This month I decided to take part in a fun challenge on the Crate Paper Blog which is all about Navy Blue and sequins.  I was recently given these awesome photos by good friend  taken of her sweet daughter Sierra.
They come to visit with us often and were just here to stay with us a a couple of weeks ago.  Whenever we get together we always do fun photo shoots of the kids.  Suzy recently took these photos at a train station near her house and when I saw them I knew right away I had to use them on a project (or two).

Anyways, on to my layout.  Since the challenge was all about Navy blue and sequins I thought these photos of Sierra were perfect since she was already wearing a Navy blue dress.  I built my layout around that using a mix of Crate Paper collections and embellishments. So fun!


Lovely Lady Layout

This layout came together quickly once I decided to stitch a vellum pocket with lots of sequins inside.

I love this Ephemera die-cut collection pack from the DIY shop collection.  I loved all the vintage looking pieces that went along with my layout.  Those fun doilies are a punch from Martha Stewart that I bought recently and they are quickly becoming a fun staple of mine to use on all my projects.  Anyways, that's my layout that I put together for the challenge, I love the way it turned out and I hope that Crate will like it too :)


supplies:
Crate paper: The Pier collection papers, Ephemera die -cut collection pack - DIY shop, Flashcard Thickers, Fox Glitter Foam Thickers, photo overlays - DIY shop, The Pier layered stickers - Standouts, Studio Calico - Atlantic sequin mix