1st day of school

Here's a little peak at my layout for tomorrows blog hop! I hope you'll come back and join me!


So now that the first day of school is here I can start scrapping again! Yea! Starting tomorrow with a very fun blog hop. I'm going to keep it short today cause I've already wasted 3 hours doing absolutely nothing. It's a little hard getting used to the house being soooo quiet! I'm going to put on some music and start scrapping with all the new goodies I've picked up the last few weeks. Catch ya later!!

messing around

Since I can't get motivated to do any scrapping I decided I'd take a few photos tonight. I haven't even done much of that lately! I have a new niece that I need to shoot and a wedding coming up so I thought I'd get back in the groove with some pictures on our newly completed deck. It's so nice to have a gorgeous deck to hang out on. I love reading out there in the morning. It's so nice and cool these days first thing.

I just need to start getting up a little (read a lot!) earlier since school starts this Thursday. I'm a little sad the summer break is over! I like spending time leisurely with the kiddos. School brings homework for the kids and lots of volunteering for me. We'll get back in the groove soon enough but for now I'm mourning the end!

What I'm not mourning is all the lovely, new scrapping goodies I've picked up in the last couple of weeks. I told you about the American Craft Merrymint line. The other day I picked up all the new Cosmo Cricket goodies. Gorgeous I tell ya! I really love each and everyone of these kits. I got the 6" and 12" chipboard too. It's going to be fun to work with. I started cleaning up the scrap room today and plan on spending ALL day and night scrapping on Friday. SO I will have some things to show very, very soon. Also the Embellish-Online DT is having a Farmers market blog hop this Friday! I will definitely have something to share for that.

That's it for now I'm getting kicked off the computer by my soon to be 1st grader! Gotta get those kindergarten pictures scrapped!! :)

merrymint

Lookie what I got last night...Merrymint! The new holiday line from American Crafts is so gorgeous! It might be my favorite holiday line ever. Check it out. Seriously you *have* to have it!
Make sure you look at the Thickers too, the blue foil Cinnamon font is beautiful!

finally something to share!

One of my favorite scrapbookers has been doing sketches! I've been printing them off with the intention of scrapping with them and I finally completed a layout. This is all I have but with the kids getting ready to go back to school I'll have much more time for scrapping. There will also be a fun Embellish-Online blog hop for August (dates to be determined).

I'm just giddy at all the fun new stuff coming out and couldn't be more excited the the store has started receiving it. (Although it hasn't stopped me from asking every day if the new Cosmo Cricket has arrived). She has the Halloween lines from American Crafts (these products are still getting loaded into the store they will be available soon) and Imaginesce and a Christmas/Winter line from Imaginesce. I am in love with it all! She has so much coming as well....Pink Paislee, Basic Grey, cosmo cricket.... so.much.fun.!

And as an added bonus....usethe code glitter at checkout for 20% off your entire order!

totally toothless

Well it finally came out! It took a little longer that I thought but it's out now and she looks so cute!

I will actually have a page to share tomorrow. It's done I just didn't get a chance to photograph it so I'll do it tonight and share tomorrow. I also have a page in the work using my Early Bird papers. Love them! I hope to have that one to show by Monday.

Have a great weekend!

giveaway

Thanks to all who commented on my last post for the gift certificate giveaway! I used my son a my random number generator LOL and asked him to pick a number between 1 an 10 and he picked 9.

Stampincathy is number 9.

Congrats! Send me an email at julieokada(at)live(dot)com. I'll get you a code for a fun gift certificate to the Embellish-Online store. Have fun shopping! For those that didn't win you can use the code GLITTER for 20% off your entire order. (this code is good all the time!)

have a great day.

Backyard BBQ Day 2

It's day 2 of our Backyard BBQ Blog Hop. If you are joining me from Kim's Blog then welcome, if not start at the Embellish-Online blog and join in the fun!
Here is the sketch the DT used and we want you to use it too. Create a card or layout using our sketch, upload it here (you'll have to register it so, so easy and of course it's free!) Once you upload, post in this thread with a link to your project for a chance to win an amazing American Crafts prize package!
Here's what I created with Christine's fabulous sketch! Now I want to see what you can do with it! I used the gorgeous American Crafts Backyard collection along with some details and a piece from the super cute Remarks journaling book.

And as added piece of fun in honor of my birthday I want to hear from you! Leave me a comment on this post and tell me what your favorite summertime activity is. On Sunday night I'll pick a random winner to win a $30 gift certificate to the Embellish-Online Store!


I'm the last stop on the hop for today. Tune in tomorrow morning at Cindy's blog for some more backyard fun!