dance like....

I'm loving all these shaped pages right now. They are so much fun to work with! This one is sort of a hodgepodge of stuff I've been wanting to use. I sort of just through it all together...I was trying for the collage look. Not sure I obtained it but it's collage enough for me. I love this sweet picture I got as the girls were waiting ot be told it was OK to go out onto the dance floor with their tap shoes on. Jordan was waiting so patiently but with lots of anticipation. I imagine it's so hard to wait to get out there with those noisy shoes on!

I've got some projects that need my attention so thats it for now!

Hope today was a great one.

secrets

I am seriously in love with American Crafts right now! The Thickers, the paper, the embellishments...the list goes on and on for me. I popped into Archivers the other day and picked up a few pieces from the new lines, noticed they had cardstock now and proceeded to the counter to check out. Much to my delight I received 60 sheets of American Crafts Play line. Love it! The flower paper here is from the line. I could not believe I got it for free!!!

I haven't gotten a chance to play with it yet. I just got back from the SU! convention. But i did have this page lying around that I haven't uploaded yet. It also features my new Martha Stewart butterfly punch. I love that thing it's so pretty with a few rhinestones up the middle and you've got yourself a sweet little butterfly. I used some basic grey buttons, die cuts from a crate paper pack and of course some Thickers. I tell ya, I just can not get enough of them. maybe tomorrow I take a picture of the stack of those things. It takes up 2 drawers now. i'll be back tomorrow with a new layout and I hope to get back in the scrappin groove this week.

catch ya later!

the truck

This is one of the Page Maps sketches by Becky Fleck. I love those things. I think this one is from January. It was a recent contest sketch tat I wanted to get done in time to enter but it did not happen! I still wanted to do it and I'm thinking better late than never right??

This page uses the Cosmo Cricket line Be Happy, AC thickers & stop sign and Basic Grey buttons.

Well I'm off to the SU! convention first thing tomorrow morning. I'll have my swaps that I've been working onto show you and a few other pages I completed today. I'm on a roll!

Also don't forget to check out the new Friday Challenges over at EIS. The first on is this Friday, August 1st. My challenge is first up and I'd love for you all to participate. If you do participate upload your card to the gallery at EIS and then comment here so I can see what you come up with.

August 1st is also the revel day for the August design team gallery. You won't want to miss it!

dance

I love using these shaped papers from Making Memories. They are so fun and add a little interest to the square page rut! I also used the new SU! Baja Breeze paper and the scallop border punch. Which I love and haven't stopped using since I got it! I used some American Crafts felt flowers, which I love almost as much as I love my Thickers, some buttons and rhinestones and called it done.

Hope you all have a great weekend!

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Another Easter page from a couple of years ago. Not very chatty today so I'll leave it at that! :)

Supplies: whisper white cardstock, Making Memories Spring paper pack fro mtarget, Making Memories felt flowers, dimensional flowers and die cuts from the paper pack. American crafts Thickers.

make it a great day!

jack & dad

I'm am going to preface this by saying I am not a digital scrapbooker. I really love paper and embellishments and the whole process of creating a layout. Plus I work for Wolf Camera and I know how expensive they are to print! But, I found these really cool digital overlays from Ali Edwards and I though, hey this is something I can do! I mean I had to have that 13" printer, right? Now I have found a reason to use it. So I marched over to Designer Digitals and bought the overlays. They are so easy, all I have to do is open the file in Photoshop and print it on my 12x12 cardstock. Then I scrapbooked right over the top of the overlay. There are 5 different overalys and I can see myslef using them all the time. Plus I really love Ali's handwriting.

Aside from the overlay I used some of the Making Memories spring paper pack I picked up from Target and some of the Making Memories Noteworthy collection, some American Crafts Thinkers found here, & some buttons from my stash.

That's it for today, I off to walk then go to work!

make it a great day!

100% boy!

Geez...I had all these layouts done, photographed and ready to load up to the blog and where have I been. I tell ya, this weekend .....well past week kinda slipped out from underneath me!

Onto the layout! I used the totally amazing stuff from Little Yellow Bicycle. I actually stumbled upon this great paper at Archiver's a while back. I loved it so much I had to go back had get the girly stuff too. This brown/orange combo is so Jack. I love how everything coordinates. I used a sketch from the Sketch This Blog. If you haven't checkd out their sketches you need to. I also love the DT layouts that are posted each week with the sketch. Loads of inspiration!

I'll be back tomorrow with an Easter page. Then I'll be working on Back to School stuff for the EIS August gallery...Back to School. I'll post a sneak peak a couple of days before it goes live. Also, we are starting our challenges back up. It's the Friday Free For All challenge....you never know what the challenge will be. So be sure to stop by on Aug. 1st. The first challenge is mine and I would love for you to participate!!! There may even be some goodies involved for the first challenge!!

make it a great day!