Christmas Eve 2011

I am loving my December DT kit from Memorable Seasons!  It features Echo Park's This & That Christmas!  Very traditional, very me!  I scrapped this awesome self-portrait of the girls and I from Christmas Eve 2011!  I love this photo!  I love my paper ruffles!  ♥

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Echo Park This & That Christmas!

Hi there!  My fabulous December DT kit at Memorable Seasons consists of Echo Park's This & That Christmas!  This collection is very much ME, because it's very traditional!  I love traditional when it comes to Christmas!  Here's what I've created so far!

I love this photo of my gorgeous girls in their Santa hats!  Sisters in Santa hats!  CUTE!!  What do you think of that photo mat?  I cut it with my Elegant Edges Cricut cartridge!  FUN!

This fabulous image was on the backside of one of the papers.  I love the tone on tone!  I decided to showcase it on a card!  Of course, I added a jingle bell!  Jingle bells make everything more fun, don't you think!?!

I love making Christmas cards, so I made another one!  The greetings piece is a piece of chipboard.  Love it!  Another jingle bell!  What can I say!?!

I love my December DT kit from Memorable Seasons!  What until you see what else I'll be showing you this week!  A layout that I just LOVE!  ♥

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Why We ♥ Arizona

I scrapbooked another page on Mother's Day!  I recently won Echo Park's Hello Summer collection from The Scrap Review.  I really love the colors, especially on the backsides of the papers, so I just had to create a layout right away!  I had a bunch of collage prints from Arizona, so I put this page together.  I hand cut some banner pieces and some journaling strips.  I just think this page is so FUN!  I love how it turned out!

I hope you had a wonderful Mother's Day!  As always, thanks for stopping by!

FIVE layouts in one day!

I have some MAJOR crafting mojo going on Saturday!  It was raining and gloomy, so I stayed in my jammies and got my SCRAP on!  I completed FIVE layouts!  I had so much fun!  Here they are!

First, I worked on a challenge to mix collections from the same manufacturer.  This is about five or six collections from Fancy Pants!  I love this photo of Jessica!  She posed by the mascot of the high school on the day of her 8th grade graduation.  So FUNNY!

Next, this is gorgeous Emily all dressed up for one of her high school dances last year.  I let her choose the papers I used on her layout, and she chose My Mind's Eye Follow Your Heart.  Excellent choice!  I love the way this turned out!  She beautiful!

This layout is based on an old Sketchy Thursdays sketch.  I did some masking and misting!  This is all Basic Grey Lauderdale.  I love Arizona!  :)

This one is my favorite!  This is all Echo Park's Note To Self!  This is not a Christmas collection, but I created a Christmas layout!  I love the way this layout turned out!  I love my girls so much!  ♥

Last, I created a layout with pics from my last birthday.  The girls made me a delicious funfetti cake, decorated it, and sang to me!  We ate the cake after we got home from seeing The Hunger Games!  I really enjoyed my 46th birthday!  This is all My Mind's Eye Funday!  I love this kraft collection!

So, that's it!  FIVE layouts!  What FUN!!  I was very inspired yesterday!  I love when that happens!  I hope you all have a wonderful Mother's Day!  As always, thanks for stopping by!  :)

WCMD Cards

Wow, it's been a month since I updated my blog! Well, I haven't been creative lately. Just too much going on. I'm searching for a full-time job. That's a depressing process! Anyway, I made three cards yesterday for World Cardmaking Day. Epiphany Crafts issued a couple of challenges, and since I won some really cool Epiphany tools a while back from Cosmo Cricket, I decided to play along! I'm glad I did, because I WON one of the challenges! I am a very lucky lady! Anyway, all three of these cards has an Epiphany button on it! Their button makers are totally cool!

I hope you're having a great day! Thanks for stopping by!

Sketch Layouts!

I created all of these layouts using sketches by Stacey at Inspired to Scrap! If you've never taken one of her sketch clasess before, you don't know what you're missing!

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"A Bit Of Sunshine" kit layouts

This is the first layout I created using the "A Bit Of Sunshine" kit at Inspired to Scrap! I love this kit!! What a value! The Bella Blvd. Sophisticates collection is really nice! LOVE it! The kit also features Echo Park, Lily Bee Design, and American Crafts!

One of the layered American Crafts pieces that I got in the kit reminded me of the sun, so that's what I used it for! I hand cut the rays and inked them up with a little orange on the edges.


I love the Ciao Bella Blvd. chipboard pieces that come in this kit. I added a circle scallop that I cut with one of my Nestabilities templates under the chipboard. I love the way it looks! It's like a little flower!

There is some American Crafts tulle in the kit too, and I cut mine with the Nestabilities and then used some glimmer mist on the pieces! I love the way these flowers turned out! The glimmer mist worked really well on the tulle!

Here is my second layout using the kit! I love this photo! While we were on vacation in Arizona, Emily and Jessica would take silly self portraits on my camera! I, of course, love that! This is one of them! Classic! I love these two girls! ♥ The title is perfect for the photo!!

I just had to add googly eyes to the title! Googly eyes crack me up!!

So, I love this kit! Check it out in the Inspired to Scrap store! You will love it! I'll be working more with it this week! Check out the forum for more awesome DT layouts featuring this kit! As always, thanks for stopping by!

Kit Projects!

I created all three of these projects using an amazing kit that I got at Coordinates Collections called Blue Skies. Unfortunately, Coordinates Collections is closing down, but I still wanted to share my projects with you and tell you how much I loved using this kit!!

On the first layout, I did some misting, and then really played with the patterned papers in the kit! This was my first time using Echo Park papers. I did enjoy working with them! The Jillibean Soup corrugated shapes and the buttons were really fun to use too! I love that I added a Hollister gift card and a tag. To the right of the photo, you can see a little scalloped edge. That is actually the journaling hidden behind the photo. I didn't hide the journaling to be secretive, I hid it because I liked the way the page looked without it!

On the second page, I used colorful strips on the side to add some personality, and then I added a whole bunch of brads down the other side. Great way to use up some brads! I also detail cut some clouds from an American Crafts sheet of paper, and I used some pop dots to add some dimension to the cluster I added at the top of the page.

I then created a card using up some scraps on my desk. This is another rejected card that I submitted for the Paper Crafts sketches call. I love the way this turned out!

I hope you're having a great day! Thanks for stopping by!

Girls' Day Out!

I created this FUN layout with an amazing kit that I got at Inspired to Scrap!! I love the mix of papers and embellishments in this kit! Emily, Jessica, and I don't have too many "shopping" days (mostly because I don't like mall shopping . . . I much prefer to shop for scrapbooking supplies!), but recently we went to the mall to look around, and we had a lot of FUN! I snapped the pic of the three of us while we were at a stoplight, and I'm totally impressed with my camera phone! That's a great shot! We also picked up some Shamrock shakes on the way home! I love my girls, and spending some fun time with them is the BEST! I'm glad I created a page documenting our day!

I hope you're having a great day and enjoyed your weekend! Thanks for stopping by!

Echo Park For The Record cards

I recently got the Echo Park For The Record collection, and I really love it! I created these two cards using it. These cards are both rejects from the Paper Crafts sketches call. That's OK. I love them! :) The first card uses a Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous stamp. I love that sentiment!

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