Friday's Featured Blogger

Today's featured blogger is another of member of Personalscrapper. Joni always has a creative and inpsirational take on any of the challenges over at Personalscrapper. I love her fun, clean style. Here is one of my most recent favs she did using her circle punches. And that stripe is not paper but material! How creative. This is another creative layout. I plan to lift it when I finish up my son's Kindergarten pages, which I am working on now.(I know I'm a bit behind!) LOL! So go see for yourself, check out Joni's fun place here!

Friday's Featured Blogger

Today's featured blogger is an awesome scrapbooker and I have followed her work for quit sometime. I first fell in love with Star's work in February during an online crop at Personalscrapper. She created so many awesome layouts I wanted to lift everyone of them! My fav called UR A TOTALLY SWEET KID, can be found here. Besides creating awesome layouts she takes some darn good pictures. Her style is fun and each layout is surprise...by that I mean there are some scrappers I can just identify their layouts easily without looking at the artist's name, but Star's layouts are all so different and astounding which shows the broad reach of her style, which is why I think it will appeal to scrappers of any style, from detailed/ornate to simple and clean. So hop on over to Star's blog and show her some love. I know you will find some awesome layouts you too will want to lift!

Friday's Featured Blogger

I am so excited to share today's featured blogger with you. Most of you have seen her AWESOME work somewhere but I didn't know she had a blog until a few weeks ago! I just love her stunning layouts! I mean you need to grab a drink and kick back for awhile, take the phone off the hook ladies, you won't want to leave Kelly's blog! Kelly Noel is an awesome designer. Her work shows beautiful detail, yet the photos are not lost in it! Here is my all time fav of hers (SILLY HATS), just LOVE this mix of patterns! I have got to lift that one for sure! And then there are THESE awesome layouts using my fav Cosmo Cricket line Early Bird and Cherry Hill from my fav paper company October Afternoon! There is SOOO much to see at Kelly's blog, so hop on over and ENJOY! Have a fun weekend everyone!

Friday's Featured Blogger

Sorry, no eye candy on my blog today, I'm all tapped out! However, if you came here looking for inspiration I can still help you out. Today's featured blogger is Delana over at EMBELLISHED MEMORIES. Isn't that an awesome blog name? When I saw the name on a blog roll it jumped right out at me and I had to check it out, so glad I did too. I love all Delaina's awesome work. My fav is this layout which features an awesome hand cut tree, makes me want to rush right out and get some of those awesome Jillibean soup papers! Each post is brimming with creativity! You can see a few more of my favs here and here! So you know the drill....hop on over to Delaina's blog and leave her some love and be inspired! That's all folks!

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Wow! This week has flown by. I didn't get much creating done until last night when I finished a layout except for the journaling, which I hope to finish after work and take a picture of so I can post it tomorrow or tonight. What I did get done was A LOT of organization. I literally cleaned out my ENTIRE scraproom. I got everything cleared out I no longer wanted and posted to ebay. Which by the way has almost all sold and is no longer in my house! YEAH! I really made nothing on most of it, but then I would have given it away if someone wanted to come haul it off! LOL! I just wanted it out of my room and into the arms of someone who will enjoy it and use it, so right now there are several scrapbookers who are so excited to have new stuff at a BARGAIN price to play with. And it's out of my house, I made a few bucks for my upcoming vacation, paid my ebay and paypal fees and now I can get back to creating, what I love the most! It is just in time too Personalscrapper is having an online crop this weekend and I am planning on doing several of the 16 challenges. Stop and crop with us if you want to, just go here to sign up!
Now, on to Friday's featured blogger. Today we are featuring Tanya at Moment Captured. Her motto is "It's the little things that matter most", how true isn't it. I love her simple style that lets her photos shine through, and shows me that you can create a lovely page without spending hours doing so. I stumbled upon her blog when she was announced as one of the new DT members over at 52 sketches. So hop on over and check out her blog, you can see a few of my fav layouts here and here. Enjoy!

Friday's Featured Blogger and we have a winner!

It's Friday again and time for Friday's Featured Blogger! I wanted to share with you today's featured blogger who has an awesome sketch site that I happened upon this week. It is called Sketchy Thursdays. I just love sketches and the sketches here are just awesome...but even more awesome are the prizes they are giving away! This weeks prize is from Unity Stamp Company, which until now I had not heard of. I checked out their website and found tons of inspiration, gorgeous jaw dropping stamps and loads of fun info on their site as well. So if you like sketches stop by Sketchy Thursdays for some great sketches to use on your next layout, and hey, maybe you will win a prize too! I am hoping to get to play with some of their sketches real soon!
Now onto my blog candy winner....thanks to all who signed up as followers and who left me well wishes on my blog birthday. But even though I hate to just pick one winner the one randomly picked winner is ........................SHELLY! Contact me with your info to claim your fun prize. I am planning a another fun giveaway when I hit 25,000 hits so keep tuning in, we might get there soon! Have a great weekend everyone!

Friday's Featured Blogger

I almost thought I wouldn't have a featured blogger today cuz I didn't have much time to do a lot of blog hopping this last week, but low and behold I stumbled upon another awesome blogger by chance again just yesterday. Today's featured blogger has so many awesome layouts you can spend hours looking at them all. But look here you can find one of my most favorite ones, its called 2 pals and uses some of the Sassafrass Lass new stuff. I just adore this cute picture of a little girl and her kitty! So so sweet! And this friends page is another work of art! Love the fun patterns and colors from the Basic Grey June Bug line! So please hop on over and visit today's fun blog "HOW DID I END UP HERE?", love this name don't you! Too too fun! TGIF everyone and if you know of a fun and exciting papercrafting blog for me to share for a Friday's Featured blogger please drop me a note or leave me a comment, its so much fun to share all the creativity and inspiration out there in blogo land!

Friday's Featured Blogger

Happy Happy Friday everyone! I don't know about you, but when I am creating anymore I am usually pressed for time and don't have whole gobs of time to work on my project. Therefore, I usually keep my projects pretty simple. Today's featured bloggers are also short,sweet, CLEAN AND SIMPLE artists as well, in fact that is the name of the blog CLEAN and SIMPLE! This blog has several contributors all with a great simple sense of style. It is a great card blog and features many simply striking cards and stamping techniques. Look here to see one of the reasons I was taken with this blog. Here is another on of my favs as well. This beautiful card features a stamp set designed by another Friday's featured blogger from months past Dawn McVey. Go hop on over and see for yourself just how gorgeous simple can be! And speaking of simple my layout for today was created for the 20 minute challenge over at Personalscrapper's August online crop. This page features Fancy Pants' Summer Soiree line and was lifted from the Fancy Pants blog. I just LOVE it and yet it is so totally simple! So if you have some time this week challenge yourself to create a simple card or layout and leave a link here in the comments sections, we'd love to see what you come up with!

Friday's Featured Blogger

TGIF everyone! Aren't ya glad its Friday? We sure are in our house! It has been a busy week, starting a new school and getting back into a routine again...oh, the lazy days of summer seem to be gone, but wait...it's still 90+ degrees outside still warm enough for swimming and our fav waterpark! We plan on hitting the waterpark first thing tomorrow morning for a fun time and to cool off and blow off some steam, then my son is off to the Cowboys game with some good friends while I stay home and find something to do (How about scrapbook! LOL!) Today I wanted to share an awesome card blog I found recently with you. I have gotten away from making cards as much as I used to it seems but when I do I really want them to be quick, cute and simple! So when I found Jen's blog Simple and Sincere I was so excited! Her cards are just that, simple, cute and EZ peasy to make! So hop on over the her blog and check out all her lovely card candy! Here is one of my fav cards using the Stampin' Up set called Trendy Trees (which I plan to buy soon) I think it would make a great male or female card! And HERE is another one of my favs cards of Jen's and isn't that little gift bag just the cutest thing? LOVE IT...makes me want to get ready for Christmas right now! Have a Happy Happy Friday everyone!

Friday's Featured Blogger

Summer continues to fly right on by. We are off to the waterpark tomorrow to celebrate the last remaining days of summer. We've been watching football and getting those school supplies all ready. Today we attended Middle School orientation..wow...the summer is almost gone. Now onto Friday's featured blogger. I was so excited when blog hopping yesterday I stumbled upon Wendy Smith's blog. She is from Australia and has some stunning layouts on her blog. The first thing that caught my eye was the attention to detail and all the clusters of embellishments she uses on her layouts. Plus, she has some AWESOME boy layouts and some of them even include flowers! And I am always on the look out for boy pages. Her layouts will give me lots of inpsiration for our upcoming online crop at Personalscrapper next week. I am hoping to get a lot done cropping with my online buddies and also cropping IRL with my scrappy girlfriends at the Scrapbooks on the Go All Day Crop Event next weekend, there are still spots left so go here to register! Hope to see you at one of these fun crops! Have an awesome Friday everyone!

Friday's Featured Blogger

TGIF! Today's featured blogger I have followed for a long while. I LOVE the simplicity of her designs in both cards and layouts. Lately I have really enjoyed seeing the layouts she has designed for Jillibean Soup. Laura's layouts always brilliantly focus you on the pictures not the product. Her style is also fun and playful. Here is a great Christmas layout, one of the first layouts I just fell in love with of Laura's. Here is one of my fav Jillibean soup layouts she has done. And some AWESOME cards using Jillibean soup supplies. And what about THIS layout using some new Adornit products! I am sure you will want to keep coming back to Laura's blog to check out all here latest inspiration! Enjoy!

Friday's Featured Sketchy Blogger

Sticking with the sketchy theme today, Friday's Featured Blogger is an excellent sketch artist and her blog MY LITTLE SKETCHBOOK which features the most awesome sketches. I just discovered Liz's blog so I have not had time yet to play with any of her sketches, but hope to this weekend. I have one all picked out and am excited to get some scrapping time to use it this weekend. Not only does she have some great sketches on her blog but awesome layouts showcasing these sketches as well. She usually posts new sketches each Sunday so mark it as one of your favs and stop by often for new inspiration! If you use one of her sketches please share with the rest of us and post a link to it here in the comments section! Can't wait to see what you create! Check back soon to see my layout inpsired by one of Liz's sketches!

Friday's Featured Blogger with more sneak peeks!

So I don't really have a layout to share like I thought I would today. I have been working on TWO layouts at once (why? you ask...I have no earthly idea) and this seems to slow me down,as I flit from one to other, never completing anything...it is driving me nuts and I am determined to finish them tomorrow as tonight we have plans to go see G Force with my nephew and then he is sleeping over, so the boys and I plan on a fun evening together. So today's featured blogger is a newer company called Jillibean Soup...beautiful products and now they are offering a sneak of their soon to be releases...WOW! Love them! I love the basics line they will be offering soon and the Christmas line...OMG, it is FUN FUN FUN! So hop on over to their blog, they have sneak peeks, great layout examples AND sometimes even give aways of their awesome products, go CHECK IT OUT PEOPLE!
I can't let the day go by without wishing my friend Angie a HAPPY BIRTHDAY! This a picture of her last week with her son who is not a very cooperative photographic subject! LOL! Happy Birthday Angie! Hope your day is the best!

Friday's Featured Blogger and a lift

Today's awesome blogger is Wendi from Scrappy Day in Paradise. I stumbled upon her blog while blogging hopping the other day and just knew I had to lift some of her AWESOME layouts! Not only does she do beautiful layouts but her cards are out of this world as well! The layout above is a lift of her layout entitled "MY BEACH BOY". The papers used are by My Minds Eye Breaking Free line as are the die cut elements. This line is featured in Personalscrapper's June kit and I fell in love with this line when I saw it. Knowing we were going to the beach soon, I knew I would put it to good use! These pictures are of my son's first time in the ocean. For my journaling I once again did my fav technique of hiding it behind my picture. This journal jotter is from Creative Chaos' etsy shop, made by my good friend Jenn who sent me this particular one when I was the recipient of her most recent blog candy give away! Thanks Jenn! So hop on over before your fourth of July festivities to take a gander at Wendi's awesome blog. Have a safe and Happy Fourth of July everyone! Take some time today to reflect the wonderful blessing of freedom we enjoy in our great country!

Friday's Featured Blogger

Today's featured blog is another new blog I came across while blog hopping. I like to take a few moments every Thursday night to visit blogs that I have never been to before, and usually I find at least one or two that I really enjoy and gain a lot of inpsiration from. This week one such find was Ginger's blog KODAK MOMENTS. I really enjoyed her sketches and her layouts and cards are AMAZING. If you are looking for some inspiration visit her blog, it will keep you "oohing and aahing" for hours!
Now for one layout I managed to get done tonight while listening to some rock and roll played out on Guitar Hero by my son and his friend! This layout was for a really zany and fun challenge for June 23rd by Sheila over at the Personalscrapper board. The challenge was to create a layout using the colors in your toothbrush! My toothbrush is turquoise, orange and lime green, so I used the Fancy Pants Delight papers from my May kit to create this page. I'm just glad my toothbrush wasn't all white, what a boring layout that would make! These 3 pictures are my favs of my son, niece and nephew from 2009. Enjoy your weekend, we are heading out to the waterpark this weekend to get a break from the heat!

Friday's Featured Blogger

One of my favorite past times is blog hopping, something I wish I had more time for! I have been a long time follower of the October Afternoon blog and it is today's featured blog. I chose it because they are one of my favorite scrapbooking lines and they have great exmples of how to use their products on their blog. They are currently featuring one of their newest lines called Road Map and offering a give away of some of this newest line! Road Map is a delicious combo of bold and bright colors and iconic symbols that just make you want to jump in the car and take a road trip! I especially love the journaling blocks and the fun themed stickers! Until Road Map came along my fav October Afternoon line was Weather Vane. I love the earth tone colors in this line as well as this layout I created with it! I know I've posted it before but it truly is one of my fav layouts I have done! So hop right on over to the October Afternoon blog and get yourself registered for some blog candy, I did!

Friday's Featured Blogger

Hello everyone! I just love Friday's don't you? We are relaxing on a beautiful beach here in sunny Cocoa Beach Florida and since I have no way to post my lovely pictures I have taken so far I wanted to share with you one my fav blogs I stumbled across a few weeks ago. Melanie has some gorgeous and stunning layouts featured on her blog Random Ramblings, you have got to go check it out! She has so many awesome layouts but my favorite thing about her blog, is the newer lines that she uses. I love the layouts featuring Cosmo Cricket's Early Bird and Snorkel as well as Basic Grey's Lime Rickey! Of course, all this enabling isn't too easy on my pocketbook, but who can resist such yummy colors and beautiful prints? So enjoy this awesome eye candy until I get back. Not sure if I will check in again or not, but I will be back soon refreshed and ready for some serious scrapping to catch up with Personalscrapper's LOAD contest! TGIF!

Friday's Featured Blogger

Today's featured blogger is a wonderful designer, has created some awesome pages using Basic Grey products and has the NEW releases for Basic Grey on her blog at this time...hop on over at check it out. Kelly Goree's blog is just awesome, lots of inspiration and enabling there. Not only has Basic Grey released two new lines, but they are releasing new products as well. My favs are the woolies and doilies, but then who doesn't love felt and die cut paper? You can check samples of them out here and here to see what I am talking about (these two where my favs!). I must say I am not the hugest Basic Grey fan out there but these new products I do really like. My current favorite line by Basic Grey at the moment is Marrakech, the colors are just lovely. Orange and blues together is really appealing to me right now, they are so versatile as far as the different seasons go and look great with outdoor pictures. Hope you have a GREAT Friday, drop me a comment and let me know what your fav Basic Grey line is, would love to know!

There are still FREE things in this world!

Who would believe it,but there are still free things in this world and I found one while blog hopping this morning! The team at The Scrap Room is offering a FREE sketches class starting May 1st. I signed up and you can too! Just visit their blog at http://thescraproomblog.blogspot.com It is open to everyone not just club members and all you have to do is join the message board which is free too! So hop on over and sign up, hope to see you there!

Friday's Featured Blogger

Hello from CKC St. Louis! Wanted to take a minute to check in and say hi! We are having a lot of fun, wonderful classes last night and today and looking forward to the PaperCrafts swap tonight...can't wait to see all the wonderful cards everyone has created! I will definitely share when I get home in a couple of days. I am about worn out for today and we still have a few classes to go! Only taking 3 classes tomorrow so hope to get in a bunch of shopping then. Since I can't post any pictures today I wanted to take this opportunity to feature a wonderful blog that I know you will all LOVE...its the Scenic Route blog by Sarah Milne. You can check it out here: http://sarahmilne.typepad.com/scenicroute/ Her blog features products we have all grown to love from Scenic Route Paper Company. I took 3 classes from Sarah today and they were all awesome, top of the line layouts, wonderfully designed and beautiful colors. I know we all have some Scenic Route stash, so her blog is a great source of inspiration so you can be inspired to use up some of these beautiful papers. We got to work with many of the awesome lines from Scenic Route, including Sonoma, Surprise, Appleton and many more...you are going to be knocked over when I show you what we created (or shall I say I attempted to create, as usual I never finish everything in the short class period, so I will hopefully be finishing some of it up tonight and tomorrow!). So in my absence the next few days go check out Sarah's blog and I'll be back to share all my great finds and creations in a few more days! Have a great weekend everyone!