Blog Candy!

I was blog hopping again today (usually I only allow myself to do so Thursdays otherwise I would not get much done) and I stumbled across this awesome give away and just wanted to share it with you, cuz it is a really neat pile of goodies, you won't want to miss out. So hop on over to Stacy's blog and leave her some love, she's celebrating the one year anniversary of her blog! And mention I sent you, as that will be us BOTH a chance to win some goodies! I will be celebrating my one year blog anniversary in a month, and it got me to thinking what can I do as a giveaway? Better think of something fun, so stay tuned, we'll have a great celebration in September! Happy Monday and have a spectacular week everyone!

Six Degrees of Separation

Finally I can share my top secret creation with you. I participated in a really fun game over at the Personalscrapper message board hosted by Amy. During this game we were emailed a layout and given 3 days to scraplift it. We then emailed our lift back to Amy who sent it on to the next player. All in all the original layout was scraplifted SIX times! It was so fun to see what we started with and what we ended with! I was actually the first player to lift so I lifted Amy's layout directly. You can see her layout here. We were not allowed to post the layout until the game is complete so now that it is complete I can show off my Perfect Pick layout. Once again, I am doing a Fall layout...tells you what I am dreaming of huh? I used the November 2008 Personalscrapper kit featuring Crate Paper Lemongrass papers for this layout. I love that little birdie rub on! This is my son and brother at our fav pumpkin patch Valla's in Gretna, Nebraska. Looking forward to going back this fall! Have a great weekend 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!

Dreaming of Fall!

Are you ready for Fall yet? I hate to say it but I am. I am tired of the heat, and I am ready to stop mowing the grass! LOL! I can't wait to decorate my house with Fall themed things once again, watch some football, decorate pumpkins, visit the pumpkin patch, yes, I'm ready for fall! So when I started work on this weeks sketch over at 52 sketches I was in a Fall mood. I remembered a picture I had taken last Fall after I finished decorating my entryway and after much searching finally located it and this layout was born. Using sketch #31 it uses Fancy Pants Kraft and All Fall papers as well as Creative Imaginations letters and 7 gypsies stickers for embellishments. I really like the way it turned out. The flowers I had cut from a scrap of Pink Paislee Spring Fling paper and they ended up working well here. I am still busily working on organizing for the August 22nd crop I am attending, my goal folks is 12 layouts...that's a layout an hour...any bets, ya think I can do it? If so it would be a Lisa record. LOL! I am hoping to get to work on this awesome sketch this week if so that would make two layouts this week, as I like to try and do the 52 sketches sketch each week as well...but something about the Creative Scrappers sketch really caught my eye. Well gotta run, hi ho hi ho, it's off to mow I go! Now do you see why I am missing Fall?!!!

My wish list!

I was surfing the web today and found these awesome border punches by Fiskars....I want them all but I especially want the upper crest border punch! Hope everyone has a great weekend!

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!

Happy Happy Monday!

I can't believe it is already Monday again! I did a bunch of scrapping this weekend, but I only have one layout to show you....why you ask? Well, it is top secret my friends...now those of you who know me know that I stink at keeping a secret so if you call me up and twist my arm a bit I might let the cat out of the bag, but in the meanwhile, lets just say I will share it when the higher ups allow me to..how's that for spy talk?! This layout was inpsired by one of my fav bloggers, Wendi, I saw a layout she did that had these cute little surfboards all cut out and I decided I had to do it to...so this layout is a lift on her Ocean lover layout! I just love being inspired by little things like that. This page uses a journaling block from Fancy Pants' summer soiree line and papers and embellishments from Scenic Route's Grafton line (which is one sale at the Scenic Route store if you missed out on this great line!) This is my son on our June vacation this year in Cocoa Beach. He is just looking so grown up don't ya think? I still have a wee bit of this paper left and I am sure gonna miss it when its gone! Have you ever felt that way about paper????? I know strange huh? I have lots to do at work this week so doubt I will scrap much, plus, my son is hosting a sleepover with a few friends this weekend, so gotta prepare for that, but hey, it will give me scrappin' time while they are gaming it up! I am also preparing for an all day crop event I will be attending on August 22nd, I am super excited about this and hope by being organized I can actually get a lot done! LOL! That's what I tell myself anyway! So if you are in the Fort Worth area and want to come crop with us go here and register, I would love to crop with you...the more the merrier! Hope to see you there!