Addie's Challenge

This will be my last layout posted for the next several days as I am in full packing mode getting ready for some beachy R & R, but wanted to share with you one of my LOAD contest layouts. This layout was created for Addie's challenge, which was to scraplift a layout she posted by Kelly Goree. You can check out Addie's layout out here Her layout is just so awesome that it inspired me to eek out one layout before delving into my packing full speed ahead. The papers used here are by Fancy Pants their Delight line all of which can be found in the May kit over at Personalscrapper If you think these papers are awesome head on over and check out the June kit, it is super fun, can't wait to get my hands on it! I am sure you will be seeing some of it in my upcoming posts! Well, back to packing!

More sketch goodness!

I just realized I hadn't shared my layout inspired by sketch #18 from 52 sketches/52 weeks. I am really becoming a circle lover because of this site! I love October Afternoon papers and embellishments and knew just what I wanted to do with this Home Sweet Home sticker when I first saw it, it just took me a few months to actually Git'R dun! The letters and swirls were cut on the Cricut using the Graphically Speaking cartridge. What inspired me to get this layout done finally was the Mother's Day crop at Personalscrapper. The challenge was to use a definition on your page, and I immediately thought of these stickers and voila! I was inspired to put thought to paper! Off to go work on some cards tonight, gotta get them in the mail for some upcoming birthdays and anniversaries before I leave on vacation! Keep checking in, I'll try to share them here soon!

June Card Maps

I was so excited to have one of my cards featured on the Page Maps site for June. As everyone knows I love using sketches for my scrapbook pages and my cards are no different. Becky's sketches are some of the best and make papercrafting so much easier and fun, no matter if you are making a card or a single or double scrapbook page. Go check out all the awesome eye candy for June. And a special shout out to a fellow Personalscrapper pal of mine Mel. You can see her SUPER AWESOME double page layout called RELAY on the Page Maps site for June. Her photos she used on this layout are just awesome! Great job Mel! June is going to be a busy and exciting month for me, I got my card featured on the Page Maps site, we are going to Florida for some much needed R & R in a few days and Personalscrapper is having a LOAD contest (LayOut A Day) for this month, that means I am being challenged to create 30 pages for this month! WOW! Hope I'm up to it! Despite how many I actually end up creating, it is such a fun contest and besides the awesome prizes that will be up for grabs it is a chance to get your mojo flowing as each day a fun and innovative challenge is posted by a different member. I am working on mine and I almost have it done, but I can't reveal it until my challenge day on the 13th...so you'll have to wait til then! In the meanwhile I am working on completing today's challenge called the HAPPY CHALLENGE..it is to create a layout that makes you happy whether it be the photo, the paper or actually a page about something that makes you happy..what a fun challenge huh? I hope to finish mine before I leave in 2 days and share it with you, but if not look for it when I get back! Well, I'm off to fold some laundry and work on my layout!

Enabler Alert!

Ok, so my scrapping time hasn't been what I was hoping for the last day or so, too much to do to get ready for my upcoming vacation. But I did want to pop on with a quick note and to share some eye candy with everyone and maybe do a bit of enabling at the same time! I have always liked Pebbles Inc's products and their kits are really good buys. It seems they are getting ready to release a new line called Lil' Miss...it is really adorable, great for girls of any age. You can check out it out on the Pebbles blog They are also going to be releasing a Lil' Buddy line soon for those of you who have boys too! So keep checking out their blog...oh, and if you hop on over to their blog and leave a comment you can be entered to win the Lil' Miss line, and who doesn't like free goodies?!

Use your stash Tuesday!

For today's use your stash Tuesday I created a layout based on sketch #20 from my fav sketch site . This sketch was a real simple but versatile sketch, so many ways to interpret it. I choose some of my fav photos of myself and my son from 2008 (actually I think these are THE ONLY photos of us together in 2008). I used Pink Paislee papers from the Spring Fling line that I purchased well over a year ago when the line first came out. I really loved them, but was hoarding them for some reason, probably waiting for "JUST THE RIGHT" photos LOL! The other older things from my stash which I was excited to use were the round bingo tiles...I covered the middle of two of them with a 1/2 punched circle and used a heart sticker for the middle of the flower and the "LOVE" in the "Love U". I have had these for well over 8 or 9 yrs and just never used them, don't you think they look great like this? I especially loved the one in the middle of the flower. The quote is one I got free at a Quick Quotes class I took 4-5 yrs ago, I thought it was fitting for this page. The word "MOMENTS" is a fabric sticker that I got 3-4 yrs ago and never used, but now have used almost the entire lot of them. The chipboard under the flower is from my winnings from Emma's challenge. I LOVE using up my older stash...trying to destash so I can purchase some of these and some of this and a little bit of that! Can you tell I'm gearing up to scrap some awesome summer pics? I just love scrapbooking my water pics. We are leaving for vacation to sunny Florida in just 10 days, so I will have plenty of uses for these yummy goodies! Plus we are gearing up for another LOAD (LayOut A Day) contest over at Personalscrapper so I hope to get a LOT of scrapping done and use up some more stash during this month long contest in June! Hope you will be able to play along with me!

Let the summer begin!

Today seemed like the official start of summer here in the Great State of Texas...as you can see we kicked off our Memorial Day weekend with a fun game of tball. The entire family came together to cheer Ryan on for his first game of the season. As you can see he spent considerable time playing in the dirt as well as hitting the ball. I'm sure he will catch on soon. Then the boys decided since we were kicking off the summer they had better head over to Granny and Grandpa's pool. They had a blast, the cooler water didn't seem to faze them a bit. It was a beautiful evening here tonight, but we made it home just in time, because as I write this it has begun to rain! Lucky us...just in the nick of time. We are hoping it clears out for tomorrow as we are headed to the waterpark tomorrow afternoon if God's willing and the creek don't rise as they say! Have a wonderful holiday weekend, not much scrappin' happening right now...maybe more next week!

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!