Sweet

Happy Sunday friends! Hope you're having a restful and nice day. I know some of you are still experiencing the disgusting final death throws of old man winter :( I t really stinks to have a very late spring crazy winter snow storm come crashing through. I want to take a minute to brag on my daughter Sophia! She is an excellent dedicated student with a great determination and her fantastic grades demonstrate that. So much so that she is getting contacted by Ivy League colleges! She wants to be a vet and still has one more year of high school left, but we are very proud of her.

Onto my layout. This is for a few challenges on scrapbook.com as well as Lindy's April color challenge. Got it in on the last day! You can check out the color inspo and rules by clicking HERE for all the info, or on my sidebar :)

Aren't the colors like yummy candy! I manged to use all of the shades too :)

My papers are from Bluefern Studios, and they're a combo that I had in my stash. I did stenciling and misting along with splats of Lindy's.  Some background stamping and I popped my pic and the matting on foam for dimension and added my flowers. The title was cut with my cameo and is from the song Samson by Regina Spector. My hubby is my sweetest downfall :) and those shakes from Holstein's in Vegas are too! LOL! The little tag has my journaling which says - Enjoying a fun weekend in Vegas. We don't get away often, so this was fun! Holstein's was a great adventure. 11/13

Lindy Sprays

Raspberry lemonade
Blue Hawaiian blue
TiffanyLou blue
Jack frost
Curiouser Chartruese

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Show Me The Joy

Hi Friends! I'm here with a layout I did for a few challenges. The title was inspired by the music challenge over on scrapbook.com and the design itself is for More Than Words and Lind'ys Stamp Gang. Click on their names to go to their sites!

Here is the More Than Words inspo board -

Here is Lindy's color board -

This is my layout -

What's worthy of celebration more than love? My daughter and son-in-law have been married for five years now, and the bling is strong in this my friends! lol Some blingy dots and Glitter snow texture paste for some extra sparkle! The background got treated with lovely Lindy mists. The title is from the song Brother What Happened from Muddy Magnolias. The paper line is Bo Bunny's Woodland Winter. I cut the title with my cameo as well as the pretty trees and snowflakes.I used some stickles in the middle of a couple of the snowflakes. The ones in the top right corner are glittery foam. The page just says snowy fun and yes we do get lots of snow in the mountains here in so cali.

Lindy mists -

Glory of the seas gold
I'm late I'm late slate
Steel shimmer
Down the rabbit hole
Creme brulee cream

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out these great challenge sites!

Memories

Hey friends! Hope this finds you all well :) Before I go any further I just want to share about our sweet furbaby Bruno. He passed last night, just shy of his 11th. He is loved and will be missed so very much. This is one of his first pics and the other was just last week. Bulldogs don't have very long lifespans so we feel very blessed that he shared his life with us for as long as he did. Look at him with a paci -

My layout this week was inspired by the music challenge over at scrapbook.com. My song was from Wiz Khalifa, When I See You Again. All the song choices were from movies for this round. I will also be putting it in the More Than Words Challenge, and Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge # RRR139

Here is the mood board for More Than Words, oh and please click here or my sidebar to visit and participate!

I pulled the blueish color from the edge of the sky for inspo. I've really been feeling that color lately. The word escape is found in my choice of subject, memories. Memories are so very powerful and you can escape sorrow or anger, feel joy and happiness just by thinking of past memories.

Here is my layout -

 I LOVE banners, I just love them :) I decided to incorporate my pics as part of the banner and was able to get all these wonderful memories on there because of that! These are my kids and grandkids through the years of fun we've had together.

I used BoBunny's Welcome Home line along with Prima flowers and a chippie. Some ribbon and flat back pearls tie it together. I did a scattering of dots with Liquid Pearls for some extra sumpin sumpin. The verse I typed and then printed cut and inked and popped with foam squares. I cut a pretty little butterly out and put some stickles for sparkle. I'm pretty happy with it.

To view Really Reasonable Ribbon's challenge just click on their name, it's number RRR139 Things With Wings.

Happy Fall Ya'll!

Well hello friends! I'm here to share this fun fall layout I did for the Autumn Bliss challenge on Scrapbook.com. I'm also putting it in the hoard challenge too since I used a Bo Bunny line that I've had for a few years. I have decided to really try and be conscientious about using my stash which is at an insane level. There is also a video to go along with this layout. Here are the pics -

I made the metal mat with an embossing folder and metal tape that you can get at Home Depot or Lowes. I then stained it with Distress stains, alcohol inks and some brown paint. The flowers and leaves were made with a combo of Tim Holtz Tattered Leaves, Susan's Garden, Heartfelt Creations stamps and die sets Sun Kissed Fleur and Delicate Aster. The flourishes are Tim Holtz Elegant Flourishes die. There's some faint stamping in the background, Prima's brick stamp and Stampin Up's French letter stamp. I cut the title with my cricut using my gypsy to weld the letters from the Ashley cart and the twig from the gypsy wanderings cart that came with the gypsy. This was a great memory apple picking last year at the local orchards. As you can see my kids are big time hams!

My video -


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Dance Like Uma!

Hi friends and a happy Friday to you! Phew the weekend, love it! I'm here with such a fun challenge I participated in over at Scrapbook.com. It's a song challenge and how it worked is the person who signed up AFTER you picked the song you had to scrap. Your choice of how, title, verse, group who sang it, whatever you wanted. My song was Uma Thurman by Fallout Boy! Wow, talk about fun! At first I'm cutting the lyrics up and seeing what popped out at me. Well, then my personality kicked in and I said "Self cut the bull and do what this is calling for!!!" Campy goodness here we come -

This took a bit of moving moving moving till we arrived here. What was in my head just didn't wanna translate to the layout. In some of the close-ups you can see the texture paste stenciling which is pretty much covered up by the pics and center matting. Again what I started and pictured just wasn't working so only a little peek here and there is popping through. The paper is a real flashback Friday, Bo Bunny's Enchanted. What a pretty line that has just been sitting in my stash. I'm going to put this in the hoarding challenge too. I used my cricut and Jasmine cart for the title as well as little rhinestones from my stash. The black flower I've had since the dawn of time, I cut it in half and tucked it in the two spots. My other flowers are from I Am Roses (rose buds and little cherry blossoms) and the pretty center one is from Prima. I sprayed the little ones with some Lindy's.The only real pop of color is that pretty little red butterfly that I printed up. Really, you know I need to put one somewhere ;)

Happy weekend folks! Thanks for looking,

Outlander Layout and A Wedding Card

Welcome friends! Today I have a layout and a card to share with you. Over at Swirlydoos kit club there's a great challenge going on. It's excellent books! Well, I couldn't pass that up, I have a book blog for heavens sake! Have you visited Swirlydoos yet? Go check them out, what a great kit club it is, just click *HERE* for all the info, and click *HERE* for the challenge.

It's a good bet I'll be doing more than one layout for this challenge since I have a few really fave books :) but for now my layout is about Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. Have you read it? Did you know that Starz has made it a series? Oh yes my friends and it is really good too! Ok, down to business, here's my layout -

I used the Spring Chic kit. What a gorgeous kit, stuffed with lucious goodies, like that pretty chippie from Creative Embellishments that I embossed in gold. The sweet little wood comb and all the flowers but for the maroon ones. I did some random punching of the edge and layered some banner cut mats under the pics of Jamie and Claire. The die cut swirls are Spellbinders Romantic vine. Lots of fun for sure.

I also made a wedding card for my cousin. I'm so lazy and should have had this done a couple of months ago. I really like how it came -

This background die from Spellbinders is just stunning. I layered it on top of glitter paper then a silver foil paper, two more times, and my quote I typed and printed up then cut with my nestability dies and edged with perfect pearls. The little butterflies were cut with the cricut.

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