Designer Spotlight at Scrapbook Expo

I am so honored to be featured on the Designer Spotlight series over at Scrapbook Expo!  I always love doing featured posts because it's makes me stop and reflect on this amazing hobby and all of the amazing friends I have met along the way.  You can read some fun facts about me, and see some of my recent favorite projects over on the Scrapbook Expo blog!  And a great big thank you to the super sweet Paige Evans for featuring me and my work!!  xoxo

Guest Designing: Kerri Bradford Studio Part I

Hello!!  Happy Monday!  I'm guest designing over at Kerri Bradford Studio today and tomorrow.  Kerri emailed me a while back and asked if I would be interested in "playing over at her house", and OF COURSE, I said yes!!  :)  Kerri makes the most beautiful cut files and printables and I really just loved creating with them.  Hop on over to her blog to see my first layout!  I'll be back tomorrow with another one!!  

guest designer: we r memory keepers

have you seen the new chalkboard collection from we r memory keepers?  

simply amazing.  soft pastels and warm blacks!  

i was so fortunate to be able to play around with this beautiful collection shortly after CHA.  today, i'm sharing two layouts i created on the wrmk blog!  

here's a little sneak peek of what's in store on their blog today!!

hope you can stop on by!!

paislee press: guest project life contributor

i am so excited to be sharing my week 32 of project life on the paislee press blog today!!

here's a little peek..

stop on by the paislee press blog for many more photos and a few fun tips!!

guest designer: pink paislee

i am so honored to be a guest designer at pink paislee today!!  i got to play around with the awesome new "hey kid" collection and let me tell you....it is just awesome!!  the colors are vibrant and all of the little bits and pieces to the collection are amazing!!

here are a few sneaks of my projects....be sure to hop on over to the pink paislee blog to see more!!

glitz design: back to school...

 hello friday!  where did you come from? '

does it seem like summer is passing us by or is that just me??

preschool is on our mind here and that's perfect for glitz design this week!

it's all about "back to school" at glitz and there is nothing more that i love than my children's artwork.  my daughter is an avid drawer and she either paints or draws me awesome pictures each week.  it's usually a picture of mermaids or a family of mermaids, which is her favorite right now!!!

so...in honor of "back to school" week at glitz, i decided to document a few of her favorite drawings!!  

here is a look at my layout using the newly released finnley collection from glitz!!!

featured guest: come on get crafty

i'm a big fan of the girls over at come on get crafty so when nicole invited me to be their featured guest this month, i said definitely!

the come on get crafty shop is full of my favorite things....crafty bits, sequins, wood chips.  i got to play around with some of the papers, embellishments and other goodies and created this super girly layout.

here is a little peek of my layout...

stop by the come on get crafty blog to see my entire layout! 

happy friday everyone!

xoxo

more CHA fun....webster's pages

i was so excited to be able to play around with Adrienne Looman's new collection New Year, New You for CHA this year.  the colors are so beautiful and i love the light and airy feel they give when put on a piece of paper.  

i created three layouts using this collection and they are all showcased on the webster's pages blog today.  be sure to stop by to check them so you can enter to win the whole collection.

here is a look at one of my layouts...

aren't the colors so beautiful?  i just love how soft and dreamy they look!!

thanks so much for stopping by today!  hope your weekend is off to a great start!

xoxo

featured designer: life.paper.scrapbook

happy wednesday!  i am so excited to be featured on the life.paper.scrapbook site today.  i have watched the life.paper.scrapbook site and online magazine develop over this year and it's been pretty amazing.  manda and her team have done an awesome job.  i hope you can stop over!!

xoxo

my space....

i'm so excited to be sharing a little peek at my craft space on the studio calico blog today.  pop on over to check out where i spend most of my "free" time!!  :)

studio calico: project life week 19 and 20

i'm all caught up through week 22 of project life, but i never got around to sharing the weeks i made using the studio calico roundabout project life kit and cumberland gap project life add on.

like always, the project life kits are pretty awesome.  the colors are amazing and just so fun.

here is a look at week 19....

the "awesome" card in the top left was actually on a 3x4 card.  i cut out all of the letters and sewed them together to make a little title card fort his page!  i love how it turned out and i love the colors!

i cut the "rain rain go away" with my silhouette.  it rained ALOT this week and my little man loved walking around with the umbrella.  such a cutie!

i used the fun frame stamp from the roundabout project life kit to create a little picture window.  after i cut it out i lightly painted the white cardstock with my watercolors to give it a little color.

i also added a flip up card to include a recipe of our homemade granola.  i would love it if my mom would have recorded our favorite meals and foods.  how fun would that be!!!  :)

and this is week 20...

i used a mix of the cumberland gap project life kit, savannah shore add on and outer banks add on for this spread.  they all go together so well and i love throwing everything together!!

(that picture of my son on the top is how he prays at dinner time.  how cute is that???? hee hee)

and that's it!!  thanks so much for stopping by today!!  happy happy tuesday!  i'll be back later in the week to share my week 22.  

xoxoxo

studio calico: june's guest designer

i loved being a guest designer at studio calico this month.  i always love their kits and this month was definitely no exception!  i literally couldn't stop creating!  thankfully there was a deadline.  otherwise, i'm sure i would still be playing away.

today, i thought i would share the layouts i created using the roundabout scrapbook kit, the savannah shore scrapbook add-on and the outer banks scrapbook add-on.

since there are so many to peruse, i'll just add the pictures here.  if you'd like to know more about how i created a page or have any questions, please leave me a comment.  you can also check out my guest designer gallery at studio calico for more details about how and why i created each layout.

if you made it alllllllll the way to the bottom, i am giving you a great big "blog" hug!! xoxoxoxo

thanks for stopping by today!  and a super big thanks to studio calico for allowing me to be a guest designer this month!  such an honor!!!  

happy friday!

xoxo

studio calico roundabout sneaks and more....

i am truly honored to be the guest designer at studio calico this month.  i've been subscribing to their kits since october 2010, but i pretty much just hoarded everything until january of this year when i made a vow that i would create 52 layouts in 2013.  i have no idea how many layouts i have created this year, but i know that i've been able to fill three 12x12 binders to the brim.  it's been awesome!  and i've had so many awesome opportunities just in the past six months.  i love this hobby.  i love creating. and i love having something that's "all mine".  sure, i do it to remember our memories, but it's my outlet, my place to get away, my place to be "just me".  and i needed that place.

the kits this month are amazing.  i was so fortunate to get my hands on the roundabout scrapbook kit, savannah shore scrapbook add-on, outer banks scrapbook add-on, roundabout project life kit, cumberland gap project life add-on and the project life 4x6 stamps.  

and boy did i use these kits!  i created 10 layouts and was able to complete two project life spreads.  and i could have kept going if there wasn't a deadline to meet!  seriously....everything is just that awesome.

so here are some of my "sneaks" for the june kits....

cannot wait for reveal!  hope to see you there!!