crate paper creative weekly challenge: hello you

i finished up most of my assignments before our beach trip, so i came back to find a little more "free time" on my hands.  i was anxious to create something so i decided to play along with the creative weekly challenge at crate paper.  

this month's theme is navy and sequins!  sounds fabulous, right?

in my true style, i stuck with my white background and used the navy and sequins as fun little pops on my page.

when i began this layout, i started with a few punched stars here and there.  then i got a little carried away and ended up covering my entire background with stars.  i love how soft the vellum looks against a white background.  noticeable, but not too heavy on the eyes...

so here is my layout...

as always, thanks so much for stopping by!  hope you are having a great day!

xoxo

jot magazine: mood board challenge #6

there is a lovely new mood board up at jot magazine!  the colors are so soft and beautiful. 

i have a hard time working any shade of purple onto a page for some reason.  mostly because i can't really dig up any purple in my stash so i'm left spinning in circles.  for this mood board, i tried to draw my main inspiration from all the beautiful minty green colors....

here is a look at the mood board.  be sure to hop on over to jot magazine to see all of the other participants layouts and to play along too!!  :)

and here is my take on the mood board.

i felt like the colors and images screamed "party" so i went through my picture stash and found this photo of my daughter's fourth birthday princess cupcakes.  the little lilac crowns and hearts on top of the cupcakes were perfect.

such a sweetie: crate paper creative weekly challenge

i had so much fun playing along with the creative weekly challenge at crate paper.  the challenge was to use polka dots on your project.

for my layout, i wanted to create a cluster of circles on my layout.  initially i had the whole space filled with cut out circles, but it was a little too busy for me.  then i started to remove part of the them (thinking i was going to scratch the whole idea and start over)....and i loved how it looked with a cluster on one side and my photo and white layers on the other side.

here is my submission for the challenge....

thanks so much for stopping by today!!

happy thursday!

xoxo

hello summer....

it's slowly warming up here, which is a little crazy for a north carolina spring.  it's usually super hot and steamy by this time in june.  regardless, the beach is on my mind.  constantly.  i was looking back through some pictures of our beach trip last year and found this adorable picture of my son on the beach.  and i knew it just had to be on a layout.  and i knew that The Pier collection from crate paper just had to be my collection!!

so i created this layout for the creative weekly challenge at crate paper.  and i won..............what???  totally shocked and in awe.  paper and the companies who make paper are just amazingly awesome.

take a look....

thank you to crate paper for the awesome challenge and for featuring my layout on their blog.  seriously so honored and humbled.  i love this creative outlet and i'm just so thankful for all the doors and opportunities it has opened up for me.  never in a million years would i have imagined....

thank you to everyone who stops by my silly little blog.  you all are awesome and i can't thank you enough for your support and kind words.

as always,

xoxo