Sneak Peek #2 - Say Cheese....

Here's another sneak peek from the "Say Cheese" Front Porch kit that will have it's full reveal on March 5th. Check it out here - this is where you will be ordering this awesome kit! And don't forget to stop by the blog here and leave a comment - you could win one of these awesome kits!!

The whole design team is also showing off their sneaks and you can check them all out with these links:

Susan Tidwell: http://susan-artfulmusings.blogspot.com/
Kristy Fey: http://theno-noroom.blogspot.com/
Rhonda Merry: http://noidlehandshere.blogspot.com/
Valerie Bishop: http://myhere-rightnow.blogspot.com/
Lynette Chiles: http://netteart.blogspot.com/
Leslie Ashe: http://leslieashe.blogspot.com/
Robyn Schaub: http://dreaminginscraps.blogspot.com/
Elaine Howell: http://glittermehappy.blogspot.com/
Tracy Pounds: http://luv2cre8joy.blogspot.com/

Stop by tomorrow and check out a new sneak!! Have a great day!!

Sneak Peek of "Say Cheese" FPK...

Here's the first sneak of a project that I created using my "Say Cheese" Front Porch Kit that will be revealed on March 5th. I had such a great time creating with this kit - I was so inspired by all the beautiful papers and the cool, out of the ordinary embellishments that always come in the FPK! Watch for tomorrow and I'll have a new sneak!

Pre-orders begin today...You can reserve your kit at the Little Blue House in person or over the phone. Visit the LBH Blog for a Sneak Peek of the Design Board and a chance to WIN a FREE Front Porch Kit!

www.thelittlebluehouseblog.blogspot.com

 

Thanks for stopping by!! Have a great day!! :)

March Front Porch Kit - Say Cheese!!

After taking a small break, Front Porch Kits is back in action!! And the newest kit will be out on March the 5th!! It is a gorgeous kit filled with a lot of gorgeous papers and fun fun, out of the ordinary items!  I will start showing some sneaks tomorrow and the big reveal will be next week on the 5th! Here's the link to the blog where you can purchase the kit. Stay tuned for more!!

Love my girls....

This is another selfie taken by my oldest daughter with her sister while we were in Washington DC last summer. I think the photos that are taken on our Iphones have become my favorites to scrap - they show the true us and the fun we are having in that moment!

This is another layout that I wanted to use lots of embellishments up - here I used a whole group of tab stickers made by Pebbles. I layered them above and below the photo and then layered more embellishments and the title on top of the tabs. I have been hoarding that little piece of arrow transparency that I bought that was part of a Kelly Purkey mini album kit. I couldn't hide that away in a mini album, I wanted it to be front and center on a layout! I did some misting over a plano mask made by Studio Calico and or course added some ink splotches. That "intagrammed" is such a cool little stamp! I've stamped it in several colors and punched them out with a circle punch so that I can throw them on a layout every once in a while. I usually pop them up with a pop dot!

Thanks for looking and have a great day!! :)

Kind of a grid.....

I really like the look of a grid design, but perfect squares are just not for me! When I block everything off I like to make my "grids" more off center. Some blocks longer some short, some skinny, some that look like a flag/banner!

For this layout I really wanted to emphasize the flag piece at the top, so I rounded all the other corners of the grid. I used my usual color scheme (aqua, yellow and white) but threw in a bit of green too. Since the journal card that I used had a black word on it, I needed to balance the rest of the layout, so I used a black heart paperclip with the black and white brads near the photo to bring your eye down and across the photo. I cut my title out using my Silhouette Cameo. For the tag piece, I stamped the saying (which happens to be the name of my blog ;) ) and the cute arrows across the bottom. To break the grid look up a little more, I layered a sticker and chipboard piece above and below the gridwork to give it a little movement and depth. I just love the texture of that woodgrain background cardstock!!

This is one of my favorite photos of my kids altogether being silly - even my son has a fake moustache over his real one!!

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great day!! :)

Using up embellishments

I tend to hoard my embellishments - I have so very very many half (or more!!) packs of embellishments that I never seem to use up! So I challenged myself to use an entire pack of embellishments on one layout. The pack I used was a pack of over 50 pieces of chipboard that I got in one of my Studio Calico kits. I realized that I would have to make the all those pieces a design element so it wouldn't look like I just threw a bunch of chipboard onto my page! So, I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut some circles on my base cardstock and then backed the circles with some patterned paper (love that arrow design!). I then surrounded the edges of the circles with the arrow and geotags pieces of chipboard. I also layered a couple of the word tags that were also part of the chipboard pack. I used up ALMOST the entire pack - I still have about 3 pieces left but that is so much more manageable than having most of the pack left!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!! :)

I have been a bad bad blogger....

I haven't really been able to blog for the past month - first it was the holidays and then getting sick on Christmas Day and staying that way for the next 3 weeks straight certainly didn't help. I finally have felt human enough to start scrapping and blogging again!! Yay!! :)

I recently started working part time at my lss (love it SO very much!!) and I've also been doing some work for the design team there. Here is a layout that I recently made (yesterday) for the store using October Afternoon's Midway line

I've used this photo and the title cut before in a different layout, but I like making two layouts if there is more than one kid in the photo! That way later on when they have to divide them up they will each have a layout for themselves with their own photo on it!

Studio Calico is hosting a few challenges this week on their blog here (if you want to join in or check it out) and I have made some layouts for those

Not really feeling this first layout very much...I don't like all the patterned papers - it's just too busy for me - but that was one of the challenges so I just went for it and tried to stretch outside of my box some. LOL That's my daughter and Mom in the photo making some very weird faces - but it was funny! I diecut the title and the Polaroid frame with my Silhouette.

This is a photo that I took down on the coast of Mississippi while we were visiting during the Christmas break. The pelicans were all hunkered in for the winter and didn't even move when I got out to take photos! I did some stitching and stamping on the vellum and then layered lots of stuff on top of it!!

This is my favorite layout of my little great nephew Jeremy. We visited him during the Christmas break and he is just the cutest baby ever!! I made the title cut and stars on my Silhouette. I tried to use some of my white Mister Huey but I just had a few drops at the bottom of  the bottle, so I took a paintbrush and painted with it in spots. I then stamped some images on top of it. There is some hidden journaling under the photo in a vellum envelope.

I did complete my December Daily for the most part - I need to print out one more photo for the back page. I ended up having to purchase another album (thank goodness I found someone that wanted to part with their exclusive Studio Calico December Daily album!!) so I have two completely fat and stuffed albums for my December Daily 2012. That's ok, I just can't scrap flat and I LOVE the way my pages turned out!! :) I'll finish getting them photographed and up on my blog soon!!

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you come back soon!! :)