An Amazing Beginning!

So! My new Etsy store is open and ready for business. I'm so very excited. To get things started right I would like to offer a fun little giveaway! With my first 5 orders of at least 50 invitations or more I will give you a free 12X12 custom cut white vinyl wall art or car decal. A $20 value for free! You gotta like that! How would you like something like this for your getaway car?

Or this for your scrap room?

Anything you'd like. (Within my ability. lol)

Challenge! {BPM}

Oh my poor neglected blog. I should have posted this 2 weeks ago! Shame on me! So, but anyway. Here it is. It's a fun fun challenge that I've posted for you over at Back Porch Memories. Hop over there, check it out, get inspired, create a fabulous page, post a link...and maybe win a prize?! Yes? Sound good!? :D Back Porch Memories - Ad Inspiration Challenge Here it is: My challenge for the month was inspired by a page from my Scrapbook Etc. magazine. Browsing through it this past month there was this page that I just fell in love with. The fun colors, the white space, even the way the bottles are placed in the photo to just draw your eyes into the picture. Love it. I used it to inspire a LO and I want you to do the same!! Here is the page from the SE magazine (The paint splatter isn't part of the photo...ooops. lol): Use this same photo to inspire your own scrapbook page. And here is my inspired page: The colors, the 4 photos and the title where taken from the SE photo.

Back Porch Memories - May Medley

Talk about a cute kit!! I had so much fun working with the Medley this month. It was made up of some Lily Bee Buttercup, some Prima Doodle Deux, and Authentique Carefree! Loved them all! Here is what I made:

And I also made my MIL a little mini with my left over Buttercup!

BPC - Creative Crop

Happy NSBD!! Man, Have I been doing some scrapping this morning!! It's been so much fun! I've just finished the first challenge for the Big Picture Classes Creative Crop. The challenge was to use a fancy frame for a photo! Fun! This is something I don't do very often at all! Would you like a button or two maybe?!

Pretty, Pretty!

They are so pretty if I do say so myself! I really hope Kristen and Marcus love them too! These have been so much fun to make and put together!

All a Blur...

It's just ridiculous is what it is. This girl has grown up so so fast. All I can think is, "Where has the time gone?!" I am so proud of this girl...she has really turned into a sweet young lady.

Blog Overhaul...

So now I wonder....is anyone ever really satisfied with their blog??? "Ahhh...finished. I like it just like this!" Because, see, I want to feel like that! I really do! I just don't see it happening though! There is always more I want to update or to tweek. There are so many colors I love...This one might be my favorite today...but tomorrow I'll have wished I had gone with a green background. lol But anyway!! My blog is a lot like my pocketbook. Even though the old one wasn't ugly or worn out...It's time to put it in the back of the closet for a few months. Time for some new colors! I am loving these papers! Aren't they ca-ute? Designs by Aesthetic Addiction. It's a little Etsy store I ran across looking for some digi papers for a wedding invite I'm working on. She's a gem...I can see myself using a lot of her papers. She has a lot of geometrical shaped designs and lots of Damask Floral designs in all the greatest colors. <3 <3 So tell me what you think? Anything that looks horribly wrong that I've missed somehow?

Fun Stuff!

The papers...not the accident. There is nothing fun about her wrecked car. Ack! Not at all. I love the Pebbles Fresh Goods papers though. The colors are ton of fun. There are a mix of letters...some thickers, october afternoon, my little shoebox...then some more thickers and some more October afternoon. The rainbow is a cute cute Bo Bunny Ad Lib sticker that I fussy cut. My K&Co. Smashbook date stamp...lol I couldn't resist. Perfect, huh?

March Back Porch Memories

I had the Medley this month...lucky me! It was gorgeous! And SO much fun to work with.

Fancy Pants, Be You papers and chipboard stickers!


Pebbles, Inc., Country Picnic papers, Fancy Pants chipboard stickers, May Arts organic cotton ribbon, My Minds Eye, On the Bright Side die cuts, and a piece of the burlap.


Another page using the Fancy Pants, Be You papers and some more MME die cuts:


This page might be this months favorite. Those pictures are hilarious and these My Mind's Eye papers and dies are just gorgeous! I love all the texture!



And my last page is this months sketch...it's a mish mash of the Fancy Pants and MME papers. I love how they mix and match so well!


Thank you for looking and I hope you have as much fun with this month's kit as I have.

Back Porch Memories!

Good googly moogly. Has it been a month already? Time just keeps zooming by!! Spring is really on its way ALREADY! We haven't had a winter at all this year. Not that I am complaining, because I am not. No, no no. I'm quite ready for some spring, for some camping and picnicing. I'm even ready to go ahead and turn my clock back an hour this weekend. Shucks, the way time is flying, whats another hour? lol

OH! The whole reason for this post! I nearly forgot! It's got to be the spring fever setting on my brain! My favorite online home...my scrappy retreat and favorite place for inspiration and motivation...IT'S BACK! Shewwy!



It got hacked into back in December! Whoever did it, they did a number on the place...they implanted a bug and when the programmer corrected the code...somehow the bug took over and reverted it back to bad. Isn't that crazy?! It's taken so long to get things back to normal. I have felt horrible for Paula. Finally we have our boards back. I am estatic! They are still working on the gallery, but I'm sure it's not long before that's back too. I could just dance and squeal. Come visit!!

Smash!

This journal is TOO much FUN! I'm so addicted. My hubby got it for me with a ton of other Smash goodies to go with it for Christmas. I hope this is something I'll keep up with all year. I can see this being a real family treasure one day!! So far I have done 5 pages. The rest of the year I'll need to do about 2 or 3 pages a month to finish it this year. That's sounds easy enough!

Some January scrapping.

It's been nice getting back into a normal routine after those hectic holidays! I have been doing plenty of scrapping this month! Yay! Here are my last two pages...Both of these are made with scraps from my January Back Porch Memories kits. Gorgeous gorgeous kits! I really wish I could share all of my pages with you...but my regular design team pages where for the Member's eyes only! You have to have gotten the kit to see the first 6 pages I've made with these gorgeous goodies!