Thursday, September 8, 2011

Magpie Club Sept REVEAL and KIT GIVEAWAY!!! (kit photos added)

This post is coming to you a little late, but it is here nonetheless!  I want to share with you the three pages I did with the Magpie Club September kit!

First of all, I LOVE bright and bold colors, and this kit is packed with them!  Plus, some of my favorite manufacturers: Crate, Cosmo, and Pink Paislee (plus lots of others!!)

You can CLICK HERE to see the full contents of the kit.

So this was the first page I did and I have used this black and white striped paper before in tiny quantities on previous pages, but I thought I'd try it out as a background, and I love the way it turned out!

This is my mom and Charlotte and I. Charlotte wanted us to all paint our "neals" (that how she says it...:) so we all painted them the same color. She is so cute when you tell her to sit still and blow on them to dry.  But no matter how many coats I put on, it always seems to come off the next day.

I fussy cut all the trees and flowers from the My Little Shoebox paper.  Yes, it took a while!  :)



 The heart is cut from the Bella Blvd paper and I added some glossy accents, which I haven't used on a page in a while...gotta get back into that cause I love the stuff...


This page is a little bit more of a simple design for me, but it was the story I was focused on.  My mom got Charlotte into the habit of closing her eyes in anticipation of a surprise, so when we are playing and she wants to give me something, she says "Close eyes mamma, close eyes".  But lately she has been messing up "ah-pu" (open) eyes and close eyes, so she tells me to "ah-pu" them when she really wanted me to close them.  Also, she has been closing her eyes when she has been naughty...as if we can't see her anymore!  :)




OK, I totally messed up the stitching on this circle!   I tried to cover it up by adding additional circles that were messy, but now they all just look messy.  But I will embrace the imperfection...



Again, a lot more fussy cutting on this banner.  I think I could cut my LO time in half if I didn't do fussy cutting....


And lastly, when I saw this "hopscotch" paper with all the number on the Echo Park paper, the first idea that popped into my head was a "10 things" list. So I wrote a list of 10 things I wanted to remember about my little guy right now....(like those little toes...aren't they adorable??!)



When I made my class kits for the last class I taught at my LSS, I punched out some squares from some patterned papers and saved the "negatives".  So I used them as masks on some navy cardstock and sprayed with white ink.  The word "You" are some Studio Calico wood veneer letters that I misted yellow.


Oh, and MORE fussy cutting of all the numbers out of the paper!  :)



Well thanks for looking at my layouts, and now for a GIVEAWAY!!!

I'm gonna make you work just a bit for this one.  I am giving away the entire August Magpie Club Kit!!!!!!!








 
Here's what happened: I waited and waited for my kit in July, and it never came.  I had emailed Tara about it and she said she had sent it already.  Well it finally got here...ON AUGUST 1!!  It was postmarked sometime in early July....the box was ripped and crushed and it had obviuosly gotten wet because the writing was all smeared.  The condition was just awful.  But all the contents inside were in a plastic bag, and there wasn't a wrinkle in any of the papers!!!   But by then I had just had the baby, and just wasn't going to get to it, PLUS, Septemebers kit (the one featured above) was due to arrive soon, anyways!! 

SOOOOOO......I am going to give this kit away because I am just not going to get to kit.  But what I would like you to do is this: 

1).  Visit the following ladies blogs.  They are on the DT for Magpie Club.  Leave them a comment.  It can be on a post related to anything, but just leave them some love.  And I GUARANTEE that you will be inspired somewhere on one (if not all!) of these blogs.



2).  Come back here when you have done that and leave me a comment, too! 

I will draw a random winner on September 19th to win the kit!!

Thanks so much!!

24 comments:

Kim said...

Beautiful work, Audrey! Can you tell me what white mist you used for your squares? I bought one white mist and it barely shows up on the dark papers.

Dria said...

Well that was fun! Thanks for the "push" to look at those blogs-- there were wonderful things to be found on each one!

JoanneK said...

Thanks so much Audrey! Each and everyone of those blogs was wonderful to read and so full of goodies! Wow, lot's of talented ladies! Your pages are absolutely amazing as always!!! Love your blog!

Jean said...

Audrey, I Absolutely LOVE your layouts, the details (fussy-cutting and all), the colors, the creativity...it all comes together so nicely!
Thank you for also sharing a great idea on how to use the negatives from punched or cut out card stock.
I enjoyed the blog hop, experiencing all forms of art, visions and inspiration from all.

CRH said...

Audrey I love the sprayed squares to journal on...going to swipe that idea...Had some trouble posting on some of the blogs, blogger said I was not allowed?? but anyway...wonderfully creative friends you have there!

Lisa Watson said...

Fab work Audrey!!! Love the 10 things layout!! Just perfect for the baby!!

ScrappingMomOf3 said...

Your layouts are gorgeous, as usual, Audrey! I'm so glad you had us visit the other designers... I have a larger Google Reader roll now. LOL!

Lisamariemlt said...

love your creations
and
what amazing creations posted along the way by some very talented scrappers!!!

Diana Waite said...

that close eyes layout is aDORABLE!! Loving all of these creations!

K Clark said...

love your work!!! congrats one the baby... and thanks for posting the other blogs to view:)

Celeste B. said...

Your and the other design team members all did an amazing job with this kit.

wendy said...

Thanks for the hop. Loads of new ideas!

Kim said...

I finished the blog hop! There was so much inspiration there! Thanks for making me look! :)

KellyG said...

As usual, I love your layouts! That was such a great idea to use that paper for a countdown list! Lots of inspiration from all those talented ladies! That kit is packed with great goodies, thanks for the chance to win it!

Angela said...

Your layouts are gorgeous! Love all the detail. Really love the 10 things. The whole idea is something I want to copy. Very cute!!

The other blogs were fab, looks like they put together some cute kits!

ScrapMomOf2 said...

Yep! Awesome inspiration at ALL of those blogs!! Love your layouts!! :)

Donna said...

Audrey, LOVE what you did with the kit and, I, for one, think your circle stitching is AWESOME!!! Thanks for sending all the love over to my blog, too - cool that you are giving away your kit.

Savannah O'Gwynn said...

SUPER cute pages--LOVE that you all painted your nails! What a memory for all of you! And I love that you "messed" up your stitching around the circle--I thought it looked amazing and was saying to myself, "why can't you do something like that???" LOVE it!!!! THANKS so much for sharing! sbmmhoover at yahoo dot com

ps....going to visit all the other blogs right now:)

Anonymous said...

Such beautiful and inspiring work Audrey! Gx

sophie said...

Hi Audrey!!! I love your layouts with this month's kit! can't wait to get mine!! I was wondering why I was suddenly getting so many comments and love from all these great ladies!! and it is all thanks to you!!! thank you for that !! you are so great!! hope I can give you some of this love back one day!!

Lesli said...

Thank you so much for the blog hop - very inspiring projects! Your LO's are amazing!!!

Mommy Sauri~ said...

Audrey I had fun blog surfing. Thank you. I posted comments on all. How great is it that there is a woman from thousands of miles away, across oceans even, sharing in the scraping fun.

Sabrina Mix said...

Hi, Audrey!

I've alredy commented on all the blogs.

Hope I can win this great giveaway.

xoxo

Unknown said...

Had fun hopping to all the gals blogs. The projects were all super.
I would love to win your giveaway.
BTW your projects were fabulous.