Crop Addict September Reveal!!!

Can you believe it is September already???????  I can't!

Since I've been back home for the past 10 days I have been SO busy working with all the kits that were waiting for me!!!  One of them was this beautiful Crop Addict September kit featuring Bo Bunny Mamm Razzi and some Dream Street papers as well!

So here is what I came up with!

Included in the kit are these little chipboard "playing" cards.  The ones I got were for a girl and had a bit of pink in them, but since there wasn't pink in the papers, I had to improvise.  I used some pink ink on some of the stickers in the kit.

For the little frames, I cut a piece of paper to fit inside and filled it with Glossy Accents.

For the title, I sanded the letters and inked them a bit with pink, too.  Then I outlined them with black pen and added some Stickles!  I also did some doodle cirlces around the photo for a frame and filled them with Stickles, too.  I imagined these little circles as being bursts of light around my "glamour" girl!  :)

Next I worked with these Dream Street papers and the chipboard accents.  I wanted to use all the little blue flowers that come in the kit, too! 

I cut out the flowers in the green paper and put some of the other patterns in the negative space.  Then I used the green ones as embellies.

The red and blues in this kit were perfect for the page I have been meaning to do about July 4th!  I was inspired by Tessa Buys to use some fabric around chipboard pieces (which I cut myself with my cricut) and then sewed fabric around each piece.

I also lightly misted the CS and used some star shapes in the background for masking.

So we went to the Eagles concert and if you know the cover of the Hotel California album, you will know where the inspiration for this page design came from!     The shape of the concert stage also led me to using the large circle on my page, too.

(image from http://www.album-cover-art.org/b0011z508a/eagles/life_in_the_fast_lane )

Also, I know it was technically Joe Walsh who sings "Life's Been Good", but they still sang it at the concert, so I had to use it as my title!

I had some photos that I wanted to use on a 2 page spread, but I only had two pieces of CS left, and they were two different colors!  What's a girl to do?  SOOOOO I cut eac into half, and used one color on the top of both pages and the other color on the bottom.  On the back of my page I taped them together to make them 12x12 and I also reinforced with a strip of patterned paper on the front!

I actually usedmy Cricut (*gasp*) for a change and cut out these palm trees using the Stretch Your Imagination cartridge.

Well I have absolutely nothing left of this kit!  It was fun and I love the diversity of these pages!

The next kit I am working with is for a Guest Design spot at Citrus Tree Studios.

So Sophie=So Charlotte....

I had the owner of Lonestar (the LSS where I work) order the So Sophie line by MME and I just LOVE these papers.  The texture is amazing and they are so sturdy.  Not to mention I love the patterns!

This first page I popped the photos off the page, and then put some of the embellies on the photos.

Isn't Chloe so cute?  She is such a good dog.  I have been doing tons of pages about Charlotte, and haven't done one about Chloe in a long time...she just tore her ACL a few weeks ago, and it may require surgery.  We are trying to see if it will mend a bit on its own, first.

For the next page, we used pop dots to pop of shapes of the same pattern as the background page.  I have seen this technique a lot lately, and I love the effect.

I used a sketch from Stuck! sketches for this page.

This last one is one of my favs.  This paper is so cool...at first I was thinking about just cutting out the squares and using them as journaling blocks.  But then I thought the page itself would be great for photo.

I cut out the squares with an exacto knife, sized my photos for the squares I wanted, and added PP to the backs of the squares. 

 For a few of them, I popped the paper off the back of the page, to make it look even more recessed.

All the flowers and leaves and swirls and such I fussy cut from a piece of paper.

OK!  So NEXT UP is some sneaks from the Crop Addict Sept. kit!  I will post them sometime this weekend!  Hope you are enjoying the last week of August!!!!

10 Things I LOVE about Summer!

Rebekah at The Studio Challenge Blog kindly emailed me and asked me to do a project for their summer cybercrop!  I was so honored to be asked.  Just at the time she asked me, I was working with my Scrapbook Circle August Kit, so I decided to use it for my Project.

What I love about this project was that I didn't have any photos.  I just wanted it to be a little reminder of the things I love most about summer, so that when I am cooped up in the house in January and February, I can open up the album and dream of summer!

You can find complete instructions and TONS of other ideas at The Studio blog! 

If you share a creation on The Studio blog that was inspired by my album, you could win a prize from A Trip Down Memory Lane!!!

Audra you WON!

Congratulations to Audra who won the random drawing for the Scrapbook Circle August Kit!

Thank you everyone for all the nice comments you left about all the DT ladies' blogs.

If you didn't win, you can still purchase your Scrapbook Circle August Kit HERE.

Audra please email me at audreykit@yahoo.com

Beach Bum

I have seen a lot of this little bum in the sand and in the water this summer!

I used the August Crop Addict Kit.  I LOVE the summer themed bottle caps!  There are also some adorable little metal tags and pieces included, too.

I used a tutorial FOUND HERE to make the 3-D stars.

Scrapbook Circle August Kit and GIVEAWAY!

It is August 1 which means it is time for my FIRST reveal as a Scrapbook Circle Design Team Member! I have been such a fan of Scrapbook Circle for a LONG time, and have been so inspired by all the design team members there over the years. I hope that you find something here that inspires you!

But with a kit like THIS, who WOULDN’T be inspired???

These colors are just fantastic in this kit; Bright and cheerful and just the essence of summer.

Every morning, and after every nap, I sing “Oh Let the Sunshine In” to Charlotte as I open her blinds and shades. How perfect is it that there was a journaling card that had this phrase on it in the kit!!!

I happened to be at my mom’s house while I was doing this LO, so I was able to use her sewing machine for this page. It is very subtle, but I sewed some large sunrays on the background with some yellow thread.

I just love love love the bright yellow letters in this kit, too.

We decided to visit the Jefferson County Fair one day. There were some flags on some of the tents in my photos that inspired the little flags that I made on my LO. I used the cork tag from the kit to push my flag pin into.

One of the first days we were in NY, we had some friends visit us at my parents cottage with their two little boys.  Charlotte just loves Carson, and they played together in the water for a long time!

Charlotte loves the outdoors and is facinated lately with touching trees.  She didn't climb this one (yet!)...grandpa is holding her up in the background.

See all these little flower petals??  They are actually the surfboards from one of the sheets of paper in the kit!  YES, this took me forever!!

Be sure to pick up your August Scrapbook Circle Kit HERE.

I want to thank Lisa at Scrapbook Circle for providing this August Kit as a giveaway on my blog!!!! I have been just so honored to be a part of the Scrapbook Circle Team, and I was “starstruck” by the list of names of the other Design Team members during the announcement. So to win the kit, here is what I want you to do:

1. Visit the blogs of the ladies listed below.
Tessa Buys
Lisa Spiegel
Jill Cassity
Diana Waite
Lisa Andrews
Beth Perry
Diana Fisher
Julie Tucker-Wolek


2. Pick a LO or project from one of these ladies, and make a comment with a link to that project and let me know what you love about it!

Please only one post per person. I will randomly choose a comment on August 11 to win an August Kit!!! Happy browsing!!

August Crop Addict Kit Reveal!

SO here we are at the end of July and we are talking about August already! Where does the time go? This has been such a wonderful wonderful summer for me so far.

I have traveled to NY with a VERY limited supply of scrappy products and tools. I have a pair of scissors, some adhesive, and my other tools, plus a few cat’s eye ink pads and some glossy accents. That’s IT! So the LO’s that you see below have been made with just my small stash of tools. It reminded me that you don’t need much to make a page that is special…it is the memories that matter.

I would like to introduce you to the August Kit at Crop Addict:

There are just TONS of goodies in this kit, and it is perfect for summer and travel themed LO’s.

On our way to NY this summer, we had quite the day of travel when we missed out first flight because of the long security lines. What should have been a 6 hour trip turned into 12. I was so nervous about how Charlotte would do on the plane, but she did so good! I brought lots of quite things for her to play with on the plane.

This LO uses a lot of the Adorn It! Travel papers. I loved the paper with all the circles of travel icons so I cut them out and arranged them in clusters.

When I started this LO, I was thinking about how high Keith was throwing Charlotte in the air, which got me thinking about how I could use the travel papers for these photos. I thought, “well planes go high in the air and so do butterflies”, so I used theses images from the papers in the kit. But I wanted one more “flying” thing, so I made a kite out of some paper scraps and used actual kite string for the tail.

I was originally going to use these photos on a double page spread, but since I don’t have any extra CS with me, I decided to pare it down to a one pager. But I still used 4, 4x6 photos on the page. This is a great way to get a lot of photos on one page, without cropping!

I just used some small piece of paper to fill out the inner square and journaled around the edge of the cardstock.

I have a few more things I am working on for this kit, so stay tuned!!!  :) You can purchase the kit in the Crop Addict Store HERE.

Summer is here!!!!

Hello loyal blog followers (and all other visitors, of course!). I am in the middle of our stay in NY for the summer and it has been an absolutely beautiful time! We are spending our days on the lake and on the river, enjoying sweet corn and watermelon, going for boat rides and playing Kan Jam (look it up….its FUN!), swimming and going for walks. We smell like campfires and the woods, our skin is getting bronzed and our hair is turning light light blonde.  Yes, it is a wonderful summer here.


My head is filled with how all these events and moments are going to pan out onto all my scrapbooking pages! I brought some stuff with me, but haven't cracked it open yet.

Speaking of which, I have some FANTASTIC news!

First of all, I found out that I am going to be a guest designer this September over at Citrus Tree Studios!!!! I am very excited to work with the kits. The message board over there is quite inspiring!

Seecondly, I found out that I made a Design Team of a store that I have been following for a long time!!!! I am so so so so so excited to be a part of the Scrapbook Circle Design Team!!! The best best BESTEST part of this is the AMAZING ladies that I am going to be working with!!! I mean, look at this line up:

Tessa Buys
Lisa Spiegel
Jill Cassity
Diana Waite
Lisa Andrews
Jennie Blaser
Beth Perry
Diana Fisher
Julie Tucker-Wolek

And thirdly, I found out that I made the Crop Addict Design Team, as well!! I am new to this community, but I have seen a lot of familiar faces on the board. And it was so special when Debbie actually CALLED ME to tell me that they wanted me to be on the team!!! Here are the other fabulous ladies who made the team:

So guess what this all means??? I am going to be SUPER busy and LOVING it!!!! Be sure to check out the amaxing subscription price at Scrapbook Circle, and all the goodies in the store at Crop Addict!