You Make My Heart Smile

Here is another layout I completed using Dear Lizzy's Polka Dot Party! I wanted to get as many of these cute pictures of my niece on the page as I could!

 

I used the February cut files from Two Peas for the "Heart" and lots of the awesome stamp set from Elle's Studio! 

Lovely Moments

Back again with another wedding layout. Once again I am using up old collections! This one is using Echo Park's Everyday Eclectic. I used to buy every collection and practically the entire collection from Echo Park and now I hardly buy any. I do still like them lots though!

 

Thanks for looking and your great comments! 

Melts My Heart

It really does. Seeing my husband play with our niece melts my heart. It makes me so excited for when we have children. He is SO good with kids. My niece was afraid of any man.. except her dad and my husband. There is just something about him.

I captured this picture of Ryan and Alaina on Easter and it perfectly shows their relationship with each other. I used the current Scrapbook Circle kit and played along with their challenge right now to use something "clear." That was easy since the kit provided those super cool Heidi Swap letters AND those neat transparency type thingies!

I have been stitching like a crazy woman on my layouts lately and I really like it! I am annoyed with that arrow stitching template from Amy Tan though... see how crooked it is at the tail of the arrow? Yeah, that isn't user error.. that is the template! 

I've wanted those speech bubble wood veeners from Freckled Fawn for soooo long and they finally came in the Scrapbook Circle kit! Super happy about that! AND ... this is an instagram photo so I can link it up for the instagram challenge at Paper Issues!

I like to try and mix up my journaling so it always doesn't look the same. Hope you enjoy and thanks SO SO SO much for all of your sweet comments. They always make my day. 

Scrap Your Story - Hippity Hop!

Have you been playing along with the challenges at Scrap Your Story? This week's challenge is an EASY one! We challenge you to make a layout about anything SPRING! Spring colors, spring pictures, spring events, anything spring!

I decided to work on this challenge right after Easter, so I had a good amount of photos to work with! I decided to use this ADORABLE picture of my niece with all of her Easter goodies (most of which mom and dad will partake in). We let her dig through her big Easter basket and she found that huge chocolate bunny that she has her mouth on. I tried pulling it away from her.. well, she pulled harder! She held onto it so hard that when I would pull it from her... I would practically pull her bottom off the ground because she was pulling it so hard too! So cute.

First off, this layout is based on a wonderful sketch by my friend Missy Whidden. She has been offering up quite a few sketches lately and I have been loving using them! I stayed close to her sketch, as well as her layout inspiration. I used the March Scrapbook Circle kit and added a few of my own bits and pieces. How cute is that little Easter bunny?! 

I love all the new Thickers that they are coming out with. I wish I could have them all! To do the stitching I used a Bazill stitching template that I bought probably 3 years ago. I am proud of myself for using an old supply! 

This LO uses lots of Dear Lizzy Lucky Charm goodness as well as some Alison Kreft! TFL! Be sure to play along this week! 

Missy's Sketch: 

Scrap Your Story - Grateful

Today brings yet another new challenge at Scrap Your Story! This week's challenge is to use CORK!! I was pretty baffled by this challenge until I found a lovely piece of paper by Crate Paper that looks like cork! I was so excited because I really had NOTHING else to use for this challenge!

I was too much of a wimp and totally could not get myself to use the cork paper for the entire background. Nope. Not Me. I put a lovely piece of Dear Lizzy paper over it and stitched the edges (as well as the adorable clouds). I thought that the cork paper worked well with my photos from the winery. There was a lot of browns in the photo that matched well.

I used some bits and pieces from the current Scrapbook Circle kit that is full of Dear Lizzy goodness. I have made a lot of layouts with that collection, but still have SO much left from it! 

A close up of one of my clusters. Dear Lizzy stickers as well as a Studio Calico arrow sticker. 

And my corner that I stitched the clouds on and added my own little phrase sticker to go with the rest. And as always.. enamel dots! They fit everywhere! :) There is also a challenge right now going on over at Paper issues to use CLOUDS on your project! :) 

Be sure to link up your cork layouts to Scrap Your Story!! I can't wait to see what you have to show! I am sure many will be more creative than me! 

Cozumel Day Book!

I bought two Amy Tan day books this past summer and never got around to using them for anything. I decided one of them would be perfect to use for our honeymoon to Cozumel! It was actually a lot of fun to make this. It took me one evening of working on it for a couple hours and then a couple more hours after another day!

I still had bits and pieces left of the very first Amy Tan collection that I was able to use in this. The photos of the book aren't that great. Turns out it is really hard to photograph this kind of book! It is all chunky and none of the pages sit flat... but I think that is what is so fun about these kinds of books!

The Cover!

If you look to the left, you can see that it came with a little insert of heart stickers!

There were just so many fun pages to it! 

I didn't know what to do with the two vellum pages in the book, so I just left them. 

I snuck in some hidden journaling. 

I loved the little insert that had the boy and girl on them so I put letter stickers for "Ryan" and "Andrea" on them! 

I didn't put anything in that little envelope. If I would have, it would have been impossible to get it in there!

So I just put a pic on the back of it instead. 

I liked the idea of having things go off the pages, so I did that quite a bit. 

Of course I had to tell the story of how sick I got on our honeymoon. 

Thanks for looking! I hope it inspired you to use up those Day Books or any sort of mini book! 

In Paradise with You

Hello! I was able to finish up this page that I started yesterday afternoon. I am going to quickly post it before I head off to work for the day.

I participated in the Sunday Sketch over at the Studio Calico blog. I loved the sketch and I loved Amy Tan's LO that the sketch was based off of. I didn't really use any of the current SC kits, but I used my favorite line Sketchbook! :) TFL!

sketch: