Webster's Has Gone Digital!

There are so many exciting things going on over at Inspire Me right now. First off is the announcement that Webster's Pages papers and elements are now digital as well as paper. There are pages, tutorials and lots of inspiration for you to check out.

As I mentioned before (and you can see from the blinkie in my sidebar), next week is Week of Winter Wonderland. There will be classes, giveaways and tons of beautiful projects on display. This week, we are all sharing pages made with Sweet Season or Waiting for Santa to get everyone exicted for what's to come.

Here's a page that I made using Sweet Season along with some of the new digital elements. The frame and medallions are actually from the Life's Portrait digital motifs, but I recolored them to match Sweet Season.






I did this page using Waiting for Santa. I love the designs and colors on this line! I used the vellum, stickers and paper along with a digital frame (black...I cut it in half...) and journaling card (I enlarged it and framed the picture with it.)




The title/journaling say "Only on Dec. 25th will you find a cookie in your hand for breakfast!" Ryan was in hog heaven!!







Definitely stop over and see what's happening at Inspire Me! You'll really be inspired! Thanks for stopping by!

Monday, Monday...

Hooray, it's Monday!! I get to go back to work! No more vacation!! (Can you tell I'm trying to use reverse psychology on myself???) Having the past five days off has been wonderful. We had an awesome Thanksgiving and such a relaxing weekend. I went Black Friday shopping with my girlfriend which was also so much fun. Sigh...it's back to the grind this week.

I was able to get lots of scrapping done in the past few days. I can't wait to share the December Daily that I made! Hopefully, Cindy will have it on the Emma's blog soon and I can post it here.

I do have a couple of layouts, though. These were recently on the Prima blog. First up is this sweet one of Ryan a couple of years ago. I loved the little turkey he'd made in kindergarten and the headband he was wearing. It's hard to believe these photos were taken only two years ago. He's already grown and changed so much.



I used a piece of Road Trip paper for the background, a Fairy Flora Notecard behind the main photo, some Autumn Leaves and some pearls. Then, I created a frame with the pom-pom felt.




This next page is of my sister in law, Patty and my BIL. They just recently celebrated their 25th anniversary and I made this for them. I printed the photo on patterned paper.



I used one of the felt gates to frame the photo. I peeled off the adhesive on the back and added glitter.



I ended up putting the layout in frame for them. At first, I found that it didn't fit, because of the dimension with the flowers. So, I took the flowers off, placed it in the frame and then adhered the flowers right onto the glass. It ended up looking pretty cool that way!

That's it for today! Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

Happy Thanksgiving!

It's one of my favorite days of the year! Thanksgiving has finally arrived. I just love this day. Being surounded by family and eating are two of my favorite things. So this holiday is just perfect. I'm so blessed in many ways and truly thank God for my family, friends and my life.




One of the things that I'm really thankful for is having a hobby that I'm so passionate about. Working with the companies and manufacturers that I do is such a joy. My big excitement today is that I am being featured on the Prima blog. It's my Designer Day! Each Thursday a different member of the design team is featured. It's been so fun getting to know all of the girls a bit better. I hope you'll stop over and read my post (and maybe leave a comment). I have several projects up there, too.

Speaking of projects, I made a few things yesterday. I was off and spent the day in my pajamas. It was great! I decided to put aside my assignments and create some things just for fun. First off is this card that I did for the Color Room. The colors were some of my favorites and I decided to go with a non-traditional holiday theme.





I used Melissa Frances papers, a Bazzil chipboard snowflake that I painted and added glitter to, some SEI ribbon and a MME tag. I made some glass glittered stars yesterday and added them, too. Just felt like doing something glitzy and glittery.

My next card is for a new challenge that I've come across. Monda Pendleton is one of my favorite card makers and she has a fun color challenge, so I decided to play along. Here is the beautiful inspiration:



I decided to combine Mona's color challenge with the 2 Sketches 4 You sketch of the week. I love Kazan and Laura's sketches and haven't played along in a while, so I was excited to have the chance to do so!

Anyway, here is my interepretation:




The base of the card is a Making Memories journaling notebook page. The kraft part of the card is what opens up. I used My Mind's Eye die cuts and paper and a Melissa Frances chipboard snowflake.

If you are American, I hope you find yourself surrounded by those you love today. Enjoy the turkey and all of the trimmings!

Thanks for stopping by. I'm so thankful that you do. Your comments put a smile on my face! Have a wonderful day!

Webster's Week of Winter Wonderland

Last night's Webster's Pages chat was so inspiring. Brandin announced that there will be a new late season release called Spring Market AND that Webster's is going to be releasing flowers. Be still my heart. First stamps and now flowers. :)

Here are a couple of new things that I've done recently. This first card was in Paper Crafts Card Creations. I used a Life's Portrait die cut paper and a fun bloomer on it along with a Pink Paislee die cut and Melissa Frances chipboard heart.



This next card uses Hollywood Vogue papers and a flower from the matching bouquet. I added some ruffled fabric ribbon, too.



The sentiment is Melissa Frances.



Finally, I'm so excited to share that we are going to be doing a fabulous week long celebration at Inspire Me!



If you participated in the crop last year, then you know how fun this is. This year we have lots of events going on. You can go HERE to see the schedule. To sum things up, during the week of December 6-12 there will be classes posted daily. Each DT member created a class using Waiting for Santa or Sweet Season. Additionally, there will be a blog hop with projects using the incredible new stamps and lots of prizes and giveaways. I really hope you'll join in. I absolutely LOOOOOVE the project I created for my class. It will be posted on December 9. I made a set of tags. Here's a peek at my project:



I'm so excited for Thanksgiving. Ryan and I are both off tomorrow so we'll be getting ready for our family's celebration. Stop by on Thanksgiving, if you're doing some blog hopping after the big dinner. I'll have some fun news. :)

Have a great day!

It's Beginning to Look a lot Like....

I can't believe Christmas is only about a month away. I've been trying to get started on my shopping and I SWEAR this is the year that I'm going to stay on top of everything. LOL! We'll see if that actually happens.

I've been creating some Christmas-y things and thought I'd share a couple of them with you.

This first project is one I did for Emma's this week. We made gift card holders. Mine is a little pillow box to pop the card into and a matching card. I used the new Melissa Frances line along with gold stickers from Making Memories. I love the vintage stickers.






Next up is a little lunch box tin filled with tags. The papers are from Echo Park. I used a Maya Road tin. I think some chipboard came in it. I thought this would be a fun teacher gift.





I'm really looking forward to this week. I'm only working on Monday and Tuesday and I'm so excited to be home with Ryan and spend time with the family later on in the week. I'm definitely thankful that we don't have to run around like crazy people. We don't have anything after school, no homework and no other commitments. Just the way I like it. :)

Hope your week will be as nice! Thanks for stopping by.

Prima - Scrap Eachother Challenge

You have to check out the Prima blog! We got together and scrapped each other. Trina McClune organized everything, so none of us knew who we were going to be scrapped by. I was thrilled that my photo was done by Trina! I love her work. I got to scrap Alyssa McGrew. Here's the page I did:





I used some of older papers - the Shabby Chic and Watercolor Rainbow lines along with some of the new Jack and Jill papers.




I also added some glitter to the felt vines and clustered a bunch of flowers. It's not often that I get to scrap a purely girly page, so I went all out. :)



BE sure to check out the Prima blog to see the other girls' pages. YOu won't be disappointed!

Also wanted to let you know that Prima is having a Parking Lot Sale. Or, if you're like me and live nowhere near Califonia, they're having a Virtual Warehouse Sale.
(There are 6 goodie boxes to choose from and they are all listed here:
Warehouse Sale Info.)

Promo code is: POM
You get a free 6x6 paper pad from the newest release!)



Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great day!

Vintage Street Market

So, I can finally reveal the projects I made with the Vintage Street Market's fun kits!
First, here is the link to the Victorian Christmas kit that I used. You're going to love it!

My projects are at the Vintage Street Market site under the Designer tab. I went into detail on how I made each of them there. So, if you're curious, you can check it out...

This fist one is a doorhanging that I made. I love the mix of crepe paper and sheet music.




This next project is a tag that uses lots of little goodies - stickers, button, tinsel, etc. - from the kit.




Next up is a card. I 'filled' the little stocking with lots of goodies. Isn't that foil sticker sweet? There are more of those at VSM!




I created this little gift bag using some of the Basic Grey and Making Memories paper from the kit. I loved the key and thought it would be a fun addition.




This last project is my favorite. I recently found pictures of my brother and me from Christmas 1969. So, I used them to make this album that I will give him this year. I loved all of the vintage papers that were included in the kit, so I used them as the base of my album.




So, definitely check out this awesome new site. Michelle is going to be uploading new things regularly and I have a feeling we'll be seeing lots of fun things from them!

Thanks for stopping by!