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First of the month! New kits from Freehand Scraps are ready! Hula Hoop, cute kit name, is my favorite. Packed with all kinds of embellishments and the collection of papers is perfect. I made 4 lay outs so far, one of those is a 2 pager...I still have a lot of paper left. More fun to have! Oh Miss Lily... she escaped as I was changing her and of course I had to grab the camera. These pics are from last summer. I used my Slice to cut the circles and after adhering them, I stitched around them with floss. I sprayed the large Pink Paislee alphas with Hydrangea Maya Mist to make them blue and I used the Jenni Bowlin banners to make the sun rays. This kit has 3 alphas this month!!!

For Mother's Day, mu husband loaded us all in to the car and he asked me and the girls to pick out flowers for him to plant. It was a very sweet gesture. From my supplies I stamped Pink Paislee butterflies and cut them out. I also trimmed out the large damask from an October Afternoon paper.

The bright blue ribbon trim is actually a white trim that comes in this kit, I put mine in a baggy and sprayed it with Maya Mist and added a few drops of water. I set it on my table fan to dry.

Okay, I am off to the gym...first time in years! I am excited about changing my life and my body! Hopefully things go well with the childcare!

What Happens When You Cross Purple Cows with Fancy Pants!

Is it too much? Will her teacher know that I am an obsessed scrapbooker/former teacher?
Here is my little Back to School project for Emma. She is going to preschool for the first time.

Purple Cows has the coolest products. Here is my hot laminator. I used the 3x5 Hot Pockets.

The tags are a 12x12 journaling sheet from Fancy Pants. *On a Whimsy*

The laminator is fantastic. Oh how I wish I could have had one of these while I was teaching kindergarten. Would have saved me so much time and energy!

The laminator is quite compact, heats up in a few minutes and stores nicely in the back of my cupboard.

I trimmed the edges with my scalloped shears.

Sewed a button to the cover. Added some Maya Road trinkets, I really needed to some pink! I have to say, at first glance I would not know what to do with those trinkets, but now I am all over them!

That's it , a little backpack tag book for my sweetie. I can't wait to show her this, she is the most appreciative fan of my scrapbooking antics. Think she'll let me do this when she is 15?

Look at this baby girl, all we are doing is going to the post office, library and the craft store. She decided that it was necessary to bring her ball, sunglasses, bracelet, 2 necklaces, tote bag full of goodies and a binky.

Wubby

Look at those chubby wubby cheeks, I miss them. All her chubbiness is gone now...she is stick thin. I miss squishing her chubs, guess I could just squish my own!

Another project from my Freehand Scraps August kit. There was a sweet scrap of polka dot fabric included and I made these little flowers. Heidi from Freehand has just returned from CHA and I would just love to know what she has in mind for future kits!

Happy 4th

Oh, this was so much fun...I really enjoyed putting this together. All that cute paper is from Fancy Pants. They are from a few different lines, but I thought they looked great together.

This poem is on the back cover.

Yes these pictures are before they had a chance to eat! And get all messy! I will show you a messy pic later...choco cupcake messy too. I will post a winner to the RAK tomorrow, I still need to write all the names down and throw them in a hat.

I also used some journaling spots to frame photos.

Hand stitched this star

A Little More Color

Lately, my color palette has been limited to earthy colors. I needed to change that up and made this little card last night. I used a beautiful diecut paper from My Little Shoebox, my favorite stamps from Pink Persimmon, felt from Fancy Pants, and a notepad paper from Making Memories. The banners were cut with my heavy duty scallop scissors. My sewing machine was out so I added a little stitching to frame up this card. Speaking of my sewing machine, I am very proud of these aprons that I made this week. I am really happy with the way they turned out. I made one for me and one for Katie. She was invited to do a Make n Take at Reflections 2009 in Newport Beach and I will be there to assist. I am very excited and will take pictures to share!
Did you know that I am a little obsessed with all things British? Well, I am. My latest discovery is the author Chris Cleave. Check out the cover of his newest book Little Bee...
AMAZING art by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich and so far the book is fabulous. It would ruin the story to give you a synopsis, but I can tell you that it is about a Nigerian girl and a British woman and how their lives collided. The silhouette is fantastic and I adore the typeface. Love it.

A Banner Day

Happy Monday! Just got back from the doc, Lily had her 15 month appt. and she has a clean bill of health. She will need to see an allergist about a possible peanut allergy. Last December I took a fun class over at Paper Tales taught by Katie Watson. She showed us how to make the purdiest Christmas banners with the Maya Road Chipboard Banner books. Last night I made a Mother's Day banner using Fancy Pants paper, Prima velvet leaves,Maya Road~banner book, frames, bird, velvet flowers, ric rac. I also used some fun vintage elements~ the paper on the frames around the flowers is from a 1961 Farmers Almanac, used to keep track of your crops. I photocopied the pages to use in this project. I found the almanac in my grandmother's night stand when we had a few pieces of her furniture shipped from Tennessee. The ruler at the top of the banners is photocopied from the back cover the almanac. I inked just about all my edges with Ranger Sepia ink, as usual. The ribbon medallion was made from a ribbon that came off the packaging for a blanket~like my grandmother, I tend to save all kinds of junk.