A Little Tutorial

I know you know how much I love to use May Arts ribbon. Well all the burlap string you see me using...it is indeed May Arts as well. I have a little tutorial up over on the May Arts blog, would love love love for you to come over and check it out...maybe leave me some sugar while you are there!

Homemade is best.

A couple of weeks ago I celebrated my 29th (ahem) birthday. Hearing my hints loud and clear, my friend Lexi sent me the sweetest gift, this lovely hoop she made with the Freehand Scraps May kit. The second I laid eyes on it, I was in love with it's prettiness. Those little lace panties!! She made them from a bit of Fancy Pants lace...who thinks like that? Thank you sweet friend!




Well, I didn't want Lexi's gorgeous hoop to be all alone up on my wall, so I made one too! But I am kinda thinking I need just one more for a pretty trio on the wall.

She and He

This photo of Emma and her daddy melts. my. heart.




Used the beautiful paper from The Girls' Paperie, love it!

The Girls' Paperie + 7Gypsies + PaperTales+ Me

= my newest class! We will be making this fun photo display from 7Gypsies, using the lovely papers from The Girls' Paperie by Margie!

For my tray I used photos from my traveling days, I think the colors and design would also work perfectly with graduation, father's day or family photos. The colors are not gender specific, so it is easy to personalize this for just about anyone!

The class is Sunday, June 13, 1PM-4PM This class has been rescheduled ! The new class will be Sunday, July 11, 2010 @ Paper Tales. 1 PM-4PM . Space is limited and you can call to reserve your spot! 619-222-2510. The class is $40 and if you are interested in a kit, let me know!!

Elle's Studio + Girls Paperie = Paper Bliss

Every month, I rave about the gallery over at Elle's Studio. Have you been? I love seeing the innovative ways the team uses the labels and tags. For both of these lay outs I used tags from the Elle's Studio NEW summer line. The colors are perfect and I noticed that they match up beautifully with all my favorite lines...Like The Girls' Paperie by Margie...isn't it every one's favorite? I plan on using that gorgeous shabby rose print as a wallpaper, just need to find the perfect nook in my house. OOOOO it would be pretty decoupaged on Emma's armoire!
I think that you already know I love this serires of photos of Emma. It was a wonderful day at Coronado Island, we were with her play group and having a ball. This is one of those dresses that I want to keep for MY granddaughter some day. I am going to be stingy about letting Lily wear it, she stains everything she puts on. I love the cabbage rose print and it matches the Paper Girl line perfectly.

The paper covered chipboard buttons are Maya Road. Chipboard is an easy way to bring in more fun patterns from the collection.

My gallery also includes this lay out of Emma reading one of her favorite books. That delightful library card is included in a cute package of assorted summery tags, must have item in my opinion!

By the way, I love this dress on Emma too! It's the softest linen...french...so baby perfect. Saving it.

This lovely paper is Paper Doll from Crate Paper, another great pairing with the Elle's Studio "A Sweet Summer" line!

The blog challenge over at Elle's Studio is still on! You have a few more days to enter your lay out about Spring...that's it...easy! The winner of the random drawing gets a $30 gift certificate
to Elle's Studio. You can buy a lot of pretty little tags for 30 bucks!! Good luck!

Something for Angie

Just a few more days until my dearest friend in the whole wide world moves away from me. Her family is headed for Hawaii, poor thing. The Marines have been kind on our friendship, for the past 10 years she has been no more than 2.5 hours away and most of those years she has only been 1 hour away. I am sad. A few weeks ago we had the chance to do some shopping over at Paper Tales and she decided that she wanted me to make her a simple Welcome sign for her new house. Together we chose these happy papers from Girls Paperie "On Holiday" and Pink Paislee "365 Degrees".

She is the only girl in a house full of boys, so I tried not to make it too girly. It's hard for me to hold off on embellishing and I really tried to keep this simple. the chipboard alphas are also from Pink Paislee and I love their large size and they are already distressed!

So the good news is we will always have a place in Hawaii to stay, at least for the next few years, but gosh I'm gonna miss her.

Leaving you with a sneak peek of my next class over at Paper Tales!