Splish Splash

Just a quick post! Here is my first creation using the April kit from The Sampler!

Just a quick post! Here is my first creation using the April kit from The Sampler!

On the Day You Were Born

My first challenge layout for Scrap That Baby is up! Here is a link to the blog so you can check out all the other amazing layouts the design teams gals created!

This layout challenge came at the perfect time! My sweet little Kennedy turned 5 on Monday! It is extremely hard to believe! It was great fun to relive the day she was born while creating this layout!

Thanks for stopping by!

Yeah Baby!

Just popping in quickly to share some fun scrappy news!!!!

This was posted on the Scrap That Baby! blog today!! I am copying it from there!!!

The ballots have been counted, the blogs have been read, the layouts have been drooled over 15000 times and the decision has been made!!

I couldnt help myself! There was such talent! I chose a baker's dozen to ensure that each prompt would have at least 7 fabulous examples!

In no particular order, here is your Scrap that Baby design team!

1. Sarah Rice (owner and design team coordinator)
2. Ann-Katrin Toresen
3. Kristen Powell
4. Sara Robinson
5. Jenny Dziekan
6. Dani Smith
7. Brandi Pitts
8. Jennifer Matott
9. Danielle Holsapple
10. Lesley Fontaine
11.Renee Kelso
12. Gracie Ann David-Tan
13. Maya Oren-Dahan

I have also chosen 3 guest designers at this time
April 15th --Lizzie Oakley
May 1st --Nana Campana
May 15th --Nadine (who forgot to send me her last name!)

Bios will be posted (a few a day) everyday leading up to the April 1st prompt! Check back daily to get to know this awesome group of talented ladies!!

Head on over to the Scrap That Baby blog and follow along with us! Its gonna be fun!!!

Last Chance!

This is your last chance to win on the MLS Blog!!!! We are still having the Baby Photo contest! And this week my photo is up!!!! Can you guess??? Head here to make your guesses to win some fabulous MLS mini alphas!!!!

Danielle Holsapple

Michelle Magana

Emily Jones

Melanie Stanczyk

MLS Contest!!!!

Are you ready for a fun little contest!?!?!

Read all about it!

So here is the deal of how things will happen...

We will post a collage of 5 baby photos along with a list of potential Design Team members for you to choose from. YOU will leave a comment with your best guess and then we will choose a random person from those that got the most right.
During this round we will be highlighting these 5 Design Team members daily. When we are finished, the contest will close and a winner will be chosen.
So good luck and check back daily to get to know our Design Team better.

The first set up photos are up for the guessing! You can see them here:
http://mylittleshoebox.typepad.com/my-little-shoebox/

I hope you will play along and maybe win some goodies!!!!

Sketch Challenge & a card

These are my final projects from the January kit at The Sampler! The layout was based on a sketch challenge! I chose photos of Kennedy spending a week at Grandma and Grandpa's house. She spends a week visiting them alone each summer. This was a night they camped out in the yard!!!

Lots of layering......

Can you see my make-shift letter "A" done with pink buttons?!

And more...

And lastly, a quick little card!!!!!

I have been creating with the February kit, so check back soon for more!!!!

The Sampler - January!

Just wanna share another project from The Sampler! I have really enjoyed this January kit! I thought some of these colors worked perfectly for fall photos! So here they are!!!!

I will be back soon with more from The Sampler and My Little Shoebox!!!!

Buds

Just a quick share tonight! With the CHA madness this month, our My Little Shoebox assignment was to use any and all the lines from summer CHA for our creations! So mine is a good mix of lines. The photos are of Kennedy and pal Landen. They were taken at the new Royals stadium in the kids area. Kennedy got completely soaked in the water fountains! It took Landen a bit longer to warm up! It was a fun day!

Mini Album

It was my turn to post on the blog at The Sampler!!!! Here is the project I created with this month's kit. I have been wanting to document the parade for awhile and finally got it done!!! I used a Clear Scraps chipboard album that wasn't included in the kit. But more everything else you will find at your doorstep if you purchased the kit this month!!!

For this page I used the Prima packaging for my journaling. I also cut the heart border sticker (from Crate Paper), making it 2 borders, as well as cut using individual heart from it! Feel free to click on the picture to enlarge it and read the journaling! It is about a festival we have in town and the big parade. Our church always has hundreds of people walking and riding the floats. Yes, I said floats! We have one for the worship band, one of the kids ministry and one filled with huge tanks of cold water bottles and popsicles that we give out to the community!

This is as shot of both Kennedy and her bff just as we were starting the parade.

We have to arrive sooooo early! I think I have heard that this parade is the biggest and longest in the entire state of Kansas and I believe it! We are usually on the last 1/4 of the parade. So we have to be "in line" a few hours before the parade begins. Then the parade itself takes a good hour or more - and we are at the end! So during all the waiting, the kids get tons of fun play time in!

The girls yelling "LIFE CHURCH!"

More fun with friends!

Just a sweet shot of my girlie!

Kennedy and friend listening to Pastor Clint giving us all a "pep talk" before we start the parade and try our best to radiate God's love to the community!!!

Shot so Kennedy during the parade! Clapping to the worship band and soaking in the crowd!

We really look forward to walking in the parade every year! And in case you were wondering, Jeff was there! He was handing out water to the parade spectators! So...no photos of him. :( But a great time was had by all!!!

The Sampler Challenge #3

The 3rd challenge at The Sampler is up!!!! Hope you will hop over and play with us! A prize just might be in it for you!!!

Here is my take!

Come play along with us HERE!!!!!!

My Little Shoebox CHA Winter 2010 Releases!!!!

Here they are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Flying High!

All a Flutter!



Just Add Butter



Imaginary Friends



Lil Critters



Away We Go!


So, which is your favorite?!

Birds of a Feather

My last post of 2009! CRAZY!!!!

I want to share my latest work with My Little Shoebox! I love these owls and birds and houses - what a whimsical line!

I layered 2 die cuts for the title and used the glittered alphas.

I added some Stickles to the chipboard letters, hand cut the birds, owls, and trees and pop dotted them. Plus, can you see the glittery eyes? I added Stickles there as well!

Final project! Kennedy and her old daycare friend, Jada!!!

Have a very Happy New Year and I will see you in 2010!!

Merry Christmas!

I got my wish!!! A white Christmas!!!! We have a lot of snow on the ground this morning! The dogs and I went walking and it was quite the workout walking through the drifts!!! And the wind is still blowing fiercely!! But we are toasty warm by the fire and I am sipping my coffee! What a fabulous morning1 (btw, it is 8:30am and Kennedy is still sleeping!!)

So, I will leave you today with Kennedy's visit to Santa this year! She was sooo ready to see him and not scared at all! But she did get a little stage fright while on his lap! ;) I don't think she ever told him what she wanted - good thing she had written her list before hand to give to him!!

This layout was created with the December kit from The Sampler.
Cardstock is Core'dinations....see how I sanded the brown to let the pink show through along the edges? The Hambly gold rub ons were a blast - I just layered them and put them wherever I felt like!

Yummy Prima flower, Martha Stewart punch, Elle's Studio Happy Holidays ,Creative Imaginations flocked paper..... yum!

I think I have already mentioned how much I love these glittered alphas, right?! ;)

I hope you and yours have a wonderful holiday! Glory to Jesus, the newborn king!!!!!

More from The Sampler

It is time to reveal my take on challenge #2 at The Sampler! The challenge was to do something around the nature theme. And I had just the right photo for it!!!

Love this photo of Kennedy AND I love the memory of that family nature walk!!

Loving the teal bling and rockin' flowers!!!!!

This kit did an awesome job of mixing colors and patterns, as well as textures!

And another shot of all the yummy goodies! glittered chipboard, rub ons, basic grey, pink paislee, webster's pages, and more!!!!!!

Thanks for taking a peek!!!!!

MUD

I am ready to share my first creation with the debut kit from THE SAMPLER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This kit is AMaZiNg!!!!!!

Our first challenge was to create a layout using 5 photos! So here is my take on it! I have scrapped a few photos from this day before, but they are so darn silly I had to scrap them again!!! Kennedy and Taylor have become SUCH good friends - I guess starting off their first playdate covered in mud was magical! ;)

I used packaging for the journaling! The green piece is actually some Prima packaging! I loved the shape it was in, the color and the floral border!!!! And aren't those mini alphas cute?!

Gotta love the cute little stamp!!!

Delicious chipboard letters!!!! Those flowers are amazing - and the leaves are now on my wish list! I need more! You can't see much of it, but there is a vintage book page under the flower. I added some Tattered Angels spray, crumpled it up, laid it back out and inked parts!

I have lots more projects using this kit coming up!!!!!! Check back later!!!!