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***** Click HERE for my GIVEAWAY!! *******

Happy Monday! :) Ya know why I love Mondays?? Because I can't wait to see what the new weekly challenges are!! I love challenges... If you have followed my blog for any length of time I'm sure you already know that! 

I've been super lucky to have been able to spend quite a bit of time in my craft room this past week. I love those kinds of weeks. I'm sure as my kids get older I'll be able to find more time to craft, or maybe that's just wishful thinking? What do you think, moms???

So here is my layout for today... Not my best work but I still think it's pretty cute...

I always see people's vintage projects and I LOVE them. Vintage doesn't come overly natural to me so I'm trying to get a feel for it. The picture above was from a really really old magazine I bought at an antique store. 

Here are some details...

• vintage photo is from antique magazine, I inked the edges with Tim Holtz distress ink in vintage photo
• doilies are from the Dollarstore, I inked them with Tim Holtz antique linen ink
• Martha Stewart lace border punch
• ribbon & pearls from Michaels
• twine from The Twinery
• button from my stash

Can you believe this is a CRICUTLESS layout!! Unheard of for me!! 

Both of my girls were born in August so I've been starting to brainstorm ideas for their birthday... Stay tuned because I have a lot of ideas! Have an awesome day!!

My very first GIVEAWAY!!!!!

I'm so excited to be having my very first giveaway on my blog!!

In honor of their 1st anniversary, Pink By Design has given me a $10 gift certificate to their STORE to give to one lucky crafter!!! Here are the rules.....

#1. You must be a follower of my blog #2. Do 2 of 3 of the following

• Follow Pink By Design blog if you don't already
• Join and then leave a post in the Pink By Design Community
• Become a fan of Pink By Design on Facebook and let them know I sent you

Please leave a comment on this post letting me know you you did the above

** two BONUS entries...

• repost this on your blog and/or Facebook (and leave a comment here for each, letting me know you did so)
  
  Giveaway closes July 16th!!

I hope to see lots of participants so spread the word so all our friends have a chance!! And good luck!

SPLASH!!

Happy Saturday everyone!! SO did any of you guys catch the PBD Ustream last night?? I hope you did! AND I hope one of you won a prize!!

I have another layout for you today! I think I'm starting to gain some ground on the scrapbooking front! We're thinking of taking a trip so I want to get as caught up as I can since I know I will take a TON of pics on a vacation!!

This was from last summer... It was actually only a week or so before Bria became a big sister! I remember this SO clearly because I was trying to keep up with her in/out and racing around the pool when I was ready to POP! LOL  

Cutest beach ball ever?? ;)

How I laid this page out was inspired by the Sketchy Thursdays Challenge this week. I also kept in mind a few other challenges when designing this: Wacky Wednesday @ More Than Favors, EAD's Color Challenge, and Challenge Me Monday at Fantabulous Cricut! Wow - that's a lot of challenges! :)

Here are some details....

• beach ball is from Sesame Street Seasons cut @ 2", her cute little face is from the Princess set by Peachy Keen - I also tryed a StazOn ink pad for the first time and was soooo impressed!! Until now I had only used the cheapy stamp pads from WalMArt. Never again!
• 'Splash' title is from Create A Critter, cut at 2.25". The water splashes in it were embellished with Glossy Accents
• I used Birthday Bash for the banners, cut at 2" and hung with red twine from The Twinery
• journalling tag is cut from Gypsy Wanderings @ 4"
• the big blue pearls are from K&Company
• EK Success border punch
• ribbon from Michaels
• doodles with white gelly roll pen

And that's all!! Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!! :)

A-MA-ZING Month!!! You don't want to miss this....

Ok everyone.... No project yet today - I have a layout in the works but haven't had a chance to finish it yet. BUT I wanted to post some HUGE events taking place this month.... Seriously, you are crazy if you miss out on these events. It's Pink By Design's 1 year anniversary and they are celebrating big time...

Just for starters, their July release is TONIGHT at 8:00pm CST (9:00 EST, 7:00 MST, 6:00 PST). I have already seen the stamps going to be released tonight and there are so many must have sets!! I think Sarah really outdid herself this time... There will also be chances to WIN!! (Who doesn't love to win?!!?)

Through the whole month of July PBD is doing major giveaways... check this out...

• random giveaways (a good start for a chance at these would be participation in the Pink By Design Community
• 2 - PBD sample packs ($200 value)
• Divine Twine Spool Bundle (12 spools of 240 yards each)
• Circut Expression 2 - Anniversary Edition

And HERE is how you can enter to win some GOODS...

Complete 2/3 of the following...

1. Join the PBD Community AND introduce yourself HERE
2. Follow PBD blog
3. repost this info on your blog or FB page!! (check out THIS link and share it with everyone!!!)

I would be so happy if I could see some of you guys win some stuff!! Good luck!! :)

This week's HAUL!

Hi Guys!! So this last week I have done a bit of shopping for myself... I always love it when people post their hauls so I thought I would try it too! BUT... please keep this between you and I (meaning - don't tell my hubby! :)).

The scrapbook store in town has a closing out sale going on now so I picked up some single sheets of paper, matte accents, buttons, glue dots and various ink pads. THEN I went to our "local" (an hour away) wal-mart and got a few stacks of paper, some tiny clothes pins, glue AND *drumroll* TWINKLE TOES!!! I have been trying to get my hands on this cart for what seems like FOREVER!! This was the last place I expected to see this cart, I thought it was in the US only since I had never seen it here before. Wal-mart also had the new lites so I picked up Recess since Bria is going to Preschool this fall. I would also like to get the sweets and the coffee one but I may have to wait, I have definitely went over budget on scrapbooking goods these last few months... What an addictive sport this is!!! ;)

Have an awesome night! :)

Monkeyin' Around!!

Hi Everyone!!! I am so happy to be posting today! :) This week has been amazing for us... The weather has been AWESOME (finally) and my girls have been in their bathing suits everyday!! We've been doing all kinds of fun things from going to the community outside pool, to going shopping and to the spray park and also playing in our own little blow up pool on our deck. I hope this weather keeps up!!

A couple weeks ago my husband had a day off work so we went to the city and took the girls to the zoo! I just couldn't wait to scrap the pics from our day...

This page is for Brittyn's scrapbook. Here are the pics that are going onto the pages (once I get them developed...).

She was sooo excited when they fed the baby monkies!! It was adorable!! (I think it may have actually been the bottle she was so excited about, but in my mind, it was the monkies....)

I just picked this paper stack up at Michaels last time I was there and I LOVE the color combinations in it!! It's he Carolyn Gavin stack by K&Company.

Here are the details...

• title, monkey and all leaves are from Create A Critter (all cut @ 3")
• all paper is either Recollections for from the K&Company Carolyn Gavin stack
• twine from The Twinery
• buttons from BasicGrey
• doodles with white gelly roll pen

I would LOVE to see all your ideas for ZOO layouts!! Post them HERE in the PBD forum so we can all be inspired!! :)



I hope you guys like!! :) I have been doing a lot of shopping for scrapbooking supplies this past week so I'm planning on showing you all my goods soon!! There is also a TON of great info from Pink By Design Stamps I am going to pass on soon - trust me... you don't want to miss out!!! :) Have an amazing day!!

Framed Cupcake Card!

Happy 4th of July and Belated July 1st Everyone!! :) We've been so busy around here with friends and festivities! Bria saw her first fireworks on July 1st!! Love those moments!

Here is the project I created for the Pink By Design Blog today...

For all the details check out my post at the Pink By Design Blog!! :) They also have an a sale going on until today in their store!!