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Pink Paislee's Declaration Idea Booklet

Hi Friends, just popping in to share a fun *free* new idea booklet from Pink Paislee, featuring their new Declaration collection of papers, just in time for all your summer crafting and entertaining ideas!

The book features projects by several Pink Paislee designers, including yours truly. You'll love the range of ideas and best of all, it's free!

You can download the booklet here.

Enjoy, and then hop over to the Pink Paislee Blog for Color Crush Week - and catch some more lovely projects featuring the Declaration Collection, like this layout I created:

 

 

 

 

March Gallery and Chat at Jenni Bowlin Studio

March came in like a lamb, not a lion! This will go down as the year that there was no winter... which is nearly true, we've had one good snowfall since the beginning of the year and nothing since. And the temperature has been unseasonably warm. Alekha isn't too happy about it -- she got a sled for Christmas and it pretty much sits nearly shiny new. But I'm not complaining at all, lol!

Jenni's March kit features the new Magpie papers and they are SO beautiful. You really have to see them in person, as the web doesn't show their muted beauty quite as well! This kit really just clicked for me -- I love when that happens! Here are my contributions to the gallery this month - and be sure to check out the rest of the DT work as well.

The last project is from the darling project kit that Betsy created. It's truly "a box full of happiness"!

And don't forget - there's a chat going on tonight at 8:30 CST in the Mercantile Forum with Guest Artist Karen Grunberg - so pop on over and join us if you have a moment this evening!

 

February at JBS

Can you believe it's already February 1st? Here's an embarrassing confession.... we've been so busy this month I haven't had time yet to take my Christmas tree down, which is unusual for me because I typically can't stand to have it up past Christmas, it's usually all packed away by January 1st! But I've been so busy this month and tired that I haven't found the energy to do it yet. It *will* get done this weekend though!

A new month means new kits (yay!) at JBS Mercantile, and it's a good one! I'm not nearly done crafting with this kit, and you'll want to be sure to snag this month's adorable project kit designed by Doris, too!

Here are my contributions to the gallery:

I've been trying to talk Alekha into going camping with her girl scout troop this weekend, but they have limited capacity for parents and they have their parent to girl ratio filled, and she doesn't want to go without me or Bobby there. I've tried to tell her how much fun she'll have, that she'll earn a badge, her friends from the troop will be there, but she isn't having any of it. She is a very careful and cautious little girl (her horoscope sign is Cancer the Crab, and I've read that those born under this sign are very sensitive and can retreat into their "shell" when threatened). This was apparent when we went to Disney and her thrill seeking Daddy tried to talk her into every remotely exciting ride from Soarin' to Space Mountain, but she was obstinate in her refusals to accompany him. In the end, we did several of the milder rides, several times over, and I had to remind him not to push her. I have accepted the fact that I don't have a little adventurous Pippy Longstocking of a girl and that she'll venture out into the big world when she's ready.

Have a wonderful day!

 

 

 

 

 

March at JBS!

Lots to share...

A lovely new kit at JBS Mercantile... here are my contributions:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An exciting online crop next weekend with tons of prizes... find information here....

 

and plenty more projects to share with you. Check out the rest of the DT's Gallery here...

 

 

JBS October Kits

Here is my contribution to the gallery at JBS this month. This month's kit features the Restoration Collection from Crate Paper, which I was so excited to receive. This kit was so lovely, versatile and easy to work with, it practically scrapped itself! Grab the kit here if you haven't already, and check out the other designers' work in the Mercantile Gallery.

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 

Such a versatile kit that I was able to do a halloween card with it too!

 

Jenni has new Thanksgiving themed bingo cards available in the project kit. I used them to create this little mini. It's all ready for me to add photos and journaling. More tomorrow!

 

 

A few layouts and projects to share...

I just spent a half hour writing a post that I failed to save and lost midway, ugh. Let's try this again. This layout was made with some new Quickutz Revolution dies (they released some really gorgeous ones in December - damasks, chandelier, crowns, chandelier pendants, flower spray, cupcakes, pennants, etc.) The label frame, the birds (with the exception of the swan) and the flower spray are all QK die shapes. I layered them where you see the music sheet of paper on top of the black shape. I also layered two of the flower spray shapes with pop dots in between for dimension. There was some font work involved in photoshop - the swan was created by using a silhouette swan shape and laying white text over it. I used Beautiful ES for the text on the swan. Simply layer white text onto the black shape and print it out, cut it out leaving a slight margin of white. Thus continues my love affair with silhouette shapes. This is a great site for free silhouette shape downloads, in case you have been looking for some silhouettes yourself.

This layout was totally inspired by this gorgeous candle I saw here when I was browsing at The Blissful:

 

 

 

   

 

 

And I also was asked by Karen from Keep In Touch Cardshop to design with their lovely February Kit. I have a few projects to share and hope to create some more this month with the lovely kit Karen sent me. She stated it would go up some time today so if you don't see it - check back. It's a very lovely kit with lots of pink and black, very elegant and gorgeous!

Here's a layout I did using mostly the kit, followed by an altered composition book, another paper doll (template from Mirkwood Designs) and a card using one of the vintage images here from the scrapologie blog.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Okay - off to put the little one to bed. Here's a vintage image for you before I go though -- this is what I felt like when I lost that post after all that writing! This one is also, incidentally, for Doris, who has been mourning the loss of her little man's precious curls (though his haircut makes him no less adorable!) This little guy is annoyed at being made to dress up in a tie and pose for his picture, when clearly, he'd rather be looking for frogs and chasing puppy dogs' tails. A bientot!