design dollies trifecta

This layout was for the design dollies trifecta challenge - color, sketch and misc element . The misc element this week was to use a vintage movie as inspiration.

Bo Bunny Layout challenge

This layout is for the Bo Bunny Layout Challenge Friday July 16, to use a favorite movie as a inspiration or a title. I used the Great Outdoors movie as my title.

sonic and missing my sewing machine

It's funny how you often don't appreciate something until it is gone. My sewing machine broke about a month ago and I thought - eh I can make do without it. But every layout suddenly seemed to just REQUIRE stitching! I did a bunch by hand, but finally decided that I will just have to get the machine fixed. Now, it is in the shop, and will be another 2-3 weeks until I get it back. Who knew that sewing machine repairmen in the middle of nowhere were SO busy!?!

So, yeah, I am totally missing it. Pretty much every page I have made for the past couple weeks, I look at and think, "this would be better with a little bit of stitching right HERE."

Anyway, today I was late to work. So, I stopped at the brand new Sonic that is literally IN the way of my commute. - seriously, they messed up the turn lane that I use to make a special entrance for it. So, I stopped today and got a diet cherry limeade as recommended by the ladies over at ACOT. It was really good! I don't really drink anything other than water, diet coke and coffee. (and the occasional glass of wine) so it was a real treat and a different experience to have something fruity and bubbly and a little tart, and yet guilt free! and caffeine free! (not that I really worry about caffeine intake, I mean, heck I live on that stuff. But THIS I could count as water intake for the day.)

My Mind's Eye Blog Challenge submission

Here is the page that I created for the latest blog challenge at My Mind's Eye. It was a sketch challenge but you had to use the word hope. Well as soon as I hear the word hope, I think of the song, I hope you dance. I love that song! so I wanted to use it as my title, but there are soooo many good lyrics in it that I decided to just go ahead and print out the lyrics on the large circle so I could have them all there. I made a few lines bold so some favorite lines stand out a little more.

Then I used my brand new Cricut to cut all different sizes of flowers to make these handmade flowers. I just love how it turned out!




























Here are a couple of closeups so you can see the layering, because boy is there a lot of it!

I was featured!

I submitted a few Christmas pages from this past Christmas to the Websters Pages ning gallery and they picked one to be one of the weekly featured layouts. I must say that I was rather fond of this one also. It was part of my Jan ACOT reveal, or was it December and this pic was from the year before? I can't remember.

























Speaking of being featured, I think I forgot to share with you that I was also featured on the My Mind's Eye blog recently for this layout that was part of last month's ACOT reveal. (I did post about it on Facebook so you might have seen it.) But I know I just got the prize a couple of days ago and I was shocked! They had asked what my favorite line is, and I said Quite Contrary - Mary Mary. They sent me the whole Quite Contrary line, not just Mary Mary, but Little Boy Blue and Little Miss Muffett and I think there is one other one. They even included some Lush matching brads in three colors! Wow! And to think - this wasnt even a contest that I entered or anything. Just so suprising! So thank you My Mind's Eye!
























And now for some randomness. Boy did we have some rain today! It took me almost twice as long as usual to get to work and at one point I drove into a 'puddle' that was at least a foot deep. I seriously thought I was going to stall out. And I am writing this now because my shoes and socks are STILL wet, despite having been taken off immediately and laying on my office floor all day. Thank goodness I had an umbrella is all I have to say!

ACOT Bo Bunny reveal

oh how I loved these papers! I love how bright and fun they are! And the PURPLE, oh the purple! It is my favorite color, but it isn't very often that I find a scrapbooking line that I like that has purple in it. This is the second line containing purple in less than a year from Bo Bunny that I just adore!

This page is very unusual for me, but I just loved the whimsy of this line and had to exploit it. Check out the rest of my reveal HERE.

family layout

this page is for the pagemaps sketch and color combination. the blue moon something blue challenge and the got mojo summer pic challenge