Let's Ride!

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Also, today is the deadline to enter the Nuts About Sketches Design Team Call! Shawn is wonderful to work for, and her sketches are soooo inspirational!!!!

Precious Memories

I’m here today with another Nuts About Sketches reveal! #173

I was tickled that my son and his girlfriend would pose for a photo! The photo turned out great and I new right away that I wanted to do something with a romantic feel. My July kit from My Creative Scrapbook contained just the perfect papers from Websters Pages and My Minds eye, as well as gorgeous Prima embellishments, combined with the gorgeous dies from Cheery Lynn Designs and I was all set!

Here is a close up showing the inticate detail of the English Tea Doily die.  Isn't that just the sweetest dainty touch layered in there! Aren't those flourishes just the perfect added detail?  I fussy cut the gazebo as well as some flowers from the Websters Pages papers.  I layered the flowers here and there attaching some with pop dots for dimension.

I just looove the Exotic Butterflie dies!! I adhered both butterflies with pop dots for a bit more dimension.

I also fussy cut the journaling block and adhered with pop dots.

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An exciting moment

I am so excited and happy to share with you that I was asked to Guest Design at Cheery Lynn Designs today!! Since we will be celebrating my grandmothers birthday later in the month, I chose to create a birthday card. The doily dies are so beautiful and intricate. Using the English Tea Party Die, I cut the doily from BoBunny Gabrielle Romance, adding just the perfect feminine touch to these gorgeous BoBunny papers. The Exotic Butterfly mini dies were cut from the Gabrielle Flight paper.  I added a little stickles. Aren’t they gorgeous?! The flourish die is also from Cheery Lynn Designs (Fanciful Flourish) and is a definite favorite of my stash!!

I’ve also used the BoBunny card sketch to create my card. If you haven’t created  a card yet, there is still time to play along!

A huge thank you to Cheery Lynn Designs for having me over today!! Hop on over and say hi, then check out the delicious dies in the store!

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All Aboard!!

Hello! I came back from vacation to have my computer crash a couple days later! Aack! Thankfully they were able to recover all my info and photos! Whew! This was the 4th trip to the shop since the beginning of the year! Hopefully we’ve got all issues resolved now!

Here is another project I created with my Shawn Davis Designs kit. Shawn sent me this adorable little Maya Road train mini album along with these adorable My Minds Lime Twist papers. I compiled some of my favorite photos of both my boys together through out the years.

As always, click on any photo to enlarge.

A closeup of the back cover.To create the wheels, I cut circles with my cricut. Then, again using the cricut, I cut rings slightly smaller and adhered them with pop dots for a bit of dimension and interest.









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Game On!

We had the most wonderful time on vacation…our first vacation in four years! We got some much needed time to sit back, relax, and enjoy creating some wonderful memories with family!!

My July kit from Shawn Davis Designs contained papers from My Minds Eye Lime Twist. The patterns and colors were perfect for some of my son’s football photos!

I sanded the edges of the larger photo for a bit of texture and masculinity. The smaller photo was layered and attached with foam dots, as well as some stars cut from the pattern paper adding dimension and texture to the layout.

Using my Cricut Expression and Life’s a Party Cartridge, I created the Star/flourish. I added Ranger Crackle Accents to the center of the flourish, adding to the masculine feel of the layout.

I layered a Spellbinders die, hand cut banner, and some stickers to create my title.

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Nuts About Sketches reveal #169

Time to share another sketch from Nuts About Sketches! I stuck true to the sketch, adding a few extra layers.

I created the layout using some of my favorite papers from Sassafras Las. I fussy cut flowers and leaves from the Smitten line. Using my Helmar Zapdots, I layered the flowers adding dimension around my Prima flowers.
Don't you just love the butterflies?! I cut them from my new Cheery Lynn Designs dies and spritzed them with yellow and Bubblegum Glimmer Mist. Their delicate designs add to the softness of the layout.
I'm off on vacation for the rest of the week for some much needed relaxation and family time! See you when I return!!

Exciting Announcement!

Wohoo!!!! The official announcement has been made and now I can share with you that I’ve been invited to join the Paper Issues Creative Team!!!! I am sooo excited!!! Head on over and check out the incredible talent on the team and join in the challenges!!! Paper Issues

I'll be back in a couple days to share some goodies I've been working on!

Have a super fun and safe holiday weekend!!

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