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CY Sketch #56- Everyday Love

Like any other mom, I have very few pictures of myself, let alone any of me & my husband together. For this sketch though, I just happened to have this 5x7 sitting here from forever ago! I also have the fabulous June kit from Scrapperie at my fingertips, and this Marrakech paper from Basic Grey was perfect for it! Make sure you head over to Creatively Yours and play along with us! I'd love to see your take on this sketch!

Everyday Love
Supplies: Cardstock- Bazzill*; Patterned Paper-Basic Grey*; Cardstock stickers- Basic Grey*; Paint- Making Memories; Clock- My Mind's Eye; Flowers-Petaloo; (* from Salon de The kit at Scrapperie)

Creatively Yours RAK!

I forgot to post this earlier in the week, but Creatively Yours is doing a giveaway this week! Head on over there today and post a comment telling us what you can do with a handmade bookmark for one entry, and create your own based off this sketch for a second entry! You can see the design team's fabulous takes on this sketch too!

Chickens and Jam!

There's something about summer that just makes me super busy with things outside the house. I thought I'd show you why I've been MIA this week. First, it's totally harvest time here for most of my favorite things! We went and got U-Pick blueberries on Father's Day and came home with 8lbs! I made a batch of blueberry butter (like apple butter), blueberry jelly, and a batch of everyone's favorite- blueberry lime jam. Then yesterday, I got a big batch of strawberries and cherries. Here's the strawberry jam, cooling on my counter. Cherry jam is on my to-do list for today.

Also taking up my time this week, I was finally able to get my chickens! I was able to get 7 chicks (they are 3 weeks old right now) and 2 slighty older chickens (3 months or so). I expect the older ones will start laying eggs for me sometime in the next month or so, but it will be a few months for the chicks. Anyway, I picked them up on Wed and we got them all set up and happy.




Happy summer everyone!

New Free Jessica Sprague Class!

Registration opened yesterday for a new class at JessicaSprague.com. You may remember that I wrote about my awesome experience in her class on digi scrapping awhile back. Well worth it!

Happy Birthday Carrie!

In honor of my best scrappy-friend's birthday today, here is a new card to share!

Happy Birthday
Supplies: Cardstock- Prism; Patterned Paper- Collage Press; Chipboard- Bazzill; Alphas- Making Memories; Ribbon- American Crafts; Giltter- Stickles; Jewel- Me & My Big Ideas;

Laugh

This week, I got my fabulous June kit, Salon de The, in the mail from Scrapperie. LOVE this kit! I also got our pictures from Snapfish & saw this challenge on the PageMaps blog right at the same time! I love it when that happens.

Laugh
Supplies- Cardstock- Basic Grey*; Patterned Paper- My Mind's Eye*; Alphas- American Crafts; Die Cut- My Mind's Eye*; Ribbon- American Crafts; Jewels- Prima (swirls), Me & My Big Ideas (singles);

(*- from Scrapperie June kit)

Etsy Voter- Vote for my card!

My birthday card made it into Etsy's new round of voting! If you are registered on Etsy, I'd appreciate your vote. Go here and vote for the happy birthday card by RandomScraps. Thanks!

CY Sketch #55- {5 Months}

Today I have another fabulous sketch from Noella to show off here for you guys. I love this one! It's a round sketch, which just happened to be perfect for this sheet of Pink Paislee notebook style paper. This photo is one from way back in 2003, when Sierra was a baby. I have very few pictures from when the older kids were little, because I wasn't a scrapper back then and I didn't even own a camera! (Gasp, I know...) Anyway, I believe this may be the first time I've scrapped one of Sierra's baby pics, and I love how it came out!

{5 Months}
Supplies: Cardstock- Bazzill; Patterned Paper- Pink Paislee (scalloped cirle & stripes), Scenic Route (green dots);  Alphas- American Crafts; Flair Badge- American Crafts; Ribbon- American Crafts; Rub-on- Fancy Pants; Transparency- My Mind's Eye; Jewels- ?;

Here's the sketch- come over to Creatively Yours & post your take!

Spontenaity, and a layout

So the people who know me in real life know that I'm a very random person. I'll decide to do something and then just do it, without thinking or prepping or anything. Mark was walking out the door on Thursday for a weekend trip to Montana to go to a close mutual friend's wedding when I decided that we should all go. I had previously decided not to go since the wedding was adult only, but I figured there was no reason the kids & I couldn't come with just to see Montana and say hi, even if we didn't go to the actual ceremony. So I dropped everything, threw together a suitcase and we all hopped in the van! So all my plans, including scrapping plans, got dropped. Plus, in the rush I forgot my camera cable so I can't share photos from the trip until tomorrow when we get home. In the mean time, here's a layout from earlier in the week.

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Supplies: Patterned Paper- My Mind's Eye; Overlay- Hambly; Alphas- American Crafts; Flowers- Sassafras Lass; Flair Badge- American Crafts; Jewels- Kasiercraft;

Journaling

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*steals soft blankies
*feeds the dog her cheerios
*changes your TV channel
*gives big wet slobbery kisses
*uses up your cell phone minutes
*melts your heart*

No Thank You!

I got my new kit from Memory Works on Monday, and was so inspired! It's filled with fabulous goodies from Collage Press, and the birthday theme was perfect for both Venice's & Scott's recent birthdays. Since I'm waiting on my Snapfish order for Scott's birthday pics, I decided to use these ones of Venice's first taste of birthday cake. A friend challenged me to start with the white cardstock background (which you may have noticed I almost never do!), and I LOVE the way it came out! After I had everything almost done, I was insipred to add the border and glitter gems on the bottom by a page in the July SBE by Lea Lawson, and I think it completes it perfectly. Love my scrappy mags!

No, Thank You!
Supplies: Cardstock- Bazzill; Patterned Paper- Collage Press; Alphas- American Crafts (brown), Pink Paislee (orange); Felt border - Queen & Co; Pen- Martha Stewart; Glitter gems- ?.