Father's Day Present (What, I'm late?)

My good friend Roz is giving away some blog candy to celebrate her 100th layout of the year. Go check it out here, and make sure you tell her I sent you! As for this Father's Day present, I started making it for Jason in June, but just never got around to finishing it until this week. Now he can put it on his desk at work! I posted one just like it...

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B-Day Card for my Man!

When I saw the colours for Design Dollies this week (Black, White, Grey and a pop of Orange), I thought they would be great for a masculine card, and seeing Jason's birthday is on the 6th, now I have a bit of a headstart. I really like the clean lines of this card, don't you? I was going to put it in for the Design Dollies elements challenge, too...

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Layout #81 - Get Picky and SPCC

Yay, I get to enter 2 challenges with this one! I used the November sketch from Get Picky, and the colours from Scrapmaster's Paradise Color Challenge, which are Real Red, Tempting Turqoise and Whisper White this week. When I first started piecing together this layout, I was going to use a bright green, but even though it probably would have looked...

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Layout #80 - another trifecta

This layout came together relatively quickly. I used the colours (baby pink, grass green and white), theme (silly), and sketch from Design Dollies for a trifecta, and I really like the fresh look of it all. The background pp is random stamped with the Tickled Pink stamp set from Close to My Heart, and then the rest of the paper is from my stash of...

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Mistletoe Cards

Just a quick post this morning. Here are the 12 cards I made with the Mistletoe Workshop-on-the-Go kit available from Close to My Heart. The technique featured is rock 'n' roll stamping, which I have played around with before, but rediscovered while making these cards. I really like how everything is included in the kit and I still have tons leftover...

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Book Review Time!

A few people have said that they like looking at my list of books over in my sidebar, which is so cool! I've always been an avid reader, and I like books from many genres, but my last really exciting reads were surprising for me, because I wasn't expecting to like them so much.First up is one from my library book club. We meet once a month and take...

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Layout #79 - Let there be snow!

Don't get me wrong, I'm not really hoping for snow right now, it's just the title of this page. I made this layout as a Design Dollies trifecta, but alas! I missed the deadline for the colour challenge. I had the concept in mind all week, but I just couldn't pull it off in time. Here is where I will insert my life story, so feel free to skip to the...

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Layout #78 - Trifecta!

I found a gap in one of my family albums, so I created this layout using 2 photos I found in my stash from Dawson City. Unfortunately, these photos are not the best, but I thought I should scrap them because they illustrate just one of the fun events that were happening all summer long. I really miss that about living up there. It's unusual that a...

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Layout #77 - Get Picky

This picture is from 2 and a half years ago when my mom treated me to a trip to Hawaii (yeah, she's pretty special!) That's her on the right, and my aunt came as well. We went to a luau, and this is the photo that they take of you as you get off the bus. It felt kind of cheesey, and then they sucker you into paying $20 or something to get the photo...

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Layout #76

This is the third of my Design Team layouts, and I think it's my fave! First, I loooooove the photo of Ailis, I think she looks so adorable! Then I pulled the colours from her dress and used Distress Inks to make the cool background and frame. The third thing I love about this page is the handmade flowers - I made them by cutting cardstock circles...

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Layout #75

Here's another layout I used for my Design Team application a while back. I really like how all of the distressing and machine stitching turned out, as well as the misted crowns and the little green Grungeboard crown on Nolan's head. For anyone who hasn't realized yet from reading my blog, Nolan is a very interesting little guy! He is never conventional,...

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Layout #74 - Surprise Envie Challenge

This is a layout I whipped up a while ago for the Scrap-tures Surprise Envie Challenge. Teresa sent me and three others a little envelope with the same supplies, and we were to make a layout using all of the supplies. It was really fun, and so cool to see what others came up with. (Click the link to see what others came up with, and if you become...

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