Happy Memorial Day

with the end of school and now a new puppy, I haven't had that much time to craft...I did make a mini chip board journaling book for one of my students...using tons of sass...some new stuff from my studio calico kit and some old from my stash...and all kinds of stamps...oh...and I am officially addicted to AC embossing powder!



























the design for each page is the same...a little pocket at the bottom to hold tags that can be used for journaling...I used all kinds of borders, border punches and stitching for the little pockets...I really love how it turned out!

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Introducing Eris

I have the proud pleasure to introduce you to the newest member of our family...Eris...an 8 week old yorkie puppy who came home last night!



She is the sweetest little thing. Mags has been wanting a puppy for so long and we think that she is now old enough to take care of one...but we all took turns sleeping on the floor next to her last night when she got sad (I hope that doesn't last too long!) Her name comes from the movie Sinbad-Legend of the Seven Seas...with the voice of Michelle Pfeiffer...the goddess of chaos. We have all summer to play with her...can you tell I'm excited too?

Inspired Blueprints Sketch #48

The card sketch is up at Inspired Blueprints and it is the first sketch that I used as an official dt member!



and the cards I made:

the first is for a sweet little boy who is going through some very serious medical procedures right now...using some old Crate paper...



and the other I made for mag's teacher during teacher appreciation week using some Dear Lizzy and SEI papers...



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Inspired Blueprints Sketch 48

Just a quick note to let you know Sketch 48 is up at Inspired Blueprints. Louise Nelson is the guest designer this month and her LO is absolutely gorgeous! Go check it out and play along! I'll post the cards I made soon!

happy mother's day!

I hope your mother's day is filled with happiness, love and hugs!
I had some time to do a little crafting this weekend but I really needed to clean off my desk first because it was a disaster! So I used some bits and pieces of paper that were laying around and made these:

a layout of our trip to the zoo during spring break for the Studio Calico sketch challenge:



and then I made some mini cards to use as mail in mag's mail box that she made...a subtle hint that she loves mail!









All of that stuff was on my desk except for the alpha stickers.

I also made some cards this week for mag's teacher for teacher appreciation week! Some of them I can share, and some will have to wait! I made these with scraps from my Studio Calico kits!





Thanks for stopping by...I hope you have a great week!

exciting news!!

I'm back again for some really exciting news. I am joining the Inspired Blueprints design team as a card designer! I can't believe it! I hope you will come and play along with me and the other fabulous designers!

happy NSD!!

actually national scrapbooking day was yesterday and I did manage to make a couple of LOs for the Studio Calico challenges...but most of the day was spent hanging out with my mom and sister which means eating and shopping, so I can't really complain!

both LOs were made with my Joyland kit from Studio Calico...this was the first chance I had to use it and now that I've started, I don't want to stop!

me and mags and my favorite self pic from February...



and a old pic of me, my mom and my sister with our huge hair...we may have gone through a can of hairspray getting our hair to look like that!



happy sunday! mwah!