A New Design Team!

I'm so very happy to announce that I've made it onto the Zva Creative Design Team!! Can't wait to start playing with their Crystal and Pearl Bling, Brads, Eyelets and Blooms!! I'll have to warn you that you may be seeing a weeeee bit more girly layouts in the next lil' bit. Its all good!!

Here are the rest of the wonderful ladies who will be joining me for the next 6 months:

Angelica Franssen
Benedicte Raphalen
Camilla Ekman
Carole Maurin
Debbie Olson
Ingrid Danvers
Jana Eubank
Jillian Deiling Cassity
Julia Stainton
Julianne McKenna-De Lumen
Kim Hughes
Kim Moreno
Lisa Johnson
Lynn Mercurio
Susan Lui
Teri Anderson
Veronica Goh
Wendy McKee

Simple Flower Tutorial

Ok, I've been asked numerous times to do a tutorial on my handmade paper roses so here we go!! I STILL don't have a flower punch but I find that this works on ANY flat flower - doesn't matter how many petals it has... 5, 6, 7 - whatever, the steps are the same and the results yeild a beautiful flower regardless. The only rule is that each flower 'layer' must be the same size.

For my flowers, I used Petaloo's Flora Doodles (Value pack) which were perfect.

ENJOY!!!

A Star is Born

I was looking over my gallery of scrapbook pages and it dawned on me just how many layouts I've done of my dd! I'd say at least 90% of my pages are of her! Oops - I do actually have three kids... This is where the mommy guilt kicked in and I've since vowed to try to be a little better in distributing the love among my scrapbook pages!

Precious To Me - DD.
Worth the Wait - Youngest DS.
A Star is Born - Oldest DS.

Right on target!

Here's my little slugger playing T-Ball for the first time. So proud of the little guy trying out a new sport and actually enjoying himself! Its hard when you're a perfectionist and aren't 'fantastic' at everything you do the first time. Very discouraging - especially when you're little.

The Papers are from Pink Paislee's Amber road collection and I paired with some more amazing textures - burlap, corkboard, dried flowers and lace.

I picked up the newsprint paper at the local thrift store. Just an old children's book (125 pages of pics and words) and for $2.00 I honestly don't mind ripping it to shreds!

Hope you all managed to get some scrappy time in this NSD weekend. Enjoy!