St Patty's Day Card

Just noticed I never posted my St. Patty's Day card from The Shoe. Her it is.. Enjoy :)

Masters of Forgery!!

I am so pleased to announce that I am a new member of the Masters of Forgery Design Team for the Counterfit Kit Challenge Blog! I can not wait to jump right in and get started. The most supplies I use, the more supplies I can buy :) Let's see if I can make this list of the other master forgerers work! :)
Well I got them working, but you will need to right click and select open in a new tab unless you want to keep pressing the back button to get back to the list.
Enjoy - ALL of these ladies are absolutely amazing. And, all of their styles are very unique. Can't wait to get started with you ladies! :)
Crystal
Me
Melissa
Sherri
Kim
Shazi
Jemma
Margie
Suzanne
Lisa
Gabrielle

Free Spirit

My husband has the most free spirited personality. And, I love it! He also takes the best photos! Such a photogenic guy he is. Here's my layout using Cosmo Cricut Boyfriend. The rub-ons are some VERY OLD (I think 5 years old) ones from fancy pants. American Crafts Thickers that I am not very happy with at all. You can see the letters are lifting and this is a brand new layout. I don't think I will be buying the vinly letters again. Anyway, Enjoy -- and happy Friday!

I loved you before I met you...

Another layout using my Counterfeit Kit! =] I also put my own spin on last week's from start to finish video with Nicole @ 2 peas. I post the links to both of those sites later on! Please excuse the actual photos of myself that I used for this layout - they arn't my favorite, but I have to remind myself that I preserve the memories for my daughter. =] I thought I took the date off the bottom of the picture but apparently not.

Happy Easter! =]

This is my beautiful daughter at four weeks old. Of course this was last year's Easter. But, I have been waiting for the right paper. So when I get my Echo Park Springtime collection pack yesterday I decided I had found the perfect paper for the job! =] I'm still learning this whole layout picture taking thing, and therefore there are shadows on my thickers. Enjoy.

Your Love Notes

Hiiiiiii! I'm back! =] It's been a couple days since I've posted. But, tonight I worked on the first mini challenge over at Counterfeit Kit Blog. The challenge is to create a layout without photos. And here's what I came up with.

Everything in this layout came from my counterfeit kit. All I added was the glossy letter stickers, and the MM frame. BUT, the important thing is that I am using my stash and not buying anything! =]


Here is a closer look at the super old MM frame. I placed pop dots under the letter stickers, and the star embellishment.


Here are more prima flowers (my favorite for the minute) and I used the beads again.


I didnt want to display my journaling out in the open so I hid it inside a pocket. I wrote soe things on the back of the tag, but didn't want to share that =].

To be honest, I REALLY did not want to do this challenge. I did not know where I was going to begin but I dove in head first and this was the result. I think it's pretty, and I like it. Hope this inspires you guys to create as well!

Collection Pack Organization

2 posts in 1 day!! =]

I wanted to start displaying my ideas for organization and maybe somebody can benefit from my storage solutions. Tonight I want to show you how I organize my collection packs. I consider a collection pack a set of papers, and any coordinating embellishments, rub-ons, stickers etc. I ONLY include the patterned paper, any embellishments from the same line, and cardstock. These are not kits. These holders only carry the things from the line that is labeled on the paper holder. I first start with a Cropper Hopper paper holder.



I take the small holders out of the large holder and place all of my contents from the collection pack inside.



I like a label on the outside of my holders. So I took the element sheet (from the Echo Park little girl line) and cut the Echo Park emblem, and the "Little Girl" title out.






Then, I adhere the stickers to the side of the holder.



And here are the rest of my Echo Park lines! =] Until the 3 newest one I just bought come in the mail! =]