#teambeanie and more/BOAF

Good morning everyone!! I'm up and at em this am, getting kids and the hubby off to work and school. So its a bit quieter here around the house, not completely but quieter lol 

But I'm here to share 2 layouts I made for the Birds of a feather kit club design team. 

When I first got this kit I automatically thought summer photos because of all the bright and beautiful papers and embellishments. But I wanted to steer away from that, so I chose this picture of me and a few friends in the middle of winter this last year. Here in Arkansas we got snow a few tie and they tried to shut everything down, but we decided to go check it out and see how things were out and about. So naturally, we took a selfie! lol. 

I have issues cutting some of my favorite papers up so I decided to use this beautiful Websters pages paper for the background. I layered some of the other papers from the kit, which were all beautiful and hard to cut up!! I grabber a few things from my stash and added them. Then I remembered that I had those BoBunny butterflies from the kit and decided I wanted to add them. I pulled a few of my gelatos out and made them have a faded color like the background, added the title and a few splats and it was done!

Now here is my goofy cat, well one of them. Apparently I wasn't showing him enough love when I was hanging off my bed reading, so he flopped down in the middle of my book and just stared at me. lol. 

I noticed that the Kaiser craft sticker sheet from the kit had a read sticker that I liked but didn't want to use red so I grabbed the blue cardstock and sent it threw my Silhouette and cut out a similar shape, layered some of the papers, added a boarded on top and bottom, cut out a mini cat head from the natural orange paper, added a few stickers and then added the title. I love these blue glitter thickers from American crafts!!! Anyways lol, And to finish it I added some tattered angels chalkboard glimmer mist splats, you can find this in the Birds of a feather store too! And that was about it.

I hope you come by there blog and check out everything all the other girls make. Stay tuned to there blog too, theres a little whisper going around that there might be an online crop coming up!!

Frog boy and the tornado shelter/Lets get sketchy

Good morning all!! I'm here today with a layout I created for the Lets get sketchy design team!
We have an great sketch created by Bev Code. I really enjoyed playing with this sketch and I hope that you will come and join in on the fun!!

Here's my little frog boy and my take on this weeks sketch. I used papers from a We R memory keepers Achieved collection. Along with a Silhouette cut file, Tim Holtz black soot distress ink, Heidi swapp black color shine and a few other things. 

I love these pictures though. They were of a scary situation, we were in a tornado shelter, as the title suggests lol, but he was fine. Jake was happy and playing when the tornado was right on top of us, as long as he had his frog hat on. It was like his own little secret super power. My oldest son was really scared, be he had seen what could happen in tornados to, this was really a first for Jake. But I snapped a few pictures when we were down there and thought they would be good to scrap, and tell about his own little secret super power lol. 

I hope you liked my take on the sketch Bev created and I hope you come by the Lets Get Sketchy blog and play along. Now this months our challenges are sponsored by Scrap Much? They are an online and mobile store, so you can go check them out too and see the new products they keep there store stocked with. But they are also offering a $25 gift card for the winner of this months winner! So there's another incentive to come and join in on the fun!!

Crazy Fun

Here's another layout made with my July Hip Kit.

This is probably one of the least busy layouts I've ever made lol. I cant say it enough, how much I've been loving this kit, and again I think I say that every months, but hey its true! lol

So I chose some of my faves from the kit, and who am I kidding?, there all my faves!! I took this goofy photo of  me, my hubby and our oldest at a field trip last year, we had so much fun!! We went to the zoo with his class, walked around with seven of his friends and took TONS of pictures!!

I thought these October Afternoon papers just made the pictures pop! I used some of the Elles Studio, Crate paper and Simple stories for layering. 

I love that the picture is front and center even with the bright, eye popping papers. Well off to play with more of this beautiful kit!!

If you get the Hip Kit, let me see what you make with it!!

Park fun icecream yum/ First week in our new place

 Things are slowing down here with only one week left of summer :( We already finished all the school shopping, so really were just enjoying our last week before school starts. We've enjoyed our summer though, the boys started cooking this summer and have loved it, done some camping, went swimming a lot, done some traveling and a lot of really great family time. I always hate to see summer go, but it has to. Now I get to take pictures of the beginning of school!! Field trips and all kinds of stuff lol

Well anyways enough with more photo ops, with everything slowing down I'm getting a bit more scrapping done. So I finally broke into my July Hip Kit. I feel so behind just breaking into it lol. But I've got my mojo and loving this kit! I think thats said with each and every kit I get from Hip Kit club, they always seem better and better every month!! lol Im so excited for August kit already!! lol 

So this was my 1st layout made with my July kit. It was actually for one of the past challenges on there facebook group. These are always fun to join in on! Sometimes the challenges push me outside my comfort zone and I love to be pushed there, you never know what you'll come up with. The whole kit if full of amazingly bright and sunny colors. So I grabbed a collage picture of my kids and a friends kiddo at the park. 

Here's my second layout made with the kit. This is a layout about our first week in our new place, thus the title, lol. There just four random pics from the 1st week that made me happy. The 1st photo is our youngest daughter sitting in an empty suite case with the almost empty gallon of milk, drinking it!lol She grabbed it out of the fridge and decided she was going to drink it. The 2nd is of our cats. They stuck together all week, I guess they were inseparable with it being a new place, but they were so sweet the whole time. The 3rd is my mom and our three older kiddos. She came up to hang out and help unpack but I think most of the time she spent playing with the kiddos, but thats what grandmas are suppose to do right?lol The last picture might seem weird, but in our last house we had a lot of trees, so that meant not a lot of sun light coming in the windows, just a lot of shade. Well this was our 1st morning here, I got up early before everyone else to have a nice quiet cup of coffee. I loved seeing the sun come threw the windows across the wood floors. Just a few things I loved when we 1st moved in.

Well I'm off to watch a movie with the family and then to do dinner. Hope you have a great day and if you haven't, go check out Hip Kit Club

Target Princess/ Our Life Memories BOAF

I'm up on the Birds of a Feather blog today with 2 layouts I did with this months bright and beautiful kit.

I used Websters pages for the background on this one and even did some fussy cutting to fill in some of the white space I left around the edges. These pictures of my youngest aren't the best but I love the fact that I caught her wearing the crowns like she does ever time we go into Target,lol. We always buy at least one crown when we go in. I did a little sewing to add a bit more texture without adding to much to the page and added a few of the stickers from the Kaiser Craft sticker sheet we got in the kit, then I ripped a part one of the bright orange flowers so that I could add them behind some of my stickers and pictures. I did pull my grey dotted washi from my stash because I just like washi,lol, but the rest is from the kit.

Now with this layout, I chose a Websters pages background again, and a few of the brighter colors that were in the picture and started playing. I added a bit of mixed media with an older Prima stencil that had a leaf pattern, then a few silhouette cut files, did some layering of papers and some sewing and was done. I added a few of my Tim Holts small talk stickers because they fit so well talking about adventure and living life.

Pop over to the BOAF blog and check out what the other girls do with this pretty kit!

Lets get sketchy/ Lets stay home

Today is the the reveal of Augusts week ones sketch for  Lets get Sketchy!! I just so happen to be on team A, so that means I'm up on the blog today with some other amazing womans. 

Jenessa Franco did a fantastic sketch for everyone to get inspiration from, go by the Lets get Sketchy blog and check it out, maybe even participate and get an entry in for yourself. You never know you might get Artist of the week!

Heres the fantastic sketch Jenessa Franco created:

And here is my take on the sketch:

I got into my stash and pulled out things from a few different collection. My background is DCWV from there DIY projects stack. I love the line Jen Hadfeild made with Pebbles, Home+Made. So I grabbed my 6x6 Pebbles paper pad and some of my embellishments from Maggie Holmes open book collection and went to to town.

These papers are so pretty and I love them, so I've hoarded them since I got them lol. But I finally decided to pull them out and play with them and I like the fact that I had printed these pictures out in B&W casue then, lucky me, they go with everything lol. I finished my Layout off with some Heidi Swapp Gold lame color shine.

Now if you haven't already, head over to the Lets get sketch blog and join in with the fun!!

Its official/Birds of a Feather Kit club!!!

Im on the Birds of a Feather Kit club design team!! They announced it yesterday on there blog, so I figured I would announce it too!! Im excited to be a part of there team with all the other ladies!! I'm excited to show you the kits they have and what me and the other ladies can do with them.

If you head over to there blog, you can meet all of us new girls, see what the already existing DT  has been up to and look around at the shop and check out the Forum.