Peachy Keen Guest Designer Week 22, Day 4

Day 4 from Peachy Keen Blog ---------

Whew! What a week so far! I'm pretty excited to show you the project I made for today! As you might remember in my blog post from yesterday it is recital week for my daughter's dance studio. This year the dance studio is celebrating 50 years, which is a huge accomplishment! I was trying to think of something I could make or give the dance studio owner/director (I took lessons there when I was a kid too!)... and I decided on a shadow box to commemorate the occasion!
My husband attended the recital Wednesday evening and I instructed him to bring me a program - do not bend it, fold it, wrinkle it, tuck it under your arm... you get the idea. :) And from there I just sort of ran with her theme "Golden Memories".

I have to say, I know I've used my PK-640 Princess Face Assortment a lot this week but now you can see how wonderful they really are! Everyone neeeeeeeeds a set of Princess faces! The cuts for this Ballerina again are from "Twinkle Toes".

With all of the stage makeup and such these girls have to wear I thought this face from the Princess faces fit perfectly - love those eyelashes!

(Glad you can't see too much of a glare on the glass because you would see my messy craft room then! Ha!)

And here is a quick shot outside of the glass -- making it a bit easier to see!


This was a challenge for me to pull it all together because the color gold and I don't get along very well most of the time. We'll see what Miss Marcia thinks of her gift tonight at the special reception celebrating her 50th year! I'm so excited to give it to her!

Don't forget about the chance to win some lovely stamps from the new Anyday line!

To be entered into the drawing please leave a note on this blog post and also on my blog. You will have five days to leave a note, so that is five chances to win! :) I will use random.org to pick which day and post for the winner. I will draw and announce the winner on my blog on Saturday June 11th.

Have a fantastic Thursday!

Sugar and Spice and SPARKLES!

Okay, so I'll admit it... I may have gone a little glitter crazy with this layout. It sure was fun!!!

This is my little girl when she was around 2 and got her first tutu dress up outfit. She wouldn't take it off and in fact, we went out to dinner with friends that night and she wore it there too. I believe she cried that night when it was time to go to bed and she had to take it off. Goofy girl! She's still all about fancy and fru-fru things, so apparently this is when it all started!

Thanks for looking!


Some close-up shots of all the sparkles and fabulous glitteryness...



Patterned Paper: K&Company
Alphas: Thickers by American Crafts
Flowers: Prima and a few handmade
Bling Flourish: Recollections by Michael's Stores
Pennant Die cut: Lost & Found (Girl Collection) by My Minds Eye
Layered Stickers: Butterflies by K&Co.
Ribbons: Crocheted ribbon by American Crafts, Fringe by Maya Road

Pure BLISS!

For those of you who know me or even for those who have been following my blog for a bit, you may notice that I have hardly any themed stuff. For instance, wedding, Christmas, or most holidays... I have this major aversion to Holiday or themed paper. I like it, I think its pretty. I have a really hard time getting it to come out how I see things in my head without being what I would consider something to be over the top (*gasp* Did I just say that I'm over the top sometimes??? haha).

I've been married for a little over 7 years now and just recently someone introduced this site/blog to me suggested trying it for a challenge. (Scrapbooking From the Inside out has a lot of great challenges, check out their site!) I'm always up for a good challenge, so I figured I could do a wedding layout and really challenge myself. :)

Here is the end product --- I like it! What do you think?


I don't come right out and say that I love a page that I make myself too often, but I really really do love this one!

Here are some close-ups of details:



And for those of you straining your eyes trying to see what I wrote - I'm not ashamed of my love for my husband... so I'll share!
"This picture is taken with one of the few throw away cameras we had around during the reception. Granted its not a great picture of the two of us, but you can certainly tell just how happy we were this day! I love you!"

We just celebrated 7 years last week Monday, Sept 20th. You know how we celebrated? It was a normal day.... but thats okay. Its a nice reminder of how far we've come and what we have with our family and most importantly, our beautiful children. (We did go to dinner on Sunday night, the 19th to Buffalo Wild Wings, nothing fancy - but we used to go on a date every Tuesday night-Wing night when we were dating and first married.) Oh, and a leak in the basement... minor drama for the evening running to Home Depot before they closed to get the parts needed to replace some valves in the basement so we wouldn't have water leaking all over the floor. Yep, just another day in paradise. :)

And now I'm done being mushy for today... I promise. :)

Blog Candy! And a fun layout...

First up, here's some fun blog candy!!
To enter for a chance to win the blog candy, please leave a comment on this post and follow me! (Also, pretty please make sure I have a way to reach you if you are not a registered user with blogger! I want to make sure I can send the goodies to whoever wins!)

I will use random.org to pick a totally random winner on Sunday night... random is fun!

Now onto the goodies... I thought it would be rather appropriate to some "Dear Lizzy" goodies. :) There are 7 double sided papers and 1 adhesive backed fabric paper, for embellishments there are brown glittered thickers (alpha stickers!), fabric brads, crocheted flowers, Remarks phrase stickers, and some layered felt embellishments all from the Dear Lizzy line. I love the patterns and colors! I also threw in some of the new American Crafts premium ribbon and some white ball trim (you may notice I use this stuff a lot! LOVE ball trim!). (Sorry for the dim pictures, I forgot to take them when it was still light out!)

Up next, my friend Mandy was the guest designer over on Everyday Cricut this week - go check out her fabulous projects there and her blog - The Polka Dot Spot, too! :) She's sharing some blog love with me, so I want to give back to her! Thanks Mandy! Oh - and she has some blog candy you could win... make sure you check it out.


And the layout I wanted to share today... this is from my daughter's 5th birthday. The only thing she kept telling me she wanted for her birthday was a ballet ornament. So here she is opening her birthday present(she was born on Thanksgiving day and this year her birthday falls on Thanksgiving again!).... a ballet shoe Christmas ornament! It was super sparkly and hangs in her bedroom year round. :)

Finally finished!

I started this layout a week and a half ago while I was at the LSS croppin' with some ladies. I just needed to put the finishing touches on it... so here it is!





Most of the products on this layout are from the Basic Grey Kioshi line, with the exception of some Prima flowers, Tiny Type Cosmo Cricket letters, Making Memories fancy alphas, and some Thickers. :) All of the buttons, brads, pp, and paper ribbon are BG! Woot!

A couple new layouts! :)

I did these a week or so ago and I just haven't had time to post them. Today I made time during morning nap, so here we go! :)

There are a couple of these that are unusually simple for me, but I love the paper and colors and they worked perfectly for the pictures I had. Don't you just love when that happens?

Paper and products from the first two layouts are from the new My Mind's Eye lines. :)









And one more for now.... :)




Paper from this layout is from the Little Yellow Bicycle's 'Lucky' line.

Tiny Dancer

I stopped in to my favorite scrappy store tonight and purchased a few things from the new "Dear Lizzy" line... Obviously, I love the name. :)
Anyway --- this sheet of patterned paper lead me a completely different way and kept nagging me while I was putting the paper I away that I had purchased. And then I thought of this picture of my darling daughter in her first year of dance and I still hadn't scrapped that picture.
So here it is, I finally scrapped this picture! It is a pretty simple layout but I love how it turned out. I'm trying to work on getting more done and not being as super picky as I usually am. :)

Page Kit Swap! :)

Hello, hello! Its been a little bit since my last post. I've been holding onto my latest projects so I could post them in groups.

I was involved in a neat swap on a scrapbooking board where we made up little page kits and sent to everyone in our groups. I was in three groups and four people in each group.

Here's my first girl group I was in... there weren't too many rules. We sent 2 patterned papers and a piece of cardstock and some random embellishments to match. From there it was wherever our creativity took us!











This was technically a 'girl kit' - but I kept going back to this picture so I just had to use it! :)


I have one more girl group and an 'Anything Goes' group to finish up! I have a few done, but will post when I have all four for each group!

Layouts!

These are layouts I've done in the past couple months here... need to do some catch up! I don't have pictures of everything I've done either, this is just a sampling. :)


















This was for a flower challenge... think I had enough flowers?? :)


And one of my favorites... its a pretty simple layout, but I love it!


And one more... and I'm done flooding everyone with pictures. :)


Okay! WHEW! Now on to cards and other stuff? haha. I'll give it a rest for today. :) Thanks for looking!

Edited to add: I officially DISLIKE photobucket. I resized and cropped all of these pictures and some of them aren't showing up correctly. My apologies! Not much else I can do other than scream at the computer screen... and thats not working right now either! :)