Gallery reveal!

Today is the day that they reveal the kit and design team gallery over at Freehand Scraps and I thought that I would share some pictures of my gallery on the blog so you can see more than just a sneak. I had time to make 4 layouts and a card, but I have a lot of stuff leftover to play with-this kit is packed with lots of new product and some vintage stuff as well. Make sure you get in line to snatch this one up!

Sneak Peeks......

That is right...it is almost that time again for the BIG FREEHAND SCRAPS reveal to happen September 1st and let me just tell you that this is such a cute kit! It is packed with all kinds of BRAND NEW Product from Cosmo Cricket, Maya Road, Jenni Bowlin Studios, American Crafts, Fancy Pants Designs, Basic Grey and much more. I had loads of fun working with it and here are a few sneaks of what I created with my kit. Be sure to check out the rest of the gallery on the first of September right HERE.





I was able to make 4 layouts and a card and still had plenty of stuff leftover to create with or combine with other things to make even more. HAPPY CREATING!

The Freehand Scraps Gallery is up....

and it is really cute! All of it! I had so much fun creating with this kit and have plenty leftover to make more layouts and cards. Someone said that Heidi at Freehand Scraps is a genius and I would have to agree. She truly has a knack for putting together paper, and other fun elements to create something fabulous and unique to work with. You are going to love this months kit. Check out the rest of the gallery here.

This fancy pants paper was fun to work with...I cut with my Xacto knife around the leaves to tuck my picture under the cute design and then mixed up the letters with some MM noteworthy chipboard to make the title. I punched the butterfly out of the Prima page pebbles packaging. Pretty simple but cute!




Happy Spot is a story of a girl (mine) who went from hating to swing to a love for it that I just had to document. I loved pleating the ribbon with a thread and needle and using my scallop punch and stitching a few elements on this happy layout.



This was a fun layout using a little computer journaling and some dark brown ink on all the journaling strip edges and the entire outline of the page. I loved both of the glittery KI Memories paper included in this kit!





This page was the 1st one that I put together and I love how it showcases the relationship of my 2 kids. They really are the best of friends. I loved working with the invisibles in this kit and used green chalk to color the bird. I put my new Fiskars scallop punch to work on this page and my must have tool-my office stapler.



I had alot of fun working with the fun things in this kit-check it out! There are still some available for purchase.

some pictures from Orlando.....

Here are pictures from the first couple of days of our trip to Orlando and the Craft and Hobby Show here. Some shots of some of the projects....You can check out more at my sister Heidi's blog.











Here are some pictures that I had to post to show my kids the fun I had on Monday at Downtown Disney. I had to take soem pictures of the all the fun things they have to do here for kids and adults too! What an amazing place! Enjoy the pictures Halle and Caleb and just know that I will not forget to bring you back a surprise, as soon as I have a little time to shop. Auntie Heidi has been keeping me very busy. We are also having alot of fun being together and laughing, talking, dreaming, and looking at lots of pretty paper.



This is the salon where they fix your hair like a princess complete with Tiara!






I am pretty tired so it's off to bed and preparing for tomorrow's BIG DAY! Love and miss you all back home! XOXO

Bubbles are so fun....

We had so much fun with the bubble shooters that I bought for the kids the other night. They did very well until the end. I had bought two so they would not fight and then realized after opening them that I only had enough batteries for 1 and a half.....OH no....they shared and took turns and then at the very end the fighting began. They are siblings but we are still trying to teach them to share and that can be very hard to do at times. Needless to say, I am headed out today to buy some more batteries, bubbles, check Father's Day off the list, and some Sunday School craft items for my lesson tomorrow.






Here is a quick scrapbook page I made from the June Freehand Scraps kit....it is a favorite picture of mine from Halle's one year shoot and it is for the baby book that is slowly taking shape and the end is in sight!! Hurray!


I plan to stitch my journaling onto the page with the sun and cloud....should be finished soon, I hope.

Halle sabotaged my camera this week and took some of the funniest photos....this one is Caleb's current obsession with "wittle Tato head" as he calls him. He has been playing and playing with this and the big Tato head and now Halle is asking for a Mrs. Potato Head.


Have a great weekend!