Oh so revealing....

Here are the projects that I made using the wonderful June kit from Freehand Scraps called Air Mail. Another fun kit that Elaine put together with all of the latest products from your favorite manufacturers. I made these four projects and have lots leftover!! Please jump on over to the site to check out what the designers did in the gallery and get your hands on one of these kits.





This little journal was only $1.99 at Michaels and I simply painted it and altered it using the borders, papers and fun embellishments in the kit. So easy and fun to put together!







What have you been creating lately??
We are in week 1 of summer break from school and it is hectic around here with 3 kids in the house and lots of visitors, summer activities, work, laundry and the schedule that a newborn brings to the family. Hoping for more sleep in my future!! Baby Sunday is 6 weeks old today...I will devote a post to her growth and development soon I hope--before I forget about all of the changes in her recently.

Off to make dinner for a hungry family of mine.....

sneak peeks....

I have been taking a maternity break from the fun of Freehand Scraps for a couple of months but I am back and have a few sneaks to share with you...the full kit will be available on June 1st...that is just around the corner.



I might have another sneak or two to post tomorrow-be sure and check back!
Oh and here is the newest addition to our family that has been a welcome distraction from life and the number one reason for my absence around here...isn't she sweet!

National Scrapbook Day!!

Are you getting crafty today??
Make sure to include in your holiday activities a stopover at the Freehand Scraps website today to check out their HUGE SALE and other fun challenges, tutorials and lots of ideas and inspiration. You will not want to miss it!!

I wish I had something crafty to share with you today...I might have a few mother's day cards later on in the day. (That is my intention) and I also intended to say few words about my mom....I appreciate her more now than ever after having my own kids. She is a beautiful person inside and out. She is loving, gracious, compassionate, creative, crazy talented, inspiring and thoughtful. She loves the Lord with all of her mind, and soul...and spurs me onto greatness in the Lord and as a wife and mother. She is my most trusted friend who knows all my faults and still takes the time to love me and encourage me and build me up. Just the other day, on the phone, while I sat crying with her (I was the only one crying) she proceeded to tell me what I good mother I am and gave me a bit of a pep talk. I felt much better and moved on. Oh, I hope to be 1/10th of the mother to my children that you have
been to me, Mom. If the words here don't make sense, I am blaming it on the lack of sleep that has been happening at this house for quite some time. Below is the reason...our newest addition is only 2 weeks old!?
Shown here with my dear Mom.

I love you Mom-Happy Mother's Day!


Here's wishing you all a wonderful NSD and Mother's Day weekend!!

You know when you shout BINGO!

it is a good feeling because you are going to win a game!! (I love it but then again I am very competitive and love to win) Well, that is exactly how this March Kit BINGO feels-when you open it, and see it all with your own eyes it is a BINGO moment because it is full-FULL of fun things and you feel like you have won in some way. It has some of my favorite manufacturers in this kit along with some special exclusives you cannot find anywhere else. You can find a complete list here detailing what is included in this kit-this month and she is even offering a mini album!!
Here are the three projects I was able to put together...and I had so much fun! A 2 page spread is always difficult for me but these photos and papers seemed to make it fall easily into place. I loved all the fun things-zippers, buttons, brads, game cards, and little wood game pieces as well as all the fun borders....I love embellishments!! Please do check this kit out and grab one while you can!










Have a beautiful day! I am home with two sick kids which does not happen very often in this house so noone is throwing a pity party around here. Thank the Lord that I am not sick and that everyone is on the mend and still snuggled on the couch in their jammies. I am very thankful that I can stay home with these two and tend to their needs and nurse them back to health :)

Sneak Peeks......

I cannot beleive that half of the month of February is over and we are about to enter March! The time always seems to fly but more so in these short months. I must admit that after the cold and snowy weeks we have had this month--I am looking forward to Spring and it doesn't hurt that today it was near 65 degrees and beautiful! As evidenced by the pictures below...the kids were in short sleeves eating popsicles one day and making snowmen the next, now we are back to short sleeves! :)


I have some sneaks of the newest Freehand Scraps Kit to share with you....and let me say that this kit is my favorite so far!! It is full of fun items that you won't find anywhere as well as some of the newest trends from the greatest manufacturers. I can't say or share more just yet so without further ado....

Sweetie Pie....

I know that I am day late posting about the newest kit "Sweetie Pie" from Freehand Scraps, but the weather here has been strange to say the least and school has been cancelled for the past 2 days-which is really throwing off my schedule. :)in a good way. We have spent the past day building blanket forts in the basment, reading lots of good books, singing, talking, sipping hot cocoa...you get the idea. Anyway, without further ado, I will share my projects from the Gallery and please head over there to check out the rest of the amazing projects by the design team and Guest Designer Emily Spahn! This kit truly is brimming with products and is very versatile...I made 3 layouts and 2 cards and could have kept going.......
This first layout was a fun one using the old book pages as a matte for my focal point picture. I cut up the crate paper doily paper for some embellishments-LOVE that paper!!!! and sprinkled on some sequins and those darling paper flowers as well as the velvet flower and beautiful stick pin. I love how this layout turned out!

This next layout was one that I loved putting together. I used my slice to cut the word love two times to use with the title and sprayed the doily with glitter mist to give it a hint of color and sheen and layered on the Fancy pants journaling spots and acrylic embellishement to frame in my two photos. Last I embellished the fancy pants paper at the bottom with the tiny heart brads found in this kit. Super easy layout!

These two cards were put together in less than an hour while my daughter was at basketball practice...I punched the hearts out of the various papers and stitched them onto the card-embellished the card with the adorable tiny chipboard bird after covering him with paper and the lace trim from the kit and used the slice again to cut out a title for my card....

This forever card was using some border punches to layer the papers the velvet ribbon trim and lovely silk flower that comes in the kit. The forever definition was on a complete page of stickers found in this kit---I am telling you it was packed with fun stuff!

This last layout and detail shot was just done using the fancy pants paper and layering on some of the other fun things in the kit one of which was the pearl trim that I twisted around for an accent at the bottom of layout and another chipboard shape covered with paper.I used the rubons-you get an entire sheet! and more of the rhinestones. This kit was so much fun so please check it out today!!

A few sneaky peeks...

Here we are in the midst of late January-where has this month gone?? The good news is that the month coming to an end means the beginning of a new one and a brand new kit from Freehand Scraps! This kit was FULL of stuff and so much fun to play with. Check out a few of my sneaks for the latest kit....there are more sneaks over on the Freehand Scraps blog as well.

Freehand Scraps projects...

I am back today to share with you a bit more about my projects using the Freehand Scraps January Kit-Festive Peacock.
The first one below uses a couple of the papers and the chipboard snowflakes which I painted lightly and then sprayed with glitter mist-it is hard to see in the photo the effect but up close it looks pretty! I interspersed a few of the snowflake brads (this kit is full of brads) which had glitter on them already and used the fun Pink Paislee alpha for my title. I also punched some circles and stitched them for some added texture. The whole layout was outlined with stitching and then the journaling strips added last from some of the light purple paper in the kit. The colors work very well with snowy pictures or black and white photos like I used.



This card is pretty self-explanatory: I cut down the thick pleated turquoise ribbon from the kit to make a banner showcasing some of the bright fun papers found in the kit and used the turquoise sticker letters for my sentiment. So FUN!


This next layout uses some of the various papers from the kit...I punched the scallop circles and scattered them and added the bloom, brad and glitter leaves above the tag and used it as a journaling spot. I also added the fortune cookie strip to the lower left corner-what a fun idea to have in a kit!

Last the holiday tea layout uses 3 of the featured papers in the kit (I love the black and white houndstooth) along with the file tabs, more of the blooms with their centers taken from the extra pieces from the Pink Paislee alpha and journaling strips to document a holiday tea outing and play we saw with our family over the holidays---it was a fancy tea (my daughters first)and I thought the webster pages paper went well with the theme. I also inked the edges all around with some red staz on ink to finish it off!


If you are still reading then have a beautiful Friday! I have been cleaning out and purging for the new year and getting motivated to finish up some of those projects that have been sitting around gathering dust...check back for more of those completed projects over the weekend.