Papertrey Anniversary Challenge

Hi there! I decided to join in the fun over at Papertrey to celebrate their 5th anniversary. We were to use something out of the freebie download the designers had each contributed an image for and use that on a project. How fun is that?!

I thought the toaster was just adorable, so I used that on the outside of an envelope and stamped a tiny sentiment below the toast. I chose to pop up the toast and toaster for dimension and added twine to the electrical cord for fun. I remember my grandmother had an old toaster when I was younger and it was very similar to a braided wire look so I thought the twine was perfect.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you love the card. I made this for my son actually for Valentine's Day to tuck inside his lunchbox :)

Is it Tomorrow?!

I am beyond excited for tomorrow. No, I'm not excited about finishing up my laundry (um, well, okay, I kind of am...), nor that I will most likely get up at 6:15am to workout because I have this muffin top nagging me, BUT I get to go scrapping tomorrow. WITH. MY. BESTIE. Love this girl :)

Chrissie and I at CHA Chicago in 2010 at the Jessica Sprague booth :)

 

 

 

Thought I'd share a cute picture of us! So we're heading to Archiver's tomorrow to get our scrap on, but first, since I've NEVER been, we're going to PaperSource!!!!!! I'm ready to take some photos in the store (yes, my camera goes EVERYWHERE with me at all times) and get my mustache on. Probably literally. Some say I may carry some faux mustaches in my bag. Hmm. Do I? Tune in soon to find out :{)

Now I must get my photos uploaded for my current projects at hand. And they go as follows, NOT in any particular order:
1. Finish 2010 December Daily (missing two pages of pics)
2. New Year's Goals 2012 book (adorable idea I found over at Dear Lizzy's blog which she's beyond amazing and beautiful and stylish)
3. Bookmarks for Valentine's Day for Mikey's class. They'll be funSTACHEtic.
4. Work on my 10 year anniversary mini album using the Amy Tan mini. Gorgeous is all I can say. I'm addicted. I want them all. This is going to be a longer project since I have to actually scan a few wedding pictures!
5. Little Valentine's for Logan to hand out at daycare. I'll get the card bases all together and ready, and may try to make my own mini envelopes with my Martha Stewart scoreboard. MAY being a key word :)
6. Hopefully get a couple items done for pub calls and online challenges.

I hope to get a few of these knocked out tomorrow. I may try to submit the new year's goals book since I already love it and I'm not even done yet!

Here's a card I wanted to submit, but decided not to and wanted to share instead. Let me know what you think. Always love a little blog love. Mikey picked out the colors for me to color the cup.

Scrapbook Throwdown WINNERS!!!!

Hey everyone! I did get 3 comments on my blog about wanting to win the spot in the Scrapbook Throwdown, so I had to use the random number generator to make it fair and here's what it said for each one:

  

Congratulations, Julia!!! You're winner number one!

Congratulations, Lara!!! You're winner number two!

I'll be forwarding your email addresses on so that you can receive your free spot in the Scrapbook Throwdown class. Congratulations again. Thank you so much for playing along! I hope you enjoy the layout I've created once you get into the class and all the other wonderful inspirational layouts the other designers have created as well. Have fun!!!!!!!

Young Crafters Unite Challenge 6!

Hi there! I'm excited that I'm participating in the challenge over at Young Crafters Unite!
 
The challenge was to use this sketch:

I loved the sketch we were to use this time around. And I had fun playing with it and colors I wouldn't normally pair, but I love how it turned out.

Detail of the front cluster on the card.

 What do you think? I'd love to hear your comments. Thanks for stopping by.

Cardstock: Archiver's (blue base), Simple Stories (chevron flag)
Embellies: Stampin' Up! Adornments (resin flower), chipboard bow and houndstooth corner unknown/stash, Prima (flower)
Tools: Martha Stewart Score Board, Fiskars Trimmer, Stampin' Up! Scissors, Stampin' Up! sponges
Stamps: Hearts (unknown), Papertrey Ink (Wishing You & Take Note)
Ink: Versamark, Stampin' Up! Basic Grey, Tim Holtz Distress Ink
Adhesives: Stampin' Up! dimensionals, ATG

Up, Up & Away...

Here's a card I made for my mom's birthday using a recent set I purchased from Stampin' Up! called Up, Up, & Away. It's adorable and I thought it was adorable for a birthday card. My son was actually along side me using some other stamps of mine to create a handmade birthday card for her as well :) Gotta say, that was a major shock from him and he wanted to come home and do more later on!

Remember, you can view this larger by clicking on it.

I would love to read your comments :) Thank you for stopping by!

Scrapbook Throwdown!

Have you ever sat down to scrapbook and just draw a total blank? Have you ever thought “Gosh I’d love to try that”, but never did? Have you ever wanted to learn how fun it is to just let go and do it? If you answered yes to any of these then you will be thrilled with my new online workshop. It is called 10 challenge Scrapbook throw down. 

I'm sure we all know Bobby Flay and his throwndown show on Food Network. This class is a spin on that! You will receive 10 challenges at the beginning of class. Each challenge has it’s own degree of difficulty, but will open your eyes to so many more possibilities. You will try things that push you creatively and love every minute of it. You will complete 10 layouts during this class and gain even more ideas for future use. 

Things like fabric, sewing and stamping have entered the scrapbooking world full force and to stay on top of your game you’ll want to know how you can use these techniques and tools to make your pages speak. So, please join me in this journey of discovery and learn more about yourself and your scrap booking than ever! For more information and to sign up today for just $10! Visit the class blog at http://scrapbookthrowdownbylatrice.blogspot.com/

Check out the video below to get a peek into what we’ll be doing!  

Check out the official Scrapbook Throwdown Video:

Link to video here

Thanks so much for watching and I hope to see YOU in class soon!

And something super special...I get to give away TWO spots for this workshop!!! Just leave me a comment on this post and let me know why you want to take this class! You have until TUESDAY, JANUARY 31 (at midnight CST) to comment and win! Please leave me your email address, too, so I can contact you if you win. You don't want to miss out - this is really going to be a fantastic class.

Please check out the other guest designers blogs as well!

Chrissie Tobas – Harvest Moon Papiere

Nichol Magouirk

BIG News Arrived...

I don't even know where to begin with this post honestly. I'm kind of at a loss for words...in a GOOD, AMAZING, ROCKED MY WORLD kind of thing. Read on :)

My BFF and I were discussing via email today about my recent submission of a mini album I sent out to Northridge Publishing for their Create: Mini Albums publication call they had for summer. I had mentioned to her today that I wasn't sure when the call had actually ended and I had wanted to know that if it didn't get picked up for publication, that I would try to submit it for another publication call for another magazine. No kidding, a couple hours later I received an email from Northridge stating THEY WANT TO PUBLISH MY MINI ALBUM!!!!!!!!!!!!! MINE!!!!!!! Little old me, and they want MY book to take beautiful photographs of and publish in their book that will come out in June 2012.

Let me start off by saying I am COMPLETELY and UTTERLY shocked that I was chosen. My BFF had urged me to send it it because she was in love, love, love with the album. I loved it as well, but aren't we all most partial to what WE create?? So I did it and I was nervous and I hadn't heard a thing in what seemed like forever, and lo and behold, we started chatting about it and BOOM-that magical email appeared.

Guess what my Project Life will consist of for today???????? :)

So I guess I'm saying I'm happy, thrilled, humbled, thankful, excited, nervous (I mean thousands of people all over the place will be seeing MY handwriting, MY designs, MY photos of my kids and family) and I never had the intention of submitting this album to anything when I had made it a couple months back. I just wanted a fun album full of our Summer 2011 memories. This is one sweet memory to add to this year's book...

Cas-ual Fridays Challenge CFC #24

I wanted to push myself to participate in this challenge since I adore Halloween and everything about it, all the colors...decorations...spookiness...thrills...okay, you get it. I LOVE everything about it. But I had to reread the challenge rules a couple times as the title is misleading:

So you would probably think you have to use orange, right?! WRONG! Here's what the challenge said:

CFC24:  Create a Clean And Simple Halloween project with NO orange.  Not even a tiny spot! Ummm, no orange. You read it right. So I dived in. And I gotta say, I love the way it came out. What do you think? Leave me some feedback :) 

 

 

SP&Company Spooky Orange Blog Hop

I'm baaaack! :) I'm excited to participate in the blog hop over at SP&Company! I HAD to participate since Halloween is my FAVORITE holiday...EVER!!!!!

I got to play with my new stamp set from the Holiday Mini catalog from Stampin' Up! for this one. I just loved all the pieces that are included in the set. So I did some fussy cutting, Copic coloring and Halloween spookiness for this card. I just love how it came out and I can't wait to use this set over and over again.

I love comments, so leave me some spooky thoughts below. Thanks for stopping by!

SP Color Combo #112

Another post today! I'm on a roll. I also wanted to enter this challenge as well at SP & Company's blog because I love her color combos. Always pairing fresh colors together and really making you think!! I love that. I grabbed colors as close to the palette as possible, so here's my take!

Again, using my new stamps I just got, the distressed circle background one has been on my wish list for a looong time since I first saw it at Archiver's. Well, that was the first one that went into my basket. I am loving it, so I'm sure you'll be seeing a lot of that one in future cards...

And the whole reason I bought this Technique Tuesday set by Ali Edwards is because of the coloring factor. I knew these would be adorable colored in various colors and I can see I was right.

The camera didn't pick it up, but I traced each of the letters in celebrate with my clear Spica pen. It adds just the right amount of sparkle to this card. I love it and I hope you do, too!! Go over and play along at SP & Company!!

SP Blog Hop for August 2011

Hi there! I am submitting the card below for the blog hop happening right now on SP & Company's blog and the theme is PURPLE. Not a color I use a ton, so this was really fun for me to do something out of the ordinary :) I just got this new Hero Arts stamp yesterday at Archiver's during their fantastic, one-day-only sale and I knew when I bought it I was going to use it for this project.

I really wish the camera could pick up the Glimmer Mist I used all over the flower. It adds a really simple but elegant shimmer to the whole flower just making it pop! And of course, I got to use my purple Copics. And the sentiment at the bottom is from a Technique Tuesday set by Ali Edwards. I just love her handwriting and thought it went so well with this simple but elegant card.

I hope you love it :) Thanks for stopping by!! Remember you can view this larger by clicking on each image!