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You are my American Dream - Lasting Memories

Hey friends!

Today's last challenge of the month over at Lasting Memories is to use bicycles on your page!

I've been hoarding this gorgeous Carta Bella paper for a while, time to use it!

This is fairly simple for me, but sometimes I have to remind myself it's enough to just have the memory documented!

This was just a quick memory about our first holiday in our new home, the party we had to celebrate, and my sweet boys on the front porch of my dream farmhouse! Perfection #blessed.

I created my own bunting by halving a circle die cut out of glitter paper, and pairing with starred geotags turned upside down.

I continued with the gold foil in my star border and then brought a bit of the bunting down to tie in with my photo.

I hope you'll hop over to Lasting Memories and play along with this fun challenge! The design team has some great inspiration up today.

Thanks for looking!

You Make My Heart Go Boom - a Momenta page

Hey friends!

I wanted to make sure everyone was inspired for our American Independence Day holiday, so I'm bringing you a fun, firework page created with Momenta products today!

I used the star fish dies from Momenta in a patriotic way. I die cut some beautiful pages from my favorite paper company, Pink Paislee. I gessoed the background of this embossed Kraft to brighten it up, and sewed the stars in a firework pattern.

This glitter arrow is also from a Momenta puffy sticker pack & went perfectly with the glitter alphas in my title.

Then I added the wood grain Momenta stars with gold accents to tie the page together. And we can't forget the splatters!

This star tab is a pull for a hidden journaling card that documents the story of this layout of my hubs and me on the 4th of July.

I used felt around the edges of my layered photo to pop up the picture, which left room for a journaling card without messing up the aesthetic of the page.

The entire title says "You make my heart go BOOM."

To add interest, I ripped small sections from the border and backed the openings with patterned PP paper and some embellishments. I love how it turned out!

This is the back side of my pull our journaling card. It's a super simple way to make sure you tell your story while not interrupting the artistic flow of a page. The embossed paper didn't lend well to journaling on the layout, or I wouldn't have been opposed to writing on the page.

Repeating a die cut is one of my favorite ways to create a page with an impact. It really is easy to do, but makes a big statement!

Supplies:

Star Die - Momenta

Wood Stars - Momenta

Gold Arrow - Momenta

Patterned paper - Pink Paislee Sweet Freedom

Navy Puffy Alpha - Fancy Pants

Red Puffy Alpha - Studio Calico

Navy block alpha - Illustrated Faith

Gold Alpha - MAMBI

Gold Stars - Studio  Calico

Star Stamp - Studio Calico

# Stamp - Heidi Swapp

Embossed Kraft - Bazzill

Thanks for looking!

4th of July Adventure

It's time for another adventurous challenge over at Lasting Memories!

This week, I'm challenging you to create a layout about a 4th of July adventure. I realize that perhaps not everyone on the interwebs celebrates our American, 4th of July holiday, so if not, tweak the challnege to fit you! You can create a page with Red, White and Blue, and don't forget to sparkle!

I have another pocket page to share for today's challenge:

I lucked up this awesome Pebbles collection at Tuesday Morning called American and I adore it!

The gold foil ephemera is super fun!

I love the idea of sparkle on my 4th of July pages, so I included a fun shaker pocket next to my sparkler photo!

I also stamped the word firework for my title card, and embossing with blue powder.

I might've stocked up a little much on this awesome gold ribbon from the Dollar Tree last Christmas ... #noregrets.

Here's the backside of the page:

Isn't this Pebbles collection THE cutest?!
I just slapped a red firework ephemera on the back of the sparkler ephemera to make the shaker pocket work on both sides.

Everyone loves some Lachlan, so he got lots of facetime this night. And let's be real, these are obvs photos from 2016. Still recovering from the holiday weekend ths year!

Baby says it's good to be freeeee!

I really would love for you to be inspired by my adventure prompts this month - play along with us at Lasting Memories!

Thanks for looking!

Happy Independence Day!

Hello Friends - Happy 4th of July!

Today I'm bringing you a festive layout to celebrate the holiday. I used another wonderful sketch from Stuck?! sketches.

It's hard to take a perfectly square photo, btw!

Here's the original sketch:

This sketch was just meant to be for these photos of my boys I had waiting to be scrapped.

My boys are 3 years and 1 day apart, so all the hand-me-downs are seasonally appropriate. I love to compare the sweet thangs in some special outfits (usually holiday related). This is the first age comparison page I've done of the two of them!? How is that possible?!

I stamp embossed the stars, and filled in the hollow stars with watercolors. Then I went a little splatter crazy.

They're definitely brothers, that's for sure. But they also have their own look too. Lachy quite a bit chunkier too!

I love this Pebbles Americana collection. It just took a couple of tiny scraps for behind the photos.

The ephemera pack is super fun too.

I added a little journaling at the bottom that is not in the sketch. Seems like Lachlan got a little jipped on that beach view too! Haha.

Thanks for looking & I hope you have a great holiday!

Little Summer JOY - Celebrate Lesson 1

Happy Independence Day, fellow Americans! (And Happy July 4th to you non-Americans!)

Today, I'm bringing you a little page I have created in my Little Summer JOY traveler's notebook for Lesson One at Little Paper Projects' - Celebrate the Little Things.

First, can I say that I'm just celebrating this little moment right here - I'm sitting on the front porch, drinking coffee, all the people in my home are still asleep (late firework/boat night last night), and catching up on photos and blogging and all the gorgeous crafty inspiration in my virtual world. It is glorious!

This moment could be short lived, so on I go, to share with you the first page I've created for Alexandria's lesson.

How appropriate for today's holiday - but I didn't even plan it like that! I just snapped these cuties on the way to school Friday, both in their red, white & blue, dnd the photo turned out SOOO cute I had to create with it.

It's hard to tell with photography, but the background card is red metallic. The washi is gold stripes and stars, and I just love the whole patriotic feel of it all.

I used a Studio Calico Christmas stamp set for the stars, and an Ali Edwards digital summer passport stamp for the celebrate word. I tell ya what, Ali's digital stamps were literally the best accompaniment to this Little Summer JOY summer project, and I do not believe there was even a collaboration there!?

I had fun creating this super simple page of my boys! This amazing project will continue through the summer so please, JOIN US!

Thanks for looking & hope you play with a little sparkle & fire today!

ain't no thang but a mustang thang

I'm so excited to have my first project up as a member of the Sketch Crew over at Scrapbook Challenges!

Today's theme was chevron. I could not find the perfect chevron paper I wanted for my layout since I was trying to do red/white/blue/4th of July theme too, so why not just use your die cut machine?!

We had just picked up my husband's new/old mustang the day before, so when our little was playing in the driveway before our holiday festivities, the mustang background was a photo opportunity.

Here's a close up of the layout. There are more chevrons in my backing papers - they're pocket pages cards!

The other opening on this spread is a pocket page documenting the rest of getting the car and our first family ride together.

These are fun pages to do because it is something my husband is passionate about and you get to do full on manly pages for an old car (insert Tim the Toolman grunt here).

Thanks for looking!