KNK May Reveal #1

Here's my first reveal with KNK's May kit. I LOVE this kit.... all the elements are so different but still coordinate so well! This enables one to create several projects that all look very different from each other, from the same kit. I love that. :)This layout was difficult to photograph, and I wish I could have gotten some decent detail shots to share with you! The pictures are Gracie, swinging in a rainshower in our backyard. The way the sun was shining through the rain, the water looked like diamonds falling from the sky. She grabbed the closest pair of shoes she could find (her big sisters') and ran out to play in it. I love these kinds of photos the best.... impromptu, unrehearsed, unposed. Perfect. I kept the layout simple, to let the photos shine.Thanks for stopping by! More from this kit to come, check back with me in a week or so. Happy scrapping!

Extra stuff

Every once in a while I am able to get some extra scrap-time in that's just for me, so I wanted to share a couple layouts with you :)

I did this one for a call for the Memory Makers Gallery book, it didn't get selected so I can show it here! I actually submitted three layouts to that call, and one did get chosen and I am very excited about that! The book is tentatively available by May 2011.
This I did for a sketch contest!

Thanks for looking! I'll have a reveal in a couple days with the spectacular May kit from Kit 'n Kaboodles. Wait til you see this kit, it's really gorgeous, the best from KNK so far this year. Of course I think I say that with every new kit. :)

'Til next time, happy scrappin'!

Today's post...

... can be found HERE.

Have a great day!

New Additions

So instead of mountains of candy this year we decided to get the girls some chicks! Of course they got a little candy, and what we didn't give, Grandma & Grandpa were glad to fill in :) These are guaranteed little girls, so we won't have any rooster problems later on. Aren't they cute!So far, the new babies are all the girls can think about and they want to hold them all the time! I am confident the new will wear off a bit once they get a little bigger grow a few more feathers, but for now those tiny fluff-covered chicks are too hard to resist. This picture cracks me up.....
So sweet!

By the end of the first day with us, the chicks were totally exhausted from all the holding and playing and trying to escape the grip of little fingers. But they are much calmer already and I think they will be really tame when they're full- grown.

They'll be inside for about 6 weeks or so, which will hopefully be enough time for my husband to get the coop built behind the shed in our side-yard. Since my greenhouse bit the dust, we have a perfect place for it! We're all looking forward to fresh eggs, too, but we'll have to wait a while for that. Having chickens should be an adventure (especially with a curious cat and an over-active puppy). Wish me luck :)

Separation Anxiety

My husband says I have too much scrappy stuff. It's taking over. It's everywhere, all the time. Can't really say as I blame him... I do have a lot of stuff. In going through a few of my drawers the other day I came across tons of stuff that I have never even opened!! Brand new product, just waiting to be used. The problem is, every month I get new (the latest and greatest) product from Kit 'n Kaboodles. Additionally, in these trying economic times it's becoming harder and harder to justify hoarding all of it. You can see my dilemma. So, hard as it is, I have decided to part with some of it. My loss can be your gain, if you are interested at all in some extra product for a great price I have four listings (so far) on eBay. So the product may not be the newest to hit the scene, but it's new! Go take a look :)

KnK April kit....

...and isn't it lovely?! All kinds of fun things in here.... Prima, Little Yellow Bicycle, BoBunny, and Webster's are the core elements of this kit and I just love all the beautiful springtime colors! Jules did a beautiful job putting this together. Today happens to also be my first reveal with this kit, I've created two very different layouts to share with you. The first I used the LYB papers with a coordinating reverse-side of one of the Prima papers. I cut the butterflies from one of the lace-cut cardstock pieces in the embellishment add-on, and the Petalooo vines are from the March kit add-ons (I couldn't help myself, they just matched too perfectly!). Add some lovely photos of my daughter watering the flowers and there you have it, a sweet and simple springtime layout. :)

I focused on the BoBunny die-cut sheet for my next layout though you'd almost not even notice it. I wanted to do something different with it, so instead of using the whole sheet as a backdrop for the layout, I cut out the entire middle of it and just used the edge. I layered it over a different piece of cardstock and did a little trimming, then stitching for some dimension. I was then free to cut out a few of the cute elements from the leftover paper (the birds and birdhouse) to use as embellishments. I kind of struggled with the rest of the layout... I initially had three pictures to use but every way I arranged them just seemed to overpower the page. The end result was way out of my comfort zone but overall I am happy with it.

Make sure you head over to Kit 'n Kaboodles to check out what the rest of the designers are doing with this beautiful kit! Thanks for stopping by. :)

Today's post....

...can be found HERE.

Have a great day!