THE QUEEN OF QUIRK

join the party!

The fabulous Shimelle is hosting a fun party over on her blog to celebrate her new class Stress Free Scrapbooking #01: Go To Press!
I was lucky enough to get to play along and get my hands on some of her fabulous printables that are exclusive to her class! I worked with the "music" themed sheet and I have to say I'm kinda in love with tthe printables and this layout.

layout credits: thickers, amercan crafts paper, lily bee design paper, making memories stickers, basic grey paper

Anyone who knows my scrapping at all knows that I am kind of all over the place. I think I'm more of a hit-and-run scrapper. If it's not in my line of sight, it's probably not going to make it into my layout. It's gotten even worse now that I paper scrap so rarely and my supplies are very thin on the ground. I think, though, since I've learned to only buy the stuff I absolutely love (as opposed to going with trends) my stash is much more user friendly and my layouts still reflect my style no matter how limited my supplies are. That's always nice to find out. :)

So, since my theme was music, I chose to highlight my ever-growing CD collection. I am a sucker for music. I love to sing, I love to dance, and I love jamming out on RockBand. So, this is my little tribute to one of my most favorite things in the world. I just love Shimelle's word art and graphics. So much fun. I was looking around for an extra bit of blue for the page to tie in Shimelle's stuff and I came across an old Barbie mini puzzle board. I chopped that sucker up and used part of the frame as a big bracket. I also wanted something to mark the edge of the photo on the top, but couldn't find anything. So, I broke out my Sharpie and just started drawing random lines. I kinda like the way they turned out. I might have to play with that in digi and see if I can come up with a fun element pack. :)

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to play along and get scrapping with Shimelle. She's amazing! :)

the garden is blooming 8.01

There are some lovely new projects up in the Garden at 2Ps! Here are my 2 pages. :)

layout credits: a day in the life, more than words, more than words solids, totally framed vol.1

layout credits: bare branches paper pack, bella paper, bess swatches, apricot avenue, feeling bookish alpha, more than words solids, so you think you know me kit
Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you have a wonderful day! :)

soda pop digital challenge!

Hey everyone! :)
It's my turn to host the digital challenge over at 2Ps and I have some fun stuff in "store" for us! ;)

From the website:
It's time for another fun challenge here at 2Ps and I am so excited to be sharing this one with you all! I just love the design of these soda/juice bottles and the colors are just to die for! Since I loved them so much, I decided to create a mini kit and template for everyone to use just in case you wanted to use the colors from the inspiration as well. And the template is there to help everyone participate. Scrap time seems to running away from me at a rapid pace these days! I hope you like the inspiration and I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with!



I hope to see many lovely layouts from you all!
You can participate in the challenge HERE and you can pick up the free kit and template HERE.
Thanks for stopping by! Happy scrapping! :)

contest winner

Congratulations to poohdivams! I'll be sending you my Caldera kit today. Thanks so much for playing along in my little contest! :)

And I wanted to share another gorgeous layout from my CT! This one is by debra (4noisyboys). I just can't get over how much color she used! Wow!

Thanks for stopping by! We're having a much needed lazy weekend. Hung out with some wonderful (and much missed) friends last night and we're hanging with some more friends tonight.
I hope you're having a lovely weekend, whatever you may be up to. :) Thanks for stopping by!

dream vacation

Haven't you ever wanted to visit someplace so bad you could taste it? Can you picture yourself there, amidst the locals, savoring every moment that comes your way? I absolutely love dreaming about new places to go. A couple of months ago I was lucky enough to get to visit Santorini, my favorite of the Greek isles. Although it was a short trip, I had such a wonderful time and am aching to go back.

I was inspired so much by the experience that I created a fun little kit for everyone! The lava of the volcano, the blue of the Aegean sea and the grey color of the black sand beaches are enough to make anyone fall in love with this beautiful island.

Do you have a dream vacation? If so, I want to know about it! Scrap a page about a place you'd love to visit (or even move to!) and leave me a link here in the comments. Every layout will get you a chance to win my new Caldera kit for free!

layout credits: caldera kit, totally framed vol. 1, glim glam, a day in the life, heart swirls

The contest ends on Friday and the winners will be announced on Saturday!

And don't forget to sign up for my newsletter! You never know what kind of goodies I may have for you!

using frames

Hey all!

I hope everyone is having a wonderful day! :) Just wanted to pop in and show off some of the awesome layouts my creative team has made with my new frames! I even found a bit of time to scrap, too! :) All images are clickable if they are linked to a gallery. I will update the ones that aren't as soon as they are posted online. 

by selena (bushgirl):

by debra:

by gennifer (genuinepea)

by christine newman (supertwinkle)

And one from me! Yay! It feels so good to be scrapping something that isn't an assignment! :) I used some of my new goodies that will be debuting on Tuesday. And I just love these shaped frames. Can't get enough of them! :)

Thank so much for stopping by! I hope you are having a wonderful weekend! :)

totally framed

I've got some fun new photo frames available in my shop at 2Ps!

They come in 2 different sizes, standard and skinny. I've had this idea in my head for a while and I'm so happy to finally have it finished! :) Each image is clickable! Thanks for stopping by! :)

the garden is blooming 7.15

Another gorgeous day for the Garden at 2Ps! :)

Here are my layouts. Please click on them to see credits!


Thanks so much for stopping by! :)

the garden is blooming 7.01

I completely forgot to post this layout that came out in the July 1st garden! Ack! :)
Hope you like it!

layout credits: itty bitty alpha, old boris, so, you think you know me?, here with you, scrap canvas 12

And here's the latest in my Scrap Canvas series! :)

Thanks so much for stopping by! Happy scrapping! :)

mini memories

I created this little book for the girls to house some of their favorite trips. We've been so many places, but I am absolute rubbish at getting real, tangible albums into our hands. Why is that?!? I think that's one of the curses of scrapping digi. :(
However, I did make this sweet little album for the Garden at 2Ps. And I just love the way it turned out!

And here's the way the pages are set up in Photoshop. It really was super simple once I figured out how I wanted the album to look.

So, that's about it! It's simple, but that's the way I like things! LOL :)
I hope everyone is having a wonderful day!