It's a Beautiful Day

I have a layout to share with you that involves song lyrics!! There is a challenge over at Scrap Your Story to use song lyrics in your title, and I immediately thought of the song "It's a Beautiful Day" by Michael Buble. Michael Buble is another one of my favorite song artists, next to Josh Turner, that is. I have thought of a lot of titles that could come from song lyrics lately, but this just happens to be the one that made it onto the page. It was definitely a beautiful day on graduation and I was SO happy it was! This photo of us throwing our graduation caps is one of my favorites from the night. I actually threw mine too soon because I was so excited about it. (Oops!) 

I used the new "The Pier" line from Crate Paper for this page and some new Heidi Swapp transparent alpha letters for the title. I'm a little behind on the bandwagon for the letters, but I still love them. I originally glued them with some Scotch liquid glue, but you could see it though the letters, so I stapled them on with my Tiny Attacher and then kinda "peeled" the letters off the page so you couldn't see the glue. Do you have a good liquid glue? If so, please share! I can't seem to find one I like! 

That's it for today! Have a "beautiful day!" 

New to Me: Elle's Studio

Happy Monday! This past week I got some of the new "Saltwater" line from Elle's Studio in the mail from A Cherry on Top. This is the first time I have ever bought enough of their products to make a whole layout. Although I didn't buy a TON of it by any means, I still got enough to play with. And let me tell you-- I LOVE IT! I played along with Elle's Studio's sketch challenge and made a layout immediately with my new scrappy goodies. 

This weekend my mom, sister, and I got to attend a Josh Turner concert! EEEkkk! It was awesome! Josh was actually sick with a head cold, so he sounded like he had a stopped up nose, but we still enjoyed watching hime sing. ;) Laura and I love him. Mom just came because it was over an hour away and we didn't know how to get there. But I think we ended up hooking her on Josh Turner's music too! I will add the original photo here just for you to swoon over. :P His Encore song was "Why Don't We Just Dance" and so some people had already started leaving before he came back on stage, so we got to move up a little bit for the last song of the night. This is my favorite photo I got! 

Thanks for stopping by my blog! Maybe seeing a picture of Josh Turner was worth it, right? :)

Guesting for Artful Delight

Hello everyone! 

I am the guest designer for May over at Artful Delight! 

I got to pick between their card kit and their scrapbook kit, and I chose to work with the scrapbook kit. It had a lot of cute products in it. Mainly what I was excited about was the 2-step misting template from Studio Calico! I ended up using it on 2 of my 3 projects! The mist "First Kiss" that comes in the kit is such a pretty shade of pink. It goes perfectly with the misting template! 

For my first layout, I used the awesome Heidi Swapp sunburst paper. I highlighted the sun rays with some triangle stamps from the MME stamp set that came with the kit and some machine stitching. Then of course I used my "usual" layering.

This next layout I used a lot of the HS "Serendipity" papers to layer behind the photo and then some Amy Tan "Yes, Please" stickers to embellish it. 

And you might think that you can only use that awesome misting template on layouts... Think again! I used it on a card!  

I really enjoyed working with this kit. And I still have lots of it left! Yay! Thank you Leeanne for working with me and letting me guest design for your company! :) 

Happy Memorial Day!

I'm up on the Love My Tapes blog with a layering technique using washi tape. Washi tape in LAYERING? Yup! You'll just have to check it out for yourself! Here's a peek of it though. ;)

Graduation :)

I thought I'd share a few photos of my graduation on Thursday. I'm so amazed that it's already over. I'm so happy... but in a good way! Sure, I'm going to miss parts of high school, but I'm ready to go on with my life. 

I had to give my Valedictorian speech. It went well. I wasn't as nervous as I have been before when giving speeches. It was a beautiful day for a graduation though, and I'm so happy and thankful it was.

Katelyn, me and MarLeah. Katelyn and MarLeah travelled from Missouri just for my graduation. :) 

Favorite part of the whole ceremony! I'm glad MarLeah got this picture on her camera. I was actually so excited to throw my hat I did it too early... Oops. ;P 

It's all over now!! It's kinda weird. I'll be back Monday with a fun little washi project, so stay tuned!

13 Months... One of my favorite little people :)

Today is sketch challenge day over at Pretty Little Studio! 

My layout this week is about my cute little cousin, Blaine. I adore him. I try to take pictures of him (and his brother) whenever I get the chance. And I love scrapping them! Blaine is just so adorable and cute and sweet and adorable and .... I could go on forever. Like my title on this pose says, he's one of my favorite little people. :) 

In other news, I have been so busy lately!! We are still working on some major changes around here. Plus we've had graduations, a wedding, and everything in between to go to! And then this week is my graduation! Thursday is the day!! Eeekkk! I'm so excited! Today is my last "actual" day of school. Just catching up some exams and trying hard to finish the yearbook so I don't have to come back tomorrow. I will be so glad when May is over! I never thought I'd say that. 

Again, sorry this picture is blocky. I don't know what is with my Blogger app!! 

One more...

Happy Friday! Whoo, it seems like it's been Friday for days. Wednesday seemed like Friday, Thursday seemed like Friday, and finally! It's now Friday!! I got in some scrappy time last night since I packed all of my "to do" stuff into Wednesday. And I have my speech written! Yay! I like how it turned out. I hope everyone else likes it too! Six days and counting...

I dug out my Maggie Holmes collection for this page. I haven't used it in a bit, and I thought it'd go well with my picture I chose to use. Two great reasons in one, right? I used a Paper Bakery Kit Sketch for this layout. The only thing I really "changed" is I used hand stitched chevrons instead of arrows. I like the subtle touch it gives my overall layout. I think if I would have used arrows, it would have drawn away from the overall design. The stitched chevrons were made with the Amy Tangerine hand stitching templates from Amy's Yes, Please collection. I love them but I have to sych myself up to use them because hand stitching is so time consuming... I always love the texture it gives though. Maybe I should try adding it more often!