Fall Photoshoot

So, yesterday Laura and I went on a little photoshoot trip. Actually it was a I'll-take-pictures-of-you-and-then-we-can-go-get-Starbuck's kind of trip. I bribe her with Starbuck's. ;) 

This was actually for my photography class in college. I needed some fashion pics. These are more portrait-oriented, so I think I'll make her dress up (haha, she dresses up every day) again so I can take more outfit-oriented photos. The outfit Laura had on yesterday was surprisingly plain for her. But of course, she's still stylin'. 

The park that we stopped at was so pretty. The YELLOW leaves popped so amazingly :) with Laura's blue skirt. 

This one is my new fave. It makes her look so pretty, in my opinion. 

Can you tell we were trying to do "fashion" photography? Fashion photography is actually pretty weird and random. Gotta find some random blocks for Laura to hug...

One of her faves:

This one is my desktop photo on my Mac right now. The leaves!! I miss having leaves to play in/ take pictures of. Our trees in our yard now are pitiful. 

Mandatory leaf-throwing photo. :)

And this is truly Laura. Laughing. 

Yeah. We had fun. ;) I will forever have "too many" photos of Laura. But I'm totally ok with that. She's a beauty. :)

-Heather

DIY Phone Cases {mambi}

I'm up on the me & my BIG ideas blog today with some cute and simple phone cases. I used some mambiSTICKS (stickers) and some cheap cases from Dollar Tree to make these. All I did was stick the stickers on the cases! Super easy. 

(Thanks to my awesome sister for modeling the cases for me!)

So which one do you personally like better? I'm leaning towards the gold "blessed" one. It looks amazing in person, I'm just sayin'... :)

xoxo, Heather

Trying My Hand

So I've started a new hobby: modern calligraphy! I love attempting it. I still have a lot to learn, and sometimes I have no earthly idea what I've started. But I have been adding my attempted-calligraphy on my cards as of lately! Here's a few I've done (because, you know, cards are my fave):

This first one I like to call "Layers, Layers, and More Layers." To make this card, I actually got out my big box of diecuts and picked out some items I thought would look pretty together, then I layered them and -- wa-la! This card appeared! 

Simple and pretty makes me sooooo happy. I actually lifted a card I saw on Pinterest for this design. I used papers from my scrap bin for this card, along with a tag and a chipboard rose cluster. Sometimes digging around the scraps is so rewarding! ;)

I gained inspiration from one of my recent layouts for this card. Leaves = Love. And of course, my calligraphy "thanks" on the little label. 

So there's a few pretty things I have made lately! :)

-Heather

SUPER EXCITING STUFF

I have another fun and awesome announcement! 

Ready for it?

I am a new design team member for The Cut Shoppe! Woo hoo! I absolutely love using my Silhouette Cameo, and Ashley has some really cute cut files that I am super excited to cut out with my amazing machine.

This one begs to be cut out leaf-by-leaf. 

This one looks like pie-charts to me. I can't wait to back this diecut with lots of patterned paper. 

And this one? LOVE.

I look forward to sharing some awesome projects soon, and be sure to check out The Cut Shoppe blog to see the whole design team! 

xoxo, 

Heather

J'Adore

I'm so happy. 

That seems like a cheesy sentence to begin a blog post, but really. 

(Self timer shots, I don't love so much. lol I need a tripod and remote, not a 2-second timed shot!)

Currently, I'm loving (or adoring, in the case of my shirt-that-you-can't-read):

- listening to Pentatonix (an awesome a capella group).

- Christmas music (^^ above).

- lovely cool weather.

- college classes. I can't believe we're on the downhill slope of this semester! 

- my iPhone. 'Nuff said.

- sending happy snail mail and spreading happiness. It makes me happy to see other people happy.

- anticipating happy mail. I *may have done some post- birthday shopping. 

- daydreaming about Europe. Right now, it's just a daydream. But someday...

- being single. I saw a quote on a shirt that said, "I'm single, and you're not good enough." Haha. Sassy. But I like it. ;) 

Someday I'll find the right guy, but until then, I'm content where I'm at.

-  trying out my new hobby-- modern calligraphy

So that's just what's on my mind today! I have a ton of projects to share, but there'll be time for that later. :)

-Heather

Debut Post on mambi Blog!

Today, my debut post is up on the me & my BIG ideas blog. 

And I couldn't be happier. :) 

I love this team so much. We've only just begun the term, but it's such a supportive group that is CRAZY talented. I mean, there are so many different crafters on the team. From traditional scrapping, to planners, to designers who use mambi products to decorate the house! It's AMAZING. So inspiring, and to think... I get to be a part of it all! Totally awesome. Be sure to check out my post by clicking here and also take a few minutes to scroll the blog. You'll be glad you did.  

Writing My Story

Today's my 20th birthday. Whaaat?? 

Yep. I'm getting old.

I'm SO looking forward to 20 though. We have this chalkboard in our kitchen that my mom will write inspiring quotes, verses, etc. on and one of the things that she wrote for my birthday was "the best is yet to be." Yes, I totally believe it. What's going to happen this coming year? Bring it on!! :)

I thought this layout was appropriate to share today. I made it the other week. It all started with a sheet of new Maggie Holmes Open Book chipboard. I loved the phrase "my story." What is my story?

Then I also had seen this on Facebook (don't ask. I don't really do Facebook.). 

So naturally I thought about including it on a layout!

Golden bow? Yes, please! 

I journaled straight onto my layout. Eeee... what was scary. You can't mess up at all! Of course, I fumbled with my words as I wrote, so I kinda wish I had written my journaling out beforehand. Oops. 

The gist of my journaling was that, at this moment in my life, I need to focus on things that will affect my future positively, no matter what my future holds.

So there. There's my wisdom-found-on-Facebook. :)

-Heather