Happiness Comes in Mailboxes

Well, I have some more happy mail to share with you today! I won the Cosmo Cricket project challenge over at Two Peas In a Bucket a couple of weeks ago and finally got my package last Thursday (You know how long it seems when you're waiting on scrappy mail?!). The prize description said it was $50 worth of Cosmo Cricket goodies, but I'm thinking what I got is worth more than that!! It is AMAZING! ;)

I got the mini pads of all 4 Winter releases (Baby Jane, Evangeline, Tea for Two, and 2wenty Thr3e) plus 2 12x12 papers from each line and Elements decks for each line, 3 packs of glubers (which was good... I'm running low on glubers), and washi tape!!

Pictured here: all chipboard, stickers for every line except Evangeline

9 Tiny Types!! Love these things!

A photo of everything piled together... happiness!

Everything...

Thank you, Two Peas and Cosmo Cricket!

One More... It's a Layout

Ok... last post! :P

I participated again this week at Let's Get Sketchy! (find the sketch I used here). I looove layering paper and so I found this sketch very inspiring! I dug out some Jillibean Soup New England Chowder paper (lots of little trucks and cars in this line) and also some random scraps to use on this page. I love using dimension on my layouts, although I will be the first to tell you I have not mastered that technique. I like to attempt though! :)

I usually HATE mixing off-white and white together, but I tried to overlook my dislike and use both colors on this layout. Do you like it? Does it look funny?

I also tried out my new Tattered Angels Marigold mist I bought from The Scrapbook Princess this past weekend. I am not usually a fan of yellow, but I wanted to try it out. I like it mixed with white mist!

Thanks for bearing with my 3 posts today!

Goodbye Summer

Post #2 of today...

I was playing around with my AC Shoreline paper and thought it was so summery that I would make a summer card. I'm so sad summer is already over. I will not miss the heat though; I have being hot. I love the winter though. Great time for scrapping, if I do say so myslef! ;)

This card is for the Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday challenge to use fabric on a project. I love adding fabric ruffles to my cards and so I did just that with this card! The fabric is from Moda. Most of these supplies are from The Scrapbook Princess. :)

And a BONUS card! I did not use fabric on this card, but I thought I'd do a little extra on this post because I used the Shoreline collection on this card as well. I have had this ribbon around for a while and I thought it would look cute with this paper!

Fun with some AC Shoreline

Howdy! This is one of three posts I'm putting up today. I have completed a few challenges over the past couple of days and haven't gotten around to posting them until now. I thought it'd be easier for you to comment on if I made separate posts for each challenge I'm participating in.

I bought some lovely American Crafts Shoreline papers at my LSS this past weekend, The Scrapbook Princess. I wasn't sure if I'd actually like using this line, but I really do because it's so SUMMERY! :) It's also great for boy pages too! I used the Paper Bakery Sketch for this page.


And I am trying to add more close-ups of my projects to my blog posts... so here ya go!  

Lots of Pennants

Made a quick card this morning with this week's sketch at Pretty Little Studio. I rotated the sketch, and changed the 2 photos to 1. The polaroid photo paper from the Dear Lizzy "Neapolitan" line was perfect for this card.

In other news, I finished my summer reading last week! Yippee! Hopefully this week will include a lot more scrapping than last week did! :) Only 9 days till school starts again... :(

Thoughtful Thursday

Today there's a new thought up at Thinking*Through*Design! This thought is on chevrons, which I think is a totally AWESOME topic because chevrons are so popular right now-- and not just in the scrapbook world!

Here's my "thought":
"I love using chevrons in my scrapping, especially since they are one of the hot trends right now! I don't have a chevron diecut, so I decided to combine several chevron printed papers. I sketched out my layout to begin with, and used the large circles as focal points of the layout. I used the lighter chevron print (yellow) for the large circle and the bolder pink chevron design for one of the smaller circles. The paper collection I used for this layout is the Amy Tangerine Sketchbook line from American Crafts. There is a lot of doodles in this line, so I added a lot of my own doodles to thie page, namely the title! After I finished the page, I thought the chevron design needed to be a little more prominent on the page, so I doodled some large chevron designs on the background and added some stickles to a couple of the chevrons."

Summer + Sisters = FUN!

I'm sharing a layout I made with a Let's Get Sketchy sketch (you can find the challenge here). I haven't played there in a while because I always decide to play along towards the end of the month and you have to play twice in the month to be eligable to win the prize. So I usually don't play. BUT this time, I printed out the sketch and made a layout with it!

I got out my Echo Park Hello Summer kit that I bought back when it first came out. I bought it and promptly made a layout with it then I just kinda put it away and forgot about it! So, here is a layout I finally made with this collection again! :)

A fun thing about this layout... I made ths layout and showed it to my sister and she goes, "Yeah-- you would go crazy without me!" I really would. ;P