RESOLUTION NO. 2

If you read my last POST, you know that it included a list of New Year's resolutions.  What is Resolution No. 2?  It is to apply for manufacturer design teams.  And a favorite manufacturer of mine just happens to be having a DESIGN TEAM CALL right now.  If you guessed I am talking about LILY BEE, you would be correct!  I am a girl who loves to layer patterned papers - the more the better - and Lily Bee makes that super easy for me to do.  And the different collections always seem to work well together, which makes it easy to use up leftover scraps - something that appeals to my frugal little heart!  This layout is a perfect example of that and it represents everything that I love about scrapbooking - fussy cutting, sewing, using leftover bits and pieces off my worktable, and recording an everyday memory with one of my children that makes me happy!

As soon as I saw the patchwork pinwheels, I knew I would be cutting them out and sewing on them.  Some of the pinwheels just have sewing around them (directly on the paper).  But I wanted more depth to several of them so I cut out additional pinwheel shapes and used pop-dots to attach them over the pinwheels already on the paper.  

I also added a little doodling because...well, I couldn't resist!

Do I find it scary to apply to a manufacturer design team like Lily Bee?  Well, maybe not scary, but certainly 

intimidating!  After all, nobody likes to be told they aren't good enough for something - especially by a company whose products they like so much.  BUT - like my grandmama used to say, "you know for sure the answer will be no if you don't try."  So I am going for it and adding a checkmark to my 2014 checklist at the same time.  Wish me luck! 

Happy New Year!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!  If you are like me, you have been working on your list of 2014 New Year's resolutions.  Well, what better way to document them than to include them in a scrapbook layout - which is exactly what I have done here!

I love the bright colors of the LILY BEE papers I used, which are perfect for this layout full of optimism for the brand new year.  And the Lily Bee papers from the Pinwheel Collection and We R Family Collection coordinate beautifully with each other, don't you think?  

Are you wondering where my journaling is with my 2014 resolutions?  It's right here, written on the back of the journaling card with arrows, which is sitting in a simple little pocket that I made:

I l-o-v-e to fussy cut, and the patterns contained on the papers and journaling cards of the We R Family Collection had me in fussy cutting nirvana!

Have you made any 2014 resolutions?  If so, how are you recording them?

Dancing in the Street (Happy Family Together)

I want to share this fun little layout that I completed this past weekend at a crop I was at with the amazingly talented HEATHER LEOPARD.  She inspired me to play along with Lily Bee's "Tag You're It" Series that began with a fabulous sketch (also created by Heather), which can be found HERE!  The "Tag, You're It" week may be over, but the sketch looked like so much fun, I had to give it a try!

I know everyone is focused on Christmas right now, but these two pics of my youngest child and my oldest child (aka, the Hubster) were so adorable I could not wait to scrap them.  Seriously?  How often do you get to scrap people you know dancing down the sidewalk - and in perfect sync no less?  Right?!!  Besides, LILY BEE'S Motto is "Everyday Loveliness" and that is EXACTLY what this is - everyday loveliness!

I love the We R Family Collection; however, my local scrapbook store was out of almost everything I wanted to use.  But - I am a lemonade out of lemons kind of girl, so I reached into my stash and pulled out my papers from the Pinwheel Collection, which just happened to coordinate beautifully with the We R Family double deck cards.  See?

To give my layout a little extra dimension, I added pop dots behind these 3x4 cards.  I also made a journaling pocket out of the first card and stuck a little tag made with paper from the Pinwheel Collection into it.  I love it when different collections play so well together, don't you?

I think this will be my motto for 2014 - Happy Family Together.

Seriously, I was able to fussy cut to my little heart's content with the 3x4 cards and papers...

I loved making this layout and hope I have inspired you - inspired you to use bright colors, to mix your patterns and collections, to take pictures of the silliness and everyday moments, to make lemonade from lemons, and most of all to enjoy your happy family together.  

Merry Christmas Eve, y'all!