Sweet Secrets

Happy Friday all!! :) I thought I would get on here and share a layout! :)

I used a sketch from Creating Keepsakes for this one, and I love the way it turned out!! There is a design team challenge over at Pumpkin Spice, which is an AMAZING online store I recently discovered! Seriously their products are all the go-to's at much, much better prices!! Their motto is" Memories are Priceless, budgets are not!" How true and perfect!! Anyway, back to the challenge, it was to use 2 or more of the paper line options they gave us. Here is my layout:

I absolutely love these photos of the girlies! These were taken by a dear friend of mine, we were trying so hard to get some "poses" and the girls wanted nothing to do with it, they were just playing and having fun...and those are the best photos from that day! In fact, I love these so much, that there is another layout in the works so that they can both have one in their album! :)

On this layout I used a pretty good mixture of some of my favorites (which thankfully were also some of our options for the challenge!) There is lots of Crate Paper and my favorite stamps Stella &Rose doilies by MME! Love those! For the challenge we were supposed to list our favorite manufacturers, and those of you that see my layouts know I LOVE Crate Paper, MME, and American Crafts. I would have to say those are my 3 go-to's for most things, though I am trying to branch out a little and try some new stuff! What are your favorite manufacturers, your go-to product??

I am also linking this up to Paper Issues for the "Sweet" challenge. I can't think of anything sweeter than the secrets these two are sharing! :)

We are getting closer to 50 followers friends! Don't forget when I hit that there will be a giveaway!!!

Also a reminder for the 2 Blog Hops coming up!! One the last weekend of July and the other in August! I will post more details again next week!

Thanks for stopping on by today! I hope you all have a very blessed weekend!

~Hugs~

Amanda

Cruisin'

Oh, the sweet fall days, cruisin around with the t-tops out of the old Camaro, just enjoying the beautiful life. That's what I think of when I see these pics of the little one, riding around in her Papaw's old car.
She had so much fun that day (both of them did actually, so expect another layout with Miss E)! Just enjoying life...why can't days always be that sweet and simple??

I am really love Country Drive by Echo Park! I have used it on two totally different layouts now, but I think it worked perfect for both of them!!!

I used the 7.7 sketch from Sketchy Thursdays on this one, with a little tweaking to make it my own! :)

I am also linking this layout to Paper Issues since their theme this week is "Life is Sweet" :)

Hope you all have a blessed week...its super miserably hot here this week, so hoping to find inside activities to keep the girlies happy, and maybe some extra scrappy time for me too!!

Hope you all have time to create something you love! :)

All Star!!

My oldest played T-ball this year for the first time.  She was so excited when it started, especially when she found out her uniforms were pink. LOL! She had alot of fun, but I feel she is going to end up being too girly for these type of sports! Example: One of their games, she gets dirty, in the middle of the game, walks over to her coach, and makes him dust off her pants and mitt. Miss Princess!! LOL!

So when I went to scrap these photos, I didn't want to do a "traditional" baseball layout...hence all the pink and girliness! LOL!

Whoops! Look like I took my picture a little crooked! One of these days I WILL get the hang of it! :) Promise!! :)

Hope everyone has a blessed weekend!! We are heading out of town tomorrow to see some friends that we haven't seen in years!! Pretty excited!! :)

Blessings! :)

Ahhh Relaxin'

My youngest is a water baby, through and through! Bath tub, pool, hose, it doesn't matter what, lol, she is all over it. My favorite thing that she does is every time she is in the bath or a pool, she lays back in it and sprawls all out, and just says, "Ahhh...relaxin'"! Its too cute!! LOL!

So I used the WWU #9 from ScrapFit, a sketch from Sassy Lil Sketches ( July 28, 2010) and came up with this layout that I am pretty much in love with!!

Stepped out of the comfort zone a little on this one...and its my first layout using my brand new Silhouette!! I used it to create the background mask!

Here is my little water nymph relaxin in her pool....

I seriously love those Mister Huey mists from Studio Calico...going to need every color of those! LOL!

Hope everyone has a blessed week! I am off to make my hubby an anniversary dinner...8 wonderful years together today! :)

HUGE GIVEAWAY!!!

Over at the Purple Pumpkin!! To celebrate their first birthday they are offering up some amazing prize vouchers! They will be giving away FOUR!! vouchers ranging in amount from $50-$10!!

Head over to the Purple Pumpkin and check out their GORGEOUS products and enter yourself in to win some goodies!!!

Have a blessed day!!

I just wanted to hop on today and share something that I am so blessed to be able to be a part of later this month!!

What can we trust in and have faith in more than the promises that God has for us. His love is unconditional and knows no boundaries! I hope that you will all join in as myself and some other very talented crafters share our stories and use our craft to give the glory where it belongs, to our Father in Heaven!

Have a very blessed holiday weekend! Will see you all next with some new projects!! :)



That Crinkle

My youngest has the completely infectious smile. You see it and you just instantly smile back, I'm not sure what it is about it...but its irresistible. I especially love the way she always crinkles her little nose up...so of course a layout of said crinkle must go in her album.

I combined the One Hour Challenge at Club CK to stitch on your layout with this sketch from Frosted Designs...

This is the layout that I came up with using my yummy new Fine and Dandy by MME!! I couldn't believe how hard it was to find this collection!!!

See what I mean!!! Look at that smile!! Doesn't it just make you happy??

Hope you all have a blessed holiday weekend!!