Hello, ole blog!  I don't visit often, but when I do, I have some goodies to show you!  I visited with a lot of great gals from Crop Chocolate.com in person this weekend.  We met at Blooming Escapes Retreat in Wisconsin.  I was able to get some pages done.

We did a swap in that each of the eight of us in our group chose color and made up monochromatic packets for the other members of the group.  It was so much fun looking through the goodie bags and I was able to use a lot of things right away on my layouts! 

The first one was inspired by a challenges at Scrap it with a Song.  The Song was Katy Perry's Firework.

I hope to see you again sooner than later!

 

This one includes diecut shapes from UmWow Studios.   They were a gift from Kathy Clayton. I haven't had the opportunity to buy any of my own, but I am hooked. 

 

I also confirmed my admiration for chevron paper this weekend.  This page includes goodies from the Orange packet.  Thank you, Sara!

 

 

 

 

 I spend a lot of time digging through my stash looking for things that I have hid from myself.  I knew I had this tooth fairy embellishment put away for a special occasion!  I think it was worth it.  Look! More orange!

 

 

Here's my buddy on his way to his Birthday party last March -

 

 

 

Blog Hop Winner!

Happy Tuesday!   It is a snowy one here in STL.  

I had a great time this weekend with my scrappy friends and was able to get quite a few challenges done.  I will find time to up load them this week, but I did want to pop in and choose a winner from last weeken's Julie's blog hop. 

Congrats to MomCleo!  She won the drawing for $5 to CC.   :-) 

Celebrating Friendship Blog Hop

Thank you to Julie Odil for including me in her Blogaversary Blog hop.  She is celebrating one year of her blog with a friendship blog hop.  

If you havent been hopping from the beginning, be sure to go back and start at Julie's Blog. There will be a chance for prizes all along the way. 

I am celebrating friendship this weekend at a retreat with 7 of my closest friends.   Well, I have actually MET all of them yet, but scrappers who crop together usually become fast friends, right? 

I made these little Irish Kisses to help get ready for St. Patrick's Day. This project would fall under the category of "I saw it on Pinterest... and thought I could do that!"   Here is the original post.

They are so cute and easy, my kids are wanting to make them for their friends!  If you are a regular in the community at  CropChocolate.com,  you are familiar with the over abundance of Making Memories Celery Ribbon and Charms that many of us have in our stashes.   March is the perfect time to feature the color green ribbon on your projects! 

How will you celebrate freindship this month?   Become a follower on my blog, and leave a message answering this question.  I will have a drawing on Monday, March 4 and  I will send the winner a $5 gift card to CropChocolate.com.

Thanks for stopping by!  Now hop on to Mary's Blog

I will wait. I will wait. I will wait.



I was again inspired by the ladies over at Scrap it with a Song.   This time their challege was "I Will Wait"  by Mumford & Son.   Crop Chocolate's weekly challenge this week is to use Green, Blue, and White color combo.   I went looking for a good sketch and landed again at My Scraps & More.   I put all them together, mixed it up, and came up with this layout.

Oh, Come on!

Scrap it with a Song  is a blog I have been lurking for about a month or so and I finally had a chance to participate in one of the challenges.   This week's song is "Some Nights" by Fun.  My kids and I like to sing along with this song when it plays on the radio.  It is one of those guilty pleasures to belt it out at the top of your lungs.   This picture of Hannah goes perfectly with the line from the song, "Oh, COME ON!"   I can just hear her saying it when I see the photo. 

 

 

I used this sketch from My Scraps and more -

 

 

 

Baby, It's Cold Outside

Crop Chocolate's weekly challenge was to make a project using mittens.   I found this die cut in my stash and decided to play with my Stickles!

You're a hero!

In my search for inspiration... I came across a blog Nuts about Sketches  and she is having a Design Team call.   So here is my first ever Design Team submission -  

The sketch...

 and my page -