New York State of Mind - A Mini-Album

Hi all!

Here's a little linky to the post of Kim's fun NY mini she created using die cuts from Creative Cuts & More...

This is our last post as Design Team members for CC&M (run by a delightful local Denver woman, Terry Bracciodieta who cuts any of the dies on her site in a large variety of papers, chipboard & acetate for you, including cards & albums!)

It's a great company & we have enjoyed designing with her & the team! I hope that you will stop by the site & browse through her selection!!

Getting Crafty!

I blogged a little bit more about this over on My Laughing Magpie, but I just wanted to share with you all here the tag sets I created today! I was lucky enough to spend most of the day, alone, in my studio creating...all available now in our Etsy shop!

Message in a Bottle set of 3

The Journey is the Reward set of 3

Gotta Have Vision set of 3

Wonderful You set of 3

Cupid's Arrow set of 6

And, because I have spent so much time online over the weekend, I have TONS of ideas for more fun stuff as well as 2 FABULOUS new stamp sets coming in the mail to play with!!! Oooooooo, I can't wait to show you more!!! Now, I just have to find the time!!

TTFN!!

- Becky

Livin' the Life you Love!

Becky here again!

I just finished my first layout for the

More Paper Than Shoes  

Scrapbooking Creative Team!

The subject was "Love Life" & the challenge was to create a layout using patterned papers & cardstock & a phrase about Love & Life - pretty simple for our 1st project!

My inspiration was this photo of Nick & Maggie walking on the beach in Maui & the realization that had I not met Nick, I probably wouldn't have traveled so much in the last 12 years, nor would we have this wonderful daughter to share our travels with! Most of our travel has been just the two of us, but Maggie's been to Maui 3x now & we can't wait to share more of the world with her!!!

I used a 12x12 sheet of patterned paper for the background from The Shabby Green Door "On the Wings of a Dream" collection - this one is the backside of "Postcard," available in our Etsy shop! I cut the notebook paper & the birdcage from a piece of "Day Dream," also from SGD. 

I enlarged the photo of my husband & daughter walking on the beach to a 5x7 & added the text "Live the Life you Love" in PSE. I then printed a contact sheet of all the other travel photos in black & white. Matted the tiny pix in a blue cardstock from an 8x8 DCWV Brights stack & arranged them accordingly. Then I punched the notebook page & a piece of the blue with my "notebook" edged punch from EK & layered them to the side.

I added some of the Tim Holtz tattered flowers I had made for the "Shabby Dreams" box (to be posted on Tuesday, 7/27) with various brads from my stash. The postage stamps & buttons are from Making Memories & the tiny paper clip is from Tim Holtz.

Hope you like it!

I am going to buy one of those 12x12 frames for it & hang it near all our travel albums!

Thanks for looking!