Washi Wednesday!

I kinda like the sound of that! 

AND I got crafty with my washi tape. I used my birthday money and got a typewriter. I gotta tell  you. I am a lazy scrapper. Getting out of my room, going to printer, lining up journaling, the printing, cutting..etc...BLEH! 

So I decided to invest in a typewriter that I just pull out, plug in and type my journaling right then and there and I loooove it. I find myself journaling MORE! So that is what I focused on with this layout. 

So first, I played with the washi design on a piece of white cardstock making sure it was lined up where my photo was going to be and then just typed away.  

All cardstock is Core'dinations Cardstock, Washi is a mix of some I found on ebay, Queen & Co. and My Mind's Eye. Letters are Heidi Swapp. I cut the tag from my Silhouette with some Kraft Core and used a Cocao Daisy stamp on it...love this wine stamp I got from there...I use it a lot :)

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Twine is from May Arts...

Getting back on the horse...thanks to a friend :)

So a friend whom I have grown to love and admire posted the sweetest thing on my FB page the other day about missing my blog. I never knew people really read it and to be honest...that might have been the nicest compliment I have received in a long, long time. I know..a bit cheestastic but it feels good to know it.

xoxoxo Mel :)  

Thank you for brining me back to something I love and missed. Do I scrap as much?  No...but I still do a little and you know I got somethin' to say! LOL!

So wanna see something I made?  I did this layout a little bit ago for Core using our Core Cuts line and it makes me all sortys of happy. We love going to the St Patty's day parade around here and I jsut wanted to play with some colors. FUN and BRIGHT colors like the Core cuts collection pack has. And, of course, Owen brightens my day, too. ;) 

So I am all sorts of happy today. Feeling like I found a piece of me that might have been missing and it is my creative outlet. I need to scrap more. I need to give myself time to be creative and share it like I used to. 

It makes me a better person...captures memories for my family and, most importantly, it may help get some of these unused papers out of my studio! 

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That's a bit of our Core Couture sparkly goodness and the shamrock shapes are Lifestyle Crafts dies.

Thanks so much for the push, Mel! I will be back next week I promise!  

We are hopping with May Arts and Stampendous so it's gonna be fun and I have TWO projects for next week. Holla!

Sweet Stamp Shop Reveal Day

Welcome to the Sweet Stamp Shop Reveal Day!
So here is my layout. I used lots of Webster's pages on this layout in addition to the CUTE new release stamp Happy Bugs (image of stamp set below)! It was so perfect for this fun layout about my mom and the boys making homemade mosaics.
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These are the fun labels from Studio Calic. They are tab stickers! And if you know me I loooove my tab punch and to have them already done for me is so fun. So I stamped that cute little sentiment right on one. That is the thing with layouts and stamping....you can really add fun little  details that people won't expect are stamps. 

Next up, I cut out a heart and then broke the Websters original sparklers embellishments with my hammer. I made my very own Mosaic! I have always been a huge fan of Webster's. They have this cool new book out called Blueprints. Head over to their blog for a chance to win one!

And then last up.... can we talk about this little cutie?  Not owen or henry ;) but this catepillar stamp. He is SO CUTE! I stamped him on some pp and then cut it out. 

HAVE FUN HOPPING! Loads of inspo this week!!!!

Here is the order:

Sweet Stamp Shop- http://www.sweetstampshop.blogspot.com
Emily- http://www.createserendipity.net
Jamie- http://jamielanedesigns.blogspot.com/
Laura- http://itsallrosie.blogspot.com/
Ellen- http://closeyourears.blogspot.com/ (you are here)
Nicole- http://www.onesweetromance.com

And you need a coupon code, right???
coupon code AR15 for 15% new releases and if you participate in the hop (all the days) one lucky commenter will win one of the new releases!!!