A Little Basic Grey

I wanted to share a few layouts that I did with Basic Grey! I had fun playing with all the fun colors, I just used some of the old papers that I've had. This first one is of our two sweeties, Harley and Jefferson!!!

I thought the colors in these papers were absolutely perfect for the fun beach pics of the girls!!! They were having a fun time during Spring Break at PCB!

This is Jenna & Sam in St. Lucia on their honeymoon!!!! Beautiful pictures!!!


This one is Vera & Laura. Two beautiful sisters!!! The colors of their swimsuits were perfect for the paper!!!

Contest and Giveaway at Manor House!

Here's what's going on over at Manor House Creations!!!! Please check it out!

A flower giveaway!

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Manor House Creations

Yep, Manor House Creations is having a flower giveaway !

Here’s what you can win….

…a bag FULL of flowers! There are 3 to win!

(I quickly counted and there are about 50 in one pack and 25 in the other 2).

TO WIN…….

* ‘Follow’ our blog

* Leave a comment about Manor House Creations flowers – what you think, what you love, what you don’t love…we want to know!

* ‘LIKE’ Manor House Creations on Facebook HERE.

* Leave this image and a link to this post, on your blog.

* * * *

The prize winners will be chosen at the end of the month (31st January, 2012) for the best and most useful comments. MHC want feedback!

So anyone can win! But we’ll be checking to see if you have done all 4.

Can’t wait to see who wins!

Happy New Year and CHA?!?!?!

Sorry, I've been a little neglectful of my blog lately, I've been working on CHA projects. Just about done, so will be back posting more regular!!! I've been seeing some awesome sneeks so far. Do you all have favorites? I am totally loving Pink Paislee's Spring Jubilee! And also Prima's Song Bird and Sun Kiss! I'm really anxious to see what's coming from Websters!!! My favorite company!

Here's a peek from Pink Paislee:

And here are some from Prima!


I'll be posting some more when I see something that I just "have to have"!!! LOL! If you are going to CHA don't forget to stop by the WOW Embossing Powder, WorldWin Paper and Websters booths!!!!

New Year and New Sketch at OUAS!

**HAPPY NEW YEAR** everyone! May the year ahead be your best one yet. On behalf of my team and my self I wish you all a happy and healthy 2012.

Our very first challenge for 2012 is here.

January 1st Challenge

Journalling Criteria/theme: New Years Eve!

Our theme this time is New year's Eve. We would like you to journal about your feelings around this time of year, or tell us about your most memorable New Year's Eve. Where were you? Who were you with? What did you do? Why is this one memorable? Note: the photo that you use for this challenge does not have to necessarily be from New Years Eve. For example, if you spent New Years Eve with your family you can have a photo of your family taken ANY time of the year.

Remember that you are allowed to also create a card or altered project based on this sketch and instead of the journalling criteria you need to use a quote.

You must combine our journalling criteria/theme with this sketch.

Here's my take on the challenge. This was tough for me, we lost my Father-in-law and our beloved Bulldog last December one day apart, so our New Year's Eve was spend remembering and reflecting about them.

Products used:

Prima Printery papers

Imaginarium Designs chipboard clock, butterfly and alphas

Prima blooms

Kaisercraft blooms

Prima crystal flourish

embossing powders

Giveaway at Websters!!!

I totally LOVE Websters Pages and they're giving away a bunch of "Sunday Picnic", their newest collection, I'd love to win some, so please go check this out:

Win a HUGE handful of Brand NEW Sunday Picnic Collection!

We keep showing you all this amazing goodness. One day after another of products for you to fall in love with! But it's not like us to flaunt something in your face without offering a chance for you to get some of your very own.

AVAILABLE FOR SALE THIS MONDAY, January 2nd, you'll see Sunday Picnic on theWebster's Pages Website. This line is so fun & versatile that you must add these to your shopping cart! And orders are prioritized by when they are placed so order yours right away! {and beloved retailers, no worries...we'll make sure your stores are stocked for all our customers urgently!}

Ready for this?...One of our lucky readers is going to WIN a huge assortment from the collection!....

That's right, here's what you'll get:

How's that for hitting the jackpot?

So, what do you need to do to win this collection? Simple. Leave us a comment and tell us what you like best about Sunday Picnic!...and you'll see even MORE to the collection Monday when the products go live!

But that's not all...if you Tweet, Facebook or blog about this giveaway (and our new line) you can come back and leave another comment (up to three more comments). That gives you FOUR chances to win the Entire Sunday Picnic Collection!

So, what are you waiting for?! Tell us your FAVORITE thing and then spread the word!

We can't wait to get this is someone's hot little hands!

Awesome Embossing Powders!!!

Well, I can finally say the name of the company for the new Design Team that I am lucky enough to be a part of. It is "WOW" Embossing and they will have a website up very soon. You can check it out at:
http://www.wowembossingpowder.com/

This team is headed up by Suzy West, and the colors will be her collections, and let me say, the colors are BEAUTIFUL!!! More surprises are in store as well.


Here is a sneak peek!

I'm working on some projects for CHA as is the rest of the team, I urge anyone going to please stop by the booth and check it out!!!

Imaginarium!!!

Well, I wasn't going to do this, but I absolutely LOVE Imaginarium Designs chipboard and they're having a DT call. So.....here goes. We are supposed to post our 10 favorite projects using chipboard. These are mine. I would soooo love to design for them, I have become addicted to chipboard and enjoy doing different things to it. Here are my top 10 fav projects with chippies.

This first one uses a feather, it's not Imaginarium, but a very good friend (Gabrielle, thanks Gabi!) gave me this beautiful peacock feather, so I embossed it in different colors to match the one on the paper.

close up of the chippie

This one uses Imaginarium Designs, this beautiful flourish is one of my absolute favs of thiers. I embossed this one!
I used the little Imaginarium Designs frame for the little bloom cluster.
This one is a lampost that I used several techniques on. I used embossing and markers as well.
close up of the lamp post.
This one uses Imaginarium chippies too, the frame and the little birdcage and butterfly. Embossed and stickled and little pearls added too!
close up of the little bird cage and butterfly from Imaginarium Designs.
This shows the frame close up, embossed in several colors.
This one uses Imaginarium Designs little corner adornments! These are embossed as well.
closeups of the project.
This one uses Imaginarium Designs butterflies. The leaves are other chipboard. I embossed the butterflies, inked the leaf vine and title frame with Ranger alcohol ink.
closeups of the butterflies!
closeup of frame.
On this one I used Bronze embossing powder on the Eiffel Tower accent to match the title letters.
This one I used Imaginarium Designs butterflies and flourish. Love those butterflies!!! The title is Imaginarium also.


ON this on I used the other style of Imaginarium Designs butterflies. I embossed the entire image then stickled the edges!

The title, birds, and flower are all Imaginarium Designs! THe title letters as well, I stickled on top of the embossing for the title letters "dream".

I know there will be tons of entries, but I LOVE the products and would give one hundred and ten percent if chosen for the team!!! Good luck to all the talented ladies who are applying!!!