one more layout for the week

Hello again!

I have one more layout to share with you before we head off into the weekend.

Every year before Christmas I take my kids to see the Nutcracker Ballet in town. They do a magnificent job and it is a fun thing that I get to do with my girls when they are old enough to sit still for that long ☺

Last year I was able to take three of my kids and we had a wonderful time.

The ballet company here likes to switch up the performance in little ways every year so it is fun to see what they do differently from year to year.

After the performance is over the ballet company goes out to meet the audience where patrons can take pictures and get autographs. This particular year my girls were able to meet and get pictures with a lot of the dancers. This layout shows my kids with the Snow Queen.

I used lots of Crate Paper chipboard pieces and a bunch of sequins. I  have been hoarding some sequins for quite some time and haven't yet learned how to use them in a way where I really like the result. I think I may have used too many here ☺but that's okay.

The foam phrase and hearts are from the American Crafts Amy Tangerine Plus One collection and the striped tape is from Hobby Lobby. I think the gold rose print tape is from 3M and the pink striped one is from a pack I got at Target. I used some wood masking tape from ARC Crafts that I got in a welcome pack when I joined one of the Lifestyle Crafts Studio teams. The small alphas are from October Afternoon. 

Have a great weekend!

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love these girls; playing with paint and mist

**Please check post below for your chance to win a spot in the upcoming PageMapsU Card class! 

I will be participating along with many of your favorite cardmakers. Here is a peek of one of my cards:

It's another day, another chance to make it a better one than the day before.

I had a rough mom night with some of my kids last night...they were being difficult and I gave in and lost my cool. I had to ask for their forgiveness. It is a good thing they are so forgiving. I am trying to be better.

Have you ever been there before?

I do love my girls; they are sweet and creative and smart and amaze me all the time.

Here is a page that I created yesterday in about 15 minutes using product I had right on my desktop; white cardstock background (American Crafts cardstock is my fave), a tag from Bella Blvd, a vellum cut by the talented Jennifer Chapin, mist from Heidi Swapp, wood veneer shapes that I cut using wood paper from ARC Crafts, tape from Queen & Co, American Crafts glitter Thickers, some craft paint and a Studio Calico acetate word.

The pictures of my girls are from Sarah's birthday; I wanted to get some pictures of her before we left for church and Lily did not want to be left out of the action. ♥

The tapes are from Queen & Co's new release; I worked on some CHA projects for Wendy and was able to snag some tape from my sister-in-law who was here visiting and also working on Q&Co projects.

That little yellow tag is from one of Bella Blvd's brand new releases- so cute! I tucked a heart underneath and added a few wood veneer stars punched from the ARC bark paper.

Have a fantastic day!

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LIfestyle Crafts, washi, woodgrain and a giveaway!

Hello!

It's the middle of the week and I have something fun to share!

A couple of weeks ago I got a big box of stuff from Lifestyle Crafts to welcome me to the new Scrapbooking Studio Team. I have been doing work for LC for about two years as an affiliate, trying out new products and posting projects to my blog but now I will be posting something new each and every month!

In my box of supplies that I just received was adhesive-backed BARC wood veneer from ARC Crafts that is thin enough to run through a diecutting machine. Isn't that fantastic? I was so excited and knew I'd have to try it out right away, so I did on this project I'll share with you today. I also got some adhesive-backed vellum from Lifestyle Crafts, which I used on this page as well.

Gold is "all the rage" right now in scrapbooking and in the world as a whole so I wanted to use some of that on this holiday page, and the Lifestyle Crafts gold Shape N Tape was perfect!

Patterned paper: Webster's Pages (in my LC welcome box)

I started this page out by cutting some stars from the LC adhesive-backed vellum. I used the LC star punch set, which includes both a large and small star die.  I was originally going to just use the punched stars but decided to use the negative image leftover from punching the stars first, then layered the stars on top of that, then added some gold spray mist (Heidi Swapp). I used Lifestyle Crafts' Sticky Thumb adhesive to glue down the extras on my page. 

For the next step I layered my wallet-sized pictures over the vellum background and cut additional stars using the smaller punch and the adhesive-backed wood. I cut some strips from the gold Shape N Tape and added those to the top of the page. 

Here are a few more detail shots of my layout: 

I love the woodgrain! It comes in a pack of 8 sheets with 2 each of four different shades. 

I added some gold alphas from American Crafts as well as a few other AC stickers as accents on the page. 

Because I had a few stars leftover I decided to create this card using those and the new Hello Pocket Scrap Die.  These new Pocket Scrap dies are so cute and trendy with all of the "Project Life"-style scrapping.

Well, in my post title I mentioned something about a giveaway ☺ 

How would YOU like to win something fun from Lifestyle Crafts? 

In celebration of Lifestyle Crafts' new partnership with We R Memory Keepers we would love to give away some of the fun gold Shape N Tape that I used on my layout along with the star punch set and an embossing folder of your choice. 

How does that sound? 

All you need to do to win is to follow We R Memory Keepers on Facebook  as well as Lifestyle Crafts. Let me know that you did each of these in a comment below and I will choose a winner on Monday, December 16. 

Please leave a way for me to contact you via email in case you are the chosen winner of the giveaway.

Thanks for stopping by today!

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