Pretty Party

I can hardly believe it's only a couple of months until Chloe is turning five! We just received confirmation that she'll be going to our neighborhood schoool, the same one D. attended growing up. Kindergarten! It's a whole new chapter.

But I want to remember the cute little baby that stole my heart almost 5 years ago, and what better way than a mini album commemorating each of her birthdays!?

I used a fantastic mini-kit from Paper Issues, which includes Crate Paper Pretty Party Accent Cuts, baker's twine, seam binding, trinket pins and clothes pins.

All held together on the super cute 7-Gypsies ATC holder, I love the way it looks out for display!

I added some Pink Paislee's Soiree embellishments, Sassafrass chipboard, vintage book pages, and vellum.

It's so fun looking back at these pictures of my girl on each of her birthdays! I included pages so that  I'll be able to include her upcoming birthdays as well  :)

Lucky me...

I sometimes visit this blog called BostonMamas, and I even put their button in the sidebar because I thought it was cute. They post about local resources and tips for families in Boston and on the internet, and sometimes have great giveaways, which I occasionally enter when the whim strikes. Well, I won a prize, and it's a doozy! Check it out:



Chloe's gonna totally love it--I can't believe I won out of 200+ entries!! My favorite parts: #1 No batteries, nothing electronic, and #2 the food is made from fabric instead of plastic!

Let's see, in stash diet news, things have been sort of slow around here, because I have been dragging my feet about completing these 2 atc sets I commited to, I was feeling so un-inspired. But my bud Lori made these cool atcs using a hambly transparency as the base for the card, an idea I totally loved and just had to copy, so I made my second set last night, hooray (pictures below)! Now I am free to do some more layouts...just waiting for some pictures I ordered to arrive, but tomorrow I may just pull out some older ones and a couple of kits I have stashed and scrap away, if I can find the time. That brings me to 21 down, 39 to go.


eta: how badly do I suck at math?? that should say 21 down, 29 to go. OY!

I rocked it...

Yay for this shout out on the Scrapjacked website :)
This is my atc for the Creative Type design team swap...

I forgot to take pics before I packaged them up (doh), so I'll have to wait till I get them back to show the real deal, but this part is digi, so I thought I'd share it! I had no inspiration for getting these done, but I buckled down yesterday, and banged all 24 of them out. Not too exciting, but they do the trick. I have another set to do for a swap at SiStv that I need to find the mojo for. I guess not getting any of the atcs back from the 3 swaps I have participated in kinda makes me lose my motivaton--I was so excited to see other people's work, but for some reason all of the swaps I have been a part of have either disintergrated into nothingness or just gotten way off schedule...just my luck to try it out for the first time and to sign on with slackers. Not that I'm always on time--but hey, at least I get them in!

Another time...

I will write all about what happened with Sukey. I'm not quite ready to go there yet...I have a big hole in my chest, and I miss her terribly.

I want to share an ATC set I made for a swap over at SiStv. This is only my second swap--I can see how ATC making can get addictive! The theme of this swap is Your Superhero Name. I went back and forth on what I wanted mine to be, for a while I thought I'd be "The Organizer" but I couldn't really come up with a design for that. Somehow I got stuck on using the Ghost Buster logo, and everything sort of fell in place from there.

I made the logo using an image downloaded from the internet and edited in scrapblog. The Fortuna Dot font is another freebie, from dafont.com. The combination of that font and the black glitter makes me wish my superhero name was Glitter Buster instead!

And while I'm at it, I might as well show my very first ATC set--this one was for a sweet candy swap. Still haven't gotten these back, hmmm....

Finally, here's my layout for last week's Project Catwalk. The challenge was "avant garde" use something in a way it was not intended to be used. I used poly-fill stuffing as clouds on my layout.