...... jbs mercantile reveal tonight!!!

Join us tonight at midnight for the JBS Mercantile August kit reveal!

Here's an early peek of my gallery...shhhh....

Good Morning Ella...Designer Tapes Bella Blvd Reveal Week

For this layout I used a combination of the Designer Tapes. I started by stacking the actual rolls next to each other until I came up with a combination of colors that I liked for my layout. I then applied them to my kraft card stock in that order. I tore them roughly at the ends cause I like that sort of "imperfect" look. I used the negative portion of the Punch Sienna Chipboard Alphabet sheet on top of the Designer Tapes to create a fun & unique base to my page.

Supplies:

Sophisticates: Chipboard Sienna Alpha - Punch & Pony, High Five Alphabets - Pink & Red, Blue

Sunshine & Happiness: Chipboard Icons, Just Write Journaling Stickers, Miniatures Stickers

Designer Tapes: Gulf Dot, Punch Chevron, Orange Stripe, Piggy Pink Stripe, Pink Stripe, Yellow Chevron, Pickle Juice Chevron

My favorite boys...Bella Blvd Reveal Week...

New Bella Blvd. Birthday Boy Collection:

I love to use a good amount of embellishments when I add clusters to my design & the Birthday Boy collection has such a great variety to work with. I started with a piece from the Cute Cuts page and built on that using the Alpha + Bits & Just Write Stickers. I once again used the photo corner stickers as more of a design element to help draw the eye directly to the photo.

Supplies:

Birthday Boy: All For You, Borders, Eat Cake, Toadilly Cool, Cute Cuts, Alpha + Bits Stickers, Just Write Journaling Stickers, Chipboard Sienna Alpha - Blueberry, Chipboard Icons

Designer Tapes: Pickle Juice Chevron

Button Market: Orange Stars

blog designing...

This whole blog designing thing is fun and a great creative change!

This time I helped my friend, Amy Coose. She is the sweetest with three adorable kiddos. Her littlest could seriously be the Gerber baby - for real! 

When choosing Amy's design, I was originally thinking something with blue bonnets because I recalled this post on her blog about their family trip back home to Texas. But then I thought hmmm.... three kids what can I do with that? 

Hello....triangles! {okay, I know weird thought process}

So, I snooped through Amy's pinterest pins and fell in love with this...

Source: blueisbleu.blogspot.com via Megan on Pinterest

and these colors...

Source: myevergreenonline.com via Megan on Pinterest

I used photoshop & the simple triangle shape tool to come up with this...



Added these lovely fonts...



Source: Font fabric



Source: Da Font

All together now....

Head on over to Amy's blog and be sure to leave her some love!

Crate Paper...inspired by Sprinkles...

Creative Weekly :: Inspired by Cake Sprinkles

When I saw this month's theme, our trip to Sprinkles Cupcakes in Chicago came to mind right away! I used a combination of the new"On Trend" and "Acorn Avenue" papers to punch different sized circles and sprinkled them down the center of my page. I wanted the pink to pop as much as possible, so I used a larger perforated edged circle to punch from the On Trend "Haute" paper. This also mimicked their signage from the store front. 

Head on over to the Crate blog for more sprinkle themed inspiration!

{She's Turning Two...Crochet Flowers...Bella Blvd Reveal Week

Supplies:

Birthday Girl: Miles of Smiles, Borders, Just Write Journaling Stickers, Alpha + Bits Stickers, Chipboard Icons

Sophisticates: Chipboard Alphas Sienna - Punch, High Five Alphas - Pink & Red, Blue

Crochet Flowers: Poppy, Daises, Juniper, & Dahlia

Designer Tapes: Gulf Dot, Punch Chevron

For my She's Turning Two layout I used the dots side of the Miles of Smiles paper to punch out different colored circles to sprinkle along side of the Crochet Flowers to create a confetti look. I also cut the Punch Chevron Designer Tape along the angles to create an arrow look.

Want to see more Crochet Flower inspiration? Check out the Bella Blvd blog here.

blog designing...

I'm no expert in Blogger that is for sure, but I do have fun playing with all the different options that are available.

So, when my friend Kim emailed me to help her spruce up her blog a bit, I was excited to help out. 

I began by searching Pinterest for links to free fonts like these...

Source: dafont.com

Source: Fontfabric

Source: Typedepot

I then searched through Kim's Pinterest page to see what sort of designs caught her eye. I found this one & loved the idea...

Source: lollyjaneboutique.blogspot.com via Kim on Pinterest

**Side note: Kim has lived in three different states and I know that she has gained family, friends, & tons of memories from each of her homes.
I wanted to incorporate that into her design.

Thus the focus on Utah,Iowa, & Texas.

Next stop: Google - where I found this image...



Source: Blue Monocle


Through the magic of Photoshop, I created this...




My color scheme came from this lovely image...



Source: How About Orange

All together now...


Head on over to Kim's blog to see the finished product & don't forget to leave her some love!

Tell me your thoughts. How does your creative process work?

New Crate Paper...On Trend...

See the full line on the Crate Paper blog!

{Cake Smash...Birthday Girl Bella Blvd Reveal Week

I love the new large photo trend lately. I printed this cutie at 12x8 and began layering the Birthday Girl papers & embellishments around it. The upper right corner of my photo had some great "empty or white" space which lead to the perfect spot for my title work. I cut the bottom of one of the stickers from the Just Write sheet to create the "Cake" portion of my title.  

Supplies: 

Birthday Girl: Celebrate, Borders, Sugar Rush, Miles of Smiles, Cute Cuts, Just Write Journaling Stickers, Alpha + Bits Stickers, Chipboard Icons, Chipboard Sienna Alpha - Punch

Designer Tapes: Punch Chevron, Gulf Dot, 

Flags: Birthday Girl 2

Crochet Flowers: Dahlia, Daises

{CHA Chicago: Tuesday...

What an awesome day on the CHA floor yesterday! I meant so many of my favorite scrappers. I do have to apologize to them. I get so dang nervous meeting new people so I either don't say anything & stare like a complete idiot or ramble like a mad women - so sorry for that.

Here we go...

Simple Stories: loving these books...



Cosmo Cricket: So glad they are extending this classic woodsy line...







Always love to see Heidi's work in person...



Love me some Maya Road...







Jenni Bowlin booth!!! Eeek...love it...pure Jenni...















Me & Jenni...







Ran into Mandy Koeppen!!!



Crate Paper: Still pinching myself over this one...

















Amy Tan with American Crafts:







Pebbles: LOVIN there stuff!





Glitz: Talk about 3 amazingly beautiful women & so dang nice!









My Mind's Eye: This is one smart company...filling their booth with amazingly hot men selling their product...







Studio Calico...SWOON...need I say more...





























Me with Maggie Holmes & KP...



Me & Jen Jockish!!!



Basic Grey: I got to do the make-n-take with Kelly Goree...she is so darn funny...














Farm House Paper Co...great new company...








Elle's Studio...LOVE...
{this was one of the booth where I'm pretty sure I rambled like a complete idiot. I was so excited/nervous that I hardly even said 2 words to Elle & didn't shut up to Jenni. Dang why am I so lame!}







The Crafter's Workshop: had SO much fun getting messy with Ronda Palazzari...





LOVE Dina Wakley's work...meant her too! Eeek...





Bella Blvd....LOVE...LOVE...LOVE getting to work for this company...















Me & Stephanie...



October Afternoon: I need one of EVERYTHING from OA this time around...



I was so darn excited when I came around the corner to find LEXI!!!













And last but not least, the adorable Elizabeth Kartchner:



Phew! What an awesome couple of days!