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Happy Friday, friends! 

Just a quick layout from me today.... using the beautiful colors that make up the Summer Wind kit to complement this picture of my cutie oldest. 

I had fun with the layering on this one... first, I cut out a butterfly & torn notebook edge with my Silhouette machine and layered it over another sheet of patterned paper. Then I tucked in a tag, a chipboard embellishment, a brad, and a foam sticker. The final touch was stamping that cute key stamp, cutting it out, and hanging it on the page with a brad and twine. 

I hope you're having fun just playing this summer, whether it's with water & floaties or paper & adhesive! :) 

Father's Day cards with Summer Winds...

Hello to all my favorite peeps! ;)

Since Father's Day is this weekend, I thought I'd share with you a few cards I made to honor the wonderful men in my and my children's lives!
I used products from June's Summer Winds kit...which again, is another FABULOUS kit that Noel put together! :)

I decided to use Kraft paper for the background of all of these cards. I felt it helps give a masculine touch when adding fun things like, pink and flower embellishments right? :)

Often times I don't want to spend time trying to figure out something to do for cards, so I go on over to Pinterest and check out sketched for cards or just comb through the font page to find something that inspires me. :)

I found this fun sketch that Hero Arts put up, and it had 3 card sketches...PERFECT right? Just what I needed! I made a few little changes, but over all, these were what inspired me for the cards I created. :)

Here's another fun one that I didn't do, but maybe will be inspiring to you. I still may do it too! :)

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you all have a wonderful Father's Day weekend this coming Sunday! 

xx

Kimberly 

Orange X thingys.

I remember going to my very first crop like 8 or 9 years ago.

It was here in town and I went with my mom.

I even remember seeing the flyer for it at a local scrapbook store that I drove 45 minutes to get to because I needed to feed my habit.

**Bama Scrap Blast**

"36 hours of Non-Stop Cropping!"

Anywhoooo the crop started on Friday and went through Saturday evening.

We didn't get there until Friday evening because for some reason I did not take off work.

We were the last people to get there dangit!!

:)

As we sat there for a little while we noticed that everybody had these orange X thingys on their tables.

They were everywhere!

But not on our table!

We decided that this must have been a freebie we missed out on because we arrived so late.

So my mom, always on the look out for a deal, proceeds to ask the nice crop director {bless her} about the orange X thingys that everyone seemed to have but us.

I don't know for sure what she said to my mom, but I am pretty sure she nicely told her that she was crazy, go get your own orange X thingy at Wal-Mart, and leave me alone because I have some wacky crop games to play!

And then the nice crop director proceeded to demonstrate how the mysterious orange X thingy was, in fact, a super neat sticker maker and all cool kids have them.

We couldn't wait to get one!

Sooooo we proceeded to scrap as late as we could stay awake.

Then we stopped by Wal-Mart on the way home at ~3:00 in the morning to purchase our very own orange X thingys!

When we got back to the crop the next morning after very little sleep, we were totally in the IN crowd with our brand new orange X thingys!

*****

Now that story was all a lead in to this layout.

{and if you are still reading this, bless you!}

I still have that orange X thingy we bought at Wal-Mart that night.

And, yep, I still use it!

So I thought I should make a layout to preserve that fun memory!

I used my "Summer Wind" kit to make this...

Thanks for stopping by the blog today!
Have a good one!!
:)
gretchen

"Summer Wind" berry box project

I LOVE making projects and I love Etsy! So today I am going to share with you a little project combining those using berry boxes I found at one of my favorite stores and the gorgeous "Summer Wind" kit. 

Fist I took my two berry boxes and punch three holes in the lids and tied them together with the Queen and Company twine from the kit. Next, I used the paper doily and lined the inside bottom box with it.

Next, I used the beautiful patterned paper and covered the back of the top box and created little banners to hang on the twine. I added a photo to the chipboard Polaroid piece from the kit and placed it in a front to hold it in the box. Next, I added some white paper shreds to fill the box and added the flowers. I put the chipboard heart on a piece of wire and stuck it in the box as well. Just a few more embellishments and viola...a cute altered berry basket!

This will make a cute and unique gift for a friend. I hope I have inspired you to use your kit in a different way. The colors and patterns are so perfect for a sweet Summer inspired project!

iPad Love

We have had such a great time this past week at the Summer Lovin' Crop on the Noel Mignon Message Board. One last reminder . . . today is the last day to get in your challenge entries!

My challenge was all about revisiting scrapbook techniques from the 90's . . . but adding them to your pages with an updated twist. Here is my challenge sample page using the June 2012 Summer Wind Kit.

iPad Love

The two techniques I used on my page were premade die cuts and a handrawn title. I layered together several die cuts at the bottom of my page along with one of the mini transparencies from the kit.

To create my handdrawn title I found a font on my computer that I liked, sized my title, and then traced it onto ledger patterned paper by holding both sheets up together on a bright, sunny window.

Happy Scrapping!

Jana

Summer Lovin' Crop- Colorstory Challenge!

 Colors can completely affect your mood and communicate a certain feeling... and I loved the sweet, airy feeling this color board gave, with that little pop of red for unexpectedness! 

(The colorboard is originally from here:http://tarisota.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/03/pinspiration.html) 

So your challenge is a simple one today... use this color board as inspiration for your layout! I love color challenges because it's always interesting to see which color people choose as the dominant color. 

Here's my take on it, using the Summer Wind Kit: 

(And if you have the Summer Wind kit, you're especially in luck since this is the same color story as that kit! Don't have the kit? Get creative with your stash, paints, inks, and photo colors!) :) 

Come join us on the board- you have through Monday to complete the challenges and win some prizes! 

Thursday's "Summer Lovin' crop" challenge with Kimberly

Hello everyone! I hope you are having fun and getting a lot of fun creative time to dive in and play with us this week! 

My challenge is pretty simple, and something I LOVE to do! 

It''s a Kit Mixer Challenge: 

• 1) This can be a one or 2 page LO, your choice 
• 2) You must choose at least 2 of these categories:

• Use paper from 2 different kits 
• Use ribbon from one kit and twine from another 
• Use paint from one kit and mist from another 
• Use a Stamp from one kit and an Ink from another 
• Use thickers from one kit, and smaller alphas from another kit 

I created a layout for this challenge using products from June's Summer Winds kit and May's Jack and Jill kit Thickers and Stickers and 2 different papers from each kit as well. 

Now, I love to play around with titles and layering alpha stickers....so have fun with this! :)

Be on the look out today, 

I have a fun game in the forum area, as well as Chat later on today at 

5pm Mountain Time

If you aren't sure of time zones and what time this is for you, click here

I can't wait for my fun chat time with you all! 

xx

Think good thoughts and have a beautiful day! 

Kimberly