Happiness Looks like this #smile

Welcome to the July 3014 Pep Rally with Clique Kits! If you have come here from Tyra's blog, you have come to the next spot on the hop, if you have just come by today... head on over to the Clique Kits website and have fun seeing what awesome projects everyone made with their Midsummer Nights Dream Kit!

Today I'm sharing the second page of what will be a two page spread in my album, and like this page it features a stack of photos.

The only things on this layout that didn't come with the kit are the gold foil doily and the green fauxnamel dot. I'm just crazy about that bokeh print paper and I had used it on some more photos that go with this birthday party (my godkids had a "shared" birthday party for years because their birth dates are only a few days apart... several years but only a few days) and I had been really conservative with this print because I think it is SO lovely and I wanted to use it on at least one more page... I echoed the previous layout by adding the gold foil doily that I cut myself using my Cameo. I used several stickers from the kit. LOVE that viewmaster sticker that I added to my doily. I also cut apart some of the 2x2 squares and I cut up a 3x4 card to add as journalling spots. I used one of the Open Road pieces of Ephemera, an exclusive printable, some exlusive flair and some of the AWESOME Clique Kits diecuts for accenting as well. I was inspired by another page on the Clique Kits blog earlier this month to just squiggle up some of that amazing teeny tiny washi tape to use as an accent and I just LOVE how this turned out! 

That photo you see is the first of several that are crammed on there by using a photo stack. Here are the other photos:

Thanks so much for stopping by to see my project today! Have fun on the rest of the hop! Here is the complete lineup!

Clique Kits
Gia
Jody
Erica
Lacey
Michelle
Madge
Mariah
Danielle
Alisha
Tyra
Charity***YOU ARE HERE***
Cassandra
Rosann
Tess
Sarah

Big Apple Red

I only have some scraps of paper left from my All is Bright December kit from Scrapbook Circle, so I pulled out some Basic Grey Paper left in my Home Sweet Home November Kit and threw together this layout of my painted nails in my all time fav shade of RED from O P I.

I used some thickers from my stash in the font lax, they were white, with glitter and I was missing e's and a's so I pieced together the letters I needed from what I had, then painted over them with gold stickles. I think they turned out ok, but I did position the red a bit wonky. I'm ok with that.

Here is a shot of my pieced letters.

And, the finished layout:

I think it looks great. Happy Scrapping, I'm off to DC to take some touristy photos today!

Thank you for being a friend...

Last month the Scrapbook Circle blog had a challenge for us to use song lyrics. I didn't enter that challenge because I couldn't think of anything to go with my photos... I could think of songs but not the "right" one. Well, I found one this month for a card... I do love the Golden Girls ;).

And with those lyrics, and some tiny bits and pieces from my All is Bright kit:

December Daily 2013

Finally got youtube to take my video! Here is a video walking through my FINISHED December Daily for 2013! I can't believe It's done... I was going to add more embellies, but I put down all my pics and journalling and was HAPPY... so I was finished.

I owe a special thank you to Heidi Swapp for her Heidi Holiday Photo Find because THAT is the reason I was trying to keep up with a photo a day in December in the first place. AND a special thanks to Scrapbook Circle for their AWESOME December kit!

Please add a link in the comments so I can see your finished DD as well!

Do You Realize?

I seriously love the Glitter Girl Video Series over at the TwoPeas youtube channel!
This week's episode #96, had a challenge that included using a sketch for a layout. I thought this sketch would be perfect for a layout about my going to see Flaming Lips this year with a friend of mine at the Merriweather Pavillion. All things I had never done before:
Gone to MD for a concert.
Gone to Merriweather Pavillion.
Seen the Flaming Lips live.

So much fun...

Here is the LO:

I combined Cut and Paste by Amy Tan with some Wild and Free by Glitz Design and Recorded by Allison Kreft, my fav new thing which is Glitter Tape by American Crafts and some REALLY OLD THICKERS that I am so excited to use. Some various sequins and Art Anthology Mists and boom, I'm done :). I did use a photo collage rather than two 4x6 photos as shown in the sketch and I did turn the sketch on it's side but I love all the movement and color, it really brings to mind everything that was happening on stage in the concert!

Thanks so much and I can't wait for you to see the projects I have in mind for this week. 

Beautiful Living City

When I first started scrapbooking in 2008 I subbed to a kit club. It was called Bad Girls and it was completely AWESOME and inspiring. It really helped me learn to do whatever I want on a page or in a minibook because basically the designers there used anything they liked and found inspiring and the kits included found objects and antique ribbons, etc.... Fast forward through them shutting down and me moving and I finally decided I might like to try out another kit club. Mostly because sometimes you get things in kits you might not normally buy on their own and for the fab mix of products picked out for you to work together. Also sometimes I am crippled because I can't just buy every single thing I want right now! Um, and this helps :).

After googling kit clubs I found the October 2013 kit at Scrapbook Circle and signed up for a 2 month membership. My favortie thing right now is that I am CRUSHING this kit! I have made three layouts so far and have my fourth planned and I think after the fourth I will have just some bits and bobs to add to my stash, the papers in this kit were to die for. Here was my first and second... now for the third:

I used the sketch challenge from Scrapbook Circle for November for the creation of this LO. That rainbow paper from Glitz Design's Wild and free collection makes me so happy! There is journalling on the LO so don't think I skimped on you ;). I'm not sure I ever would have gotten any of those ADORABLE little Allison Kreft bags without getting them in the kit but I love how it looks peeking out from behind my freehand half circle. And I am loving those Canvas stickers from Pink Paislee.

What have you been making lately?