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

You Don't Know Jack

I am convinced that I had a "celebrity siting" when I was in NYC December 2013. I snapped a covert pic of who I think is Sean Hayes (and yes he is breakfasting with a lady with red hair worn in a syle that seems to be very Debra Messing but no comment on that...
I posted this pic on Facebook in December and I had friends who said it wasn't him, but I wanted to leave him privacy and not interrupt his meal ( or spoil my own illusion ) so I just kept this pic on my phone and cherished the memory of my own celebrity siting. :)

The ruffle is by Glitz Design, the paper and border are from the Basic Grey Highline collection, those awesome blingy jewels are also Glitz and I have just hoarded and drooled over them long enough! That mist is by Maya Road. The gold diecuts are from Clique Kits, they are the diecuts from the May kit, Field Trip and they are cut from the Fancy Pants gold paper in Field Trip. LOVE that gold paper!!! My favortie Momento Tuxedo Black journalling pen decided to quit on me right after I started journalling on this layout. Oh well, I hope to replace it soon. In the meantime I'll just use whatever I can find around here that will work. The tiny word sticker is from Authentique, the letter stickers are from Echo Park and Basic Grey.

Scrapping REAL (meaning not so good but of happy times) photos!

I wanted to do some scrapping with my kit lately and they had this inspiring sketch online that I wanted to play along with so I went flipping through the photos that I've had printed for a LONG time and found photos from when my friend Christi visited Memphis and she took ME to the annual BBQ Fest that is part of the Memphis in May activities every year. We had a BLAST! So I made a page with some of the photos and then because I wanted to keep the rest and because I had some Pocket pages handy... this basically became a 3 page layout! I love how the pocket page (this one is by We R Memory Keepers) made it easy to put TONS of photos next to the layout, and ALSO because  I put all my journalling in there and just played with photos and embellies on the layout.

I added Mr. Huey's mist in the color Hot Dog (there are a few drops of Shine also but it's not showing up really well). I cut the title Memphis in May with my Silhouette and covered it with Picket Fence Distress Stickles. The thick black Thickers were just in my stash already. The "orange" Thickers were included in my January kit and they are the canvas color it yourself kind.

Have you made any pocket pages? I know this will inspire me to scrap even MORE of my older photos to get them "looking" nicer in the album.