It’s Wednesday! Wow, this week went by quick! How about you?

Here’s a quick page that I did using Sassafrass Lass paper, American Craft chipboard, Primas, K&Company chipboard, Martha Stewart’s butterfly punch, and some paint. I bought three pieces of the Sassafrass paper I think and I’ve created three LO with them. I am either stingy or just using these papers to the max! I believe I even have enough for a card or two. I’ve been liking using a little bit or a variety of pattern paper in my LO. That’s why my pattern papers have been going a loooong way. The layout is based on PL sketch #90. Awesome sketch be Debee Campos! She’s one of the fashionista at ScrapinStyle aka SIStv. If you haven’t checked SIStv out, oh you should. You’re missing out. All the talents in there. WOWSER!!!

This was my best friend’s wedding four years ago in AZ. It was a wedding and a reunion. Since we graduated, this was the first time us girls got together again. It was fun, fun! My friend is Filipino but she grew up in American Samoa. She’s an awesome dancer and that there is her dance group performing. They were great! I wish I can move my hips the way they do!!! Yeah, that’d be the day, hee…

I am suppose to receive some Stampin’ Up! stuff today. I CAN’T wait!!!

Hope everybody had a great Father’s Day weekend! Ours was nice. Relaxing and we didn’t do anything but hung out and on my part, scrapbooked {::SMILES}. I made six digital pages and a page since Friday, the first one being the one I showed you Saturday. I am sooooooo itching to get my hand n some real paper and also do some hybrid from the stuff that I’ve downloaded over the weekend but can’t… we have guests. It’d be so nice when the basement is all done, I can do crafts even when there’s somebody in the guest room.

Here’s one of the page that I did. An M page. I used a kit from Kasia at Shabby Pickle Designs: Blowing Dandelions. Gorgeous kit! I also mixed it up a bit with her For Him For Her kit that came free with my first Dandelions purchase… the special for the weekend. It was sweet! I love the colors in this kit and right now, I am so into bright colors.

The picture (and many more which I will gradually scrapbook too) was taken at a winery May 30th. I put June on the page initially, changed it, but never resaved the newer version. She was just messing around and quite happy that day but I just love this pouty look that she had.

Here’s an M story: In my yesterday’s card I used SU’s dots for a background. If you know this thing, this stamp is a big chunky stamp, maybe 5×6. I could not find it this morning when I was trying to put things away. Then when I was getting Emma ready for bed, I saw it on her art table. I asked her why it’s there and she said, “It flew in here from your room, mommy.” HA! Creative liar, huh?

Well, have a great week everybody. More later!!

I did another me page. Just last month I found these photos while cleaning my office drawers. Two years later almost {::SMILES}. I used Pencil Lines sketch for this layout. It’s an older sketch, maybe last months. I like it since I don’t do a lot of circles.

The brown paper in the background is handmade paper. Hubby got me this a long while ago for Christmas and I finally got around to using it. The alpha, they were bright green, Stampin’ Up! green galore-ish, but I used Making Memories paints to get them to look the way they do now. It’s my first stab at repainting chipboards, kind of fun.

A few stories… yesterday we helped feed the locals who are in need of warm food. My duty was to bring dessert and I told the others that I’d bake some brownies. Well, after trying two recipes, none of my brownies turned out as brownies. The first one looked like a brownie but the taste and consistency was unknown. The second didn’t look like a brownie, more like a pound cake, but it tasted better according to hubby. So, I gave up and felt so depressed - M was so sweet with the hugs and kisses. We ended up stopping at Wally World to pick up some cakes and apple pie. URGH!!! I am such a horrible baker!!! I thought since my cookies have been great and I did make a cake last year that the brownies (which reviewers said were so easy to make and yummy) would be easy. Wrong, wrong, wrong!

Today I received a t-shirt from Adobe or Kuler to be more exact. A few days ago I received an email thanking me for the Kuler video that I created and he gave me some other tips and also asked if I wanted a t-shirt. I said sure (and before I emailed him back I Googled him first to make sure he is from Adobe… ha!). Today I got the shirt. Quick! It’s a girl shirt too and a size S. Whoo hoo!!! This rarely happens, most freebies are too big for me. Now M’s wearing it. She loves running around it my Ts. It’s a perfect dress for her.

Have a great night. More later…

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I used Pencil Line sketch to help me with this LO. This was March’s sketch. Here’s the story behind the title… When M was a baby, up to two years I think, she was not the most generous kid in terms of smiles. She’s even tougher when it came time to take studio photos. We’d do everything and we’d just get a stare and she she did smile, either the camera person wasn’t ready or she blinked. So these are a few photos that we got from Sears. There’s one good smiling photo and the rest looked like she didn’t care to be there… of course there’s got to be one where she either has something, her hand/thumb usually, in or in front of her mouth.

Now she’s a totally different person. Quite friendly although there have been days where she’s just not camera friendly or will not smile for people she doesn’t know well. Her excuse… “Emma’s grumpy.”

Now, does any of you have a Ning account? Ning is a social networking account. Once you have one, you can create a group of your own or join another group. It’s like Yahoo group but with a better interface. I’ve used my Ning account to join educational groups… so work only… but recently I just joined two scrapbooking groups: Pink Paislee and Scrapbook Dimensions Magazine. If you’re not socialed out yet, check Ning out and the two groups. You might like it. In my field, I find the groups I’m in very informational.

So here’s my version of the PL sketch. Kind of like the sketch but not quite. Again I did another collage. I’ve been so into this look lately.

I used an interesting item for this page. My blogging sister, Karyn, sent me some brads. I was in a brad share that she was hosting. Besides brads and other goodies she sent me a sweet little thank you card. The card paper was gorgeous. It’s that green and light blue floral that I used on the left of M’s picture. How could you just store such prettiness? So I trimmed it and used it on my LO. She also sent me some blings and I used one on the green flower — can you see it?

Other materials:

K&Company background paper, word art chipboard , and rub-ons
Field House chipboard bird
Unknown floral background paper, brads, and net
Prima floral
Tara Sroka Nutritional Fact #1
Target ribbon
Making Memory Acrylic paint
ATG adhesive and Fabri-Tac fabric glue

I really didn’t put a lot of product on the page. It just seems like it from the picture. My desk is also not too messy from this ordeal {::SMILES}.

I really love this page. M’s so cute and the colors just enhances the picture I think. She was such a beautiful baby and now a cutie pie girl. You can see two more close-up images of this LO in my Flickr site.

So glad it’s a weekend. No big plans, just relaxing, cleaning, and more scrapbooking or digi scrapping. I need to create a few LO using Tara Sroka’s and Dana Frantz kits that I downloaded the last few days. Next weekend I have an all day crop that’s hosted by the local girls’ scout. I plan on doing digi and paper — yeah, I’ll be hauling my stuff This coming week is also spring break. Whoo hoo!!! I can take a break from grading and going to my classes. I love my French class though. So fun! I plan on taking a couple days off too from my day job. I’ll use one day to scrapbook and the other day to spend with the hubby (he’s going to take one day off). Have a great weekend everybody!!

EDIT: I forgot to mention that Prince was the inspiration for this layout: Beautiful Girl.