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 How fun is this guy hiding in the sunflowers!

So many fun surprises in the sunflower field last year.

Loved spending quality time with my daughter and having a nice relaxing day.

She loved all of the hidden gems and photo ops.

My inspiration for this page came from the August Scrappy Friends challenges by Rochelle and Stacy.

Here is Rochelle's sketch:

I used some real burlap paper for the big circle.

Then I used some blue and yellow stencil butter to create the splatter look on the background.

Here is Stacy's Tic Tac Toe board challenge:

I used 4 patterned papers

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I think this was the last of the pictures from our trip last year.

Now to get more pictures this year!

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Little Miss Independent

Good Morning and Happy 4th of July!!  I am lucky enough to have some time off, great weather (kinda) and really nothing to do.  I plan  on using this valuable time to really knock out some projects.

My first page of this long weekend is a fun one mad just for the holiday:

I dug through my stash and used some scraps.  I also found some flair and acrylic firework pieces.  

I just bought this huge bag of fun star stickers covered in glitter.

And I was able to use some ribbon with stars.

What a great way to use up old stash!

I was inspired by this month's Tic Tac Toe board from Stacy and the Scrappy Friends challenge:

I used the acrylic firework pieces, foam star stickers and star ribbon.

Have a safe and fun holiday!!!

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Wonderland

 Good morning!  Getting closer and closer to finishing up our Colorado trip!  Other than sneaking in a few other pics here and there, I should be done with this album in a week or two.   And I already have the album to put the pages in, so I am ready to be done!

I'm not big on working with two page sketches, but I really wanted to knock out a bunch of pictures at once.  Success!

I had fun playing with this page using Stacy's Tic Tac Toe board from this month's Scrappy Friends challenge:

I used stickers, circles and Nuvo Drops. 

This came together so easy and I love it!

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You are the Sunshine of my Life

 It is too hot outside, so I've been spending lots of time at my desk working on pages.  I'm almost done with our Colorado book, but I've also been sneaking in a few other things.

Here is a page for my granddaughter:

I used this sketch from Rochelle and the Scrappy Friends challenge:

I had to make a few corrections - where my kitty decided to step in the wet Nuvo Drops and spread it on the page....grr!!!

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Lasting Memories Challenge # 755

 Hard to believe that we are already in June!  And we haven't taken  trip to the zoo yet this year!

I have to reminisce by scrapping pics from last year's trip:

This week's challenge from Lasting Memories is a new Size it Up Challenge:

Here are the cuts to use for your project:

LM #755 - Use the following sizes of papers on your layout.

3 - 5" squares

3 - 1.5 x 5 strips

3 - 2" circles

I was able to use up quite a few scraps to get this page done.

And I realized I have at least 4 sets of these bear stickers!  lol!

Now you know why I need more trip to the zoo!  

Stop by the blog and check out how the rest of the Design Team used these cuts

Link up your layouts to the link on the blog  by Saturday, June 28th at 10 PM EST for a chance to be our guest designer for an upcoming month.

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Spring Flowers

Hello and Happy Spring!  I love this time of year when all of the flowers start blooming and everything smells so fresh and pretty.

My daughter and I took a quick day trip to Holland Michigan to see some of the tulips.  We were early for the Tulip Festival but we were still able to see lots of blooms.

This month at Lasting Memories, we are having fun with different paper cuts - not the bad ones!  

LM #753 - Use the following sizes of papers on your layout.

1 - 6 x 12
1 - 8.5 x 11
1 - 6" circle
1- 4 x 10

I pulled out the box of random bits and pieces and managed to put this page together:

Most of the papers are from Simple Stories and 49 and Market.  

I knew I would use them eventually!

Stop by the Lasting Memories blog and see what the Design Team has come up with!

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All Smiles

 My beautiful granddaughter just loves to smile for the camera - lucky me!!  lol!

The hardest part is whittling down which pictures to print for scrapping.

This was fun to put together using this month's challenges from The Scrappy Friends - Stacy and Rochelle

Here is Rochelle's awesome, multi photo sketch:

And here is the Tic Tac Toe board from Stacy:

The colors were so easy to work with being that I just found a bunch of yellow embellishments and papers.  

For Stacy's challenge, I used an edge punch, wood grain (paper) and flowers - a mix of paper flowers from Paper Studio and wood veneer pieces.

So happy to be able to use up more scraps and stuff I had on hand!

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