My page layout

Here is my page layout for the scrap layout challenge. I changed just a little bit of the dimensions of the layers and made the picture a 7x7 so it was square. This was a simple and elegant way of making a quick page. I started with a 12x 12 piece of SU! soft sky cardstock added a 11 1/2 square piece of designer paper called Bohemia by my minds eye. I then added a 8x8 piece of soft sky again to give it a framed look. On top of the second soft sky layer I added the 7 x7 pic of my daughter. The sentiment is stamped in pacific point blue ink and the stamp was from the Heard from the Heart set both in the new fall catalog for SU! The sentiment is stamped on so Saffron cardstock and reads may all your wishes come true. Enjoy your weekend, and I hope you enjoy the simple challenge.

Cheers,

Melissa

Color Challenge

Okay so for now here is the color challenge I hope you enjoy it I will post the results of my layout and color challenge page here tomorrow. The colors and design are from a little girl I watch she had a beautiful dress on one day and I snapped a pic to capture the colors. The colors in this dress remind me of Stampin Ups so saffron, brocade blue, regal rose and rose red. Lets see what you come up with. There is also a hint of a lacy flower bordering the hem. Beautiful dress enjoy.

Happy Designing

Melissa

Sure glad its friday

Okay so I dont know about you guys but I am sure glad it's Friday. It has been a long week here I am slowly getting my energy back. Cooper is doing fine now, The Drs. think he had an acute case of pancreatitis and that he ate something he should not have eaten. Last night I checked our yard and we had quite a bit of Nightshade growing. Anyone who knows anything about this weed you know that just touching it and your hands getting near your mouth can kill you. So we imagine this is how he got sick. The good news is that he is better and him old self again, three garbage bags of Nightshade later! My allergies have given me quite the ear infection everything is still echoing and I can hardly hear, good thing I dont have to hear any of you right! LOL

I appreciate everyones Kind Comments and look forward to another week. I am posting two challenges today a color challenge and a layout challenge, I will be combining the two into a scrap layout. I hope you enjoy.


Cheers,
Melissa

A long night

To all my readers, I apologize for not having a post last night. I am fighting some kind of an allergy cold ontop of alot of other things going on at my house. Last night was national night out, so we had the neighborhood block party. We came in at just after 9 oclock. I was in bed by 9:30 trying to fight this off and my son awoke we at 1:30 worried about our golden lab Cooper. He apparently had been throwing up for the last two hours non-stop. We rushed him to the vet hospital and got home with him around 3:15 in the morning. 6am came early this morning for me. My neighbor drove and helped my son take him to our family vet this morning. We are waiting for results of xrays and bloodwork. We are hoping that the worst is he has a blocked intestine and not liver or kidney disease. So say a little prayer for our Cooper if you will. I'll keep you all posted.

On too todays goodies, My neighbor asked me about clear stamps this week and that she tends to go more towards them to stamp with. One reason is for storage reasons, god knows I've got boxes of them now :). Anyways we were talking about how some people are just not mounting their stamps and using the acrylic clear stamps in place, when I thought of a new product that I have seen but havent read to much about, It is a product from Unity stamps. It is much like an acrylic stamps block but on a board that you can slide in and out of the acrylic block holder, there fore making the storage issue a little easier. Check out the video from CHA and a link below in my favs that will take you to Unity stamp company.

Here is the link to the awesome CHA video of the Unity stamp mounting system

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j17f5uF8YBk&eurl=http://www.unitystampco.com/new

Enjoy and happy stamping
Melissa

Weekend

Happy Monday!

It was a long weekend here on my end, although they usually are. It did end on a happy note though, I Won! Six more months on my Fan club membership for the dirty girls challenge! Go me, yeah! I did'nt get much time to play with my stamps although, I did find a few minutes last night to play with something new. While I was at Michaels I found these paper dolls that you can design the clothing and accessories. What better to do with your Designer Paper Scraps right? The company that makes them is called Creativity Inc. the product is Project Runway they sell the paper, the standup cardboard dolls to play with and the templates for a bunch of different clothing and accessories everything from purses and shoes to hip sashes and go go boots. I'll keep everyone here up to date with the designs we do, me and my daughter that is. We have designed a few already as you can see in the pics. Abby did the one with the pink and red swirly skirt and I did the one with the red dress and black boots and hat. The design on the dress was SU!s baroque wheel. You change the clothes by using repositionable tape that doesnt ruin the clothing or doll. My five year old can even use the stencils and cut it out FUN FUN FUN!

Okay more blog candy for week two. A doll and an outfit designed by my daughter and extra scraps of course. You can find the dolls and clothing and accesories templates at Michaels or I have a link here on my Favorite links. The company is Project Runway. For now enjoy the tips. If anyone else trys these post me a link I would love to see what you are coming up with design wise also. Other goodies to come this week, more design challenges, technique tutorials, card layouts, scrap layouts and an exciting new product and a link to it for a neighbor.

Have a great week

Melissa