Happy birthday, America!

{photos were taken at the riverfront fireworks show in Quincy}

Pink Paislee rocks!

I bought one of the mystery boxes from the Pink Paislee warehouse sale... and guess what arrived today! Yep! My box!

Here is what was in the box!

I can't believe how many things they stuffed into this box! Some things I had before, but hey, you can never have too much Pink Paislee papers or embellies!

1 pkg each press-ons:

pop fashion accents black

pop fashion icons metallic silver

pop fashions icons black

Vintage moon icons black

vintage moon accents metallic silver

alphabet black

alphabet metallic silver

sweetcakes set

1 sticker book (enchanting)

1 each ribbons cards:

tinsel town

sweet cakes

Clear stamps:

trick or treat (this set is FREAKING AWESOME!)

fancy frames (I already had this set, so I am thinking about giving this one away.

1 pkg each Chipboard elements: (I have been wanting some of these!)

enchanting

fascinating

1 pkg each brads: (yummy!)

fetching

fascinating

Pink Paislee catalogue

1 each alphabet stickers: (you can never have too many!)

fetching

fascinating

fashion script white

fashion script blue

holly doodle orange crush

holly doodle raspberry

holly doodle aqua

1 pkg topsiders (pop fasion)

1 each transparencies:

office lingo

spring fling

pop fasion

vintage moon

43 sheets of paper !!!!! hooray!

which includes:

Sweet Cakes (I didn't have ANY of these! I love the colors!)

tinsel town

pop fashion (one of my favorites)

vintage moon (another favorite)

office lingo (my VERY favorite!)

spring fling

reindeer games (1 poor lonely sheet!)

I am so glad I was able to take advantage of that sale! Yummy yum!

Just a quick post...

... before I have to go off and run some errands and then go to work....

I have gotten 61 layouts done for the LSS contest !! Woohoo !! That is a TON of layouts for me !! And the best part is that I am happy with the vast majority of them! The challenge runs until July 17, so there are several challenges to go.. The next challenge is to use multiple photos on a layout - the first layout has to have 3 pictures, the next 4 pictures, then 5 pictures, and so on. Eventually I'll have to start doing 2 pagers, I think!

Anyway, here is a sampling on the layouts I have done for the contest challenges.

Oh.. yah.. I found out JMC is going to be in Carlinville IL in July!! YEAH! Firstly it's cool, because that's where I went to college... and.. it's JMC! Close enough that we can go see him again!! So DD and I are REALLY excited about that! AND he will be in Mason City IA the day before.... which is a Friday (bleah), but if I can get it off work, I'm going to try to go to that one too! Which is neat, cos that is not too far from the other college I went to! {And my brother and his family live in Des Moines, which means I can stop in a visit Rowen!! }

Bloghop winners!!

Lauri has announced the blog hop winners on the ScrapAttack Scrapbooking blog - Check it out!
Congrats!!!

There were 1166 total comments left during the blog hop, and one was chosen from here! Woohoo!

Don't forget - my challenge runs through June 30 - Make sure to post back here and don't forget your screen name!

Also, the Sakura contest runs through July 6th - more information on that HERE.

Scrap Attack Blog Hop!!!

Welcome to the ScrapAttack Scrapbooking Blog Hop!!!

If this is your first stop, you need to go to Lauri's Blog to start at the beginning!! And I will see you back here in a bit! There are 16 blogs in this hop, and you don't want to miss a single one!!

Welcome to the blog hop!!

ScrapAttack, as you know by this far into the blog hop, is a fabulous website with a store, message board, an awesome gallery, and a ton of cool members. The board is challenge heavy, with new challenges posted every other week, frequent crops, and postings about contests and calls. The store is also great, and Lauri has the best customer service I have come across in a long time! She ships fast, is always willing to work on things if there is a problem, and frequently offers RAKs to board members. Oh, and did I mention she has some of the coolest stuff in the store??? And prizes! Yum! I have gotten a couple of prizes from crops, and they are great!

One of my favorite things about SAS are Lauri's kits. I was lucky enough to get one of the first kits she did last year, and loved how many things she packed into them. I have tried to get as many of them as I can, but sometimes they sell out faster than I can get one!

This month, Lauri has started to do pre-orders for the kits, and I pre-ordered the June kit (which will go on sale on the 17th - so run over to the store and get one!!) Imagine my surprise when I received it not 2 days after getting a note from Lauri that it was going to be shipped! {Like I said FAST service!!}

So... without further ado... introducing....

the June Lily Bee Design Kit

Check out these YUMMY papers!!

These layouts were done using the June Kit... I added the photos, Kraft paper, bird stamp, and the rubons.. everything else was in the kit!

One of the other things I love about Lauri's kits is that I can order extras of the goodies I want, and not have to buy a whole 'nother kit! Buttons, bling, papers, etc.. she will have them all listed in the store separately {which is good, because I need more goodies for this kit!}

In order to be eligible for Lauri's prizes, you must leave a comment here by June 23rd - Lauri will be making the rounds and picking winners on that day {I don't know what time, so if you are reading this on the 23rd, go ahead and comment unless you see a winner has been posted!}

ALSO I will be offering a prize for completing the following challenge:

1. If you haven't already, become a member of the SAS message board.

2. Complete 1 current challenge listed on the challenge board.

3. Post a link in the comments section by June 30th at midnight PST (Don't forget to tell me your board name and the challenge you completed!)

AAAAND! Scrap Attack has also teamed up with Sakura for a lovely contest!

Here are the rules:

1. Create a project using your Soufflé or Glaze pens on something other than paper (if you need some ideas - keep reading!).

2. Upload your project to the {SAS}sy Creative Gallery and...

3. Hop on over here to the {SAS}sy Blog and link it in your comment by Midnight PST on Monday July 6, 2009!

2 winners will receive a complete set of souffle' pens. These pens are fabulous for using on acrylic, and for writing on photos as well.

Now, on to the next blog! Check out dianagirly's BLOG - she was chosen as the SAS guest designer for June and has an awesome gallery!

Busy Day!

Today is going to be a BUSY day!

The Last Serendipity Scrapper Standing starts today! The first challenge will be posted around 9am CST - then we will have 24 hours to make as many layouts as we can. I know I won't win, since Terri is playing, but it will be interesting to see how many layouts I can get done.

Also, ScrapAttack Scrapbooking University starts tonight! woohoo! Can't wait to see what the first class is!

Oh, yeah, and I have to go do laundry tomorrow, and still go to work bleah.

Here's a picture of my cutie patootie new nephew, Rowen... isn't he a DOLL???

Staycation Crop at Serendipity

Most of us can't afford to take a vacation this summer - I know I can't. One of the latest trends is to do a Stay-cation, where you take the time off work, but visit things in your area, usually places you wouldn't normally go.

Based on this principle, Serendipity is hosting a Stay-Cation crop this weekend! There will be a lot of fun challenges, and Kristen will have blue light specials in the store, that only crop participants will be able to take advantage of. Sevearl prizes will be given (and believe me, Kristen comes up with some GREAT prizes!) You will need to be a member of the board to play, but membership is FREE.

AND - right after the Stay-Cation Crop, the Last Scrapper Standing contest starts! It runs from June 15 to July 17. Challenges will be posted every other day, and the scrapper with the most pages done at the end, wins. I've signed up, though I'm not sure how I'll do, since I work full time, and I'll be up against people who have far more time to scrap than I do. But we'll see. It should be fun anyway!

So come on over and join the fun... I'll be at work most of Friday, but will be able to play the rest of the weekend.

Hope to see you there!

Don't forget to check out ScrapAttack Scrapbooking for the next installment of SSU! Last time we did a lot of photography and image manipulation, but this time, the classess with be scrap related. There is a card kit that can be ordered ahead of time to have, but if you can't get it, you can use what you have and still do the classes. Classes stay up for a while, which is good for me, because I'm working at the time they are posted.

Here are some sneak peeks! {photos from the SAS blog}

Class schedule

1. {SAS}sy Stamping Techniques (6/15)

2. A {SAS}sy Stationary Set (6/17)

3. Using those {SAS}sy Extras on your Projects (6/19)

4. {SAS}sy Card Kit (6/21)

5. Scrappin' {SAS}sy Style on Canvas (6/23)

6. A {SAS}sy Note Holder (6/25)

Classes are FREE!! You do have to be a member of the board, but membership to the board is FREE too!

Also, make sure to check back on June 18th - SAS will have a hopping blog party with prizes!! Can't wait!