~Gentle & Free- PAPER LAYOUT!! *gasp*~

Good morning my crafty friends, 

My OH MY! It is a real live paper layout I see! LOL

I haven't made one in a while, but I sat down this weekend to create. 

I have these beautiful pictures of my sweet boy holding a moth

(shhh to him it's a beautiful butterfly!")

I have been dying to scrap them....so I did. 

I used the new October Hall Pass Kit and the Add-On from

the Scraptastic Kit Club (You know I love them!)

This is the kit....I also used the add-on because it had the rad Mister Huey Mist in it. 

I decided to use the little white die cut as a stencil and spritzed it for fun. 

I am very proud that I have been able to raise 3 boys who know

nothing of the pain I had my entire life. They all have grown up

so innocent and free from tragedy. 

I mean don't get me wrong they experience life like everyone else but

not the abuse and the mental/physical  scars.

When I see this photo I se how truly beautiful Justice is and

how blessed I am to be his mother. 

It's a good thing....

Happy Monday my friends...MUAH!

~Welcome Dottie- Interactive Layout W/ Multiple Photos!~

Good morning my crafty friends, 

What a weekend!! One last baseball game for 3 weeks then

I threw hubby a small birthday BBQ dinner with just 

a couple friends last night, and Saturday he went into get a new tattoo for his birthday.

Our first Squash popped it head in the garden, BOTH boys were sick.

I went in on Thursday to get this new tattoo on my thigh,

I have affectionately named her Dottie, I love her! LOL 

Non-stop it seems like! :) 

 Anyways on to crafty goodness. 

A couple weeks ago I created this fun and very interactive layout.

I have OODLES of beach photos and I am tired of scrapbooking them

one by one so I decided to make a mini album on a scrapbook page! :) 

 What better way then to use my Bind-It-All to do this?!

 I used the 1/2 O'Wires and just glued it right onto my layout.

I used all Momenta paper products. The Vacation line.

 I always say there are no rules in scrapbooking for me and this just 

shows you, NO RULES! do it how you do it! :) 

I have embellished pages that are 1/2" high so why not use the

Bind-It-All and make my own??

You can find full directions on the Zutter Bind-It-All blog here

http://binditall.blogspot.com/2012/06/beach-twine-your-are-so-fine.html

I loved adding the twine to the binding, it was a fun project to create. 

Oh heads up to! CLEAR SCRAPS is partnering with Stampendous and

running a week long blog hop, so hop over and check out the prizes!

http://clearscraps.typepad.com/

Let's see I don't think anything else is going on just right now....

It's so hot, I might as well stay inside and scrap today!

Happy Monday my friends~

~Cricut Magazine Work~

Good morning my crafty friends!!

You know I design for the Cricut Circle magazine and today I thought I

would share one of my projects (just a sample of the many I do monthly)

that are published in the magazine.

It is so cool designing for the magazine and playing with the tools.

This was in the May issue I believe and it is 100% printed with the

Cricut Imagine! I love that sweet machine. The flowers were all

cut from paper I printed from the JT cartridge on the Imagine.

I wanted to make a very rustic "manly" looking layout,

BUT use flowers! hehehe

I love the chicken wire back ground, did you know that

Pink By Design makes a chicken wire stamp? I have it right here

and am working on a new project with it!

I have a huge project going on that you might just

be able to see in August in your local Archivers!!!!

So stay tuned and be sure to check out your stores after I post!

Happy Monday everyone, have a beautiful day~