Happy Friday! I cannot believe that this is the last day of July!! The Summer is flying by and I am overwhelmed with my to do list.

Still waiting for my prize to give away. Please stay tuned. :)

I decided to try Scarlet Lime for July when they introduced some exclusive papers in some of my favorite colors. This post includes a few of my layouts:


For this one, I used Sketch #23 at http://thescrappiest.blogspot.com/. The butterfly, as were all the flowers, was cut from pattern paper. However, the original solid green butterfly was decorated with flourish rub-ons, inked and mounted onto cardstock & cut for more dimension. The flowers are attached at some parts with a flat adhesive and other parts with a foam adhesive.

The dotted, multi-colored butterfly on the first layout was decorated with alcohol inks,....my first use of them. :-) This layout used Pencil Lines Sketch #145 http://www.pencillines.com/

No matter how you feel about laundry, we can all agree that it is necessary. Why not find something fun to do with your bleach, next time you are in your laundry room.

Here I stamped stars with bleach, added some bling and used them with a bit of manipulated wire to make my own embellishments.

I'd love to see your bleach stamped embellishments too!

Blog Follower Winner Announced

Thank you, for visiting, and leaving your comments. Also, thank you, to those who signed on to my list of followers.

Emelyn Magpoc, you were drawn, for the prize. Please send a message to janinerachau@aol.com with your address.

Have a marvelous day and week to follow!

PIL 50th Anniversary Invites

Finished these yesterday.

Two Possible Prize drawings!!

<--I hope that you like this layout, it was inspired by a Creative Scrappers sketch.

All followers of this blog by Sunday, July 26, 2009, will be entered for a drawing of $10 retail of new scrap product. Good luck.

About two months ago, I told myself that I was going to take the Summer off from scrapbooking. I cleaned up my scraproom and turned off the light. But, for some reason, it was not meant to be. As I was gathering up ideas on the computer,....to start in September,...I kept coming across things that got my mojo moving. Three of which were contests. The results of those are at least 55 pages completed since the middle of June, which I love ...... winning some awesome product,....and including the opportunity to create some layouts with not yet released My Mind's Eye papers.

Furthermore, I had no idea that I wanted to be on a design team. Now, I am applying for design teams. When I am awarded a spot, I will celebrate by drawing from the comments from this post, and send to the winner a main kit from whichever design kit team that I join. So, please wish me luck,....I am very anxious!!

Thanks!!

Welcome to my new place to feature my layouts, cards and projects while sometimes promoting my favorite scrappy places.