WARNING: This is a photo heavy post.

In June May Arts Ribbon sponsored Scrap n’ Art magazine and I received a box packed full of GORGEOUS May Arts trims. I was more than ecstatic, I was over the moon!

Here are some layouts that I created using May Arts Ribbon.

“The Little Things”

I used May Arts ribbon and lace along with My Minds Eye paper.

“The Face of an Angel”

Using May Arts ribbon and Pink Paislee paper.

“Baking Bread”

Using May Arts ribbon and lace, Echo Park paper and I tried to hand bead on cardstock.

My family and I spent some of our 4th of July weekend in Island Park at the Crabtree Family Cabin, it’s such a beautiful place.

There were piggy back rides.

Playing in the gorgeous green grass.

Riding on the back of Uncle Larry’s golf cart.

I spy a butterfly…

A game of horseshoes.

Some mild kayaking.

And some canoeing…

And a lot of Aunt Christie following Cooper around.

Cooper = cute photos.

Cooper with his pregnant mommy. Nephew #2 on the way…

We had an eventful weekend, we even attended a Rodeo (my first) it was nuts!

Thanks for stopping by today! Have a wonderful week!

xoxo, Christie

Happy LOVE day!

I’m traveling back to Idaho today with mixed feelings.  I’m looking forward to sleeping in my own bed again, a home-cooked meal, my sweet nephew (among other amazing family) but I sure am going to miss my friends and family here in California.  It’s always so wonderful to visit.

While I was here I attended a Valentine Crop at Paradise Scrapbook Boutique (a little bit of Heaven).

Yes, those are BLOSSOMS! Blossoms in FEBRUARY! Can you believe it? I still have six feet of snow in my front yard!

Beautiful, pink, lovely blossoms.

Look at the amazing goodies we received at the PSB Valentine Crop:

Karen always spoils us.  What an amazing woman!

I spent the whole day with good friends, a much-needed visit.  It was an added bonus to spend the day with my bloggie friend Char (who is fabulous)! We met in person for the first time at the PSB Crop. Check out Char’s Blog.  This woman is tal-en-ted!

And I got to visit with Devanie, I haven’t seen her in SO long. It was fun to catch  up.

In honor of Valentines day, I’ll share the simple Valentines I made while cropping (also shown above)…

This one is made with the candy cups:

Making Memories + K&Company =

This one has some sewn polka-dot ric-rac that I purchase while at Material Girls in Utah:

I used Pink Paislee rub-ons on this one. Quick and simple:

I hope you have a wonderful Valentines Day, as for me…I’ll be stuck in the car for 14 hours with my loved ones (hopefully we’ll still love each other when we reach our destination).

Feel the love!

xoxo, Christie

Can you believe that I created THREE layouts for a friend and did not take one photo?

I know.

Crazy, right?

Here is a layout that I remembered to take a photo of:

I love Izabelle’s sweet smile, it is especially big when she is playing in the snow.  I can not believe that the snow will be arriving again soon.  It’s already pretty darn chilly here at night.

How is the weather you way?  Are you enjoying the gorgeous Fall colors? Here in Idaho they’re brilliant!

I love Spring!

Everything is fresh and new…

…we spend more time outside

…we enjoy picnics at the park

…we plant & tend a vegetable garden (Memorial weekend here)

…we start to see all the baby animals along side their mothers.

I just love Spring!

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To create the above album I used Prima paper and a Pink Paislee Album & Letter Stickers.

Stay tuned, I’ll post additional photos all week long.

I always have leftover paper after creating layouts.  I love to make cards with leftovers…waste not, want not. right?

My leftover Pink Paislee Halloween paper was put to good use. I threw together some simple cards:

Mr. Ghost:

Trick or Treat:

Beware:

All Pink Paislee, all very simple, all fun to make.

I’m in love with the new Twilight Collection by, Pink Paislee!  It’s adorable, versatile and fun to use!  Karen of Paradise Scrapbook Boutique sent me these fun new papers and the embellishments to match (she’s so dang awesome).  In return, I created a class layout for her using the Twilight Collection.

The layout in this post is NOT the layout that I created for PSB…I’ll post about the PSB class layout in a bit (I’ll give Karen a chance to post the photos first).

But THIS post is about the layout I created with the same Collection.  I love the cute, matching press on transfers, bella brads and punch outs.  I had fun creating with this Pink Paislee line.

I’m really missing my good camera.  It’s hard to take photos of my projects with my little cybershot.  But I have to share, right?  I’m dropping my camera off to get it repaired this weekend.  So, hopefully I will be back to my own standard of photo quality soon.

I created this little “Harvest” Banner with some of my Fall papers; mostly Pink Paislee & October Afternoon.

I had so much extra paper that I made a few kits for my Mother, Sister and Sister-in-law.  It was fun to have them over to make the banners.  It made me realize how much I miss teaching classes at Paradise Scrapbook Boutique in California.  I’m still teaching by proxy (I’m designing some layouts and Karen will teach them).  This way I still get to stick my hand in the ‘Creative Cookie Jar’ which is Paradise Scrapbook Boutique now and again.

Here’s some photos of the details, some of which varied from each garland…hope you can make them out.