Happy.

Happy is how the new My Minds Eye, Lost & Found line makes me feel.

This particular Lost & Found line is called, Market Street.

Love-it-oh-so-much!

Market Street has the most amazing embellishments.

And you know how much I love EMBELLISHMENTS!

**Squeal**

I found it at a very special place, my home away from home:

HERE

The photo in this layout is of my brother, Adam with his beautiful family.

My sister-in-law, Vanessa and their two girls, Kayla and Addie.

I had to call Vanessa to find out exactly which beach the photo was taken.

Asilomar State Beach, CA

Good times.

I sparkled up the blue borders (this line is already VERY sparkly) with some Shimmerz, Pixie Dust.  I Love how it turned out.

Once again, I was inspired by The Color Room.  I’m still trying to catch up on all their amazing Color Palettes.

The ‘My Minds Eye’ fun doesn’t stop here…

I still have two more Lost & Found lines to work with:

Portobello Road and Union Street.

Stay tuned!

xoxo, Christie

I know I’ve been absent a lot this Summer…

But I’m back and ready to have some fun!

To create this ‘Sweet Baby’ layout of my Nephew, Cooper,

I used a combination of Echo Park and Sassafras Papers.

I also used some of my favorite Shimmerz products:

Chick-a-dee Spritz (Yellow), Under the Sea Blingz (light blue), and Blue By U Paintz (darker blue).

I used the Blingz around the photo mat and the frame around the word “Sweet”

I love the shimmery loveliness.

Who said you can’t use butterflies and flowers on a little boy layout?

My inspiration came from this:

I’m trying to catch up on all the palettes from The Color Room.

There is SO much inspiration over there…you simply must give them a visit if you love to scrapbook.

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In other news…

The kids started school today so my free time has doubled.

Hallelujah!

I was able to attended my niece, Kayla’s 4th Birthday party

while in California last week.

Kayla’s cake was lovely.

And she was pretty cute too!

Thanks for hanging in there with me

off to catch up with all of you!

xoxo, Chrsitie

I’m starting to scrapbook some of my more recent memories.

California

July 2010

My kids with their two little California Cousins.

I’m loving the New Melissa Frances, Kitschy Kitchen Line.

I found it here.

I added a little stitching…

Love using my sewing machine!

…made a few folded flowers.

What is the technical name for these flowers?

I need to find out.

I was inspired by this:

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In other news…

I registered the kids for school today.

They start Aug 25th.

Also,

I’m going out of town for about a week.

I will set up some posts before I leave -

(if I actually get to it).

I promise I will catch up on all your fabulous blogs when I return.

Lot of OXOXOXO’s,

Christie

When I arrived home from work last night

I had two packages on the front porch

One, from Paradise Scrapbook Boutique (full of lovely Girls Paperie product)

and the other, from Shimmerz (full of lovely Shimmerz Paintz, Blingz and Spritz)

Both were happy packages!  I got right to work on a layout.

It was so hard to not use ALL of the paper and embellishments…choices, choices…

…all so beautiful.

I was inspired by The Color Room’s Palette and Sketch.

The Girls Paperie, Paper Girl line was perfect (I just had to add a little red).

I’ve been wanting to scrapook photos of my sweet little nieces too…

Photos of Cute Girls + Girls Paperie = another match made in heaven!

I love the way the finished Layout looks.

Dan (my hubby) always says that Kayla and Addie are, “All the cute in the room”.

He’s right.

They totally are.

I used new Shimmerz Pearls Teresa Collins Ballet Slipper (Pink)

and The Girls Paperie Display Letters to create the “Cuties” Title:

I used the Shimmerz Pearls, Ballet Slipper (pink)

and the Shimmerz Blingz, Under the Sea (blue)

and a white Prima Flower to create the Shimmery Flower:

Oh, and before I forget…Check out Palette #9 at The Color Room

xoxo, Christie