Sparkly Shoes

This week's Twisted Sketch #70 is up! The twist is "pin" and you can see where I added some Maya Road pins to my flower in the bottom left. 

Products used: Cardstock, Patterned Paper: SEI, Gesso, flowers: American Crafts & unknown, Journal Spots: Making Memories, Alphas: Making Memories and K&Co., Bling: My Minds Eye

Journaling Reads: Your favorite shoes. You have worn them so much the sparkle is coming off! Thankfully they've lasted until Halloween so you could wear them with your Snow White costume! 10/31/09

Thanks for looking! 

Use What You Have: Back to School

It is still September right? Barely, I know, but I figure as long as it's still September it's still ok to share a back to school layout!!! Maybe you've yet to put yours together because it's not in the budget for your to purchase any cool new back to school products or maybe you've just not been inspired to yet. Well, let me inspire you and no worries, you can use what you already have!!! That's the great part! :) 

So here's my back to school layout... my first one actually since this is my oldest's first year of preschool. There are many more of these school layouts to follow but, I definitely didn't want to miss the chance to share the first one!!! :) 

I used some basic "back to school" colors with the red and green but added in a bit of turquoise to pull together with her turquoise Tinkerbell backpack. A bit of paint, distressing, kraft/cardboard and some math symbol brads to top it off! All of these items I pulled from my stash! The "abc123" in the top left corner is a stamp: 

It didn't turn out quite as dark as I had wanted, so to solve the problem... 

I went over it with my black Stickles which darkened it and added some fun bling to my page! 

So pull out your back to school photos and dig through your stash to see what kind of things you can pull together to create a back to school layout without running to the store!!! Please come back and share! I'd love to see what you create using what you have! 

First Day of School

Yesterday was Noelle's first day of preschool! I can hardly believe she's starting this new chapter in her life. She is so excited and honestly, I am too. I know that she is going to have so much fun, make great new friends and learn so much. Not to mention all the fun new things I'm going to have to scrapbook! :)