Sentiment Challenge

Hi everyone, it's me again!  Okay, I have a very fun challenge for you!  As some of you know, I am on the Stampin Daisies design team.  We are hosting a challenge and the winner gets to choose one of the new stamp sets she has coming out soon!

All you need to do is...

-Comment below sharing some of your favorite sentiments!  Easy right?  For instance, my favorite sentiment that I like to use on cards with owls is Whoooooo loves you?  I just think it's so super cute!

-Send your friends on over to comment as well!

 When we hit 100 sentiments (comments), we'll announce a winner (using random.org) at Stampin Daisies!

Don't forget, the winner receives an upcoming stamp set!!!

We have a Winner!

Hi Everyone!  This is just a quick post to announce the winner of the School's Out for Summer Blog hop.  I had so much fun with this hop and I loved reading everyone's comments about my sweet mermaid.  I used random.org to pick the winner and the winner was #36, Anne.  Here is what Anne had to say.

Very cute layout, Jessica! I love the mermaid and the photo of the girls is adorable. I'm already following. Thanks for the chance to win your blog candy. Funny, you and I use the same signoff (aliong with about a million others probably!) LOL 

Congrats Anne!  I'll be emailing you soon to get your address to send your new i-rock.

School's Out for Summer Blog Hop

Good day everyone and welcome to another blog hop sponsored by Nancy (Fancy with Nancy) and me!!  We are so excited for this one as it's highlighting a fun time of the year, SUMMER!!  The thing I look forward to most in the summer changes as each year comes. This year I was looking forward to NO SCHEDULE!  My daughter is starting kindergarten next year and we will be busy every day so I love that right now, we have nothing to do each day but play in the sun:-).  My project is a scrapbook page I put together with some photos that I have been itching to scrapbook since I took them last year. I just love the bright colors of the photos and the immense amount of fun the girls had on this day.  We have one of those huge blow up slides with a pool in it and one HOT sunny Sunday we blew it up and the neighbor girls came over to play.  They had so much fun and I caught this cute photo of them all together.

I just love this little mermaid from the Life's a Beach Cricut Cartridge, I added some bling to her flower using my i-rock.  Her face was stamped using the Peachy Keen Stamps Princess faces set, I used my chalk to color in her cheeks.

I cut out the title from Life's a Beach, added the "s" by welding with my gypsy and a 4.  I used the Stampin UP! Fine Flourish stamp on the yellow to add some dimenstion and inked the edges.

I stamped some flowers with versamark  to the background paper using an old hostess stamp set from Stampin UP! called Punched Posies. The larger flowers were stamped with the same set and punched out using the 5 Petal Flower punch from Stampin UP!  The little flowers were stamped with the Stampin UP! Fine Flourish stamp and cut out using the Stampin UP! Boho Blossoms Punch.

I added some orange buttons to the flowers to give them a little dimension

I hope you liked my "summer" project. Now, what would a blog hop be without some Blog Candy??:-) Today I am giving away an i-rock

All you have to do is to enter to win is leave a comment on this post and I would love if you became a follower if you aren't already:-). I will be picking a winner Tuesday morning.. Thanks so much for stopping by!!

You're next stop is Nancy over at Fancy with Nancy

Here is a list of all the blogs in the hop in case you need it:

Jessica- http://thecreativestamperspot.blogspot.com/ ---You are here
Nancy-http://blog.fancywithnancy.com/  ---Next stop
Wendy- http://wleitel.blogspot.com/
Anita-http://www.anitaandbugs.blogspot.com/
Nadia http://www.nadiasbeautifulmess.blogspot.com/
Jenny http://www.papercutcreations.blogspot.com/
Sarah http://www.simplyshaddock.blogspot.com/
DoBea http://www.dobeaalberts.blogspot.com/
Kristin http://scrappingmamahen.blogspot.com/
Jen R http://www.memorieswithjen.blogspot.com/
Julie Ranae http://juliesopenwindow.blogspot.com/
Brynn- http://www.flairandfrillscreativity.blogspot.com/
Jess- http://scrappyjess.blogspot.com/
Linn - http://linnsscrapshack.blogspot.com/

Rainforest Cafe layout

Hi all!  What a hot, hot day we had here in IL.  These past few days have been hot and I can't believe that I have actually had the energy to scrap after a long day outside with the kiddos!  Everything is blooming, the animals are all out, it's such a fun time of the year.  I actually saw this hopping around my yard today!

  

It's literally as big as my hand and we had another one right behind it.  The kids thought it was hilarious!  We live near a wooded area and we here these frogs all night long out here.
Anyway, onto my project, last night I was able to work on some photos from my son's last birthday.  We had a big party for him a few weeks after his birthday but the actual day of his birthday we decided to take the kids over to the Rainforest Cafe as a special treat for lunch.  They loved it!  My daugther is constantly asking us to go back!  Anyway, here are the pages I did for the big day.  I followed the 2 page sketch layout over at Scrapbook Challenges to complete this.

For more info, see my new Stampin UP! blog I started a few days ago:-)  I will be posting my exclusive Stampin UP! projects there.  http://idratherbestampin.blogspot.com/

Happy Birthday to Me Blog Hop

Hello everyone!! First off I wanted to say a very big Happy Birthday to Dee!  I have learned from being in this blog hop that Dee is a very sweet, easy going person.  If you ever want to do a blog hop, do it with Dee as she is sooo easy to work with:-)
Anyway onto the hop, if you arrived here from Linda at the Fruit of my Hands, then you are in the right spot.  If you just happened upon my blog today and want to check out some cool projects, you can start at Dee's blog, Designs From My Heart.
Here is my project for the hop.  Dee told up we could make anything we wanted so since I am a little behind in my scrapbooking I decided to finish up a birthday page I had been working on digitally.  I used this weeks sketch from Scrapbook Challenges to do it.  I think it came out pretty cute.  I did the page in Stampin UP!s My Digital Studio using the new Celebrations pack.  I think, at the time, that these photos were taken with my phone so they are not the best photos.  I just wanted to document this day as it was a fun one!  I was soooo pregnant with my son at the time and this is just a few days before I had him!

Based on this sketch:

(I tweaked it a little on the photos as I only had 3:-))


Thanks so much for stopping by!  Your next stop is Gill over at Creations by Gill M.