Colorful Card stash

I think one of the things I want to do each month is find one thing to bash in my stash. I have been eyeballing this sticker sheet from Echo Park for years! Years I tell you it is cute but I cannot even remember when I got it. Anyway I have already made one project with it that you will see next month, so those stickers are already missing but here is what it looks like now. Wish me luck in using it up.

Isn't it a fun little sheet? 

Here is my first project to share with you. A fun little card using my favorite little PI girls from MFT they are just adorable! I decided to go with this colorful one since the sticker sheet is so bold and bright.

Do you have anything in your stash that you are hoping to use up? Why not pick out one thing for the month of May and see what you can come up with project wise.

More birthday greetings!

Have you seen the super cute sketch that was just released at Sketch N Scrap or been over to our Facebook page?

Another birthday card using that fun Bella Blvd paper. I had a ton of fun with this sketch. I also got to use up more of my tiny gems you may notice these ones are multi color.

Here is the April 20th card sketch that I used. To play along head over to the Sketch N Scrap blog.

Join us next month for the Sketch N Scrap 6th Birthday Bash Crop over on Facebook.

Honestly...my first car

Hello all, let me tell you all about my first car today that I got in late 80's. It was as old as I was but a lot more beat up! Haha. My parents bought it for me for all of $250 and it was a big old olive green rust bucket. My dads theory is that it should be big so that I was safe if I ever got into an accident. It had big long seats and I could lay across the front seat and my feet probably wouldn't have touched the doors. I am pretty sure it didn't have a radio and if it did it was only am/fm no cassette tape. Yes I am that old that cassette tape was all the rage when I was a teenager.

Funny story I have not run across any photos of my car even though my dad has always been one to take random photos of things as well as people. He took selfies before they were a thing and he used to take photos of all of his cars, houses, garden. Maybe that is where I got my love of documenting and scrapbooking from. Anyway for as many times as he took photos of cars I can't find one of my first car so I found one on line and printed it. Mine was a little darker and a lot less shiny. Trivia: it is the same car as the cop car in Smokey and the Bandit.

Ok ok you have probably had enough random chatter here is my page. I used sketch #151 from Sketch N Scrap.

I have had these papers from Scenic Route - Garden Grove Collection (oh how I miss them) for an extremely long time maybe around 2009 or so? Anyway I have always struggled with this line it just has never really called my name. This line had all the right colors, I also pulled some papers from My Minds Eye, and Simple Stories (one of my favs) I started playing around and decided this was the one then I started adding a little of this and that, again super old embellishments from CTMH also from around 2009 and somehow someway everything just magically came together. This is one of my favorite pages that I have done this year which is amazing since I was very meh about this whole project at the start. Have you ever had that happen?

Here is Sketch #151 I would love to see your take on it. 

Head on over the the Sketch N Scrap blog and enter your project by April 30 to be eligible to win a great prize. Good Luck!

Playground fun SNS # 150

Last year I told my daughter about this fun park that I had forgotten about as it is in a tucked away area in our town. We made arrangements to meet there and we had a blast, the kids played on the swings, the slide, the water fountain. There were so many giggles and then we explored a little around the outside of the park where they had bag boards, grills, and a big giant boulder. The kids loved it they felt like they were so high up and they just sat an this big rock forever just being silly. Here are a few of my favorite photos from the boulder fun.

I used up some more of my Bella Blvd paper for this page. I cant wait to scrapbook the other photos I took on this day. I already put them into my yearly Pocket Page album but I think I do want to scrapbook some of the ones when they were playing in the water too.

Isn't' this April 1st sketch so adorable? You can find it over on the Sketch N Scrap blog Sketch #150.

Join next month for Sketch N Scraps 6th Birthday Bash Crop over on Facebook.

Happy Happy Birthday

Have you seen the super cute sketch that was just released at Sketch N Scrap or been over to our Facebook page?

I have been trying to build up my birthday card stash for a while now because as you may remember I am trying to send out cards this year to my loved ones. This one is for my youngest granddaughters 1st birthday which isn't until October! I am way ahead here but this sketch just came together nicely paired with this fun CTMH Stamp of the Month.

I used some cute paper from Bella Blvd that I have had for quite a while...see more stash bashing.

I also have been using my newest find the tiny little jewels that seem to be all over.

The inside is this adorable little hippo...I just couldn't resist!

Here is the April 5th card sketch that I used. To play along head over to the Sketch N Scrap blog.




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