August Release

It's time for Stamp School's August Release.

 Here's a card I made with the new sets. Can you guess what this month's theme is?

 As you well know, I'm a big fan of using kraft as a neutral color. I stamped this fun present multiple times and colored the presents in with Copic markers (If you haven't tried using your Copic markers on kraft, you should really give it a go. You'll love the results!).

So if you haven't guessed this month's release is all about birthdays.

Here are the 2 new stamps sets:

Birthday Icons

   

Birthday Sentiments

These sets will be available Wednesday, August 1. 

You can check out some more amazing inspiration using these new sets on the other designers blogs:

Vicki

Amber

Stamp School

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Summer Fun

I thought I'd pop in with a couple of layouts of some of the fun we've been having this summer. I chose these 2 today because they both use October Afternoon paper. This first one uses Boarding Pass.

So, I'm not really big on posting a pic of myself in my swimming suit, but...I love this photo. It's not too often that I'm in a photo with my husband AND both kids. On top of that, we're all smiling and having a good time. I couldn't resist printing this one out in a 5 x 7 and scrapping it. 

At first glance this layout appears really simple, but I some fun adding detail with some hand stitching that I really thing adds a lot to the layout.

My second layout uses a little bit of this and a little bit of that, but the majority of the paper comes from October Afternoon's 9 to 5 line:

Even though school's out, I try to keep my little guys' brains engaged during the summer. They really enjoy doing interactive science experiments, and this is one they especially loved.

Here I combined a leftover bottle sticker with a birthday balloon puffy sticker to create a custom embellishment that looked like our experiment. 

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Gator Fun

I really love the bright photos I get in the summer. It seems the sun is always shining, and everything is a vibrant color. I’ve been trying to keep up with my summer scrapping this year, and recently finished this layout using Little Yellow Bicycle’s Splash:

One of my favorite products from Little Yellow Bicycle are the pockets.  I used the pocket from the Splash collection, but they make them for so many themes: baby, birthday, school, weddings, family, sports… well you get the idea.  The best thing about these pockets is how customizable they are. They also make journaling really fun and easy. Even my husband couldn’t wait to pull the tabs out of the pocket to see journaling!

 Here’s a close up of the left hand side of the layout:

and one of the right:

 

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Summer Banner Kit

One of my favorite lines this summer is Summer Fresh from Simple Stories. I just had to create a Summer Banner with it to hang in my house. I took it into A Walk Down Memory Lane, and it was such a hit that I was asked to create a few kits for it. So here's the banner:

 ...and if you love it you can buy a kit from A Walk Down Memory Lane (712-476-3443) for just $20. The kit includes color photos and instructions, all the banner pieces pre-cut for you, 2 - 12 x 12 sticker sheets, and the additional embellishments you need to create this for yourself. All you need is a little time and some adhesive.

Here's a close up of a few of the pieces of the banner:

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Birthday Boy

Well, it appears that I'm very bad at keeping up with my blog during the summer. We've been having so much fun playing and enjoying the beautiful weather that I've been a little neglectful here. I have been scrapping, though, so here are 2 layouts I made of my son's 4th birthday party using Echo Park's Birthday Boy Mini Collection.

 

This year he wanted a sports theme, so I made him a basketball birthday cake. It was a lot of fun to do. 

We also have silly string at many of our parties, so I scrapped a few photos of the cousins having fun with the silly string:

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Slip 'N Slide

When I was little, one of my favorite summer activities was getting to play on the Slip 'n Slide. This year we bought our boys their first Slip 'n Slide, and I think I was even more excited about it than they were! Oh, and let me also tell you Slip 'n Slides sure have improved since I was a kid! I got some great shots, and I used Echo Park's Sunshine mini collection to scrap the fun.

My youngest was not as sure about the Slip 'n Slide but he eventually got in on the action.

My oldest, on the other hand, didn't need any convincing.

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Summer Fresh

You know how sometimes you see a new line and you just know that you can do pretty things with it, that it's going to be so much fun to work with, that you won't be able to get enough of it? Yeah, that's me with Simple Stories Summer Fresh. I really, truly just love this line.So far, I've made a 2 page layout, a single page layout, and banner. Today I'll share the layouts. You'll have to come back next week for the banner.
First up is the single page layout:

My favorite thing about this layout is the little cluster of details found here:

That little calendar piece with the twine and the pin and the rhinestone added to it just make me happy. I know, it's the little things, right?

Now on to the 2 page layout. I actually made this layout first. I was waiting for Summer Fresh to come out so that I could scrap these photos from Easter. Sometimes, I really like a paper line, but when I start to work with it I struggle and I just can't seem to put it together right. Summer Fresh is the exact opposite of that for me...it mixes and matches beautifully and I can't seem to get enough of it.

Okay, I know that picture's a bit tiny, so here are individual shots of the left side:

and right side:

In case you're wondering what we're doing, here's a close up on the journaling about Magic Jelly Beans (please note this is not my original idea, I read about it somewhere, and I really don't know where otherwise I'd absolutely give that person the credit for coming up with such a fun idea).

And, finally, I have to share one last photo of my favorite detail from this layout:

This bit of burlap with the twine and button is the last thing I added to the layout, and it just just made the whole thing feel complete.

Thanks for stopping by today. I'm quite behind on keeping up with blogging the current projects I have completed, but I'm trying to do better...really I am! In the mean time, I've been busy over at Stamp School,

so you can find a bright and cheery card with a Gelato video tutorial done by yours truly here.

 You can find a a wedding card I created with a matching envelope here.

and you can find one last video tutorial on making this inky embossed background here.

Have a great weekend!