Creative Scrappers blog hop!

Welcome to the Creative Scrappers Blog Hop!

 

You may have come here on your own, or maybe you hopped on by from another team members blog.. either way WELCOME! We are so excited to be showing off some of our favorite Creative Scrappers Sketches and Layouts and not only can you participate in our blog hop you have a chance to win Creative Scrappers ebook of Sketches " Creating with Sketches " by Kristine Davidson

Leave a comment here on this post for your chance to win a Rak & ebook of Sketches. Then hop around to the design team blogs for a chance to win more goodies and please leave a link to your blog on our main Creative Scrappers Blog Hop Post.

Here is the list of all the DT blogs for you to hop on over to!

1. Marilyn Rivera
2. Keren Tamir
3. Heather Leopard
4. Juliana Michaels
5. Kelly Shults

6. Nicole Nowosad
7. Elena Olinevich
8. Chiqui Gutierrez
9. Johanna Rol-Middelbos
10. Stacey Apps

11. Olga Heldwein
12. Rita Ribeiro
13. Deanna Misner
14. Jenny Evans
15. Shannon Morgan

16. Marie-Josée Hamel
17. Elisabeth Bakken
18. Helen Tilbury
19. Ana Castro
20. Janice Daquila-Pardo

21. Debbi Tehrani
22. Kristine Davidson

Thanks again for hopping along with us. We hope you enjoy the hop! You have until September 8 to leave your comments with winners being announced on the blog September 10th. Now HOP on over to Jenny Evans  blog!! Good luck and happy hopping!

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Cards a Bella

I had several cards up on the Bella Blvd. blog this week. Here's what I've been up to.

  "Thanks so much"

 

I love the bright colors of the "Sunshine & Happiness" line. They're just so cheerful. This card also features the Ciao Chipboard, a couple of new flag embellishments, and a couple of crocheted flowers.



 

"UR So Very Sweet"



 

 

Again with this card, I featured the Ciao Chipboard along with the High Five alphabet. I love the cheery motif with the all the pink. So very girly! :D

 

"Congrats, BABY"

 

 





 

Okay, I have to admit, I had fun with this one when it came to the sentiment. It came from watching Friends re-runs one late night while working on my cards and hearing Joey say, "It's London, BABY!" So I thought why not use "baby" emphasized as a card sentiment as in "Congrats, BABY!" So there you have it, a TV show inspired sentiment! Heee!

 

 

I'm still here!

Hi friends! I'm still here. In case you don't follow me anywhere else, our family has moved. We learned about 2.5 weeks ago that we would be moving (immediately) back "home" to Alabama! That's what the whole last couple of posts were about. We were in the middle of all that schtuff. But when it came down to it, we packed up our house of 10 years and 3 kids, had a yard sale, listed AND SOLD the house and moved 250 miles to the south--ALL IN ELEVEN DAYS!

Yes, we're exhausted.  Oh, AND we found a new place to live. It kinda just fell in to our laps. :) The girls were able to start school on time, in the midst of the craziness, and are starting to feel settled down. We still have boxes almost completely to the ceiling, and we don't have the internet or our computer set up yet. (I'm typing from the lake where we have WiFi.) Anyway, that's where I am, where I've been. Sorry to leave everyone hanging like that. But like I said, we're starting to get a little settled, establish a bit of a routine, and soon it'll all start to seem "normal".

Hopefully I'll get to be back online soon. Until then, I'm popping in to say hi. Thanks for hanging in there with me. :)

Y'all stay tuned for the Creative Scrappers blog hop that's coming up Sept. 5th. :D

Happy Holiday weekend!!!

Deanna

It's all a buzz! Bella Blvd. that is.

Bella Blvd.'s newsletter, The Bella Buzz, is up and ready to be read. LOTS of great inspiration in there, and also a little reminder about the new Design Team call that was announced last week.

You can download your free copy of is HERE.

Also, in case you missed it, Bella Blvd. is currently holding an open design team call! Woohoo! I can't say enough about how much I've enjoyed being on this team. Stephanie and Laura are wonderful to work with and of course the product is so so darling! I love working with it! So, if you're at all interested I highly recommend going out for this team. It's been a wonderful year working for them! Check all the info out HERE.

Happy Wednesday! 

 

New developments

Once again the blog is getting ignored, but that's because there's been several new developments at home and in our personal life. Nothing to worry about for sure. Good things happening. Lots of prayers being answered!  When I'm at liberty to share I will, but for now there are a lot of other "things" that need my attention.

Just thought I'd let you all know. I'm still here. Just being quiet online for a bit while I manage the other areas of life. ;) This has been my thinking lately:

 

Happy Tuesday, friends!

 

Smilin' On Me

Okay, so I got this song in my head and I'm not even sure if they're the right words or what. But the other day these lyrics kept repeating in my head, "Blues skies, shinin' on me. Nothin' but blue skies...dah dah da-da dah"and my inner voice would trail off because I don't even know the rest of the song. ha! It all started though when I saw this picture of McClain, his blue eyes, shining back at me. I went with it and changed the words to the supposed lyrics to make my title.

SO, I give you "Blue eyes...Smilin' on me" LOL

To make this layout I used a combination of 2 different October Afternoon collections, 5&Dime and Rocket Age, from my accumulating scrap stash. I need to use my stash more often. It's so fun to re-live the joy that "older" collections bring with them. It's a "oh yeah, I remember this one" kind of feeling and I get all giddy again using them. Maybe I'm weird. Maybe I just like the fact that I actually USED my stash. Whatever the case, this layout brings a smile to my face. Hope it does for you too.

PS--I DID throw in a little bit of "new". That postal stripe washi tape is new to me and made by Freckled Fawn.

Off to the pool now. Going to eeek out the fun in what's left of summer!
  

Elle's meets Everyday Eclectic

Oh me, oh my! Time has gotten away from me. As I've tried to cram fun stuff into the end of summer, I've left my little ole blog without any love.  Sorry about that.

Anyway, I've been playing while watching the Olympics. One of my favorite things to do is to scrap while watching sports. So far I've created 2 layouts, one of which I'll share today. I used this week's sketch from the Elle's Studio blog for inspiration.

"Soak it Up"

 

 I chose to play with Echo Park's new Everyday Eclectic collection, and add it a few Elle's Studio tags here and there too. I've had the pictures since last summer, so it was nice to find a colorful collection that matched them.  We've yet to hit the Coolidge Park fountains this year. It's on the "to do" list. I hope we're able to get to it. 

Well thanks for letting me share. It's been nice to sit and scrap again.  Oh, and in case you haven't seen, I have a layout featured today over at the Jillibean Soup blog. I've been Soup Spotted! :D 

Happy Wednesday, friends!