Celebrate the wonderful girls in your life.....

over at Glitz Design they had a challenge this month about...

and I decided to use some of my Paper Lovelies kit for this month to enter over at Glitz Design I wanted to use this picture of one of my beautiful Nieces. She is much older now, but it reminded me of a bond we had shared. I hope to continue that bond with her and my other niece as well.

Paper Lovelies Kits....

are now avaliable for purchase and you can go here to purchase this kit...

it was full of Glitz yumminess!!! Here are a few layouts I made with this kit this month

So We Meet....

There is a sketch challenge over at Got Sketch and I decided to play along. I have always been a fan of the sketchs over there. You could win a $20.00 gift certificate to Noel Mignon who I also adore!! Here is my take on the sketch over at Got Sketch....

Celebrate Mom's or another Someone Special in your Life

Our challenge this week over at Lasting Memories is to do a layout "Celebrating Mom's or Another Special Woman in your Life" We're very excited to see what this week holds for our readers and if you have a special story to hear, please leave us a comment and share. This week, in honor of her birthday, Elizabeth is graciously offering up a $20 gift certificate to A2Z Scrapbooking!!

Need a boost? Here's a sketch by Ashley Horton to get you started if you need it!!

I decided not to scrap about a Mother I no longer have and decided to scrap a layout about my daughter who is expecting a soon to be!!! A new little one will be joining us soon and I cannot wait!!

Can't wait to see what you create this week!!

Mist Mania

If you are regular over at ScrapFIT you must have noticed our wonderful Weekend Warm Up Coach, Missy's love of MISTING! Missy does amazing things with mist including making it herself! So this Workout is a tribute to Missy! ScrapFit wants to see a layout or project with a good amount of misting! Be creative, make your own misting mask, mix your mist colors - think outside the box!We are so lucky to have Vicky sponsoring both Workouts this month!

Vicky is giving away this amazing collection of Dusty Attic Chipboard to the winner of this workout!

Here is my example for this challenge....

Be sure to head over to ScrapFit to check out all of the other fab designs from the Fit Girls and be sure to link yours up by May 31st for a chance to win the amazing chipboard prize pack!

Something Smells Fishy....

This weeks challenge - did the title of this weeks challenge catch your attention? I bet it did!! "Something Smells Fishy .." We can't WAIT to see what this week brings for entries over at Lasting Memories! This could be a pretty funny week! Whether it's a prank layout, a fishing layout, a TALL fishy tale or a true 'stinky' layout, we are so excited to see those entries this week!! Here's a sketch if you would like to follow it or if you need a place to start.

we have another giveaway this week from Kimberly! Kimberly is giving away an awesome "HOME ACCENTS" cricut cartridge!!

How's that for another awesome giveaway?!

Step Class #4 How to make a Doily Flower

How to make a doily flower step class is up and posted over at ScrapFit. It is sooooo simple and goes very well with ScrapFIT's Workout #67---decorate with a doily! The best part is that is you make a doily flower for your project and enter it here, you can also enter it for the Workout #67 challenge!

Retreat Weekend...

I spent the past weekend with a couple of friends at a scrapbooking retreat and I had a fantastic time. I did not get all that much done but it's all about having fun, making new friends and making memories. I did manage to do a layout for a sketch challenge site I found it is called Sketchbook 365 and it was a great sketch from Morag Cutts

and here is my take on this sketch...

WWU and LMCB

This month's WWU over at ScrapFit focuses on FUSSY CUTTING. All you have to do is create a layout, card or other project that has some FUSSY CUTTING on it. This means we take patterned paper and cut out flowers, leaves, vines or any other design that you'd like to use. That's all you have to for this challenge. It has to be more than just a circle or square...cut out something with detail (hence the term "fussy"...hehe!) Have fun with it! You have until Friday, May 18th to play along. ScrapFit will announce the winner on May 19th. If you win, we will feature you in our Guest FITGirl Spotlight on May 26th! Remember, you can also have another chance to win by playing along with our Step Class, which is coming up on May 8th. Don't miss it! Lasting Memories challenge....We want to see METAL on those layouts!! Whether you use a metal embellishment, metallic ink/chalk/paper - we can't wait to see what you create this week!! Suzanne is hosting our giveaway this week and one lucky winner will win a $10 Michaels gift certificate! BIG thank you to Suzanne!!

Need some help? Here's an awesome sketch from Pagemaps

if you'd like to try it!! Jen L is the winner last week if you could email me at [email protected]. Now on to share my example for this weeks challenge...

Have a wonderful day!!

I am over the moon excited right now as I am typing this....I have been asked to join the Paper Lovlies Design Team!!! You can read about it Here

Decorate With A Doily

Doilies are back and being put to good use on our scrapbook layouts and paper crafts! Show us fun and unique way to use a doily! It can be a pre-made or home made doily. Our sponsor this month is

http://www.etsy.com/shop/vickyalberto Vicky is giving away this amazing collection of Dusty Attic Chipboard to the winner of this workout!

Show us what you can do with a doily and link up your layout or paper craft project over at ScrapFit by May 31st for a chance to win the Dusty Attic prize pack! Also be sure to check out what the wonderful designers have done over there as well.