Sussies Other Half!

Where has the time gone?  Happy fourth by the way!  It just rained here, a nice gentle storm.  Still waiting to see what the rest of the evening brings!

Just wanted to hop on quickly and show a layout from the other half of the July Sussies kit!  Like I said below, I was glad that the paper was double sided!

I took the specialized piece of PP (the blue with the circles) and cut those off.  I used the square part as my basic mat on the large picture and the circles as accents.  Used the middle of the circles on the second page!  The second page is based on the exclusive Sussies sketch for the month!  (The dragonflies and butterflies and the word memories are rub-ons from the June kit).

Have a safe and happy fourth of July!

July Sussies!!!

Oh my!  I can’t believe I haven’t posted since mid-June.  Things have been so busy here - running around with swim lessons and errands and all that stuff!  I kept wanting to break into scrapping but instead got sucked into learning a bit of photoshop!  I finally did the class I purchased ages ago at Jessica Sprague’s site - learned a bunch from that!  There is SO much to learn and not nearly enough time!  But all the photos I used with the July kit have been edited (although looking at them in person they may have been sharpened too much….  or it could be my printer!).

Today I’m going to share with you the girl-ier side of the kit.  Which I had NO problems using!  I had more problems with the other half and was extremely glad they were double-sided papers!  It would definitely work well for someone that had boys in their family!

So here are my first two layouts from the kit!  The first was Sadie’s field trip to the zoo on the second-to -last day of school!  I added the brown cardstock.  When editing for the white balance in the picture I blew out her hand (oops).  I don’t know how to fix that yet so I just covered it up (mostly LOL).

The kids were standing against the outside white brick wall - you can’t really see that in the scan!  I also just saw a tutorial on how to fix a blown sky (playground picture) so I might play with that a bit too.  I know it’s not as noticeable since I cropped a lot of it out!

One more Sussie reveal later this week!  (And check out the gallery for a bunch of DT layouts that probably won’t be in the official Design Gallery until next week!).

Baby Album

(If you’re looking for the {SAS} blog hop, see the post below this one!}

So I made this little baby boy album for my sister (due in August).  I had made one a long time ago following a sample in Simple Scrapbooks and then I made this one.  I fell in love with the polka dot album (half price at Archivers) and I had always wanted a reason to use the LYB paper line…  There are lots of pictures!  I made a double-page spread for each month plus one for the one year picture! 

 

   

      

 

Hope she enjoys it! I guess I should’ve taken a picture of the actual album LOL

{SAS} Blog Hop!

IIf my blog is the first place you have come welcome! To make sure you don’t miss out on any of the great {SAS}sy blogs I suggest you start at the beginning of the {Blog Hop} by visiting at Scrap Attack Scrapbooking and then work your way around the rest of the blogs.

I’ve been a member over at {SAS} for almost exactly one year and I have to tell you it’s one of the first places I visit online during the day!  The site is incredibly active yet small enough that you feel everyone knows who you are and you know who they are!  One of my favorite things is the gallery!  It’s so FULL of inspiration and everyone is so awesome about commenting on the layouts!

Lauri has started putting together some really awesome scrapbooking kits - they all have some very unique elements in them!  Unfortunately I’ve either had the paper line already in some of the kits or the monthly budget has been tight (we all know about that right now!) but I was lucky enough to get one of the older LYB Love Lines kits!  Do you remember this layout I started?

I’m really hoping to finish this layout soon :)  (OK, after reading everyone’s comments by finish I mean the second page!  I wasn’t planning on changing this one :))  But I loved all the little details the kit had - and all the kits! - the tulle, the little black hearts.  I even got a postcard acrylic stamp in the kit!  Be sure and check the kits out as they are a great value for the money!

Hopefully you’re enjoying the Scrap Attack Scrapbooking {Blog Hop} today! There’s definitely a lot of inspiration showing up on everyone’s blogs. You probably got to mine from dianagirly. Your next (and last!) stop on the hop is kelzpop. 

Scrap Attack Scrapbooking will be donating prizes from all comments left on all the blogs so make sure and comment so you are eligible to win!

{SAS} Blog Hop Tomorrow!

I haven’t been around but I wanted to tell you that {SAS} is having a blog hop tomorrow!!!  I’m one of the last posters :) but there are prizes to be had!!  Be sure and check it out!