The View

Hi everyone!  Today I want to share with you a project made with lots of yummy Pink Paislee and Prima Goodies.

Hope Chest and Mistables from Pink Paislee come together with lots of beautiful Prima flowers from my Your Memories Here flower grab bag.

Highlighted with some of my favorite Distress Inks I created this layout (which I promise is straight in real life) to showcase this photo from the top of the Arc de Trimophe in Paris.  I am even using some older items from my stash (note the chipboard pieces from forever ago.  lol)

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs.

Nancy

Celebrate - Your Memories Here Tutorial

Hi everyone!  Today I want to share with you a shabby chic layout I made using the gorgeous Hope Chest papers from Pink Paislee.

But before I share the layout itself, how about a quick video on creating a crackled wood background for your projects?

Super easy and fun.  With the wood background, a bit of mist and some gorgeous flowers from my Prima grab bag I created this....

Ainsley and a couple of friends at her birthday party.  I added a few lace doilies as well as some lace to complete the look.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

Nancy

Grumpy - the Sampler

Hi everyone!  Today I want to share with you a project I made for the Sampler using the Simply Sweet kit.  Ainsley is such a goof.  She selected her Halloween costume last year based on the hat.  She is in love with animal hats these days....go figure.

The fun, bright colors in this kit are some of my favorites.   I couldn't resist fussy cutting some of the cute doily shapes from the patterned paper and the October Afternoon mist in this kit is just the perfect color to coordinate and liven up my white background.

And of course, you know my love for Thickers....these are so cute and mistable, although this time I chose to leave them their original color.  Love that.

Don't forget about the sketch and card challenges her on the Sampler blog.  Lots of great prizes to be won and you don't need to make a purchase to play.

Hugs.

Nancy

The Sampler Simply Sweet

Unbearably Cute - Your Memories Here

Hi everyone!  Nancy here today to share with you a project I made using some of the incredible finds from the Your Memories Here store.

Ainsley has seen her older sister running around in animal hats for quite a while and really wanted one for Christmas.  She was so happy to find it under the tree.  I couldn't resist taking a few photos.

I used a few papers from the Prima Grab bag I purchased from the YMH store, along with many flowers, a few cut outs, some trinkets, bling and letters to complete my project.   I love that there are bits and pieces of everything in these bags.  It makes it so fun to mix and match all the different elements.

Lots of distressing with my Comfort Craft distress tool and walnut stain distress inks tied everything together.

Be sure to grab the older collections before they are gone, and be on the lookout for new Prima grab bags and complete collections!  The new Prima is beginning shipping soon!

Hugs.

Nancy

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Happy Halloween

Hi everyone!  Today is Halloween here in the States and I have to admit I am a bit sad.  Gone are the days of big pre-Trick or Treating parties.  When Brighton and Mackenzie were younger we had a big group of families that we would go out with after a soup supper.  The children always had a great time, as did the adults.  Many of the families had children Brighton's age and now that these children are 17 and up....


 Well, needless to say, these children aren't so much children and now we don't trick-or-treat together.  sigh

Poor Ainsley is left as the only one who is still interested in begging for candy and so we are looking for a new group to hang with.

OK, well...enough of my wistful yearnings for the children to be young again.   How about a project to share?  I made a couple of little treat bags for my niece and sister to celebrate this fun holiday.

I cut the bag out of some Tim Holtz Kraft Core cardstock with my Cricut machine and then embossed it using my Big Shot.  A couple of vintage digital images accented with stickles,  bits of seam binding dyed with Glimmer Mist, and of course some simple Prima Wildflowers and a doily finished my bags.

If only I had time to make 100 or so more I could give them out to all the trick-or-treaters tonight.  Yeah...right!  lol

OK, well.....back to work around here.  Thanks for dropping by.

Hugs.

Nancy

Love Your Memories Here

Hi everyone!  Today I wanted to share with you a new project I made using the gorgeous Declarations Collection from Pink Paislee.  When I first purchased this kit I thought I would use it for our Fourth of July photos.  Unfortunately, the boys were out of town and the girls and I went to a BBQ in the afternoon and then just hung low that night.  Not much in the way of patriotic photos.

Luckily, this collection is good for so much more!  This time, a photo of my love, Phil.  hee hee  Hard to believe we have been together for 22 years now.  We will actually celebrate our 20 wedding anniversary next year!

Of course there was lots of distressing with my Prima Distress Tool.  I changed the center of my flower using some Fired Brick Distress Stain and used a bit of doily I picked up from HSN.  A few Prima letters, a Paper Trey Ink Banner die and a bit of ball trim and my project was complete.

I am really happy with the way it turned out.  And so happy that my beloved paper is not going to waste because I didn't have any Patriotic photos.

OK, well.....gotta run.

Hugs.

Nancy

Declaration- Your Memories Here

Hi everyone!  For those of you in the USA, Happy July 4!  I hope you are having a great day full of festivities.  Not sure what we are up to yet, but I am sure there will be fireworks involved.  

Today I want to share with you a project I made using Declaration papers by Pink Paislee that I purchased from the Your Memories Here store.  These photos were taken at our swim team overnighter....which is where Ainsley got to spend her birthday.  Nothing like having 100+ friends to sing "Happy Birthday" at midnight.

 I used a sketch from my good friend Heather...yep...that Heather.  lol

 I used lots of older Prima flowers and a Pink Paislee doily for embellishments.

And one little Webster's Pages flower.

Well, thanks for stopping by.

Hugs.

Nancy

It's Mad Fun - MMD

Hi everyone!  Happy Friday!!!!  I hope you are ready for a great weekend.  I can't believe how fast this week has flown by.  Crazy.

Today I wanted to share with you a project I made with Heather's sketch 19.  (yes, that Heather...the one I always am talking about.)

So, here is the sketch....

And my take....

Lots of American Crafts Dear Lizzy, mixed with some trims from the Hydrangea Hippo Etsy shop were used to create this layout of Mackenzie at Penguin Madness (our swim team's spirit relays).

I have really got to get better with my photos.  Just struggling these days with my new desire to take the photos upright.  sigh

OK, well....busy, busy, busy.

Hugs.

Nancy

Monday, Monday

Hi everyone!  Sorry I am a bit late posting today but it has, once again, been a crazy Monday.  My husband got back late last night/early this morning and so today was the first time we have been able to talk in a few days...on top of that we of course have school....well.....enough excuses.

Today I want to share with you a project I made for my good friend Heather.  She makes some of the best sketches and always lets me play along.

Isn't that cute?  She has mad sketching skills...as well as digi skills.

Here is my take.  This is before we began hunting for the eggs.  It kinda does double duty because these are some of the first photos since our backyard redo.

I used some of my new Pink Paislee Spring Jubilee papers with lots of ribbons and trims as well as a few blooms and stick pins from the Hydrangea Hippo etsy store.  She has got some amazing stuff.  You certainly should check it out.

Well, off to swim lessons with Ainsley.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugs.

Nancy