a few cards to share...

Been playing around with my Melissa Frances goodies the past few days when I have had a chance to sit down, mostly in the evenings after the girls go to bed! I love to scrap when it's quiet. How about you? When do you feel most creative? I'm definitely a night owl, love to stay up late.

This little card was created with Melissa Frances paper, lace, buttons, background stamp and a holiday rub on. Fabric brad (oh how I LOVE these!!!) is by K&Company and the snowflake tag is a to/from tag that I found at Target last Christmas! I found an awesome tutorial on making your OWN fabric brads, check it out! I'm seriously going to try that! I have made some quilts in the past and have a ton of fabric lying around.
I'm loving stars lately and created this card with 2 pages of a Prima album. Everything here is Melissa Frances except the ribbon and brads.

Inside:

To make this "Thanks a Bunch" card, I painted a chipboard flower circle by Scenic Route and then backed it with paper. The card base is just traced from the chipboard into a floral shape, making sure the fold doesn't get cut at the top.

Side view:

I received this cool chipboard album from Magistical Memories and turned it into a fun card with paper/paint. Love these colors! Paper, ribbon, sentiment stamp, sticker and star chipboard are all Melissa Frances as well from the Little Guy Kit.

Not too much else happening here lately! Kati is feeling better and we're gearing up for school to start soon. We went and bought the rest of Taylor's school supplies yesterday. However, she will be missing the first week of school due to a surgery she will have next week. I'm scared to death about it, but I know she will do great. She's such a trooper! She has had urinary reflux ever since she was a baby and hasn't outgrown it like we thought would happen, so the urologist says it's time to go in and surgically correct it. The good part is that she won't have to take medicine for it anymore or take those awful tests every year. (TRYing to think positive here!!) Send well wishes our way next week! Hugs, Danielle

mini album love...

I have a new found passion! Mini albums! =) Aren't they fun? Love how you can fit so many photos, yet it's still a small space to work with. Sometimes I struggle with large areas to decorate, like layouts. Anyhoo....I was asked to be a guest designer for Magistical Memories this month and just completely adore this clear star album that I received in the mail. I decided to use some winter photos of my girls from last winter and my favorite color combo right now, red and blue! I have also been using a little bit of black lately. Edward from Trading Spaces always says you need a splash of black...OK..I know... I watch too much HGTV! ha But I do love how it "grounds" all of the other colors. Here's my JOY mini....

(Currently Out For Publication, Scrapbook Trends - Feb. 2009)

Page 1 - daddy and girls sledding...they all decided to pile on one day...too cute!
Page 2 - Kati loving the taste of snow! I couldn't stop laughing when I saw her doing this! She was SOOO into it!Page 3 - Taylor making snow angels! She has such a ZEST for life...actually that's an understatement! Love the expression on her face!Page 4 - daddy plowed a path out of the yard with the snowblower and here they are getting pulled around the path! They loved it.
Played with my stamps today..this is just a simple card I made with some cute new Doodlebug stamps. I created a musical note with the heart and swirls and cut the middle out of the Making Memories 5th Avenue spiral journaling page to surround the sentiment. What do you think...does it look like a musical note? Ok...maybe not so much! LOL
Kati has been sick this week with a stomach bug...I thought it was gone but now has returned. She woke up this morning crying because of a stomach ache again. I guess we captured some germs along the way on our trip! Practicing for when school starts...we always seem to get sick right when school starts!

Thanks for your sweet comments and have a terrific day! ~Danielle~

so very thankful....

I feel so blessed for many reasons...my family, life-long friends, ability to pursue my "art" and much more...life is good! Recently the DT members of the Melissa Frances team were asked to create some items for the Scrap Pink event for Better Homes and Gardens coming this September. Scrapbooks, Etc. is hosting an on-site crop (at your local LSS's) to raise money for Susan G. Komen for the Cure® breast cancer foundation! Melissa Frances has created a line of papers called "Thankful" and is donating part of the procedes to breastcancer.org. Here is a little mini album/box that I created with this line for the event, pictures are of my little Kati from this past spring.
I used a ton of MF products here, including the Thankful papers (which are sooo beautiful in person, but difficult to photograph!), glitter chipboard, stamps, rub on sayings, stickers, lace and buttons.
So thankful for this sweet girl!
I covered the chipboard accordian album with the papers and painted the edges with white paint.
Daddy and Kati playing in the yard one day! Love this shot! I stamped the background with the frame before adding the photo.


(Back of the album)
If your LSS is planning to host this event, you can request this project to be taught at your store! Hope you are having a terrific start to your week! Thanks for stopping by my blog today!
~Danielle~