Adoption Garage Sale layout...

This layout has some VERY special memories attached to it! Putting this page together just brought all those memories back. It was only a little more than a year ago, but it seems like ages ago!

When we were trying to adopt, Little Stinkerbella came and EVERYTHING happened so fast (within 4 days..mind you this was after years of our journey). We literally had a couple of weeks to come up with a TON of money for the adoption agency. We had NO idea how this was going to happen, but some of our friends came up with a genius idea. Our friends and family came together, donated, and put on a HUGE garage sale. We had tons of donations and put out emails for everyone to come. It was held at a fabulous friend's house, and their daughter even put together a lemonade stand!

I'm loving this house on Hoot n' Holler it's the perfect embellishment for this page and turned into a great journaling spot too! I cut strips of brown paper and used a scallop border punch to add more dimension to the house's roof. Then I added some Glossy Accents and chunky glitter to the pink polka dot paper.

The for sale sign and grass are from the Pop-Up Neighborhood cartridge.

I use the packaging from my stickers to line up my title and see where I want everything placed.

The sun and clouds are also from the Pop-Up Neighborhood cartridge. I doodled around the clouds with a brown marker and then with a white gel pen to mimic the background paper. I also added some glitter around the sun to make it SHINE! :)

 There were so many people that came, and I wanted to try to get everyone on the page so I put together a collage and had it printed at Walgreens.

We are soooo blessed to call all of these people are friends and family! Thanks for popping by today and thanks for sharing these special memories with me! <3Kristy

House Warming Cards

So these cute cards may or may not be for a friend who recently bought her first home...I guess she'll have to wait until her house warming party on Friday night to see if these are for her! (Sorry they're not notepads! ;)

I was going to get her a fabulous gift from Bed, Bath, & Beyond but half-way through the process of trying to figure out what to buy Little Stinkerbella had a stage 4 melt down and I don't think ANYONE wanted us to stay in the store. So, I figured that anyone having a house warming party could always use some thank you cards!

I bought the Hoot n' Holler cart awhile back and hadn't used it yet! I always loved this little house, and thought it would be perfect for some house warming thank you cards!
I found these Martha Stewart glass beads on clearance at Michaels and decided to add a little something to the roof. I used Glossy Accents, and my Imaginisce tiny tray for my i-Rock gems. They do go everywhere! I will probably be finding little green balls for years! ha ha!

I also used one of my SU border punches for the background and then added the ribbon by taping it to the back of the background piece.

I didn't know if I {loved} the blank space above the big bow.

So I just added the heart that was cut out of the middle of the little house.

I just love how simple, but cute these little notes are! Here's a set that might or might not be for her...wink wink! Congrats Jayne!

I hope I inspired you to make some cute cards today! <3Kristy