Daddy's Girl...

Hello my crafty friends! I love how this layout turned out! Last Christmas we meet my hubby's parents in Pismo Beach, for Christmas. These pictures were taken just outside our hotel room. It was so peaceful and beautiful!

 The title was cut using Hannah Montana (one of the reasons I bought the cartridge)! The circle is from Accent Essentials, the waves are from Life is a Beach and the cloud/sun are from Pop-Up Neighborhood. I also embossed the circle with the Polka Dots CB folder.

 I made a journaling tag and slipped it behind the last picture.

Thanks for stopping by today! ♥Kristy

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

10 years!

**This card was made for the Pumpkin Spice DT call!**

So, yesterday (Thursday) was the hubster's and my 10 year wedding anniversary! If only I still looked like this:

Can you see the crinkle in the middle of the pic?? Just as I was about to snap a picture of it (so that I could upload it to FB and tag everyone in it!) Stinkerbella snatched it and ran! Boy is she quick! I like to call this 20 month old phase "tornado!" Okay, back to the card...Here's a little something I whipped up for the hubster:

We {love} the beach and used to live so close to it, so when I saw this stamp set by Scrappy Moms I knew I needed it for this card! Here's the set I used, it's called "Sun Kissed."

I stamped the sentiment and then punched it out with one of my SU oval punches.

This is a 5.25" x 5.25" square card. The background circle is from Accent Essentials. The sun and clouds are from the Pop up Neighborhood cartridge. The surfboards, waves, and starfish are from Life is a Beach. The "sand" is actually snow from Jolly Holidays.

I added some thin twine to the bottom of the card and to the sentiment, inked everything in Tim Holtz' Tea Dye ink, and TONS of foam dimensionals.

My favorite paper right now is Echo Park Paper (not used on this card, but I just picked up some cute pieces of the Country Drive line and will be posting something soon!)

Happy Anniversary to my HOT hubby! I love you tons, (and if possible I think I've fallen in love all over again...just watching him with our daughter)! Boy, I sure wish I had a piece of this cake...yum!

Happy crafting <3 Kristy

Linking/challenges: