Fridays and Saturdays

Happy Friday,

Who is glad it is the weekend?  I am soooo ready.  This has been a really long week for me. We have a REALLY busy Saturday- soccer game, spring fling event for Micheal's school and then That Day In May festival!!  I am going to have some tired kids Saturday night.  Then Sunday---NOTHING.  I am so going to relax!

Last month one of my kits from Cord Scrapbook Studio was the Saturdays by Little Yellow Bicycle. On the LYB blog they asked the question - what is your favorite LYB collection?  I said that this collection was one of my all time favorites.  It is just perfect for all those everyday pictures.  It has no theme and it goes literally with everything.  It works great with with both masculine and feminine projects.   This is the card that I  made using this wonderful collection.  I love how it turned out!

supplies
cardstock- bazzill
paper stickers- little yellow bicycle
die cut- paper trey ink
gems- little yellow bicycle

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I will be back on Monday with a new project.  See you then! Have a wonderful and crafty weekend!
-mp

Thursday Debut!

Happy Thursday!

I know I mentioned awhile back that I was asked by Nikki Sivils to be a guest Design Team member for the month of May.  Of course, I screamed YES!!!! I love her paper collections!  They are always such fun.  Her lines that came out at CHA Winter 2012 where awesome and the idea that I got to play with two of them just about drove me crazy with happiness!

So anyhoo- it is May and I can finally get to  show off my designs to you.  It has been hard since I created all my projects 2 months ago.  I have been dying to show you.  So today I want to share my Home Decor Piece that I created.  I used the Messages collection for my  message board.  I took an old 8x10 picture frame and turned it into a dry erase message board.  I decorated the 8x10 insert with various papers and embellishments and then put the glass back on.  Did you know that the glass acts like a dry erase board?  I love that.  The board started out to be a board to write our schedule down on the weekends but it has evolved into something else.  I use it daily to write a personal message to my kids.  I set it on the kitchen table every morning.  I leave for work before 6:00 am every morning and I never get to see them.  My youngest son was having a hard time awhile back because he didn't see me so I came up with this idea to use the board to "talk" to the kids.  The boys LOVE! this.  Jack is learning to read and so every morning he reads the message to Michael.  It has really helped!! So it is a permanent fixture in our kitchen.  I just love it!

Supplies
old picture frame
Everything else is Nikki Sivils, scrapbooker

Now here is the awesome news.  My post and all my projects ( yes there are 7 projects-- I got a little carried away but I loved the paper and couldn't stop- I had so many ideas! LOL!!) are on the Nikki Sivils blog they are giving ONE person who leaves a comment their choice of paper collections!  Now how awesome is that.  So go HERE and leave a comment saying which one is your favorite and you could win!!  I would love to see one my blog followers win!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I truly appreciate all your kind words.  Every day your kind words just amaze me!! Thanks soooo much!  I will be back tomorrow with a new project!  See you then!
Have a wonderful and crafty day!
-mp

Wednesday Anniversary

Happy Wednesday!

Well, we made it to the 1/2 way point of the week.

A couple of weeks ago hubby and I went to my aunt and uncles 40th wedding anniversary party. It was a surprise party and all my aunts and uncles were going to be there.  I need to make a card and it just so happened that I had some scraps left over from some of my DT work for
Cord Scrapbook Studio.
The paper comes from the Swoon collection from Little Yellow Bicycle. It was perfect!  So  I whipped up this card.  I used a die cut and stamp set to create the tag from Paper Trey Ink.  I must say I am totally addicted to the color grey right night and the Jenni Bowlin ink was perfect for this card.  I then just scattered some gem stones to bling it up just a bit. 

supplies
paper, rosette, gems- Little Yellow Bicycle
die cut, stamps- paper trey ink
ink- jenni bowlin

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I will be back tomorrow with another project.  See you then!  Have a wonderful and crafty day!
-mp

Lucky Tuesday

Happy Tuesday!

National Scrapbooking Day (NSD) was 2 weeks ago and I was able to create several projects along with entering a couple of fun challenges.  Little Yellow Bicycle had several prompts that I loved.  I love the prompts that let you create what you want with just an idea.  The first one was a spring challenge.  Here is the description of the challenges:  submissions should use the spring color palette (blue, green, brown and cream) from ANY of our collections.I had the perfect picture and papers for this challenge.  

This is a photo of my boys on St. Patrick's day.  For the paper I used an older collection from LYB.  I loved how it turned out!

supplies
Everything is Little Yellow Bicycle.

In case you didn't know- I have a facebook page called Siehled With A Kiss.  It is here that I have sneak peeks on my projects, share more of my process and other crafty good things!  I would be honored if you jumped over there and "liked" me.  Please click HERE to go directly to my page.  I would truly appreciate it!

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I will have more layouts and cards that for all  this week!  You aren't going to want to miss a day here! See you tomorrow! Have a wonderful and crafty day!
-mp

A Monday MME Challenge

Happy Monday,
Did you have a wonderful weekend and Mother's day.  Mine was wonderful.  I must say I am looking forward to a relaxing weekend though.  Hopefully there is one in my future fairly soon.  I am just exhausted!

Last Friday I shared my layout for the My Mind's Eye challenge to use Brads.  Well, you know me and I like to use EVERY single scrap of paper so I made a thank you card using my scraps and leftover brads.  I also bought one of the new 3D flowers from Lori Whitlock in the silhouette store.  I love how it turned out!  Very clean and simple! I used 3 brads on my card.

supplies
paper- my mind's eye
twine- my mind's eye
brads- my mind's eye
flower- silhouette

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I will be back tomorrow with a new project.  See you then! Have a wonderful and crafty day!
-mp

A Friday MME Challenge

Happy Friday!

Are you happy it's the weekend?  Boy, I am! It has been a LONG week!  I am so excited because I am meeting my girlfriends for our 2nd to last crop at Simply Scrapbooks.  I have my work from Cord Scrapbooks Studio to keep me busy!  I am loving the new collections.  Then for the rest of the weekend we really have nothing planned.  I am very excited!!

When I saw that My Mind's Eye was having a challenge this month I knew I need to participate because it was right up my alley.  The challenge was to use Brads on your layout.  I had just picked up my last kit for Simply Scrapbooks and it was the Miss Caroline by My Mind's Eye.  I LOVE this collection.  The papers are so awesome and the brads are just kickin'!  So I made this layout- I used 8 brads on it.  I love them!

Life is an Adventure Waiting to Happen

supplies
cardstock- bazzill
paper- MME
brads- MME
die cut (journaling spot)- paper trey ink
stamps- paper trey ink
ink- tim holtz distress inks, hero arts
alphabet stickers- cosmo cricket
title- silhouette
mist- mister huey studio calico
misc- sewing maching

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope all you MOMS have a wonderful Mother's Day!  I will be back on Monday with a new project.  Have a wonderful and crafty weekend!
-mp

One I Didn't Like on Thursday

Happy Thursday

Have you every scrapped a layout and completely HATED it?  This is how I feel about this layout!LOL!  I always start off with a sketch that I make and it looked great on paper- the concept was good and I like the paper that I picked out.  It is the Celebration line from Authentique.  But something happened when I put it all together.  I mean the layout is o.k. but I am not wild about it.

What do you do when the layout doesn't come out like you thought?  Since this is a layout just for me and my family I plan on doing NOTHING!  I mean all my layouts can't be awesome - right?  Do you redo your layouts if you don't like them?  I never have and with other commitments I don't think I am?  I just wanted to see what everyone else does I guess.

supplies
cardstock- bazzill
paper- Authentique
stickers- Authentique

Thanks so much for stopping by today.   I will be back tomorrow with a new project.  See you then! Have a wonderful and crafty day!
-mp