Monday -Oops Tuesday-Gone Fishing

Happy Monday!

I hope everyone had a fantastic weekend.  We did here. On Saturday we went to Kings Island with the boys.  We have season passes so it is very nice to go for only a couple of hours and then go home, and that is what we did.  We got there right when it opened and spent 3 hours there--just the perfect amount of time with 2 little ones.  Jack hit the mark and was able to ride any ride he wanted to in Kiddie Land.  He rode the kids roller coaster (which is still a great coaster).  He was scared to death! He said that he was proud of himself but he doesn't know if he is going to ride it again--Go Jack!

Sunday I took a class at Simply Scrapbooks with Jennifer Mcguire and Sheri Carroll from Hero Arts! I had a blast! I want to give Brenda (from Sassy lil Sketches) and Sarah ( from 2Peas) a big shout out! It was so much fun meeting people you only chat with on the blogs or message boards!  We had a blast.  The class was awesome.  Learned some great stamping techniques.  Jennifer's classes are always the best!

Monday we just hung out.  Mom came over and we just relaxed all day.  It was AWESOME!  We also went to the pool.

Happy Mail

Becky from Fourth House on the Right sent me the prettiest card last week.  I love how she used the flower stamp and clear embossed it to give that tone on tone effect.  It is just so pretty.  Thanks so much Becky.  It meant a lot to me!!!  If you haven't checked out her blog she has the best cards and projects!

Gone Fishing

This is a layout that I completed awhile ago and I forgot that I hadn't posted it yet.  It is one of my favorites.  We went over to a friend's house who has a little pond in his back yard and Jack went fishing for the first time.  He had a blast.  I used the October Afternoon camping line.  I love this line.

supplies

cardstock-bazzill

paper-october afternoon

tags-october afternoon

journal tag and title-silhouette

mini clips-tim holtz

tools-ek success border punch, silhouette

I hope everyone has a fantastic week.  This is my last week of school.  The kids have exams Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and then we have an In service on Friday and then Summer can BEGIN!

 I will be back tomorrow with a new layout.  See you all then! Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Friday + Winner+ Class Layout

Hey everyone,
Boy, am I glad it is Friday!! I am so excited about the long weekend.  We are keeping the weekend pretty low key but we are surprising Jack with a trip to Kings Island, our amusement park.  We have season passes and so far we haven't gone but we will go on Saturday.  He will be so excited.  He wants to see if he is tall enough to go on the  kids roller coaster.  It should be really cute and fun because this will be Michael's first time there.  We shall see if he likes it or not.

The winner of my Giveaway from The Twinery is...............#11  Blessed Ladybug!! HOORAY!!!  If you could email me you mailing address that would be great and I will pop this in the mail to you!.

There will be another Giveaway coming soon--lots of fun here at Siehled With A Kiss!

My next sketch layout class is June 25th.  I will be featuring this month the Basic Grey Life is a Party Line.  For my first layout we will use it as a typical birthday line.

These are pictures of Michael's 2nd birthday.  They are my favorite pictures taken that day.  I really love this line.  It is just perfect for a celebration.

supplies
cardstock-core'dinations
paper-basic grey
embellishements-basic grey

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!  I will be back on Monday with some happy mail I received this week.  I have to say the kindness from my blog friends is just so wonderful (you know who you are) .  I will also be back with a new layout.  Thanks so much for stopping by! See ya on Monday

Nikki Sivils Challenge-Thursday

Happy Thursday everyone!

On the Nikki Sivils blog they are having a challenge to be a guest designer.  Yesterday I posted a card made from the Nikki Sivils Beatrice collection, and  today I have a layout for the challenge.  Ana Stubbington came up with an awesome sketch.  I really loved it, but I needed to make a 2 page layout so I converted it into a two pager, and I am very happy with the results.


For those of you who are wondering Who are these girls? They are my goddaughter and her sister, Ruby and Eliza.  These pictures were taken after Ruby's mother's day party at her preschool.  I just loved the girls dresses and thought that these pictures would be perfect for the Beatrice line. 

Here is a close up of the left side.  For the clouds I cut them with my Silhouette and then stamped them using the Hero Arts cling stamps.  I then went around the clouds with a Stampin' Up marker.  I then placed some bazzill brads and one making memories brad.  I also cut the title using my Silhouette.

A close up of the right side.  I cut out the sun from a sheet of Max and Mollie and then added the clouds.  I stamped them with the same Hero Arts stamps.  I also added some of the brads again.

Supply list

cardstock-bazzill, neenah solar white

paper-nikki sivils

die cuts- niiki sivils silhouette, paper trey ink

brads-bazzill, making memories

stamps-hero arts, ali edwards

ink-versamagic, hero arts

tools-ek success border punch, silhouette

I would be so honored to win a spot as guest designer.  There is such awesome talent on the blog.  I would be so excited.  If you haven't checked out their blog here is the LINK.  Crossing my fingers!

This week has been flying by!  I will be back tomorrow with a new layout.  I will also be announcing the winner of my Giveaway! If you haven't entered yet, please go to Monday's POST and leave a comment to win some twine from the Twinery in beautiful colors (red, purple and pink).  Have a good day and thanks for stopping by!

Nikki Sivils Challenge-Wednesday Card

Happy Wednesday!

I hope everyone is having a great week!  I am so excited this week because I got to play with the Nikki Sivils paper.  My lss just got their first shipment of the paper in and I went in right away to play with it.  I wanted to play with the super cute Beatrice line with a touch of Max and Mollie thrown in.  It is so easy to mix the papers from different collections.   So for today's card and tomorrow's layout I will be using this awesome line, and it just so happens that they were having a challenge on the the Nikki Sivils blog to be a guest designer.  How fun would that be?  TONS!!!!!

Ana Stubbington came up with this really fun card sketch.

And here is my take on the sketch.  I just love the colors and Beatrice is just way too cute.  For the "just a little note" I added some faux stitching with my signo black gel pen.

Supply List

base-recollections

paper and embellishments- Nikki Sivils

I really had a fun time playing with this amazing paper. 

I will be back tomorrow with a new layout using this line.  Thanks so much for stopping by.  Oh yeah and don't forget to stop by Monday's post (HERE) and leave a comment to be entered in my little Giveaway!

Thanks for stopping by and I will see you tomorrow!

**Note** my blogger has been acting crazy and I can't leave any comments on blogs that I have to put in the code word.  Please note that I am looking and seeing some awesome stuff. I know many people had the problem yesterday and it was fixed but for some reason mine is still not working.  Not sure what to do.  Does anyone have any advice? Thanks for understanding!

May's Imaginisce Challenge

Happy Tuesday,

As you all know I LOVE the Imaginisce challenges each month and this one was no exception.  Here were the guidelines:

This month we want to challenge you to:



create a masculine themed layout/card/project


use one of our Snag'Em Stamps from any Imaginisce collection


you must use at least 75% of Imaginisce product

Well this one was a no brainer for me.  I only have the boy lines.  I started with these cute pictures of my Michael.  I can't believe he is growing up so fast.  At 2 1/2 years old he is just way too funny.  I always like to do a layout of my boys at each year and 1/2 year just to see how they have changed in the 6 months.  I knew I had to choose the Let's Roll Line from Imaginisce because it was one of my favorite lines.  I just love the colors  and the line worked well with the colors in my photo.  I have to say I am a little bummed because I have just enough scraps to complete one more layout and then I have used it all up.  Do  you ever get sad when the last little drop of paper is gone from your favorite collection?  Boy, I do.

I did not have any coordinating snag'ems for this line but I have a ton so I pulled the little journal spot from the Apple Cider collection and colored the outside edge of the stamp with my copics.  The color matches so well with the cardstock. I then cut it out and stamped the date.

The second snag'em is from the Animal Crackers line.  I used the ticket stub.  This was perfect to tuck under my chipboard embellishment a bit of journaling. I stamped this with my Tim Holtz Barn Door ink.

Supply list

cardstock-bazzill

Everything else- Imaginisce

Have I mentioned yet that I only have 7 more days of school left not counting today! I am getting so excited! I am super busy at school. I am just so excited to be able to spend the entire summer with the boys. I have tons of fun activities for all of us and I can't wait!

Don't forget that I have a little Giveaway going on right now.  Go HERE to enter!

Thanks so much for stopping by and I will be back tomorrow for Wednesday's Card.  See ya then!

Echo Park Fresh Face Challenge

Hello Everyone,

I was so excited when I read on the Echo Park blog that they were having a "Fresh Face" contest to be a guest Design Team Member.  As many of you know I LOVE Echo Park paper.  So far I have bought every line that has been made and I have used every drop of paper from each line.  I never throw any of it away.  I save the smallest bit because you never know when you might need it.  I teach a monthly sketch layout class at my lss and the people always laugh because I always want to do a class using the Echo Park paper.  May's class used the Playground line and I can't wait for July's class because we will be using Summertime collection.  The paper is so versatile and I just love the designs and especially all the embellishments.  Ok enough of me raving on about how much I love Echo Park and let's get down to the businesss of my 3 projects.  It was really hard for me to pick only 3 since I have so many but these are some of my favorites right now.

My first layout is "King For A Day".  This layout  was published in the May issue of ScrapStreet EMagazine.  I was so excited that my first publication used the Echo Park paper.  When the release came out of the Little Boy line I called my lss everyday until it arrived. I was crazy but I bought 3 paper packs of this line.  I have 2 boys and I just fell in love with the wonderful colors and designs.  I have made so many fun creations using this line.

Jack, my son, was playing with a King's hat and I snapped these photos.  When I got them developed I knew that the Little Boy line was perfect.  The first thing I did was cut a 10x10 square of the paper and pulled out my sewing machine. I love to sew on my layouts.  Next, I cut several strips of the paper all 2 inches in width and used my EK Success border punches and layered them.  I love the look of layered borders.  To anchor the ends I used a button just to tie it together.  I then cut out some random circles and layered them. I placed a button in the center just to finish it off.  I used my Silhouette and cut a King's Hat to add an an embellishment.  One of the things that I love the most about Echo Park is that the alphabet stickers are always so fun and the fonts are awesome. I placed it all together and then added my journaling block.  I did add for just a little touch a tab created by using the Ali Edwards stamps.  I love to include a bit of stamping on my layouts.

Supply list

paper-echo park

buttons and twine-paper trey ink

tools-silhouette, ek success border punches, coluzzle, sewing machine

stamps-ali edwards

ink-hero arts

sketch- liz qualman for scrapstreet

My next layout is one of my all time favorites. You will always be my little boy was created using my son's fall school picture.  Again when I saw the picture I knew exactly that this collection would be perfect.  This layout shows my love of pattern paper.  I love to layer it.  It just adds so much dimension to the layout without adding all the bulk that heavy embellishments can create.

Again I used all my scraps from other projects.  I used the navy sheet as my base and then kept adding layer upon layer to add brightness to the brown.  I tucked little pieces under the picture at different angles. I also tucked the candy stripe on each end of the brown.  I cut a small sliver of paper of the different stripes and used my border punch --love those punches.  At the bottom of the layout I used my scalloped punches again to tie the two together. 

For fun I paired the Echo Park paper with Jillibean Soup journaling spots.  The spots were perfect and they matched the paper perfectly.  I love the one I tucked under the photo that says "smile".  It was just perfect for the layout.  I also loved layering the spots.  I added some stamping (of course) and stamped my journaling spot with ali edwards stamps, and I also stamped the month spot. My son is 5 so I just tucked the five spot underneath.



supply list
paper-echo park
journaling spots-jillibean soup
title-echo park
stamps- ali edwards, jillibean soup
ink-hero arts
button- paper trey ink
tools-ek success border punch

My third layout today is "Catching Snowflakes"

For this layout I combined Echo Park with Core'dinations cardstock.  The colors with the Core'dinations matched perfectly with the colors in the patterned paper.

1.  Using my Martha Steward Score Board I scored around each side 2 times creating a frame effect.  I then lightly sanded the score marks to bring out the lighter color.
2. Next I cut a 2 1/2 inch strip of the red cardstock and punched it using my EK Success border punch (I am totally addicted to my border punches). 
3.  I then scored the paper 3 times and again lightly sanded the scored marks.
4.  I attached the 2 border pieces to a 10X10 piece of Echo Park paper.
5.  Using my Silhouette I created my title and snowflake.
6.  For the snowflake I used Tim Holtz distress ink "Stormy Sky" and with my blending tool slowly added some color to the die cut.  I didn't want the snowflake to be too dark so I used my Ranger mat and worked my blending tool on the mat and slowly moved onto my snowflake.  This gave the flake just a hint of color.
7.  Next I added just a hint of bling on to the edges of my snowflake.
8.  When I say I am an Echo Park addict I mean it.  I don't throw any paper away no matter how small.  The rest of the layout I used my scraps from other projects.  I first matted my photo and touched the edges again with the Stormy Sky.  I then matted the picture again with a larger piece of Echo Park paper.  I then had some left over pieces that I tucked underneath. 
9.  Finally I used a journaling spot and inked the edges with Stormy Sky.  I added again just a touch of bling to the center of the snowflakes.

I have to say that I love this layout.  The Wintertime collection was just so pretty and the colors were incredible. 

supply list

cardstock-core'dinations

paper-echo park

journaling tag-echo park

bling- I Rock- imaginisce

tools-martha steward score board, sand paper, ek success border punch

I had so much fun putting my layouts together for the fresh face contest.  Winning would be such a dream and a huge honor!  I love everything about Echo Park.  If you check out my blog you will see tons of layouts and projects--here are a couple more links to some of my favorites cube, mini album, bigfoot, and first snow.  I have so many projects that it is so hard to pick just 3.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Happy Monday + Giveaway!

Happy Monday,
Wow what a weekend we had.  On Saturday we were gone the entire day.  We left at 10:00 in the morning and we got back at 8:00 that night.  It was such a fun day.  The town that I grew up in and where my mom still lives had their big festival.  It starts with a parade and then at the high school stadium they have rides and games.  I always meet my high school friends and we all go with our families.  It is just a day of fun.  Then on Sunday we stayed home all day but what could go wrong did go wrong.  I tried to print pictures- my printer acted funny, I tried to cut some die cuts-my silhouette acted funny, I tried to get my blog together for the week-my internet was down for most the day.  So I just stepped away and we all went on a 2 mile walk and bike ride.  It was so fun. I was able to get a layout finished and photographed and brought in the store.  So I felt good about that.   I am entering some challenges this week and tried to get them all wrapped up.

I hope you all had a great weekend.  Did you do anything fun?

GIVEAWAY!!!!!!!

Well as promised I have a little Giveaway for you all.  I have 3 (15 yards each) of twine from the Twinery.  The colors are Maraschino, Lilac, and Pink Sorbet.  They are sooooo  pretty.

All you have to do to win is:

1) follow my blog

2) leave a comment

Good luck! You have till Thursday to enter!  The colors are sooo pretty!  You can have 2 chances to win if you leave a comment that you follow and another comment about whatever.

Spring Fun!

This is a layout that I did using the Jillibean Soup line Dutch Mustard. 

I just love this line so much! It just makes me happy.

supplies

cardstock-kraft

paper-jillibean soup

tools-ek success, silhouette

I hope everyone has a fantastic day! I will be back tomorrow with a new layout.  See you then!