Hop 'Til You Drop!!!

Welcome welcome welcome to another awesome blog hop brought to you by the LITTD Creative Team!!! I see you've found your way here from Mel's blog, and before that I hope you saw Melissa and Lisa's blogs as well! Super awesome stuff going on here!!!

This month we aren't teasing you with layouts, nopers! We decided to switch it up a little bit ;)

Here is a cute little Thank You card that I made entirely with the kit.... the only thing I added were some liquid pearl dots onto one of the patterned papers!

From the Kit:

Three Bugs in a Rug Simple Pleasures PP

October Afternoon Weathervane PP

Making Memories Embossed Butterflies

Three Bugs in a Rug Chit Chat Stickers

This kit is absolutely amazing... I know we say it all the time, but I am so in love with this one, it's going to be hard to not work on it for an entire week while I'm on vacation in Alberta!!! The different manufacturers blend SO nicely together, the embellishments ROCK... I could go on and on. You are just going to have to see for yourself when you place an order on the 1st! Don't miss out on this one, I promise you will NOT be disappointed!!!

Thanks for taking part in another hop with us! We love seeing the enthusiasm from everyone!!! Now remember to hop on over to Ambers Blog for your last stop on this inspiration train!!!! Stay tuned on September 1st for the amazing reveal at Love Is In The Details.....

Thank you for taking the time to blog hop with us. By leaving a comment on EACH of the blogs (LIITD, Amber, Chelsea, Melissa, Lisa and Melanie) your name will be entered to win a RAK from Amber. So have fun hopping along and make sure to leave a comment.

I am so bad!! I totally spaced on posting the winner of my blog hop RAK!! Well without any further delay.... the winner of a $10 GC to the LIITD store, is BOO!!!!! Congrats, Carole, happy shopping! :)

Decided to sit down and tackle some layouts today, and wanted to throw in a few sketches here and there... and the PageMaps blog contest caught my eye!! Here is what I threw together!

Are you tired yet?

Because if you are here, that means you have already hopped from the LIITD blog, to Melissa's, then over to Lisa's... from there you went on to Mel's, headed over to Ambers... which led you here! That's a lot of jumping around!! So take a load off, put your feet up, and relax ;)

LIITD has some of the best kits around... I know, I've looked. And this one was fantastic to work with! I'm still playing around with it, but wanted to give you a sneaky peek at one of the layouts that I have completed!

The only thing that I added to the layout that was not in the kit, were some Doodlebug alphas :)

From the kit I used the BG Papers, some BG Journalling Cards (transparency part only), Jenni Bowlin Alphas, and a Maya Road felt blossom!

The kit will be available on August 1st, so put your name in for one now to make sure you get one!! Thanks for playing along with us for another month, everyone... this is turning out to be a very fun thing for us to do!

As last month, every person that leaves a comment will be put into a draw for a GC to the LIITD store from yours truly! :) Have yourself a great week, everyone!!

What is happening, where is our summer going?!?! It is zipping by already and I don't think I like that very much!! LOL! We've been to the beach a total of twice, both times we raced down there after I was done work to enjoy some sun and sand. The kids love it there, I just wish I had more time to take them. Tayla is like a fish, once she gets into the water you don't see her again until you literally have to pull her out! LOL!

I've been making time for my scrap table, and it feels great. Lately it's becoming more of a therapy again than anything, so I don't want to let it go..... I get to start working on the August kit already, and I can't wait to show some peeks to you later on ;) It's awesome!

Work is proving to be a test of my patience.... I'm not sure I want to stick it out forever, and if things continue to get worse instead of better, I'll definately be looking for something else to pay the bills. It's just not good when you dread going to work every single day :( Hopefully it will turn around soon....

I finished a layout last night of my son Jackson... he doesn't let me take his picture normally... usually they are candids with him not looking or if he's looking he's being ridiculously silly. So I was very happy to get this picture of him, and I think it's one of my favorites. He's growing so much, hard to believe he is going into Grade 2 in the fall.....

This is my cousin Jason with his first little baby.... He and his wife Jana had a baby boy named Ethan on June 2nd. I was so excited they came up for July 1st and I was able to cuddle Ethan and let me tell you, it was hard putting him down!! LOL!

I took these pictures of my friend Mike and his daughters Astrid and Kylee on July 1st, and needed to do a layout. If I find a 12x12 frame I'll put it in and send it down to him. He is such an awesome dad, and they are such awesome girls... that the title really goes both ways. They are very lucky to have a devoted dad like him, he doesn't live with them for the last almost year, but has them for every single one of his days off, which isn't a big deal until you realize he works 4 weeks in and 2 weeks out at a time... so for 2 weeks straight he makes them #1 and to me especially, I know how rare that is and how lucky the girls are.... I think every father can take some lessons from Mike. :)

I hope you all have a great weekend!!! Soak up some sun if you got it!!!!!!

Happy Canada Day!!!

To start things off, the July LIITD Kit Reveal is UP!!! Come and check it out! Lots of inspiration to be had!!!!

Next, HAPPY CANADA DAY!!! I hope you all enjoyed some family and friends time today! We'll be heading to our local fireworks at 11pm and I can't wait, we have some of THE best fireworks around considering the size of our town!!

And finally, I want to post that the winner of my RAK from my previous blog post is.....

MIRANDA!!!!

Congrats, Miranda! My RAK for this months Blog Hop is a $15 GC to the LIITD store!!! Lori knows it's there, so please use it up!! :)

Have a great rest of the week, I'll be back later with a longer post!!

Summer Lovin'

Welcome to another LIITD blog hop! If you're reading this, you've now seen the awesome sneak peeks from Lisa, Melissa, Mel, and Amber! Didn't they just rock it?!?!! I think so!! Once again, it was an amazing kit to work with, such fun and summery colors... and I know that even with 2 boys, Amber had a lot of fun with it!

My layout that I'm giving you for the sneak peek, is a fun summer one done with the great July kit from LIITD, which featured pieces of MME's Breaking Free line!!

From the kit I used:

OH SO VERY COOL ROCKY POINT (COWABUNGA - BREAKING FREE) 12 X 12 PAPER

ONLY SMILES BOY HOT DOTS (WILD RIDE - BREAKING FREE) 12 X 12 PAPER

SWEET (SUN KISSED - BREAKING FREE) SMALL ACCESSORIES

YOU AND ME FRAME (FRUIT FLAVORED - BREAKING FREE)

SWIMMING POOL CANDY SHOPPE ALPHABET 6 X 12 GLITTERED CARDSTOCK STICKERS

BAZZIL DOTTED SWISS WHITE CS

I threw in some various flowers and bling from my stash as well, and used some of my abundance of stickles too :)

Run, don't walk, on July the 1st to check out with this fantabulous summer kit!!! :) Thanks for hopping along with us!!

Everyone that leaves a comment on my blog post will have their name thrown into a random draw for a RAK from moi!!!!! :) Good luck!!!