Hey everyone! Last winter, I got to create some layouts for the Basic Grey CHA booth and they were recently sent back to me so I thought I'd share them today. I got to work with the Knee Highs portion of Knee Highs & Bowties line, which is a wonderfully girly-themed collection with lots of pi...

First- Here is the Travel Turtle winner from last week: Natalie (QSOgirl) said...LOVE that photo!! Yummmmm gelato (even though I've never had it *in* Italy...yet!!) :)I'm always intimidated to travel with my daughter (~20 mo) because I don't know what to expect... but then she always, always s...

Introducing FLEA MARKET... Words cannot express how amazing it has been to see all of you using and LOVING my first signature line with Crate Paper. The response has been beyond anything I ever dreamed of, which makes me super excited to share with you my second collection! The first one wil...

Urban café meets country flowerbeds in SoHo Garden. This cheerful collection teems with bold, rich colors, and abounds with hand-drawn teacups, florals, and feathers, accented by a deep green. Coupled with clean geometric and typeface patterns, SoHo Garden combines all the magic of city and coun...

Hello there, friends! I apologize for the lack of blogging around these parts, I came home early from Europe last week because I was quite sick and still haven't gotten back to my normal self. I hope lots of rest will do the trick and I'll be feeling more like myself soon. In the meantime, I h...

Happy Friday, Lily Bee fans! We are excited to bring you a fun-filled and inspirational blog hop to share the talents of our fabulous design team, including most of those new members we've just included on the team! Our blog hop continues this week's theme of projects usi...

Jump into the eclectic fun of Amy Tangerine's newest line, Ready Set Go. A wide array of warm autumn colors including navy blue, pink, and woodgrain, create a base for unique travel, home, and school icons - from cameras, cars, and houses, to globes, speech bubbles, and an adorable hand-drawn el...

This collection invites you to enjoy the pleasures of home, with a color pallete of crisp blues, pinks, greens, yellows, and airy neutrals put into the form of birds, trees, foxes, houses, keys, clipboards, and more. Accents of gold create an irresistible sophisticated sweetness and you can't...

happy monday!! welcome to the trendspotting blog hop. me, kelly noel, and all of our contributors are sharing a few sneaks of the class and doing some fun giveaways. a totally good way to start the week, yes?? Are you a trendspotter? Lisa Truesdell and Kelly Noel want you to give it a try. Th...

Welcome to the Studio Calico Blog Blitz! We are celebrating the release of Studio Calico's latest collections: Take Note, Abroad and Classic Calico Vol 2 (all of which are now available for sale on the Studio Calico site)! Here is a layout I did using mostly the Take Note collection. I cre...

Welcome to the Studio Calico Blog Blitz! Today we are celebrating the three new releases (Take Note,Abroad,and Classic Calico Vol.2) by sharing new projects! I especially love the Take Note collection. Florals, bows, LULLABY THICKERS (yes i'm yelling)...it's just very "me". Here's what I came ...

Welcome to my stop on the SC Blog Blitz! In honor of the new releases, I wanted to share a promo code for free shipping at Two Peas in a Bucket. It's valid 4/9 - 4/13 on any purchase over $35 (non-phaseout / non-digital product.) So go forth and shop all the pretty new products you're see...

Hi there friends! I have a fabulous giveaway for you today! I have been super absent here on the blog so this is a great way to kickstart my return!! I promise I will be back here regularly from now on!! Are you ready to jumpstart the way you look at supplies? Tired of letting your kits pile ...

I miss New York. I have been here three weeks now and I've yet to get acclimated to LA. The traffic is hard for me to handle, I'm getting too much food + not enough exercise, and I still haven't been able to really make much of anything. That last one has frustrated me to the point of tears....

i guess i'm starting november off with a bang - i have ANOTHER giveaway! the fabulous miss kelly purkey has a new class, and one of my lucky readers will get to take it for free. Sketchpad is a brand-new class from Kelly Purkey, spinning off from her series of successful Sketchbook classes....

i think one of the things I love MOST about CE is all the things that I have to ‘remember’ CE! Whether it’s the little gifts people give me, or stuff I make, or the swag everyone loves to get and collect…it all adds so much to the whole thing! I have been needing to clean everything up, and pu...

hi all, and a happy national scrapbook day to you :-) hope you're enjoying all the yuminess along the way from the talented sassafras designers. for my stop on the blog hop, i'm sharing a little tag book i made called "numbers" though i don't have tiny kiddos anymore that would need to use...

I can’t wait for you all to check out one of my newest sponsors, Freehand Scraps, I think you’re going to like what you see! Freehand Scraps is a monthly kit club that inspires customers to tell their story, be creative and have fun. They offer several different kinds of kits to meet all your ...

I bought these windows out of the back of some guy's pickup a few months ago and haven't known what to do with them. I finally decided to make a little Spring banner, I figured its a fun way to dress it up a bit without making a commitment :) I used the Dilly Dally design card to make the ...

i have to admit, been thinking a lot about the House of 3 ending... it makes me sad! i want to say thank you for all the emails, and all of the kind words that many of you have sent me. i have been overwhelmed! anyway- been thinking about the things that i can't live without... files that i LOV...

What a terrific week we are having! Mini's for love. Mini's for faves. Mini's for vacations. Mini's for you. Mini's for me. Mini's for everyone you see. But there is nothing mini about our today. No, sirree. All week we have been delighted to be inspired to create mini albums and more with the...

countryside and state fair are now available at the (studio calico) store and we're celebrating with a blog hop!! [i promise his eyes are not closed. lol] if you happened upon my blog by coincidence... hi!! you can get started with the hop right here. if you've been hopping along then yo...

We are doing another blog hop at Studio Calico today to celebrate the fact that Countryside and State Fair are now in the shop!! I know that many of you have been waiting to get your hands on these products!! Well now you can stock up!! Yippeeee! All of us design team members have created a l...

we're celebrating the arrival of state fair and countryside in the studio calico shop with a blog hop!! funny story about this page - i sat down at my desk, immediately after the circus that is getting everyone out the door and to school, and started to flip through pics. i came across t...

Hi everyone! Thanks for stopping by, I hope you've enjoyed everything so far! So it's no secret that I love patterned paper. And these Countryside papers and State Fair papers are seriously amazing. I also really, really love the State fair and Countryside die-cut tags. Like I love them so ...