FOUND: Super cute Prima Animal Bash projects!!

Animal Bash is a paper line from Prima... a super cute one too!!  We carried it in the not too distant past and loved it.  In fact, we gave some away here on the blog and Heather won it!!  You might recognize Heather on here... we featured her once before!! She just finished using all of it and look at all the awesome stuff she made with just that one set of Prima papers:

More info about layout here.

More info about layout here.

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More info about card here.

More info about layout here.

More info about layout here.

More info about layout here.

Coming soon to the store... some of the new lines of Prima patterned papers of course!  The Jack & Jill collection... the Annalee collection... the Paisley Road collection... and some of the Fairy Flora collection.   If you haven't followed us yet on Facebook, make sure you do... we post an update when items are listed in the store!!

Thank you so much to Heather for letting us share her beautiful layouts and cards on the blog today!!   If you haven't checked out Heather's blog before, go swing by and leave her some love!! :)

Scrappy Pennsylvania?!

I've slowly been recovering from my long vacation and cleaning off the scrappy desk.... in the meanwhile trying to process what I want to do creatively with over 1,200+ photos!!  eek!!  While the bulk of my travel talk will be on my own blog (the crafty aftermath will be here!)... I did want to share some scrappy surprises I found in Pennsylvania! :)

Up first, the second day my brother, sister-in-law and I were in Hershey and taking a class at the Hershey Story:

At the Hershey Story Museum.

Where the instructor noticed me taking photos of every little detail like this:

And she interrupted the presentation to ask me if I scrapbooked!  HA!!  :)  But of course I do!! And she promptly gave me instructions on how to find my way to the nearby scrappy store!!  What a nice store and if you ever find yourself in the area, stop in for a great selection of local items like this:

Fast forward to my last day in Pennsylvania, when we went to some antique stores and look what I discovered:

How cool are these?!  Vintage scrappy books!!  And of course, I had to open them up and see what they had inside:

The first book had lots of comics and articles clipped from the newspaper.

This one had mostly cards with handwritten notes who they were from, little pictures cut from packaging and postcards.

And check out this altered item:

It's a card, that they cropped down and attached to a pillow to make a door hanger!!

Love it!! 

And last, but certainly not least, what scrappy journey would be complete without finding an amazing vintage camera?!

A Polaroid Automatic 100 Land Camera, produced from 1963-1966. 

Clearly, I screwed up by not grabbing that one up for $12 working or not -- would make for a great decor item on the scrappy bookshelf.  Maybe I can talk my brother into going back for it.... :)

So that's the scrappy lovin' that Pennsylvania gave me while I visited.  Definitely some fun and unexpected surprises.  Hope you enjoyed the little virtual scrappy tour of Pennsylvania!!

FOUND: Inspired by Cindy!

Today, I wanted to share with you this fantastic layout by Cindy deRosier!

I LOVE the idea of using a mask to create a title like this using mists.  What I love about Cindy's version is the tone-on-tone approach she took with her misting and pen color, as well as the way she outlined the masked letters to really make them stand out!   Not to mention her amazing handwriting (at first glance I thought it was typed!), the subject she scrapped and the way she tells a story with her journaling.   That pretty much goes for all her scrapbook layouts!  She also has this beyond cute altered project in her scrappy repertoire:

These are recycled gerber puffs bottles!  Cindy used them as an inexpensive gift for all the moms in her son's playgroup!  Wouldn't these be an adorable Christmas decoration as well?  Or a cute container for holiday candies to give away to coworkers or neighbors?  How fabulous would it be to use some navy velvet ric rac from the store as the scarf?  Or some e-line bling as the buttons?! 

Think I'm going to have to make some snowmen.  And a layout with a masked title.  Cindy has definitely inspired my creativity!  I hope she has inspired yours too.   Please join us in thanking Cindy for sharing her ideas with us by stopping by her gallery on scrapbook.com or commenting below.  Hugs Cindy for letting me share, you rock! :) 

Have a great weekend everyone!!

FOUND: A Most FABULOUS Layout!!!

I stumbled upon this gorgeous, droolworthy, to DIE for layout last week in the scrapbook.com galleries and Asassyscrapper was most gracious to let me share her beautiful layout with y'all!

And look at this close up she posted of those gorgeous Primas!

So go check out all the details of the crackling, blinging and flowering she did to make this piece of art..... hop on over to Asassyscrapper's Gallery and leave her some love.  A big thank you from Flamingo Scraps for allowing us to share your beautiful layout.  I'm totally inspired!

If you're feeling the inspiration like me, stop by the store to pick up your very own flowers, bling and paper that are shown in the layout and make your very own!!

FOUND: Awesome Banner!

So I am frequently on the hunt for fabulous scrappy decor items.... and I stumbled upon the katie.bee.creative blog. How adorable is this banner by Katie Watson?!

And check out this fabulous use of Maya Resist to make these distressed chipboard letters:

So click on over to Katie's blog and see even more fabulous ways to use all your favorite Maya Road products!  And thank you Katie for sharing all your beautiful work!!