I {Heart} Baker's Twine

I rarely post about giveaways unless it is a team I am on but this one is so good it has to be shared!  The Twinery is giving away 2 complete sets of their baker's twine!  I love this stuff!  And their colors are amazing!  You can find all the details HERE.

Here is what you can win.  Isn't it pretty?

And in case you aren't familiar with Baker's Twine and are wondering what you would do with it...here are a few of my projects where I have used it!

A Month?

How has an entire month gone by without me posting anything?  I guess that happens when you are the wife of a teacher and are never home in the summer! :) 

Things should start to calm down around here and I should be able to get back to my regular schedule!  We just got back from Camp Sherman...our 10th one!  We took 30 awesome teenagers camping for 5 days.  They were all great kids and we had a blast!  Here are just a couple of the 400 pictures I took!

Hoping to get some scrapping in this week as Tadd starts back into XC practices.  Isaac's 8th (how did that happen?) birthday is next weekend with a couple parties and he starts soccer that weekend as well.  Guess maybe I was wrong about things calming down! ;)

Did you see?

The Punky Sprouts design team got to design with Becky Fleck's Pagemaps for the July Newsletter!  I always enjoy doing that!  Her sketches are so fun to work with!  Here is my page:

I used some of Sassafras's new Sunshine Broadcast line along with Punky Sprouts' lil stems for hte strip and to make the flowers.

Want to win some Punky goodness?  You have TWO WAYS TO WIN!
1) Use Punky products and any of the July sketches at PageMaps and post it to the Punky Blog or FB page by July 31st!  The dt will pick our favorite!

2) Use the sketch on the PageMaps blog to make a layout and link it up there!

Here is what you can win for both of those:

Playing with Actions

I love playing with actions in my PhotoShop Elements and had some fun this morning just playing around with some pictures we took this weekend.  We went downtown to see the ships on the waterfront but when we got down there, we realized that it was the morning of the Rose Parade!  Oops!  Luckily, we found some room on a curb on the top of the Burnside bridge!  These are some pictures Tadd took at the parade and I took of the ships, kids and Portland sign (which I've always wanted to get a picture of!).  Because I was just playing, I used a different action on every photo!  Fun!  These are all free and I've given you the source.  I'd love to know what you think!  Tell me which is your favorite action!

SOOC (Straight Out of Camera):

Coffee Shop: Soft Autumn Glow

 

SOOC:

 Pioneer Woman: Colorized

 

SOOC:

Coffee Shop: Bold Pop

 

SOOC:

 Pioneer Woman: Seventies

 

SOOC:

 Coffee Shop: Velvet Cream

 

SOOC:

 Coffee Shop: Sunny Pop

 

SOOC:

 Coffee Shop: Color Pop 2

 

SOOC:

 Coffee Shop: Butterscotch Vintage

 

SOOC:

MCP: Mini Fusion

Geology Geek

I did this layout a couple months ago while at the beach with some friends and just realized that it never made it up on my blog!  Thought it was good timing to post it since my Geology Geek is currently on a science field trip with about 80 of his high school students!  Thanks for looking!

Using some MLS Scraps!

After making the 2 cards for Erin's teachers, my scraps form My Little Shoebox have been sitting on my table.  Last night I decided I should play with the stamps...I don't do enough stamping!  I loved this little flower stamp!  I stamped it in a line across the yellow paper and then stamped it on 3 different colors of scraps of MLS I had!  A great way to use up the little pieces!  I then cut the colored flowers out and applied 3D Crystal Lacquer to them.  I have kind of been on a 3D Crystal Lacquer kick lately!  Then once they dried, I used some pop dots and placed them over the flowers I had already stamped.  The happy stamp is also from MLS.  I stamped it and then drew over the letters with the Crystal Lacquer...it is a fun, shiny look!  And since my favorite thing in scrapbooking right now is tiny alphabets, I used some of mine from MLS to spell out birthday!

Last Day of Preschool

Today was Erin's last day of preschool...for this year.  She'll be at the same preschool next year but with a different teacher.  Her teacher this year was also Isaac's teacher for his 2 years of preschool so I think next year will be a bit strange (for me) at least at first! :)  Here is a picture of how happy she is to have the summer start!  (ok, not really, she just liked the bouncy house!)

I made a few thank you cards for the teacher and assistant.  I used some My Little Shoebox Farmer's Market that I had left from this album!  Such great paper and can be used for way more than "farm"!