I am up and at ‘em!  However, I still need to shower and make the dogs pretty for the photo shoot today! I will let you know how it goes!

I will leave you with some layouts:

[Introducing...] The challenge was to base your layout off of an ad, so I chose this digital photography ad and used a 4×12 picture from Las Vegas of the Paris restaurant. Products used: Bazzill, Cat Eye inks, American Crafts, Colorbok, Zig writer, and Making Memories.

[Content...for now] I decided to scrap using some older pattern paper from Reminisce, but my favorite: Stripestock – Elizabeth.  I also used Bazzill, Making Memories, EK Success, and Zig writers. In the layout you see Natalia relaxing on James’s belly. She sat there for about an hour. Just looking around and being content.

Click twice to view bigger size:

Forever is not long enough:

Colorbok, Creative Imaginations, Cosmo Cricket, October Afternoon, Adornit, and Scenic Route.

dreams: Making Memories paper and border tape, Fancy Pants die cuts, Staples, Arctic Frog alphabet, and Zig pen.

Of Course: paper – October Afternoon, green apple – October Afternoon, red apple – K&Co, Thickers, ribbon.

"buy the kid a million toys, only to have her play with her bottle lid"

And here's one I did for fun!!! I had to use the new Pink Paisley paper I obtained at Scrapaganza on Saturday!!

Hey Rach: alpha stickers – K&Co and Arctic Frog, rub-ons – Hambly, paper – Pink Paisley, sticker – 7Gypsies, die cuts – Fancy Pants, Zig writer, and embellishment – KI Memories

It's 6:30AM…what could I have done that would deserve a "congrats"?

So, I text "?"

Deb texts, "you will see"

great.

I had to hang in suspense until a couple minutes ago. I was in google reader and saw this:

July Blog Winners

Yeah!

"Next Challenge… With all of the weddings that go on in the summer we are going on a wedding theme… KIND OF… Your layout DOES NOT have to have anything to do with weddings… just contain the following…
*Something old
*Something new
*Something borrowed
*Something blue

Fun, huh?? ALSO…. we want to make this month HUGE… so if someone submits and tells us you [that's me Rachel] referred them (and you submit) we will have an extra "goodie" for you!! Tell all of your friends and family! We will have the Design Diva post their layouts soon. Have fun with it! When submitting please include a list of your four things. Please e-mail entries to scrapaganzaonline@gmail.com or post a link in these comments. Entries are due July 31. Thanks again for playing and good luck!"

Dream Big…or don't dream at all: used bazzill, around the block brad, zig pens, MM brads and everything listed below.

Something old: Junkitz fabric swatch (from 2004). 

Something new: October Afternoon flower embellishment and Rusty Pickle paper that I just picked up from Scrapaganza

Something borrowed: the photo – taken by my photographer (Ambroja Photography), however, I do have rights to all the photos.

Something blue: the blue on my dress and James's tie!!

Anyone who was at the wedding would know that I used this color of bazzill because it is the same color of roses and the middle of the stargazers in my bouquet!

layout #1 is complete!!  I’m in love with the kit I got. I used this part of the kit first because it was my least favorite, but I love the kit overall and got a lot of goodies for my money!!

Not the normal color scheme I would go with, so I jazzed it up a bit with some October Afternoon (love that yummy green apple color!), some of the new Thickers (again, yummy!), Stampendous jewel stickers, and a unicorn brad that says, ‘magic’ – can’t remember the company (whoever made that crappy label maker that I hated!!). It will come to be because I can see the packaging in my head…I think around the block??

This layout is based on when I went to Des Moines to see Janet Evanovich do a Q&A during her book tour for 12 Sharp. She was hillarious…I’m sure you could find the posts on my blog – it was in the summer of 2006, I think. Jen and I waited in line for hours and hours…we got sun burned and ordered pizza and had it delivered to the stairs we were sitting on!! We got awesome seats and had a blast!!

FYI to Deb – the new watermelon thickers are made to match this line’s colors…something to think (or vent) about…

12:

from this weekend!  The cute, little store we went to (see previous post) had the entire signature series, so I had to indulge!

The Cat’s Meow: Reminisce, MM ribbon

Service: Reminisce

Rescue Dog: Reminisce, Zig Pen

These are some of the layouts I produced from a 2 day crop (Friday 12-Midnight and Saturday 10-Midnight) in Eldridge, IA. I had a really fun time with mom and Rose!!

Products:

1. Scenery: Basic Grey, MM rub-ons, Reminisce stickers, Hambly transparency, Sassafras Lass embellishments, SIS TV paper, staples.
2. What a Hoot: Sassafras Lass, Scenic Route chipboard, 7 gypsies tag, KI memories and Stampendous stamps, BoBunny Chipboard, Fancy Pants transparency, Creative Imaginations jewels
3. Peace and Love: Daisy D’s, SIS TV, Sassafras Lass, Stampendous sticker, Sandy Lion Stickers
4. Adore: Yellow bicycle paper and embellishment, Thickers, buttons.
5. Birthday: SIS TV, Scenic Route chipboard, Thickers
6. Beautiful: Bazzill, Maya Road embellishment, Prima flowers, buttons, October Afternoon rub-on, MME Bohemia transparency.
7. Another Pic: Basic Grey, Thickers, buttons, MM rub-on, variety of Reminisce alphabet rub-ons.