Debbie loved working with this challenge and using these colorful papers by Lily Bee Design. Can you spot the arrows? One is pointing right at her son and the other is part of the timeless clock!

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Hello!  My name is Cassie and I live in the Mile High City, Denver.   I am married and we have an 11 year old Schnauzer named Bruno.  Both my husband and my dog are frequent subjects of my crafting.

I got into scrapbooking when I was just 17 years old.  My sister had just given birth to my nephew and she took me with her to a scrapbooking store.  I have always been a pretty crafty person and everything in the store looked fun so I went ahead and bought some stuff and the rest has been history.  To see more of my work be sure to check out my blog.  Also make sure you check out the blogs of the rest of the design team.  We have some serious talent here that provide great inspiration.

This week for our challenge I decided to feature the song's of our lives.  If you are anything like me then music is a big and important part of every day.  So this week I want to you use a song lyric somewhere on your project.  It can be from any song in any genre.  Just make sure you have fun thinking about it and let us know who the artist is so maybe we can get to know some great new music.  

If you play along this week or any week in the month of July you have a shot at winning our awesome July prize pack.  Each time you enter a challenge this month you get entered to win.  So get crafting, put those thinking caps on and let's see what great song lyrics you can come up with for your projects this week. 


 For my layout this week I used Sarah Mclachlan's song "Loving You is Easy".  The lyrics I used are "loving you is easy, loving you is wonderous, shout it from the rooftops".











Pat used the lyrics from Rascal Flats My Wish. She thinks it fits perfectly for her wish for her grand daughters. Pat love's using music on her pages. She used B0-Bunny papers, Pink Paislee alphas , SU punches & Primas.

For her layout, Jessica was inspired by Abba's song, Slipping Through My Fingers - which is also featured in her favorite go-to scrapping movie, Mamma Mia! The song always makes her a little teary-eyed, knowing that her kiddos are growing up way too fast.


She took a little liberty with the line, capture every minute - only because she didn't have the right letters in her stash. ;)









Puppy Love. Diana capture the innocents of her son's first love in these photos. As a teen Diana was in love with Donny Osmond and this was one of her favorite songs. Seeing her young Son, so in love with Jessica brought back a lot of memories of her own. Young Love what a wonderful feeling.

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This is getting more and more difficult every week, We are having a hard time picking 3 favs. from all the wonderful work you ladies are posting. We can only pick 3 so here we go:



Annika


Theresa



Colleen



Aren't these wonderful?!! Ladies if you would like your top 3 blinkie, email me at danica4us@yahoo.com!!!

Be sure to check back tomorrow morning for a brand new challenge.... you are going to love it!!!

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ALOHA!  My name is Erika Hayes, I live in sunny Arizona (even though my heart is in Hawaii - where I grew up) with an amazing husband and four of the greatest kids ever! I have a beautiful Great Dane, a spunky Border Collie Mix and a little 3.5lb Yorkie!  (yes-- I have that sort of sense of humor). I also have a psudo grandson, my best friends son is my shining star.. He scrapbooks too! (Joni P is my BF! Love that girl. She is awesome!)
I began scrapbooking in well... I am not really sure of the year. I think it was like 1999. I was a stamper prior to my scrapbooking, which is a funny story in itself!  I chose to scrapbook because deep down inside I am an author. I should be writing a novel or something, but instead I chose to scrapbook because I relish all the little stories I may forget. (did I mention I have four kids and three dogs-- yeah I'm lucky I remember my own name!)  I really love the journaling aspect of scrapbooking.  I also love color and photography so scrapbooking is a natural fit for me! I also enjoy quilting, which I don't do as much of as I would like to. You can see more of my work by visiting my blog... click HERE to go to it!!

I chose to feature border punches because I think since re-appearing on the scrapbook scene, they have truly found a secure place.  I have watched scrapbooking change so much over the years and the old is now being made new. (Just like clothes!--hold on to those 1980s Franky T-shirts girls!)  I am always looking for that little something to finish a layout, somehow the fun of border punches adds that visual texture that so many of us are looking for.  I created the layout for this wonderful product and realized its not just border punches that I adore!  The flower on the layout is actually made from a circle punch.

 I hope you enjoy all the great ideas that this fabulous design team has put together for this fun challenge and don't forget to add your layout for a chance to win this prize being offered!!  Wouldn't you like to find this in your mailbox?!! You have to play to win!! Be sure to become a follower as well!!

I look forward to peeking at all your great border punch ideas.
Cassie used the Fiskars Effervecence border punch on one of the patterned paper strips under the photo.

Debbie used one of her favorite Fiskar Border Punches, Scallop!


Now... get out those punches and let us see what you can do!! Be sure to link up your project for a chance to win this month's prize!!

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Hello!! Thank you to everyone who submitted a project and played along with our felt challenge this week! I love seeing all the talent each week and I learn so much from all of you!! The hardest part is narrowing it down to just 3 to receive the award, but this week we picked......

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Hi I’m Pat, I live in VT with my husband Dale. We have 2 grown sons, a daughter- in- law, 2 precious granddaughters & 2 Shih-Tzu’s. I started scrapping when our 1st grand daughter was born 8 yrs ago. Once I figured out what I was doing & knew this was the hobby for me I was in love!
Then I realized as my granddaughters got older & were looking through their albums, we are not just putting pictures on pretty paper we are documenting “our history”. This is our lives, our joys, our tears, the good, & the bad for all future generations to see.
I am proud to be a scrapbooker. The keeper of our history. You can read more about me and find my work by clicking HERE!!

Are you ready for a new challenge??? Here it is , yup we want you to get out your felt & use it on your project.
On my LO I used Bazzil c/s, pattern paper is Best Creation, Thicker alphas,  the felt stars & pennants were cut using the Cricut, SU scallop punch, & word window punch, misc. ribbons, brads & gems. I used a sketch from My Sketch World.

Have fun & remember you have a chance at the July prize each time you enter a project.




Here are the rest of the design team projects!

Diana used the pagemap sketch from this months challenge for this one. She used the felt as a banner and then again on the bottom left.



Joni caught her son calling their Grape Arbor ...  "GrapeBARBER"....(all one word).  So, she immediately took a photo and jotted it down to document.  She used Fancy Pants Orange Felt Border (adhered w/brads), Queen & Co Leafy felt border up the right side & Jolee's felt leafs clustered under the Maya Road owl.  Journal spot, chipboard accents & paper is Bella Blvd Man Around the House line.




Barb found these cute little felt stickers that matched perfectly with the DCWV paper she had. She used a white gel pen to add some detail around the edges of her page and to give the circles some "stitches"!




For this fun challenge, Kim used all felt embellishments. The fun loopy border, the buttons, flower, and flourishes are felt pieces from a 75% off bucket at a local store.





Jessica accented her self-adhesive felt border from Kaiser Craft with brightly colored buttons to coordinate with the patterned paper she used on the layout.





Now is your turn... let's see what you can do!! Be sure to link up your projects for a chance to win!!!

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WOW!!!! you guys are sure making it more and more difficult to choose the top 3. We are loving all the LO/Cards/Project.

Top 3 for our Patriotic, Red, White and Blue challenge are!!!!!!!

 Congratulations ladies!! If you would like the Top 3 blinkie, please send an email to barbcraft@comcast.net!

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Now since it is July, that means we have a new amazing prize!



For a chance to win this prize, you need to become a follower and play along! Each time you enter a project you earn a chance to win this July prize package. The more you enter, the more chances you have to win. At the end of the month we will do a random draw from all the entires to determine a winner. So what are you waiting for?! Dig through those pictures and papers and lets create!
 
*We would like to thank Debbie for donating this fabulous prize this month!!
 
Now.... let's see what the rest of the design team did with this week's challenge!!
 
 
Joni doesn't often do 2 pagers, but she had a lot of photos that supported the story of her son's FIRST EVER donut at the age of 6...yea that's why it was layout worthy!! She actually had this layout and paper picked out when she realized it was red, white & blue AND had stars and stripes on it!


Joni demonstrated that a layout didn't really have to be "patriotic" and could still fit the theme.

So with that new realization flashing through her head, she did a second layout, also not patriotic, that meets the challenge.

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