Hello Friends! I hope that all of my US friends have recovered from Thanksgiving! I don't know about you, but I ate WAY too much!! But hey, that's part of the holidays, right? It was so nice to get together with our family this year and it just made my heart so happy to be around everyone again. God is so Good!

So, today I'm sharing a layout about a fave in the Weatherspoon house, PIZZA! We all love it so much!! We love making pizza, getting pizza delivered and of course ordering pizza at a restaurant. This particular pizza was from one of all-time favorite spots, UNO's in Orlando!! YUM!!



For this 9x12 layout, I decided to pull out some patterned paper. I used the Some Days collection from Pink Fresh studio. I just love the graphics on this paper!! I also used some fantastic dies from Scrapbook.com, the Nested Hexagons and Bold Basics alpha die. I die cut the alpha's using the Playful paper pack and the colors just worked perfectly with the patterned paper. 

To finish off this layout, I used the cutest embellishments from the Cute and Crafty collection from Doodlebug Design. Those sweet little smiley faces just fit in perfectly with this spread. Oh, one thing that I definitely wanted to mention is about the photos. I was listening to an episode of the Life Handmade podcast from Scrapbook.com (episode 30 to be exact) and they were speaking to Chari Pack the founder of Persnickety Prints and just had to try their prints. And, I LOVE THEM!!! They offer a variety of sizes and they actually do what they call Press Prints where the photos are printed onto beautiful card stock. I only did a few of those because I wasn't sure if would I like it, but honestly, I don't think I want to print on regular photo paper again, LOL! I highly recommend them!

Well, that's it for me today. I sure hope you liked today's layout. Have a great day and thank you so much for stopping by!

Hugs,

Carol

*Affiliate links used when possible at no additional cost to you.




 

Hello Friends! I'm guest designing for Spellbinders (somebody, please pinch me)!! I'm super excited to share a couple of super cute stamp sets from the Cardmaker II Stamp Collection.



I used two stamp sets from this collection, Simple Sentiments and New Start for this card. I absolutely love the fonts used in Simple Sentiments stamp set, they are so fun and fresh. Since I was making an encouragement card, I thought the butterfly would fit in perfectly. So, I heat embossed the image with silver embossing powder and then just ink blended the wings and "sky." This card just makes me smile! I sure hope you like it too!

Head on over to the Spellbinders site to take a look at all the stamps released in this collection. Trust me, you won't be disappointed!

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Hugs,
Carol

*Affiliate links used when possible at no additional cost to you



Hello Friends! I know it's been a little quiet around here lately. Well, my birthday was last weekend and I had a BUSY weekend! My hubby and cutie pie daughter took me out to a terrific dinner (nothing like surf and turf), then on Saturday I was hanging out with 700+ crafty friends at the Pink Fresh Studio Create and Connect event. It was SO fun and the products...AWESOME. I will be using the stamps, dies and stencils over and over again!! Then, my day job was extremely busy this past week so I'm finally getting a little crafty time in, thank goodness!

So, today I'm sharing a super fun scrapbook page. A few weeks ago I picked Paige up from aftercare and when I walked into to the outdoor classroom, I found her reading to some younger kiddos. It was the cutest thing I have ever seen! I had to sneak up on her so I could get this picture before she realized I was there. 




Paige absolutely loves to read and it just warmed my heart to see her sharing the joy of reading. For this layout, I used 6 different dies from Scrapbook.com. If you haven't visited their site lately, they have a lot of great dies available right now! I used the following dies for this card: Sprigs , Typewriter Alpha
Uptown Alpha , Nested Pockets , Nested Decorative Circles and the  Nested A2 Rectangles.

I had so much fun creating this layout. I hope you enjoyed it as well. Thank you so much for stopping by!

Hugs,
Carol

*Affiliate links used when possible at no additional cost to you