BIRD, BIRTHDAYS & BRAND NEW SHOPS

I can't get enough of these birds! I just love these stamps and I've made a bunch of mini cards and tags with them. You can find them all in my etsy shop (of course) and they're probably not going away any time soon. I love them.

So, today is my birthday. Happy Birthday to me. :) It's not exciting and I probably wouldn't have remembered if my husband hadn't been counting down. It's funny how different birthdays are when you're older...have different priorities. I don't want a party or gifts. I have everything I want; my beautiful, happy, healthy family. And apparently, I'm getting sappier and sappier in my old age.

I've opened a brand new shop, Little Bird Scraps, on etsy. It's mostly for destashing my supplies right now. I'm considering maybe making my own embellishments to sell later. But I'll think about that some other time. Right now I just need to clean this space! So, if you're a crafter, scrapbooker, card maker or other artist, check out my shop for something you might 'need'.

Have a great June, everybody!!

VINTAGE LOVE & TREASURIES

I'm really trying to use up my stash before it gets outta control. Ok, well maybe before it gets MORE outta control :). I found an OLD LP kit that I ADORE with Daisy D's papers and I just had to use it up! I'm so glad I never got rid of some of my vintagey stuff 'cause, sure enough, I'm back into it. I miss Daisy D's so much :( Here's a peek at the 'School Days' album I made with it (you can find it in my etsy shop):

I also made these very simple mini notecards that I am completely in love with! These vintage inspired stamps are to DIE for - I just love love love them. Can't wait to open the other sets I just 'had to have'! These cards are also in my etsy shop.

I had the 2nd set listed for maybe an hour on etsy before I was notified that they were in TWO treasuries!! YAY ME! Thank you to the lovely etsians who curated these treasuries and included my sweet little birds :)

Happy Hump Day!

ALTERNATES & MINIS

It's been a busy week but I did manage to get my other kits opened and used! I decided to make some more 'tags in tins' sets - hope you like 'em!

Don't forget to pray for our men and women in uniform and their families - we owe our FREEDOM to them! Happy Memorial Day weekend, everybody!

MAY KIT

I got my Life Preservers Club May kits last week and I'm in love. Like always. *sigh* Von does not disappoint! The exclusive stamp set is fabulous too. I got three of the kits this month - that's showing some constraint (junkie much??) - but I was assigned the featured kit to design with. Here's what I did with it:

I still have a long way to go before I kill the kit but I'm determined to use it ALL up before moving on to the next one. The others are just scrumptious too. I've gotta hurry cuz I'm dying to open 'em!

I got some great news this weekend too. I've been invited to sell my wares on another indie site! YAY ME!! Once I have the details ironed out, I'll let you know where else I'll be. It's so exciting!

Have an awesome week, everybody!

CHALLENGE

It's my turn to do the weekly challenge over at Life Preservers Club today, so, here's my challenge - find something and alter it! I altered an altoids tin (yeah, I know it's been a while) and some mini gift tags. You'll find these on etsy soon.

HEY THERE

It's been a couple of weeks since we last spoke (surprise!). We've been busy with the usual Spring things; garage sales, consignment sales, birthday parties and dates. Yup, Ethan had his first date last week - he took his 'best friend' to see Monsters Vs Aliens. How sweet is that? It's kinda sad that after Pre-School, they won't be in the same elementary school :( We'll have to make a concerted effort to get some playdates going.

We had a mini crop this weekend over at Life Preservers Club to celebrate National Scrapbooking Day. The DT came up with some awesome challenges, so be sure to stop by and check them out! My challenge was to 'kill a kit', ie: use your teeniest scraps to finish off some used up papers. I used my LP April Project Kit (cosmo cricket) to make these tags and card. So, take my challenge this week and kill off some of those scraps you're collecting!

Have a great week, everybody! :D

APRIL & PHOTOS

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter! I had a wonderful day yesterday. The weather was beautiful and we all went to church together (quite a feat if you know my husband) :). The service was wonderful. Afterwards we came home and had a great lunch with my sister and her family, an Easter egg hunt for the kids and then some much needed rest!

Here are some photos of the Easter egg hunt we went to at the church on Saturday and some random photos of our Easter Sunday AND some pages I've done with my April LP Kit so far.