♥ creating a passwords/login notebook tutorial ♥

good morning.  i'm out the door, back to work after a beautiful break with my children and hubby.  blessed to be going to work with beautiful children but missing my wee ones already.  i wanted to share that i am up on the October Afternoon blog today and hope you'll pop in and say hello.

here's a sneak peek of my tutorial

have a beautiful day.

happy creating♥

danni

♥ christmas, thank yous, goodbye 2013 ♥

good afternoon, the last afternoon of 2013, seems impossible really. 

today i wanted to share some more thank you and Christmas cards created with the October Afternoon Silent Night line and DF Eggnog lines

 

 

 

 happy, happy new year everyone!!!

danni

 

♥ it's october and fall and halloween ♥

i LOVE this time of year, love every last detail 

EXCEPT

spooky halloween stuff

so i was absolutely OVER the moon to receive the October Blackbird Kit

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isn't it gorgeous? 
 i LOVE this kit, love, love it.  it's so fun!

i wanted to share two halloween treat bags i created this year

this first one is a "Neighborly Boo" treat bag and was delivered to one of our neighbors, secretly

and here is the page of instructions i printed and put inside the treat bag

and here's a treat bag for one of my kids' teachers

and this week Laura and I created cards for Fall on the October Afternoon Blog using the new Daily Flash Apple Cider line which i absolutely LOOOOVE.

here is the card i came up with using this line

 and i couldn't stop there either

 

thanks for visiting me, happy creating♥

danni

♫ can you hear the music ♪

good morning.  sorry for the lack of posts, we are getting ready to be back to school and with 4 kids, it's never dull during this time of preparation. 

orientations....check

school clothes shopping.....check (not even peeking at my bank account)

basketball open gyms before tryouts.....check

hair cuts.....check

i know you know the routine, i won't keep going...giggle

on a scrappy note, today my sweet friend Alex and I are up on the October Afternoon blog with a new sketch this week and our interpretations of it.  When creating this week's sketch, I wanted to create a sketch that would allow me the freedom to play with some of these Ipod pics of my daughter and her "favorites" right now.  I also wanted a sketch that would emphasize large focal elements and love how Alex interpreted the sketch for her little guy!

can you hear the music sketch 

 

music, music, music layout

 (i'm sorry it's not the best pics, but it was getting dark outside when i took these)

  

I cut the large music notes and title with my silhouette and backed it with fun new papers from the OA Daily Flash GIrl Talk line.  I only have one daughter and this paper is one I would buy in multiples, it is THAT awesome

 the tin pins are so much fun in this line, i love layering them with all the various die-cuts and tidbits

 i hope you'll pop in and say hello and see the amazing layout by Alex.

thank you so much for your visits and notes♥

hugs!

danni

 

♥ october afternoon travel girl ♥

good morning! how was your weekend?  we are thoroughly enjoying every last second of our summer, even if it's doing nothing :)

today i am up on the October Afternoon blog along with Laura Craigie to share an altered notebook created for her challenge today.  Her challenge was to use speech bubbles.  In the new Daily Flash mini lines, there are LOTS of speech bubbles and they are so much fun.  i originally set out to design a card, but when i started pulling out my papers, came across this fun journal card and very aged, actually pretty rugged, composition notebook and an idea was born.  

i cut a speech bubble background so i could back it with this fun patterned paper and make it look as though rain speech bubbles couldn't dampen her smile

 

thank you so much for joining me today, i hope you'll pop in and say hello and see the fun cards Laura created with speech bubbles and a little more of Daily Flash!

hugs & so much love!

danni

♥ hello monday ♥

and what a wonderful monday it is.  sunny, blue, crisp, slightly cooler skies and my babes talking in the background, i love days like these.  we will ride bikes, visit the library, finish some work, read, and maybe even picnic, i love summertime.  even when you do 'nothing' you're doing something, life is good♥

today i wanted to share some projects with you.  CHA is finished, everything's all boxed up and i am excited to begin sharing some stuff here.  also, i have another member birthday card over at Scraptastic Scrapbooking Kit forum and some Jillibean Soup cards and an October Afternoon blog post.  so let me keep the words to a minimum and just share new products i know you'll love.

let me start with a sneak peek of my post over on the October Afternoon blog

i'm up with Amy Heller with a new challenge and some new October Afternoon Daily Flash we'd love for you to pop in and say "hello"

and here is my card on the Jillibean Soup blog today, love the new Happy Camper Stew line

aren't these little guys soooo cute?  i {heart} them

and here is some of my projects using the new October Afternoon Public Library line

i also used the new October Afternoon Daily Flash roller stamps and i could not love these more, i use them on every page, OA or not.

 

and a card or two or three

 friends card

 hello friend card

 hello there card

and how about a bookmark, because it IS the PUBLIC LIBRARY after all.....giggle

where you "fell asleep" reading (picture of my son reading) bookmark

i don't know about you or your children, but we ALL fall asleep reading and so i wanted to create a bookmark for my son, because we are always putting in his bookmark when he falls asleep :)

and here is the card i created today using my leftover Project Life cards from Scraptastic Scrapbooking Kits Project Life  this month's JULY kit:  This Life Noted was absolutely packed full of supplies as i have shared on the blog here with my multiple spreads and  i still have a couple of journal cards left that didn't work for my amusement park week but work perfectly for cards, loooove.

 aren't these Project Life cards just gorgeous? i love them!  this was created for a member's birthday today, so pop in and wish her a HAPPY BIRTHDAY

whew, i am sorry that i had such a long post, but it's been awhile since i had some free morning time, and needed to update this poor blog of mine.  i hope you have a wonderful monday, enjoying the summer where you are, love to you!

danni