♫ 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

 

♥ 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

♥happy camper stew blog hop♥

WELCOME to the Jillibean Soup Happy Camper Stew Blog Hop

You should have arrived at my camper (a.k.a. my blog) via Cindy's Blog.

If you are coming down the trail and have come to my camper on the campground loop first, you may want to back-track the trail to start at the camp host HERE

 

 

Today, we are lucky to get to share with you the newest Jillibean Soup line, Happy Camper Stew.  It makes for a very "happy camper" here, indeed.  I have a TON of camping pictures and tons of outdoorsy friends (cards) so this is going to be an all-time fave of mine, hands down.

For the hop today, I thought I would share a layout I have just finished of my youngest, riding his trike around our campground loop. 

Road Trip

 

This child did not stop the entire day, he was on his "road trip".  He rode and rode and rode his bike.  He even took his trike off the paved road onto the trails (but that's a layout for another day)

The 3 Parts Critters paper is SO much fun to cut and layer.  I cut pieces of the trees and layered them after cutting them from the 12x12 sheet, looove them!

Aren't these campers and critters the cutest? 

Road Trip layout 

supplies:

 Happy Camper Stew
patterned paper

4 Parts Great Outdoors, 3 Parts Critters, Dash of Danger
Pea Pods
cardstock stickers labels
cardstock stickers shapes
kraft tags
placemats hexagon white

MISC:  vellum, sequins, 3-D tape, machine stitching, twine, staples

The next stop on the hop is through the woods to Emily's Camper

Thank you for visiting me on the hop, don't forget to bring lots of water and your snacks, you don't want to break from the trail too long!

happy creating♥

♥ life is good October Afternoon Travel Girl ♥

good morning!  how are you?  how was the weekend?  we had a great one with lots of much-needed family time. i was happy to be asked by mandy koeppen to participate in her scrap's challenge this week. it was so fun, and i had a PILE of itty bitty scraps from cards and projects as you can see below!

here's my scrap pile

and here's the layout i created with it

life is good layout

(yes, for a YEAR, every time i took this child's picture he would give me "funny face" and there's a LOT of different "funny faces")

 i wish i would've counted exactly how many different pieces, strips or block of scraps i used but it was fun to "quilt" them together

 this stack of suitcases may be one of my most favorites embellishments, i just love it!

 

 finding a home for even the punched shapes in my scraps pile

 i love all the embellishments in this line they are layered and lots of fun to play with!

 i hope you will pop in and say "hello" on the October Afternoon blog and see mandy's scrap pile and inspiration.  and PARTICIPATE in the challenge and share it in our OA FLICKR Gallery

thank you so much for your kind words and visits, it means the world to me!

hugs!

danni

♥ you are here Funky Town ♥

good morning.  i am sharing a layout created with literal SCRAPS from my June Funky Town Scraptastic Scrapbooking Kits.  

you are here layout

  i literally created my background patterned paper with my scraps, some 1/2" by 1", just scraps, and am very happy that i had enough to create a background, whew!

 

 my circles were create using Jillibean Soup Placemats.  while i have a Cameo could easily cut it myself, it's wonderful to have these placemats, they are gorgeous and the perfect weight

 love my October Afternoon Daily Flash date stamps, use it ALL the time

thank you so much for your visits and sweet notes, they make my day EVERY day.

hugs!

danni

♥ oa midway love ♥

just poppin' in to share some OA Midway projects for CHA.  i LOVE this line, it's playful, full of color and the coolest of embellies.  

first time driver layout

(cha  OA MIDWAY line)

hey man card

(cha OA MIDWAY line)

 admit one tag

(cha OA MIDAWAY line)

 

step right up tag

(cha OA MIDWAY line)

i will be posting my projects using the new OA Witch Hazel halloween line tomorrow.  i hope you'll come back and check out the amazing colors and embellies in the new line.

hugs & love

danni