♥ 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

♥ 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

♥ Travel Girl Hop winner and a card ♥

i wanted to pop in here to say THANK YOU to every.single.person who stopped by my blog during the October Afternoon Travel Girl blog hop

your comments and time meant the world to me and i thank YOU!

onto the winner of the tin pins.  the random lucky winner is:

arlsmom aka LyndaJune 12, 2013 at 10:41 AM

Your projects are always so fresh! Love each one...especially the pillow box!! Fun stuff!

CONGRATULATIONS, October Afternoon will be sending you a package of these fun embellies!

 and what would a post be without a little scrappy fun?  here's a Christmas card i have created, still staying on schedule with those, am really happy and will continue to share here

 no peeking card

 i just received the new Jillibean Soup Happy Camper Stew and can i just say it is the cuuuuutest camping line, oh my!  i am working on projects for next month with it, a layout as we speak, finally my camping pictures will have a home!

thank you again for your sweet notes and visits,

hugs!

danni

♥ OA Travel Girl Sketch ♥

good morning!  i am up today on the October Afternoon blog today with a new sketch and card using the Travel Girl line.  

when going through my embellishments and papers from the Travel Girl line, i knew i wanted to create a sketch that would allow lots of freedom to play with some of my favorite embellishments from this line.

miscellany

 

 

 tid bits

 

 here is a sneak peek of the sketch i created today

and a sneak of the card i created with the sketch

 i hope you'll pop over and say 'hello'

and see the sketch, my card and a card by Laura Craigie

using the sketch

thanks for visiting and for your sweet notes! 

 OH!  remember you can still participate in the October Afternoon Travel Girl Blog Hop for a chance to win some Travel Girl goodies

hugs & love!

danni

♥ October Afternoon Travel Girl Blog Hop ♥

Hello and Welcome to the October Afternoon Travel Girl Blog Hop

The October Afternoon Travel Girl line is going to go down as an all-time favorite October Afternoon line for me.  I love, love the blues, greens, reds, grey, orange and yellow ALL together.  It makes this line so much more versatile than at first glance, a line perfect for my boys and perfect for my daughter who loves to wear red and orange.  (And YES, there's pink too, it has it all)  I love the "B" sides on all these pages and the "A" sides are perfect for those who want/need a travel-theme.

To show just how versatile this line is, I created a "baby sleeping" door hanger, "thanks coach" pillowbox and a card using the papers in this line, loooove this line.  I will also share a "sneak peek" of a card created with this line for my OA Blog Post tomorrow. (another color palette in addition to the ones below)

Shhhhh, baby(ies) sleeping door hanger

I think these "Do Not Disturb" Miscellany cards are going to go down as all-time faves of mine, the images are soooo cute and I can think of so many uses for them non-travel related


 Travel Girl Miscellany

Aren't these birds the cutest?
 Not only are the cards fabulous, but the stickers and buttons having me swooning!

Next up is a pillowbox I created for one of our basketball coaches this year.  We intend to put some cash in there, he commuted to and from practice and gas money is always a necessity this day in age...smile

 Gas Money Pillowbox

 I cut the pillowbox using my Cameo file and large enough to hold some money for gas.  And
I thought it would be fun to have a little play on the theme of the line and since you can read "Paris" and "London"

And how about a card?

Hello card

 I loooove the Daily Flash alphas coming out too, I could forever create with this font!

And how about a sneak peek of a card that will be posted tomorrow with yet another color combo?

 

This card will post tomorrow on the OA Blog with the most recent sketch 

You should've arrived at my blog from Alex's blog, if you didn't, you can start the hop on the October Afternoon blog

AND make sure to leave comments on the October Afternoon blog (for a Grand Prize) and on the designer blogs.  each designer will be giving away a Travel Girl embellishment on her blog

Here's the awesome embellishment I will be giving away to one random participant

Travel Girl Tin Pins!!!

 

 You can participate in the hop and leave comments through June 18th 11:59 pm PST.  Winners will be announced on June 19th.

And your next step along the way is the sweet Laura Craigie

Thank you so much for "hopping" along with us!  

I'll be back tomorrow with the sketch and a new Travel Girl card

hugs!

danni

♥ scrappy shares ♥

Good evening!  I wanted to share some cards that I have been working on with scraps on my desk, drawers, favorite scrap piles and scraps from the May Destination Unknown Kit over at Scraptastic Scrapbooking Kits

Happy Birthday Card

(inside reads: sweet pea)

 

  I used a tag from an old Crate Paper line, Pretty Party

yes, i still have a couple of these tags, they are some of my absolute faves and i haven't used all of them....yet

Yes, I did.

I used a chipboard piece from Cosmo Cricket's Garden Variety line (i know, i know, but seriously how cute are these peas?)

On my second card, I used scraps from the May Destination Unknown Kit and one of my album pages from October Afternoon Woodland Park line

 

Life is Good Card

 I cut the album page down to tag size and stitched and adhered to these cute papers from the Scraptastic May Destination Unknown Kit

And here is a couple of pics of the card I posted on the October Afternoon blog using the new Travel Girl line

And, how about another Christmas card?

Joy...Finding our Perfect Tree Card

 thank you  so much for visiting and for your incredibly sweet comments every day!  

hugs & so much love!

danni

♥ Travel Girl ♥

hello!  today is hubby's birthday, so i will keep this quick to share a link with you.  i am up on the October Afternoon blog today along with Jill.  she created an amazing sketch today, perfect for layouts.  today i scaled back her sketch to show how adaptable it is for cards too.

here is a sneak peek of the card i created using the new Travel Girl line.  i hope you'll pop over and see the sketch and the rest of my card and Jill's layout♥

i am LOVING the new alphas released with the Daily Flash too!!!

thanks for visiting me today, school is almost out and then we'll have lots of creating/fun time, yay!

hugs & love!

danni