BIG week for NEW products!!!!

I'm trying to make room in the store for all the new wonderful products coming in, and the same goes with my stash, too!  I'm trying to use up some older products!

I used the Lily Bee Sweet Shoppe collection, and there is still a bit of it left HERE in the store!

My page is based on today's sketch at the My Scraps & More Sketch Blog!  The new DT had their first reveal, so check out the sketch and link up a page!!  Visit it HERE.

My page is pretty simple.  I mounted a piece of white cardstock with the edges cut at a skew onto of the grey herringbone patterned paper, and stitched around the edge with black thread.  Then I splattered the page with blue and red mists.  The triangle "banner" is actually a piece of patterned paper that I cut and then just stiched to a thin piece of paper to keep it from ripping.  I painted some Studio Calico wood stars with black paint and also used some SC star rubons that matched, too.

I used some chipboard banner pieces, flair, stickers and fabric brads from Lily Bee for the cluster as well as the plastic xoxo from Studio Calico and some twine to tie it all together.

Finally, on the chipboard speech bubble (also from Lily Bee), I stamped a subtitle and placed it over my photo.  Then some other little stars, buttons, and bits scattered around the page.

OK, so are you ready for some NEW stash!  Here is a list of everything that is arriving THIS WEEK!!!!

All of these should be in on Friday:

American Crafts Amy Tan Plus One
American Crafts Dear Lizzy Day Dreamer
Crate Paper Boys Rule
Crate Paper Oh Darling
Crate Paper Maggie Holmes Styleboard
Studio Calico Lemon Lush
Studio Calico Wanderlust
Echo Park Splendid Sunshine
Echo Park Mini Themes

Also arriving within the next week:

October Afternoon Daily Flash (Snapshots, All Boy, Girl Talk)
Simple Stories (Homespun and Simple Sets)
MME (Now & Then, Chalk Studio, Record It!)

Oh my gosh just a ton of goodness coming our way!!!!!!!!!!

We also have some EXCITING stuff going on on the forum this coming weekend.  Join us for our 2nd Annual "Love Is In the Air" crop starting Friday!

(Thanks to Nadine, board member and Sketch DT member for the blinkie!)

Hope you can join in on the fun!

The winner of the $10 gift certificate to the store from last weeks comments is:

Please contact me at info@myscrapsandmore.com with your email and address information so I can get your certificate to you!  You have one week from today to claim your prize!

WEEKLY GIVEAWAY:

For your chance to win a $10 gift certificate to the store, leave a comment on each blog post throughout the week.  At the end of the week, I choose a random day and a random commentor to win the prize!  Prize must be claimed within one week of announcing the winner!

Have a great week everyone!

Giveaway Monday-Lily Bee!

I just read this morning on the Lily Bee blog that the owner, Kristin, has decided to step away for a while because of some big life events.  You can read all the details HERE on the Lily Bee blog.

I have always LOVED Lily Bee products and have been working with some of their latest releases the past few weeks.  Here is a page I made with this sketch from this past Friday on the My Scraps & More Sketch Blog.

I stuck closely to the sketch and added a few other elements there and there.  I have been using my Cameo a LOT lately to make my titles!

I added in a few burlap elements to give the page some texture and painted some wood veneer flowers the same color red as the papers in the We Are Family collection from Lily Bee, which you can find HERE in the store!

So in light of what is happening at Lily Bee, I am going to give away some paper from the Urban Autumn and We Are Family collections this week!  Please leave comments throughout the week on the blog and I will choose one random day and one random comment from that day to win a prize!

Last weeks winner is:

Please send an email to info@myscrapsandmore.com with your shipping info!  Thanks so much and have a great week everyone!

STORE NEWS:

New Bella Blvd, October Afternoon, and MME should be shipping any day now!  Be sure to keep checking the store for new arrivals!

-Audrey

My Scraps & More SKETCH BLOG- *Blog Hop*

Have you been to the My Scraps & More Sketch Blog lately?  Well today is definitely the day to stop by! We are having our first ever blog hop for the Sketch Blog!

The hop starts on the sketch blog and goes to each DT member's blog.  Leave a comment on each blog AND complete your take on the sketch by January 9th to be eligible for the awesome prize!  A collection kit from Fancy Pants!

You can read all the details about it HERE on the My Scraps & More Sketch Blog.

I am not going to share the sketch with you here....you will have to go to the Sketch Blog to see it!  But here is my take:

I used the beautifully rich Urban Autumn collection from Lily Bee available in the store.

Hope you have a chance to play along!

-Audrey

Pancake Breakfast!

On the first Saturday of every month, a church in a town near our summer lakehouse has a pancake breakfast.  Eggs, pancakes, sausage, and homemade blueberry sauce for $5!  YUM!

When I saw the latest sketch on the Lily Bee blog, the big circles reminded me of pancakes, so I dug out some Lily Bee papers and used them on my page!  I stuck with browns and blues because of the blueberry pancakes theme and then added in some yellow for contrast!

I stitched a frame in the middle of the page and then added some punched circles on top.

I used my die cutting machine to cut the big circles from the bottom and popped some brown paper off the back to give it some depth.

Finally, some buttons and label stickers to embellish some more!

Are you hungry now??  :)

Have a great weekend!
-Audrey

Bubble Boy (Lily Bee)

The Lily Bee collections in the store right now have some AWESOME prints and colors for the summer.  The best thing about Lily Bee papers is that they are generic enough in patterns, and the prints are small enough that you can use them on virtually ANY page.

I went through my Lily Bee stash and found some papers from the Sweet Shoppe and Pinwheel collections that had circles or "bubble" shapes on them and used them for my page.

I wanted the circles to "pop" off the page, so I cut the lower layers of paper to provide a thin white border, and the I also used some pop dots.  I love the way the arrows on the page make it feel like the circles are going in different directions.

Check out these two collections for some great basic papers to have on stash!

-Audrey

Playin' all day!

Of course with the warm weather we are outside ALL the time now.  But the kids aren't the only ones who are happy about that...the dog is glad that we are finally joining her in the yard for some play time!

I did this page based on a sketch at Lily Bee blog using papers from the Lily Bee Pinwheel and Sweet Shoppe collections:

I kept the design simple since the patterns can be a little bold, but what I love about Lily Bee papers is that the prints are small, so they aren't as overpowering.  And you can mix and match the papers so easily!

A few chipboard pieces and some machine stitching...

And I also have found a few things in my stash to use like this scalloped die cut and buttons.

If you haven't checked out these collections yet, you should!  They are awesome for everyday pages, and all kinds of events!

Have a great weekend everyone!

-Audrey

For the Birds!

The new Lily Bee collections are for the birds!  And I mean that in a good way!  :)

The colors of the papers in the Pinwheel line were PERFECT for the colors in my photos of my little guy at the bird exhibit at the zoo.  I tried to pick up on some of the colors in the birds feathers as the basis of my page.

I found a feather svg file and used my die cutting machine to cut it out.  I folded them to give them a bit of lift.  You can also see a bit of stitching on my background paper, too. (the background paper is from the Webster's Pages Composition & Color collection).

I used some wood veneer birds from my stash to go with my theme!

You can see the sketch that this page was based on on the My Scraps & More Sketch blog today!  Tammi does some awesome sketches!  Check it out!