To Our Love

I did this "just for fun" layout and used a lot of technique-y stuff...paper strips, lots of punching, pop-dotting, and stitching...it's a sketch I've had in my head for quite some time...and I enjoyed just playing! It looks a little crooked, but it's just the picture...it's all straight in real life! =)

To make these pretty flowers, I just pop-dotted varying sizes of circle and circle-like elements with pop-dots (the scallop circles are cut with my Cricut) and inked all the edges!

Thanks for stopping by!

Amber

My Favorite Color Combo.

A lot of people wouldn't probably guess this, but yellow is my very favorite color...it's so bright and happy. Paired with dark grey...sigh. I just really like it! So glad it's a bit trendy right now! This layout is one of many I still need to do for our honeymoon album...this is a waterfall we hiked a REALLY long time to get to on our honeymoon...my legs were noodles the rest of the day, haha!

Have a good day! =) Amber

Sad, but Happy!

I'm so sad to say that my design team time with GCD Studios has drawn to a close...it was SO much fun! I'm so delighted that I got to be a part of the first design team with them...it was my first too, and I feel as though I have learned a LOT (both design wise and presentation wise)! I love all the new products they are developing and the beeaaaauuuutiful "extra stuff" that Melody Ross is making to go with her collections. I'm sure to be a big fan of GCD Studios...for as long as we both shall live! ;)

However, if YOU want to try out for the new GCD Studios Design Team call, I have NOTHING BUT GOOD THINGS TO SAY ABOUT THEM. Seriously, no strings attached. They are so generous, nice and flexible...plus they are reserving TWO spots for non-published newbies...like I was! So definitely try out!! You just never know!!

I'll leave you with a little sneak of one of my last assignments for them...it is one of the most favorite pages I have ever made...with a few things I learned in 2009.
Have a good day! =) Amber

Crate Paper + Taylor + Adam =

Pure fun! I love this Crate Paper line and used it almost exclusively on this layout...it went so perfectly to me with Taylor's color block dress...aren't they cute together...two of my favoritest people in the whole wide world! =) Thanks for stopping by my blogeroo! Have a great day! Amber

My First Etsy Custom Order!

I got a custom order request for one of my pom-pom garlands for Valentine's Day, which I was happy to fulfill! =) Here's some pics:

I love making these little jokers!

Tin Roof!

I love Blue Bell's Tin Roof Ice Cream. It's a seasonal flavor, so it's only around for three months or so every so often. It is delicious. It is not helping my watch-what-I-eat-diet that I happened to see it and remember how much I loved it and bought it.

It is just so yummy! Photo courtesy of lesleyraez via flickr.com

I promise to post crafty pictures next week...I don't know where this week has gone! =)

I'm a Working Girl!

This was my first day of work outfit. I bought a pretty, bright yellow ruffled shirt, but chickened out on wearing it the FIRST day. Ha!I had a particularly good hair day, which was a relief, all things considered. =)

Blurry but what can you do? A wife only gets exactly two pictures before the patience wears out...I just have to learn to have the settings perfect if I want a good, unblurry picture of us...you know, TOGETHER. Haha! I'm kind of kidding...he would have taken more on this particular day, but I had to leave!My parents and my Nanny & Pops sent these to my work...I was *SO* excited! =)

Aren't they pretty?

Well, that's all folks. I worked on quite a bit of crafty stuff over the weekend, but it's mostly stuff I can't show yet...hopefully soon! =) Have a good day!

After My Own Heart

Miss Taylor is one of my favoritest people in the world because 1) she is funny, 2) she is as cute as all-get-out, 3) she has good fashion sense (thanks in part to her mother!), and 4) she loves pretzel bites with cheese. =D

We went (a long time ago...I'm sorely behind in posting these!) to the mall and rode the train, and looked at clothes and toys and then - ate pretzel bites with cheese! She was in love with the cheese...too cute! =)

YUM!!

What Little Girls Are Made Of...

I bought this kit with an album, pages and embellishments as T.J. Maxx (actually, I bought two...one in hopes that I will have a little girl one day) and made Melissa a (mostly) chronological scrapbook of the girls in 2009. It's 8x8 and I used a lot of stuff from my stash too. I had a lot of fun with this...by far, scrapbooking is still my favorite thing to do!

One of my favorite pictures of all time...

Thanks for stopping by the blogeroo...enjoy your day! =)

Handmade Calendars Part Two

I made Melissa one of these calendars too! You can see what parts are the actual background and what parts I embellished on my own, by comparing them to this post with the calendar for my family! Can you believe how cute these two are?

This is my favorite page...I love that little sock monkey and all the cute pillow flower stickers...

Look at those little pigtails!

I love these two pictures A LOT!

Enjoy your day!! =)

Mixed Emotions

I've been really busy for good reason....today I start a new, full-time job as a staff accountant at a local firm. I'm excited, nervous, and naturally, a bit of a worrywart.

I'm also pretty sad in some aspects, because I loved working at Pinch-A-Penny...and loved the people I worked with! (Plus, the hours were pretty great too, haha!) I also had a really flexible boss who was very generous and a good friend. (When Adam and I got married, David - my boss - paid for our honeymoon stay!) I also love David's family...we go to church together....and I babysat his kids as my first "real" job....and his wife is a fellow scrapbooker!

There's a wonderful story behind how I got the job I start today and I decided I want to share it. It's a little lengthier than what I normally post, but I think it's worth reading! I have been job hunting for almost six months with only ONE interview out of many, MANY applications and passed out resumes. The Monday after Christmas we found out that Adam was getting laid off, which was obviously pretty scary, since at the time I had a part-part-time job and we have a pretty hefty mortgage payment. We were praying and just asking the Lord to show us what to do, and the following day I went to the local WorkForce center and passed out resumes (some more!). A week later, I had two interviews, one of which resulted in a really amazing job offer IN MY DEGREE FIELD!! (I thought I had exhausted most options in my degree field area!) Most amazingly of all, perhaps, was that Adam's last day at his job was also the day I received my job offer. We are both in awe of how perfect and timely our God really is! We give HIM all the glory! =)


We were told recently to look at difficulties as an adventure, as an exciting opportunity to see God at work! It's hard to do at times when you're in a situation seemingly with no solution, but Adam and I can testify that God has always been faithful to us.

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And, because I can't post without a picture, a good friend of ours got us a gift card for Christmas, and we had a nice New Year's dinner at Carrabba's....yuuuum!
Have a wonderful day! A

Purging the Scrapbook Room!

So since we don't have any kids...and since I have so much STUFF, we turned our spare bedroom into a "hobby"/study room. Mostly it's overwhelmed by my scrapbooking supplies, but as we're trying to sell our house, it had to go through a major new year's purge. Here's some "worse-before-it-gets-better" shots. About halfway through...

Finally clean!! I bought a foldable six foot white table until I can commit to a desk that I REALLY like. Most of the stuff in here was bought at yard sales...altogether I think I spent less than $100 for all the major stuff. I love yard sales! =)

I got the big bookcase for $10 at a yard sale and I got the tall paper organizer when our LSS closed...it was my "big splurge" at around $50.

I got these cheap-o bin deals for $15 at Bed Bath & Beyond (actually, I used a gift card so technically it was free!)

Got these for Christmas this year.My mom bought me this a few Christmases ago...LOVE IT! It is the reason I decided to go with white stuff.

This bookcase cost me $15.

I got this over the door hanger for a buck at a yard sale!

I always love seeing other people's space, so I thought I would share mine too. =) Enjoy your day!

We're Engaged!

And married! Now, for over a year and half! And I'm just now scrapping these! Yikes! Haha!

The challenge over at American Crafts this week was to scrap a layout in 30 minutes or less...so I decided to play along...mine took exactly 22 minutes. =) Yay for quick pages!

I just went for a simple background, 2 4x6 photos and layered on lots of Thickers and embellishments! Easy peasy!

Supplies Used:

Patterned Paper, Flair, Journaling Spots, Stickers: American Crafts

Pearls & Super Tiny Circles: K & Co.

Buttons: Michaels

Thanks for looking! Have a fantabulous day! =)

Finishing Up Christmas

Wellllll, I have been extremely busy...purging, cleaning, working, etc. I hope to have quite a few things to share in the next couple of days, but until then, I'll have to share the last remnants of Christmas....Adam's sister and her husband got snowed in and weren't able to make it back in time for Christmas festivities so we exchanged presents at our house....

Instead of bows this year, I made red and green pom-poms using my wonderful pom-pom maker...and I bought some plaid wrapping paper from Hallmark to finish off a sort of homespun look. =) Yeah, I'm cheesy like that! I also made this frame with GCD Studios Artsy Urban line...I'll have to locate a better picture of this (can't seem to find it right now!)

Handmade Christmas part two and three and four is coming soon. Then I will stop with the Christmas posts in January! =D

To Tide My Mama Over!

My mom has been texting me (!!!! so cool, right?!) whenever I don't update my blog, and lo and behold, I got a scolding text this morning, so!

I GIVE YOU....A BLOG POST! =)

Seriously, though, I've been wanting to highlight all of the amazing sneak peeks at the GCD Studios blog... I think that this looks exciting! Oh, the possibilities..

..and I'm IN LOVE with this entire line,

I am also...unbelievably excited about this announcement...you can bet, I will be getting probably every thing she puts out. What? Ridiculous, I know, but I have some Christmas money stashed away and when that line comes out...it is probably going to test my don't-spend-money-on-scrapbooking-endurance.