My Little Bucket Boyz!

I thought I would share with you one of my final April projects that I created using the April Featured Life Preserver's kit that is full of Jillibean Soup, 3 Bugs in a Rug and Creative Charms goodness!

So the story with the photos for this page... the little baby decided to play with the buckets first, then older brother had to join on in! They bring me such joy every single day and I feel so very blessed to be their Mom.

I added some Ranger crackle accents to the alpha stickers after I pop-dotted them into place.  I love the effect that this gave as it curled the stickers up slightly.  I don't know what it is about buttons lately, but I had to put a few in place to make it look like they fell out of the bucket.

I also used some Diamond Stickles to accent the "trail" of the bees.  I used my Bazzil stitching template at the bottom because it was so lonely up on the wall.  ***giggles***  Finally, I discovered in my stash the green felt scallop trim and the green gingham ribbon and found them a few new "homes".

These papers were just fun to work with, whimsical and a good match for my silly boy photos. 

Thank you so much for stopping on by!  Have a super scrappity weekend!!!

My Easter Basket Blessing...

Happy Tuesday to you! 

I hope you were able to get a little scrapping done to celebrate National Scrapbooking Day.  This is what I was working on using the Life Preserver's April Featured Kit with my handy dandy scissors, crackle accents, glossy accents and lots of stickles.  I also got to use a few of my newer border punches!  This kit has these really cute Creative Charms daisy flowers, I just love how super cheerful they are.

I just 'had' to use these little clothespins that I scooped up on clearance for a song.  I think they added just the right extra little touch. I used lots of pop dots on the banner.  The yellow flower is the ribbon stitched and layered behind the little daisy.

I also added crackle accents to my little cut out eggs, glossy accents to my little bees and stickles here and there for a little extra interest.

I hope you have a super scrappity day and week!  Thanks so much for stopping on by!

Life Preserver's Club DT Blog Hop and Reveals!

Happy May Day and National Scrapbooking Day to you! 

Scrapbooking is such a wonderful component to each of our lives. It is something that we all share in common. We all have different styles that make each of us unique. We all have various reasons that we got into scrapbooking. 

• I got into scrapping so that my children would have a baby book to look back on and never wonder about their milestones.  I never want their quirky sayings to get lost in the whirl of our busy lives. 

For National Scrapbooking Day the design team, hosted by Life Preservers wanted to bring a little extra excitement to the day. We have partnered up amongst ourselves to provide you with challenges. The good thing about Spring is there are so many different reasons to celebrate in addition to National Scrapbook Day.

If you arrived here from Sharon's blog, you are right on track!  Make sure you check out what her part of our challenge is!!!

All you have to do to participate in this blog hop is to visit the Design Teams blogs. Do the challenge posted and link your creation to their comments. You can link this from your gallery on Life Preservers if you would like.

• There will be links to follow on each of our blogs.
• Make sure you comment on each DT blog with your creation if so applicable.
• For each challenge that you do you will be entered into a random drawing for a prize from Life Preservers.

To top this off, today I have 2 posts, a reveal for Cardabilities (see below please!), plus one for ScrapFit and the Life Preservers's right here for the blog hop!  That's a whole lot of scrappity fun!  Let's get started shall we?!!

Sharon and I teamed up to bring you a fun two part card sketch challenge.  A very special thanks to Karan Gerber for allowing us to use the Sketchabilities sketches for our challenge to you!

Part I:  Create a Mother's Day card using a Life Preserver's kit and one of the two sketches below.

Here are the sketches we chose:
Sharon's pick:

Rhonda's pick:

Here is what I created with that fabulous sketch 8 for a Mother's Day card using the April Featured Life Preserver's kit:













Part II:  Rhonda challenges you to create one more card for a scrappy friend who you think is a great Mom!  You can use the other sketch if you wish or make your own fabulous creation!

This next button cloud card is also my reveal for ScrapFit today!  The current ScrapFit challenge is to create a project from your stash.  No new anything! 

Thank you so much for participating in Life Preservers first annual NSD Blog Hop!  Please hop on over to Jodi's Blog now for even more fabulous inspiration!