Can't Buy Me Love- Fashion Inspiration

I, like many scrapbookers, love to find inspiration in the fashion & design trends around me.

However, since my life is pretty much inundated by preschool stuff right now, I keep my eye out on trends with the under 3 ft. set! hehe

I started out with this layout using the "Can't Buy Me Love" kit (with the exception of the addition of the pink cardstock and Glimmer Mist), with the idea of capturing some of Emerson's favorites and quirks at age 4.
If your house is anything like mine right now, I find those dang Silly Bandz EVERYWHERE! I thought it would be a great accent and also be very fitting for her age to include this current fashion trend.
(Those tiny stars, hearts, and dots are from the Jillibean Soup alpha sticker sheet in the kit. I love it when a company includes a few extra little surprises in their products like that!)

Just got my "Can't buy Me Love" kit!

This kit is the cutest! I love it!

I love the Teabag, as a fun little alternative for a Valentine Treat!

And, to top it off, I found this GREAT little Teabag Download! Oh, this is great.


So, use this teabag, and if you want to grab some more, just run to the Dollar Tree, and grab a box of teabags, and wrap them!!!

Great teacher treats and co-worker treats!
Oh, so cute!!!

Valentine Cupcakes!

I love to make cupcakes for my kid's classes at school for their birthday or holidays,and like to decorate them a little-- I am not a cake decorator, and the little tubes of frosting with the decorator tip intimidate me. Give me a simple idea and I am all over it! With Valentine's Day coming up, I wanted to find some cute ideas, and this is what I found: I mean how cute are they! They look a little involved, but I am sure once I get the hang of it, they wouldn't take that long. I found them here.


And look at these:


Adorable! I am not sure what they used for the hearts, but I am thinking of using chocolate hearts, or even cutting a fruit roll up into heart shapes and using sweethearts on top! I need to check out the Valentine's Day candy aisle and see what I can come up with. I found these here , along with a ton of other wonderful ideas! If you make something, please share it with us. We would love to see what you can do!

Bliss

We had so much fun in San Diego, CA last week! I did not want to come home. It is one of the most beautiful places I have ever been. Connor and I had the whole day on Friday to just explore. We went on a whale watching tour.....super cool and then we spent the afternoon in Coronado. It's an isthmus...not an island. You have to go over a huge bridge to get there, so, I guess the part that connects it to the mainland is under water! We LOVEd it there! It would have to be the perfect place to live. We walked through the streets, in and out of shops. So many cute shops! Then we headed to the Del Coronado. Wow, it is so beautiful there! We went straight to the beach. I took my boots off. You know how much I love sand! OH, I love it! There were surfers in the water, so many people taking pictures, plenty of people just soaking up the sun. It was pure BLISS! The sun was perfect for shadow pictures and we took several! I love these......this was my favorite!

Can't Buy Me Love

This kit is full of LOVE! So, you CAN buy it! :) This kit does have a very romantic feel to it. I love the vintage Jenni Bowlin papers, the music note paper, mini doilies....so many little touches. There is even a key wrapped in twine. I have mine on a chain around my neck. I should take a picture of it. I have been meaning to add a few beads and haven't done that, yet....tomorrow, right? ha
Here is a picture of all that is included in this kit. This one is sold out. I know, I know, I keep talking about opening it up for new subscribers. I am getting it all ready to do in March. If you are interested, you can go ahead and send me an email. Lucy@scrapetc.com. We are planning a few contests for the re-launch. Lots of fun prizes, too! Oh yeah, I was going to show you a picture, wasn't I???The design team came over Friday night and we talked and talked about all the great things we are going to do for Scripts this year. It's going to be so much fun and I really hope you will all be there to join us! Be watching this blog for daily posts! We are all getting in on the fun and you are going to have so many ideas....you won't know what to do next!!

I did a layout with this kit.....I need better light to take a picture. I will work on that and have it loaded by the end of the day! Have a great one! It's my sister's birthday......
Happy Birthday, Nicole! I love you!!

Have you seen these blogs?

I thought I'd share some blog links with you today. I know that several of these were passed on to me from friends so I thought I'd do the same!

This blog - U Create - has links to other blogs with wonderful ideas and tutorials. I think have of my starred items in my Google reader are from this blog. The bad thing (if that's possible) about this blog is each post leads you somewhere else, so you know - you'll be adding that to your blog reader, as well!!

Here's a few of my faves:

Burlap Magnets
Gathered Pillow
Burlap and magnet Board

Did you know burlap is IN? It is!

Here's another I really love - The Idea Room - there are so many great ideas here for decorating - and she's done one whole blog post on valentine ideas! You better believe I'm going to buy some candy canes at Michaels tomorrow (they are 25 cents a box) and make the first thing she has shown here!!

I have about a million more blogs I read on a daily/bi-weekly basis and seriously I bookmark and star them like crazy. I'm not sure what I would do without my Google Reader.

So, what blogs do you love for home decorating ideas?

How do you keep up with all your blog reading?

Lisa

Finally getting around to those Christmas pictures

I've taken forever to get any Christmas photos on a layout. I just haven't made it a priority until this weekend. I was inspired after spending an evening with the Scripts girls!!

Here's a layout I started at Wrappers Delight 2.0 with my December Scripts Kit (and finished yesterday).

The lighting isn't that great on the first one - but this close up shows a few details, in good lighting. It was too gloomy today to get good photos.

Here's another that I just finished up last night.
And I don't think I've ever gotten this many pictures on a layout before!!



This wasn't really planned though - all those tiny photos! I ordered some pictures from Shutterfly - some deal for 50 prints and then I got 20 for registering with them. Got my photos in the mail last week and there was an index photo with all these teeny tiny pictures - two photos actually and I thought it would be fun to do something with all these small pictures and here you have it.

How are you doing on those Christmas photos and layouts?
I have one more layout to post when the sun is shining!
OH!
And I have two already done with the January Kit.
It is SO SO cute! I really love it!
I can't wait to do a few more things with it.

Want a hint about the January kit?

I'm think LOVE is in the air. Super McDreamy Love!

Later!!
Lisa