Project Life: July 21 - 27

Hello! I'm happy to report that I just need to finish up the past two weeks and then I'm current on my Project Life album. Seriously still loving this project.

The PL spread I want to share today was inspired by our Glitz challenge this week to using the colors yellow, aqua and grey on a project. That is such a great color combo, so it wasn't hard to use it on my PL pages. This was such a fun week to document. My sister and her family were here visiting us from North Carolina and we got to play tourist around town.

Exploring Walnut Canyon /// Day at Sunsplash /// Diamondbacks Baseball Game /// City Waterpark

The Cousin Lineup /// Dinner at Carolina's /// Movie Showing of Blackout /// Backyard Irrigation /// All 17 of Us at Church

Lots of good times documented! 

We Love the Beach

It was with a bit of sadness that we sent the kids back to school last week. The structure will be great with the school schedule and activities starting up again, but I've got to say that I just really loved the more relaxed routine of summer. One of my favorite things we did this summer was go to the beach for a day while we were in Florida.

Spending the day relaxing in the sunshine and then cooling off in the water is near perfect to me. Our kids are a bit older now and can all splash around independently without me having to worry about them falling face first into the water every second. We rented boogie boards and a surf board and everyone had a grand time.

We drove from Orlando to Cocoa Beach and it was pouring rain on our drive. It was so bad at one point that we couldn't even see out of the windshield. We weren't so sure that we had chosen the best day to do to the beach.  But as you can see from the picture, it was bright and sunny  at the beach. Not one drop of rain and not a cloud in the sky. Beautiful day!

Layout Supplies /// Let's Go On an Adventure Kit /// We Are Here Add-on

7-Eleven Slurpees

It's stamping week over on the Glitz Blog and I've been loving all of the ideas that the design team has been sharing!

Today my page includes a few of the cool Glitz Designs stamps. The roller arrow stamp was used in a few places on this page. I think that is my most use stamp. Love it! I didn't have a stamping ink color that was going to work with the page, so I decided to use mist as my stamping ink. I just sprayed the ink onto a non slip mat that is on my desk and then rolled the stamp through the mist.

The "day, month, year" stamps at the top of the page are from one of the Glitz Designs rubber stamp sets. I also used mist on these to stamp the images.

For the big "number 7" stamp, I used a marker to color the image and them stamped it. I don't do a lot of stamping and so I don't trust myself to stamp directly onto my pages. I just stamped onto other paper and then trimmed around the stamped image and added it to my page. That is a nice method because you can stamp things a few times and pick a favorite stamped image.

Do you do much stamping on your pages? If a lack of ink colors is stopping you, try using your mists or markers to color your stamped images!

Let's Go On an Adventure!

I'm so excited to share a video sharing the August Scrapbook Circle kit. Next month, I'll have to talk a bit less so that it's not quite so long! But I wanted to be sure to share all of the cool stuff coming in the August kit.

Here's the video if you want to take a look:

Let's Go On an Adventure August 2013 Kit from Scrapbook Circle on Vimeo.


We've been busy around here finishing up summer and getting the kids ready for school Today was the first day for the younger two kids and our oldest heads off to 8th grade on Wednesday. School supplies have been purchase and many school forms have been filled out. Now let the fun begin!

Yoyo Class >>> Glitz Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to this month's Glitz Designs blog hop.

Today I'd love to share a layout with you that I created with the Color Me Happy line. Seriously still loving this line's bright and happy colors!

One of my favorite things to use on layouts are 6 X 6 paper pads. I don't seem to mind cutting up those little papers and using a lot of different patterns on my page. Cutting into 12 X 12 paper is harder because I feel like I should save it to be a background on a page. Do you ever feel like that?

Want to join in the fun with the Glitz Designs blog hop? Just comment here and on each of the DT blogs for an entry for winning a cool Glitz Product Prize Pack.

Jaime Warren
Karine Cazenave
Karola Witczak
Lea Lawson
Leica Forrest
You are here >>> Lisa Andrews 
Magda Mizera
Marie Ramirez
Mou Saha
Noel Culbertson
Stephanie Bryan
Glitz Design Blog

Hope you enjoy the blog hop!

Layout Supplies

Glitz Designs "Color Me Happy" 6 X 6 Paper Pad
Glitz Designs "Color Me Happy" Giant Rhinestones
Glitz Designs "Color Me Happy" Journaling Stickers
Glitz Designs "Sunshine in My Soul" Alpha Sticker Sheet

Summer Fun!

One of my favorite things to do in the summer to go to the beach. We live closest to California beaches, so that is where we have spent most of our beach time. A couple of weeks ago we got to go to the beach for a day while we were in Florida. Wow, the water was actually warm and I didn't mind getting in the water! I must say the East Coast beaches win by having a much more tolerable swimming temperature!

We spent the day playing on boogie boards, some tried out surfing and we relaxed in the sand.

Such a beautiful day at the beach! Now we are back in the 115 degree heat in AZ and we have the AC running almost non-stop. I'll just have to look at these photos and remember a time when I wasn't melting while being outside.

This week over on the Glitz blog, the design team is sharing lots of Summer Fun layouts. Stop by for some fun summer inspiration.

Stitch Fix #4

Okay, I am really loving Stitch Fix. (Haven't heard of Stitch Fix? You can read my post HERE that tells you all about it.) This month was the best delivery so far. I think it gets better with time because I get to give feedback on each piece that comes and over time the stylists learn what I like.

One nice touch is that each clothing items comes with a card attached that shows ways to wear that piece of clothes.

This time my stylist was Joseph A. and I've requested to keep him. He actually listened to my request that all of the shirts have sleeves. What to see what came this month?

Bangle Bracelets

See that set of two bracelets in the bottom right of the photo? This was the accessory that was included this time. I thought that it was fine, but didn't really plan on keeping them. (See below to find out why I ended up keeping them!) I really do like the star detailing on the red bracelet and they have a strong magnetic closure.

I'm thinking next time I will request that they skip the accessory and ask that they send a 5th clothing item instead.

Angie Delcan Crochet Inset Floral Print Top

Love the bright blue color of this shirt! It fit great and I liked that it was a little dressy, but still casual. The lacy insets adds a great detail to the top. I'm keeping it.

Hawthone Ivy Mini Dot Tab-Sleeved Blouse

I love that this shirt can be dressed up or down. I wore it with a black pencil skirt to church and thought it fit great and I loved the mini polka print.

After church, I slipped into some jeans and thought the shirt went well with those too. Got to love versatility!  My favorite detail on the shirt is a little hard to see in the picture, but there are tabs that reach around the ends of the sleeves and attach with a little button. I like how it puffs the sleeves a bit. Kept this one too!

Peppermint Ameila Mixed Print Tie-Waist Top

The mix of polka sleeves and a chevron bodice was really fun. I'd asked for shirts with fun patterns and this shirt fit the bill. Kept it!

Marigold Chambray Skirt

This was a really cute denim skirt with fun button and pocket details, but it was just too short for me. I like things down to the knee, so it didn't work for me. My 13 year old really wanted to try on the skirt and it fit her too. (A little loose, but workable.) I would have just sent it back, but after running the math, I figured that since I was keeping three shirts, it would only cost me $20 more to keep both the skirt and the bracelets because of the 25% discount that is offered if you keep everything.

I'm sure Stitch Fix has it all worked out so that people end up keeping more than planned because of the 25% discount. This is the first time I've kept everything.

So, it was a successful month from Stitch Fix! I love having new clothes arrive at my doorstep that fit and that I didn't have to walk miles at the mall to find.

Note: This post is not sponsored by Stitch Fix, I just really love their service and thought I'd share my fun with you. I do receive a credit if you use my referral link and decided to try it out for yourself.