tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54468620324421205492024-03-13T13:55:31.949-07:00Scrappin the Little ThingsScrappin the little things makes me feel such joy. Cutting paper, gluing my fingers together and even noticing ink on my arms brings a great deal of satisfaction to me. I love to capture fleeting family moments creatively. Deborah Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320635789314364202noreply@blogger.comBlogger283125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5446862032442120549.post-76323100232768271412016-03-19T11:07:00.001-07:002016-03-19T11:07:37.731-07:00Paper Girls Challenge 100th Post Spectacular<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">
Congratulations to <a href="http://thepapergirlschallenge.blogspot.com/"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 46, 238); color: #551a8b;">The Paper Girls Challenge Blog</span></a> as they celebrate their 100th posting. I've been very blessed to have worked with these lovely ladies as both a guest designer and as a continuing designer. As my children have gotten older, their activities have become much more time consuming. They are both active in the high school marching band, concert band, church, work (yes - my boy has a job, now), and earning amazing grades. So, because of all this, my crafting has taken a serious back seat. I carve out time to craft, but nothing major or what I would consider posting - that explains why its been a while since I’ve posted here.</div>
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In celebration of the 100th posting - the theme is Paper Girls/Paper Dolls/Friends and my favorite crafting supply/ideas website is sponsoring us: Scrapbook Steals!! </div>
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With that said, let me explain to you how I came up with my project. I focused on my very best <b>friend</b>, my husband. He really encourages me to be so much more than I think I am - to reach higher - to learn more - to be the best wife, mom, teacher, and to express myself creatively. Then I looked at how my <b>friends</b> have influenced me over the past 15 or so years. My online <b>friends</b> have shared a multitude of scrapping techniques, card making techniques, their projects and their lives. I honestly believe that the <b>friends</b> I have, have made a positive impact on my life. I am very blessed. I used butterflies on my project to represent my <b>friends</b>. </div>
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Without <a href="http://scrapbooksteals.com/">ScrapbookSteals.com</a> and the <b>friends</b> I have made through their online community, I would never have found Echo Park, StampinUp!, Kiwi Lane Designs, Prima Marketing Flowers, We R Memory Keepers, October Afternoon, and many other companies. All of which are contained within this layout.</div>
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Please join us in celebrating 100 posts, create something about your friends and then share with us. Blessings to you, your friends, and your family! </div>
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<br />Deborah Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320635789314364202noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5446862032442120549.post-14238227656676823192015-07-19T16:59:00.002-07:002015-07-19T16:59:46.799-07:00Multiple Layouts {Lilac 3 #1, 2, 3}<div style="text-align: center;">
Here goes! Scrapbooksteals.com has SEVEN different layouts for this week. SEVEN!!!</div>
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I am really thankful that there are so many layouts so that I can get more of my vacation album finished.</div>
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When we went to see the Colorado Rockies, it rained so much that the game was delayed a full hour and we were not able to go to our rooftop seats.</div>
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Up in the Rocky Mountain National Park, we hiked a few times.</div>
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This is from the Lilac series and you can find all of the information <a href="http://scrapbook.steals.com/wp/2015/07/15/simple-stories-box-of-scrap-mid-week-mojo-tulip-3/" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another layout from our vacation. We are desert dwellers and our kids have not seen an ice scraper before. So when they found one in our rental car we had to explain what it was. Too funny!!</span></div>
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Father's Day 2015 for my husband was probably one of the most memorable of all time! We were departing on our family vacation and had planned our morning perfectly. We were up at 2 am and the kids were up at 2:30 am - left the house and arrived at the airport by 3:30 am to check in, etc and be ready for our flight to depart at 5:10 am.</div>
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Yup, we had to rebook, repurchase, and relocate ourselves until the flight took off. Which was at 12:15 pm. Crazy start to our vacation and certainly - the most memorable Father's Day ever for my honey.</div>
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<br />Deborah Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320635789314364202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5446862032442120549.post-87016899945083833832015-03-17T06:04:00.000-07:002015-03-17T17:01:31.381-07:00Getting Ready for Spring?<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Getting Ready for Spring? Sure - its been upwards of 91 degrees here; time for "short pants" instead of "long pants"; time for fun crafts; time for Spring Training baseball games; time for visits with family during Spring Break. And - after seeing this lovely tree branch decorative piece created by <a href="http://scrappingwithchristine.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Christine Meyer</a>, </span><br />
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<br />Deborah Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320635789314364202noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5446862032442120549.post-76320773138358744022015-03-08T20:35:00.001-07:002015-03-08T20:35:03.042-07:00Hey ... What's New? {Where did you go?}<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">
Ok, so let's just say that its been a realllllly looooong time since I last posted on my blog (yes - I know, last post was August 2014). I've got my reasons! Just like many of you out there - life has come at me fast and furious which means that my craftiness has been left in the dust a bit. Have I been crafting, you ask? Well sure! But just not in the same manner as I had been the past couple of years while on the most amazing design teams. Sure - I still stalk the aisles at scrapbook stores (we don't have a LSS any longer) and I still create cards, altered art and pages - I just have not been sharing as much as I should have been.</div>
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Since my last post, which sadly was also my last design team posting, I have been in the throws of teaching English Language Arts to 7th and 8th graders. I have a full load of class and no prep time - which turns into grading papers until the wee hours of the night at home instead of during my prep period at school. We’ve adopted new curriculum and I have to learn how to use that along with a new state assessment.</div>
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We made it through our second year of marching band, capturing 6th in the state (insert a great deal of disappointment!) and sent our son off to Chicago for the Midwest International Music Clinic in December.</div>
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The same said son has now turned 16 - taken driver’s education - and earned his driver’s license. This event takes on a whole new perspective in parenting and I really cannot concentrate on being creative while I’m worried about the other drivers out there!</div>
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Spring break is approaching fast and that will bring my mom out for a visit. Hopefully there will be some crafty time in there! I have promised our daughter that I will do a craft table at the school spring fling in April. </div>
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Deborah Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320635789314364202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5446862032442120549.post-8376502338383516432014-08-16T05:00:00.000-07:002014-08-21T05:06:36.546-07:00Mini-Album Summer Vacation {SWAT Drill #38}<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Here's my last creation for SWAT. Life is happening really fast here at the Johnson household and I've decided to step back from my responsibilities as a Design Team member. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This challenge was to create something with the theme of "Summer Vacation" - I created this mini album of our summer and this is one of my favorite pages. The mini is somewhat of a smash album. I journaled every day in this album and then filled in the photos and a few embellishments along the way.</span><br />
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<br />Deborah Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320635789314364202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5446862032442120549.post-59514390623286509902014-08-04T05:00:00.000-07:002014-08-04T05:00:05.715-07:00Metropolis, IL {PGCB #61 Superheroes}<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Superheroes is the subject of our latest challenge at Paper Girls! I’ve had a couple of layouts with superheroes in the past several months - one was from my 15 year old son’s birthday - which was Superhero themed. Turned out really crazy busy with lots of colors and such so I took a 180 degree turn and created this clean and simple layout of our vacation to Southern Illinois a few years ago. We had the opportunity to visit Super Man’s home in Metropolis, IL. There’s not much else there but it sure what a great day to head out in the car for a country drive. </span></div>
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<br />Deborah Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320635789314364202noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5446862032442120549.post-14650621209615031282014-07-21T06:48:00.000-07:002014-07-21T07:08:58.925-07:00Backyard Camping 1974 {PGCG Challenge #60}<div style="font: 16.0px 'American Typewriter'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I love the challenge at <a href="http://thepapergirlschallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Paper Girls Challenge Blog</a> this morning. It is simply "OLD" - and Kristina has told us to interpret old any way we wish. AWESOME!!! My husband turned 50 this summer - so I started to think a layout all focused on my honey would be cool. He doesn't feel 50 or old and since I'm only a year younger - I have to agree. Then I was looking through some OLD photos from my childhood. I kept staring at this photo of the little tent sent up in the backyard - it has to be from around 1974 - when I was 9 years old.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">My dad encouraged us kids to use our imagination and to stay outside and play as long as the street lights did not come on - then we had to head home (quickly)! My mom also encouraged our creativity with crafts, sewing and cooking. I'm very thankful that both of my parents wanted us kids to be outside, think on our own, and learn how to be independent.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We moved on from the tent to a pop-up trailer to a pull-behind trailer and then from their we were grown. Dad and Mom still have a trailer or pop-up trailer - and my family still goes camping. As soon as both kids were out of diapers - we hit the National Forest Parks for many nights of tent camping. </span></div>
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<br />Deborah Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320635789314364202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5446862032442120549.post-54578848292739292042014-07-19T05:00:00.000-07:002014-07-19T06:47:03.275-07:00Mini-Album Camping {SWAT #36 Mood Board}<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Good morning - SWAT's Mood Board challenge is up and running. If you are like me, the words "Mood Board" threw me a bit - in that I really didn't know what a mood board was, but I soon discovered that it is an inspirational starting point.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This is what we were asked to use as a mood board titled "Home of the Brave":</span></div>
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We go tent camping each year for a portion of our family vacation. Idyllwild, CA has some of the best camping spots and wonderful campground hosts. <span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This is what I created:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I incorporated the colors and sunset from the board as well as the outdoors theme. I loved the word "BRAVE" that was in the board, and I really considered how this fits in with our family and vacations. We've had to brave the elements (heat, rain, mosquitos), brave the trails (1.5 miles, then 3.3 miles and finally 6.5 miles - going from 6,000 feet in elevation to 7,000 - that was a strenuous challenge), and brave new places to go as a family. We had not been to Solvang, CA and that was a cute little town - with an amazing crafting/make and take shop!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Hope everyone is having a great day today! We have a great blog hop for you at </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #e69138;"><a href="http://practicalscrappers.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Practical Scrappers</a></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> - the design team is such a creative group!!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Here’s my entry for this month’s blog hop - our son’s marching band’s program this year was entitled “Trilogy” and featured several soloists and grand flags toward the end of the program. They took #1 in the State at the ABODA State Marching Band Championships.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">My daughter was in track and field this school year and she did an amazing job improving her running times and her distance in the long jump. She’s a petite girl but she can </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f6b26b;">RUN</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> and she can<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f6b26b;"> </span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #fcc532;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f6b26b;">JUMP</span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">. You will notice that I have chipboard letters from <a href="http://creativeembellishments.com/" target="_blank">Creative Embellishments</a>. They even do custom orders!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span><br />Deborah Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320635789314364202noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5446862032442120549.post-68019259699076453452014-06-16T06:00:00.000-07:002014-06-16T06:00:09.956-07:00"Summer Lovin'" {PGCB #58}<br />
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Deborah Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320635789314364202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5446862032442120549.post-38687816676386015062014-06-07T06:00:00.000-07:002014-06-07T06:00:09.327-07:00A Selfie or Two {SWAT Drill #33}<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Today's challenge at S.W.A.T. is to create a layout or other wonderful artwork that uses a "Selfie" picture.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I really do not like to take my picture or to have anyone else take my picture so that is one of those projects that I've been thinking about and procrastinating. Finally, I settled on the fact that I really do need to create a page about myself and I'm going to add a bit to it - personalize it with some of my thoughts about myself - but that's for my eyes and written on a pull out tag:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Here are a few fun facts that I would love to share with you:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1. I have not watched television at all in 12 1/2 years - yes, we own a TV but we only watch movies occasionally that are checked out from the public library.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">2. I really like my glasses. I've worn contacts before - but I really like the way that glasses frame my face.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">3. I do not color my hair. What you see is what you get. Proverbs 16:31 - look it up and you will see another reason why I don't color my hair.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">4. I love vintage "stuff" - we have two working rotary dial phones in our house. I love how they sound when ringing.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">5. There are lots of things that I wish were different about my looks - but I have to be content with who I am. I have a husband who enjoys watching me when I stir the gravy. My kids know that they are to blame for the shape my body has taken since their births.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">6. I am a wife, mother, teacher, and a friend to many.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">7. I love to volunteer my time, talents, and energy for others.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">8. I still sew and make things from scratch.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">9. I love my family more than anything in this world.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">10. I love My Savior more than anything in all of life.</span><br />
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<br />Deborah Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320635789314364202noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5446862032442120549.post-87137763760962586112014-06-04T06:30:00.002-07:002014-06-04T07:59:01.698-07:00Blog Hop Winner {Practical Scrappers}<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Good morning! Today is National Running Day - while I am not a devoted runner, my husband sure is. He will run in the heat of the afternoon as I bike along with him. I'm the water girl, the encourager, the conversationist ... but not the runner. Yesterday, we celebrated our 19th Anniversary. Its supposed to be a theme of "Bronze" - so in typical fashion - we both stuck to that theme. I received beautiful roses and a bird bath for the backyard as well as bronzing lotion so that I don't get too sunburned, bronze nail polish and bronze powder. He was also the recipient of some bronzing materials: bronzing sun screen and a lounge chair for the pool deck so that he can bronze and relax. {yes...we are kinda silly...but I really love him and the goofiness!}</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I finally made a card for him - I make a lot of cards, but never for my honey (or so he says!):</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">What a great page I love the distressing and the doodling!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">May 30, 2014 at 5:08 PM<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></div>
</dd><dd style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Send me an email with your address and I'll get your scrappy-happy prize sent out. You can email me at scrappin @ q {dot} com</span></dd>Deborah Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320635789314364202noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5446862032442120549.post-11779208237654228682014-05-30T08:35:00.000-07:002014-05-30T08:35:00.872-07:00May Blog Hop with Practical Scrappers<br />
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Good morning! Here's a layout that I created to share with <a href="http://paperissues.blogspot.com/2014/05/new-issue-world-is-circle.html" target="_blank">Paper Issues</a> for their newest challenge - <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px;">The focus is on travel, vacations and all things round.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px;">As the end of the school-year comes and goes, I always get a bit sentimental. I cannot believe how fast my kids are growing and each year our school year goes by so quickly. One week, I'm introducing students to the school - the next week, we are talking about classes for next year!</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Today’s challenge is Mason Jar Madness. I saw this photo on the internet probably a year or so ago and just loved the idea of creating a fun summer lighting for our back porch. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I used pint sized regular-mouth mason jars and then wrapped 18 gauge floral wire around the neck of the jar (about 18" long). If you look closely, you will see that I made a loop on opposite sides of the jar. To hang the jars, I used another piece of the wire and cut it in half then used needle-nose pliers to create smaller loops and hung it over the line I hung between pillars on the porch. I used white Christmas lights and just stuffed lights into each jar and wound the lights around my line. VERY EASY!!!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">For my part on the hop, I created this very colorful layout of my son's 15th birthday. Yes - in the Johnson house, we take great care to select a "theme" for birthdays and then go all out. My son, who is rather creatiave, too, came up with the balloon banner after looking on Pinterest.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #0c25a6; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://scrappinthelittlethings.blogspot.com/">Deborah</a></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> <<you are here</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Have you seen the latest challenge over at the <a href="http://thepapergirlschallenge.blogspot.com/2014/03/challenge-52-lucky-charm.html" target="_blank">Paper Girls Challenge Blog</a>? This is one of the layouts created by the ever-so-talented Charity. I love how she used hearts to create the clovers - and she used the Lucky Charms motto: Magically Delicious!! Click on her layout below to go to the challenge.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I really hope that you had a fun time hopping with Kiwi Lane Designs - there were so many inspirational projects and seriously the templates are AWESOME.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Today on KLD blog, a winner from the hop will be announced and I also have a winner:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />"Nice layering and beautiful job. I love the background paper too."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Please email me at scrappin @ q . com and I'll send out your prize package!</span>Deborah Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320635789314364202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5446862032442120549.post-86383454979653440582014-03-07T06:00:00.000-08:002014-03-07T04:01:48.773-08:00Tiny Sweetheart KLD Blog Hop<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">EEK!! Its time for a blog hop with one of my all-time favorite companies - Kiwi Lane Designs. If you have not ordered a set of their templates, you really need to stop procrastinating! The templates make designing layouts, projects and cards super easy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You should have arrived here after visiting the ever-so-talented </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://craftypaperbee.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Brittany Morgan</a> - she really has amazing projects!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">For this hop, I was lucky enough to work with the <a href="http://kiwilane.com/shop/tiny-accessory-sets/tiny-sweetheart/" target="_blank">Tiny Sweetheart</a> set. And I used every one of them on the layout below. In fact, I even layered the shapes. The templates are very versatile to use and make designing so much fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">Be sure to play and hop along with us until 11:59 pm MST on Sunday, March 9th. After that ONE lucky random winner will be chosen to receive a $25 gift certificate to Kiwi Lane Shop. Just make sure that you comment on EACH stop on the hop. The winner will be announced Thursday, March 13th (lucky 13!!)</span></div>
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<br />Deborah Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320635789314364202noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5446862032442120549.post-40798321279768847252014-03-03T03:00:00.000-08:002014-03-03T03:56:34.044-08:00Mosaic Photo Inspiration {PGCB}<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Challenge #51 - Photo Inspiration</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">For this <a href="http://thepapergirlschallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Paper Girls Challenge</a>, use the following photo to inspire your creativity. I have to admit, I was having a bit of a creative freeze up with this one. After stewing and thinking and then going for a walk in the rain (yes, it does rain in AZ), I came up with a cute layout.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Here’s the inspiration:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Here’s the layout:</span></div>
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Have a scrap-happy day!</div>
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