of course

I didn't get half the great pictures that I wanted since I was so busy at the party but all in all, it was a big success... neighborhood kids are still talking about it so Im happy and Erin had a great time!

Here are some of the pics I did manage to get from the Harry POtter party...

I'll be back soon with some sneaks of July's ARTz De Scrap project... you are gonna love it!! ;)

Peace,
Kim

HOgwarts ready...

we have spent the last few days preparing for this Harry Potter party that will take place tomorrow.. We are very excited and cannot wait to entertain young wizards and muggles alike tomorrow with clouds and broomsticks, weasleys cheesy pizza, blood pops, dragons tear punch, and many other fun surprises.. I will post pics after!

So to share a few NON commitment type things... here are a few cards I created just for fun..

and even more

creations... in the midst of the late night Harry Potter birthday preparations, I decided to re vamp my studio... literally gut it and start over.. rofl sure.. no problem!! OY... but Im glad I went through it all so that after this birthday party , I will be able to sit and KNOCK out some projects...

in the mean time, I am sharing my journal today which is July's tutuorial at Artz de Scrap we made a personal journal to inspire us to write more...
I had fun using this product from Making Memories new line at Michaels called Vintage Treasures... oh my did I love this.. I bought it all up!! lol Its a mix of old lines and new and some vintage pictures and trinkets.. lovely!

and now I have a great little place to write!!
peace
Kim

summer time

and the layouts are easy... ;)
I have been on a roll.. digging into my kits and just playing... after several design team projects its fun to just go random.. no direction, no theme, mixing up old and new stuff and just using it up!!
will be back soon with some other design team projects I created...

peace,
Kim

inspired by SPOT

this week for A Muse a Palooza... I created these two cards... one is the dots background that I smeared to make it look like a artsy painting....

the other is a traditional one using my favorite a muse stamps and polka dot paper in orange...

thanks for looking!!

July challenge

is up over at Artz de Scrap... I hope you alterers and non alterers head on over and check out this challenge.... This is a great beginning challenge for all the "non" alterers in the group ... its relatively easy to create a mini book using your scraps and everyone loves blue and green right?

For July, we challenge you to alter a storybook.... and use the colors of blue and green as inspiration....

Here is my little album... the kids had this baby board book of Snow White.. I loved the shape but they had outgrown the book so I altered, painted, pasted papers to create this little love story of us... I hadn't done a book about us as a family before so this was a great challenge for me!

You can check out the rest of the girls examples here... Artz de Scrap

hope everyone...

had a
wonderful 4th... while Im busy creating some Design Team projects that I cannot yet share ;) I thought I would share some pictures from our restful and stay at home 4th holiday!

1. Erin on the slip and slide... the entire neighborhood has them but somehow , everyone comes to our house to play!! rofl Love this pic of Erin.. the goggles kill me!! rofl
I think our grill has been going all summer.. There is nothing better than the smell of grilled meat... sorry to all my vege friends!!
a little Sam Adams on this appropriate holiday!!

grilled dogs..

watermelon
fireworks literally down the street at the MIddletons...

some patriotic projects I did with leftover red/white blue stuff!

be back soon with some sneaks of my projects for my design teams ARTZ de scrap and Right at HOme

peace
Kim

Twilight inspired

Okay, the next challenge for A muse a Palooza was to create something using A Muse stamps inspired by the word Twilight...
I chose this vampire stamp and the girl but only stamped her without the flowers... added a hand drawn heart...
Its hard to see here but there is a bit of blood on his lips! lol I prefer the darker vampire tales and not the lighthearted goodie two shoes type ;)

I also stamped the sentiment pucker up... all three stamps are A muse

tfl

Happy 4th

of July to all my American friends and family... Even though its not my most favorite holiday, I have so many fond memories of the 4th... and love to pass that pride and tradition to my kids....

I am sharing some patriotic projects that I made awhile ago for that class I took by LIsa Pace

Have a very safe and restful Independence Day!!!!!!!!!!!!