Just call me Sass-a-fras!

If you read my blog regularly, you know I ♥ Sassafras Lass. It used to be hard for me to cut into the patterned paper perfection that I have come to love & adore. I have long since over come that fear and want to share my most recent layout using my beloved Sassafras.


Lots and lots of hand cutting on these, and you know what? I enjoyed it! Seeing the little pieces splayed out on my table made me giddy! I thought the pictures of my mom went perfectly with the "Vintage Yummy" collection (one of my favorites to date).
Thanks for coming by and letting me share!
Tricia

Wish I would have said that!

Sneak Peak

A little sneak of some ATC's I made to trade with my homeys. Here's a little peak of what I am mailing off today. Be checking your mail box in a couple of day!

Gettin' busy!

I have lots to share today, so get ready to be inundated with a flood of photos.

I made this card as part of my guest design work at Create My Keepsake using the gorgeous March kit.

These are my design team projects for Citrus Tree Studio using April's "Orchard Fresh" kit. The kit includes lots of Scribble Scrabble's Evelyn collection and some October Afternoon from their "Night Light" collection.




These are the result of my very first round robin with some friends.
The little card in the lower corner is one that I had given my mom when I was a little girl.





And last, but not least, is a digital page I did. For this one I wanted to focus on the journaling.


Alrighty, so I guess that's it for now, thanks for coming by!

If I had known.....

14 years ago what I know today, I would STILL marry this man.
He has blessed my life in innumerable ways and I am so grateful to be his wife. The truth is, we belong together, plain and simple. Just like peanut butter and jelly, macaroni and cheese or any of those other pairs that naturally compliment eachother, we go together. I can't adequately express all that he is to me, so I will let the words of this song say it for me. I think it does a good job of summing it all up.


*All I want is you*
If I were a flower growing wild and free
All I'd want is you to be my sweet honey bee.
And if I were a tree growing tall and green
All I'd want is you to shade me and be my leaves

All I want is you, will you be my bride
Take me by the hand and stand by my side
All I want is you, will you stay with me?
Hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea.

If you were a river in the mountains tall,
The rumble of your water would be my call.
If you were the winter, I know I'd be the snow
As long as you were with me, let the cold wind blow

If you were a wink, I'd be a nod
If you were a seed, I'd be a pod.
If you were the floor, I'd wanna be the rug
And if you were a kiss, I know I'd be a hug

If you were the wood, I'd be the fire.
If you were the love, I'd be the desire.
If you were a castle, I'd be your moat,
And if you were an ocean, I'd learn to float.


This is my favorite version of the original, take a listen.

Happy 14th Anniversary baby.
Thank you for being my "Sweet honey bee", I love you!

Hippity Hop

Here is a card I made for my mother in laws birthday.
All paper is by K & Co. The Unity stamp I used is from the "Scrapbook from the beginning" collection. Other stamps include Anna Griffin for the sentiment and Fiskars for the scroll.


Now, hop on over to Anita's blog for more Unity blog hopping fun!

"It's not the amount of years in the life, it's the amount of life in the years."
~Abraham Lincoln

On last thing before I go...

I am off to Tennessee and Kentucky tomorrow! Myself and a friend are headed out to see a dear friend who just turned the BIG 40 a couple of weeks ago. Before I leave though, I wanted to share a layout I finished up for my guest design team gig at Create My Keepsake.

And last but not least, something that you should never, ever forget....

Cyndi Lauper - New Music - More Music Videos

Guest designer layouts

Here are a couple of layouts I have completed for "Create My Keepsake" as their March guest designer. I just got my kit 2 days ago, so I am going to work fast to get the rest of my projects done.

This layout is slightly hybrid since I added a digital frame around the photo of my mom and her family. I also did my journaling in Photoshop then printed it onto the journal card. I wanted the text to appear as though it had been typed on an old fashioned typewriter.

I love this photo and thought it was a perfect fit for the vintage inspired papers.



I had some fun with this one doing some embroidery. I even tried out the Palestrina stitch on this one.



Sadly that is about all I can share with you right now. I HAVE been working on some other project, but you just have to wait till next month to see. :0)

What's makin' me happy today...

Sifting through my collection of lovely vintage buttons.

A pretty, scrappy kit from Jenni Bowlin studios that showed up on my doorstep today.

Dancing with my hubby and stealing a kiss.

That is not ALL that is making me happy today, just the hilights. I got in some scrappy time today and was able to finish up a couple of projects. I did a bit of laundry, cooked dinner and am ready to relax for the rest of the evening. I hope you have had a great day too!

Happy 40th Birthday my friend!

I hope you have a wonderful day!
Now for your next message on your birthday blog hop go here.

Good news!

This month I am the guest designer over at Create My Keepsake. I am looking forward to this month's beautiful kit, "Country Charm". The kit features new Jenni Bowlin "Farmer's Wife" paper and embellishments, as well as some new release Graphics 45 "Fashionista" papers. I am so excited to get my hands on it!


As if that wasn't exciting enough, I was also asked to join the design team over at Citrus Tree Studio! I am really looking forward to this opportunity.

So that's the big news I wanted to share. What a relief to finally get to spill the beans!

If I could I would...

be doing this right now!

I will be back later to tell you why.