A Special Birthday Blog Hop!

That's right! Today is a very special day! Bella Blvd owner, Stephanie Hunt is having a birthday today!! Here's a little card I made for her with some super fun Bella Blvd. products:



So, Happy Birthday Stephanie! I hope you have a super fantastic day!!!

Even thought it's Stephanie's birthday, we have some gifts for a few of you lucky readers as well! We know how generous and giving Stephanie is, and we know she would never have a fun blog hop, without a few giveaways up for grabs too. So we got permission from Robin, who works alongside Stephanie in the office, to pick TEN lucky winners, who will each receive a Bella Blvd collection. All you need to do to be entered in the random drawings, is to leave Stephanie your birthday wishes in the comment section. You have lots of opportunities to up your chances, since you can leave a comment on each blog you visit, as you go through the blog hop. There are 26 blogs, plus the Bella Blvd blog, for a total of 27 chances to get your name in the pot. We will randomly choose winners, from 10 randomly choosen blogs, and announce them on Friday!

And, if this is your first stop of the morning, be sure to head over to the Bella Blog and start the hop from the beginning. If you're coming here from Suzanne's blog, then your next stop is the super talented Melissa Stinson! Be sure to hop over and leave Steph a little birthday love on the Bella Blog!!

Some Bella Blvd. Love

I have been having a blast playing with the collections from Bella Blvd!! All this week they have been showing off projects with the 2 brand new collections Spring Flings and Easter Things and Winter Wonder. Here are a couple of peeks at 2 of my layouts done with these lines!





To see the entire layouts, be sure to stop by the Bella Blog today!!!

I also played around with the Too Cute to Spook line...so whimsical and perfect for these pictures of my little Yoda from last year!





We're getting ready for lots of fun Halloween festivities over the next few days...my favorite time of the year!! Hope everyone has an amazing holiday!!!

New Bella Blvd. Starts Shipping Today!!!

Today is the big day! The Bella office is all a buzz, with our NEW Mid-Release collections starting to ship out to your favorite LSS's and online retailors! You will want to pick these up as soon as you see them, since they are limited edition collections. Once they're gone, they're gone.

Be sure to stop in at the Bella Blog...the design team has been working hard with these new lines and they will be showcased all week long!!

Fall is such a busy time of year for us, but one of our favorite things to do is going to the pumpkin patch! Miles especially had fun this year since he could walk around and pick out his own pumpkin! He actually spent most of his time with a pumpkin stem that he found on the ground. He walked around tapping every pumpkin he came to with it.






I'll also be teaching my next class at Chasing Rainbows in Independence on November 5th. We'll be doing 3 seasonal layouts...just bring yourself and your basic supplies! Here are the layouts we'll be doing:





Super fun stuff! I'll be working hard this week making some goodies with the new Bella lines...look for my layouts on the Bella Blog on Thursday!!

Have a fantastic day!

Bella Blvd's New Mid-Releases!!

Ohh, I have some awesome fun to share with you today! Bella is showing their new mid-releases today on their blog! I got to see them a few days ago and I have been IN LOVE! I can't wait to get these amazing lines in my hot little hands!

The first line is called Winter Wonder. You can see the entire line HERE, but here are 3 of my favorite patterns:







The second release is called Spring Flings and Easter Things...SO stinkin cute! And the chevron patterns...ohhhh the chevron patterns! I have a bit of an obsession with those right now and these 2 lines delivered! You can see this entire line HERE and here are 3 of my favorite patterns from this line:







And, if you stop by the Bella Blog today, there's also a fantabulous giveaway! You could win $100 in Bella product INCLUDING these amazing new releases! These releases are limited edition and once they are gone, they're gone! They start shipping out in just a few weeks!!

A Fun Weekend!

I've become a bit of a concert addict in the last year and a half and luckily my sweet hubby indulges me. He won't go with me because we have totally different taste in music, but luckily my good friend and neighbor loves rock/metal music just as much as me! We headed down to Tulsa Friday night for the Carnival of Madness tour...some of my favorite bands were playing! I've come to love the smaller venue concerts rather than the large arenas...it's so much more intimate and there really aren't any bad seats...or bad standing areas in Friday night's case. I swore I would never go to a concert where there was standing room only, but there we were...standing for 5 and a half hours, rocking to some amazing music! It was fun! And my feet didn't hurt too bad the next day :) The lineup included Emphatic (which I had never heard of before, but they were really good!), Adelitas Way (love!!), Black Stone Cherry (love!), Alter Bridge (love, love, LOVE!), and headlining was Theory of a Deadman. It was an amazing night, but I'm still trying to catch up on sleep from that night!









Aaaand a crafty project to share! I did this layout using mostly Studio Calico products.









And in other news, there's an awesome giveaway on the Bella Blog today along with some amazing card inspirations! So stop by and leave a comment for your chance to win some awesome Unity Stamps!!

Some Super Exciting News!!

Holy heck!! Yes, that's my name on there! In the midst of some really amazing designers! I am thrilled and honored to have been chosen to work for such an amazing company. I have been a fan from the start and am so excited to see what's to come! Congrats to all the new Bella Artista's! I can't wait to work with all of you!! Thank you Stephanie and Laura for this fantastic opportunity!!

And now I get to share one of my DT submissions! This was created using one of Bella's older fall lines called One Fall Day. I just love the vibrant colors and fun patterns!! And the picture of 2 of my guys sure makes it even sweeter!



Thanks for letting me share my excitement! I will be sharing lots of fun new Bella projects soon! Be sure to stop by the Bella Blog for so much more inspiration!!

A 2 Page Layout? Me? Why yes, I Did!

Any of my scrapping friends know that I don't do 2 page layouts...I just have such a hard time with them for some reason, but some events just have so many pictures that it needs more space. I decided to push back my fears and give it a go yesterday...These photos are from over 6 years ago! That's how long I have been putting this layout off! Zoo pictures...and I have a thousand more since then...I struggled with it, but I really like how it turned out. I used the zoo papers/embellishments from the Bo Bunny Zoology collection along with some new Jillibean Soup kraft tags. This layout will be up at the store if you want a closer look!



I'm so ready for fall...and this week is going to deliver with highs only in the 60's in a few days! I love the cooler temps, I love the gorgeous colors, Halloween, Thanksgiving....it's my all time favorite season! It also makes me want to get out fall photos and get them in my album. For this layout I used a mix of some MME Lost and Found papers, Echo Park Apothecary (the orange polka dot), MME Mischievous brads, Jillibean Soup label stickers, and Studio Calico wood stars.



Some fun things happening this week, so be sure to check back soon!!