Product Showcase - Wild Card

I have had such an amazing time sharing with all of you this month! It has been great sharing ideas, projects and tutorials with you. Today I just wanted to share a few projects I created.

I created this birthday card using the Life Documented kit from Simple Stories. I truly love how versatile Simple Stories is. I have used materials from this kit for a full scrapbook album, altered projects, cards and so much more! All from just one kit!

This layout was created using the My Mind's Eye Alphabet Soup Girl line. The chipboard elements are so awesome! They are self adhesive and they stick amazingly well. Each Thursday in the Summer, the botanical garden at our local university hosts a "Books and Blooms" event. They read stories, play music and have other great activities for kids all right there in the beautiful gardens. Before going to the event my daughter and I would stop off at our favorite cupcake boutique and share a cupcake for breakfast. The My Mind's Eye papers and embellishments were perfect for documenting this because of all of the "sweets" as well as the nature elements. I think they made it just for me!

Thank you so much for allowing me to share with you this month. I hope I was able to give you some new ideas and maybe inspire a new project. Be sure to check back here every day for new ideas and inspiration. Our TeamWorks members and guest designers always have amazing things to share with you!

Confessions of a Halloween Paperaholic

Hello. My name is Sandy. And I have a problem.

I don't know that I'm quite to "addiction" yet...but its getting close...dangerously close...

You see, it is not even the end of September yet and my house looks like this (imagine the "Psycho" shower scene music playing as you go through these photos...):


And even more scary...this is what is in my "Fall" patterned paper folder...which is the biggest folder in the batch:
This is a 2" tall stack of nothing but Halloween paper my friends. Considering how few Halloween scrapbook pages should be produced in a given year, and the fact that most people don't send "Halloween cards", etc....Yeah...It's that bad.

SO, this year I told myself I wouldn't buy any more Halloween paper until I used what I had. And I held firm all the way until approximately September 20th. And then I saw Cosmo Cricket's Matilda line:

And Pink Paisley's Hocus Pocus (hello, Hogwarts!):
And I HAVE TO HAVE these MME stamps:
And then there is the BoBunny Hooligans line...:
It's not too early to start ordering Halloween stuff, right? After all...you need plenty of time to work with it while the spooky mood strikes...And come on, this paper could totally double-dip for aliens, robots, all manner of non-Halloween creatures that attract small children's attention...right? Right??
My resolve is hanging by a thread...

Going...

Going...

Going...