Being in the spotlight, I turned this Reminisce paper upside down!  This mini album cover started out as a birthday card, it was too cute not to make into an album to hold all those pictures from the circus!! I used canvas painted red and white then pieced into a big top. Enjoy!

Reminisce Blog Hop

Welcome to the Very First Reminisce Blog Hop! If you've just arrived from Shelly Maxwell you are in the right place. If not, I'm glad you found us today! You can visit the Reminisce blog for the complete list of details and blogs that are participating and play along. We have some fantastic prizes you can win too! The blog hop starts today, March 9th, and runs through Midnight CST on Sunday, March 13th. To have a chance to win a prize, just leave a comment at each stop and then a comment on the Reminisce blog telling us about your blog hop experience. (Please be sure to use exactly the same name in each comment). Then return to the Reminisce blog on Tuesday, March 15th and find out if you've won!

The following pictures are for what I call a tabletop album, I saw a picture of something like this last year and I had to come up with a way to to make it.  Here it is, I bought a tabletop picture frame, took it all apart and used the cardboard backing, the part that will allow it to sit up-right on a table.  Then I bought a 3x5 index- card book, the kind with the metal mechanism that opens, my loving husband pounded out the rivets holding the metal part to the plastic. I just used brads to attach the mechanism to the card board piece that I had already covered with paper.  Then I just made little pages to go on the rings and decorated it all up using the Monkey Adventures line since it was so fitting for our trip!  On the paper  for the skiing pictures I put a little snow writer on some of the trees to make it even more fitting. In the word Colorado I used the I-top tool for the 'O' well I actually didn't use the tool, my hands are too small to use the tool. So I just put a thin piece of adhesive on the brad, lay my paper on it, give it a lite spray of water to help reduce the 'fold' marks and then folded everything to the back and squeezed the back piece on, works much better that way for me!

The next item I would like to share is for the pictures I have received from graduates over the years. What to do with them after they come off the refrigerator!  I used a manila folder, cut off all the tabs, scored one more time on each side and then once about 3-4 inches from the bottom. I used Graduation Celebration to cover the folder and the chipboard quotes are perfect for embellishing!  I know I have more pictures of Grads somewhere and I have plenty of pockets to put them in when I find them!

  Thank you for stopping by! Before you hop along to Heather Dawaelsche, don't forget to leave a comment here on my blog. Now you can head over to Heather Dawaelsche for more Rockin' Reminisce projects! (In case of any glitches you can always go back to the Very First Reminisce Blog Hop entry HERE.

Where are the Lazy Days of Summer??

I couldn't figure out how to write something new on my blog, needless to say I will not be remembered for my computer skills!

Summer is here, softball is in full swing, summer camp is on the calendar. Sometimes I have to look at my calendar a couple times a day to make sure the kids are where they need to be!  Thank goodness I have a retreat at the scrapbook store, I can go have some quiet creative time or chit-chat with friends.

My family and I  went camping over Memorial Day, as always a bitter-sweet holiday, remembering the fallen and being grateful to those that serve our Country. 

I am going to share a couple more Reminisce layouts I have completed, hopefully I remember how!!

Why am I starting a blog, there is a little story that started everything off. Mickey a friend of mine told me to submit a design to the County Fair, I did and was excited to win first prize, there were three total entries!

At Scrapfest 2009 Nancy M. was telling me that I should be submitting my scrapbook designs to magazines for publication possibilities. I kinda smiled and let her tell me all the ins and out of being published, to date I still haven't sent anything to a magazine.

Then in December, Tonya (my local store owner) showed me an email from Reminisce, they were having a contest to become a 'Design Team Member' she told me I had to send in the 'Monkey' layout! I already had several layouts done with Reminisce paper so we looked through the store and decided to send in 'Monsters' and 'Trick or Treat' too! The contest called for other items so I made a couple cards and a little Christmas House as well.  I was very hush hush, I didn't want everybody to know that I was entering a contest, the chances were one in a million. I emailed everything by the contest deadline, not in my hands anymore, end of story. Or so I thought!

The morning the announcements were made I didn't even look at the website, I had secretly began hoping my layouts would be recognized and didn't want to be disappointed.  When my husband told me I was runner-up I couldn't believe it, I had to see the website for myself and there it was! I called Tonya so excited, to this day I still am in awe. Then Reminisce still invited to join the Design Team, so cool!! I am going to post pictures of what I submitted.

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