Love My Tapes and Pretty Little Studio Blog Hop!

Hello and welcome to the Pretty Little Studio and Love My Tapes Blog Hop! We thought it would be fun to combine forces and share with you projects highlighting Pretty Little Studio whimsical goodness paired with the versatility and trendiness of Love My Tapes.

During the Blog Hop, you will be visiting blogs from both Pretty Little Studio and Love My Tapes Design Team members. We promise to bring you a hop FULL of inspiration and creativity.

And what’s a Blog Hop without giveaways? Be sure to visit all the blogs, including the Pretty Little Studio and Love My Tapes blogs for a chance to win some PLS and LMT goodies! When visiting the Design Team member’s blogs, be sure and leave comments as many of the Design Team members will also be hosting their own Blog Hop giveaways.
The Hop will start on the Pretty Little Studio blog and end on the Love My Tapes blog, so head on over to the Pretty Little Studio blog if you are just joining in. We will announce the winners of the PLS and LMT giveaways on May 3rd, so be sure to be watching for the announcements. If you get lost along the way, just check below where you are to get you hopping in the right direction.
So let’s get hopping!

Now, you should have just arrived here from Lisa Spiegel's blog. 

Here is what I have to share with all of you today:

I created this little mini birthday album with the fun Birthday Cake Collection and Love My Tapes. I used the tapes as both a seam binding and on the clothespin to make it prettier.

 

 

 

Make sure you leave a comment and you could have a chance to win this little mini album and the cute little washi tape!

Now you are off to visit Mary Ann Jenkin's blog!

  Supplies for this album:

Pretty Little Studio Birthday Cake Collection Paper

Pretty Little Studio Bookmark Tags

Pretty Little Studio Birthday Bingo Cards

Love My Tapes 

Crochet Doilie by Purple Pumpkin

Flair Button by Purple Pumkin

glassine sack

 

Nature Walk Reveal

Welcome to Pretty Little Studio Nature Walk Reveal!!

You should have arrived here from Krissy's Blog!

 If this is your first stop, be sure to head over to Pretty Little Studio Blog to start at the beginning!

I wanted to take a minute and share this fun layout I create with you today which has some pretty pictures from a Rainbow Birthday Party, which used the Birthday Cake Line, which will be reveal in photos and and videos with this week's Project Life post, but here is a peek at all the bits in that collection on this page.

"Celebrate"

I used the fast and easy Helmar Quick Fix Adhesive Runner to put this banner together quickly, using a striped paper straw and the Party Streamers Paper Ribbons.

and now for a NEWEST REVEAL from Pretty Little Studio!!

"Nature Walk" 

 I cannot wait to share all of this collection with you! It is sure to be my new favorite!

Next up on the hop is Lisa S!

Thanks for hopping with us today

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         Have a beautiful day!

banners and rolls

I wanted to share another cute page I created with my two younger girls. I have said it so many times on my blog but I truly do love their sister bond! 

I created this fun and whimsical page using the super fun “Soda Shop” kit!

"Love Note"

 I knew right away I wanted to create a cute banner when I saw the straws in the kit! I used them as the “poles” to hold my banner, then layered all sorts of yummy Elle’s Studio bits, washi and pictures and stitched across using my sewing machine.

I also knew I wanted to add some paper rolls on this page as well. It was so easy and simple using the straw to roll paper strips and the washi to keep them in place! A perfect combo!

Every month, I fall in love with the pretty little details these kits hold! Make sure to check out the

March Scrapbook Kit "Soda Shop"

CLICK HERE!

Happy Friday.

Elle's Studio, The Paper Bakery and Rewinding

Mashing and Mixing.... 

did you miss this on The Paper Bakery Blog or Elle's Studio?

I have been having so much fun playing with the gorgeous Elle's Studio You and Me Line and the Paper Bakery March Scrapbook Kit: "Soda Shop", which also has the You and Me "All My Heart" paper, You and Me "Chalk Love" paper, and You and Me "Tabs" by Elle's Studio . All of which I used on this page

"Rewind"

I loved stitching and layering the wood veneer pieces and that flair was really the finishing touch!

That chalk paper was such a beautiful base for the design and the embellishments in the Soda Shop kit just landed so perfectly onto it! Adding on some exclusive flair from the store was the perfect touch! AND That flair (and more varieties) is being offered today through NOON for FREE SHIPPING!!!! The You and Me 3 inch Circles from Elle were actually the jump start for the theme on this page... LOVE LOVE LOVE You, as in me, yes, I so needed to document that.

and I did. Because I am not sure about the loving me part. especially now. at this stage of life. but just adding this picture to a page, in fact TAKING that picture, it shows growth. growth I treasure. growth I know will continue to help me move forward. growth that will help me let go and go somewhere else with.  I am battling, but I am not giving in and I am not giving up. I am okay now, I am strong enough to get somewhere else, and I am able to let go of what I cannot get to. I am full of it. *wink* seriously. full of growth.

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato

Sisters, featured, free shipping and oh so blessed.

I felt so blessed to be a part of the Elle's Studio Mash Up with The Paper Bakery and to be able to play with the You and Me line along with my March Scrapbook Kit "Soda Shop". I admit I knew I would be using almost everything as soon as I saw it between my pages and this mini. I just had to  fill a little book with all of the beautiful bits as well as the exclusive Elle's Studio Mash-Up Flair Set.

Then, when I went over to one of the galleries I posted it in on Friday morning, I saw something unexpected. and I felt so blessed. and honored. and I felt like it was just what I was supposed to create. It was overwhelming in all the right ways.

the featured project? me? really? That was so unbelievably amazing to see. Honestly, I like to scrapbook. I love playing with paper and glue. I like sharing my ideas. But I am just a girl. A wife. A mommy. A Jesus-lover. and anything extra, like this, it is just icing on an already sweet life. I am so very thankful that I serve a God who blesses me constantly and gives me those desires that are deep inside my heart.... ones I know I do not deserve.

"Sister Love" Mini...

 

This pinwheel pocket was carefully constructed with Helmar 450 Quick Dry and Liquid Scrapdots.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This album is a stretch for me. Honestly, I was not sure how I felt about it when I was done. I mean, I adored the story of these two sister-friends. I have watched them grow together... as the best and worst of friends. I have watched them each succeed and struggle, I have watched them fight and tenderly care for one another. I have watched them grow a sister bond that is tighter than any I have ever witnessed, but this album it is simple. and it is sporadic and all over the place. The pictures, the design... it holds no consistency or order.... and yet, now, as I sit back looking over each of these pictures I can see that it all landed most perfectly in that imperfect way, telling the heart of what their story is. Perfect would not suit them at all.... neither would it have fit this little book. It may be named "Today" on the cover, but this book is full of yesterdays, yesterdays that build on todays and all of those todays form a tomorrow bond that will be quite impossible to break.

and honestly one I wish I could have had. but that story is for another day.


It has been a blessing to have been able to play with these beautiful products... and you can, too!! Make sure to buy your kits HERE and you can shop the whole You and Me line HERE, too! Epiphany Crafts tools and bubble caps can be found HERE. Also, you can check out Dew Drops from The Robin's Nest HERE.

AND Breaking NEWS!!!!

If you order some flair (this is a picture of ONE set, but there are MANY TO CHOOSE FROM!!) until noon on the 25th (that would be tomorrow) you have your set delivered with FREE shipping!!! Yes, free shipping ANYWHERE! So, RUN over and grab a set (or twenty) right now!!

CLICK TO SHOP!!

Happy Creating (and shopping!) :)

Helmar and Pink Paislee Mini Album

I have been so excited to share this little album with you! It is so simple and sweet and a design I had not seen yet, myself, so I wanted to share it with you in hopes that it might inspire you to think of a sheet of paper as something more...

I was blessed to be given some gorgeous papers from the Pink Paislee Portfolio Collection to use with my favorite adhesives by Helmar. This album is made up of one sheet of paper as the base.I loved how this project was fast and easy to put together with my Premium Craft Glue by Helmar. Here is a quick little group of snapshots that show how fast and easy it is to complete a little album like this.

{out for publication}

I started with the beautiful Unbelievable Patterned Paper by Pink Paislee and then started loading it all up with embellies and papers from the collection. I added some sweet pictures of my baby boy and messy stitching and misting.  The finished album is so sweet and not so bulky that I cannot add it to my Project Life albums if I want to.

the inside of the mini

{out for publication}

here I used the "petal" design to hold my little facts about Levi

{out for publication}

I added some sweeter, from Mama, journaling here with a date stamp

{out for publication}

 behind this picture is a little envelope with a tag hidden inside

{out for publication}

here are the top sections folded down, and embellished

{out for publication}

next, the bottom folds up to the center, too

{out for publication}

I added some journaling on this spread

{out for publication} 

You may also notice these sweet mustache flair buttons by The Paper Bakery. I loved added them to this mini album and found that, as usual, my Scrap Dots gave the perfect lift these little buttons needed. I love how the Liquid Scrap Dots conform to any embellishment I add and I can make them as tall or flat as I wish. Flair often has a slight scoop in on the back and this is a great way to adhere them evenly and securely.

 {leaving this peek for you!}

this book now folds in half to reveal the cutest of covers...

{out for publication}

this album, this boy, amazing

you may have noticed that I used a glassine sack on the cover. It makes a cute little pocket and if you have visited the Helmar Blog you may have seen that this month's challenge is a tag challenge..

So for that cover I created some cute tags to add some more loving words and facts about my little boy right now...

You can create a tag and enter on the side bar of the Helmar Blog, too, for a chance to win a very sticky prize you will be sure to get stuck on. I would love to see what you create with this Tag-You're-It Challenge and so if you play along please leave me a comment and I will come a visit your blog!

Lastly, I want to leave you with the cutest picture ever of my baby boy. 

cause he just makes my world a happier place. 

fun news, fun kit, a sweet mash up and this girl.

Before I share the fun news I have I want to share this page with you.

"Love You More"

 

this girl. she is something amazing. and me, I am just so blessed to be her Mama. the story of this page is so much deeper than just a picture of her cuteness, though., and I am so thankful I received these amazing papers and embellishments in my Paper Bakery March Scrapbook kit so I could get the story down. and really that is what makes this hobby so special, huh? the stories. and this page is the story of what her favorite thing to do with her Mama is.... and what is that favorite thing? oh, playing the "I love you" game.... yes, that is what she told me. It melts my heart and amazes me that this little girl is mine, but even more that she desires my love, counts on it, and wants to give it back.

and sweet, Gabby Girl, I do love you more. I just do.

 

Did you see all of that GORGEOUS Elle's Studio??? Well, that leads me to my fun news!

Want to be inspired? Make sure you check out The Paper Bakery Blog all next week so see what the designers have up their sleeves... or on their craft tables, I should say. 

And as if that was not enough, I want to share with you the beautiful March Scrapbook Kit

"Soda Shop"

 

and let's just say after this week I have almost nothing left. really. a couple veneer pieces... some washi and bits. literally. and that says a lot about how much I adored this kit. 

how about a sneak at what is coming for the mash up next week? yes?

wanna see what is inside this cute album? I hope so! It will all be revealed next week on The Paper Bakery Blog with all sorts of other gorgeous work from  Elle's Studio and The Paper Bakery designers! 

and this Elle's Studio Mash-Up Flair Set  is found somewhere between the chipboard of this book...

and the rest will be shared in a super fun Project Life feature next week!!! 

and you can buy your own set now in the shop!

Just Click Here.

it even ships at no extra charge with your kit this month! It is a wonderful time to become a subscriber with subscriptions for these scrapbook kits starting as low as $25 a month, plus shipping.

Hope you have a wonderful day!