HELP!!! SuPPort!!! OuR LSS OuR local meat markets, etc

Just a personal note here. Yes, it does include scrapbooking, but it also supports your local stores. I have seen alot of 3/50 projects out in the scrapbooking blogs. i thought it was something like the 365 kit. BOY was i WRONG. I finally decided to look at was this was. and it is pretty amazing. i have totally changed the way i feel about things. Knowing Cathy at the local scrapbook store and how amazing she is, this whole project brings on a new meaning to me.. Shop LOCAL and how important it is to shop LOCAL and not the CHAIN STORES, more like some would call "mom and pop" or "family" stores. if you have not heard or read about project 3/50 , i encourage you to do so. check it out here http://www.the350project.net/home.html.

for one thing the customer service at the smaller joints is amazing. never once have i walked into hobby lobby or michaels, or target, or walmart and had some one show me a new technique, a project, or design ideas. but down at http://alteredplayground.blogspot.com/ Cathy is amazingly talented. Not only that she does FREE make and takes to teach us how to do different things. Cathy will special order anything in for you. i know i look online all of the time and find things i MUST have.. i let Cathy know and she typically gets what i want.
i also love going to my local family grocery store. i do alot of grocery shopping there. it is so convient and i dont go crazy about how crazy the store is. any way
Support Your Local Stores!!

cOSmO SnOrKEL~ SpEarFisH FiSh HatCherY

this is a layout that i did of ben at the Spearfish fish hatchery. i used the cosmo snorkel line.. i love the blue of the paper with his blue eyes. i also stepped a little out of my box and cut up the post card that i got there and added to this page.. and of course i could not stay away from the sewing machine. i purchased my line from Cathy at the Playground.

BaBy ShOWEr ManiA

My first try at making a diaper wreath and diaper cake. i am a little simplistic on these. i do say i love the little converses on the diaper wreath and George on the cake.

My beautiful neice Brittany is due to have a baby at the end of the month. Today i am throwing her a shower, at her mom's house! Here is what i put together for her shower. She is having a baby boy, and she plans on naming him Jackson. I love the monkey theme. Monkey paper is from reminisce and craft paper from the playground.

the final product!! i thought they were cute!

FanCY PaNTs~ SwEEt PeA ~ eLLiE

this is a super quick page i did of Ellie. i am trying to get caught up a little and this is a super fun and cute way to get a page done. i put a fancy pants transparency over the picture and added stickles and bling to the paper. This is a picutre of Ellie @ 3 months.

Boy: A Noise with Dirt On It

here is a super fun layout that i did, with the help from Ben! i started out with a plain craft 12x12 i used distress ink and then stampes with acrylic paint in various alphas. all with the help of Ben. then i found some cardboard that i tore and distressed this with distress ink. the BOY is stamped from tim holtz stamps and distress ink. the other letters, i used quickutz. I have been waiting to do these pictures, i just did not have the right passion and ideas for this. i am super happy with how this came out. especially since the fact i put more then one picure on a page!!! a little background behind the picures. My mom picked Ben up from daycare one day and this is how i got my little sweet boy back. Ben has sooo much fun at my parents, i am some day hoping that we can move to the country also. thanks for looking!!