XOXO June Challenge & DT Reveal

The Lipstick Chicks

just revealed the June challenge & here is mine:

"J'Adore"

my sweet daughters Anabelle & Julianna

Supply List: Scalloped Paper & Die Cuts: K & Company;

Pattern Paper & Tag: Graphic 45; Flowers: Prima, Bazzill;

Thickers: American Crafts; Alpha Stickers: Making Memories;

Clip: CTMH; Stamp: Stampabilities; Ribbon: American Crafts;

Stickles: Ranger; Ink: Colorbox, CTMH

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This month's prize is sponsored by:

DIVINE DESIGN KITS

The winner will receive this FABULOUS kit!!

Make sure you stop by the

XOXO Challenge Blog

to see all the DT's beautiful work & to play along!

Hope you can join us!

Scrap Yourself Challenge 5

It is Wednesday, which means it is Reveal day on the

Scrap Yourself Challenge Blog

This week's challenge is:

"The Biggest or Most Important Decision You Have Made"

I thought the obvious answer to that prompt would probably be marriage, and I wanted to dig a little deeper. I decided to make the page based on our family's decision a few years ago to move across the country and have a different life.

"Moving To North Dakota Changed Me"

Supply List:

Paper: CTMH, Bazzill; Border, Flowers, Chipboard: Prima

Thickers: American Crafts; Stickers: Making Memories;

Glimmer Mist: Tattered Angels; Other: Tag, Butterfly, Stitching

I printed 2 copies of the same picture, cut out the butterfly of one and "popped it up" on top of the 2nd photo for a 3D effect! I love how it gives the butterfly some "flight"!!

I used the same 3 colors found in the photo as my color scheme: blue, orange and cream/tan. I absolutely love the effect of the orange glimmer mist on the paper!!

I wrote all my journaling on a vintage dry cleaning claim tag and hid it behind the photo.

Journaling:

"I can think of only 2 life changing decisions I have made in my 32 years... when I got married, and years later, when our family decided to move across the country to North Dakota. We left everyone and everything that we had ever known for a completely different life. I had the FALSE assumption that everywhere in the U.S. was pretty much the same... NOT! ND is so completely opposite of Florida in almost every way. It was a HUGE culture shock moving here and it took me a long time to adjust.

Now after living here for 3 years, I can HONESTLY say that I am a better person because I have lived here. North Dakota changed me. I have learned to slow down and enjoy life and simple things. I appreciate my family more. Nature more. Community more. Friends more... LIFE MORE! I have learned that you can be friends with anyone and social classes and differences don't matter here. I have learned values and what is valuable. I learned how to LIVE. North Dakota changed my life! "

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If you haven't already, head over to

SCRAP YOURSELF

and see what the rest of the design team did for this challenge.

Hopefully you will join us and make your own

page or project reflecting the Biggest Decision You Ever Made!

CTMH Projects

I haven't had a lot of time for scrapping the past couple weeks because of Oliver being in the hospital, but I do have some recent projects that I haven't posted.

Here are a couple projects I made at a CTMH workshop & crop

I used some new items from the Spring 2010 Catalog:

Veranda Pattern Paper X7119B

Authentic Stamp Set D1401

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I also made some "boy" cards:

For the cards I used:

You Rock Paper Pack X7122B

You Rock Stamp Set D1346

thanks for stopping by, hope you have a great weekend!

Blessings~ Zoa