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Jen has brought together an amazing group of contributors - Wilna Furstenburg, Kim Jackson, Rahel Menig, Christine Middlecamp, Stephanie Dagan, Kinsey Wilson, Keisha Campbell, Sophie Crespy, Sasha Farina, Danielle Flanders. Their styles vary from clean to detailed to artsy, but they all have one thing in common - they have a way with layers. By the end of these lessons, so will you.

 

All students will receive an embellishment kit of layering essentials, including an exclusive stamp set. This kit will ship free to you, no matter where you are! 

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i love a good mail day...

 For the past two days it has been a good mail day. Boxes of new stuff from Making Memories, Jenni Bowlin and Studio Calico!! It was hard to pick which goodies to play with first. I went with the fab new Valentine line Je t'Adore from Making Memories-it stole my heart! This is the page I was able to do with it today...

products: lt pink ledger pp, lg diecut hearts, sm heart, banners, metallic heart, rose brad
 
 
 
 

 

Heaven said:

Stunning as always! How do you keep the flower embellishments from getting squashed in an album? Your dog looks so much like ours, only ours is a yellow lab. We to have to send him to bed when company comes over because even though he's almost 6 years old, he's still very high strung, and quite excitable. Do you use a crate when you're not home? :)

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Hey Heaven...For bulky items I don't want to be smashed I place them in keepsake boxes! And yes, Lulu is crated when we are not home. We are working to be able to let her loose while we are gone. At this moment she just is not ready for that. We tried last week and she set off the alarm, lol!

 

 

 

 

sarah said:

oooh, bad lulu, our 5yr old staffy {juke} is gd, but then along cam ernie {we got another puppy staffy} & he's ripped up the bed, juke thought he would join in too, s now they only have blanket's...? Love your page & how your using up pp at the moment x

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Sarah, I am guessing that gd is for Great Dane...and that is a lot to handle (even in puppy stage)! I used to long for one-until I saw one drooling!! Lulu has two beds and she had better not chew the one that is left.

 

 

 

 

Jill Taylor said:

(Hope you appreciate that remodeler--not all of us are that fortunate :) Another fabulous, as always, layout. Is that an older kit stamp from SC? Only been following them for a bit, but I don't remember that one. Love it!

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Jill, we are totally thankful for all that we are able to do. I am VERY thankful LaVaughn is so handy-saves us so much money!! And it makes him proud to say he did this or that! Yes, that stamp is an older stamp from SC-not sure if it was apart of a kit or sold separately.

Sweetest Smile-SC Dec kit

 I did this page last night with more stuff from the Dec SC kit. The butterfly & alphs stamps are also from Studio Calico.
 
 
 

 Lulu was a very bad dog last week! This only happens when Amira is watching her. We always keep her busy with bones and she usually only chews on her bones. I think she was getting back at us because we make her go to her bed when she gets too wild or when guest come!! Last week I could not laugh at this photo!!
 
 The kitchen is a mess!! We hope to have the backsplash up by the weekend-the hood is very cool!

 

Burnbright said...

First..."Wanna be photographer?" No. Just "Photographer" flat-out! I love being an abiteast fan and look forward to seeing every one of your posts. (Would love to know what kind and brand of vitamins you take!)

Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 02:25 AM

Thanks so much Burnbright!! I take Nature Made multi vitamins daily...Dr Oz made me scared I wasn't getting enough Vit D, lol!! 

Essense Vibez said...

Amira has the most beautiful smile ever---has she mentioned anything about modeling?--if you don't contact Tyra, I WILL!!!--in the meantime, keep your head in the books babygurl--Ms. Keisha, your layouts are phenomenal as always---TFS!

Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 05:57 AM

 

Essense, I am sure Mira will love you compliments! No modeling for her-she's pretty shy. She'll only be my personal supermodel!! Thanks for always leaving great comments.

some Amira...

 I have finally worked this page out after a few days of fooling around with it-using more of Dec Studio Calico.
 
 
 

 I totally forgot about these photos that I took of Amira back in September. I guess the shock of HER asking me to take them really blew my mind! So I have been editing them for the past few days. They are really nice with various actions from Totally Rad, Pioneer Woman and K Miller.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

first Studio Calico, then Jenni Bowlin and last some photos...

 Another page made with Studio Calico's December kit-I added the butterfly!
 
 Monday I stayed in and I did two pages for JBS Mercantile with Jan kit. I really wanted to go to Michael's for some Valentine supplies. But I stayed home all day ;-)
 
 
 
 
 Grandma & the girls Nov 2010 at the Capital. Kiela's hair is like that in almost every photo!!
 My sister Hilary & her bf Chris.
 In her defense it was SUPER cold & windy-so grandma needed that hat. How cute is she :-P
 
 
 Kiela loves her jewelry, too bad the girls were banned from wearing in class. She was heartbroken.
 
 

 

Thanks to all the new followers, I am trying to blog more often!!!

some Studio Calico, a little Making Memories and lots of photos...

 I took some time today to do a couple of pages. December Studio Calico kit was filled with the sweetest colors. It was hard to pick what to snip into first.
 I started this page with the Christmas line from MM 2 wks ago-I am getting a bit addicted to misting. I used some older chipboard letters & numbers for this page from various companies. I love the fact I can use them over & over for more misting!
 
 I am trying to pulled down the Christmas decorations. I hate how the house looks bare after it's all been taken down. I think I need to replace it with Valentine decor!
 
 
 
 
 I really love paperwhites and wanted to grow another batch. These just started blooming last week. Lulu loves the fire...I love the combination of all three together.
 
 
 

 I took so many photos of Kiela making cookies. Her hard work paid off with us having fun decorating them and eating them only after I took pictures of the prettiest ones-LaVaughn snuck a bite when I wasn't around...not Lulu.  

 

 
 
 I had to promise her an app for these photos...
 
 
 
 Boy, she is growing too fast. Her tops were not meant to be worn like that together. She dressed herself and probably thought this was a cute look...since we weren't going out I wanted to avoid a fight!
 she kept bugging me for that app and she was happy when I got it...and left her to play.
 

 

 

Heaven said:

These are awesome pics! Hope you had a fab new years. Not sure how I feel about the new blog look though lol. I miss all the nifty gadgets and links on the sides.. :)

 

 

OMgosh Heaven...I am bored with the look of my blog and wanted to jazz it up some. And for some reason it won't add my side contents-ARGH. At first, it would not load the new design until the next day. So I am waiting to see if the rest will pop up after a day or two. If not I will go back to my old theme until I find one that will add everything. It will all come back soon!!!

 

 

Laura said:

great pictures and the cookies look delicious. kiela has grown up so fast. question: where do you get those kewl looking rolling pins?

Laura...I got that while we were in China!

 

Studio Calico Nov kit Napa Valley...

 I finally completed a couple lo's with this kit, yippie! I just feel like I never have enough time these days. Plus, the dentist has kept me busy-argh. I just have to make it through my third(and hopefully my last) step in getting a crown next week. Not having a good dentist while in China really hurt us all. I have never been through so much dental work, sigh!!

Ok, enough whining...this is my first two pages with this kit. I loved the letter stamps-which I mixed with an older SC set for the title. The girl silhouette stamp is also from SC, so is the butterfly stamp!

The loopy punch is from Martha Stewart.

They are also posted in the fab SC member gallery

 

some Studio Calico goodness...

I have had the new Studio Calico papers & stickers for a month. I started this first lo weeks ago and finished it yesterday-sigh. Love the new line-great colors & designs. I also used some Slice cards I just got this week to do the apples, snowflakes and some lettering on these projects.

Kiela page: Studio Calico papers(green pattern & circle pattern pp), journaling card under flower; MM Slice Fall/Back to School card(apples-aren't they cute?!); Martha Stewart double loop punch, lg butterfly punch, Flock powder for circles(i love that stuff); Prima flower

Snow Day lo: Studio Calico pps(green & yellow), journaling card, stickers, letter stamps; Making Memories Mistletoe card for snowflakes, Words & Expressions card for 'snow'
 My Snowman lo: Studio Calico pps (orange, green graph, orange floorplan),letter stickers , journaling card; Making Memories Mix & Mingle card for 'man' letters, Mistletoe card for lg snowflake; American Crafts Ginger letter stamps (my); I did the small snowflakes with a Martha Stewart punch & Maya Mist
 

   Ok, so I still had a few snow photos from LAST year to edit, lol. I finally did them, since I wanted to scrap photos that had Amira in them...and this year I have no snow photos with her(so far-fingers crossed;-). I totally forgot about the snowball fight!!!



 

 

Q & A ;-)...

see, i am doing better...with some Studio Calico

This weekend I played with some things from SC...I am a total SC stamp freak!! They have the coolest stamps. I thought I didn't care for the silhouette stamp-BUT i so LOVED it. I hope that you can enjoy some new stuff, I am trying to enjoy this grove I am finally in.

Most of the things I have used on each page is from Studio Calico(and their stamps-the number block, flower, butterfly, abc stamp, remember this, happy(apart of this month's kit), silhouette girl, letter stamps / letter stamps). Some stamps were limited editions.

 

 

 

 

Shelly said:

OOO pretty. I too would love to see new pictures of your studio. I could look at other ladies' scrap spaces all day long. hehe.

  

Hi Shelly...I sure will do that by next week. It's not as nice as the room I had in China, lol!!!

Heaven said:

Gorgeous as always!! I must agree with Diane, your decorating talents are amazing. I'd love

 

 

Diane said:

Beautiful layouts Keisha. I love the pictures of Philly!! Can you maybe post more pictures

 

Wow, ok Ladies!! Thanks so much. I will get some up with the scraproom photos!!