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Giveaway!

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The wonderful gals over at Clique Kits have given me a December Wonderland kit to giveaway!  You can check out the entire kit HERE.  I shot a quick walk-thru video of the kit contents below.


How do you win?  Follow me, @jiller_p on Instagram HERE, locate my original post, leave a like and a comment and that's it!

I'm announcing the winner on Wednesday, January 11, 2017.

Good luck!
xoxo

12x12 Layout | She Blooms

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In a feeble attempt to get organized, I came across some Illustrated Faith products sitting with some Fancy Pants embellishments.  The colors flowed together quite nicely so I decided to put together a quick page.

Photo cred:  Tracy Perrett Photography


Of course, after the fact, I see how my sentiment strips are crooked :(




I used the Fancy Pants die cuts to embellish, except for the chipboard heart, which is from Illustrated Faith, along with the bow clip.

A sweet little page showing off my sweet girly-girl.

Bloom!
xoxo

Pretty Little Studio | Holly Jolly Holiday

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I have a new mixed media layout on the Pretty Little Studio blog HERE.  I would love it if you would click on over and read how this page came together.


Are you scrapping all your Christmas photos?
xoxo

Process Video | I love love love you

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Hey!  I made a new video using some Bella Blvd Illustrated Faith + Clique Kits items, watch below.


This is 100% a Missy Whidden style layout, I adore Missy's work and credit her with my use of mixed media products on my pages.

Some papers and embellishments came from the December Clique Kits, other products were items in my stash.


The white gesso helps draw the eye in to the center of the page where the photo rests, and the splatters just add some fun to this page.  The Illustrated Faith products are so colorful and whimsical!





Be happy!
xoxo

Craft Room Tour

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Hey Everyone!

I have some photos of my craft room taken by my friend Tracy!  She came over the other day, set up her fancy lights and took pix so I could share my messy/cluttered/real life craft room with all of you. I have a write-up about my space on the Gossamer Blue blog today.







It's not fancy or super organized, but it's all mine and it works so well for me.  My BFF Winif's husband and FIL built my standing desk and hung all the shelves (provided by my MIL), and also custom-fit the hand-me-down armoire with shelves for all my Gossamer Blue kits and other paper collections.

Keepin' it real,
xoxo




Pretty Little Studio | Hey Santa

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I have so many Christmas photos to scrap!

I have a new layout using the Tinsel Town collection over the Pretty Little Studio blog HERE.  Head on over there to read how this page was created.


The 9x12 style is so fun to scrap and use, but it makes for awkward photos on my blog, haha!  I love it in person though.

Wink-wink,
xoxo

Gossamer Blue | December Memories 2016

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I finished my GB DM the other day and filmed a super-quick walk thru video, please check it out below!


As I mention in the video, working in a Traveler's Notebook for the first time was a big experiment; I absolutely love this format and will continue some kind of TN in 2017.  I love the size, I love the randomness of it, I love just about everything about TN's!

I used a mix of the GB December Memories kit and the December Life Pages kit for this project. Click the words to find the December Memories kit in the GB shop (LP is sold out).  I added in some inks and washi tape from my stash to round out the album.

I opted to only go thru Christmas Day, and didn't include a ton of photos from Christmas because I plan to scrap those on regular layouts.

This is by far my favorite December Memories kit that I've done so far.  I found it much more freeing than a daily album.  I did a blog post for GB on my approach, and you can find that HERE.

Thanks for watching my video, I am hard at work creating projects for CHA, my first time creating for the big trade show!  I can't wait to share those projects but it won't be until after the show is over at the end of this month.

I'll be back soon, but it will be a little light on the posts around here for the next week or so.

Happy 2017!
xoxo