Another Day in Paradise!

If you are here for the Robert's Imaginisce Giveaway... click HERE!

I hope everyone is staying in and warm from this nasty winter storm that has hit many states! We even got nailed with it here in Dallas! It has been an icy mess! So.... my husband and I decided to get out and go somewhere warm! I will be gone for the weekend but I will be back Monday to announce the winner of the Robert's give away... be sure to come back to see if you are the winner!!

Before I get to my LO, I have to do a Happy Birthday shout out to my daughter Courtney!! She is 21 years old today!!

Today is Thursday which means that we have a new challenge for you at Sketches in Thyme! I pulled out some pictures from our vacation in Maui a few years ago to make this LO...

I really liked the photos and since the papers are already so busy, I decided to keep the embellishments to a minimum! Here is the sketch we are working with this week. It is from Sketchabilities. I liked the clean lines of this sketch so this time I didn't wander too far from it! Jump on over to the Sketches in Thyme blog to see all the amazing projects my dt sisters created!

I have been lucky enough to receive a few awards that I thought I would share with you!
My Cheer Camp LO was selected at Club CK to be highlighted this week!

So now I get this cute little blinkie!!

I also have received two blog awards. The first one is from Janice at Cricutology. She as passed on the Stylish Blogger award to me!

 If you have not been to Cricutology, you need to check it out! She does the best tutorial videos! I have learned a lot of nice tips from her!

Apparently I also have Attitude because my good friend, Sandy passed this award on to me!

Sandy has a blog called Details by Sandy and the title of her blog could not be more perfect! She is the queen of details and embellishments! She has this amazing ability to layer embellishments and her LOs are absolutely stunning!! You need to stop by Sandy's blog and check out her work!! Thank you Sandy for passing this Attitude award on to me!

Since I have received both of these awards before, I am going to make up my own rules!! heehee!! I am passing this award on to all my wonderful followers who have not received them yet! Feel free to pick them up and take them home!!

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and I will be back Monday to catch up on all the blogs and announce the winner of my big giveaway!!
Barb  :)

Spring Break

Before I get to my post today... wanted to share some good news.... My Once Upon A Time layout was picked as one of the winning layouts over at The Pink Elephant!!!! Yeah!!! Another award!! I love winning awards!! Thanks ladies for picking mine!!

AND..... So super excited to share that .... I was picked to join the Stuck On You Sketches Guest Design Team!!!! Can you believe it?!!! So.... soon you will be able to check out some of my work over there!! If you haven't visited the SOUS ladies, you need to!! They have a new sketch challenge that is up today and some wonderful examples of their take on the sketch!! Go check it out!!

Now... on to the real reason for this post...It's Friday again and that means a new challenge is posted over at Frosted Designs!! This week your challenge is to sand something. You can sand the paper, letters, even the photo if you choose!! (Which I did!!) Now come on and join the fun... this challenge is so easy because we all do it!!! :) So... grab that sand paper and get to it!! Then link up your project at Frosted Designs so that we can all see the amazing talent you have!! While you are there, check out what the rest of the design team created!! You won't be disappointed!

So.... I am still scrapping those cruise pictures... and have many more to go!! (When you only put one picture on a page it really takes a while!!) LOL!! This LO is going to be the one that goes in the front of the cruise album...with a teenage son who was more worried about his social life than family time, we did not get many pictures of all four of us together. But I do really like this one!!

What do you think of my flowers?! I had fun making these because they were quick and easy and I like the look of them! Well, if you want to know more about them, you will need to hop over to Lidia's Breaking Barriers blog because she has a wonderful tute on how to make them!! Her's look way better than mine but for the first time, I think mine turned out just fine!! (Besides, my internet was down the night I made these so I was going by memory... and that is always a scary thing!!) You can go right to the tutorial by clicking HERE!! Thanks Lidia for sharing your talent!!

The papers are from Making Memories Great Escape pack. I LOVE these papers for vacation photos!! They are fun without being too cutsie!! The letters are from my Paper Poppy Kit Co. March kit (?) and the metal brads are from Spare Parts. I sanded the blue cardstock around the picture, the letters and the picture itself!! Lots of sanding going on but I love the final LO! I know it is simple but sometimes simple is good!! I didn't want to over do it with the embellies and not focus on the photo!!

I am so grateful to all my bloggy friends for your continual words of encouragement and kindness!! I am so glad to have found this sweet little community!!
Barb :)

My Little Beach Babe LO is a winner over at Dies Cuts R Us!

Yeah for me! I just checked in on Die Cuts R Us and found out that my LO (My Little Beach Babe) won the Die Cuts R Us Sugar Rush Challenge! I am so excited... my first award!! THANK YOU to the wonderful ladies over there for picking my LO and also for all the kind comments they left about my LO!!