Hey all and happy Saturday.  Any fun weekend plans?  Its actually a long weekend for me - I have Monday off as well.  The forecast calls for clouds and rain, so I'm  hoping to get a chunk of crafty time in at some point.  I've been dying to dive into last month's  Magpie Club Bits and Bobs kit.  Totall all over some Miami photos and these little bits.

This morning I'm heading to Wrentham for a little retail therapy.  I'm in the mood for Calvin Klein.

Anyway,  I've another layout for you today and I'm hoping you grabbed one of the August Magpie kits - I believe they are sold out.  If you missed it, better sign up for a subscription to start next month - certainly the September kit will be just as fabulous.

COMPLETELY LOVED the lluggage tag and map here. There was  a Pink Paislee Pixie Stix in the kit, and I used it on the river in the map.

Always fun to stich on the photo. 

And the usual layering of bits.

I think this one was my favorite this month.

And now, I'm off to shop.  Enjoy your weekend. 

Just San Francisco

Hey all on the first Wednesday of August.  Hope you enjoyed.  It was a picture perfect day here today.  And you know, I wish I had my camera with me at the pool today. I believe my parents are still rolling around laughing at the vision of me exiting the pool, wrapping my towel around myself, sitting on my chair and suddenly, without warning,  the bottom canvas completely  tore away from the side bar and on to the deck  I went. Splat.   I guess I need a new chair now.........and maybe a new diet!!


So anyway, as promised, another August Magpie layout.


On this one, I cut one of the luggage tags and post cards, stamped them with the terrific TT stamp in this month's kit, and stapled them on the side of the layout.

I cut up and layered lots of bits and pieces under the wallet sized photo and, for the bottom of the photo, cut out the city scape of the Hambly paper and slid the bottom part of the photo behind it.

I added in some buttons and a couple of stickers.

And then I was done.

Have a great rest of the day. .

Just August Magpie

Hello on a Tuesday.  Its been a hot one here, and as I sit and type this, I'm thrilled to see that it just started raining, so hopefully, it will be a cool night.  Haven't had one of those in some time now.

So, how fun, the August Magpie kits have gone live and are ready for purchase.  The kit has some Hambly, new WeR "travel light" papers, embellies and stickers, really neat postcards, maps and well, lots of really cool stuff for all of those vacation photos.

The big guy and I spent a week in  Las Vegas on our honeymoon and then took a road trip from there to  Sedona, AZ for the second week.   I can't believe that was a little over seven years ago now, and I can't believe it took me that long to get  the perfect paper  to scrap a particular  Sedona photo, but this kit.............yeah.........there was that perfect paper, right in front of me. 

The paper has a cool postage stamp edge and the top has cut out spots, so I wove some other papers and some twine through the cuts.

There was a neat, stamped shipping tag in the kit.  I used a water pen and some blue ink to color in the letters.

And, to keep with the columns printed on the paper, I chopped my photo into thirds (I know, right, seven years to get it scrapped then I cut it up!).  I also cut one of the other tags in the kit to use as a large photo corner.

And here's the end result.

I'll post another layout tomorrow.  For now, I'm going to go just sit and listen to the rain..............

Just Sunday Magpie Peeks

Jumping on really quick to say,

the July Magpie Kit is a MUST HAVE........

Just Home

The May Magpie kit was full to the brim with all kinds of neat embellies.  I couldn't resist setting the papers aside, and creating a layout  with just a little paper, and lots of those fun bits............like the Pink Paislee stickers, calico fabric,  sparkly rick rack, wooden bingo nubers and stamped tags,

 

And the wooden stars, JB journaling cards, Studio Calico label stickers and so much more........

So, I printed my photo on 12 x 12 vanilla cardstock, and played with some bits.



Enjoy your day!



Just Wordless Wednesday - June Maggpie Kit

Just More Sneaks!!

And I'm telling you, you are going to LOVE this kit!!

There's fabric,

and such cool bits and pieces in it - check out the wooden butterfly,



One more sneak tomorrow!!!

Just Magpie Kit Sneak Peeks

Hello all!  Hope everyone had a fun holiday.  We had a great time.  So, check out these cool, clear plates I used on the Easter table,

with a white tablecloth,

       and a little color.

Loved the look of it. 

Anyway, it was a sunny, 77 degrees yesterday.  The big guy (he's on vacation this week) got the lounge chairs out of the shed and I grabbed a book and sat outside for a few hours reading.  It was heaven.   

We discovered this along the way -  a loner, all by itself, with nothing but grass all around it. KInd of strange, I thought,

And now, I am thrilled and so excited to share some Magpie Kit Club sneaks. Full reveal will be on April 30th.  Lots of scrappy goodness you won't want to miss!   So, without further ado.....

  I'll have more sneaks for you tomorrow!  Until then, have a great day!

     

Just A Magpie Kit Club Sneak

Jump on over to the website and get your kits! 

 I'll start sneaking layout peeks  this week.......

until then, here's a layout I did yesterday as a result of a fun lift the person above-you challenge over at Studio Calico.  I lifted the wonderful Missy,

Enjoy your Monday.

Just Magpie and Other Scrappy Stuff

Hello and happy Friday, and, as promised, the first Magpie peek is wild!!!!  Check it out right

here!!! 

More to come on Monday!

On another scrappy note.......

The incredibly talented Miss Sasha re-challenged my messy desk challenge earlier this week with a little twist -  either scrap your messy desk or create something with pieces of an old Studio Calico kit.

I went with pieces of the old (and one of my faves)  Who's Who  and this time, came up with this

I stamped on the Punky Sprout Canvas bloom for fun - wouldn't it be cool if there were checkered flowers?

Enjoy the rest of your day!  The rest of mine is cleared for creating........

Oh!  An update on things popping up in the yard,

 I'm thinking that spring is officially here!

Just So REALLY Excited

about this!!!!

A huge thank you to Tara, the original Magpie Girl!! 

Man, talk about serendipity!!!!!!!!!