tuesday

5.01.2013

It's been awhile . . .

we've been busy . . .

playing with cousins . . .

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strolling downtown Annapolis . . .

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taking a school trip to the zoo . . .

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visiting Great Grammy 8 hours away. . .

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taking walks . . .

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playing at the park . . .

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talking more walks (with Grammy). . .

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being pouty . . .

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celebrating a new career for daddy . . .

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taking even more walks (enough says Nicholas!!) . . .

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escaping for some date nights . . .

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oh, and scrapping, of course!!!

I have 2 new layouts I created for Fancy Pants Designs to share :)

The first features their Park Bench Collection.  Love the teals, yellows, and grays in this line . . .

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The "2" in the title work is actually from the ephmerea pack in the Trendsetter Collection - love that I can easily mix & match pieces from their collections!! I cut the "little adventurers" using my Silhouette & then did a little stitching after attaching.

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Lots of layers on this layout & I even stitched around the photo!!

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I think I'm addicted to these little flags of their's - so fun!!

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My second layout features the Fancy Pants Designs Swagger Collection.  Perfect for the men & boys in your life, the oranges, grays, and blues went perfectly with this pic I recently snapped of Ryan . . .

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For the background I decided to using machine stitching to create a chevron-type design.  You can also see a close-up of the fabulous die-cut quote banner - love this!!  Perfect for my little man these days who is struggling so hard at finding his way.  Lots of discussions recently about being your own person :)  Oh & the buttons, one of my favorite embellishments!!

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I decided to die-cut this title as well, just a simple "be you".  I added a little star sticker and brad to the center of the "o" and then did some machine stitching through the words.

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Lots of layers on this layout as well - I'm totally into that these days :) How cute is that little paperclip??  And another good quote on the round sticker :)

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More to share in the next few days . . . thanks for stopping by!!

4 comments:

  1. 2 Beautiful LO's - love all the stitching. Thanks for sharing :)
    (and congrats to daddy on his new career :) )

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  2. Especially love the layout with your oldest! Best wishes to your DH!

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  3. Such sweet photos of your sweet little men. Love these new LO's! Fancy Pants must be thrilled to have you designing with their collections. You make me want these lines. :)

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  4. I wasn't sure how masculine I could take FP's "Swagger"...you've shown me some great ideas for both lines! Thanks Julie!

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