Birthday Girl

So this morning, I had several things to do but didn't feel like doing any of them.  My scrap room was calling me.  I tried to ignore it, but to no avail.  I had several kits calling my name, just waiting for me to create with their scrappy goodness.  I gave in, and decided on my add-on kit from Paper Bakery Kit Club.  It had a lot of October Afternoon papers and I LOVE October Afternoon. I paired it with some pics from my daughter's birthday.  Other than being a little dark, I loved the way the pics came out. They are from my daughter's 20th birthday dinner.  We went out for sushi, her favorite.
  Those of you who know me, know that I almost always scraplift.  I cut out or save digitally layouts that I like and scraplift them later.  I always add my own flair to it, but I find it a very helpful way to start my projects.  I love the way this project turned out and it took me only about an hour. Enjoy!

New Beginnings

I was shopping in Archiver's the other day while Brandi was in town (surprise, surprise) and stumbled upon the new Saturdays line from Little Yellow Bicycle.  I fell in love with it. I wanted all of it!  I knew all the perfect little coordinating embellishments would make a great mini, so I snatched them all up.  While Brandi was visiting, I showed her how to make a paper bag album (easy peasy) and started decorating mine with this line.  I wasn't sure yet which pictures I wanted to use in my mini, so I abandoned the project for now. 
Now today is one of my favorite kinds of days.  No appointments, no nothing.  So aside from doing laundry and cleaning up the house a little, I decided to scrap a little.  You know me too well! :)
Well, my new Saturdays line was still there in my scraproom, in the Archiver's bag.  Practically begging me to play with it!
I had noticed the Sketch Challenge on LYB's blog yesterday, so I decided to do that.  This is what I came up with.  Hope you like it!  Have a great weekend.
Enjoy!

Inside Smash album

My first couple of pages.  Super excited to work on this tomorrow with Joy!

Enjoy!

Cruise Smash Album

Cover.  I used a bound journal from target and cut off the covers then used white cardstock and my zutter.  I love that the quote on the cover is so perfect.  I'm super excited about doing this album.

Enjoy!