product ♥| cleansit

I haven't done a products i ♥ post in quite some time and wanted to pick it back up again. I know I love to read about what people are currently into or using. I received cleansIT a couple of years ago when I won Making Memories Masters and just stared using it this year!  The bottle has a dabber top, works on both rubber and acrylic stamps.   It is an amazing product and cleans off your stamps (removes all types of ink) quickly, and dries fast too. It does have a slight order but it doesn't bother me, emotes the same smell as a sharpie only slightly stronger. A little bit goes a long way and trust me before I started using this cleanser I NEVER cleaned my stamps! I like this cleaner because it makes it easy to use one stamp multiple times with different inks without having to use baby wipes or soap/water as cleaning agents. I use one paper towel multiple times until it is literally broken down into pieces to remove the cleaner from my stamp(s).

field guide

studio calico's october is live and I am a huge fan, the main kit has a little bit of everything in it and did you see the exclusive stamp, love?! I made three layouts and a mini with my kits, ran out of time but could have easily made more! I have plans to play with field guide more this weekend!
I challenged myself to make layouts with each of the add on kits. I like doing this + mixing in cardstock in from the main kit and did you see you can now buy more gray, yay!!!

main kit-fun sunday
I had so much fun with my family at the fair, I had to scrap those photos immediately. I  printed them small and created the layout around the size of the photos, everything else it large so that the photos pop out a little more. I am in love with the sassafras butterflies, think I almost used them all this month! :)
products used: jbs weather vane and chili powder ink; American Crafts precision pen; mister's hueys schoolhouse

greenhouse add on
not only is saadiq almost as tall as me (yep, i'm short), he is almost my mini me.  :) I see pieces of my features in synai as well, but she is 95% her daddy and saadiq is 95% me. :) I love the american crafts custard thickers, gorgeous font. This kit has two types of alphas in it!
 products used: mister's hueys calico white; mister's huey gable green and paint
 

meadow lark add on
I have to say this is my favorite layout of the month and add on this month.   I love the butterflies, chipboard is one of my favorite products to use.  I misted the top butterfly with mister's huey shine and outlined it with my white pen.   This is also my pinterest inspired layout, it is a good source of inspiration but can be overwhelming for me sometime. I haven't been there much lately, sort of took a time out from it.  I love printing double photos, totally loving IG and the bird on a wire stamp in this kit!
products used: mister huey's shine; zing white embossing powder; white gel pen; versamark ink  and bushes
 

almanac (sold out)
I cut out up this mini to have papers and overlay where I wanted them to go, it is really easy to make this mini book custom to how you want it to work for your project. I love layers in mini books, so this book was super easy to make because most of the work is already done. :) I added lots of paint, punches and the newer mister's huey inks.
products used: countryside tags; pro pen, mister huey's ink


whew, thanks for hanging in there and reading my blog! happy wednesday, this week is flying by and october is almost here!! :)
xo

san♥fran mini sneak

a day lat, but reveal is tonight! I scooped up Almanac, addon #4 and reworked the Amy Tangerine mini album to document my San Francisco trip that my mom and I took this summer. I mixed up all of the addons to create this, seriously have an addiction to the prima alphas from Meadow Lark. The font is perfection, I IG'ed a photo of them this morning and a lot of you agreed! :)

Grab bags are back, act quickly because they go fast! They are located in the past kit section. Field Guide goes live tonight at 12AM EST.  I will be back tomorrow to share my layouts!
xo

field guide sneaks

add-on no.three: meadow lark add-on no. two: greenbox main sneak it's sneaks time for studio calico, i went a little bonkers this month and got all four add-on kits!! i know... but they are are so beautiful! If I had to choose I would say that meadow lark is my favorite because of the prima alphas ( i need them in every color) kinda of love + the exclusive stamp is the bomb.com!! ;)  As usual I used my assortment of mister huey's, ink, embossing powder and paint (totally in love with claudine hellmuth's paints now, colors are so opaque)!  have a great weekend!!
xo

angles

dare 183
my girls totally tore this one up, think i "mist" the boat on it . my butterflies are at an angle, that counts, right?? long time lover of hambly, which sponsored this dare. work
need more of these ink splatter rubons stat!
xo

lil' bit of crazy, whole lot of love

crazy week, you hear me, C-R-A-Z-Y! Work is off the chain, big event coming up which is all consuming but popping in to say hi and share some recent happenings. Where in the world has the month gone to?? Fall is for sure here in the DMV and we are loving it!  Drinking hot drinks, finished up 30 photos|30 days (photos 3,8,9) and enjoying family time. We went to the fair on Sunday, where most of the snaps are from, love the fair and riding with Synai on the tornado. She loved it and so did I... Saadiq (if it is food here is there, photo #2), not so much. He wasn't into it at all, but that photo of Synai with her hands up in the air was taken while we were on the tornado and it makes my heart melt. She is totally enjoying the moment, love moments of life like that. :) My sister's birthday is Thursday and mine is officially a month away. I can't wait to P-A-R-T-Y, if you are around hit me up amd I will send you the details! :) I promise to be a better blogger this week, thanks for reading and xo!

calico shine

and you thought you loved mister huey's mist before-meet calico shine!!  It adds a soft silver metallic sheen to your projects, needless to say I am a BIG fan!! :) I misted closely to my layout so the mist is more opaque but it can be sheer too, I LOVE it! I am also in love with the smash date stamp ,super duper cute!  Jamaica was sweet enough to send me her HS ghost words, she knows my love to infinity for them and I was more than happy to accept them since she was cleaning out her scrap supplies. THANKSgirl!! This is a sample layout for the misting 101 workshop, missed out on it this round? Let me know and I can offer it again :) It is still super soggy and wet here, the rain is OOC, but I know it could be a lot worse and crossing fingers it doesn't. s2 footballs games were cancelled for weekend, which means no running around like a chicken without a head on Saturday morning, is a bonus! :) It's almost fall and so excited to see the fall specialty drinks at starbucks, may have to pick up a salted caramel mocha on the way home- nom nom!
xo

sunday best

a quick post today, hope you are not getting swept away by the rain! I made this sketch layout for scrapidees sketch blog site last month. I love each of the DT's take on my sketch, their layouts can be seen here! Thank you Paloma for asking me to play along!!
xo
ps, so excited for the true blood finale, woot woot!!! This season was so good, was surprised right up unitl the end of this week's episode! love that!!

yeah, yeah....it's the weekend

heeeeeeeeeeey, it's Friday!! I am jumping for joy for the holiday weekend here in the states and I am extending mine by one day so three day work day next week, yay! I am still trekking along with the 30day photo and almost done! It has been so much fun! 1.photo 25- something old (my father's dashiki) 2.not included in the 30day project but had to snap Synai in one her new school outfits 3. photo 26-after dark-worked late yesterday & on the way home 4. photo 27-daily routine (last step of daily makeup is lipstick (one of my favorites MAC innocence beware)

have a great weekend, xoxo
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two sneaks of the my misting 101|the basics workshop. I love these layouts, can't wait to share them with my peeps who are registered. Are you registered, you still have time!!!! registration will be open until Sunday! :) want more details, click- - - -HERE

@heart

I was ecstatic to be a GD for Nichol Magouirk Scrapbooking Stamping class at 2peas this month. This is a year long class that covers a different  stamping techniques each month. No surprise that I used embossing powders (LOVE LOVE) them on a clear overlay, this is my my  technique example for the class! This ampersand stamp is one of my all time favorite studio calico kit exclusive stamps. SC is have a major sale on their  tags for only $1, pick them up before they are gone (only at this price until midnight)! I used warm calico and orchard mister huey's on this page and a bit of pattern paper (black circles and scallop) from the thespians kit.

The journaling on this layout is centered around my feelings on aging at the moment, I will be 35 next month and really I still feel young at heart. Life moves so fast and I can clearly remember being my Saadiq's age and wishing I was older like my cousins, sigh. There are so many things as a child you wish you could speed thru and as an adult you just wish time would slow down.
*reasons 3498575 why I love instagram, now I am never without photos to scrap! :)
xo