Wednesday ~ Heart Flutter { Top 5 }

With Black Friday only two days away, I thought today would be a good day to share my top 5 handmade (online) shops.  So, from left to right and top to bottom here they are:

• Red Velvet Art
• Belladrummer
• The Sequined Shoe
• Pink Ninja Addicts
• Hello, Friend

It was hard to pick only five, but I either buy from these or drool at them regularly.....Red Velvet has everything artsy and fun, Belladrummer has pretty packaging and other sweet trinkets, The Sequined Shoe has awesome PDF classes.....really great, Pink Ninja Addicts has lovely scrapbook kits, and Hello, Friend has classic jewelry : )

Enjoy, and happy shopping!

<3 Carrie

Cozy & Sweet Photos

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

-Elbert Hubbard

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though she knows that you are slightly cracked.

-Bernard Meltzer

This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.

-Author Unknown

Love, Gloria and Carrie

Bubblegum Sketches

Thanks for stopping by for our new bubblegum sketches today : )

These sketches are from our Project Monday creations.  The sketch above is from Gloria's book cover, and the one below is from Carrie's 6x12 layout.....

We hope you enjoy these sketches, and if you decide to use them on your blog, please link them back here : )

And if you're looking for even more inspiration today, check out our Flickr Group, there is a new beautiful project from our last prompt that you are sure to enjoy.

See you tomorrow!

Love, Gloria and Carrie

Project Monday

What's filling your heart.  I love this prompt because it's so personal.  It belongs to just you.  We all have different things and people that fill us up.  People and things that when we look at them, take us to that special place.  Activities that fill us up with joy.  Its one of those prompts that has unlimited possibilities.....

What's filling my heart.....well, a word that is showing up in my life and my heart is, Story.  I feel like telling mine.  I have so many.

The story of how art changed my life 

The story of how my friend showed her love for me

Our love story

The story of how our kids change us everyday

Our high school story

The story of how today changed everything

It's not always possible to tell all of our storys but I thought maybe just having a little note book would allow me to just briefly jot down the words that flutter in my head.  This simple little book could hold brief pieces of my story.....the pieces I need to get out.....

 

I am really excited to see what's filling your heart.  I am sure its amazing : )

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It's almost Thanksgiving, and my head is spinning with so much these days.....My grocery list for Thanksgiving dinner, making the perfect gluten free gravy, Christmas decorations, presents to be made, Christmas cards to design.....it just goes on and on.  And when I sat down to create my project from our last prompt, it made me stop and remember how much I have to be grateful for.  It made me think about enjoying the holidays.  Enjoying cooking, creating, and being with people I love.  It made me think about how grateful I am so have this little reminder of such wonderful Fall memories..... 

Putting together my layout was simple and fun.  And even though almost each piece of this project has a different pattern to it, I feel like it still blends just the way I wanted it to.  To start off, I picked out some of my favorite papers and sewed them together with pretty blue-green thread.  Then I cut out my heart shaped photo.  Next, I picked out one of my favorite alphas to add the title.  Because the heart shaped photo felt like it had movement to me, I decided to add a chipboard arrow and Hambly rub-on to intensify the effect.  But before I glued it all down, I ran the background paper through my typewriter to add the written list of What fills my heart.  And it was important to me to add it.  Even though I know what each of the photos inside my heart represents, for some reason I wanted it written on paper too.  And for the final touch, I cut out a piece of Hambly black lace transparency to layer under the heart.  I glued it all down.....and all done : )

Enjoy your holiday, and if you find time to create this week I hope you are inspired by something wonderful!!!

Love, Gloria and Carrie