MCS June Reveal!!!

Hi everyone!! Happy Monday morning to all of you! My kids still have through Wednesday to have to go to school because of make up days for all of the snow days they missed over the winter and all I know is that I am sooooo ready to have them out of school and home with me!!...not to mention getting to sleep past 6AM!! Anyway, I want to share my layouts that I created using the My Creative Scrapbook Main Kit and Limited Edition Kit.

Main Kit featuring Basic Grey's Sweet Threads Collection:

Limited Edition Kit featuring Crate Paper's Portrait Collection:

Head on over to the MCS Design Team Gallery to see the gorgeous designs from all of the MCS DT!! So much inspiration, you don't want to miss it!!

Have a wonderful Monday!

LOVES :) -Sarah

My Scrapbook Room Video Tour with Clip It Up

Hi everyone!!! Today is my turn, out of the Simply Renee Clip It Up DT members, to share with you my product review for the Clip It Up. I recieved the Clip It Up Base and Upper Tier to use in my scrap space, and I decided to create a video tour so that you can see my entire scrapbook room and how I have put my Clip It Up to good use. As you can see in the video, I have also created a decorative box for the top of my Clip It Up and you can see the tutorial for creating that storage box HERE. Here's the link to my scrapbook room video tour...

http://youtu.be/6kb5oVbGB94

All of my manufacturer collections used to take up so many drawers and bins which occupied precious space in my scrapbook room (not to mention how difficult it was to dig through those drawers trying to find the exact items I was looking for), and now it's all hanging right in front of my desk at just an arm lengths away with all of the products in full view!! No more digging through drawers and lost items that never got used because of being burried under stack of products. The products you see hanging on my Clip It Up are from Momenta and you can find them HERE and the blog HERE. I absolutely adore my Clip It Up Base and Upper Tier so thank you for making my life and my creating process easier and more enjoyable!!

Have a fantastic Friday!!

LOVES :) -Sarah

MCS June Kits Sneak Peeks!!

Hi everyone!!! I absolutely love the first of the month because that means that I get to share with you my sneaks for the My Creative Scrapbook kits!!! For June, I got to work with the Main Kit and also the Limited Edition Kit....both soooooo incredibly yummy!! Check these out...

Main Kit Sneaks:

Limited Edition Kit Sneaks:

See what I mean, just pure yumminess!!!

Have a wonderful Wednesday and don't forget to come back on the 5th to see the full reveal!

LOVES :) -Sarah

Momenta DT!!!

I'm very excited to announce that I was chosen to stay on for another DT term with Momenta!!! I've had so much fun over the past year designing with the fun and colorful collections from Momenta so I'm thrilled to be able to stay on another year!!

Check out HERE to see the rest of the DT and GDT that were chosen!

Have a terrific Tuesday!

LOVES :) -Sarah

Best Creation Summertime Blog Hop!!!

Grab your suntan lotion and a towel and get ready for a fun summertime hop to get some great ideas to get caught up with all of your old summer photos. This blog hop is full of lots of inspiring ideas to use for your upcoming photos from this summer too! Of course we have lots of chances to win our new June releases and the fantastic 6x6 mini pads too! Be sure to leave a comment on either the Best Creation Facebook page or the Best Creation Blog or sign up as a new follower for your chance to win! And of course all of us DT members love to hear from you too so leave us some comments along the way!

Now, I don't know about all of you, but my summer seems to be full of get-togethers and birthday parties so I created a party themed layout from my son's birthday using the Birthday Party collection along with the blue background and clouds from the Surf's Up collection. I also added a little bit of felt behind a couple of the Best Creation stickers to add a bit of dimension. I used the Helmar 450 Quick Dry which worked just perfectly to adhere the felt to the sticker and also the background paper. This is my go to glue and I absolutely love it!!

Up next in this summertime blog hop is that super talented Tina McDonald.

Have a wonderful weekend! LOVES :) -Sarah

Our Weekend In Photos

Hi everyone!!

I haven't shared photos in soooooo long, and that's definitely something I need to step up on. The kids are growing at a ridiculous rate and although I do take tons of photos (way too many photos actually), I definitely need to share more of those here on my blog. So, this past weekend was our first real summer-like weekend here in central Indiana that didn't involve rain. Our weather has been all over the place, and if it's not rain then it's still just too stinkin' cold to get outdoors. I finally was able to purchase my flowers for the yard this weekend....WoooHoooo!!! Planting my flowers is usually my annual Mother's Day treat, but this year has been so cold and rainy that I just haven't been able to get outside to do it. It's been hard just to keep the yard mowed because of all this crazy rain!! Anyway, this past weekend was just absolutely GORGEOUS so we started off with mowing our yard because it so desperately needed a good trim with all of the rain we've been having, and of course Carter had to help Daddy :) ...so cute!!

Carter had to take a break about half way through helping Daddy mow the backyard because the poor little guy overheats quickly, so he sat himself down with a juice pack and then he was back in business!!

The next order of business was cleaning out our shop vac. Steve gave Carter the hose to spray out the inside of the vac, and as most of you know, giving a 2 year old a hose will either end in lots of fun or lots of trouble....in this case it ended in lots of fun, thank goodness!! Carter ended up talking big sis, Emmy, into putting on his swimming trunks and then he proceeded to climb right into the vac full of water, which then lead me to getting out his baby pool from last summer (boy this poor kid sure needs a swimming pool upgrade!) Becca and Emmy decided to lay out for a little while since everyone was outside enjoying the sun, and when Carter saw Becca in her sunglasses of course he had to have his sunglasses on too....love this pic!!

Even Bodey joined the fun, but he was a little scared of the mower which is why he's standing in the mulch around the tree :)
My goofball daughter!! :)
We ended the day with cooking some hamburgers on the grill (the first grilled dinner of the season!) and then a little baseball with Daddy and Carter in the front yard before bedtime.

Ahhhh, it was such a wonderful weekend!!

LOVES :) -Sarah

Donna Salazar Springtime Card

Hello everyone, Sarah here to share with you a card that I

created using the Donna Salazar "Spring In Bloom" line.

I absolutely love the colors and patterns of these papers!

Flowers, rustic wood, blue jeans, and lace...I'm mean how

much better does it get?!! I also added a little sparkle and

shine to some of the elements of this card by using my

Glue Gloss on the tips of the butterfly wings to add the

Fairy Dust Glitter in Pralines & Cream. I also spritzed all of

the cut out paper flowers with lots of Pralines & Cream

Smooch Spritz to add some gorgeous shimmer to all of the

flowers. I absolutely love the shimmer when it catches the light!
And to highlight the edges of the paper and cut outs, I inked

the edges with my Color Q Cat's Eye Stackers in Dark Brown & Chesnut Roan.

Supplies:

-Spring In Bloom 12x12 Paper Pad, -Smooch Spritz in Pralines & Cream,

-Fairy Dust Glitter in Pralines & Cream, - Glue Gloss liquid adhesive,

-Color Q Cat's Eye Ink Stackers in Dark Brown and Chesnut Roan,

-tape runner from Helmar, -marker from EK Success, -vintage lace

Have a wonderful day! -Sarah