Thank you Little Yellow Bicycle!

I entered the Little Yellow Bicycle contest on Two Peas in a Bucket around NSD and was soooo excited to win the grand prize of . . . yes . . . a big yellow bicycle! I came home sick from work today feeling mighty crummy when the FedEx truck rolled in with the bike. It's all in the box and needs to be assembled, but I can tell it's quite a CUTE BIKE!!!! A great cruiser complete with daisies on the seat and stripes on the handlebars. I know when my boys see this, they are going to say "Oh mom, that bike is sooooo you!"

Can't wait to cruise around town and take it to the beach! This bike was made for the beach! So thank you Little Yellow Bicycle for this awesome prize. I'll be sure to post picks when it's assembled. LOVE the bike, LOVE your products!

oh! Here's the layout I made for the contest:

Just a little layout about the sunshine ds brings to our lives. If you know him, you'd have to agree!

I ordered some of the Zach's Life line for the contest and as soon as I opened the box I was inspired. Awesome quality stuff - so easy to work with.

You can see more of the entries here: http://twopeasinabucket.kaboose.com/userblogpost.asp?id=38027 Such good stuff!

Here's another layout that uses a Zach's Life embellishment that was perfect for the layout:

(patterned paper by Creative Cafe)

Have a creative week everyone! - Betsy

More Little Words

When I love a concept, I get a little crazy and use it over and over and over. And that's what I've been doing with the "Little Words" idea. Here's another Little Words album - this one "Little Words (from your most adorable life)."

You can really use this concept for so many things:

Little Words From Your Kindergarten Year

Little Words From Your Everyday Life

Little Words From Our Big Vacation http://justapharmgirl.blogspot.com/2008/02/two-frames-one-cute-album.html

Little Words From Your Wedding

Little Words From the Big Baseball Diamond

Little Words that Say I Love You

You get the idea . . . . It's just soooo dang easy!

Here are some of the pages. My niece will be starting kindergarten in the fall, so I thought it might be fun to give her a 'word' book.

I do realize that lollipop is not a "little" word, but that picture is just soooo cute! Had to include that one!

This was so easy to put together - the thing that was hanging me up for a bit, was what to use as patterned paper on the 'word' side of the book. Then I realized I had the perfect digital brush set already on my hard drive: Schmoozy Journal by Nancie Rowe Janitz from Scrapartist.com. The chipboard album is the card/box set from Creative Imaginations - I just punched the holes. I used a font (Burst My Bubble by Kimberly Geswein) that looks like handwriting, using an "a" that looks like an "a" . . . well you know, the kind of "a" you are taught to write in school . . . like this:

Each page is swiped with some of that great chalk ink by Color Box - got a whole load of them at Express Yourself in Bethel, CT. LOVE THEM!

Thanks for checking out my "Little Word" book. Have a very wonderful National Scrapbook Day! I hope you can squeeze some creativity into your weekend! - betsy