Hip Hop Bloggity Hop!

Welcome back to TSR's 2nd monthly Blog Hop! What a great way to get excited about the new kit release and share some inspiration with a fun giveaway! It is April 1st, and you know what that means...KIT REVEAL!! And it is a good one.



In celebration of our April kit, we are having another BLOG HOP!! You know the way this works, right? Here is a list of the places you will be visiting...

Lan Amphone <---You are here
Melanie Call
Sarah Eclavea
Jenny Moore
phra Bolyer
Frances Sylvia
TSR Facebook Page

The hop begins here at my blog, but all of the blogs are linked in case you get lost along the way. Just follow along the blog path, and keep hopping until you reach your last destination which is The ScrapRoom Facebook Fan Page!! Make sure you become a follower and leave a comment at each blog telling our wonderful designers what you liked about their project! When you reach The ScrapRoom Facebook Fan Page, leave a comment letting us know that you finished the hop.

One of my favorite projects this month was the altered wooden photo frame. This was the before:

And this was the result after sprucing it up with some yummy TSR Basic Grey Goodness. I love damask prints and the aqua color is so pretty, now it's permanently sitting in our family room to enjoy. The butterfly cut outs are from the embellishment add-on kit, you don't want to miss out, one of my favorites..really! The doily flowers were hand stamped.

Out of my stash were the rubons, bling, button, and 2 aqua flowers.

Supplies: Papers (Basic Grey Hello Luscious) * Butterflies (Cosmo Cricket)* Canvas Brad (Basic Grey) * Flowers (Prima) * TSR Stamp kit ( My Mind's Eye)* Twine (TSR) * Bling (Hobby Lobby & Creative Imaginations) * Ink (PTI - Pure Poppy) and (Ranger - Black Soot) * Rubon (Pebbles) * Button,thread,frame (misc)

Just wanted to say thank you for all the sweet comments left last month, don't forget if you haven't already to add yourself as a follower on my blog to the right.

It's easy peasy to win, just go through the list above leaving a comment at each designer's blog, and ending at the SR Facebook fan page leaving a comment.

One blog hop participant who follows the rules, will be chosen at random to win a $5 gift certificate to The ScrapRoom Store! Whoot! Whoot! Check out the blog Wednesday, April 6th for our winner!

Thanks for stopping by, your next hopping stone is at Melanie Call.

Just Lovely

Hello, here's some details about my "Just Lovely" layout. I used the scrap-room's April Stamp to create the layered flower next to my title spot. I just love the doily shapes. And I used these Copics to color in the chipboard letters Bare Maya Road chipboard letters (thanks Kim!) Makenzie loves to wear Aoi Dai on Chinese New Years Day. Actually, she would be fine wearing it everyday. She's looking too grown up for me.


My second layout using the My Minds Eye line. I love the colors.


And a simple card.


Hope you have a great Friday!

Almost forgot

I almost forgot to share the rest of my March gallery layouts.

The cousins all together last August in Carthage.



My son trying on his big sister's assortment of headbands.

And a few cards.

For the Record

Echo Park's for the record line is beautiful. I love all the stickers. Here's my process for creating the month in review recipe card.


First I will usually try to sketch out my page. I make sure to write down all the names of the paper before I cut off the ends and pitch them.



Then I start choosing the paper finding the sides that coordinate the best. I always have my ruler handy and write down the measurements along the way.


The most time consuming part for me is always choosing the photos and printing them out.

Got out my cricut using the Base Camp cartridge for the title.

TSR Sketch Contest

Do you love sketches? Well I do! Head on over to the scrap-room's blog and upload your take on the March's sketch for a chance to win a $5 gift certificate to the TSR Store.

Here was my take:


and an extra card:

You have until Wednesday, March 30th to leave a comment IN THIS POST with a link to your layout.

Home Gallery

Hello friends,

I've had a sick kid at home and family in town so been MIA. Here was my inspiration post over at the scrap-room last week.

After spending so much time on your layouts, wouldn't it be nice to have a spot where it can be viewed and appreciated longer before sticking them inside your albums? I fell in love with this idea of creating a wall art display when I visited Scrapfunattic, my local scrapbooking store, and saw how wonderful it looked on theirs.

So I went to my local Target to purchase a curtain rod & curtain hooks. The package of clip it up hooks was from my lss.


And with the help of my husband, this was the result:

A cute home decor item to display all of my recent layouts! And it's so easy to switch them out from month to month once I get bored with them. Just unclip and stick in the new ones.

TSR Blog HOP!

Hello there! And Welcome to the scrap-room's first official Blog Hop!

This is going to be a fabulous month! The kits will totally rock your pictures if you don't believe me, check out all the wonderful inspiration the design team has put together in the idea gallery.

The page I want to share with you is the one I made with Basic Grey's HOPSCOTCH line.

Supplies: Basic Grey Hopscotch paper, chipboard, and flower stickers. kraft tag, Fiskars apron lace punch, brown thread, and cricut for the title.

The pastels worked great even for a page of my little boy.



If you take a close look at my journaling tag, you'll get a peek of the library card stamp for March.

The dimensional flowers with their glitter and bling was my favorite part.

Okay...You know the way this works, right? Here is a list of the places you will be visiting...

Lan Amphone (You are already HERE! Way to Go!)
Melanie Call <---Your next stop
Sarah Eclavea
Jenny Moore
Aphra Bolyer
Frances Sylvia
The ScrapRoom Blog

The hop begins at my blog, but all of the blogs are linked in case you get lost along the way. Just follow along the blog path, and keep hopping until you reach your last destination which is where the hop began....The ScrapRoom Blog!!

Make sure you become a follower and leave a comment at each blog telling our wonderful designers what you liked about their project! When you reach The ScrapRoom Blog, leave a comment letting us know that you finished the hop.

One blog hop participant who leaves a comment at each designer's blog, will be chosen at random to win a $5 gift certificate to The ScrapRoom Store! Whoot! Whoot! Check out the blog Friday, March 4th for our winner!

Thank you so much for stopping by,
next be sure to stop on over to Melanie's blog.