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Trust the Journey

Head over HERE to learn more about this layout:

Sketchy sketch

Hi there!

Over at Paper Issues, our current issue to to use a sketch from Simple Scrappers.

I thought I'd try an art journal page using this sketch.

You have until Sept 9 to link up and win some fun stuff!

Go here to hop and play along!!

Are you Enchanted?

It's August and Scrapbooking From the Inside Out has a new theme:

1. enchantment  

   Web definitions captivation: a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual. wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Enchantment is defined as a feeling of great delight or a feeling of being captivated, or under a spell. (yourdictionary.com)

The Latin root, incantare, means "cast a spell on."If you're so captivated by something, like stunning photographs in an art gallery, that you may as well be under a fairy tale spell, you're enchanted. Charming actors in old movies often say, "Enchanted," after being introduced to a beautiful woman. What they mean, essentially, is that they find her so fascinating they can't take their eyes off her. (vocabulary.com)

So fun, right?

Here's one of my layouts for this month:

I took this in December when I woke up in the mountains of NC. :)

This month's kit is gorgeous...you can go here to get one for yourself!

You can check out the design team gallery here.

Thanks for visiting! Leave me a comment and let me know you stopped by! 

Gauche has new digs!!

If you got your newsletter this morning, then you already know... 

the Gauche store has a brand new home!!

If you didn't get your newsletter, well, I'll try not to feel shunned and I'll wait

while you go sign up!! Just click that little link above and put your email in on the right hand side of the page! Next month's newsletter will have a brand new look...and I'm excited!

So, anyway, over at that new store, we now have codes for FREE SHIPPING!!!

PLUS, from now until August 4th, you can save 25% by using the code

NEWDIGS

(excluding subscriptions and clearance)

AND

There's  a GIVEAWAY!!!!!

This is the kit the Alchemists receive at the beginning of our term. I got mine

over a year ago and STILL have stuff left!

It is GLORIOUS!

To win, just go leave a comment on this post!

Building Confidence...with Affirmations!

Come read more about this layout over HERE!!

Let's Get Persnickety!!

Hiya peeps! 

Welcome to the blog hop for PAPER ISSUES' latest issue

LET'S GET PERSNICKETY! 

You should have arrived here from AIMEE'S blog. If you have missed a step, head back over
to the PAPER ISSUES BLOG to start!

Now, let's get to it!

This issue is sponsored by Persnickety Prints. 

I ordered several different sizes, mostly of my instagram prints.

The quality rocks! It is nice sturdy cardstock

and the shipping was SUPER fast! 

 I ordered them Tuesday night and had them

in my hands on Friday!

I don't consider myself a traditional scrapper, but thought it was time

 to bust out a good old layout for this issue (and honestly, time to use up some stash!)

I've been participating in the challenges for A Year in the Life of an Art Journal, in conjunction with Monday Mugshots, where you take a pic of your mug on Mondays throughout the year. I'm enjoying it as a fun way to document my year.

For this layout, I used some Amy Tangerine/American Crafts,

 Glitz Color Me Happy, and a little Panda Eight flair! 

I used two different sizes of the Persnickety Prints (2x2 and 3x3).

Plus, I've been trying

to figure out a fun way to use those straws, 

so I thought using them as letters might just work! 

Thanks so much for hopping today!

Persnickety Prints is giving away a $25 gift certificate to one lucky hopper!

To ENTER:

1. Like Persnickety Prints on Facebook {tell them we sent you} 

2. Like Paper Issues on Facebook

3. Leave a comment here on my blog

For an extra entry, link up one of YOUR projects either using

prints from Persnickety Prints, 

OR any project that has to do with "fussy cutting", either by hand or machine.

Your next stop is SARA!