Trust the Journey

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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! 

Building Confidence...with Affirmations!

Come read more about this layout over HERE!!

Transformation Blog Hop

Howdy, friends!! Welcome to the Scrapbooking from the Inside Out Design Team Blog Hop! We are showcasing layouts by the current design team using the June kit TRANSFORMATION. If you just got here, make sure you go to the beginning at Melissa's blog so you don't miss out! 

This hop is super cool, as we are bidding a fond farewell to our outgoing team members AND introducing you to our terrific TEEN COLLECTIVE. We are combining the Teen Designers from CreateU with our Design Team at SFTIO. This is a wonderful opportunity to have each of these girls give their perspective of the monthly emotion. Each Teen Designer will be joining us for one month as a Guest Designer and hanging out with us on our website and forum.

Here's my layout:

As you know I'm a "quote girl"... quotes can usually express exactly how I am feeling, but much more eloquently. I love this one, as we are so often bogged down by our junk and the stuff we hold onto. Sometimes, we just need to let it go so that we are ready for new things! We gotta stop hanging on to the past...it's preventing us from the reward of the future!

I love the soft colors of the strips of paper against the black background.. I also used the wood veneer, flipped it over and painted my own border on it, since I didn't want to use the sentiment already printed there. What, Lori? You can do that!? OF COURSE! Same with the little frame around my picture...I just covered the pre-printed sentiment with a little flower embellishment and still got to use the cute chalkboard-y frame!

Prizes? Oh yeah, there are prizes!! Leave me a comment telling me the first thing you think of when you hear "TRANSFORMATION"? Leave your comment here by midnight EST Saturday and the winner will be announced by Monday on Facebook and the SFTIO blog.

You should have arrived here from HEATHER'S blog. 

Your next and last step is the SFTIO blog!

(If you missed a step, start over at MELISSA'S blog)

Thanks for hopping with us!! Make sure to visit Scrapbooking from the Inside Out. We have a FREE Inspiration Page giving you loads of ideas using our current emotion, a welcoming forum and you can grab your own kit here!

Live the Questions

Howdy! 

Just wanted to share another layout I made for this month's CURIOSITY kit 

at Scrapbooking From the Inside Out! 

This Rilke quote has long been one of my faves and I had fun making this messy page! :)

Have you checked out the rest of the gallery? It's FAB!

Plus, it's almost JUNE, which means a new kit!

Here's a sneaky peek at TRANSFORMATION...it goes live on June 1!

My thoughts on art journaling...

Head on over to the Scrapbooking from the Inside Out blog today to find out more!

I am enough

Have you checked out PAPER ISSUES latest issue? We're celebrating Mother's Day with our sponsor, Pink Paislee!

I made this little mini tag book as a design team project with my Scrapbooking from the Inside Out March RESPECT kit and used several elements from Pink Paislee's Portfolio collection:

You can play along too!

Link up a project using Pink Paislee or about Mother's Day 

HERE! You have until Saturday, May 18!

Curiouser and Curiouser...

Have you seen the May Curiousity Kit from Scrapbooking from the Inside Out?

It is glorious!! Get yours here!

Here is one of my Design Team layouts:

I am digging all the layering I'm seeing all over the place these days 

and this one just kind of exploded with layers...but I kinda love it like that! :)

Check out the Design Team Gallery...it ROCKS!

Serendipity

You have until Saturday to play along 

with PAPER ISSUES' latest issue: IT'S SERENDIPITY!

We are sponsored this time by Elle's Studio and

you have a chance to win some goodies!

GO link up something using Elle's Studio, or that has a theme dealing with 

serendipity (luck, fortune, karma, chance, etc)!

Here's an art journal page I made using SFTIO's FORTUNE kit:

(step by step instructions: HERE-- you'll have to join the forum, but it's free and easy to do!) 

And HEY! National Scrapbooking Day is Saturday! Need some new goodies? Of course you do!

Go SHOPPING and use my code LORISPILLS For 20% off your order!

Thanks for stopping by! Will you leave me a comment so I know you did?

Art Journal with me!

Head over to the 

Scrapbooking From the Inside Out forum

(it's free and easy to sign up)

and check out my process for an art journal page!!

Hey, and leave me a comment here!

I'd love to know you stopped by!

Do you have issues?

Paper Issues, that is!

We have a new design team and I'm thrilled to be staying on for another term.

We also have a new issue up as well: It's Serendipity!

We're celebrating all things serendipitous: fate, fortune, luck, chance....

(which just so happens to coincide with Scrapbooking From the Inside Out's 

monthly theme for April: fortune! Woo!)

Our sponsor is Elle's Studio and you have a chance to win one of 5 prize packs.

Speaking of prize packs, 

It's Cassie's  (our head honcho at Paper Issues) Birthday Week!

Make sure you LIKE us on Facebook for giveaways this week.  There will be AT LEAST 25 prizes given away but you have to follow us on Facebook to play along!

Fortune Favors the Bold

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I made for Scrapbooking From the Inside Out's April FORTUNE kit:

Come read about this layout and

my philosophy on mixed media on the

Scrapbooking from the Inside Out blog!

Not LUCKY....BLESSED!!

The APRIL FORTUNE kit at Scrapbooking from the Inside Out is LIVE! 

You can snag one for yourself HERE.

See all the inspiration and ideas about FORTUNE HERE.

Here's a layout I did about my awesome fam. We are so grateful for God's grace and in blessing us so richly. We know luck has nothing to do with it! :)

Check out the rest of the DT gallery HERE.

One of the things I love about being on a DT at a kit club is the diversity of projects all surrounding the same theme and using the same products! So cool! 

Let me know you stopped by...and if you have any questions/ideas you want me

 to explore on the blog...let me know! xo

Sneaky sneaky....

Here's a peek of what I've done with Scrapbooking from the Inside Out's April kit, on sale April 1st:

What do you think?