Hayrides and Halloween Kit

The October Citrus Tree Studio kit is up!  "Hayrides and Halloween" features American Crafts Nightfall collection and is packed full of fall goodness!  Here are my reveal projects with the kit:

Check out this fun little mini album.  It is included in the kit!!

...and one final layout, for now. 

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to pick up one of these kits today. It's perfect for all of the fall and Halloween photos you'll take this season!  You can find the full kit contents here.

Redwood State Park

As part of our trip "down shore" (as my Philly friend called it), we also hiked through Jedediah Smith National Park to see the redwoods.  Wow, those trees sure know how to make a person feel small and insignificant.  Here are some of my favorite photos from our hike:

I loved that you could just drive through those massive trees.  Many of the pull-outs had hiking trails leading off of them which we explored of course.  So, so cool.

Check out this double mushroom...only one stem!!

And finally...my mantra for the weekend. 

Find your path...

I had a great weekend, thanks Kathy for helping me find my path!

Hello Ocean...I've missed you!

It's been a few months but I'm back at the beach with my friend Kathy.  This time we are at the lower Oregon coast though spending time exploring the coastline between Bandon and Brookings.  Tomorrow we plan to dip down into California to check out the Redwoods.  I've never been there so I'm sure it's going to be amazing!

Just a picture of some of the rocks below the condo we are staying in.  We hiked down the hill and explored the beach caves and tide pools.  Such a great morning!

This was the coolest sea cave.  It actually goes all the way through but it made for a fantastic shot of Kathy way off in the background playing in the tide pools, cool huh?!



Did I mention how much I love pelicans?  Look at these cuties that I captured by the Coquille River lighthouse.  They were just hanging out on the rocks!

The Coquille River Light house.  A small but very beautiful light house!



The Natural Bridge. You can actually hike across it but who would actually do something that stupid? Me. If I had better shoes on. Ha-ha.

Sneak Peek

Are you ready for a little sneak peek of the October kit from Citrus Tree Studio?  If you love fall and Halloween...you're gonna love this one!

The kit features American Crafts "Nightfall" patterned papers and it has some really fun add-on products!

Projects for The Scrapbook Manor

I have recently started doing some design work for Karen at The Scrapbook Manor and Shoppe in Walworth, WI. She was kind enough to send me the entire Blissful and Glowing collections to work with. Can you say...amazing?! Both of these lines are gorgeous and so much fun to create with!

Here is my first layout using the Blissful Collection. It's a picture of our cutie nephew Kyle in his little rubber boots. He loves his boots!

The next three projects are created using the Glowing collection...so fun for Halloween. Both of these lines have mini alphas and coordinating die cut elements perfect for creating entire layouts in a snap!

If you get a chance, please check out Karen's website and she's on Facebook too!

More GCD Studios projects

Now that Heidi has shared my projects on the GCD Studios blog, I feel comfortable posting them here as well. This first project is a frame that I created using a simple wooden frame from Michaels. I painted the entire frame with chalkboard paint and then layered the patterned paper and embellishments over the top. I love how it turned out and eventally plan to let Gabe write on it with chalk. I just couldn't do it before I took the picture though...ha-ha.

Here is a close-up of the embellishments I used. I covered plain chipboard elements with the GCD Studios paper from the kit and added some twine and a banner title, fun huh?!


Another fun card...



and two layouts...

Thanks again GCD Studios for letting me design with your wonderful September kit!!

Guest Designer at GCD Studios

I am very excited to share with you my first projects using the September Kit of the Month over at GCD Studios! I feel honored to be chosen as one of their Guest Designers!!

I'll share more of my projects as they are posted on their blog. Thanks for stopping by!!