It's a Holly Jolly Christmas by Echo Park Paper Co.

Here's a sneak peak of Echo Park Paper's new Holly Jolly Christmas collection.  It will be available mid-September for all those crafters who need to start their projects early.

I love the colors in this collection.  They are bright and fun, and the mix of traditional and non-traditional colors make this collection pop. 

Which is your favorite?

My niece is expecting her first baby in December and she's asked me to make the baby shower invites!  I can't wait to come up with a final design, but in the meantime, here's a few that I've designed so far.  I would love to have feedback on them...like them, hate them, wrong colors, too cutesy, etc.?  For tomorrow's post I'll tally up the results and also tell you which one is my favorite so far.

It's CHA Week!

CHA (the Craft & Hobby Association) holds a trade show every six months where manufacturers display the newest additions to their product lines.  For me, I get to go and decide which new collections I'm going to carry in the store.  The energy of thousands of women shopping for paper crafting supplies is just incredible.  I find it to be the equivalent of taking a hungry kid into a candy shop.  I want it all!!!

This year's show started out with a bang.  I attended a pre-show party with Moxxie and chose these four new collections:

Party at the Pole

Racing

  

Bake Shoppe

 

and last, but not least, Special Delivery

All these collections will be in stock in a few weeks, so check back for project ideas.  They had some great layouts posted at the party as well, which I'm sure they'll post on their blog, Got Moxxie.  Check it out for some cool ideas!

5K Walk & Picnic

A few weeks ago several of us girls participated in a 5K walk.  After our walk, my cousin the expert BBQ'er, made us some awesome food on the grill!  With all the BBQ food, salads and desserts, there was a feast fit for a king!

We just received the latest collections from Moxxie, and so I decided to use the new Picnic Time Collection to scrap some of our photos from the 5K walk and picnic.  This is a whimsical collection with fun polka dots and lively food!  Here's a quick layout.  I will post more from this fun collection in the coming days. 

Father's Day Cards

I created a couple Father's Day cards using the new Reminisce collection, The 4th/DC.  This is such a unique collection because the "A" sides of the papers are all Washington DC related and the "B" sides are all 4th of July related.  What a great concept!  I love how the Reminisce folks are always thinking outside of the box! 

So, to all of our wonderful fathers, husbands, brothers, brothers-in-law, uncles, etc.  a huge Happy Father's Day to you!

Time for Scramping?

Yesterday we brought home the camper and started getting it ready for the season.  When my daughter (yup, the crazy one) got home from school, she asked me, "Is it time to go scramping?"  I just tilted my head and looked at her like the dogs do and then she said, "Yeah, scrapbooking plus camping equals scramping!"  I instantly fell in love with it, so today I'm going to work on a scramping layout, but in the meantime, here's an older layout I created using the Cosmo Cricket Mr. Campy collection.  This collection has several double-sided papers, rub-ons, stickers, chipboard and more!  Plus, the little marshmallow man is just adorable!  Happy scramping!

Oooh splash, summer has finally arrived!

The summer I've been waiting for all winter is finally here and I couldn't be more excited!  Well, maybe just a little more excited because I also received the new Splash Collection from Echo Park Paper this week and it is awesome, fun, bold and absolutely wonderful!  I had such a blast playing with this collection;  the colors just pop and the papers are fun, fun, fun!   Here's a couple layouts I came up with: