First Cocoa Daisy Order and Layout

Hi everybody!

I hope your week is going well. Have you had a chance to get in your crafty space and create? I have and it feels great!

I received some awesome goodies this week. One being my very first order from Cocoa Daisy. 

I sat right down and got to work with my bounty. I was too late in ordering to get the full kits from April and May so I had to settle for the grab bags of “bits and pieces”. We’ll settle is not the correct word because these grab bags are awesome!

Here’s my first creation and I plan to decorate some planner pages with some of the rest....

Okay so first off that little typewriter die cut?! Love it! So of course my journaling had to be typed! I had a great time playing with this first Cocoa Daisy shipment and can’t wait to start receiving my pocket page subscription each month!

Until next time...

Blessings...

Melina

One Day at a Time ~ Creative Journaling

Hey everybody!

How’s your week so far?

I love that it’s actually feeling like spring around here. Now if it would just stopped raining for I don’t know...a day or so......I could actually walk in the yard without getting muddy! Ha!

I wanted to share some creative journaling I just finished. I love writing about my Lord!

Journaling is a love I’ve nurtured for many years. I was 8 or 9 when I started my first diary. That yearning to write has never left me. It’s just gotten a little more artsy over the years. I love books and pretty things....shabby chic things so traveler’s notebooks are the way to journal for me. :)

Thanks for stopping by! I appreciate you!

Until next time...

Blessings...

Melina

This House Believes......the start of a mini album

Hi everybody!

How’s your weekend going? It’s been so rainy here in Alabama. It’s just miserable outside. So, more  time to spend in the craft room right?! Ha!

I’m working on a 5x7 mini album. This size is great to add 4x6 pics in and have a mat all around. Pic on one side of the page and journaling on the other! Love it! 

I’m using the Simple Stories collection “Faith” and it goes right along with the weekend challenge over at the Scrapbooking with M.E. Boutique Members group on FB. It’s a color challenge.
This was what we were given:

and here’s the cover to my mini album: 

Did I get close or what?! LOL All the papers came from Simple Stories. I fussy cut the feathers from one of the papers in the collection. The Pom Pom trim and enamel dots are from Felicity Jane Studios. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Until next time...

Blessings...

Melina

New Traveler’s Notebook and a Layout

Hi out there! It’s me! Melina!

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I hope your week has been outstanding. I did lots of yard work yesterday. I got most all my flowers planted in containers, watered and placed where I think I want them. That of course could change at any moment. Ha! Next will be getting the vegetable garden ready. I love warmer weather and getting in the yard.....being productive!

I wanted to share a project I finished not too long ago and shared on Instagram.. I’m loving traveler’s notebooks right now! I got this Prima personal size one from scrapbookingwithme.com. I love the size. The cover is very durable and it’s gorgeous! I mean floral is all the rage right now. This book does not disappoint! 

 I love to just sit and look at it! I know, I’m odd. Ha ha ha! 

I have a few inserts (notebooks) inside. I use this traveler’s notebook  mostly for church/sermon notes. But I also have one insert for creative journaling. That’s just a fancy way of saying I add more to my journaling than just words. Hee! Hee! 

Some call this junk journaling. Others may call it art journaling. Whatever you call it, I love it! Sometimes a 12x12 canvas for a scrapbook page is just too overwhelming. This size is just right to get your thoughts on paper and add a few personal touches as well. 

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!

Until next time...

Blessings...

Melina