I hope everyone is having a beautiful day!! I can hardly believe that August is just around the corner.  And I know I
say that at the start of every fresh month,  but truly time seems to be
flying by faster than ever these days.  Nana is visiting us this week
and next so we are really enjoying soaking up some wonderful family
time, which always makes for some really fun and sweet moments to
scrap.  Woot!

Today I'm happy to share a couple {fresh seeds} that I hope will do just that…help you capture and scrap those fabulous moments with those you love.

First is Full Bloom: Gaura. It is the latest set of templates from the Full Bloom series which are designed to be a little "fuller"..richer in layers and details, but
still with enough room to play so that you can completely tailor them to
your sense of scrapping. 

Also fresh today is a fun new set of templates in the Plant Your Story
line.  I loove to scrap the actual words my daughter says, or snippets
of our conversations.  And so Plant Your Story: Quoted is
inspired by all those quotable moments in our lives, these pages are
created to help you capture the funny things your loved ones say, our
conversations or "he said she said" moments, or even just your favorite
inspirational quotes. 

Full Bloom: Gaura and Plant Your Story: Quoted are available at my shoppe for 20% off through Friday 30 July!!

In other news…In case you haven't heard, After Five Designs is having a summer block
party!  It's a month full of fun games and contests, photography
challenges, and tons and tons of new releases and fun!  Feel free to
swing by the forum to see what's
happening there this week!

And this week is our Block Party
Freebie Hop! This starts today July 29th and new Freebies will
be added each day until August 4th, so be sure to collect them all. 
Play the game and you could be entered to win a GRAND PRIZE for a
$100.00 store gift certificate! We will also be choosing many $10.00
winners too.  You can stop by my blog to snag mine later this weekend. Woot!!

That's all for now, though I have lots more on the horizon that I'm eager to share with you.  And don't forget to peek back here tomorrow for Day Fifteen of the Grow With Love project.  

Hope you all have a beautiful day!

I hope everyone is having a beautiful day! I will be back later with today's Grow With Love post for Day Nine, but I wanted to share with you today's {fresh seeds}….

Fresh
Cut: Peony is the latest set of templates from the Fresh Cut series
and it is available in my shoppe for 20% off through Friday 23 July!!

I so SO hope you like them! 

Ooh and in case you haven't heard, After Five Designs is having a summer block party!  It's a month full of fun games and contests, photography challenges, and tons and tons of new releases and fun!  Feel free to swing by the forum to see what's happening there this week!  And I'll give you a "you heard it here first" little tidbit:  you'll want to keep your eyes peeled in
the next week for lots of fabulous freebies (including one from me).  Woot!

In other news I'm happily very busy with lots of exciting projects on the horizon that I can't wait to share with you!  I couple fun collaboration projects, including one that is very near and dear to my heart and that is completely blowing my mind.  So stay tuned for more information about all of the goodness that is brewing.

Thank you for all your support and for letting me be a part of your blooming
creativity and storytelling!  I hope you all have a beautiful week!

Happy Scrapping!

Hope everyone is having a beautiful (not too hot!) day today!  I’m basking the joy of a quiet house and some scrapping time while Bugga and my husband are out enjoying a daddy-daughter date day.  And as you know (thanks to my continuous flow of excited rambly-ness), I’m really so thrilled to share today’s {fresh seeds} with you!

Here are the highlights of my gooped up on the gop-ness:

Grow with Love is a collaboration project with my very dear friend and the amazingly talented Crystal Livesay of Designs by Crystal Livesay.

We were inspired by deep reflection of our own loves and relationships to create a series of templates and journaling prompts that we hope will inspire you to share your own stories and create beautiful pages from the heart that you will love. But more than that, we hope, through the process of scrapping and reflecting and writing, the project will have a more tangible effect in our real lives.

You can also use the prompts and templates, alone or together, to simply scrap pages as you’re inspired.  They don’t have to be about love and relationships, they don’t have to follow the prompts.  They can be anything you want them to be.

But if you’d like to take a step into a fresh adventure in your scrapping, we invite you to join us as we do the “grow with love” project together.

Beginning on Monday, Crystal and I will be doing these prompts with you and expounding on them, diving in a little deeper, giving a few more examples on our blogs.  We hope that you will feel inspired and we hope that we will be doing “more” than scrapping together…we hope that we will be growing together.  And we can’t wait!

And now for a closer peek and some beautiful inspiration…

And a preview of a few of the prompts, to give you an idea of what those look like.  Some will be fun and light and others a bit more weighty.  But we hope all of them will have you feeling energized and inspired as you scrap.

And here is a bit (ok a lot) of beautiful and creative inspiration from our teams.  I feel so inspired by their pages and I hope you will be too!

Grow With Love is available for 20% off through Friday 9 July!  We so so hope you like them and feel inspired!

If you are a newsletter subscriber, you will have received special coupon for a bit of extra Grow With Love savings.  If you aren’t, feel free to sign up so you can get extra little gifties too in the future.  If you missed out this week, take heart because I just may share a coupon or two on Twitter or Facebook. Woot!

As always I looove to see your stories and art too, so please feel free to share with me anytime.  Just shoot me a mail or share them on my facebook page.

And if you feel inspired to take a deeper dive into the prompts and “grow with love” with me and Crystal, be sure to swing by here on Monday when we get started with the project.

Until then, I hope you have a beautiful weekend!!!

Everything will be going live in just a few short hours and I can’t wait for you to see what’s to come!  Just to wet your whistle a little I thought I share with you a quick wee peek of what’s to come….

And I can’t resist sharing just a couple pages from my team…they have been inspiring me all week with their creativity and talent as they’ve been playing with my template designs.

Soon soon soon I’ll be able to post more inspiration and tell you all about where I’m going to be making my debut…plus I’ll be posting a freebie for you and sharing fun giveaways and special codes, on twitter and on facebook.  So stay tuned!!