TGIF and a little giveaway!!

Hi everyone,
TGIF!  I think short school weeks are great for kids but work for moms! lol  This week I have had kids home all week because of sickness.  And some are still fighting their upper respiratory infections.  Only one kid has managed to miss out on any of the illness invading our home and I hope that I am not jinxing him by saying this now.  ha 

I have been working on a layout all week.  With the kids sick I've only found little bits of time to work on it but I did finally finish it up today.  It is a birthday layout of my oldest daughter's 10th birthday.  I am using a sketch from Sketch Inspiration but the challenge expired already.  But I loved the sketch and wanted to use it so I did.

When my bff, Denise came to visit she brought me a paper pad from DCWV - The Celebration Stack. She is a sweetheart!   It is gorgeous!!  It is so super bright and happy.  I immediately knew I would be using it to do this birthday layout.

Pretty much everything on the layout is from that paper pad.  I even cut out the banner and embellies from paper sheets in the pad.  The only things I added were ribbon, buttons, bling and a little Stickles from my stash.

My daughter loved the layout and really isn't that all that matters?? ha

Here arethe challenges that I am entering it in.:

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge - Something with a B (birthday, beautiful girl, baby dog)
Scrapbookaholic by Abby - Dilo En Español Reto #3/Dilo En Español Challenge #3 Birthday
Just Inspirational Challenges - Anything Goes
Paper Play Challenges - For a female relative (daughter)
Willow Design Stamps - Anything Goes
Play Date Cafe -PDCC 120 -color inspiration

Friendships Garden - photo inspiration and birthday

Tomorrow I will have a full day of Lacrosse.  My ds has his first two games of the season tomorrow.  Lucky for me my mother in law is coming over to watch the little sickies so that I don't have to try to take them with us. 

The weather here in Vegas today is lovely.  It is very spring like - 70's and sunny.  Gorgeous!

Oh, I wanted to tell you about the coolest thing I bought from HSN.  I bought the We R Memory Keepers Lucky 8 Punch.  Have you guys heard of this totally awesome new punch???!!!

Check out how cool they are!!!  Guess what I will be playing with this weekend?!?  It is funny because I never buy things from HSN but I just happened to turn on the tv and as I was scrolling through looking for something to watch I saw the words HSN and Scrapbooking.  So I had to click on it to see what they were showing.  And this was the today's special.  I watched for a bit and then whipped out my ipad and put in an order!! LOL  I couldn't help myself.  ha

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Just thought I would share!!

Please use this weekend to work on your Something Sweet project for the Crafter's Companion USA Challenge Blog.  The challenge ends on Wednesday the 29th 8pm pst.  I would LOVE to see your projects on there. 

**I am offering 5 Crafter's Companion Stamp sets to the first 5 people (one set to each person) to email me and say they want them.  (scrapwithstacy@gmail.com)  Just be aware that if you take one I will expect to see a project on the March CC Challenge!!  lol  ** (US Residents ONLY)

Have a great night!!