Hey Hey....it's hump day and we get a free day since Thing 2's therapist had an engagement-I decided to give him the day off....had gone away to the Girls Night Inn last weekend and if you can believe it, NO PICS!  Sometimes when you do a getaway, there's no getting dolled up for the Queen's photo shoot and who wants to see themselves on somebody else's blog in their pajamas? ? BUT, I did manage to get about 15 layouts done for myself and some DT stuff so...it's all good in spite of....

One good thing that happened that weekend is that one of my bff's "gifted" me the City of Lights kit from Studio Calico!
is it not awesome???  So, I also had my handy dandy Scrapbook Trends mag (either April or May issue *I forget which) with me and so I lifted this layout "Sibling Love" from the uber talented Birgit Koopsen:
 I was primarily attracted to the super cool BIG FLOWER POWER at the side and then, I had a stack of tags begging to be used so....my chubby little hands got to handcutting away!  Since I was away from home, I didn't have the photo corners nor the doily border punch so I just went along without it and decided not to go back and add more layers when I got home (with the exception that I may add some journaling on it next week)...loved using the mask, that awesome awesome wood frame and the awesome papers from the SC kit along with goodies outta my own stash (AND, still loving those Jillibean Soup buttons!)
AND YES, I am wearing my crown....it's just so much fun to wear one for no reason other than it makes me happy :):):):):)
 thanks for popping by~see ya soon! ps-super cool butterfly is from a chipboard pack at Michaels right now **Cheap-I think it was $ 1.50 for assorted hearts and butterflies...can't wait to see if they go on clearance soon so I can scoop up about 5-6 packs!

while cleaning the studio, I came across lots of my EP stash that had gotten lost in the heap of stuff misplaced and so I did some 30 minutes or less layouts with that paper and stash!  Since "SOME"body never wants me to take their picture on the first day of school (Thing 1 who claims it's embarrassing), I decided to take their pictures on the last day of school from now on...so much easier.....
 Thing 2's fab dotted paper is from the Dots & Stripes collection  over at Echo Park and most of his embells are from Making Memories stash and some Studio Calico fabric rip thingees....rubons from Caryn's stash-can you tell I was over at her house raiding all her goodies??!!!
Thing 1's layout is mostly Echo Park papers and the cool umbrella paper is from Jillibean Soup-mixed up the collections and then I just added some rubons in there  here & there since my handwriting was all crooked :):) brads by MM...made my own little tag...