Laura Vegas

first … the layout i did last night.

i just love this layout for a few reasons. first, the bright colors of these fun autumn leaves papers and stickers … love them against the black and white. second, i stamped … i’m not a stamper … but i love these word stamps by heidi swapp. third, the embellishments that seemed to match perfectly. forth, i just love that this layout is about something … and yet about nothing at the same time. lol! i had absolutely no idea where i was going with this when i started. but i picked out that "imagine" stamp that fit and that i’ve been wanting to use. then i found the chipboard numbers and they seemed like fun. so i literally walked around this morning thinking of "what do i imagine … what 3 things do i want to imagine". lol! i need to do more layouts like this. just playing and having fun. in fact i started another one tonight and ended up using something i’ve had for ages and never got around to using … in involves the word "fabulous". so stay tuned to find out what i find "fabulous". lol!

edited to add this card … mainly because it matched the layout … and it totally clashes with the layout and card i’m going to post in a few hours. lol!

i’ve been cleaning out my idea books this past week. i’m an idea book fanatic … but i really felt the need to purge some of my collection. so i paged through each of these books looking for anything i wanted to keep. and now i’m ready to pass them on. i thought about ebaying them … i’ve done that successfully with tons of idea books. but that seemed like a lot of work. lol! so i thought i’d check with everyone here and see if any of you might need or want any of these … although aren’t "need" and "want" basically the same thing when it comes to scrapbooking. lol! here’s a list of what i have:

• ck "scrapbooking school memories"
• ck "can-do techniques for scrapbooking"
• ck "easy patterns for scrapbooking"  just added
• ck "scrapbook idea book volume 9"
• ck "scrapbook idea book volume 10"
• ck "hall of fame volume 7"
• ck "hall of fame volume 8"
• ss "slice of life scrapbooking"
• ss "album shortcuts"  just added
• st "party time"
• st "tis the season"
• st "trendsetters"
• st "june 2007"
• pc "the joy of cardmaking"
• pc "the joy of cardmaking, a second helping"
• pc "card creations volume 3"
• junkitz "unzipped"
• "scrapbooks on the go"
• pinecone press "circle journals"

all of my books are in excellent condition. although most of them are probably missing a few pages. i usually tear out anything that catches my eye and that i really want to remember. but most of these are missing maybe 5-8 pages at most. and some of them aren’t missing anything. not to say that they’re not good books … i’m just very selective nowdays as to what i tear out. lol! so please let me know if you have any interest in any of these. i’ll make you a awesome deal, i promise. just leave me a comment or shoot me an email. doesn’t really matter which … since any time you comment it sends me an email. lol!