Local Designer!

So, my day job allows me to travel many local little towns in SD and I sometimes have a bit of down time between my appointments. I have discovered so many sweet little shops in some of these little towns and my favorite one up north is a scrapbook store, of course! Lori, the owner, has gotten to know me quite well over the years and last week she asked me to help her design a kit! Now don't get too excited, I won't be quitting my day job but I was excited for the challenge and the experience really does make me feel like a designer! Lori asked me to use the collection On Trend from Crate Paper, an old favorite of mine. I had certain pieces to work with and had to stretch her available supply into 6 kits, this was such a fun way to make me stretch...

With that, I introduce my first layout...

I had these two pictures from Graci's tenth birthday that I've been treasuring and found a layout at Studio Calico's creative gallery by Julie Campbell to inspire me. The circles were cut randomly from the patchwork of papers on the bottom and I used pop dots with alternating punched circles to layer on top. A few buttons and brads add a subtle pop of texture on a few of the circles.

Here is the next one that I love! I've had some fun pictures from the holidays that I knew I wanted to use on a special layout because there is just so much joy from these memories. I found total inspiration from one of Lisa Dickinson's layouts and my scrap lift using On Trend is here...

And my final layout is a double using pictures I just discovered from a few years back of Eric and I ziplining in Jamaica...here is the first page

and 2nd page...

This one is much more simple to put together but I had fun with it and added a few bark stars to finish it off. My first design challenge complete...now I'm hoping to make a few cute cards with the precious scraps! :) Happy Wednesday!