collab with emily powers + new word art!

Collab with Emily Powers
I am SO happy to announce that I have finally gotten to collab with THE emily powers!!! Her designs, scrapping, and ESPECIALLY her photography is something I have admired for years. Her blog is a place I visit regularly for inspiration and incredibly fun projects and challenges. I just love her!

a beautiful mess

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New Word Art

I also have some fun new word art for you. These were SO fun to make and the thoughts expressed in them are like something straight from a woman's random though process on any given day. 

 

frame of mind - vol. 1

frame of mind - vol. 2

 

I hope you enjoy your new goodies... and again, make sure you're subscribed to the TaylorMade Insider for extra savings!!! 

one word for the year?? hmmmm...

this past week's dare at digidares.com was to scrap our "one word for 2010". well... at first i wasn't going to have a word... then when i saw this dare, i thought "well... maybe i should." but the more i thought about last year and how hard it was and how the dynamics of my life fluctuated all OVER the place on a weekly basis, the more i thought that having "one word" to focus on at any given time would just simply stress me out if it didn't apply to what i might be going through. hahaha. then it hit me... "TODAY". ***that's*** the word i need to be focused on... "today." it reminds me that life is happening "today" and that clinging to a past or worrying about the future will not help me get through "today". i know... right? pretty dramatic. lol. whatever. sigh... scrapping is such therapy. thank goodness... i apparently need it. hahahaha. so here is my layout about focusing on "today"...

today

you still have one more day to participate in this challenge! so head on over to http://www.digidares.com/ and scrap your dare! there's even prizes up for grabs!!

also... i'll be hosting next week's dare. so once you're done with this one, be sure to head back over there on friday to see what i have in store for you! hope everyone is looking forward to a nice relaxing weekend with lots of scrap therapy! :)

2 new templates

I put some new templates in the shop tonight! :) Enjoy 20% off of both, now thru Wednesday, February 3! :)

taylored page no. 3

taylored page no. 4

new word art!!

I am SO excited to have something new for you! I've taken the past couple of months off while we moved into our new home and completed a few "must tackle now" renovation projects. I was feeling a little nervous finding myself unable to switch gears from interior design back to digital design. But low and behold... as I've proved to myself time and time again... it was scrapping that brought the inspiration back. I was working on a page the other night and once i had my title work complete, I decided I liked it!! "Hey!!! That needs to be a word art pack!" hahaha. So may I present to you (in it's MANY forms)...

offset vol. 1

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digi dare #164 (plus last week's winners!)

We had SUCH a GREAT time and a GREAT response with last week's dare!! Thank you all SO much for participating and sharing your stories and creating such amazingly inspiring pages!!

Posted and waiting for you is this week's dare (along with the winner's from last week's dare). And let me say that it is an AMAZING dare by Sandra! So fresh and really gets you thinking!!! It actually turned into a bit of therapy for me because the night I worked on my layout, I had just finished an EXHAUSTING day with my 4-year-old. There was whining, temper tantrums, back talk, and a very long day of "but i don't wannnnt tooooo's". hahahaha. so here is the layout that this dare pulled out of me... it somehow created a path that lead me full circle back to what's important. LOVE when that happens!!

what do i do

Credits:

clearly stuck scotch tape by taylormade

scattered buttons: summer’s dawn collab by taylormade + michelle filo

envelope: family tree storytelling kit by joanne brisebois

everything else : est kit by taylormade + paislee press

(*all available at oscraps)

journaling:

what do i do with her???????

you love her through it all. you show her patience. you show her that nothing

she can ever do can make you not love her. you hug her when she needs it. you

tell her everyday that she is the light of your life. you tell her everyday
that she is beautiful. you forgive yourself for the mistakes you make and you

move forward. you tell her you’re sorry when you take your frustrations out on

her. you take her reality seriously, even when it seems so trivial to you. you

remember that this strong spirit of her’s will protect her someday. you get out of

bed everyday. you remember to breath in and out everyday. you remember to thank

god for what and *who* he has trusted you with. he must think you are way

stronger than you do. listen to him. believe him. follow him so that she will too.