He's here, he's here... baby Noah is here!

My brother, Ryan and his wife, Tessa, just had their baby! We are all so excited! 

Baby and momma are doing great and home now trying to get their new routine down.

Here is Noah Bradley Hilton...

Look at that blond hair...

The happy parents...

Noah was 8.5 lbs, has blue eyes and blonde hair like his momma and daddy!

Here are Henry and I visiting Noah. 

The proud aunt! Also known as "Aunt Sissy"!

Provo Craft is proud to announce the launch of the Official Cricut Blog sponsored by the Cricut Circle! This all new blog will go live today! You'll have to check it all out here:  http://cricutblog.org/ 

The Official Cricut Blog will introduce artists and crafters of the Cricut Circle. It will showcase inspiring projects designed by the Cricut Circle Design Team and provide a central location to receive announcements, promotions and updates on everything Cricut, directly from Provo Craft.

The Official Cricut Blog sponsored by the Cricut Circle will feature the following:

·         Inspirational projects using your favorite Cricut machines. The Imagine, Expression, Cricut Cake, Cuttlebug, Yudu and more.

·         Hello Thursday Cartridge announcements.

·         Educational videos and tutorials directly from Provo Craft.

·         Occasional sneak peeks into the exclusive Cricut Circle Community.

·         Access to the latest Cricut.com deals.

·         And much, much more!

The best part... since Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker is a Cricut Circle sponsor, I get to give away a $100.00 gift certificate! Isn't that fantastic and so generous of Provo Craft!

All you need to do is become a follower of the Official Cricut Blog by visiting the blog at:  www.cricutblog.org

also become a follow of this blog if you aren't already and leave a comment on this post and a winner will be picked and announced on Wednesday the 25th of May.

**You'll need to have an email address on file over at cricut.com so they can issue you the $100 gift credit, I'm sure you can do this at anytime.

AND... I'll also give the winner one of my new releases

"Summer"

Here is an altered project using my "Summer" paper line created by Andrea Yokley!

Thanks Andrea for sharing your work with everyone here at Nikki Sivils! 

So cute! I love this project!

Good luck to all of you!! 

Have a great Thursday! 

-Nikki

Gotta love some Summer! :)

Hello everyone! :)

So excited to share some of our DT creations today! :)

The first creations I am sharing today are from Michelle! She used the Summer and Beatrice collections on hers! I just love these! :)

Next, we have some beautiful creations from Carina! Carina also used the Summer collection on hers! LOVE these! :)

 

Next, we have two amazing cards from Andrea using Summer, It's Your Day and It's Raining, It's Pouring! Just beautiful! :)

And now we have gorgeous cards from Sarah using the Summer collection! WOW! :)

And from Erika, we have three gorgeous cards using Beatrice and It's Your Day! :)

And lastly today, I have three cards to share that I made! :) I used the Beatrice collection and also It's Your Day! :)

Thanks so much for stopping by! ~~Julie~~ :)

Our May guest designer Melonie Madison! :)

Hi everyone :)

So excited to share our Guest Designer Melonie Madison's creations today! I have been following this girls work for a few years now, and she is amazingly talented! I am so happy she is our guest this month! :)

Melonie's first two creations uses the Summer line! I love them! :)

And Melonie's next layout is made with We Are Family! Beautiful! :)

Welcome Melonie! So happy to have you here this month! :)

Thanks for stopping by! ~~ Julie ~~

The Winner of "Creative Spaces" idea book & We Are Family papers...

is Charity who said: Oh to have my very own room. Right now we live in a small house and I had to decided between a guest room or a craft space. My in-laws come frequently (which I love) and I opted for guest room. That means I have my sewing stuff in my closet and my paper stuff in the dining room. It isn't ideal, but I love how it's helped me to be more mobile with it. Usually I scrapbook at the dining room table, but the way I have things set up I can go to the living room and use the coffee table or put my board on the stove (not the best place, I know...but sometimes there isn't anywhere else) and craft there. I love the mobility of it!
Congrats Charity please email me your shipping info and I'll get it to CK so they can mail your idea book to you and I'll get my paper line "We Are Family" to you later this week! My email is in the header. 


 I have a short blog post today because... 
Bella (my Yorkie) and I were asked to come to our local community college to hang out in the commons area so the students can pet and visit with her to reduce their stress and anxiety during finals week. Bella is a pet therapy dog here in our home town so that's why she was asked so we are off this morning to hopefully make a few kids smile and laugh before their finals.  

Hope you have a great week!!  -Nikki

Something Special :)

Happy Sunday everyone! :)

Don't forget to enter Nikki's giveaway here... she will be drawing a winner tomorrow :)  And with the problems blogger had last week, make sure you check and see if your original comment is still there, blogger deleted some of the comments ... so take a look and enter her fun giveaway! :)

I wanted to share some of our International Design team girls layouts today :)

First from Mette, we have this BEAUTIFUL layout that she made using Beatrice :)

Next we have two GORGEOUS layouts Monika made using Summer! :)

Thanks so much for stopping by! ~~Julie~~ :)

Ok, Blogger is Back for a Bit!!!!

Well, that was quite the Blogger fiasco!!!!  Hopefully, everything is up and going smoothly if you are reading this.  And hopefully you are able to comment!!!  

First of all a little reminder that Nikki has a giveaway going on and you can read about it HERE.  She has extended the deadline because of all the blogger issues.  So, you still have a chance!  And if you left a comment before, please make sure it's still there.  Some comments were deleted and there is no way to get them back...boo. 

Now, let's get to some fun projects!  I am excited that I get to share some projects from Deana Boston and Mimi Leinbach!  Love both their styles and can't wait to share what they did, so let's get to it!

Deana used It's Raining, It's Pouring on this layout! 

I love that she added google eyes to Tubby the Turtle!

And how cute is this birdhouse?!  Deana used the Summer collection on it!

Mimi used the We Are Family for this adorable layout. 

I love how she used the Burlap Buttons in a whimsical way at the end of her title!

Next, Mimi altered some jam jars using the Max and Mollie collection. 

I wonder if I could get her to drop them in the mail to me?!

(wait...there's no jam...just beads, buttons and brads)

Well, that's it for me tonight (or today when this posts!)  I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and I will see you in a few days for my regular girls posting!!!!

Have a Scrappy Kind of Day!!~~Katrina

Postponed my "Creative Space" giveaway until..

until Monday.  I've had several email from some ladies that their comment won't post or can't even log in to blogger so I'll announce the winner on Monday mornings post. That should give blogger the time it needs to get fixed and for everyone to try again. I know blogger is having some major issues with its users so hopefully they can get it resolved soon. More on the giveaway below. 

However we have made a decision on the winner from the Newsletter giveaway... it was a hard choice with some awesome layouts about why they need a Cricut! 

The winner is....

Diane Iversen who entered this layout to win the Cricut:

We thought it was so funny and we agree you do need a Cricut! 

We also picked an honorable mention, Stacy Rodriguez!

Your layout was so pretty that I just had to share it! 

Thanks to everyone who entered in the contest! 

Don't forget to sign up for my newsletter for future contest!

(You can sign up at the top of this blog on the left side column.)

Also don't forget to leave a comment on Wednesday the 11th of May's post to win a copy of Creative Spaces (below) and my We Are Family paper collection! 

I couldn't leave here today without a picture of at least one of my pups... right! So here is our Bella-Blue at the ocean, we took her with us a couple of weeks ago to San Diego, CA.  We had a great time with her and she loved the ocean, as you can see...

and here are some of our vacation pictures...

Bella at the airport flying from Missouri to California.

Still at the airport, we had a long layover in Dallas.

Finally the ocean...

All the restaurants were pet-friendly so Bella sat under many tables waiting for scraps to "accidentally  fall"!

We didn't realize that the pavement got really hot even when it was only in the 70's until we noticed poor Bella scurry to any bit of shade she could find. Then I knew something was up and I felt the pavement and it was hot so back to being carried around like the princess she really is! 

What's better than a ball on the beach?

Rocks on the beach, Bella loved the rocks, I suspect it was good hunting ground! 

The hotel we stayed at had the most beautiful grounds so she got lots of playing "fetch" everyday!

There are times that its just too hard to give the ball up, even if all you want is someone to throw it...

Our last morning in Del Mar, CA we had breakfast at this little nook, hidden off a side street, it was wonderful! And there were 5 other dogs hanging out with their humans too! 

Bella still waiting for crumbs to fall.

Look at this huge really interesting tree that was on our hotel grounds.

It was really beautiful!

That's it, hope I didn't bore you with too many "vacation" pictures!

Have a great weekend! -Nikki