I know, I'm a total blogger slacker

Me, Shaun, and Em have been here on our church youth group's summer trip:

Which means this week, I am doing lots of this:

And not so much of the blogging.

Today is the first day since we've gotten back from our trip on Friday that we've had nothing else going on, so I am using the day to:

a)stay in my pajamas all day

b)catch up on laundry

c)finally finish putting together the decor above my mantle

d)snuggle with my babies & hopefully nap

e)generally just be chill

So blogging's going to have to take a little backseat for a while.

I did want to make sure to tell you to go "Like" Lily Bee Designs on facebook. We want to get to 1600 friends who LIKE Lily Bee Design in the next week on our Facebook Page SO here's the incentive for you to invite your friends. We've teamed up with Jill over at A Million Little Things and are giving away a $25.00 Gift Certificate to her store.

Simply have your friends who LIKE Lily Bee leave us your name over on the Facebook Page and you will automatically be entered to win. The more friends you send over the more chances you have to win.

And then I wanted to leave you with this:

I decided to cut out the title on my Silhouette (more about my favorite tool, here!) and then use the negative space as a mask for my blue ink pad & dauber. I just loaded up my dauber with blue ink and lightly tapped it over the mask. I added a little bit of olive green on top of it just to add dimension.
I then removed the mask and outlined the title with my white gel pen, then scratchily went around that with my black pen. I love the look this gives, and it's a fun way to experiment within boundaries.
(Layout created with the Sunkissed kit)I did the same technique in the above photo on a canvas album I'm working on, with a mixture of glimmer mists and inks. It's fun- try it out!

(posted originally at Noelmignon)