Apron Strings are fun to wear!

So, you might have noticed that a new little banner has popped up on the side of my blog... I am very proud to have been chosen for a Apron Strings Sous Chef (DT) position for 2009. I must admit that the DT has a fun twist - you can only use what's in the kit (except for distressing stuff like stickles, stamps or your diecut/cricut machines). It really forced me to go back to the basics and get creative. So, when I got my first kit for January - the Smaller than a Bread Box kit (I love the papers: I had fun mixing and matching the Bo Bunny, Fancy Pants and Pink Paislee papers), I took my time to try and do sometime unique on each page. Here's what I came up.

This was my favorite... I just love the simplicity in it as well as the doodling!
This is also a favorite. I love the flourish on the paper as well as the bracket and I didn't want to cover them. So, I used my craft knife to trim them out and I love how pretty it turned out. Love the glitter glue!!
This was another fun one. For this one, I used these fun but not very good pictures. They fit the topic perfectly!
While the next two pictures aren't great, I LOVE this page about me and Tracy and this page about Jeff and Annde. On Tracy's: I don't tend to use frames - I like how it came out, just hanging on the picture.

I rarely do 2 page layouts but it's a requirement for this DT which is cool - I wouldn't have scrapped these pictures otherwise and I like how it came out. We used a sketch by Becky Fleck and here's the results...
Lastly, I made a few simple cards with the leftover scraps...
Check out the site - the link is to the right! The kits are very reasonable in price and come right to your door! I got 6 layouts plus 5 cards and I STILL have more paper...