Here's a new layout I made using a picture I took at Loose Park in Kansas City, MO. I used an overlay from Delicious Scraps and made the digital paper myself. The flowers are from Mary Ann Wise Delightful Felt Flowers Kit found at Design House Digital. The Spring circle is from Carina Gardner Spring Stamps. The font is Scriptina and Sylfaen.
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TODAY is the one year anniversary of when I started this blog! How exciting is that! Hard to believe I've been blogging for a year! I know my blog has lots of different directions but that's ME! I love all types of things! All my friends joke that I have too many hobbies! Well I sort of do but I love it! I am a very creative person and NEED to express them in all sorts of ways...cakes, photography, designing, digital scrapbooking and more!  I am thinking about learning to crochet too! I have all the stuff it's just a matter of sitting down and doing it! So in honor of my 1 year blog anniversary! I'm giving away $25 gift certificate to my Etsy store, Erin Leigh Designs!

TO ENTER:

1. Blog about this giveaway
2. Become a fan of Erin Leigh Designs on Facebook.
3. Post about the giveaway on your Facebook or Twitter!

Come back here and leave a comment for each of the steps above! You will have until Thursday, Nov. 25 at Midnight to enter! Winner will be announced on Friday, November 26, 2010.

Enjoy!

Erin

 
Win a spot in Clickinmoms Photoshop 101! Go HERE to enter! You must be a member of clickinmoms.com to enter! If you aren't go here to become a member! Clickinmoms is an awesome and supportive photography community! I love it!
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Our 1 Year Wedding Anniversary was Oct. 17, 2010! Hard to believe one year came and went so quickly! I loved planning our wedding and getting married. It was so much fun and I was able to use all of my creative abilities.  Our first year of marriage was good and not too exciting, which was sort of nice.

We decided to keep this year's anniversary simple. We were very tired. So it consisted of going to mass at the church we got married at, Holy Rosary, in Kansas City, MO. It was nice to spend the morning together. That evening we made dinner together... spaghetti and garlic bread..fancy I know. We also had some champagne and tasted our top tier cake from 1 year ago. Surprisingly, the cake tasted decent but it just grosses me out eating something that is a year old! Erik also gave me some pretty roses.Here are a few pictures from our wedding anniversary!
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So I had taken a long vacation from digital scrapbooking because of my new photography business, but today I started missing it and did two new layouts with some old pictures. The first one is a layout using pictures from our honeymoon to Chichen Itza. It was a super hot day but a really cool experience seeing the ancient pyramids in Mexico.  And look how skinny I was just a year or so ago... ahh what marriage does to you :)

This layout is really simple. I need to get back into the scrapping swing of things. I used a paper from my Summertime Sweets Kit which can be found here in my Etsy shop. The leaves are from the Delicious Scraps Fresh kit. The font is Moksha and Vrinda.
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This second layout uses pictures from New Years Eve with my hubby last year. I tried to use the triangle design principle that my sister-in-law talks about in her blog here. More information on design principles can be found here. All of the elements are from Delicious Scraps Fresh Kit and the font is Palace Script MT.
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Hopefully, I will get back to scrapping more often now!
 
Please vote for my wedding invitation on Minted.com for the Happily Ever After Wedding Challenge with WeddingChannel.com! My invitation was picked to move onto the voting round! So excited. Winners will receive cash prizes, and three designers will be selected to launch their own line of wedding invitations on Minted. How amazing would that be? I would love to be a designer! So please click the link below and vote for me. You may have to register, which I know is a pain but I would REALLY REALLY appreciate it!!!
Thank you so much! Love you guys!

Erin

 
There is a super fun blog hop going on at JessicaSprague.com with some of the graduates of Art of Digital Design. I was a graduate of this class too but am not officially a digital designer. It would be awesome to be one some day. I just have to much going on right now. So if you want to hop on over the start of the blog hop and pick up some awesome freebies go here.
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Erin Leigh Studio Portrait Session special in honor of my birthday!
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I entered one of my wedding invitations into a design contest on minted.com. Please vote for me! I will, hopefully, be entering a few more designs before Friday!

Thanks!

Erin
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Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween! Miley and Cooper were a bride and groom! Check out their pictures below! Aren't they so adorable??
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Erik & I also carved some pumpkins. Mine is the owl on a tree branch and Erik's is the sad face pumpkin.
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Have a great week!