fabulous flowers {giveaway!}…

Brad and I have been working so hard for the last couple of weeks, getting our yard cleared out, leveled off, and ready for sod.  We have a landscaper scheduled to arrive Friday morning to lay down our lush new grass.  We were working outside last night, getting a few sprinklers repaired and clearing out the last of the piles in the back yard.  It was a lot (a LOT) of work, but we were so excited to be to this point.  Then we woke up this morning to this:

Yep.  Snow.  May 19th.  Nice.

Can you lay sod over snow?  Probably not.  Crossing my fingers we’ll be back to RAIN tomorrow, instead of snow.  Or even sunshine – gasp…imagine that!

 

Well, since I’m obviously not doing a lot of gardening right now, I’ll have to get my flower fix somewhere else.  Luckily, Creating Keepsakes is helping me out with that.  Their latest Tips & Tricks issue is all about flowers.  Actually, that’s what it’s called:  Fabulous Flowers!

Scrapbooking Tips & Tricks: Fabulous Flowers shows hundreds (273, according to the cover) of creative ways to use flowers on your scrapbook layouts. There are ideas for using pre-made flowers and ideas for creating your own from scratch!

Here’s a layout I created for the issue that shows what a difference using a floral background can make:

 

And of course, here’s a sneak peek inside the issue for you:

(If you click to open this, you’ll see a sneak peek of another one of my layouts on the Table of Contents page!!)

 

Open publication - Free publishing - More flowers

Now for the giveaway! Creating Keepsakes is, once again, allowing me to give a copy of this issue to one of my blog readers!  Just leave a comment here before Monday, May 23, 2011 to be entered into the drawing!  I will announce the random winner here on Monday morning.

And just in case you’d like to do some shopping, I have a coupon to pass along! Good for FREE SHIPPING in the USA for orders over $25 from Scrap & Paper Shop, just enter coupon code FLOWERBB at checkout. Expires: 6/3/11.

I hope your day is drier and sunnier than mine! :o)