Wedding Week, Texture and a Giveaway

Have you been checking out the Crate Paper blog this week? The design team members are blowing my mind with their creative wedding ideas! Be sure and stop by and find out the details on how you can enter to win one of 3, $50 gift cards to everyone's favorite wedding registry place, Crate and Barrel. And today on the Crate blog all you have to do is comment to try and win one of two Portrait collection giveaways. Easy enough, right?  My project for wedding week is up today and it started off with a $3 aqua vintage suitcase and the idea for a banner with a big ampersand...and grew from there! Here is a peek...

Check out the Crate Paper blog for all the pictures of my vintage tablescape, as well as LOTS of beautiful projects from the design team!

And on the October Afternoon blog...Monday was all about adding texture to your layouts.  I was happy to participate :)

So do you like adding texture to your layouts? Or do you prefer them flat? Even sewing can be texture. You can participate with your idea of combining texture with OA and add it to the Flickr group! Check out the post here for the whole write up.

And I promised a giveaway, right? I have a box full of paper and embellishments to send to someone. I just will never live long enough to scrap it all ;) Leave a comment on what is inspiring YOU lately and I will draw a winner in one week :) Pinterest seems to be my favorite place for inspiration now. Coincidentally it is also a time sucker ;)

It's going to be a nice and toasty day here today. With ball games tonight we might just have to indulge in some swimming pool/popsicle action. Yep, that sounds about right ;) Happy Thursday!