A fabulous surprise

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Back in May I won a drawing on Lauren Reid's blog for some custom designed layouts, and was so excited to receive them last week. The big surprise, however, was that Kellie Penn who is on Lauren's team donated the pictures she took of the kids in Illinois to be scrapped! It was incredibly generous of her, and Lauren's team scrapped way more pages than I ever anticipated. Enjoy!

scrapped by Lauren Grier

scrapped by Deca

scrapped by Stacey

scrapped by Stacey

scrapped by Stacey

scrapped by KeelyB

scrapped by igrove

scrapped by chengie

scrapped by Becky

scrapped by Alice

scrapped by Karen

scrapped by Nicole

scrapped by Karen

Comments

Chris said…
wow, what an awesome collection of layouts! and how generous of Kellie :)
10:18 AM
Joy said…
Melissa-what a great surprise!! They are all beautiful!!
12:08 PM
Maria said…
Incredibly beautiful. What a blessing!
6:57 PM
Karen said…
I was soooooo excited for you to see them!!! I'm glad you like them. It was so much fun to scrap for you, even if a bit intimidating (you're way too good on your own... I was worried, though having fun, every second!)
7:44 PM
Amanda said…
What a great win!! I have been seeing these all throughout the galleries today. They did such a great job.
10:59 PM
M :-) said…
What an incredible gift. The layouts are beautiful!
11:40 PM
Paula said…
Wow what at nice treat for you!
4:21 PM
Christine @ 12,450miles said…
These are incredible!!! What a wonderful surprise indeed!
11:17 AM
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