The Nine Weeks of Summer Have Begun

My summer vacation is finally here! Nine weeks of no alarm clock, no bells, no bickering kids, no parent phone calls, not a single paper to grade, and sandals instead of "sensible" shoes! The classroom is all packed up, the books are all put away and the scrappin stuff is out. My goal for the next nine weeks is to enjoy every bit of summer, post at least once a week and to catch up on the scrappin'! Here's my post for June (boy was it a busy month):

A set of all occasion cards using the watercolor trio set. The Design and colors were CASEd from Karen Graff (but of course a little has changed on each of them) I've been loving these three colors together: old olive, daffoldil delight and pumpkin pie....

a couple of bookmarks to go with the cards...

A couple more cards using the same colors and vintage vogue stamp set (don't know where I saw this one, but I remember the strip was the DSP Greenhouse Gala and the image was friends are flowers that never fade, in my inspiration card):

A Father's Day card for my dear step-dad (don't know where I saw this lay-out).

A birthday card for a very good friend (totally CASED except for the DSP, from Nancy Riley)

This was a birthday card for my SIL. It is totally CASED from SCS scrappystamper 62. However, scrappy stamper did a whole lotof distressing. I think I might need to get the Zutter Distrezz tool, so I can do all that distressing!

Lastly, is a birthday card for my sweet little niece's birthday. She is the most adorable little girl i have ever laid eyes on. Her card is a variation of a step card. I made it into a card holder. the step portion of the card actually holds the birthday card. It looks a little crooked, but that's because it's sitting on a bit of a tilt.

This is the side view, you can see how the card sits in the step.

Here is the card holder without the card.

And finally, the card itself. I know it looks a little bare on the bottom, but it there is anything in that portion, it's covered up by the gifts on the card holder. I've debated on what to do there. I thought of adding some gifts, then they would blend in with the others, but that didn't look too good. So, I think I'm sticking with the plain and simple look.

Anyway, that's my stuff for June!

I was able to go over to my friend, Lynn's, house yesterday to do some scrapping, so I got a start on a couple pages for my scrapbook. Hopefully I'll be able to share those this weekend.