A Birthday Page and more

My husband loves taking pictures of sunsets. This is his latest:

I finally got the pictures of my neice's birthday scrapped. Now that I'm done, I still think it needs something on the top with the banner. After I took the picture and put in in my photo album, I realized I didn't put a string to hold up the pennants. I guess they are just floating! LOL. I also think I'm going to punch out some of the embosslit butterflies and put them up there as well. I've decided the next two punches SU! should come out with are a pennant (boy were these time consuming to make!) and a balloon. Balloons would look cute on top with the pennant, but I'm not cutting them out, so butterflies will have to do.

Another hydrangea card. Still loving the pumpkin pie, daffoldil and old olive color combo.....

As I was cleaning out my unfinished project box, I found some scraps from a notecard set I made last year. So, I figured I'd better get them taken care of too.

Lastly, some plain and simple cards using up some card kits I had from last year. This first one is almost identical to one I made last July (that's when I made the card kits), but the rest are fresh from this year.

Well, I still have a ton of unfinished projects to clear out of the box. So the next post will probably be those.

See you next time!

A couple of CASE's

I've been able to squeeze in a little stampin time this week, and this is what I came up with:
Thought I'd use up some of those hostess pattern packs I have stockpiled! (gotta slim down if Im going to fit anything new in this tiny room). Funny, when I got God's Beauty, I didn't really care for it that much, but now I really like it. Too bad it's retired!

Used the new Watercolor Trio on these:

This is a CASE of the invitation the artisan award winners at Stampin Up! got. I CASE'd it from Renee from Stamp Staduim's blog. Obviously mine is much different!

This layout was inspired by atsamom from SCS. She used the ballon image from Crazy for Cupcakes. I thought this would be a cute set of notecards to give.

Well, that's it for this week. See ya next week :)

The last 2 weeks

Well, so much for a post a week. I've missed 2 weeks already. The good thing is that we went on a vacation! Our destination was a cottage on Burt Lake. We had a great time. Here was the view from our living room:

My sweet little neice had her first birthday on June 30th. I posted the card I made her, but thought I'd post a picture as well. Isn't she adorable!?!

We have a couple of these lilies in our yard. They are so huge. Every year I can't believe how big the booms are. they are literally bigger than my outstretched hand! As I looked around them, I saw this cute little baby tree frog. I've seen more baby treee frogs this year than ever before.

Check out the size of this tiny little thing! I'm assuming that must be his poop in front of him (sorry I didn't edit that out), it seems huge in comparison to him (or her). He's been there for 3 days now- in the same exact spot.

The next 5 cards were inspired by SCS'r "froglegs." I know I also saw this same color combination with the same stamp set in one of the blogs that are in my favorites, but can't seem to remember which. Since I don't have the Apple Blossoms hostess set, I chose to use the retired set, Wonderful You. I really like these colors together. It gives me a very calm relaxed feeling. (had to take advantage of those baja blue corduroy buttons in the clearance rack for only $3.99. How did that happen that they have something in the clearance rack that still matches the current colors? I'm happy!

I'm bummed the whimsical words set didn't make it to the new catty. I thought that set was perfect for all occasion cards!

Typed the sentiment for this one on the computer since I don't have Apple blossoms. I really like the sentiment (and the set). Who knows, i may end up with it after all......

My husband's aunt has an alpaca farm, so I figured I'd make one featuring this stamp. She is planning a farm event in the fall, so you will probably see more cards featuring this stamp.

With 2 more graduation parties coming up next weekend, I figured I'd better get a couple of those ready as well, so here they are:

I love the level 1 hostess set, Because I Care. I can see that this is a set I'll be going back to again and again. (sentiment by Cricut)

love the color combo on this one- saw it somewhere....

Here is one of the lay-outs I was working on before my vacation. (Thanks for the title idea, Lynn) We had a Killdeer that had a nest of eggs in the driveway and a robin in the bush. It was fun to watch the eggs hatch into babies and see them become independent. Sorry about the bad photo, scrapbook layouts are not my friend in photography....

lastly a card for a friend who threw a 4th of July party. Unfortunately my husband and I were not feeling too great, so we were not able to make it. I ended up changing the sentiment to so sorry (we couldn't make it), rather than a note of thanks....

Well, that covers the last 2 weeks, I should have another post at the end of the week :)

Seeya!