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!

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.

A birthday and some graduation cards

Maybe it's a record...... three posts in one month while school is still in session??? What's up with that!?! It must be stres.........s........s....sssss...ss.s.s.s...... taking its toll on me. I just can't look at another paper, essay, test, IEP, MET, grade, worksheet B, etc., aaaahhhhhh!!!!! you get the picture! Speaking of pictures..... (sigh of relief)....

First, my BIL's birthday card..... I wish I would have made a couple of these! I must say I love this card, but it's a total CASE of someone, as are the rest as well, just wish I remembered who. Problem is, I save a pic and typically don't save the credits, then when it's time to make the card, I don't know who to give the credit to; BAD ME! I need to get better at that!! The stamp, Big Pieces, is retired, but I love it for masculine cards and layouts! I hope the new catalog brings us some more versatile sets like this (and Circle Circus).

Now, a few graduation cards I made. One picture didn't quite turn out like I wanted; I clicked the save before I was really ready to save, so that one is not included....

Saw this saying somewhere and loved it!

I used the digital stamp for these- much cheaper and you can size it, plus you get a 2fer! Go Graduate and Happy Grad together for only $5.95- can't beat that! The only problem is that if you want to watercolor, you have the issue of the running black ink..... unless you use copics to color :)

After all that work, I took 'em to school to make a little money, every little bit helps!

Until next time....

enjoy it all!