Back to School Album

hello everyone and TGIF. I have been so busy the past week or so I havent even had time to sit down and craft like I'd like to. I will more than likely be accomplishing some thing this weekend so look for some things to be posted either Sunday or Monday. Sooner if I can swing it. I thought since I didnt have anything to show you that I'd pull out something from when I first starting to scrapping/card making and etc . . .

This is a Back to School Album I made oh gosh I think it was 2007 but not 100% on that. A long time ago anyway. Hope you like it.

Wish

Okay, I have completed the blog hop for the Caardvarks/Coordinations very first blog hop event both yesterday and today. As I went through the blogs I was so very inspired by all the super duper cards and other projects using this paper! Then I realized . . . I have 2 packs of the Coordination papers and have had them (unopened even) for like a year now.
So I finally got some time tonight and busted the packs out, opened em up and this is what I came up with.

The idea I had in my head for this was completely different than what it turned out to be. As I went along I must have changed my mind like at least 10 times. I am a woman after all, I am allowed to change my mind when I see fit ; )

I like how it turned out. I had to make myself stop though, I just kept wanting to do other things to this card. I wanted vibrant color and I wanted things to stand out. I don't know if I accomplished that but I am happy with it.

I took the card layer and sanded it (mostly in the middle going outwards) till I was happy with it. Then I inked the edges and came up on the card a bit with stampin up tempting turquise. I used basic greys's lime ricky paper for the patterned paper. inked the edges of the orange piece after sanding with stampin up's pumpkin pie. I stamped the palm tree's cut them and pieced them together creating a 3d affect. inserted 3 brads on the edge where the card opens and then stamped the sentiment. the stamps are stampin up as well.

I am soooooooo tired, I have not slept from last night yet. I'm so surprised I made it through the day.

Thanks for stoppen by - ttfn

YOU ROCK!

Happy Sunday everyone! Hope your sunday is sailing as smoothly as mine today. We have had a busy weekend. My boys have had somewhere to be Fri, Sat and today. Today however, was a special day (well tomorrow is the real day) kuz it is my niece Taylor's birthday party. It was a pool party! fun fun fun. And this is the card I made for her b-day.
You may not be able to see very well in the pictures but it is a shaker card. I put silver micro-beads in the eyes and nose section of the skull. I used gesso for the pattern I made on the first layer and then I dry embossed the pink layer with my big shot and a sizzix embossing template. Then I used Adirondack mixatives "pearl" and wiped that over the dry embossed pink layer. All in all I am very pleased with how it turned out.

On my way out the door again so ttfn

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAYLOR!

Thank You Card

I have been trying to get to making this Thank You card for like a week now. I finally had time to sit down and get it done. I only have 3 more thank you cards to get done this weekend and a birthday card. Hope I get to all of them.

As you can see I have incorperated my acetate lollipop flower into this card. I chose the colors and made the card around the flower. I cased Jessica's Scooter birthday wishes card. I love her cards. I love all thier cards over there at Gina K. Designs

I need to mess around in Photoshop Elements more and get the 411 on all the editing to make my pictures look better. Until then though, I hope you all can get a fairly good view of the cards.

Unitl next time . . .

Recipie:
Cardstock and Ribbon - Papertrey Inc
Stamps - Clear Art Stamps
Embossin Tinsel, color: Black Opal - Ranger
Acetate - is available at many different places - I got mine at: The Stampin Place

Scrapping with my boys . . .

Trust me friends this for me does not happen often kuz, well . . . I have boys. But today was a rather "boring day mom" So I asked them if they wanted to do some crafting. Jordan(my 10 yr old) was watching me watch a video last night on acetate lollipop flowers (Thanks so much Arlene!)and he wanted to try that. I had done one myself last night and I was pleased but I thought the bottom flower was just too large at 2 1/2 inches so for Jordans I took the sizes down a tad the largest flower being 2 inches and away he went! Keeton(my 5 yr old) wanted to make a card for his daddy so I dry embossed apiece a plain white cardstock for him and gave him my luminarts paints and markers to play with. They had fun! I had fun!



To the left is the Jordan's finished acetate lollipop flower:

To the left is my finished acetate lollipop flower:
Although I'm not sure about you guys but I think Jordan's flower turned out wonderful! I like it better than how mine turned out. What so you guys think?

BLOG CANDY - PAPER BAG MINI ALBUM

Thats right! Over at With a Grin , Stephanie has made a gorgeous and i mean GORGEOUS paper bag album that she is giving away as blog candy. She has a complete look at all the pages of the book on her blog, if you haven't been to Stephanie's blog scoot on over you will be mesmerized by her talent.

Our Packer Family Night Bummer Rain Out

In this picture from left to right is my niece Taylor, my niece Madyson, my son Jordan, my son Keeton and my boyfriends son Quinton.

In this picture from left to right: My son Jordan, my son Keeton and my boyfriends son Quintin.


Saturday morning the morning of the Packers Family Night, at 5 in the morning it stormed something UGLY! and I was all worried the game was going to be affected. but at about 10 or 11 am the sun came out and it turned out to be a scorcher of a HOT day so I started to feel much better about the events to take place that night. Greenbay is 2 1/2 hrs away from where we live in WI so I just felt much better about the drive with the weather cooperating.

We left at 3:30 and headed to meet a few other family members and then at about 4:30 we were on the way to Greenbay and to have loads of fun!!! at the Packers Family Night. We got there at oh I think arounf 6, found parking fairly quickly (we were a train of 3 suv's) got out stretched, got the babies in thier carriers, all children were counted and we started our short walk to the stadium. We got to the stadium marched up step after step after step . . . after step (I was very winded!) - lol - untill we found our setats then because there were 16 of us all together it took us about 15 minutes to get situated.

We were all situated, finally! and ready for the FUN!

Then . . . as you can see in one of the pictures above the storm rolled in. Ugggg. The clouds were dark and it started to sprinkle. As the Onieda Indians started to do there dance (nope not the rain dance - as many joked about - hehe) It was annouced that for our protection because it was a lightning storm, we were to all head to the concourse and wait for updates. Now it was HOT and HUMID! everybody was elbow to elbow in the concourse and dripping sweat. The kids wanted to run around and play, my brothers twins were hungry and crying (thankfully for my sister-in-law anyway they were hungry one at a time, and the older children were super bored and kept asking if we were gonna leave.

After about an hour of waiting with no real end to the storm in site we decided to leave. I later found out that the night was eventually cancelled.

BUMMER! Enough talking . . . here are some pictures - It was super fun while it lasted.