Happy Birthday Sharon

Today I am sharing a card that I made for one of my friends that I met some years ago on the Cricut message board.  Happy Birthday Sharon, sorry I have to miss your celebration so I am sharing your card on my blog today.  I was planning to bring it to the party but as life would have it I can't attend.

I am sharing this card for the Use Your Stuff sentiment challenge and the  Scraps of Color embossing challenge.  When making this card I used a few items from my stash for the first time, the cuttlebug folder (Anna Griffin Poppy) and the lacey square  Spellbinders Nestabilities  dies.  I got both items from Michaels for a  good clearance price.  The sentiment was cut with my cameo, the flower is from Recollections and a few gems and the card was done!

Take care and enjoy your weekend.

Hello Thursday

Today I wasn't going to post because I have so much going on but since I needed some downtime I decided to share.  I am most excited today because my daughter will have lots of family and friends supporting her this evening when she joins her other classmates marking the end of their middle school years.  It hasn't been easy but God's grace and mercy has brought us through the last three years.  

Today's LO uses her Spring school pictures and I really used a 'hodge podge' of  items to complete it. The paper is from Creative Imaginations, picked it up on clearance a long time ago from ACMoore.  I have way too much loose paper that I purchased not knowing when I would use it!  The study diva stamp is from Stampology and the 8th grade title is a cut file from the silhouette store.  The stars and gems are from Recollections and the little wood veneer camera is from Ameican Crafts.

Take care, thank you for your visit; the middle school LOs will be done soon!

Hello Middle School

This is our daughter's last week of middle school and today I am sharing the first page of her album which I finished on yesterday.   I still need to figure out the date so that I can include it; it has been three years!  The LO uses pictures taken the day she went to shadow another student before she would attend the school the next fall.    This is a bittersweet time for all of us, feelings and emotions running wild since she will be going to high school in the fall!

I am sharing this  LO for this month's word challenge #27 over at Scrap Our Stash.  The challenge is to create a LO using items from your stash for each letter in the word B-R-A-D-S.  I used the following items from my stash:

B - brown card stock, blue pattern paper

R - rhinestones, ribbon

A - arrows, American Crafts thickers

D - die cut,  distress ink (edges of the base)

S - stars, sticker

Thank you for your visit and I hope you will return soon.  Wishing you and yours a wonderful week!

Come and Play

Today I am sharing another LO from my daughter's middle school album and I am down to needing to complete just one more LO and the book will be current through this week.  This is a big deal for me as I have been so emotional lately but I am believing that God will see me through these times.

The LO uses pictures taken during the 8th annual Come & Play event where my daughter played along with the Richmond Symphony.  This was her third year playing and probably her last, I think she has kicked her clarinet to the curb!  When I started on this LO I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do since I only had two pictures.  I used some paper that I had picked up on clearance from ACMoore.  I just added some random embellishments that included washi tape, rub-ons, stickers and I cut the clarinet using my SLICE (love that little machine) and the music stand from the Quarter Note cricut cartridge.  This makes the 25th completed LO for this year!

Take care and enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Hello Summer

Hello Friday, I am back today to share a card that I put together for the Summer blog challenge over at Scraps of Color.  I originally wanted to do a LO but I wasn't pleased with the beach pictures that I had taken last year so I wasn't motivated to scrap them.  I used my cameo for the cuts and scraps of paper from my stash and the card was done.  I like it and it will make a nice card to send an unexpected greeting to someone once all this rain clears.  I am also sharing this card for challenge #201 Freestyle over at Hiding in my Craft Room.

Take care and have a good weekend!  Let's hope for some dry weather next week since there will be lots of outside activities.

Thursday Musings

Wow, it is Thursday already and this is my first time posting this week.  Because we're in the final stretch and this is my daughter's final year at her current school there is still lots to do before the last day of school next Friday.  She took her last SOL on Tuesday so she is all done with testing.  The last week will include an 8th grade cook-out on the school's front lawn, a field trip to Washington, DC, a dance and then finally the moving on ceremony on Thursday.   I have just two more LOs and I will be current with her school book because I am planning to share it next week even though the final week's activities won't be included.

Today's card is one that was inspired by a card  shared on Lil Artsy Woman, Lois is an awesome crafter and I look forward to her daily post.  I just used scraps of paper from my stash, two punches and a stamp that I picked up on a recent trip to Hobby Lobby.  The card sketch is actually SC542 from Splitcoast Stampers but I saw it on Lois' blog.

Thank you for your visit and I hope you will return soon.

Tigers Run This

Hello and Happy Friday, I am back today to share another LO that I completed for my daughter's school album.  I am never going to catch up but I want to try to get her school album current so everything else is being pushed back even though I have been working on some other projects, I am not sure I will whether I will share them or not.  I don't think I'll do anymore monthly LO challenges, I am good with doing one LO per week!

My daughter is a member of her school's running club and these pictures were taken the day they participated in the Monument Avenue 10K earlier this year.  The left side of the LO includes pictures taken before in the parking lot of the school and the right side includes pictures taken after some of them completed the race which ended at Monroe Park.  This is the first year where all participants received a medal.  I used they SLICE to cut the little runner,the Silhouette to cut the tiger head and the Expression to cut the medal and I used Thickers for the title.

Thank you for your visit, wishing you and yours a wonderful weekend.