SASIE Day 1

Yesterday was the first day  of Tiare's Summertime and the Scrappin' is Easy Challenge; I am not sure I'll be able to keep up  but I did manage to finish the first challenge.  I seem to have missed the before you get started assigment  since I didn't I'll just do what I can when I can.  The focus of this LO was using paper strips which should have been quite easy for me since I am such a hoarder of paper scraps!  The cardstock base and some of the strips were part of a CTMH paper pack that I can't seem to finish using!  The LO uses pictures taken on our visit to spend time with my dad for Father's Day. 

Happy Birthday 2 U

Hello Sunday, still not feeling up to speed but I'm pressing on; I guess old age is catching up to me! I've spent most of the day lounging around, going through my paper scraps and sorting through pictures. Today I'm sharing a birthday card that I created using sketch #248 from Clean & Simple Stamping. The paper scraps came from the MME Moments paper pad, the pearl embellishments from the Michaels dollar spot and the sentiment stamps from a Stampendous clear stamp set.

Happy 12th

I've been feeling a little under the weather but I'm still pushing myself  to work and move.  Today's LO uses pictures from out daughter's 12th birthday celebration earlier this year.  We invited three of her friends to join us at Dave and Buster's for an afternoon of fun.  She's growing up and each year it gets more challenging and expensive deciding how to celebrate!  The LO uses iClassygirl's  July Pajama Party sketch.  I tried to step up my game a little by punching the butterflies, adding glimmer mist, sitckles and pearls! The paper is some that I've had in my stash a while along with the other items used some of which I received as a RAK.  Have a great weekend!

Warmest Wishes

 

 

Hello and Happy Monday,  I hope you had a good holidy weekend.  We spent alot of time at home not doing much of anything.  We did go to the museum for some live entertainment and dinner.  Today I'm sharing a card using sketch #180 from Operation Write Home.  I used the Echo Park This and That Charming 6x6 paper pad, the stamp is from Stampin' Up and the key is Tim Holtz.  I think it looks better in person, the lighing seems off in the picture.  The card will go postal tomorrow to our nephew as a belated birthday greeting.  Have a great week!

Anniversary Card

Its Friday and I'm back today to share another card that I made, two days in a row!  I'm happy to report that I used both my silhoutte cameo and cricut expression this week!  Today's card is another signature simple card that I created using the Best of 2009 cricut cartridge; the cuts were originally on the Sweetheart cartridge.  I need to explore using this cut  more since I didn't use all of the layers.  I also used the Love's in the Air cuttlebug folder for the embossing along with a few pearl embellishments.  I sure hope the recepient likes it!

A Happy Hello

Happy Independence Day, I hope you have a great day celebrating with family and friends.  We don't have any plans so I hope some R&R is in order.  It has been another busy week so I got up at my usual time for a little playtime this morning.  I am planning to go into work in little while just for a few hours and then I'll take tomorrow off.  Since today is the 4th of July I decided to make a card, which is a first for me.  I used this week's free svg file from Designs on Cloud 9.  I really like the little patriotic bear and how it came together!

I'm doing an extra happy dance because I'm sharing this card for three different challenges.  I'm sharing it for two different challenges over at Scraps of Color; the blog challenge for week #28 is to use red, white and blue in your project.  Kelli from A Scrap of This and That is also hosting a challenge in the SVG friends group to encourage us to play with our toys to cut a free svg file.  Lastly, I'm also sharing this card for the monthly challenge over at Mema's Crafts where the challenge is to use red, white and blue in our projects too.

Thanks for stopping by and I'm wishing you a happy and blessed holiday and weekend.

Hello Sunday

I wanted to do a driveby post since I have been too busy to share.  We are finishing up the final day of my father's family reunon and I wanted to share a picture with you all.  My schedule has been so jam packed that I haven't taken very many pictures, I'm not sure how I'm going to scrap this event.  The picture that I'm sharing is of the property where we had our family BBQ yesterday.  My cousin that hosted the  BBQ owns 104 acres of land in Smithfield, Virginia.  We started Friday with a meet and greet, the BBQ and a special worship service this afternoon.