This is a LO I designed for the Serendpity Scrapbooks Design Team Contest. I just love it over there and would love to be on there DT! Yes I would really like to be on any DT but theirs would be PERFECT!!! I love the mb, I love the kits and Kristen the owner is so cool! We were to create a layout using embellishments to show dimension. I hope this fits the bill! I am pleased with how it turned out. This is from our recent trip to T-Rex Cafe at the Legends in Kansas City. We went for Kaden's birthday as he is in to ALL things dinosaurs right now. Let me tell you this place is SOOOOO cool! I thought it was just like Rainforest Cafe (same creator) or other theme restaurants with several in the country but there are actually only a few in the whole country! It has a Build-A-Dino (like Build-A-Bear) and theme rooms and HUGE dino models and skeletons and it was just very cool - for adults and kids! There was also a little paleontologists area where Kaden could pan for gold and bush at "fossils" and other discovery play type things. He loved it! This is the page for our family album as there will also be several for just his book.
This is a simple card but with some unique details. I love how the embossing goes across the layers - I used my Versamark PEN to draw the stems! *Note* if you have an embossing buddy - use it! If you don't - get one and use it! I have one and forget to use it then spend 40 minutes editing my picture in Photoshop! I used white brads to attach the vellum to my CS. This was really fun! The Dare to get Dirty challenges will be going on all week! I will have lots to catch up on when we get back! My girl Lauren (mytime) posts her challenge on Wednesday - I can't wait to see what hers is! Hopefully you can join in and do a challenge or two! They are so much fun!
Have you heard? There's some DIRTY business going on over at SCS! It's the Dare to get Dirty challenge week! An elite group of 12 stampers work each month do design special themed cards and projects for the fan club gallery! Only SCS members that are members of the Fan Club can see their uploads. They are known as the Dirty Dozen. The group rotates adding two new members every month. Well in July there is a special week of challenges hosted by the Dirty girls! If you aren't a fan club member NOW is the perfect time to join! So one of today's challenges was issued by Jody Morrow - the ribbon goddess - as I call her! Her challenge was to choose your ribbon (surprise) and design your card around it! I have had this polka-dot ribbon forever! It was new on the roll with the plastic still! I let it guide everything the polka-dot cupcakes, the colors - BRIGHT - especially for me! And the large pink brads. I colored the images with my SU markers and they are raised up on glue dots. I made the sentiment the focus of this card punching it out in an oval shape and layering it on a scalloped circle. I have a friend I haven't given her birthday stuff to yet so she's getting this card - she likes bright stuff! Thanks for looking!!!!
Blake on Daddy's shoulders! He loved it and kept trying to grab on to Daddy's very short hair!
Working on sharing with Cousin Reed.
In my opinion anyway! I LOVE summer! I am a summer girl. I love the sun and being outside and staying up late and relaxing and taking my boys to the pool! I love wearing flip flops and tank tops! (Arms could use some work though). I realized that summer is almost over! Students start school August 20th! My first contract day is the 18th! The boys go back to Trina's the 11th! I have a workshop on character ed. the 28th and 29th of this month!!!! I also have several in August, two on smartboards, one on AIMS web pro, maybe one on our computer grade system Lumen (we don't do grades on computer in Kindergarten but I might go for the hours). I can see summer slipping away and I am sad - there is so much more I wanted to accomplish this summer! I always do that set all these expectations of everything I want to get done and fall short every summer! We still have our mini vacation next week to southern Missouri to visit Andrew's parents. Should be fun they are taking us to see a St. Louis Cardinals Farm Team Baseball Game, to Silver Dollar City, and out on their new boat on Table Rock Lake. Hopefully it's nice and relaxing. After that though my brain will start to switch gears to school mode! I am looking forward to this year - I do like the start of the school year in the sense of all the possibilities. We will have FIVE sections of kindergarten in my building this year!!!!!!! I am going to have no new curriculum but LOTS of new technology! Not changing a whole lot this year but a few things!
e ric rac on the back. Then matted the green to a pink piece and to my card. Here is a close up of the flip flops.
This is a card I made for a sketch challenge on Serendipity Scrapbooks. I just love that site! Kristen the owner is super sweet! She stocks the store with all the latest and greatest must have items! The shipping is super fast and she includes a little bit of chocolate with EVERY order. The forum is always busy with all kinds of challenges and contests. There is something for every crafter whether you are a stamper, scrapper digi or traditional. Now for the card! The sentiment image is from the set Always from SU. I just love that set! I stamped it in purely pomegranate ink and then used my versamark pen to color over it and emboss with clear EP - I did this several times to make it look like a gel sticker. I had to hand cut it out cause would you believe I don't have a punch that coordinates?! I then layered it on a pretty in pink circle and that on a close to cocoa circle. The scalloped border at the bottom was made using my threading water punch! The patterned paper is from the 6x6 pad Two Scoops by Basic Grey. I love that line but chose the smaller pad ~ perfect for card making since I didn't think I would use it much to scrap for my boys! LOL! I used pink grosgrain ribbon and tucked it behind the pp, and tied two little knots. The flower is punched out of cardstock. The smaller one is an OLD SU button punch! The larger is the SU 5 petal flower punch. I used a pink rhinestone brad in the middle. TFL!
blog of course! I chose to CASE Jen at (Simply Wonderful). I love her blog and we have similar styles and she's also my partner for the Team Challenge at Serendipity! This is the layout of hers I chose to case. Isn't it GREAT?! As I was perusing her blog trying to decide which layout of hers to use it just jumped out at me! I was kinda looking for a LO with white space - I needed one of those for Challenge # 10 over at Totally Random! So this layout (mine not Jennifers) will be appearing over there too!
me just tweaked the papers and sizes a bit. I loved the ric rac on her LO and so I used some on mine I bought the Ric Rac collection from CTMH it is so neat! Several different colors and sizes of ric rac! Mine doesn't have the title really or journaling - Just the big chipboard B for baby Blake! Right under that is his name and date of arrival! The big chipboard B is from Cosmo Cricket - the buck naked (giggle) chipboard that has alphas and lacing cards and other elements. I am going to make a lacing set for the boys but had lots of extras and thought it would be cool on this page. I painted it with MM scrapbook paint in Shopping Bag! (perfect for me lately! need to stop though) I then threaded and tied some Blue Bayou stiched ribbon in the holes. I am finally liking Blue Bayou and it retires in a month! I also used Blue Bayou stiched ribbon going across the page. I got to use my new Threading Water punch - I am loving it! It is a smaller scallop than I thought. I am hoping I will be able to layer it with the new scallop border punch SU is coming out with! We shall see. Thanks for looking and thanks for the inspiration Jen!
LtoR: Cheri, Me holding Adelaide
lled ahead and we got there around 12:30 pm. Things progressed VERY fast and the doctor almost didn't make it! I believe they said - STOP pushing his head is out! He was a perfect baby!!!!!!!!! I am showing you a picture of the announcements I made to send out. I did everything on the computer then matted it on two colors of paper - I think it was Creative Memories. There is no ribbon or anything! These would be a great simple announcement and you could even jazz them up with some ribbon or something.
