Bobby's Birthday

Yes I am a little behind! Bobby's birthday was in September and I am just getting these scrapped.  I was inspired by a page on Pinterest where the background was made from strips of washi tape. I used scraps and my stash for this entire layout!  I love the colorful background.  I bought that Happy Birthday piece several years ago and thought it worked perfectly with this page!

Halloween Tradition

Finally a layout! Maggie painting the store front window at Halloween.  

 She came in third overall after all the judging. All products from my stash- mostly scraps!

 My favorite photo is the one looking thru the window as she paints!

Christmas Card Holder

I did get some scrapping done last evening. Ever wonder what to do with those cards you received for Christmas? You don't really want to discard them-especially the handmade ones. So I started scrapping a pocket page every year that holds the cards we received for that year. I first extended a bracket shape in length and add a perforated line to make it easier to fold.  I add an extender on each side to add the depth needed to hold the card. I add this page to the special Christmas album.




















I was flattered to know that some of you will be lifting the Sympathy cards I made! That is what it is all about-sharing the inspiration.
Thanks for stopping by and allowing me to share my creations with you.

Sympathy Cards

Unfortunately I had to make two Sympathy Cards over the weekend. Both cards were from inspiration I found on Pinterest.
The first card I made in all white and embossed the background using the Cuttle Bug branch embossing folder and layered the background with a silver pearl paper. I echoed the layering int the sentiment using Spellbinders scalloped oval nested dies.

The second card I made in yellow and white layering the background and using a Stampin Up border embossing folder then echoed the layering inside the embossed border. I used a floral stamped image and added the Spellbinder Butterfly and a punched butterfly. I used Distress Ink in Scattered Straw to stamp the image. 

The font I used on both cards was Lavanderia, which is a free font but to find it you have to do a search for it as it is available at several places.  

I hope by adding more information to my blog posts it will be more helpful to you. If there is anything else I can add as we go along please let me know by adding it to the comments. Thanks for stopping by and I hope to be more active then I have been oin the recent past. 

New card I have been making-

is known as a Flip-it card with the dies made Sizzix! I am loving this little card and too the free class over at Scrapbook.com learning how to use it in more then one way.  Iused it as get well card as well as a birthday card just by changing the paper and the embellishments. Here is a link to the free classes: http://www.scrapbook.com/classes/category/Card_Making.

The upper card is what the card looks like folded and the lower is the open and the circle has flipped to a different look.

Jumbotron

My grandchildren go to the hockey games with their folks. They get involved during the breaks they join in the Dance Cam and have managed to dance there way onto the Jumbotron.

Thanks for looking!

Maggie's Back to School

Maggie's back to school page! Maggie moved to a "middle school" this year which is grades 6,7,& 8.  The journaling reads: This year you not only moved to grade 6 but you moved to a whole new school in a new school system. The same school your mother went to for middle school.  I wish you well this year with all the changes. Love you! Gramma 10/15.

School Days

I am somewhat behind and finally got Bobby's first day of school done!  I used Echo Park, Paint daubers,
hand stitching, stencils and numerous die cuts. Thanks for looking!

Christmas Cards

Have you started yours yet? Here are three that I will be sending out this year. All three were inspired buy cards on Pinterest. I have a Christmas Card board over there that you are welcome to look at to find some inspiration!

Christmas Card Board

 Hope these inspire you to get started making your cards for the holiday.

Amazing Coleus'

Here's a page I did for the September Sketch/Scraplift Challenge at the Two Peas Refugees. 

Thanks for looking! PS-It is digi!

A Letter to Aleah

My niece wrote a letter to her one year old daughter so I scrapped it so that she could print it ti keep for her until she is an adult.

Thanks for looking!

It's Your Day

This is a card I made for a challenge over at the Two Peas Refugees to use an old stamp.  The hydrangea stamp is one of the oldest stamps I own.   It is by Stampin Up, I stamped it with Versamark then heat embossed it with blue embossing powder. Next I colored it in with Stampin Up watercolor crayons and a blending pen. Next I added the small crystals to the flower centers.

The white corners are from where I scanned it into the computer and not part of the card. Thanks for looking!

Another Recipe for the favorites cookbook!

This was a recipe of my grandmothers and we still make them today!

Russian Tea Cakes

I hope I am making you hungry!!!! Here's one more!

Another recipe for the cookbook!

Here is one of the best chocolate cakes ever! I have been making this cake for more then 45 years.

Try it if you choose!

Thanks for looking!

My Favorite Recipes

I have decided to start redoing my recipes again and will be adding them to my cookbook called My 

Favorite Recipes. I am doing them in 8.5 by 11 so I can print them myself.  You are welcome to copy them for your own use if you choose.

Thanks for looking!

Vacation Like No Other

Here's a page my DGD Maggie did from her vacation last year. They were a t place called Wonder Works in South Carolina. Thanks for letting me share this with you!

A card and some Ink Blending

Adding some work done over the past day or so. Up first will be My DGD's ink blending papers. She watched some videos from the Background Check class I am taking and tried some on her own! She did a really good job and wanted to know where I had kept all that fun stuff all this time! The second is a car I found on Pinterest and lifted. It was originally done by Mothermark at Splitcoast Stampers.

Thanks for looking!

Ever had a Tie-Dye Cake????

Maggie & I made one today! It was a lot of fun and quite different I must say!

Thanks for looking!

Cards I made!

Here are three cards I made the past few nights. I used a lot of scraps making these and Distress Inks also.

Thanks for looking!