Monday, September 28, 2009

There's Magic In The Air-Monday Challenge

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Challenge: Make It Sparkle
Image: Dancing Hearts

We went to a wedding a few weeks back and there colors were red/black. So that's were I got the inspiration for this card. Something is missing though.......any help and feedback is greatly appreciated.

Here is a close up of the card. I almost didn't do the challenge because I don't have glitter glue or stickles but I improvised and used some glitter cardstock that I had for the shelf. I'm not sure if you can tell but that's were my sparkle comes in.

Butterfly Challenge

I've been trying for days to get this layout uploaded for the Butterfly Challenge over at Scrap-A-Little http://www.scrap-a-little.com/ It just doesn't seem like there is enough hours in the day to do all I want or need to do.


The challenge was to create a card or layout using butterflies. It could be one or several and you could use stickers, stamps, rub ons etc. There was also a template provided that gave several different butterflies if you wanted to use it. Here's what I came up with:


I wanted to do a layout that reflected fall. When I think of fall I always think relaxing beautiful cool weather. The sentiment "lazy days" was perfect for what I had pictured in my head. Fall is probably my favorite season....so what do, I do I move to Arizona were the only season we have is summer. Record heat yesterday at 107 and suppose to be another hot day today at 106....Can't complain to much when a lot of people are digging out of snow were enjoying beautiful weather. Anyway......back to the layout. The green on here is a little deceiving it actually is darker than the picture is showing.


Here is a close up of the ribbon. I used a rust ribbon straight down the side and then tide in a cheater bow that had fall colors.


For the butterfly I used a pattern that I had for stained glass. Cut out 2 of them, colored, added jewels and stuck them together so that it actually looks like the butterfly is flying.



Hope you like what I came up with. If you have a chance check out Helen's blog (Scrap A Little) http://www.scrap-a-little.com/ she has some great tutorials for butterflies, bows and flowers.

Monday, September 21, 2009

There's Magic In the Air Monday Challenge

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Image: Eldon with Flower
Challenge: Ribbon & Bow

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Levi & Keith at Grinding Stone

Here are a few pics of Levi & Keith riding at Grinding Stone. We went yesterday but only stayed 3 hours it was just too hot. They had a lot of fun and Keith of course would ride any time.....hot or not. The last one is a video of Keith on the kids track.










Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Updated photo of Gordy

Just wanted to put an updated pic of Logan's plant buddy.....WOW, you wouldn't believe how much he's grown. He was a week old yesterday and it looks like we'll be cutting his hair soon.

Friday, September 11, 2009

Logan's Plant Buddy

Hi! I'm Logan's plant buddy.................my name is Gordon but you can call me Gordy for short. Logan planted me 4 days ago and we've become best friends. He waters me everyday and since these pictures were taken my hair has already started to grow. Pretty soon I'll need my very first haircut. Keep checking back so you can see how much I'm growing.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Friday Sketchers Challenges

I found another great blog: Friday Sketchers http://fridaysketchersblog.blogspot.com/ So I decided to play along with there challenge this week and of course the great give away is a gift certificate for Verve Stamps. Which I've had my eyes on. Since I'm so new at this I don't have the collection of stamps that I would like and there stamps would be a super start.

So here's the Challenge Sketch.......

and here's my card......Hope you like it as much as I enjoyed making it. I just loved the Coral colors with the green.

Halloween Photo Album

This is a really cool Halloween Photo Album that I put together. I have a wonderful friend that gave me everything I needed for it. I just love the paper........now all I have to do is wait for October for pics.