Change of scenery ...

Well I decided to go back to scrapbooking for a few days to try and finish up the album I have been making for my sister (and a duplicate for myself) of our cruise to Alaska. The cruise was over a year ago :( and I had only got about half way. Anyway I was having a home/work weekend (One of the reasons I love summer) and I got a few pages done, finishing her book and getting close on mine. Here are a few of my favorites.

In case it isn't obvious we were being silly in almost every photo! lol In the photos are me, my sister, my friend Kelly and her partner in crime Dave.

We really had a great time and doing up a few pages brought back some great laughs and memories.

I think the last is my favorite ... very clean but bright and cheery.

Reach For The Stars!

Hello All .. Friday night and I am happily crafting with my air conditioner ... although I have come to a conclusion! The air conditioner and glue dots are not friends ;) they lose their stick!

I did this card up for a challenge over at Create with Connie and Mary (CCMC106 - Sketch Challenge)

I am really happy with it and how, although different, it really does use their sketch!

Orange/Grey/Blue/Yellow Milk Jugs

Ok I promise I will try to stop making them for a day or two. TRY. :) I used the same stamps on these and turned it into a set of two (The double set is just two singles back to back). I really love the colours of this and think They just make the cutest gifts. I need to stop making them and maybe find someone to give them to for a bit! lol





Added a little matching card ...

Hello Kitty Color Throwdown Milk Jugs!

Hello All ... Oh it was so hot here today! Well for me it was so hot ... I don't do the heat well.

Anyway tonight I wanted to join the Color Throwdown Challenge (It's the 100th challenge celebration! and so I had to (HAD TOO!) make mini milk jugs, my new obsesion!

I had to use their colour theme, which stumped me at first, I went through my paper 3or 4 times and finally came up with these choices. I think I am a smidge "brighter" then there colours but they said you just had to use them as an example. So I did.

Anyway I found these adorable "sugar" and "100% sweet" stamps that I had and thought they would be perfect for filling the jugs with candy.



Another day where I get to craft ... I'm pretty happy and lucky!

Oh man I am supposed to be in bed ... I need to be up in 7 hours. BUT there I was brushing my teeth and thinking that project needs a matching card ... since it has no recipient yet I went generic on the sentiment but used up my scraps to make this little card!



Just incase your thinking to yourself "why did she make that giant card", I really didn't! lol it only stands about as high as the milk jugs. ;)

Have A Wonderful Day

I did this up with some paper I had sitting around for the Stamping 411 challenge 158. Another project in just a couple of days, I'm very happy with the amount of work I'm getting done! lol

Mini Milk Boxes

I'm so glad it's summer and I'm finding a little time almost everyday to work on a project or two!

I saw this project in the beautiful stamping up book and wondered if there would be a cut file for something like this for cricut. AND there was, yay! This lovely woman named Jen (check out her blog) made the file using George and Basic and she even made a carrier. So of course I had to try it myself!

This is my attempt and I am very happy. I think these will make the sweetest gifts!







Thanks so much for the great files and creative work Jen!

I wish I could think of a challenge right now that this would fit! lol

Card Challenges!

Soooo I am not really a pastel person ... I don't pick them out naturally and even for a baby card it's tough for me to be creative for some reason. So of course I wanted to challenge myself to try to use some pastel bits I had hanging around to make a nice little girls card. It turned out nice, I would definitely give it to someone (If I could think of someone I knew having a girl right now) but it's not me, it's not my colours and I know it.



SO I was sitting there looking at it and thinking "it's just fine Laurie, move on ..." when it came to me. I have friends that have been trying to adopt for years! So I thought what kind of card would I make for them. I scrounged through my paper, and little odds and ends and came up with this colour palette and the idea of a card that would be perfect for adoptive parents. "A Wish Came True" ... I wanted it to be very fairy tale/gypsy feeling and cheerful and I think it does those things! I used stamps to create pa terned card stock (The green, not the main pattern! :) ) and my cricut was a bit of help. I am really pleased overall.



This card fits a couple of challenges:
"Oh Baby Card Challenge"
DDCC #81: July 1 - Loes - Flower inspiration
Lexi's Creation Challenge 17

Anniversary Card

This was the card I made for our anniversary that I couldn't show until now! :)

I'm happy with the way it turned out, fairly masculine!

The baby shower

The baby shower went well. We had great weather and the decorations went over well. The mom-to-be was VERY pregnant is now off work until she is due so she was able to really sit back and relax I think. Overall it was a nice afternoon on Sunday.

I am working on a card for a challenge tonight ... I'm on lunch right now ... and I will hopefully have time to post it. I will also post the card I made a few weeks ago for my boyfriend but that I couldn't post because he might have seen it!

I was also doing some blog hoping last night and I am curious about the stamps that people colour in ... I am wondering if people use Copic (I think that's right) markers or actual ink from ink pads?? From what I can tell "Stampin' Up" people are are using ink. I am very curious about this and will need to do a bit of research.

Alright I shall post pictures later.

L

Baby flowers for the shower

My friend Kelly and I made these last night. She did up the little critters (We were trying to match the enchanted forest bedding that the mom-to-be has chosen) and I did up the flowers and we assembled like mad to get these done up for the baby show on the weekend. I'm not going to lie I think we both wished we could keep them ... lol. I have no use for one but I think they turned out really cute and should be great shower decorations!

New Arrival Baby Card (CCMC104)

My friend that I made the frame for is also now getting a card since I had some time to night to play around.

I based it on a challenge (CCMC104 - Sketch Challenge - Connie and Mary are very talented ladies, you should check out their site!)so that I could have something to enter AND have a card for the shower on Sunday.

Two birds I tell ya!

OH and I forgot ... I lost my head and wrapped the ribbon around the card and had these huge, totally uneven, ugly ends left sitting there already glued down of course so I had to decorate the inside too! lol ... So I've added a picture of that too ... its simple but it works!

Teal, teal everywhere!

There is a chanllenge over on Paper Players blog (http://www.alwaysplayingwithpaper.blogspot.com/ Lesley and her designers do some beautiful work you should check it out) that I wanted to participate in and I only had an hour this morning to do it! So I decided to use my left over paper from my crafting card set yesterday.

I picked out a stamp I hadn't used yet and used my Cricut for the globe and this is my first shot at an easel card!

Set of 10 cards ... Create A Critter

I finally got a few hours to play with Create a Critter today. I Was at Michael's and found this pack of 10 cards for $1.50. I thought they were so pretty so I went down and picked out 3 shades of matching teal card stock and a nice beige to add some pop and a few accessories (ribbon etc). I got home and just sort of dove in. I decided I wanted to make a set of cute fairly generic cards to have on hand for when I don't have time to make something.

I had my new fancy Punny stamps by My Pink Stamper and a set I picked up at Michael's and those are what I used on all 10 cards.

I decided that I wanted to create all different looks but use all the same material (I bet you could tell that from the picture! :) ) and just one cartridge. So with my card stock, teal ribbon, buttons, grommets, and a bottle of stickles I got to work.

I'm really happy with them and I'm even happier that I have something to put in my drawer to pull out last minute when I don't have time to craft!

Special Wishes (2) - Card 10

Your An Animal - Card 9