Birthday Card

Today is my brother-in-law's birthday. So I whipped this card out this morning. I used the CTMH Serendipity paper pack from last year. I hope he doesn't mind the flowers on the front!! HA HA I never understand why they waste a perfectly good masculine color scheme on flowers...leave those for the pansy colors!!:) It was a quick card and fun to make, though.

Fathers Day Pages

I am now full swing into my school year. I am doing pretty well at balancing family\home\church life with school. I have NOT, however, learned how to make time for my craft time. I have missed it so much. Oh, well. I always have the weekends:) I spent a fun day last Saturday making these pages. I was really scared of using CTMH's new Emporium bulk paper. Now, after using it and seeing it up close, I LOVE IT! This is the paper pack that is highlighted on the front of our new Idea Book. I love the blues and greens, I was just scared of the chocolate piece.I chose to use the kiss method with my alphabet solos stamp set. This is when you ink up your solid stamp, then press it onto another detail stamp to create a texture on your solid stamp. In this case, I inked up the "D" and pressed it onto a swirly stamp from the "Western Flourishes" stamp set. I twisted the "d" while pressing it, but other times I have just pressed without the twist. It turns out to have a little more white showing when I twist. I think I like it better with just pressing...no twisting:)

I also added some little charms that were available with our Connection Club last year. I love these little guys. They are sooo cute!

Here is the second page that went with it. I love making these pages. I love the memories they bring back!

Simple Christmas Card

Time has become something of a rarity since I started school two weeks ago. I can't believe how demanding thing are now that I am trying to balance everything out. So, needless to say, the crafting has come to an abrupt halt. I am relishing the free time I have now that we are snowed in. I cleaned house like a mad woman and now...now I can create. This is a card that I made for some of my mailings this year. Yes, it is VERY simple, but I really liked the tad bit of sparkle:)

Ahhh, and here is a page that I made for Michael's scrapbook. It was so great to play with stamps and ink and my cricut and punches and daubing and...yeah. It was so nice to play for a few minutes. I used Paper Trey Inc. cardstock for this and CTMH stamps ("C" solo, express postage, Frame of Mind, and Star Struck.) Now, I am good for another week...maybe:)

Baby Box

Oh, I love any excuse to make these boxes. This one is for a gal at church that is due in 9 days...I knit some booties and a lil' hat for the new guy. So, this will go perfectly. These are CTMH boxes, Aspen paper pack, CTMH chipboard letters, and Heritage alphabet stamp. The colors are Twilight, Outdoor Denim, and Desert Sand. OH! So cute!

Gift Certificate Holder

This is a card I came up with for an open house gathering I have next weekend. I needed to present the gift certificates available in a really pretty way. So, I used CTMH's Creative Basics Evensong Paper, Colonial White cardstock, a little glitter, and some brads. I love how fast they were to make!! I just have to make 10 more now. Whew!

Bonfire

We had an impromptu bonfire one night while Tom was burning some brush. It was so fun and the boys were in heaven. They found a frog, had some toasted marshmallows, and got REALLY dirty:) These memories are priceless...the unplanned ones. I love where we live. I love that we can do this whenever we want.

Scooter

Scott is such a daddy's boy. He loves learning how to work things. From a very young age he would watch Tom or his Papa work with wood or tractors, etc. This was him learning to ride a bike. Now, with Dallin we just had to work on getting him to go FORWARD on his trike. He could do backwards really well. Then came Michael. We had to tie his feet to the pedals:) Scott, well, he just hopped on, stuck his tongue out, and took off.