CHERRIES! FINALLY!

I am really on a cherry kick lately. I am searching for cherries in paper, stencils, stamps, etc. Then, when we were at our last CTMH meeting, Patti pulled out some cherries that she cut with her Cricut! YEAH!! I was a tad bit excited. Then she showed us how to cut vinyl with the Cricut. SO, I cut some of these cherries out and made my exchange for next month:) LOVE the cherries!! I also used my Wizard and Swiss Dot folder to make some polka dots. What could be better than cherries AND polka dots?! MMMMM. I am a happy scrapper now!

Inspiration cards

Our little Close to my Heart group had a challenge to find inspiration this month. We could use pictures, clothing, anything that inspired us. I chose a shirt of my mom's. I love the white with red flowers on it...so here is the card I made to mimic the shirt:) Pretty fun! One of the girls made a page after looking at Rainier cherries and the other made a page based on a cute apron she had.

Peterson Wedding

Okay, this is by far the most unique wedding cake I have done. It turned out to be really fun to make. I loved how they decorated for this wedding I did in April. The favors were those big swirly lollipops in vases. So colorful and fun!! The base of that cake was 20" across!!! Not so fun to roll out fondant that big. That was just one part. Then, we had to transfer it to the cake...and it was square to boot! It was fun and cheerful, though...did I mention fun?:)

Cutie cupcakes

A friend of mine was celebrating her granddaughter's first birthday. She wanted daisies, so this was a fun project. I made the daisies out of gumpaste...the first time I have ever used store bought gumpaste. I was not impressed. It never dried hard. I was glad they stayed firm enough to rise off the cupcake, though. I also injected these with some boysenberry jam...nummy.

Dinosaur ROAR!

Man, do little boys love dinosaurs! I kind of missed out on that having grown up as a little girl:) Michael's kindergarten teacher put on a dinosaur production for the parents and grandparents to come and watch. It was so cute. Of course, Michael was in heaven because it involved making masks. He came home and made his own the next day...this set even had claws. He is so creative. He does these thing all on his own. For this page I used Close to my Heart's Rough and Tumble paper pack. I also got to use their sheer Clover Meadow for the first time ever...thanks Mrs. Wilson for making their masks that color of green!..all in the name of scrappin'!!

Swimmin' Scooter

I have had this picture for a year! I can't believe it has taken me this long to scrap it. Ah, well. I am just grateful that I get Sundays off from my "other" life:) This is my Scooter. He is so animated and I find myself taking a ton of pictures of him. I have to even things out with the other two. I used some really great stuff for the chipboard letters called liquid glass from CTMH. I love this stuff. I also added some of those dew drops around the polka dots. This paper is all from CTMH Good Times set. The brads...love those...were from K & Co. (I THINK) They are so chunky and fun. I wish I had shoes with that pattern on them.

Emporium Gift Set

Okay, this Emporium Paper from Close To My Heart is so fun to work with. This is the new Spring Creative Basics. These were a gift for my hostess of my last gathering. Very easy...the colors were so cheery! I just covered a box that I found at Walmart after Christmas. They had sets of gift boxes for 75%off. Can't beat that! So they were a quarter a pair. LOVE IT!