where does time go....

i can't believe i haven't blog in months. life has been crazy, but when isn't it? fall is upon us and halloween is just days away. for now i'm going to leave you with these photos of our fall fun....

apple picking....

pumpkin picking

my favorite pumpkins...

just say hello

i made this card for a challenge on a message board that I belong to. the theme was just say hello, using the colors yellow and green. i love the PTI stamp of the car that i used and i especially like the matching die that you can get with the stamp set. if you like the stamp set and die you can get it here. on top of the fact that this was a fun card to make, it also placed in the challenge. i'm really enjoying making cards!

time flies and cards

i can't believe we are almost half way through the summer already. where does the time go?

here are a few of my latest cards that i've made.

this one i made for ava's dance recital. she loved it and she even asked me how i made it. it was a wonderful night for all of us. i remember sitting through so many recitals with melissa. to see ava up there on the stage dancing, brought back the same butterflies i used to get watching her mom!

here are a few cards i made for a card olymics i'm participating in on one of the message boards i belong to. i had so much fun making this red, white and blue card. i used my cricut to make the layered flag and stars. It's hard to tell from the photo, that i used a glitter glazed pen on the stripes of the flag and to make stitch lines around the navy background. i will admit that the card is pretty heavy with all the layers so it will need some extra postage for mailing.

this card was made for a fall card challenge and it won first place! I was totally caught by surprise! you know when you're not loving something and you just keep playing with it...well that was how i felt about this card, so you can only imagine my surprise when i found out that it placed! it's hard to tell from the photo, but the gold sprigs are done with glitter and the autumn greetings tag is layered and pop dotted.




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happy father's day!

happy father's day to all the dad's out there today. we have a bbq planned for later today with my dad...the best dad there is!

june is here

i can't believe it's june already! yeah...summer fun is about to begin. i plan on spending time exploring the island with ava and santana and getting some much needed relaxtion in by the shore. sounds like a great combination for new photos!

in the meantime here are two of my latest cards.

this graduation card was quick and easy, a little kraft cardstock, a border punch, butterflies, cut with my making memories slice, ribbon and some wonderful thickers.

i always find masculine cards to be a challenge. i found a good tutorial for this card and made it for my dad for his birthday. i plan on making a few more variations of it , for father's day cards.

Here is the link to the tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so6VmrBSFfY

yes...more cards

i haven' t had much time to play with paper over the last few weeks, but here are some of the cards i recently made. i am in love with my new cricut. it is so much fun! i need to start making cards ahead of time instead of making them day before i need them!

teacher appreciation

i'm so excited! i made these cards for teacher appreciation week at ava and santana's daycare and i got recognized over on Club CK. my cards are shown in the post on inspiring scrapbook pages. here is the link to the post: http://clubcreatingkeepsakes.com/blogs/ck_community/archive/2010/05/07/inspiring-scrapbook-pages-from-the-club-ck-gallery-may-7-2010.aspx

i made these cards using a notebook theme. the apples are cut on my cricut and i used black cardstock as a base. the inside sentiment is stamped with vintage cream ink (PTI) on the black cardstock, so it gives the effect of a chalkboard. these are the two styles that i made.
this is what the inside of the card look like. these would be perfect cards to give teachers at the end of the school year as well!
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mother's day

i've been busy making mother's day cards. here are a few of my favorites.
here is the card ava and i made for her mom for mother's day.

hope everyone has a happy mother's day!

a lot of cards

That seems to be what I've been making over the last few weeks.

I really love these flower cards. I stamped the image, colored with Copics, cut it out by hand and adhered it with pop dots.These a few quick cards that I made, using various techniques.

Thanks for looking!

ava's spiders

ava is becoming very artistic. she is love with my tape runner and jumps at the chance to use it. the other morning while watching a barney halloween dvd with santana, she asked me if she could make the spiders that barney was making. i got here the supplies she needed and this is what she came up with. we now have a lot of these running sround our house!

a winner

i'm so excited! i won a third place ribbon for this layout!

if you've been following my blog, you know that i have been participating in a scrap olympics that one of my messges boards has been running for the month of march. throughout the month a series of challenges was issued, each one had a list of criteria that had to be followed and everything you used on the layout had to be from your stash...meaning no shopping allowed!

this last challenge really had me thinking. the challenge was for a monochramatic layout, meaning the entire layout had to use one color, only adding your photos and 10% black or white accent to the layout. i found this one to be the hardest challenge for me. i decided to go with an all white layout. i've been wanting to do a layout using santana's baptisim picture and i thought this photo would work perfectly for the challenge.

i still can't believe that i was able to create a layout that the pros thought was good enough to receive a ribbon!

here is a close up of some of the details:

i layered the photo on on white cardstock, punched with a threading water punch and than layered that on top of white vellum that i did a torn edge on.

the title is created with white glitter thickers. i used white prima flowers, pearls and ribbon along the side of the photo. i stitched white ribbon through the holes made from the threading water punch across the bottom of the page. i stamped the journal block with a basic grey stamp and hand cut it, than attached it to the layout.

lastly for the date, i stamped the date image, punched it out with a scallop punch and pop-dotted it onto the layout.

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another layout

here is a beach layout i did of ava for the scrap olympics.

more olympic challenges

here is the double page layout i made using the sketch provided to us. i love that i was able to put so many photos on this layout and use papers that i've been wanting to us. i used glossy accents on the guitar to make it shine like a real guitar.

olympic border punch challenge

this is the layout i did for the scrap olympics border punch challenge. i still need to make a complimenting page for ava's album, but for the challenge i only neded to make a 12 x 12 page, using a border punch.

olympic challenges

i am particpating in the scrapbook olympics over on the scrapbuddies message board. it has been a lot of fun and it's made me make time to get some projects completed. i decided to make an easter card for the card challenge. i stamped the image, colored it with copic markers and used a clear glitter gel pen on it.

tag making

ok...so now i love making tags as well! i made this tag to go with a kit for one of my friends on the scrapbuddies message board. i'm really happy with the results of combining tim holtz distress inks, stamped images and copic markers. i need to make a few more of these. as one of my friends pointed out to me, this tag would be a great summer themed bookmark.

cards

here are a few more cards that i made.

these were quick cards made using my cuttlebug for the embossing. i really should make a stash of cards for when i need them instead of making them one by one, but i never seem to have the extra time. maybe someday when i retire!

tag swap

this is the tag i made for a seasonal tag swap i did over on the scrapbuddies message board. my assignment was a father's day tag. i decide to make mine a generic masculine tag that could be used for father's day as well as any other time. i distressed the tag with tim holtz distress inks, stamped the images with T.H. stamps and cut the top not designs with my slice.

more cards

it's been a busy two weeks around our house. i think everyone has taken at least one turn at being sick..some of us have taken two turns. right now (fingers crossed) i think we can say that eveyone is just about finished with taking medications (except for santana's daily meds) and is feeling better.

over the last week i managed to make some cards that i thought i would share. i used kraft cardstock as a base, papertrey ink ink for inking the edges and i used my copics for the coloring. i'm having a lot of fun playing with my copics, even though i still have a lot to learn.

the colors in this card could be modifies to use as an easter or a spring card.

this card is one of my favorites right now. i really am happy with the way it turned out.

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valentine's day 2010

i hope everyone had a very nice valentine's day. i made some cards that i tried some new techniques on.


i have decided that i love working with kraft cardstock as a base for cards. this is a simple card that i'm very happy with the results of.



the next two cards i made using my new copics, that i got with my christmas gift cards to my local scrapbook store, http://scrappersplayground.blogspot.com/



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more snow....

i know i've been behind in keeping it my blog, but now it's time to play catch up.

snow, snow and more snow fell this month. we also had a very welcome snowday, the kind where everyone is home for the day! ava enjoyed telling us how much snow was falling and asking "when can we go outside grandma?" here are some photos from our February 10 storm...






sunrise, the morning after the snow storm...


it is pretty....
and so the big dig-out began...


two days later, after work we ventured out for more fun in the snow. by now i figured out there was so much snow that it wasn't going anywhere anytime soon.


ava just loves the snow...
while Santana is learning to love the snow...
and georgia, well she has had enough. to quote her "no more snow mom".