Card Making

 During my stay in NY, my friend Jule was starting a card ministry, so we made a lot of cards.  They all turned out so cute.

We bought little paper stacks from Jo Anns and Hobby Lobby.  Then we shared them so we each had a great variety of papers. 

I made this one with all my scraps.

I love this little cupcake!

 This one has a giftcard holder on the front. 

Pop dots make the candles really stand out! 

Thanks for taking a peek at my cards. 

Here are some of the cards Jule made.

 Have a blessed day!

Storm Damage

Last weekend storms ripped through Virginia.  Here is the damage left behind.  We had tons of branches and twigs covering our lot.

Back in our woods we lost two trees. 

We will be chopping them up for firewood.

Here are the two trees.  They fell toward the shed.  Only a few shingles were ripped off the shed. 

Man, we were lucky it wasn't smashed.

Here is the root from one of the trees. 

There are a bunch of flat rocks in the roots that

we pulled out to use around our pond. 

Here is the other side of the shed.

We were blessed that our house did not get hit by any trees.  We just have some major wood chopping to do. 

Layouts

I have been busy scrapbooking. 

Let's Scrap sketch

Here are the layoouts I finished this past week.

I popped up the buildings and added bling to the snowflakes.

This is the bottom half of the above paper. 

It was perfect paper for our trip to the Big Apple!

I got really good at making rosettes for the wedding,

so I decided to put some on this page.

Here are picutres from a battlefield right down

 the road from us.  We enjoy hiking the trails.

Here is this weeks sketch over at Let's Scrap.  This layout was going to be two pages but it was hard for me to figure out how to cut the papers so I kept it a one pager.

Looking at all those cookies makes me hungry!



Tomorrow I will share all the cards I made with

Jule over the weekend.  Stay tuned.......

Word Filled Wednesday

Weekend in Review

I have been visiting with friends up in CNY! 

Stopped by the Atkinson's house to help these ladies make Claires scrapbook.

Jule and De opened their house for me.  We had fun scrapping, quilting, and making cards.  We took breaks to....

go to the county fair and eat my favorite fair food.

I saw this pink John Deer tractor.  Notice the flowers on the tires, cute.

I visited the Teachouts and enjoyed catching up around the bonfire.

Here I am with Adrienne.  We are playing with my photobooth app! 

So when you have a 10 foot fire you have to wear protective eyewear when you roast marshmellows. 

 Vicki is roasting my marshmellow on a 6 foot stick, hee hee.

I am leaving you with this yummy picture of my breakfast at  Tin Pan Galley, in Sacket's Harbor, NY. 

More to come........  cards, quilt squares, and layouts.

Word Filled Wednesday

New Layout

So I dreamed of this layout last night.  I found the quote on Pinterest last night. (I love that place.)  Then I used the sketch from Let's Scrap.  Then I remembered I had this rainbow paper from a million years ago:)  It all came together.  So I got up early and created this!

I am going to make a companion page to go along with the kids engagement pictures.  The journaling will be on that page.  I need to find more colorful papers

to make their wedding album. 

I am going to to show you a little trick to save paper

that was taught to me a long time ago

from my dear friend Stephanie. This is good

for when you want to layer papers.

I use my Cutterpede and cut the middle out of the paper.

I cut it at 1 inch, but you can cut thinner or thicker depending on the thickness of the boarder.

Then you are left with this frame.  Cut your next piece of paper a bit smaller and save enough space for adhesive.

I used the extra piece for a frame.  You could use it for journaling, fonts, diecuts or save it for later.

Here is what the back of my layout looks like.  It is a bit more flimsy but it is going into an album so it doesn't matter.  This is a good way to make your papers (exspecially those exspensive two sided ones)

go a bit further.

Ketchikan PM

For our next adventure we arranged for the kayak company to pick us up at the park.  It never hurts to ask a company for special things.  We used Ketchikan Kayak Company.  It was much cheaper than the ships tour and if you pay cash its even less expensive. 

Every one in our group had kayaked before so we suited up and got onto the water.  Michael and I used a tandem kayak.  This was the first time we had done this on a tour.  It worked out well and made for a more relaxing trip. 

 We headed out across the bay to go around some islands.  In the distance we saw whales.  They were a few miles away so I wasn't able to get a picture.  I am sort of happy I wasn't close to the whales. I couldn't imagine being in a kayak and whales pop up near you, YIKES!

We had calm waters around the island.

The guides took us around a few island and we saw starfish, seal lions, and eagles.  The guides were very survivor manish,they told us about the kelp forests and how we could eat certain parts of the plant…..  It was very interesting. 

Along the shores tidal pool we saw colorful starfish.

Overall we only paddled 3 miles. 

 It was an easy peasy paddle. 

This eagle was guarding the harbor as we paddled back to the dock.  So cool!

It was a fabulous day on the water!

Thanks Howard and Brian, from Ketchikan Kayaking Co. for a great trip!