My Creative Time Throwback Thursday Challenge

Over on the My Creative Time Blog Emma has posted a challenge that involves an animal. She requests that you try to use Zooballoo but can use another cartridge if you don't have this one. I don't own this one so I am submitting a layout with the lizard from 'Life's a Beach' pg 56. He is so cute and I have used him often on projects. Thanks for looking everyone!

Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge #32 Entry

On the Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge Blog ( http://peachykeenstampschallenge.blogspot.com/2010/07/challenge-32-summer-destinations.html ) they have a challenge posted for 'your favourite summer vacation destination' Well my entry plays with the idea vacation but it is more of a winter vacation to the summer weather! I have been working on my Cuba 2010 scrapbook and decided my title page for the book would be just right to enter in this challenge since it is my favourite destination for vacation!

A couple more cards

Hello Everyone,

I have been working on my last vacation scrapbook like crazy (Cuba March 2010) Yesterday I made 8 pages! I also made a couple of cards recently. Here are the cards and I will try to get a few of my scrapbook pages posted soon. As always, thanks for looking!

Got Too Many Books?

When Brian and I moved in together we discover that I had one of us had way too many books! I love to collect them but more often then not never read a book twice (there are way too many great books out there to re-read stories, I want to read them all)! I came up with a solution. I would only keep the books that I absolutely loved! There was just one problem...how would I remember all the books I read and what I thought about them? That is when this altered notebook came into being. I print off the cover of the book and the back blurb then I fix them into this notebook along with my thoughts/opinions about the book and give it a star rating. Photographed here is the cover of my notebook and a sampling of what is inside. Thanks for looking!

A Wedding Card

I am heading to a wedding tomorrow and wanted to make a simple card to go along with the gift that I purchased. I love how the card turned out but well taking the picture was quite the mission! I got some metallic card stock which I have discovered does not like to be photographed. Too much light and I had a terrible glare, flash not going to happen, not enough light equals blurry, side view looks white, etc. In the end I did what I could because like I said I really love it and wanted to share my creation! The pictures do nothing for it but everyone here is crafty so use your wonderful imaginations! In the last picture you can see where I got my inspiration for the colours. Thanks for looking!

Recipe:

Bulk teal and black cardstock

Metallic cardstock from the dollarstore (I know great find eh)!

A piece of white ribbon (I recycled from a past gift, I was feeling thirty today)!

Teal bling (Another dollarstore find)!

Stretch your imagination pg 73 just the silhouette cut at 3.5 in.

Cuttlebug folder - Swiss Dots

Happy Canada Day!

In honour of Canada Day I dug out an old scrapbook from a few years ago and took a picture of a Canada Day layout I made. To this day it is still one of my favourite layouts I've created. Everything on the page was hand cut (this was before my cricut days) I printed out the maple leaf traced it and then hand cut it out. I even very slowly cut around the voids to get the outline shape you see. It took forever but I love the effect. The circles of the photos were also all traced and hand cut. Even the letters are traced and hand cut! *sigh* It makes me appreciate my cricut that much more! Happy Canada Day everyone!

MPS Colour Challenge

Hello and Happy Canada Day!
This is my entry for the Pink Stamper's Colour Challenge. To check out the challenge follow the link below.
http://www.mypinkstamper.com/2010/06/color-challenge-with-my-pink-designers.html

Recipe:

Designer Paper by K&Company

Solid Card Stock source: scrap pile orginal source unknown sorry

Cut outs from Create a Critter and words cut from Plantin schoolbook