Play Time!

Hi!

I managed to find a little play time this morning, and here is a Thank you card I made for Berg's teacher. Tomorrow he goes first thing in the morning to get his report card, and he will have officially completed his first year of school! I can't believe it's gone so fast, it seems just yesterday that I was standing on the side of the road bawling my eyes out!


These are a set of 4 cards I started yesterday, using my scraps, so I hope they'll qualify for Carla's challenge. As you can see they're all the same layout; 2 say birthday wishes (one didn't make the picture), one says thinking of you, and the other says thanks a lot.
I decided to try another sketch card, so this card is based on the Sketch This sketch! All the PP are Csomo Cricket. I used 3 different pieces of co-ordinating double sided papers and I managed to use 5 of the 6 sides available. I rarely ever use the back side of a PP so it was a nice change to incorporate those in! Well, we're off first thing tomorrow morning! So I won't be around this weekend. Have a great weekend!

Can you say......Sunburn????

Because that is what I got today! My best friend Jennifer and I took our kids to the beach today! It was the first beach trip for both of us, this year, and the children had soooooo much fun! They were so covered in sand it was unbelieveable. They were playing in it, making sand angels, and rolling around. They even buried Tyrell, as you can seen in the first picture! At one point I think poor Abbey almost fell asleep laying on the nice warm sand!

Here is Abbey just digging. She and Jalisa had a blast in a big hole they found, which is funny because we found a huge hole last year on one of our trips to the beach. That occupied the kids for at least an hour. At one point Abbey had so much sand on her face, she looked like she'd grown a beard! This is Berg just messing around! You can see the sand all over him, and this is after we'd brushed a bunch off! It's so nice, Jenn and I have been friends since we were 4 yrs. old, and now our kids just love getting together, and have such a blast when they do!
Sorry, as we were gone from 10 am till 8 pm (Berg had baseball practice after the beach trip) I have no card to post today. I'm worn out meself, and off to bed. Thanks for reading about my day! Have a good one yourself and hopefully I'll find some play time now that Berg's done school. He's much more demanding then Abbey, but I'm guessing that's probably a first child thing.

Happy blogging!

I've been spending...

way to much time viewing blogs! I see so many things that I love, and want to try, that's it really just getting out of hand. If I'm not on the computer, all my "free time", is spent at my table! So I'm going to try and limit my time to evenings only! Here is a card I made last night, after viewing a bunch of blogs, each element was inspired by a different blog!

On a more personal note, we hit a major milestone here yesterday....Berg mastered "pumping" on the swing. This may not sound like much, but as a MaMa with two children who love to swing, it gets a bit hard on the shoulders some days. We have been trying to teach him for the past two summers, but if he doesn't get it right away, he gives up and says he doesn't want to do it! Needles to say, he is thrilled with this new found ability, and has hardly gotten off the swings since getting the hang of it!

Carla's Sketch # 2

Things have been busy around here this week! Had Berg to the doctor about his hands, he's having some sort of major reaction to something and his hands are all blistered, and cracked. Our doctor finally agreed that he should see an allergist (after many, many, nasal and skin problems), so hopefully we'll get an appointment soon. Had Abbey into out patients this morning and she has strep throat and an ear infection. It's only been 2 weeks since her last illness, let's hope this is the end of it!

I managed to get a card made for Carla's next sketch (http://scrappersanonymous.blogspot.com/), but boy this was hard. I don't know why but I just couldn't get one to come together?? Needless to say, I won't be doing two of these!!! This is the best I could come up with.

Enjoy your day everyone!

Saturday!

Happy Saturday!!

Last night I was blog surfing, when I came across Melissa Phillips' Blog (http://lilybeanpaperie.typepad.com/lilybeans_paperie/2007/06/marksetgo.html), and she is having a little challenge - create a friend related card using the following items:

1. ribbon

2. chipboard

3. button(s)

4. polka dots

5. heart

Here' s what I came up with, hope you like it!

PS...I know the PP is old, but I'm determined to stick to my own personal scraps challenge!

Another Sketch Card!

Here's another card based on Carla's sketch. Used more of my crate paper scraps, only this one's a little more feminine!

Yesterday was rodeo day at Berg's school, they all had to dress up like cowboys/girls and they were serving beans and weiners in the gym......... I packed a lunch for Bergen anyway! I had to go out to walmart and get him a hat and bandanna, but I definately think it was worth it, who could resist this cowboy?

Sketch Card and Challenge!

I finally got around to doing Carla's sketch! Here's my take on it, and you can find the sketch on her blog http://scrappersanonymous.blogspot.com/ . Had lots of fun with this one, as I used only my scraps! Here's where the challenge part of my title come in.

I have challenged myself to not cut a new pice of paper, until I have reduced my scraps to a manageable amount! Ha, Ha, Ha! What's a manageable amount, you might ask? I don't really know and I've decided I'll determine that once I think I'm there ! :) That works, right!

Anyway hope you enjoy the card.

Lee, to answer your question from yesterday's post, The dots on the flower in the book are made from Fabric paint!