Perfect Age

This week's sketch from Scrapbook Steals was just what I needed.   I had a great pic from this summer and decided to break out more of my favorite AC line- Campy Trails.  Here's what I came up with:

I have to admit that I fell in love with these colors as soon as I saw the papers.  I even dressed  my kids in coordinating colors on our camping trip so that they would match the papers.  Now that's a true scrapbooker! 

Time to Make the Donuts!

This week's sketch at Scrapbook Steals was a bit of a challenge for me.  This was the sketch I was working from:

I struggled with what photos to use and started thumbing thru my stacks.  I found some photos from a recent camping trip where I made homemade donuts for the boys for the first time.  I decided the circle on the sketch could be turned into a donut and I went from there.  The entire time I worked on the page, I tried to think of a catchy title.  All I could think of was the old Dunkin' Donuts commercial where the baker says "Time to make the donuts!"  This commercial is probably older that some of my scrappy friends, so it may be lost on many.  But it stuck and I ran with it.

I created my own donut embellishment by cutting a large circle with my Circle cutter.  I cut a slightly smaller brown circle and then went around with scissors, trimming the wavy edges to look like frosting.  I added several dashes of colored "sprinkles" using old tubes of puffy paint that I've had for over 10 years.  I guess this whole layout is kind of a throwback.  Old commercial, old products, old donut recipe.  But it made a snazzy new layout that I hope can bring me some random.org luck this week in the Scrapbook Steals drawing!

One Sweet Ride

This week at Scrapbook Steals, my scrappy friend Van Nguyen was featured as a guest designer!  She created not one, but two fabulous sketches.  I loved them both, but being pressed for time, I opted for the one that I thought I could finish quickly.  This is the sketch I started with:

I immediately thought of a photo I snapped of my new bike and I dug out some old My Mind's Eye papers that matched the "feel" was going for.  This is the layout I created:

I love my bike, but I love it even more because it was a total surprise.  My husband isn't exactly great at picking out gifts, and we had all but abandoned buying for one another at this stage in our life.  We pretty much get what we want or save up for something special, so we don't buy each other Anniversary gifts anymore.  This was our 10th Anniversary, so I decided to be prepared "just in case" he got me something.  I didn't want to be empty handed if he happened to buy me something.  I bought him a new ipod since he sent his last one through the washing machine.  I decided that if we didn't end up buying anniversary presents, I would simply save the ipod for Christmas, so I wouldn't make him feel bad if he didn't shop for me.  I was surprised to find this beautiful bike sitting in my kitchen on the morning of our anniversary.  He snuck it in before leaving for work.  It was everything I had been dreaming of!  And I happily set out his new ipod so that he would be surprised when he came home from work.  All in all, we had a wonderful anniversary and are looking forward to spending many more together!

World Card Making Day

In honor of world card making day, I busted out my new Cricut cartridge- Walk in My Garden and created this flower pot pocket card

I started by cutting out two identical flower pots.  I inked the edges, added a punched border and some twine, and stitched the pocket together.  I cut an insert slightly smaller than the flower pot and cut out several flowers using papers from Fancy Pants.  I layered the flowers, adding pop dots behind some, and wrote my greeting inside the card. 

I added a little leaf at the top of the flowers that says "pull" so that the recipient knows the flowers can be removed to see the sentiment. 

Happy card making!