Happy 46th Birthday Daddy!

j.

Two cards, one wedding, one new car & a partridge in a pear tree......



ummmm...where is the groom? ;)

Remember the rehearsal dinner invitations I made about a month ago....well the wedding was this weekend. My cousin Catherine is the bride and she looked absolutely stunning! Her dancing partner is her dad.( My mom's brother).


Catherine & her brother Jared. Jared's wedding is next month, we haven't been to a wedding in 9 years and now we get to go to two in two months!

Mr. & Mrs. Justin Noel

What every little girl dreams of. Addie was so excited to go to a wedding. She has never been to one and so seeing the bride in her full gown with sequins and diamonds well, Addie was in awe...
This little cutie on my brothers lap is the bride next month. My oldest daughter Megan said, "mom, she is sitting on "Bubba's" lap....eww! That's gross!" So I politely turned to her and said..."Megan there is a really hot chick sitting on his lap, holding a beer and she is single. This is the most fun he has had in 15 years...let him enjoy it!" :) HAHAHA! (That's his wife in orange by the way and yes she is laughing!)
When my uncle Jim realized this was all happening, he went over and sat on Jared's lap (his son) & I was ready with the camera! Bubba's face is a little red.......

Jared & Sam
See ya in October!

The card I made for Catherine & Justin from us.


The card I made with mom's help for the happy couple from her and dad. She saw this card in a magazine and wanted to make it. Well she is in the middle of remodeling her house and can't even find her scrapbook supplies, so we made it at my house. She helped pick out buttons and I glue dotted each one. It looked like a very simple card, but it took a lot of time. You had to find the perfect spot for each button and each pearl and it had to form the heart. (We cheated and started with a heart cut out on the Cricut and put the lace all around the edge and then started filling in. (Freehand is not my friend, I have to have a template.)

The white embossed back ground is actually two pieces and the seam is hidden behind the ribbon. The "Love" stamp was stamped and embossed with chocolate ink and clear embossing powder. Then I ran it through the Cuttlebug embosser. Worked great!

Close up of the buttons. I love buttons. They make me happy to dump the whole bottle of buttons and dig through them to find the perfect one. ok, enough with my weird button fetish..... :)

The bride and her dad.

Last but not least, today is John's birthday! Happy birthday to my wonderful husband of nine years. Enjoy your birthday present!

And yes, he is unbelievably spoiled. :)

j.

Simple Thank you's this week.....

First up is 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 card. Start with green print paper, layer the white 3x3 piece then the green 2 1/2x 2 1/2, then a die cut paper flower. Cut out "Thank you" with Cricut in yellow cardstock.









Next up is 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 card base. First layer is a piece of patterned paper, then add a strip of orange cardstock about 1/2" x 4 1/4. Then on the edge a piece of chocolate cardstock that's approx. 3/4 x 4 1/4. On top of the chocolate cardstock add a piece of cardboard cut to about 1/4 x 4 1/4. The tag was a piece of manila file folder that was cut into a tag shape, added the little ring sticky thing and then inked it with Tim Holtz distressing ink. I used a sponge to apply the ink. The finish on the folder makes the ink look like old leather. (Very nice effect) Using Stazon black ink I stamped the "Thank you". Add a white daisy that has been sprayed with coffee colored Tattered Angels Glitter Mist, then a little orange paper flower and finally a velvet aqua brad.







My final thought tonight is of this little hummingbird that flies around my gazebo. I have tried to capture his photo several times, but he is not very cooperative! He usually dive bombs my head or fights with other hummingbirds, so getting this picture was really exciting! Enjoy!


j.

WOW...Now that's what I call a Banana Split!

First you start with a 6 Foot Piece of vinyl guttering from Home Depot. SERIOUSLY! Next add 24 bananas, couple gallons of ice cream and many, many, many toppings! YUM!!




Camp Lotsafunsa 2009...these are the shirts I designed and then each girl tie-dyed them.

j.

Back to School Beauties.......

Well, they both had great first days and we are almost to the weekend so all is GOOD!
Hope everyone's day back was as good as ours!

j.

Cool, I just realized that my 100 post was a triple celebration and I didn't even plan it that way!

1. Addie's birthday card!!
2. Headed to Walt Disney World the biggest celebration on earth!!
3. It was my 100th post!!

ok, I'm a little silly........moving on. It's been several days since posting, the biggest reason is recovery time. I have not bounced back after our trip. It was a long 10 days, well worth it, but we are all very tired.

Upon returning I jumped into making t-shirts for Girl Scout Day camp. I designed an iron-on logo and then we tye-dyed each shirt with each girl at camp. My hands were green for 2 days!

Then we moved right into school supplies. You would not believe what a first grader needs for school. Megan on the other hand was very simple. Lots of notebooks, pens and pencils. Monday & Tuesday will be crazy busy so look for another post after Wednesday. Maybe I can start to get caught up next week. :)

Until then enjoy a recap of our trip.

j.