Another Back to School card

 

I made Back-to-School cards for my grandsons who are going into 2nd and 6th grade.  Jacob (who is going into 6th grade) was telling me this weekend on the phone that he is excited because this year he has different teachers for different subjects and gets to move around from class to class like high schoolers.  It encourages me to see my grandchildren excited about going to school. This card is for Jake with a few words of encouragement and some goodies.  I sure miss my grandkids.....I live 1000 miles away and I sure would have loved to have been there for their first day of school.

 

I used this awesome sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch:

 

 

I am also entering this card in Simon Says Stamp Back to School challenge.

Back to School card

Ahhhhh...It is every mother's favorite time of the year -- Back to School!!  I decided to make a couple of cards for my grandsons Jacob and Cole who are entering 6th and 2nd grade respectively.   They live in the Midwest and I am 1000 miles away missing them.  :(  This card is for Cole.  I have a box of goodies that I collected over the summer for them that I am sending out with their cards.  It gives me the chance to slip some grandmotherly words of encouragement and wisdom to them along with a few bucks too!

 

I used this sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch:

 

 

I am also entering this card in Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday Back To School Challenge.


Edited 8/31/15 -- I am linking this up to Paper Issues current Issue....You Rule The School

Artful Delight Guest Designer Week #2

I am being featured all this month on the Artful Delight blog as guest designer.  I loved working with their card kit and this week I am showing the versatility of the kit by making two very different cards:

 

I made this card for my brother in-law and sister-in-law in North Carolina to thank them for my recent birthday gift and the hospitality they showed us on our recent trip up to see them.  Honestly once I knew what I was going to do with this card, it came together in under 15 minutes....ahhh, the pleasure of working with a kit where all the coordination has been done for me.

 

Dave's nephew Dakota had a birthday coming up (his 16th, I'm pretty sure) so I wanted to go for the grungy look.  The little striped bag was perfect to hold a Game Stop gift card.

 

 

I wanted to thank Leeanne at Artful Delight for the opportunity to work with her kits and thank you for checking out my blog today.





Week #21

 

Finally I have a couple of weeks with a large number of pictures.  I am making a conscious effort to take more pictures.  I really like the way this week turned out.  The vertical orientation of this left hand page is a nice welcome change.  Here is page 2 (also known as the right hand page):

 

 

I took the pictures of these pages on two different days and the lighting was very different but here is what they look like together:

 

 

On the Project Life challenge blog that I run with my friend Suzanne, Week-2-Week, the current challenge is to include food on your spread.  My hubby and I are are truly "foodies" so I don't think a week goes by without some pictures of food on my pages.  Dave often takes the pictures and calls them "food porn"!  LOL  Suzanne and I would love to have you enter our challenge....there is an awesome prize.  Click HERE for all the details.

 

There are not a whole lot of PL challenges out there but Stuck on You Sketches runs one every month and I am linking this week up to their arrow challenge.  I usually always have arrows on my pages also.  Click HERE for the details on their challenge.

 

Finally Paper Issues is spotlighting Project lIfe with some awesome prizes from the founder of Project Life -- Becky Higgins.  I am linking this week up over there too.  HERE are the details for their current issue.

 

Thanks for checking out my blog and I hope your week is lovely and very productive.

Blog Candy Winner

The winner of my blog candy from the Whimsical Twist Blog Hop is:

 

SimplyBren

 

Please contact me with your info and I will get your prize out to you this week!!

Project Life Week #20

 

I am officially 3 months behind is documenting 2013 but that is because I have been busy living the life I want to document!  I am not stressed....the weeks will get done and in fact I am enjoying the process.  Reminds me of one of my favorite sayings...."It is not the destimation, it is the journey".  I am thoroughly enjoying the journey. 

 

Being that it is just my husband Dave and I we have a number of weeks that we don't do much but work, eat and sleep.  I try to find the little things that a week holds to document like receiving a prize in the mail that I won, or our sweet smelling confederate jasmine in the back yard.  Almost every week I have a reminder of how much I love my husband or my grandkids or other family members.  My extended family live 1000 miles away so it is important that I document that since I only see them only a couple of times a year.

 

I am linking this week up at Paper Issues Project Life Issues.

 

Have a wonderful week and I will be back in the morning to announce the winner of my blog candy from the Whimsical Twist blog hop.

Artful Delight

I am really excited because last month I won a card kit from the Artful Delight sketch challenge and they asked me to be a guest designer for the month of August.  So beginning today my cards will be featured on Sundays for the next couple of weeks.

 

Here is a sneak peak of one of my cards:

 

You can see both cards and learn about how YOU could be next month's guest designer just go HERE for all the details.