Last night I was playing with the "Thrill Ride" stamp and made this cute card using the "Zippidee" paper pack from Close to my Heart. It's hard to see in the picture, but I used "Bitty Sparkles" on the carousel.
This past Sunday our church had a picnic in the park. I had fun going around taking pictures of Lexi and her friends. While taking the pictures, I could visualise a scrapbook page and knew just what paper pack I was going to use. In fact, one of the lady's in my church said to me "It looks like a scrapbook page." Funny how she read my mind. After the picnic was over, I had Bill drop my off at a store where I could print my pictures while he ran some errands. Once I got home, I got out the Splendor paper pack with the matching Stickese and went to work making this layout. It was so fast, because the pictures of the layouts are on the back of the Stickese. To see a picture in color of the layouts, all that I had to do was go to Closetomyheart.com and on the front page is an area called "Ideas and Inspiration." When you click on it you see "make it from your heart gallery" and there are the layouts in full color. Close to my Heart makes scrapbooking Faster, Simpler and Easier.
This little guy is from a new stamp set coming out in fall called "Party Animal." I used Jeanette Lynton's Color Me Monday Challenge to make him. The colors used are Tulip, Juniper, Cocoa and Dessert Sand. On Jeanette's blog she talks about pennants, banners and flags as being the rage. They are. And, every time I see a card with a string of pennants, I get so disappointed because I don't have the stamp to make them. Imagine my surprise when Jeanette suggested cutting out triangles and attaching them with hemp. I had fun making them.
Supplies: Stamp: A Sip, Ink: Tulip, Paper: That's Amore
I had so much fun at Convention and I hope that those of you who couldn't make it this year will come next time. Not only is it a great opportunity to learn some new techniques and skills to enhance your business, but it is an opportunity to make new friendships and strengthen existing friendships. I was so fortunate to room with Janelle and Elaine. We had so much fun laughing and teasing each other. It was also an opportunity to meet my blogging friends. I was so excited when people came up to introduce themselves to me who are fellow blogger's. We know so much about each other from blogging and this was the icing on the cake to actually meet them. I hope to see Vicki, Jackie, Pat, Sharli, Jeanne, Carolyn, Leslie, Dawn, Kathy and the rest of my blogging friends in Anaheim next Summer.
We had lunch at the Mt. Vernon Inn. It felt so good to get out of the heat and relax with a nice lunch.
I had Rosemary Chicken with Peanut Stuffing. Bill had Fried Chicken. Both were yummy.
For dessert, we shared a bread pudding. It was so good and didn't last long.
There was CTMH's version of the Brady Bunch.
Christine as Mrs. B and Monica as Alice.
Then there was "Desperate Scrappers."
Lastly, we had the CTMH girls dancing to Beyonce's "All the Single Ladies", CTMH style "All the Scrapping Ladies." "If you like it, put some bling on it.
This is a picture of a sea turtutle above the water.
Here is a picture of Bill, Ryan and Katie snorkeling. I didn't get a frontal view, because it is not too pretty of a picture. lol.
On the way, we passed by the famous Banyan Tree. I am always amazed that this is just one tree every time I see it.
