A Banner Day!

It has been quite sometime since I blogged! Summer has got me running way too much! I have scratched off Camp Counselor as a possible career choice. All this planning and doing has got me exhausted and the kids keep asking for more, more, more!

In the evening one of them (or sometimes both of them) will ask me what we are doing tommorow. And I have to pull this out of my childhood -

 

Pinky: "Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight?"


The Brain: "The same thing we do every night, Pinky—try to take over the world!"

Although I say "The same thing we do every day, {insert child's name who is asking}—try to take over the world!"

They shake their head, assume I have finally fallen off my rocker, and go away (YEAH!) for about 2.4 minutes.


And then the child returns and says "So you don't know what we are doing?"
 I generally scream or start pulling on my hair at this point in time. That is when they stop asking! Until the next time they ask ...

So that all leads to my inability to scrap much of anything. For sanity sake I had to sit down at my scrappy desk and get some of this scrappiness out of me!
I did this two page layout of Amory's End of the Soccer Season Party using the Apron Strings July Bigger Than A Breadbox Kit. I completed the current challenge at Paper Variety by using stitches (under my banner), a multi photo layout, and journaling strips.
The Reason For the Season?
The Trophy!

The next layout is of Amory too. We visit Miller Outdoor Theatre about twice a month. It is an open air theatre that is free! We take a lunch, watch the show and sometimes play in the park afterwards. Always a fun outing. On this visit Amory was chosen to go on stage with the actors to learn some dances. She was so proud of herself! I used a sketch from Sassy Lil Sketches for this layout - with another banner! I sewed this a bit differently then the trophy layout above - I think I like this sewing better! 

It's Your Day To Shine On Stage

Thank you for stopping by and have a blessed day,

MMM Smell the Salt Air?

I live thirty minutes from the Gulf Coast but the only Salt Air I am enjoying right now is Cosmo Cricket's found in Apron Strings Bigger Than a Breadbox kit! For my first layout I scrapped just a few of the Disney pictures - only about 800 more to go! I used a sketch from Sketchy Thursdays to inspire my layout. I say inspire because instead of banners I used splashes and instead of two pictures I used three but the spirit of the sketch is still there!

 Under the Sea with Crush

 

 Saltiness is good thing - potato chips, margaritas, layouts ...

The next layout I made from the Apron Strings Bigger Than a Breadbox kit is some fun pictures of Amory at her end of school water day. I just love progression shots and wanted to line them up side by side. The middle shot is my favorite! I used a Pagemaps sketch for this layout - once again I added a few things and took away a few things so it was more of an inspiration! I also completed Workout #47 at Scrapfit to create a layout with a good amount of yellow to represent ‘summer’ and put a clock on this layout to represent ‘time’. The clock is tucked under the cluster of embellies at the bottom. 

 Splash Down to Summer

With the leftovers I created a thank you card for my friend (Christian - turn away, you can see it tommorow when it arrives at your house!). The mermaids were so cute and I wanted to make sure they were shown off! I used the sentiment "You Maid Our Day" for a little play on words.I used a sketch from Crop Stop that I turned on its side where I won Cream of the Crop last week!

You "Maid" Our Day!

Thank you for stopping by and have a blessed day,

Red, White, and Blue Just For You!

Hope the Fourth of July was a happy sparkly boomin good time for all! Ours was happy but no sparklin or boomin for us because of the ban on fireworks. We could have parked our car, boarded a bus and watched the professional show with thousands of others in a field but we don't do well in large crowds.

I have a layout to share with you that I created with the Apron Strings Designs Larger Than a Breadbox Kit. Everything on the layout is from the kit except for the "scale" I cut from the Pink Paislee's Hometown Summer papers that was in Apron Strings Kit last month.

I used a sketch from Sassy Lil' Sketches to scrap the pictures of my daughter Amory.

I also completed two more challenges with this layout. Crop Stop's Challenge #26 to make your projects using your national colors. Red, White and Blue, of course! The second challenge I completed was ScrapFit WWU #9 to create a layout, card or other project focusing on making embellishments from patterned paper. I cut out a "scale" (formerly a thermometer!) from pattern paper, and created pinwheels from pattern paper as well.

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Thank you for stoppin by and have a blessed day,