July Already?

So does anyone where June went? It probably is under one of the piles in my craft room! Maybe under the pile of party stuff for Priscilla's Hunger Games birthday. Or possibly the pile of scrapbook layouts that have yet to find a home in an actual scrapbook. Or maybe it did happen and it was such a blur that I can remember a few highlights. Like Amory going to her first sleepaway camp at the beginning of the month, Priscilla going to camp at Abilene Christian University (500 miles away!), and getting some time to scrap! (that hasn't happened in a while!).

I played with the newest July layout from My Sketch World - turning it so I could use the Dance Recital Strip from Echo Park's Mini Themes Ballet Collection. This layout is pictures of Amory and her Grandpa Phil - they are besties and love each other so very much!


You Are Tu*Tu Funny!

 

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March To This Kit!

Apron Strings March Kit was fill of fun and bright colors. It included lines from Authentique, Echo Park, and American Crafts.

I Am Rockin This Rink



Stupid Is As Stupid Does

Air Force Academy

Will Hunt For Money

 

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Love in the Air

Love for this Apron Strings February kit, that is! Full of Basic Grey True Love and

Echo Park Everyday Eclectic I was able to scrap Valentine pictures and Spring Break pictures!

 

Reach For The Sky

Valentine Date 2012

Click Click Giggle Giggle

Museum Break

 

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Giraffes and Babies ... So Cute!

One last card I created from my Apron Strings Bigger Than A Breadbox Kit fron August. The back side of the Splash Paper from the Echo Park Paradise Beach screamed giraffe to me! I could not wait to create some giraffes to decorate a card for a friend's baby!

 

I used the word "water baby" from the Beach Bum paper. Of course cutting away the water part!

and

To make the giraffes I

 - Searched for images of "cartoon giraffes"

- I found an image that I liked and printed it out

- I cut it out and traced it on the back of the paper

 - Cut my finished giraffes out and placed them on the card

You could do this with any animal! How about a lion and include the sentiment I am not "lion"!

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In One Afternoon ...

I HEART October Afternoon!
In the Apron Strings Bigger Than A Breadbox Kit for August I found Echo Park Paradise Beach and October Afternoon 9 to 5.
I have been wanting the 9 to 5 line and knew if I was patient enough I would find it in my kit eventually! And the patience worked - finally I had the 9 to 5 line in my little hands! After just staring at it and saying how cute is that  about a hundred times I took a deep breath and cut into it!
And a flurry of flying paper later I had layouts and cards I was happy with!
This first layout is of the girls (and myself - what I am in a pic?) at George Ranch writing with a quill pen. The ink stayed on our fingers for three days - and yes we bathed and washed our hands in that time.
Feather Pen

This next layout is of Amory at the Children's Museum in an area called Kidtropolis. The children get to "work at a job", receive a "paycheck", and then "grocery shop". I could not pull them out of this section and we spent the majority of the day in Kidtropolis!
My favorite part of the layout has to be the upc codes I cut from the bottom strips to make flags. Utilize all of the paper - not only the true paper but the strips too!
Check It Out

And a few cards made with the October Afternoon (and a smidge of Echo Park)!

 

 

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Yep There Is an Echo!

Hello! Long Time No Blog!
This last month of summer has been busy getting the last bit of fun things done that I wanted to do with the girls. We had Service Camp at church (super busy for me since I led the card making class), started fall dance classes, went to all of the doctor appts we had to go to (not fun!), visited the Sea Center, Hermann Park to ride the train and pedal boats, and had some back to school meetings and classroom time (kinda fun!).
So needless to say my scrapping time has taken a nose dive! Although two different Design Team assignments had Echo Park lines in them! Which made it super simple for me to finish bunches of layouts and cards because I just think Echo Park is the bee's knees!
First up is Apron Strings Bigger Than A Breadbox Kit for August. It was filled with Echo Park Paradise Beach and October Afternoon 9 to 5.
The Echo Park (with a smidge of October Afternoon thrown in) was perfect for our pictures from Priscilla's birthday at a water park!
1*2*3 Whoosh!

Sweet and Sandy

and
Who Is Fabulous? Priscilla Is!

 

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Do I Hear an Echo?

Have ya'll seen the Echo Park Mini Themes? It is brilliance in a plastic bag I tell you! Papers and stickers coordinated around one theme - everything for boys to girls and everything in between.
I was sent the Birthday Boy Mini Theme from My Scraps and More. I think the bright primary colors are so fun!
For the first layout I scrapped about my dad and his birthday"candle". We could find no candles in the house so my brother found a candle app on his phone. But Dad could not figure out where to touch the screen to "blow" it out!
There's an APP for that!

And this next layout is not birthday at all which proves you can also use this birthday line for something other than birthdays! These pictures were taken at a fun activity pool that we adventured to one day with my bf Sarah and her kiddos. Priscilla just had to kiss the spitting frog! Silly girl!
Frog Prince

And last but not least a card with some scraps!

 

I have a two page layout and another card to show you but it will have to wait! You'll just have to come back! :)


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Everything from Fry Pans to Nuts!

I wanted to show you more of what I did with the Apron Strings Smaller than a Breadbox May Kit. This time the layouts are made with Basic Grey’s Konnichiwa line - the lanterns reminded me of Tangled (the movie). So I used it for this layout because of it.
We went to Disney on Ice - Dare to Dream and Victor gave the girls each some money to spend on the junk souvenier stands. Out of all the sparkly wands, crowns and dress up my sweet crazy Amory chose a frying pan. She was the coolest kid there - everyone would say as they walked by "She got a frying pan - how cool". It even makes noise when you hit your sister someone with it!
A Fry Pan Who Knew?

The pretty colors inspired this next layout. The girls and I headed into downtown Houston for Theatre Day. We toured behind the scenes and saw how scenery was made (Priscilla's favorite), the girls got to play in their costume trunks and the highlight of Amory's day was meeting the stars of The Nutcracker. A real life ballerina she whispered in awe - just precious. And then with the mouse Amory's mouth is open in amazement because the mouse fur was really tutus!
Nuts About Ballet

Now with all the bits left over I made a few things.
An Owl Pillowbox (I got my inspiration here) for Amory's teacher - we stuffed hand sanitizer and a small package of tissues. Ms. Croft hates germs as much as she loves owls!

The next was two cards - one for someone's birthday and the "Great Minds" card for my co teacher at the Mother's Day Out I work at just to say thank you for everything this year!

And the last of the bits were made into bookmarks which are going into summer book baskets for the girls. Along with the bookmarks are reading logs from various stores, book list appropriate for the age and reading level and a book bingo set.

 

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Blew the Dust Off ...

It has been a month (well a month tommorow) since I have written or posted antthing on my poor neglected blog. Life has been crazy - we will leave it at that. And today in the quiet of morning I thought to myself I will take today for me to do what I want. So here I am finally posting on my blog.

I wanted to share three layouts that I did using the Apron Strings Smaller than a Breadbox Kit.  

Jam packed with October Afternoon Sarsaparilla, Basic Grey Konnichiwa and Echo Park Take Note the ideas started swirling in my head right away!

The October Afternoon was a must for the trip to the rodeo with Grandma and Grandpa, the Basic Grey was perfect for Disney on Ice (Tangled = Lanterns!), and the Echo Park combined with the October Afternoon was perfect for Fourth of July pictures (Red, White and Blue!).

This first layout is of the trip to the rodeo - I wanted to do several different layouts but when I have so many pictures and too many layouts to do combining pics into one layout is best!

I wanted to do just one layout of Amory and Grandpa in her pig nose and title it "What a Bunch of Hams" I wanted to do another layout of the girls milking the cow and title it "You Squeeze What?". But the title block from Echo Park's Take Note was perfect because these pictures do conjure up a thousand words to describe them!

One Picture is Worth 1000 Words

 

Entering this at Frosted Designs Quilting Challenge

On to Fourth of July Pictures - I have some more layouts of the Fourth to do but two checked off is two checked off!

This first layout is of my older daughter in the pie eating contest at our church's Fourth of July celebration.

Famous last words after eating a chocolate pie with her face - "I am never eating pie again" although she ate pie an hour later after dinner....hmmm

I used a Keep Calm sign as my inspiration for the title

Keep Calm & Eat Pie ... with your face

And this next one - my older daughter running a tattoo parlour in the church gym. I couldn't be prouder ...
And my younger daughter the first one in line - announcing she wants a tatoo like Mom. Yep I could be prouder ....
Celebrate  One Tattoo for You

 

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In Your Birthday Suit ....

I am getting a bit of scrappy time in - between the hours of 11 pm and 1 am anyway! With the kids home I am their chief entertainment maker. The little one is content to craft with me for a short time (max is one hour) but the big one complains alot that she is bored so off we go! Christian and I took all six kids (Kami's, Sarah's and ours) to Fun Jump and then to Chili's for lunch on Tuesday, over to Christian's today with all seven kids (Kami's, Sarah's and ours) to have beignets (or benyays as the case may be), quiche and a dance party, tommorow we are headed to the Children's Museum (with just my own and one of Sarah's and Christian will have hers and one more) and picnic in Hermann Park. My parents will pick up the girls on Friday morning and take them to the rodeo - I have a long list of what I would like to do after they are picked up!

On to the layouts I have scrapped! I scrapped pictures of my Dad's birthday back in June. My Dad has had some health problems so every picture of him that I have is very precious! He wanted to celebrate turning sixty by jumping out of plane. Really? We compromised - dinner and cake with a guy in a parachute on it! The girls picked out the cake and told The Cake Lady exactly how he should look. I think it turned out fabulous!

For this one I used a sketch from A Walk Down Memory Lane by the fabulous Lucy Chesna. I turned it on its side to use with the pictures I had. I also added a picture of the cake the girls created.

Having a Blast

 

The other side in the scrapbook is this next layout of the birthday boy! I used a sketch from My Scraps and More and of course flipped and added a picture!

I cannot tell you how happy these pictures make me - there is such joy in them!

60 or Something

 

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