MME - Apron Strings June Reveal

Happy First Day of Summer!

I told the kids that it was a national holiday today so everyone could celebrate summer and everything closed at noon. This was a feeble although successful attempt at staying home. So far it has worked - I am not driving anyone anywhere, waiting in a parking lot or waiting area to pick anyone up, or standing in the hot sun watching while my children play. So I call it a success!

I wanted to share with you the appropriately named My Mind's Eye Sunny Side projects from my June Apron Strings Bigger than a Breadbox kit.

These papers were very appropriate for the pictures from my father in law's birthday party.

The first one is pictures of us with our aunts Doe and Karen - they are very special people to us!

I loved the list card that was in the kit - it was very fun to list what was our favorite things about Doe and Karen. Like Doe is a big kid and has pet attack rooster and that Karen is a mothering personality with the inside scoop on everything at Walmart.

karen & doe

entering this at Crop Stop Banner and Pennant Challenge

The next layout is a favorite just because it makes me giggle! This is Amory and her cousin Alyssa after too much ice cream at the party. Make sure you click on the layout to open it bigger to see Amory and Alyssa's faces. They were definitely hurting! The smaller picture is the proof -

The Proof Is In The Puddle

 

This last project was this card and envelope wrap from my scraps. I got the detailed how to from the Paper Variety blog. You can see it here. The saying on the card is from Kaiser Craft Rock Pool which was the other half of the Apron Strings Bigger than a Breadbox kit. Check back in tommorow to see what I do with the Kaiser Craft Rock Pool!

 

 

Thank you for stopping by and have a blessed day,

Jar of Fun - A Tutorial

Hello everyone! I wanted to share a tutorial for a super simple Father's Day gift. I made a jar filled with corn nuts, peanuts and cashews and placed a tag on it that reads "Nuts About You Daddy". You could fill this with almost anything and create a funny and punny tag of your own!

***I want it to be known before we go any further that this only my second tutorial and my***

 six year took some of these pictures. Cute as a bug she - cute as a shutter bug not so much!

Instructions For Father’s Day Jar

The jar - I got this jar from Walmart - $3.00! And as a bonus you get to see the mess that my desk is!

For the collar and shirt front-

1. Cut two strips of paper (I chose this “pin stripe” from October Afternoon - find it here in the Apron Strings store) at 1 ¼ X 12. Cut one of those in half so you have one piece at 1 ¼ X 6.
2. Cut two rectangles measuring 3 X 2 from the same paper.

To create the shirt front -

      3.  Take your 3 X 2 rectangles and make these cut marks on one rectangle:

and

       4.   So you have this now - cut this out!

         5.   Place this piece on top of the other 3 X 2 rectangle on the reverse side of pattern paper.       

         6.   Trace and cut out!

           7.   Overlap the 1 ¼ X 12 and 1 ¼ X 6 by ¼” and glue together. So you have these 3 pieces that will create your collar and shirt front!

For the tie piece -

        1.  Cut one 3 X 4 rectangle.
(I used a piece of the Kaiser Craft Rock Pool for my demo and a piece of My Mind’s Eye Sunny Side for the final product - both found in the Apron Strings Bigger Than a Breadbox June Kit)

          2.  Fold the rectangle in half and cut into a point. Fold gently so as not to create a crease.

           3.  Make the following cut mark on one side of your rectangle.

            4.  Fold gently in half, line up edges and cut along your mark.

             5.  Your finished tie piece -

To put it all together -

Place the long collar strip around jar leaving a small gap in front. I used two sided tape to adhere the strip, tie and shirt pieces.

Place tie even with top of long collar piece.

Place shirt pieces even with top of collar and tie.

I hope that this tutorial could help you with making a simple Father's Day gift! Have a blessed day!

Thank you for stopping by,

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

 

Thank you for stopping by and have a blessed day!

A Card Game

Good afternoon everyone! It is Spring Break here in our neck of the woods and I have alot of plans - some fun and some not so fun! Fun things include a trip to the Children's Museum and not so fun things includes (but not limited to) a clean out of closets.
Saturday night we celebrated my father in law and his twin brother's 65th birthday. It was a fun party with lots of family and good food. I made each of them a card using My Mind's Eye papers and Echo Park stickers.
Using this sketch from Cardabilities -

I created this funny card for Uncle Bobby - he said he was lucky to still have hair!


This next card I created for my father in law. I lovingly call him Pata Fea which means ugly foot. That is a story for a whole another post! He loves loves loves his music always playing some golden oldies. I used a sketch from My Sketch World's E-Book. This is my go to for sketches when I need to make a quick card or layout. The sketches are so user friendly! You can order yours here!
I also completed challenges from Birthday Sundaes to use green and Unique Crafters where anything goes.
The inside of the card reads "They are playing your song!"
 

Thank you for stopping by and have a blessed day,

Feeling Pretty

Finally pictures of the big one! Priscilla, being the typical preteen, is not fond of me taking pictures of her. So when I do get those pictures they are very precious! And they needed some very special scrapping supplies to showcase them! I pulled out Pretty Little Studio's Scaredy Cat Papers, Starburst Number Tags, Vintage Circle Tags, and one cutout from the Hopscotch collection and bits and pieces from other companies. I used a sketch from Pretty Little Studio to complete this layout of my sassy and sweet Priscilla.

Sassy 2 Sweet Ratio

The next layout is from Easter - I figure should get these photos scrapped before the next Easter rolls around! Once again using my Pretty Little Studio goodies- a fave of mine for awhile now. And I am so glad that I have time to scrap and enjoy the goodies! I used the Hopscotch collection this time too - 1" inch vintage circles and cutout tags. This is the left side of a double layout (sketch from Let's Scrap) - you can see the whole layout below.

Such A Lovely Day

Thank you for stopping by and have a blessed day!

Not A Full Dozen!

I wanted to share this layout I did using My Mind's Eye papers and diecuts. These are pictures of Amory at her pre-k's egg hunt. The teacher told each child to only get eight eggs so Athere was alot of grabbing and counting going on! Amory's little friend Maya helped recount her eggs - just to make sure!

Behind the Egg Count tag is a small paper bag that holds the class picture along with names and a journaling spot.

I turned the sketch on its side and added a few more pictures than the sketch called for but I could not use just one picture to tell the story of

Eight is Enough!

While I had My Mind's Eye out on the desk (and table beside me) I made a card with the sketch on the Mind's Eye blog as well.

Celebrate Card

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,