Who You Are Now (Questions for the Grandkids)

You are the Gold at the end of the Rainbow

I asked two of my grandchildren
some questions to get a snapshot of them at this age. I used the colors they named as their favorites. This was fun, and I'll repeat it in a few years!

You at 10

Midnight Masquerade Pop-Up Halloween Card

For my granddaughter.

Inspired by Sandi Nagel's Pop-Up Floral Shoppe card on the Graphic 45 blog.

Most of the materials are from Graphic 45's Midnight Masquerade collection.

Happy Halloween Pop-up Box Card

For my 6-year-old grandson.

Inspired by Sandi Nagel's Pop-up Floral Shoppe card on the Graphic 45 blog.

Made with a variety of materials from my stash.

Midnight Masquerade

A Halloween card for a friend.

Inspired by an easel card by Annette Green on the Graphic 45 blog.

Midnight Masquerade collection.

Hello You

A card for my grandson.

#lawnfawn

Paper - Recollections

Dies - Lawn Fawn

Sentiment stamp - Lawn Fawn

Coloring - Zig Clean Color brushes, Prismacolor pencils

Embossing powder - WOW!

You mean the world to me

A card for my granddaughter, who's living in Guam.

Paper - My Mind's Eye, Recollections

Stamps and die - Lawn Fawn Wish You Were Here

Ink - Zig Clean Color Brushes, Memento, Versamark

Embossing Powder - WOW!

Welcome to 1st Grade/5th Grade

Two layouts for my youngest grandchildren - back to school!

1st grade for my youngest
             grandchild!

Paper - Bazzill
Alphas - Studio Calico
Stamps - Altenew
Embossing Powder - WOW!
Stars - Cricut Glitter Paper and Martha Stewart Punch

5th grade for my granddaughter!

Paper - Bazzill
Alphas/Flowers - Bo Bunny
Stamps - Altenew
Glitter pen - Kaisercraft

Chip - My Bunny

Another page for my oldest grandson's album; striving to finish by his graduation next spring!

I've just started getting into watercoloring, so I did some on this layout.

Paper and cards - Studio Calico

Watercolors - Zig Clean Color

Alphas - We R and Fancy Pants

Just a Note

A note card with an ombre background.

Inspired by My Favorite Things Summer School Session 2.

#lilinkerdesigns

Paper - Bazzill

Die - Lil' Inker Perfect Palette

Ink - Ranger Distress Oxide

Stamps - My Favorite Things Peaceful Wildflowers

Embossing powder - Altenew Copper

Hello

I was inspired to make this card by the "Rainbow" topic from 

My Favorite Things Summer School Session 2.

Paper - My Favorite Things

Embossing powder - Altenew

Jewels - Lucy's Cards

(more) Back to School cards

For the grandkids in Guam as they head back to school.

Back to School cards

I made these cards for a teaching couple I know who just returned to teach here after 5 years away.

The stars and the apples create "visual triangles," one of the the topics of My Favorite Things Summer Session 2.

You're Purrrr-fect

Love these kitties!

Inspired by My Favorite Things Summer School, Session 2.

The topic is Focal Point.

#myfavoritethings

#lilinkerdesigns

I Think You're Fantastic card

This card was inspired by My Favorite Things Summer School, Session 2 -

today's topic is Monochromatic.

Paper - Bazzill

Stamps - Concord and Ninth

Inks - Ranger

Gems - Bo Bunny

Float... Fly... Dance

A layout for my granddaughter's dance recital.

Paper - Bazzill and Reminisce

Cloud stencil - My Favorite Things

Distress Oxide Inks - Ranger

Alphas - Anna Griffin

Butterflies - Marcella Vellum by Kay, Martha Stewart die

A Whole Lot of Cards (catching up)

For my grandson, who spent his summer on the ocean commercial salmon fishing.

A shadowbox card with Hero Arts stamps.

                

For another grandson. A pop-up card with Hero Arts stamps.

For the third grandson - they all have summer birthdays.

Love that Cuttlebug embossing folder.

          

             

And for my son, turning 40 tomorrow! (Wow, I'm old!)

Lil' Inker stamps and die.

The brother-in-law has a birthday this month, too!

Love this design so much, I had to do it again.

For my best friend - birthday this week - she gets a "Fabulous" card every year!

Gatefold card with an inner card, Altenew and Technique Tuesday dies.

  

Thank You... for brightening my day

For the fifth and final day of My Favorite Things Summer School.

The theme is Symmetry, but the only symmetrical parts of my card 

are the two circular corners!

Background stamp - My Favorite Things

Stitched Circle dies - Gina Marie Designs

Paper - Bazzill

Sentiment stamps - Right at Home

Inks - Kaisercolor, Ranger, Versacolor

Sea of Wonders card

This card uses complementary colors - blue and orange.

This was the theme of Day 4 of My Favorite Things Summer School.

Background stamp - My Favorite Things

Ink - Ranger, Versacolor

Embossing powder - WOW!

Card and embellishments - Graphic 45

Gems - Lucy's Cards

With Enough Coffee...

Another card inspired by My Favorite Things Summer School.

Today's topic is Repetition, so I stamped and fussy cut my

much-beloved coffee cups and gave them different colors for variety.

Background stamp - My Favorite Things

Coffee stamps - Simon Says Stamp

Inks - Clear-Snap, Ranger, Simon Says Stamp

Embossing powder - WOW!

Colored pencils - Prismacolor

Thank You

Another thank you for a friend who took care of my cat and watered my plants 

while I was away for back surgery.

I was inspired by Day 2 of My Favorite Things Summer School, with a focus

on primary colors. I had just made some "dragged paint" backgrounds using

red, yellow, and blue, so I used the leftover pieces for my flowers on this card.

Flower dies - My Favorite Things

Acrylics - Delta and Plaid

Ink - Ranger Distress Oxide

Thank You die - Sizzix

Thank You

A thank you card for my friend who took care of me after my recent back surgery.

I was inspired by the first day of My Favorite Things Summer School.
Today's topic was "white space" and using the "rule of three."

Stamps - My Favorite Things, Right at Home
Die - Hero Arts
Paper circle - Pinkfresh
Ink - Zig Clean Color, Simon Says Stamp, Versamark
Embossing powder - Altenew
Enamel dots - Teresa Collins

Just Be You

My granddaughter in all her glory!

I was inspired to do this layout by the Pinkfresh Studio May Challenge.

I used most of the colors and lots of puffy stickers!

Just about everything is from these Pinkfresh collections:

Dream On, Let Your Heart Decide, and Felicity.

I've colored the circles on the left with Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks. 

Cousins

These are my grandson's brothers and cousins on his mother's side. (He's the young guy on the left.)

I was inspired by a layout I saw in Scrapbook and Cards Today

and entered it in the Scraplift Challenge at the SCT blog.

All materials except the washi tape are from Pinkfresh Studio.

It's All About Me (2-page spread)

Two pages about my grandson when he was about 6 months old.                            Paper - Bazzill                            Cards and embellishments - Simple Stories

Xmas 2002

Another page for my oldest grandson's album - he was about 1 1/2 at this time.

Paper and borders - SEI

Title paper and tags - Bo Bunny

Salmon Camp

We live in a commercial fishing town - salmon are our "bread and butter."

Every summer kids go to Salmon Camp, where they learn about salmon

and other aspects of local nature.

I was inspired once again by Debbie Hodge's class, Top Heavy,

at Get It Scrapped.

Paper - Graphic 45

Alphas - Anna Griffin

Sticker and "camp" arrow - Recollections

Wood veneer - Elle's Studio

Water Baby

My granddaughter with Mom and Dad at the beach when they lived in Texas.

The layout was inspired by the Top Heavy lesson by Debbie Hodge of Get It Scrapped.

Paper, alphas, die cuts, stickers, flair - Fancy Pants

Enamel dot - My Mind's Eye

Wood veneer - Pinkfresh Studio

Vellum - Studio Calico

Summer in Kodiak

This layout was inspired by the International Scrapbook Day PageMaps Challenge 

put on by Scrapbook and Cards Today.

Paper, card, and floral fussy cuts - Graphic 45

Alphas - Fancy Pants

Butterfly fussy cuts - SEI 

Born to Fish

For my oldest grandson's album.

The layout was inspired by a lesson in one of Debbie Hodge's Scrapbook Coach classes.

Paper and stickers - Karen Foster Design

Alphas - Basic Grey

Wood button - Pinkfresh Studio

Puffy sticker - Evalicious

Love You card

I was inspired to make this card for my granddaughter by the Put a Flower On It

challenge at A Blog Named Hero.

Layered Poppy stamps - Hero Arts

Stacked Love die - Sizzix

You stamp - Right At Home

Inks - Hero Arts

100th Day of School

This is my youngest grandson being 100 years old for the 100th day of school!

And this is my last layout for Get It Scrapped's Calvinball monthlong challenge.

All materials are from October Afternoon and Echo Park.

Ladderball

I was inspired to make this layout by Pinkfresh Studio's April challenge.

All materials are from the Pinkfresh Studio Let Your Heart Decide collection.