Little Dreamer 2013

 

Decided to do a pocket page for a change.

Everything (except for a couple of embellishments)

is from the SCT March Sampler.

We Are Family

 

And She'll Have Fun Fun Fun...

 

For my granddaughter's album - fun times in Florida.

Made this layout as part of ScrapHappy's Calvinball Challenge,

which has a series of rules that change on a daily basis - crazy fun!

Some rules followed in this project: pink, star, heart, enamel dot,

double matting, sun, arrows, torn paper, butterfly, torn paper,

sunglasses, flower, boat, doily, green, song lyrics and more!

And More Cards!

Three Easter cards for three littles, all made with an older SCT Sampler kit.

Then a general greeting card made with the new SCT kit.

 

Card Day

General greeting cards.

Graphic 45 Voyage Beneath the Sea

Christmas cards.

Graphic 45 Christmas Time

 

Big Benefit

 This is the first assignment in the Get Organized Challenge:

Decide what the Big Benefit will be for getting your craft supplies organized

and select a reward for each of the eight weeks of class.

I do the Challenge at least once a year; it keeps me on track!

Here Comes the Sun - Florida!

 

This Girl Gets Around

 

Washington DC

 

Voyage Beneath the Sea Cards

 

My all-time favorite Graphic 45 collection - Voyage Beneath the Sea.

Had fun decorating the envelopes a bit, too.

Graphic 45 Christmas Time

Love the classic look of this Graphic 45 collection - Christmas Time.

 

Life in Guam

 

My grandson was only between 4 and 7 when they lived in Guam, so he won't remember much, but I want to help him remember what everyday life was like, not just the special events and fun places they went.

The journaling lists aspects of life in Guam: warm clear water, outside parties, wild chickens!

All paper and embellishments - Graphic 45 Ocean Blue

Puffy alphas - Pinkfresh Studio Just a Little Lovely

Fabulous Cakes

 

My daughter makes fabulous cakes - these are not even the best ones,

but they're ones she made for my granddaughter.

Busier than my usual layout - actually, I'm not crazy about it.

Florida Everglades

 

My daughter and family are Coast Guard, so I've had many travel adventures as they moved from station to station. They were in Florida twice, and this little road trip was during their first posting there.

This is for my granddaughter's album.

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Birthday Cards

I have some friends with birthdays coming up soon, and it was Altenew Day in my craft room!

For the first card I used Altenew's Craft-a-Flower Tulip Layering Die Set. This is a die set that gives you 3 layers for the flowers and two layers for the leaves and produces an amazing effect. It's like stamp layering but with dies so they have dimension! They are fairly easy to line up, and once you've done it, it's a snap! (There is a layering guide, which is helpful.) You can vary the colors, of course, since tulips come in all wonderful shades.

I also used the matching Gradient Cardstock, which comes in color sets of a small size (3x6), perfect for die cutting. The card base, with white on the inside, was from Hero Arts, but unfortunately isn't available anymore. The sentiment is a Scripty Saying from Lawn Fawn.

My second card was modeled after one by Laurie Willison in an Altenew blog. I white heat embossed the flowers (from a very old and unidentified stamp set) on white cardstock and then blended Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks: Tattered Rose and Spiced Marmalade. (Yes, believe it or not, that's a pink background; poor lighting when I took the picture!) I cut that piece into strips of varying sizes and mounted them with foam tape on a card base. Such a lovely design! The sentiment is the layered Sentiment Suite die from Pinkfresh Studio. (For fun I dotted on the 'i" with a tiny pink enamel heart!)

If you haven't already discovered Altenew, I hope you'll take a look. Their products are high quality and very beautiful, and their two blogs (for card makers and scrapbookers) are full of wonderful ideas and inspiration!

This month I'm participating in ScrapHappy's Calvinball Challenge!

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I Miss...

My Covid19/2020 Traveler's Notebook is growing!

These two pages are about the things/places I've missed this last year.

 

Merry Christmas 2009

My granddaughter's second Christmas - almost 15 months old.

 

Winter in Texas... As Told on Facebook (by Mom)

The second set of pages about my daughter's family's experience 

with the "big freeze" in Texas last month. These two are for my grandson.

 

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I'm So Cute

 

My granddaughter 11 years ago.

She's still so cute!

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Gym Star

 

We took my youngest grandson, 16 months old at the time, to a children's gym,

and it was fun watch him. He was very serious and quite hesitant, but he took

part in the activities and enjoyed himself.

Paper and embellishments - Boys Boys Boys from Keep It Simple

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