Kirsty's card for Frankie

My 12 yr. old Kirsty made this cute card. She used the same supplies that I did plus the Marvy Giga scallop oval punch and some hemp twine. She did a fine job!!

Frankie's B'Day card

This was a nice masculine card for my dear Frankie. All supplies were Stampin' Up! Stamps: Noble Deer Cardstock: Old Olive,Chocolate Chip and Very Vanilla, Ink: Chocolate Chip Accessories: Chocolate grosgrain ribbon, copper brads, watercolour pencils and blender pens

Angus' 17th Birthday card

I have finally got to taking a picture of one of the many cards I have recently made. Probably because this one stayed in our home. LOL! I CASED this card from teacher 114 on SCS with some slight variations. Angus thought the card was pretty awesome. I used my cuttlebug with the "Olivia" die cut alpha for the numbers and I cut the # sign to make the "th". The football is from the Stamp'in Up! "Just Football" stamp set and the birthday greeting is from SU!'s "It's your Birthday" stamp set. I used SU!'s garden green, chocolate chip and whisper white cardstocks and inks. As well I used SU!'s clear embossing powder on the football which is held in place with stamp'in dimensionals. I was a fun card to make and perfect for my football crazy birthday kid!

Simple Christmas Tree Ornament

This sweet ornament is from a swap at the SU! Hamilton Regionals. The image was stamped from Stampin' Up! "Baroque Motifs" 8 times then punched out with SU!'s scallop circle punch. It looks like the circles were scored down the middle first then each half was glued together back to back with an adjoining circle. A piece of silver elastic cord was put down through the middle and knotted with a pearl at either end leaving a loop up top to hang the ornament. Sweet and simple...I've got to get some of these made. I just had a thought, these are easy enough for my 12 year old to make as gifts for friend or teachers!

My sister takes some beautiful pics and I couldn't help but post this one too. I will have lots of fun scrapbooking these ones!

Holiday in Vermont

We are so blessed to be able to be here in Vermont enjoying the beautiful colours at their peak this year!!

Fall Hike

Kirsty and I had a wonderful hike this fall with the nice weather. We stopped to take some pics and munch some snacks...and NO!, Kirsty is not trying to stick a dried apricot in my ear!!

Kirsty and some Stamping Art

I made this framed art for Kirsty from the April 2007 Stampin' Success Magazine. I love the way it turned out. It was fun to do and I wish I had more time to do this sort of thing. I have almost finished getting my stamp and craft room better organized so that I can be more productive in the little time that I do have.

Angus' new Football season

Angus is #53, even at 16 yrs. old he is one of the tallest guys on the Senior Football team. He is playing wide receiver this year. He managed to take down this guy with the ball and ooowwch!, where did the knee pads get to? He is ultra busy now that he has started a job at Walmart. Some days he barely stops from the time he gets up before 7am, goes to school, then football, then work until late in the evening plus homework too. Thankfully it is not every day!

Noah

Alida at 14 mnths.

I really enjoyed going to the Stampin' Up! convention in Hamilton but one of the best highlights was getting to have a visit with David and Rachel and the kids. They are growing up so fast. Alida has these gorgeous blue eyes and beautiful curls. She is such a darling little girl! Noah was moving so fast that it was hard to get a good clear picture of him. If only we could harness that energy! He has such a sweet spirit about him as he constantly struggles to contain himself. I will post a pic of him too with his first BIG tooth!

Catch'in up!!

I have a bunch of pics to share today. To start with, here is Erin's card again, but I decided to spruce it up a bit with some paper piercing in the corners (using the grid template from SU's crafter's tool kit) and to make the nice curve behind the butterfly I just used the holes on one of the swirls on the SU "Priceless" brass embossing template. I had wracked my brain where I had seen a dotted swirl and it finally occurred to me it was on the co-ordinating brass template...it was sooo easy!! I liked the end result so much I ended up using this final design for my swaps at the Stampin' Up! Hamilton convention.

Erin's B-day card

My dear daughter Erin turns 25 tomorrow. Wow, how time flies. I made this card for her with the SU "Priceless" set. Very vanilla cardstock, purely pomegranate and blue bayou inks and blue bayou double stitched ribbon. Dazzling diamonds on the butterly and heart. I stamped the BF once on the card and another separately on very vanilla. Cut out the BF and attached it with a bit of sticky strip on the body of the BF and lifted it's wings a bit. It was another quicky....seems most of my cards are that way lately. I would have liked to have added a dotted trail to the BF but ran out of that precious time as I had to get the cake iced before she arrived!

Card of Thanks

I just love the new set "Define your Life". I quickly made this card using the "Gratitude" definition and paper and die cuts from the "Just Delightful" scrappin kit from the sellabration catty this year. The definitions fit well into the Marvy Giga scallop punch then I just used some certainly celery ink sponged on the edges. Simple and quick is what I needed. This card was for a dedicated missionary who had been with us for 10 mnths. and was heading home to Utah.

These two are growing up way too fast!!

Best friends

Kirsty and Hannah have been best friends a long time and they had a great time at the beach together.

Sandcastles under construction!!

What a wonderful way to spend a birthday :)

Kirsty's 12th Birthday!!

My daughter Kirsty (my baby!) just celebrated her 12th birthday. She loved this "You're Neat" stamp set (SU) when it arrived so I thought I would use it for her card. I got playing around with the "palette o' prints" (SU) sampler and my scallop oval punch. I stamped with Lavendar Lace ink to match the paper and added some Rhinestone Ice brads (SU) and some flowers from the spring punch as well as some organdy ribbon. The ballon got some Dazzling Diamonds too. She loved the card. We went to the beach in the afternoon with her friend and had a perfect day there, I will post a couple of pics from the beach too!

Birthday Card for my Sweet Sister

I used the "Blooming with Happiness" hostess set from the 2006-07 SU catalogue and coloured the image with markers before stamping it on white, Marvy Giga Oval scallop punch and added Tempting Turquoise dots on the scallop and then dazzling Daimonds to the dots and flowers on the cake, cuttlebug embossing folder "D'vine Swirls" on the background (on T.T. cardstock). The flowery ribbon I bought by the yard from Marchant stamps in Kingston. I loved doing this card for my big sis! :)

Yummy ICECREAM!!

Alida and her Dad (my son David) sharing an icecream cone. This will make a great pic to scrap. She literally screamed to get a bite of ice cream and Daddy couldn't help but give in!