Caardvarks & Card Patterns

Good morning everyone.  It's been beautiful here the last couple of days.  I have been home for two days with the kids, and we have visited the beach both days.  Beautiful sunshine.  Today is back to work, and it looks like rain out. 
I love playing with the Distress Inks.  I stamped the flower pattern with versa mark and white embossed.   Then I distress inked with an orange and green.  The piece embossed with the dots is colored with the same colors, only it turned out a bit darker. 
The challenges for this card are:
Caardvarks-Birthday Card
Card Patterns-Sketch 74

Here is the sketch.

Happy crafting ;o)

2 cards 6 challenges

Evening everyone.  I have managed to spend a couple evenings at my card table.  Here is my first attempt at an easel card.  Not bad. 
The challenges are:
Crafty Card Makers-Spot light Challenge-Easel Card
Crafty Card Makers-Challenge #25-Photo Inspiration
Cupcake Craft Challenges-Cats & Dogs
Card Patterns -Sketch

For this one I used a sentiment that I downloaded free from Sentimental Sundays. 
This card is for:
Sentimental Sundays-Challenge #12-For Men
DRS Designs-Sketch

Happy crafting ;o)

Project 12 June

With one day to spare, I made the deadline.  It's been really hard to find craft time since the kids got out of school.  It's taken be a couple nights to throw my layout together.  I better start working on next month. 
We've had an enjoyable weekend.  I had three days off.  Friday night we camped out at my dad's for his annual birthday party.  They have a huge backyard and have about a dozen campers park there.  Alot of them play guitar and sing till the wee hours of the morning.  It was fun.  Saturday I took the little guy to a skateboard compition to see what you had to do.  So maybe next year he will be trying that out.  And Sunday the whole family went to an Air Show.  My first one.  It was the Battle of Britain, so there were some old war planes.  It was quit interesting, and the kids even had a good time. 
Hope everyone has a great week. 

Here is the sketch for the Project 12 month of June.  You can find this at Scrapbook & Cards TodayMagazine.


Happy crafting ;o)

Happy Canada Day

Happy Canada Day to everyone out there.  Just a quick post before we head out to the Fireworks.  We have never taken the kids to see them, so this should be fun. 

I've had this card all put together and waiting for the sentiment on the front.  I'm not big on doing things on the computer, it always me so long to print anything out.  I've had some problems with my Word program not printing.  Last night I discovered that the lazer printer was not the default printer, that somehow it had gone to the photo printer.  Switched it back and here we are.  Card finished. 

The great sentiment is from Sentimental Sundays, where every week they have free sentiments to download.  So great. 

Challenges are:
Sentimental Sundays-#9-Encouragement & Support
Card Patterns-#70

Here is the sketch.

Happy crafting ;o)

Another teacher card

Afternoon everyone.  Two days left of school.  This morning I arrived at the school for an assembly at nine, only to find out DD had the wrong time.  So back home and another trip in at eleven.  Two of the classes sang Waving Flag accompanied by the xylophones.  They did a great job.  Tomorrow I will be back there enjoying the last day with the kids. 

Here is the last card I had to make for the little guys EA.  She is so wonderful with him.  He has come so far from when he started kindergarten.  Way to go Litte Man. 

Happy crafting ;o)

365 Cards

Hello everyone.  I have managed to make two cards though they are the same, but different colors.  These will be for the kids teachers.  I have one more to make for the little guys EA.   Three more days of school.

This card is for 365 Cards-Day 112-Super Sketchy Sunday.

Here is the sketch.

Monday I enjoyed a delicious lunch put on by the teachers, to thank all the parents that help out around the school during the year.  Tuesday was to be Sam's class trip but it was rained out.  Thursday started out rainy but was clear by the time we left for the park. 
This is Sam (in the blue) and her best friend.  The walkway is 15 feet up in the trees.  What an enjoyable afternoon the class had.  They also went on the Big Zip Line the runs over the paddle boat pond. 

Enjoy your weekend. 

Happy Crafting ;o) 

School trip cancelled

This morning it just poured rain.  Today was to be my daughters class trip Tree Top Trecking.  There was a very disappointed grade five class.  They were all lined up at the door to go and it was called off because they were calling for thunder storms this afternoon.  It wasn't really were I wanted to be, way up in the trees in the pouring rain.  But we will try again on Thursday.

Last Thursday I went with the little guys class to Heritage Village.  They had a ball.  They started out washing clothes in a tub of water and wringing it out in rollers.  They carded sheep wool.  Looked through the museum.  Bent metal in the blacksmith shop.  Made biscuits, and candles.  And played on stilts, and tried rollling a barrel ring with a stick.  And lastly they went to a pioneer school.  All the kids had a great day.

Here is the real reason for this post.  The card packs that I made for the kids teachers.  Jennifer McGuire made sets like this and I thought they were so cute.

Happy crafting ;o)  

Project 12 May

This layout has been sitting on the shelf for a while.  As soon as the sketch for May came out my flowers were blooming and I knew I wanted to put them in the layout.  But then I still wanted to do our monthly activities as well, so I've held off with this one till I had completed the next one. 
By the way, the grey blob in the 3x3 pic is a tree frog that had been haning around the backyard.  He's actually sitting on a shelf about 3 feet off the ground.  At first we thought it was a rock the little guy had put up on the shelf.

Here is my second layout.  I should have stuck with the first one.  After I had all the flowers glued on, I noticed they are in the wrong spot.  Then when I was taking the picture I noticed I had placed the pictures in the wrong spot and that is why the flowers were dropped down.  But still looks great.
It's so nice to live in the country and have wild things around the house.  We have two wild hares that are often out in the yard.  The 3x3 pic here is a robin nest that just happens to be under the deck.  Mrs Robin layed four eggs and all four have hatched.  I crawled under the deck the other night and they are getting quit big, you could see two little beaks sticking over the edge of the nest. 

Here is the sketch for the month of May.  You can check out Junes sketch at Scrapbook and Cards Today Magazine.


Happy Crafting ;o)

Class project

Here is the mess of my dining room table.  Twenty-four cards for Father's Day.  Sam had wanted me to go into her class to make a Father's Day cards with the class.  I just don't have the time and left it too late, so the last three nights we have been cutting and glueing to make kits for the kids to put together.  I cut all the paper, had Sam stamp while I heat embossed the stars.  The biggest part was making the medalions.  They took longer than I expected.  I put a magnet on the back so it can be taken off the card and used as a frigde magnet.    I left the front off the medalion, so the kids could write what they wanted on it.  This morning she was off to school with her bag of parts.  Good luck to her and the class.

Here is what the end product should look like.  I got the card from Hero Arts.  They have great ideas.  And Jennifer McGuire had a great gift set for teachers, which I'm card lifting to make for the kids teachers. 

Happy Crafting ;o)
     

Just a couple cards

Evening everyone.  I had started out this morning to post my cards, but got side tracked by the little pop up from blogger on the new page designs.  I started messing around and next thing it was time to go to work. 
I downloaded the desings for these cards from Crafty Computer Paper.  Good for the car buff dad. 
Hope everyone has a good weekend.  They are calling for rain, but lets hope they're wrong. 

Happy Crafting ;o)