2011 365 #033 - never travel without my diary

I whipped this card up for the Opus Gluei Challenge: book theme - http://opus-gluei.blogspot.com/ . I also used the sketch from Twisted Sketches - http://www.twistedsketches.com/(the twist was distressing, so I did 3 kinds....around the checker paper with the Distress it tool (may slowly become a fan), around the edges with black ink and by smudging orange in different areas of the solid papers.

This one was a fun and simple one...I also got to use two stamps that I have had for years and never figured out what to do with. Another goal for the year on its way!!! I will use all of those stamps....or a good majority of them, anyway. It is not normal for me to stamp with coloured ink, but I think the orange girl in the background makes this card??? what about you?

2011 365 #010 - sympathy card

This is the last sympathy card that I will make for the Scrap Yard challenge...got all three cards done andit is only the 10th...yay me! In the clear till next month! I used the sketch from Twisted Sketches- you can find them here: http://www.twistedsketches.com/ - the twist is to use ribbon any way any how....so I used my nice thick ribbon with a ribbon slide and it is a done deal....

Basic Gray - spots and dots: http://basicgreychallenges.blogspot.com/

2011 365 #005 - ice cream social

it has been a long time since I have done any actual "scrapbooking", so I decided to get some pictures printed and get my butt in gear. I did this page with the left side a sketch from Twisted Sketches #83. You can find them here: http://www.twistedsketches.com/.

The right side of the page, I did with a sketch from Page Maps. You can find them here: http://www.pagemaps.com/.

I used my new Tim Holtz rosette die to make all the rosettes...wow are they easy with that thing...too bad it only makes one size, but what can you do? I also used 3 stamp sets on my pages...another three bite the dust...at this rate, I may actually use one stamp from all of my sets this year...not likely though...

The ice cream social was a hugely fun idea...I am so glad we did it and we will totally be doing another one...this one had no pre planning...we decided on Sunday of the long weekend that we would do it when we saw the forecast for Monday. It had been an extermely cold week and all of the kids showed up at the house with super warm sweaters and magic mittens...that sucked for September weather, but I think the ice cream gods were looking over us, because the temperature in the back yard got up to about a "tropical" 17 c that day and the forecast was only for 12 c. The sweaters came off and the kids went bonkers over all of the mini ice creams that we made the night before...and the self-serve sundae bar with every topping imagineable (plus more cuz we had made a quick trip to the States and picked up all kind of treats a couple of weeks earlier) was a huge hit. Got the ideas of the little ice creams from one of the restaurants that we ate at in Las Vegas (that page is to follow sometime soon)...sooo much fun on the last day off for the summer....school started the next day and all of the kids got to reunite with each other from all of their vacations and going to the lakes etc...which totally took away the first day jitters for them too..

I am going to enter this in the Opus Gluei Challenge as well. Their theme this week is tropical and if those aren't tropical colours, I don't know what are. You can find them here: http://opus-gluei.blogspot.com/