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Octopus vulgaris

I made this layout with the new Graphic 45 collection "By the Sea." Do you think I could have found a better patterned paper for my photos? I think not!!

Anyway, I made this for my friend Stacy's challenge and also for Simon Says Journey challenge. We journeyed to San Francisco....

Thanks for looking!

Happy Valentine's Day!

My friend Stacy got me going on vellum with her most recent challenges! I made 10 valentine cards for family and could still think of a whole bunch more people to send to but I stopped. I forgot to take my photo until one of the last ones (and not the prettiest). It just so happens to also meet the Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger and Simon Says Have a Heart challenge this week!!!! Yay! I'm back to entering challenges! :-)

Hope you are having a great day and have a great Valentine's Day next week.

P.S. We have a contract on our house (though signatures are being finalized)! Thanks for all of your kind thoughts and prayers!! Now, we wait for inspections, appraisal and closing!! Please continue to pray that all goes well and the closing on March 26 will go off without a hitch!!! Thanks again!

Smiles are the Soul's Kisses

I have been wanting to do a layout with this photo ever since I got it back from the printers.  This morning, I saw this fantastic sketch over at Write Click Scrapbook. It is a Page Maps sketch from Becky Fleck.  I was also inspired by The Paper Variety's photo challenge and added the XO for Scrapfit's Workout #62 XOXO challenge. 

We have been busy with new house activities as well as keeping the house clean in the hopes of a sale of our current house. We don't have to close until July so we have a little time, and we are just crossing our fingers that everything works out just right!  Our move kind of signifies a new start for our family. Our son will be entering college next year, and Steve and I will be transitioning into "empty nesters." Mitch is so busy now that sometimes we already feel like "empty nesters," but college kind of makes it official!!

Anyway, thanks for visiting!!! Please leave a comment if you have a chance, and I will try to get around to your blog soon!!!

Phoenix Airport

My sister and I had some time to kill at the airport when our trip to Phoenix was over so we decided to head up to the rooftop of the airport terminal.  We had such a great view. We were glad someone told us to go up to take a look. I made this layout with Sketchy Thursday's 9.1 sketch challenge--I flipped it, though! I love that airplane patterned paper from Studio Calico!

Thanks for visiting! Hope you are having a great week!

Read to Me, Gramma Ginny

My friend Stacy HW has a challenge over at Sketches 4 All where you could only/and must use stamps, bling, border punch, and vellum (other than Paper, Photos, Adhesive, Black Pen and A Shape Punch).   If you have time before the end of May, I'd like to encourage you to check out some of Stacy's Mix It Up challenges. She makes them very fun, and if you win, she will send you an AWESOME prize!!!! I should know--I've won enough of them!!! I used mostly Glitz Design with a little CTMH stamping thrown in so I could enter it into a Paper Secrets challenge, too.

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day fit really well with Simon Says Stamp's challenge to Show Some Hands. I chose to show gardening hands.  I stamped the CTMH image on vellum, colored it and then fussy cut it and applied it to some Pebbles Paper. The Happy Mother's Day stamp is also CTMH.  The ribbon is KI Memories. Oh, and I picked up those cute little pink, see-through pebbles (don't know what they are called) for $1.19 at Michael's last weekend!! Aren't they adorable?!

Have a great day!  Thanks for visiting me! It means a lot!

Comments make my day! Especially from you!!!! :-)

Fish Card

I have two posts today!  I had fun making this card.  I bought some handmade-recycled paper at an art store in St. Louis last weekend.  I used it to make this Fish Card which I made based on the sketch from CPS Challenge #161:
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Wedding Time -- You Made It!

I made this card for my cousin Ted's first marriage. When you consider that he is going to turn 44 the day after his wedding, you can see how it fits the http://www.couturecardstock.com/blog/ to celebrate a milestone!  This card uses their wedding colors! Solid blue is vellum. Print is flocked Anna Griffin. Flower is 8 layers of vellum flowers that I cut with my Sizzix.  There is a Kaiserkraft diamond jewel in the center! Thanks for looking I hope you enjoy it!