Something I think is pretty

Sorry I have missed a couple of days posting. I have been trying to wind down from this past weekend. When my sister sends me a copy of the photos of the vow renewal and reception, I will share with you. My DH is playing golf tonight, and travel time for him is about 1.5 hours one way, and 18 holes of golf, he probably will not get home until about 9 tonight. Since he wasn't coming home for supper tonight, I went bumming around Wal-Mart. This is something I really don't do very often. So, much to my surprise, since they have just opened this "Super" Wal-Mart, I found out tonight that they are now carrying some Martha Stewart items. Thus, I spent a little more time looking and a little more money then I thought I would. I have a shirt that I love the color of, but is really plain. I was walking down the bead aisle and this charm caught my eye. It was only $1.97, so I indulged myself. It had the same color of the shirt in it. I had the cording and clasp already in my stash of stuff. So here is the 5 minute creative ideal for today.

You must know by now, I can't push my brain to hard. *wink*wink*

But I do have something to wear with my plain aqua shirt tomorrow when I go to work. I guess you have guessed by now, that I, along with rainbows, shoes, purses, and a multitude of other things, I love wild & bright jewelry. It's almost the weekend !!!!

Heather's Friday Spark

Heather had a neat challenge this week. It was to make a shaped card. Any kind of shape we wanted. I guess my brain was still in the wedding mode, after catering my sister's anniversary reception, this past weekend. I made a card in the shape of a wedding cake. I made this card in the shape of what I would have had for a cake, if I had planned a big wedding. (Both times, just a preacher & 2 witnesses basically). I love Lily of the Valleys and it would have just been a plain and simple cake. But it would have had to have been chocolate. I didn't have any embossed paper like I really wanted, and didn't have the time to do it myself so I used the back side of a piece of K&Co. paper. I didn't have a template to go by, so I used index cards cut to the sizes below, used my corner rounder and adhered them together. Cut it out, put the yellow card stock ribbon on and the Jolee's lily of the valley embellishments. I did not use a sentiment, I liked the simplicity of it just plain. Thanks for looking.

Pat's Saturday Night Challenge # 22

Since I have been honored as August Guest Designer for Scrapbook Cafe, I will be presenting Saturday Night Challenge # 22. And don't worry, I am not trying to fill Pat's, (AKA Carol Davall) shoes on this.

The challenge this week is to make a card using a store bought greeting card that you have received. This will be your inspiration for a card.

Here we go,

You will need;
An old store bought greeting card
Card Stock
Some of you will choose to use stamps, embellishments, ribbons, etc.
You will first need to go through your old greeting cards that you have kept, because you thought "that's pretty, I may copy that someday". I chose this birthday card that a dear friend gave me for my birthday this year. It is a Hallmark card. It is from Marjolein Bastin's Nature's Sketchbook Collection.

I had photographed a picture of my daylilys last year to make a special friend a card. She had shared some of her beautiful lilys with me. After seeing what Bastin had done with her tulips, I decided to use the same technique with my photo card. On the Hallmark card the front tulip was embossed to make it stand out from the others. I decided to print another copy of my original photo, and cut one of the day lilys out and bring it to the front. I used some 3D dots to give it dimension so it would stand out from the other lilys. I also extended it passed the other two layers, cutting it off at the edge of the card.
Now isn't this one of the easiest challenges you have had in awhile. I can't wait to see all the differences in what we chose as our inspiration card. Thank you Pat, and Angela at the Scrapbook Cafe, for allowing me to do this.

Pat's Saturday Night Challenge

This week Pat had a really cute challenge. She had us seeing spots, or dots, or circles. When I came home this afternoon, I discovered my little Mama Robin, and her three little ones had flown from the nest. So I went and got camera, and took the last picture part of the story. I had been so excited to get home everyday and be flogged by the Mama, the minute I stepped out of my car. Then up the steps, I would go and peek and see how much the babies had grown. I knew this day was drawing near, but I didn't want it to be so soon. I was just standing there thinking about the circles of life, when that light bulb came on. "Pat's Challenge" it is due tonight. So this layout is the result of that light bulb. I thought the background paper looked like it had been splatter painted, with all these bleached out little spots on it. I just traced a circle template over all the pictures I printed out, and cut them out. Then I arranged them in a circular order starting with the new nest I found, then 3 blue eggs. . Next came the new hatched babies. They were not even dry yet in the 3rd picture. Two days later, Mama was feeding them, and I snapped a picture of them with their beaks opened. I didn't know they grew so fast. Seems like, within just a couple of days, they were outgrowing the nest. You can see one little one peeking out from behind it's siblings wing. Then the circle is back where it was began.....a empty nest. I added some K&K rub-ons to the top and bottom. Added the "Summer 08", and a little metal embellishment, that says observant.

Supplies used:
Daisy D's Vintage Paper
Making Memories Adhesive metal signage
Marcella by K
Bellisimo Monograms
K & C Lettering

Wednesday

It is raining at my house, and we love it. No storming, just a nice steady rain. I wished it would rain all day. My 19 year old grand-daughter came to visit and spend the evening with me last night. She is the best kid. Even with working two jobs, and college she still finds time for Grandma. She has never forgotten her roots. She is the joy of my life, that is for sure.

During the last 6 weeks, I have been showing you the pictures of my Robin family. Here is a couple of ones I took this past Saturday. Mama bird, doesn't even have a place in the nest anymore they are so big. Sometimes nature takes care of the weakest, and have been waiting for her to push one out. And at this point I don't believe she will. Look at the one picture really close, you can see the second one peeping through the other one's feathers.

There are three little ones in that nest. I expect to come home from work any day now and they will be gone. I'll miss watching them.

So much to do

I know everyone is really getting tired of this "anniversary" thing I keep talking about, but I want to share, another thing I have been making for the reception. These are little lamp shades made to fit on a wine glass. The shade is made out of vellum, that I printed in the same pattern as the programs, that I showed you awhile back. You can not see in the picture but I used a little butterfly punch, that looked like cut work, around the bottom. I also used a pair of those zigzag scissors to cut the template out. I filled the wine glass with different things, each table will be different. The one with the potpourri smells so good when the light heats it up. The pictures doesn't show it very well but when lights are all out it looks really pretty I think. I used those little battery operated tea lights. Sorry about the photographs, I can't get them right anymore.

Heather's Friday Spark

On Friday Heather posted her Friday Night Challenge. The directions were to make a monochromatic card. She has a wonderful example here. A friend's daughter is getting married on July 26th, and unfortunately it is the same time and day as my sister's vow renewal. I needed a card to send to her, so I accepted Heather's challenge as an opportunity to make Sammie a card. The dress was the front of a wedding favor box, that I paid 1.00 for ten at the Dollar Tree. I just simply cut it off and put it on top of the second layer of the card with some dimensional dots. I used some string pearls to outline the top of the bodice. and some stickles in side where the folds of the dress was depicted. Then used the piece of white ribbon that was include in the pack of boxes, to put around the waist. On the inside I simply stamped the word, Cherish. Everyone have a good week. Mine will be busy, but I think I work and play better under pressure.