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Really like this photo of me and the girls. Looks like we are waiting for the scrappin' bus to pick us up and whisk us away to a crop! LOL It's fun times like these that I realize how blessed I am to have such a fantastic group of gals in my life.We can all just be ourselves, have different beliefs and ideas, support each other, laugh with each other, cry with each other, eat together, shop together, celebrate joys, share pains, and oh yes, sometimes even get some scrappin' done! How many of you out there can say that? How many of you have found true friendships? My hope is that you all have that, but if not, that you find it one day. At one point in my life, I pushed everyone away, so to have these strong, kind, caring, creative women in my life now is really amazing to me. Now go hug your sista!
Hi! I am the host of this week's BBTB2 Challenge. I chose the penguin with umbrella cut from the Jolly Holidays cartridge. I specified that the projects did not need to be winter or Christmas related. I thought it would be fun to do a penguin project in July. Think cool thoughts during this summer heat! I created a 12x12 wall hanging. I started with a base of large polka-dot paper, then a layer of raindrop and umbrella cardstock. I used a scrap of banner paper cut following the arc of the banners as the "rainbow". I cut with a blade around a few of the umbrellas and slid the rainbow banners beneath. I added a strip of cloud paper to the top. I cut the penguin from brown and light blue cardstock, embossing the brown and embellishing with a swirl clip, ribbon, eyelets and chalk. I cut the umbrella layer from pink polka-dot paper. I added letter stickers and Stickles to the umbrellas and the arcs of the banners, and blue epoxy dot "raindrops" to the background paper. Check out the other designer's ideas at BBTB2 and chill out with our penguin challenge this week!
This week's BBTB2 challenge was to use the mittens from Joys of the Seasons. This cut made me think of mittens I had when I was a kid, with the little string that connected them so I wouldn't lose them. I made the mittens into pockets by running a line of glue along the edges of the mittens and adhering the shadow layer of blue cardstock together. That forms a pocket where a gift card, candy, or other small gift can be placed. I added shredded paper as filler sticking out of the top. I embellished them with blue snowflake patterned paper, cupcake paper flowers with pearl brads, snow ball wired ribbon around the cuffs, and blue rhinestone flowers. I attached the two mitten pockets with wired ribbon. Check out the other adorable designs at BBTB2!
Recently by brother married his long time sweetheart, and I was a bridesmaid in their wedding. I just love my bro and his fiance', I mean wife! LOL I miss them terribly living so far away. My hub and I traveled up to PA for the wedding. It was a fabulous day! The bride was gorgeous, the groom was handsome (his is my brother, after all) and the reception was beautiful and tons of fun. I will post a pic of the bride and groom when I get a good photo. For now, here I am in my very fashionable bridesmaid gown. Surprisingly it was very comfy. The weather in PA was just right too. No need for air conditioning at my mom's house, where we stayed. It was a short trip, but we still managed to squeeze in my hub's family, lunch at Abe's hotdogs, the rehearsal and dinner, wedding, and lunch at Pizza Perfect. There's never much down time when we head north, but our families get to see us so it's worth it.
Miles of Smiles,
Happy Monday! Ok, maybe that's a stretch...are Mondays ever really that happy when you have to go back to work? lol Weekends are WAY too short! I created this project for this week's challenge at BBTB2. The designer's challenge for this week was to use a bird cut. I cut the bird from the Serenade cartridge, added glitter and swirly rub-ons, inked the edge in brown ink, and added rhinestones to the edge of the wings. I attached it to the card with foam dots and bent the wings up for added dimension. The background pennant paper is Heidi Grace. I border punched the top and bottom edges and inked all the edges. I added a row of buttons to one of the pennant lines in the paper. Finally I added a foil flower, bending up the petals, layered with a pink fabric flower then an adhesive button to the center. Please check out the other designer's creations at BBTB2. Those girls are the most talented! Have a wonderful week! A four day week for me, then a four day holiday weekend! Woot-woot!!!
