Card Monday

I'll confess. This card is not new. I made it for Cassie Jones' birthday at the DD site. Have I made any new cards since then? Well, yeah. I'm a little OCD about cardmaking. (Which is odd because I'm not nearly as OCD about actually sending out cards. --and when I first typed this in---I typed in OTC--which wouldn't have made any sense at all.)

However, I hadn't shared this one here yet, so I thought I would now. It's digital, which is kinda cool, because I could change the name and use it again if I liked. My non-OCD card sending self never notices that a birthday is coming up. I usually only remember a birthday on the day itself. E-mail to the rescue and no one would ever know that it's a re-gifted card (unless they read it here, of course)

All the credits can be seen here.

Layout Wednesday

Well, I'm removing this post because the layout was requested. :) so...just ignore this spot.

meet my new best friend

He's cute, fun, colorful and knows how to make me smile.

(He's also a bit of a bird brain, but I don't hold it against him.)

One of Ta Da's new lines, E-I-E-I-O features him and a few other colorful characters.


and there's this one:

and this one:

and a few things I've created with the lines. (and I have to preface all of these by saying
a) my camera is on vacation. A good friend of ours had his SLR camera die the night before he and his family were slated to leave to go out west. So mine is out west with them. I'm going through withdrawal.
b) the scanner I used does not like 3D things. So as a result:
c) things are a bit blurry, fuzzy in places. Just overlook that, please.)

oohh...another result of my presentation limits. I love this cool laser spider cardstock. In real life, it's a nice fall orange, not this 70s barcalounger color.

Now, see this cardstock is really a splashy orange that matches the diecut flower. I don't know what that scanner has against orange cardstock. It's never done anything to it.

whew, no orange. but the large brad is kind of fuzzing up the works.

k, I'll quite whining about the scanner. There's my bff again.

and this layout. If you can't read the journaling, it basically says that Nate talked his way into getting lollipops as part of his homework assignment. He may just have a future in politics.

Closing

I've known for a little while but it's now official.

Scrapsupply is Closing

Sad doesn't quite cover it. I've been a member there since July 04. Made the design team a few months ago. Scrapsupply's been my home base for paper scrapping for some time. I always knew I could count on Wendy whenever I needed items and they'd be shipped so quickly, I wouldn't have time to blink. I received lots of inspiration from the other members and have formed friendships as well. My heart goes out to Wendy and her family at this time. Thanks to them for creating such a wonderful place for all these years.

Layout Wednesday

Layout using pictures from this past weekend. Everything from Designer Digitals. Full credits can be seen here.

Card Monday

What? You say it's Tuesday. Shhhhh. Maybe no one else will notice. Today's card is a simple one brought to you in part by my obsession with Jesse's Superhero Bubble brushes. I've lost count of how many times I've used them.

The image is also from Designer Digitals. One of Katie's vintage photos. It just seemed like it was meant for the sentiment, so I couldn't resist.

It was a busy and yet, lazy weekend. Not sure how that makes sense, but it was a good blend. Went to the fireworks on July 3. Took some disappointing fireworks photos...yet again. For some reason I failed to realize that we were right under a light pole. You think I would have noticed something that big.

Then on July 4th, we played with sparklers to create photos like these. I'm told it's a tri-force. I'm guessing it has something to do with video games.


After church on Sunday, we picked up some lunch and headed over to the Toledo Botanical Gardens to eat it. We didn't realize that the first Sunday of the month are open art days. So we had the bonus of checking out lots of projects and the boys tried their hands at a few, including these clay finger puppets. In the evening, we went to a new arcade in the area. Mark set new high scores on two of the games. I'm so proud. ;)

I paid .33 for this photo. I have so little photos of NAte because he's forever ducking the camera. (Note: the finger puppet above was made by him but he only wanted the puppet photographed, not him.) So we struck a bargain yesterday. $1 for 3 photos. ...sigh....(ps. the chair he's sitting on was made by Austin at construction camp earlier this summer.)

Then we went for a walk at a Metroparks we hadn't been to. For this picture, they were sure I was going to get stung. Lack of faith, I tell you.

Can't resist pictures like this of my younger two. And if you squint,you'll see a speck of red in the distance. This was Austin. Not because he really wanted to get to the destination. He was intent on avoiding the mosquitos.

Someone was worn out when we got there. Then he found out we had to turn around and go back.

After enjoying the view.

And Josh received a bit of sympathy from Caleb. And then me later on. (Although I have to admit it was more self-preservation on my part. The mosquitos were bloodthirsty and we were getting attacked wholeheartedly at Josh's pace.)

Then we headed over to Crackerbarrel. Our walk was over 4 miles in total. I also had biked two miles in the morning. At the restaurant though, I think I undid all my calorie deficit and clogged all my arteries in one sitting. I'd show the picture of the fried apples but I didn't take one. I just ate them instead.

Layout Wednesday

A bit of a winter blast for today's layout.

Journaling:
Now, I know you couldn’t possibly be planning to throw that thing at me. After all, I’m the woman who gave birth to you. Not convinced? I also happen to be in charge of your video game time. That’s right. Go back to your fort building. I always knew you were a smart child.
Credits can be viewed here at Designer Digitals.