Five for Friday

1. I have to say that I am totally enjoying our summer!
Last weekend, Austin volunteered at the Anime Convention
in Winnipeg, so I took Jonah and Sage in with us and we stayed at my mom's.
We went to the Assiniboine Zoo on Saturday...

They had a Dinosaurs Alive exhibit that Jonah really wanted to see.

They also had "talks" by the zookeepers every half hour or so
that we made a point of trying to attend.
That way, we got to see the animals a little closer and active.
My favourite was the tigers.

Isn't she gorgeous?

We spent five hours exploring the zoo and had a great time!

2. This week, the weather has been great, so we've gone to the 

beach three times (& are returning again today -- I love having a beach so close!)

We've met friends there, which has been fun for everyone.

3.  I've been working on completing my Summer pocket album for 2015.
I was a little "stuck" on it, because I think I felt that I had to personalize
each journaling card.
But this was keeping me from working it.
So, I purchased some Simple Stories and Pink Paislee journaling cards
and used those to put it together.

Here are a few pages:

It feels really good to have this project done!
Now I can start on this Summer's pocket album...


4. Today, I have a card to share for this week's

  Make It Monday at Papertrey Ink: Spritzed Stamps.

I decided to use my Sketched Florals stamp sets for the technique.

I was inspired by the following April Inspiration Card colour combo

to make my card:

Here's what I made:

I started by stamping my sentiment from Graceful Greetings on my watercolour panel

in versafine onyx black ink.

Then, I stamped my solid stamps in the colours listed above,

spritzing each one of them with water before stamping it onto the watercolour paper.

Once they were dry, I stamped over them with the coordinating lined image.

5. I'm super excited about this:

 Papertrey Ink's Masters Stamp-a-Faire is starting this evening,
so Sage and I wanted to share one of our favourite 

projects that we made using PTI for the Friday Night Gallery Reception.
Here's mine:

It's the card that I made for the June Papertrey Ink Blog Hop

and since I did some watercoloring on it, it made me feel like an artist. ;)

You can see the details on how I made it here.

And here's Sage's favourite:

We're looking forward to participating in the challenges tomorrow!

Thanks for looking!