Six for Saturday

1. What a full week we've had!

Our church ran a Vacation Bible School (VBS) this week. It was called Sky and it was fabulous! Great songs, activities, Bible stories and lessons! It was every morning from 9am to noon. The theme was "No Matter What... Trust God!"

Jonah and Sage participated and both really enjoyed it. Here's a photo of Jonah in large group reading the day's verse.

Austin was a junior helper... he ran the computer for large group & helped with the Wild Blue Bible Adventures station.

I was the leader of the Movies and Missions station, where kids made cards and bracelets for me to bring to the Congo in October. We also raised over $486 to buy mosquito nets. It was a really fabulous time!



2. We wanted to thank Nichole, our VBS director, with some flowers and a Tim's card, so I offered to make a thank you card for all the leaders to sign. As we were standing in large group, singing, I was looking at the background with the clouds and such and thought: "Hey, I have a hot air balloon stamp!" After that realization, this card came together fairly quickly!

I used PTI cardstock (stamper's select white, aqua mist), stamps (tremendous treats: birthday, think big favourites #5 (which I stamped in white and heat embossed)) and dies (clouds). I stamped the balloon on some Crate Paper patterned paper and cut it out by hand. For the clouds, I diecut them with some Sissix adhesive sheets on the front and then when I peeled off the backing, I poured on some Martha Stewart glitter to make them sparkly.



3. Jonah and Sage had their second week of swimming lessons, so every day around 3:30, we headed to the beach. On Friday, they both passed their level 4.

Yesterday, we packed a picnic supper to take along, so the kids could hang out at the beach as long as they wanted. (We did this on Monday, too--- they love doing this!) I took a bunch of photos.... here were two of my favourites:

4. We've been working hard on our yard this week... We've removed bushes and trees along the one side of our yard and Cameron built a platform deck. We just stained it tonight and I ordered a patio set from Home Depot, which will hopefully be delivered this week!




5. We took the kids to see the Avengers movie last night at the drive-in. So. Much. Fun. And lots of eye-candy, too. ;)




6. I made another outfit for Sage's doll this week. This one is a pretty plaid with a gathered skirt. I used some ribbon for the straps and trim...

... as well as for her matching sandals.

I hope you're having a great weekend!

Thanks for looking!

Another dress & a card

On Sunday afternoon, Sage suggested that we make another dress for her 18" doll (I posted the first dress that we made here.) 

We wanted this dress to coordinate with the dress that Sage is wearing here, but I didn't have a pattern, so I made this one up. Sage painted the beads for the straps.

I'm actually quite pleased with how it turned out! And of course, I had to make another pair of matching sandals. We'd gone out with Sage's doll on Saturday and her sandals kept falling off, so after some brainstorming with my mother-in-law, I came up with the solution of hot gluing some thin elastic to the front band and wrapping it around the back of her foot. It works really well! For the bases of these sandals, I adhered two sheets of fun foam together and then cut them out.

And, because I always like to share some papercrafting as well..... here's a card that I made earlier this year but never posted.

I used PTI cardstock (canyon clay, rustic white), stamps (label basics, think big favourites and rosie posie) and dies (rosie posie). I added the shading to the flowers with an SU! watercolour pencil.

Thanks for looking!

What I made yesterday...

Well, I'd hoped to do some crafting yesterday... but the day didn't go quite as planned. We've decided to build a deck in the backyard, and to do so, we need to pull out the bushes that line one side of our yard. We started on Friday evening and then I finished it yesterday morning, with help from the kids.

While waiting for the kids to be ready to join me outside, though, I quickly made this card, using this week's Make It Monday at Papertrey Ink: stamping on patterned paper.

I used Papertrey Ink cardstock (vintage cream, berry sorbet), patterned paper, buttons, twine, stamps (lace bouquet, pretty peonies) and dies (limitless layers ovals 2 1/4").

Then, in the afternoon, when I'd hoped to scrapbook or make some more cards, Sage suggested that we make this instead:

We made a summer dress for her doll, because all she had was winter clothes. ;)

I had a dress pattern, which we basically used for some of the pattern pieces, but then changed the style (the pattern had trim, shot sleeves and a gathered skirt.)

Sage was sad that she didn't have shoes to wear, so we made her some coordinating sandals, using some old foam flip flops that I'd gotten from the salon when getting a pedicure. I was pretty pleased with these. :)

I hope you're enjoying your weekend. I'm still hoping to craft today, but Cameron said we'll probably start building the deck this afternoon.... so I guess we'll see.

Thanks for looking!