Five for Friday

Happy Friday!

1. We've been a little busy since summer started.... the kids were done school last Friday,

so we drove to the beach for a quick photo shoot after picking up their report cards.

On Saturday, we drove to Winnipeg to take my mom out for lunch & then 

I took the kids to see How To Train Your Dragon 2 (which was excellent, by the way!)

Jonah wanted a date with me (so sweet!), so on Sunday, he & I went to see Transformers 4 

(which was also very good -- my favourite Transformers movie for sure -- Hello, Mark Walberg! -- but just a warning, it's almost 3 hours long.)

2. Our Canada Day celebrations got rained out, but we were able to have a little fun

with some sparklers on Wednesday evening when we were invited to a BBQ at our friends' house.

3. Jonah was pretty thrilled that Lucy came over to spend the day with us yesterday.

4. I just want to let you know that Heidi Sonboul is doing a giveaway 

on the Chickaniddy Crafts blog this weekend, so you might want to check that out.

5. And I have a shaker card to share that I made for the Mama Elephant & Me Challenge,

which was to be inspired by this photo:

I was inspired by the colours and the feeling of celebration,

so I pulled out my Mama Elephant Femme Frames & Inline Alphabet dies,

as well as my Wanderlust stamp set.

I diecut my card stock using the Femme Frames dies and then die cut a SSS speech bubble from the 

kraft cardstock to make a shaker card, using Pretty Pink Posh wooden stars & sequins

(tangerine, 4mm lemon meringue, aquamarine).

I stamped on the white background with Wanderlust stamps, which I inked up in 

canyon clay, hawaiian shores & lemon tart.

I layered the white die cut letters over some canyon clay card stock, which 

I die cut using Papertrey Ink's Get a Handle on It die.

I'm also linking this card up to Virginia's View Challenge #5: Die Cut 
& to this week's Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Shake It.

And, before I go.....

 I just want to remind you that the Reverse Confetti peeks start tomorrow

-- you won't want to miss these!

Thanks for looking!