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!

Mama Elephant Photo Inspiration Challenge

I'm popping in today to share a card that I made for the 

Mama Elephant Photo Inspiration Challenge:

I was inspired by the soft colours, the curved edges of the bottles

and the liquids in the bottles to make my card.

I started with a soft stone card stock base.

Then, I trimmed some card stock (PTI's white, aqua mist, tropical teal, spring moss

& hawaiian shores) by hand, adhered it to a thin sheet of card stock

and ran it through my die cutting machine with Mama Elephant's Femme Frames scalloped die.

I ran some vellum through with the stitched rectangle die from the same set.

On this, I stamped part of the sentiment (from Mama Elephant's Smitten stamp set), 

using some washi tape to mask out the "you" & heat embossed it in white.

I die cut the "you" (from PTI's Wonderful Words) three times (twice in tropical teal and once in white) and stacked them together before adhering them to my card.

A few 4mm sparkling clear sequins & 6mm aquamarine sequins 

from Pretty Pink Posh finish it off.

I'm also linking this cards up to this week's

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Keep It Clean & Simple.

Thanks for looking!

ME Challenge -- January 2014

Today, I have a card to share that I made for 

this month's Mama Elephant Challenge, 

which was to use this photo as inspiration:

I was inspired by the pretty pinks in the photo, as well as the

sparkly elements, so I pulled out some glitter paper that 

I've had a while and made a card for one of the girls in my Sunday School group

(I thought she'd appreciate the sparkle!)

I used my Mama Elephant Femme Frames to die cut the scalloped background

and the card stock rectangle. 

For the inner rectangle, I stamped the numbers from Mama Elephant's 

Four Seasons stamp set and then adhered three different colours of card stock to it. 

Then I ran it through my die cutting machine with the stitched die.

I stamped the numbers and sentiment (also from Four Seasons) on a die cut circle 

and added a silver sparkly arrow (die cut using Reverse Confetti's arrow die).

I'm so glad it's Friday! 

I've been looking forward to tomorrow for a while now....

my friend and I are attending a twelve hour crop -- I'm so excited! 

Now to go and pack up all of my stuff....

Thanks for looking!

Five for Friday

1. I know I said I was hopeful for spring recently, but we got sooooo much snow this week that I'm beginning to wonder if it will ever come! But as an expression of faith that it will, eventually, arrive, Sage and I both ordered some spring dresses online. ;)

2. Well, my career took a bit of turn in the last couple of weeks. Some of you may know that I have been substitute teaching at our local high school for the past few years. Well, last week, I made a call and got my name added to the K-8 sub lists in our town as well. So, yesterday, I subbed phys. ed. in a K-4 school.... and it was quite fun. A few more injuries and tattling than I'm used to, but less attitude and drama. I'm looking forward to seeing how God is going to use this change....

3. There have been a couple of publications that have been released recently in which my work was published.

I have three cards in the March/April issue of Paper Crafts. One is for one of the sketches and the second is for my winning card for the World Card Making Day contest. This is the third card:

4. I also have three cards published in Card Creations, Volume 11.

Here's one of them, that was featured this week at Moxie Fab World.

5. And lastly, I want to share a card that I made using Sketch Challenge 02 on the Mama Elephant blog:

This card was fun to make! I stamped the arrows from On Target in harvest gold, aqua mist, enchanted evening and summer sunrise. On the banners (diecut with PTI's double ended banner die), I stamped some triangles from Trifecta and the sentiment is from Type It.

Can I tell you something? I was at the end of stamping my coloured arrows and goofed on the lowest enchanted evening one--- GRRR! I hate it when that happens, as I'm so reluctant to start over! I decided to restamp is on another piece of cardstock and adhere it using some dimensional adhesive. Then I added two more with dimensional adhesive to create a triangle which surrounds the sentiment.... so it looks very intentional.

Thanks for looking!