Sunday evening scrap time

Marge and I started the off, like we do A LOT of Sundays, at Archiver's and Michael's. Can't say there was much going on, but it did get me in the mood to do some scrappin' which was good. Sad thing is, I had to come home and take a nap before I could get started! What is is about shopping that is so exhausting??

Tonight I made a birthday card, which turned out way better than I thought it would, thankyouverymuch. It was one of those where I started it and about halfway through, I thought I should trash it and start over but in the end, it all came together. It's funny how, sometimes, the simplest things can take the most time to make! I mean, there's nothing ultra fancy about this card. Sometimes you've got it, sometimes you don't. I also made her a check book cover for her birthday, which is June 10th. I wanted to get these things done so I could give them to her this weekend.

My Birthday!

My actual birthday is tomorrow but we celebrated last night. A group of 12 of us went to O'Charley's and then back to our house for cake and ice cream. James made my cake(s)..Marge took pics for me, I'll post them when she passes them on to me. My wonderful in-laws got me a new camera and some scrapbooking supplies. YAY! My friend/sister Gerri (she and her husband, Mark and their beautiful baby, Colin - our Godson partied with us) is taking me on a "romantic getaway to South Bend, Indiana (www.theblueheronguesthouse.com/home.htm) to a B&B and an art show this weekend! Not really my birthday present, but it's a long story and a "convenient" excuse =) THEN, my best friend Teri made me these adorable note cards!!! I just had to share....

Father-in-law's Birthday Card

Nothing fancy, but another card....

An Anniversary card and Wedding card that I "found" on my camera

Somehow these got saved to the internal memory of my camera (I HATE this camera...can't wait for my birthday - only 16 more days!).

Father's Day Card

I know it's a little bit early for this one but got some inspiration and figured I'd better run with it! Not a complicated card but I DID make the cute little shirt on the front! I added the inside of this card, too...just a couple of stamps that I thought were really cute.

Baby Book

My best friend of almost 26 years, Misty, had her first baby in January. YAY! As one of her baby shower gifts, I put together a few pages in a scrapbook for her. She's not a scrapper but thought this way she could at least have something unique to put some pictures in! My mother in law and I worked on this together and I was so happy with the way that it turned out! I haven't asked her if she's put any pics on the pages yet or not =) PS - this is my first attempt at doing a slideshow! I hope the ones in the future are better and easier to do!

Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all you mommies out there! I'm a mommy...of 4-legged babies...and reminded my husband of that. I got a great dinner at an Irish Pub last night for it! =) Today, we enjoyed a relaxing morning, slept the early afternoon away and then had his parents over for Mother's Day dinner. It was nice uneventful day.

Here is the card that I made for my mother-in-law:

Just a small update and a picture of my "kids", for those of you who don't know them...

I DID get a Mother's Day card started and finished yesterday. YAY! However, I can't post it just yet since my Mother-in-Law hasn't gotten it yet. Wouldn't want to spoil the surprise for her! (Not that it's extra special or anything...you know...)

An update on my birthday cards. Well, one of them anyway. The card with the bear on it was made for Jenna, the baby that I watch 5 days a week (along with her 4 year old twin siblings, James & Jayne); she turned the big O-N-E on Saturday. Her mom is also a scrapper and I felt that I'd be "critiqued" for some reason. =) Well, the party was on Sunday...on Monday morning Krista commented on how great the card was. She said that she didn't even give it a second thought while opening gifts, she thought it was so good that I bought it and didn't realize I'd MADE it until she went back through everything that night. Is that a great compliment or what?! Not to toot my own horn but I thought it was pretty good, too. It was one of those where I almost didn't want to give it away =)



And now, a picture of our "children". (From L-R) Blanche, a 9-ish year old Chihuahua Pug, Mufasa - "Moo", a 15 month of long-haired Chihuahua and Happy, a 13-ish year old Lhasa Apso Poodle. We're sick about these dogs and I sometimes wonder if we should have children *laugh*

My accomplishments from today - 3 birthday cards!

I've been THINKING about these cards for a while now, knowing that the birthdays were coming up but couldn't get the inspiration to work on them. Just as I was ready to throw the one with the bear into the trash, I looked at Sizzix's site (www.sizzix.com) and found a way to make the bear go from blah to oh-so cute! I love the way it turned out! I have to admit I put about 4 hours into this card...honestly! I don't know what the deal was, it just wasn't doing what I wanted...couldn't get the mental image on the paper! The other 2 are similar...I was running out of time and loved the design so I decided to do the same one for our niece, Chloe and James' other goddaughter, Alyssa (Chloe is also his goddaughter). Funny how something that looks so simple can take so long to put together! I've just started really using my Sizzix machine, instead of just buying dies! I'm loving it!! I'll be making Mother's Day cards this week along with getting my shopping list ready to make Eggplant Parmesean! Oh and I'm having a Close to my Heart party on Saturday! Another busy week ahead of me....