Beach Day at Tybee Island

I drove down to Tybee Island yesterday for a day at the beach with Lynda and Aiden.  The day was beautiful and full of sunshine.  Aiden played in the water almost the entire time!  And the water was warm - not like the cold Pacific Ocean!  I'm so happy to be back on the east coast with warmer water . . . 

We found some type of bug by the water - can't figure out what it is - if anybody knows please comment and let me know!

Took a photo of the Tybee Lighthouse - I really want to climb that one of these days.

Memories

My goodness . . . this photo brings back a lot of memories!  It was taken in 1988 - the year Tyler was born.  Mom-mom hired a photographer, and we set up in her back yard.  She had a beautiful back yard full of flowers, trees, vegetable garden - talk about a green thumb!  I believe every one of us girls' dresses was handmade either by mom-mom or mama.

thinking*through*design has a new blog site and their first challenge was to use analogous color on a layout.  I thought this photo would be perfect to use blues and greens.

Here is a link to the challenge on their site:

http://thinkingthroughdesign.typepad.com/thinkingthroughdesign/2012/05/welcome.html

Supplies used:

Pattern Paper: Colorbok
Cardstock: Bazzill
Twine: MME
Flag Punch: Fiskars
Flowers: Michaels Dollar Bins
Journal Card: MME
Chipboard: ??
Ink: Quick Quotes
Alpha: Colorbok

Card Sketch - Frosted Designs

I made this card for the Frosted Designs Card Sketch - you can find it here:

http://frosteddesigns.blogspot.com/2012/05/card-sketch-18.html

I made the flower from a Fiskars star punch.  I punched 4 shapes and then layered them and added a button.  Other supplies used are: Cardstock from Bazzill, Kraft cardstock, all of the printed paper is from MME Lost & Found Breeze.  I don't remember the manufacturer of the "friend" embellishment - I threw away the packaging . . . 

Thanks for looking!

Mother's Day

I had a wonderful Mother's Day even though my kids were not with me :(

My mom and sister visited for the week-end and we were able to scrap!  Donna worked on her cruise album, Mama worked on some Red Hat layouts, and I played around with Donna's Texture Boutique.  And now I want one!!

Above picture is the Texture Boutique.  Below you can see on the orange paper the pattern I made - daisies.  I then added some pearl drops in the center of each daisy with my Viva Pearl Pen. I mounted it on some chevron paper, added a banner, then added a photo from Hawaii.  Very simple layout, but I love it and I especially love how that Texture Boutique works!

Daddy and Rick were here also - they hung out with Glenn while the girls scrapped.  They found a good seafood place at River Walk.  They said the oysters, shrimp, and hush puppies were delicious!

Frosted Design Challenge for NSD

One of the fun challenges at Frosted Designs was a color and theme card - you can find it here:

http://frosteddesigns.blogspot.com/2012/05/color-them-card-challenge-sassy.html

I chose the travel theme, with the main colors of tan, yellow, and green/blue.  I used 2 different ribbons I received in a RAK, and my stamped & colored image is the cute little bird from Stampabilities - poteeka bird.

Thanks for looking!

Garden

Oh my goodness, I was so tired from scrapping all day yesterday - 12 hours of scrapping, 14 layouts and 3 cards completed!  

BUT, not too tired to get our first garden going!  We bought this planter box kit from Home Depot, and it was so easy to put together - no tools required!  I lay down fabric to help keep weeds under control, then put in the soil.  I think I probably have too much in this little area - it's a 4'x4' - but I just couldn't help myself!  I have 3 tomato plants, 2 red bell peppers, 1 yellow pepper, and 1 green pepper, 2 okra plants, 1 squash, 2 cucumbers, 1 cantaloupe, 2 watermelon, and 2 pumpkins!  And in the side pots, I have rosemary, apple mint, and spearmint (you know, for all those mint julips!)

I'm looking forward to having some fresh veggies, and some fruit.  Keeping my fingers crossed that I don't have any critters come along and eat my crops!

More Creations!

I have been having so much fun today and I am getting so much done!

All of these are for the online crop at Big Picture Classes except for the 2nd one down - that is for the weekly layout challenge at Club CK (use stars on your layout).