Stars of Hope

Trash to Treasure. The manilla colored stars are punched from an old ledger card and inked with Creamy Carmel. The blue star is a piece of watercolor paper where I'd stamped the Jeep from Hit The Road onto and it wasn't clean enough for my tastes. (the rear tire was splotcy). I brushed Royal Blue reinker over it and LOVE that you can still see the stamp under it.

The rest of the paper was in the scrap bin. I love taking pieces of "trash" and making something cool out of it. Morgan named it "Stars of Hope" because we picked up pieces to make it and that's what we are doing at home too: Picking up the pieces.

Lots of changes going on for us right now. As of today, I am unemployed and I'm ok with that. We'll figure out all the stuff that goes along with losing half of a two income household. In the meantime, I'm going to enjoy the time with my family.

We went out and scouted hiding places for a lovely fairy letterbox sent to me for planting. It's going to be paired with my Hobbit door stamp. Hopefully it'll be a magical mini-series.

CD Case

Here's a little CD case that I made for my step-son Peter. We attended his Graduation at the end of May and he's been visiting with us since then. Bob wanted to send him home with all the pics of the event and his trip.

Below the little tree it says: life growth change new

The Graduate

This is a page Morgan made for Peter's Grad photo - she used embellishments we'd found on the clearance isle at M's. Now Dad just needs to print the picture/pictures to go on it.

Good Job Moo!

Summer Time - Clearwater FL

Joey's page. He picked everything and the layout himself. Sweet!

The photo was in '99 at Clearwater Florida. Amazing beaches. That green water behind me is not a photoshop thing. That's what it really looked like!

Not sure about sharing this - but nobody else knows and if something happened to me, Joey would never know the other significance of this photo. A copy of it went into my Mother's casket. She never got to see Joey on the beach in the bathing suit she bought for him.

Morgan Goes to New York

Morgan, AKA Moon Fairy, is starting a mini album of her own. I helped her with this cover page but the rest is going to be her own work. The doll is cut on the Cricut using the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge. I hand cut and colored the hair for her and she colored in everything but the vest. It should be a fun album when she's finished with it.

The paper and tag are some that I've had for 10 years. The font I've had since I learned to write. *wink* She's still not happy with her writing when it comes to something like this. I told her to just stop and draw the letters... she just looked at me. heh

Time Square

We have a ton of pics from our day trip to New York, but these are the only two Bob has printed for me so far. Not sure why I did the pink doodles, but what the heck right? LOL



Morgan and Joey were fascinated by the living statue guy. I have to admit that he was pretty cool and even better than the one on Monk! heh

Digital Thanks

*insert robot sounds here*

No no no! LOL I'm not talking about Optimus Prime thanking the humans of Earth, I'm talking about digital designing for scrapbooking and card making.










A lady in one of my groups asked for help designing a thank you card for a baby shower. She needed a turtle and didn't have one. On top of that, she has recently suffered a tragedy and just couldn't access her usually very creative side. So I put this together for her as inspiration.

She'll be making these cards using Chocolate Chip and Baha Breeze cards stocks - along with designer series papers and things.

Using your photo software is a great way to plan your layout. Especially when you are stumped for what you should create. You can easily switch out designs or colors when you get to your paper stash.

Works for greeting cards, ATCs, LTCs and layouts as well!

Don't Ever Grow Up

Morgan had a Survivor themed birthday party in 2008.  We had about 15 kids and I think everyone had a good time.  Activities included painting a totum pole, obstacle course race (look out for the aligators), scavenger hunt to set up the camp, King of the hill and some other stuff.  I've blurred her friends faces in any of the pics online to protect their identities. (dont' have parental permission and all that jazz)

Scraps.  We all have 'em.  Sometimes I throw 'em out and sometimes I don't.  This layout is all scrap paper.  Embellishments chosen by the Moon Fairy herself... again.  She really likes to help when she's in the picture.  heh