Mommy & Marie and July 4th

Hello and welcome!

Today I have a very simple layout to show you.

These are pictures of my granddaughter with 

Sara, my daughter in law and Kelsie, my daughter.

I love the smiles in the pictures with Mommy,

I think they show the love they have between them.

The wonder in the ones with Auntie Kelsie was captured at

a 4th of July celebration with fireworks.

Thanks for visiting today,

I hope you'll come again soon.

Until then,

see the wonder around you.

 

Little Bills Fan

Hi everyone!

I know it's not football season right now,

but it will be here before we know it.

Today I have a layout of our littlest Bills fan

to show you.

Is he just too darn cute or what?
Living in the Buffalo, NY area, we are all

big Bills fans and we start 'em early.

These are pictures of my grandson,

he gets dressed in Bills clothes for all

the games and he'll be singing the 
Shout song before long.

I used my Silhouette to design and cut out

the Bills logo as well as the words on

the layout.

Thanks for stopping by today,

come again soon.

Until then,

Go Bills!

 

Use Your Colored Pages

Welcome!

Do you ever wonder what to do with those pages from

adult coloring books that you've finished?

This is one from a pad that I colored.

The design was done in gold and I simply colored the rest.

Simply cut the design to the size you want and

add it to a card base.  For mine, I layered it

with a coordinating mat.

Here you can see how the gold shows.

It's really very pretty.

If you have a page you'd like to use,

cut it up, use it on cards, on a scrapbook page,

in a junk journal, or even make an envelope from it.

Don't let those colored pages go to waste,

pull them out and use them.

I hope you've been inspired in some way today,

I'm glad you stopped by for a visit.

Come again soon,

until then,

color something.

 

Embossing 2 ways

Hello and welcome!

Today I have a couple cards to show you.

They were both made with the same embossing folder

using 2 different techniques.

This first one, I simply embossed a piece of 

white card stock with the embossing folder,

added a little bird that I cut out free hand

and layered it onto black card stock.

Then added it to a white card base.

Very clean and simple.

For this second card, I used the same folder.

I inked up the raised side of the folder and

ran it through my Cuttlebug with white card stock.

By inking up the raised design, you get a letterpress look

with the ink going into the embossed areas.
If you want the background to be colored and the impression

white, do the opposite and ink up the smooth side

where there is an impression in the folder.
I again made this a very clean and simple card.

I do love experimenting with embossing folders

and different inks and colors.  Sometimes to get a subtle

look you need to run it through with one piece of card stock

then again with another piece without reinking the folder.

Play with it and see what you can come up with.

Thanks for stopping by today.

 I hope you have been inspired in some way.

Come again soon,

until then,

play with ink.

 

One Year Ago

Hello blog fans!

Today is my daughter and son in law's first anniversary.

I thought I'd show you some of the pictures I've been 

working with for their scrapbooks of the wedding.

Yes, I said scrapbooks!
When I did Jaryd and Sara's wedding it ended up

being 6 full books and I'm pretty sure Kelsie and Brad's

will be about the same.
I don't have the layouts photographed yet and I have

so many more to do!
I will be sharing some of them very soon though.

Brad's crew

Their Ring Dude.

Brad - The Groom

Handsome guy!

They all love Brad!

My beautiful daughter, Kelsie - The Bride.

G-Pa gets his first look at Marie, the Flowergirl.
Mushy kissy face!

Bride and Groom at first look.

Our stunning granddaughter Marie.

The family.

Me with Kelsie.

Kelsie with Dad.

Jaryd and Kelsie

Brother and Sister.

With Brad's parents.

Brad with his Mom.

Kelsie and her girls.

Thanks for stopping today,

come again soon, I'll be posting some of the

wedding layouts and I'm happy with how they

are turning out.

Until then,

tell your family you love them.

 

Marie Layouts

Hello crafty people!

I hope you have something that is putting a smile on your

face today.
These layouts that I'm sharing with you today 

are doing just that for me.

These pictures were taken my by #2 daughter,

Amanda.  She's Kelsie's best friend.
I think she does a beautiful job with photography.

We got Marie a "princess castle" for the back yard

and she was so thrilled with it.

Some pictures of Marie that are just too cute to not

scrapbook.  I love that one with the pink eyebrows.

When she has her face painted or plays make up with 

Auntie Kelsie, she never wants to clean off her

eyebrows.  She's just too funny and 
just so darn cute!

Thanks for stopping in today.

I hope something here put a smile on your face.

Come again soon,

until then,

spread smiles!

 

Bread Art

Welcome!

Today I have something a little different to share.

I've found that I love baking bread and have 

really gotten into it recently.

I have discovered what I'm going to call

bread art and I'm enjoying it.

Here is my bread all nice and risen in my

benneton.

Once it had risen I shaped my loaves.

On large round loaf,

and a few small ones.

Using a sharp knife I cut designs into the 

risen bread before putting into the oven 

for it's final bake.

Here is the final result.

This was my first try at putting a design into 

my bread, so I only did something very simple.

No matter the design, it was very tasty bread.

Here is my second try.

I bought a "hand crafting bread knife"

and tried it out with these 2 loaves.

The knife is simply a handle that a razor blade

fits into.
I will definitely give some fancier designs a 

try as I learn more about this craft.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have been

inspired in some way today.

I hope you will come again soon,

until then,

bake something just for the fun of it.

 

Asher Layouts

Hi y'all!

Thanks for stopping by today.

I have a few layouts that I recently put together of my 

grandson, Asher.
He's getting pretty close to a year old, so you can see

I'm a little behind in my scrapbooking.  At least I've

gotten a bit done though.

I love this layout of Asher with Sara.

It's very tough for me to leave "white space" on

my layouts, but sometimes, a picture just needs it's own 

simple page.

This one is of Asher visiting with family and friends.

Marie loves her baby brother, which is 

evident in these pictures.

"Every girl's crazy bout a sharp dressed man"

Isn't he just the most handsome little man?

I'm so glad you stopped by today and I hope you

have enjoyed your time here and will come again soon.

Until then,

love a baby!