Sweet Layout

Here's another layout I did based on a challenge from the If It's Groovy blog. I am really loving challenges like these. I have so many pictures, events and ideas I want to scrap that sometimes it's hard to settle down on one. Using a challenge, whether it be a sketch, a song or a theme, gives me a starting point. It's easier to search my stash of pictures and supplies and put them together. It also helps with scrappers block.

The June challenge at IIG is to do a "Candy" layout. I had some candy stickers on hand but no candy pictures simply because my darling children don't eat candy (Ha! Right! Then why did Kaitlyn only want the largest bag of dum dum suckers I could find for her birthday??) I decided to take this theme in a different direction. At work there are a few of us who share a love for trashy romance novels which we call brain candy. It was a simple matter of taking a couple pictures of some of my books and going from there. I should mention that I also used a sketch from the MSH sketch challenge(this one was based on # 20 from 52 Sketches... 52 Weeks).

Summer is Here!

Yesterday brought the last day of school. I always look forward to it thinking its going to be so much easier with only getting myself out the door in the morning but usually a week or two into summer break I am reminded that there are other problems. But it's the first official day of spring break today and I am not going to worry about that just yet.

This past week has been busy, busy, busy! We decided to make some teacher gifts this year. Earlier I posted a pic of the thank you card for Kendra's teacher. Well, Mrs. Bates also got a flower bouquet. We figured she would probably get lots of flowers and we wanted to give her one that would last longer. Before you start thinking how clever and talented I am, you must know that I completely copied this idea from a post on the cricut messageboards. I will have to go back and find her name but saw these posted and knew we had to do them. We cut flowers from the Walk in My Garden cart and pop dotted them to wooden skewers. We bought a ceramic pot from Michael's and added some flower foam and moss to poke the skewers into. Voila! A flower arangement that doesn't require watering!


We also found another great craft on the cricut message boards for Thank You Candy. That place is a wealth of information and ideas!! When I find her name, I will definitely post and give credit. This was another joint effort between Kendra and myself (just like the flower bouquet). This one involved covering theater size candy boxes with two different cardstocks (I used the DCWV Elementary pack). Kendra cut an apple from the Doodlecharms cart. The apple was layered with red, green and brown and shadowed with black. She then cut "Thank You" from the the Alphalicious cart in yellow and shadowed in blue. I used stickles to add some oomph to the whole design. After the stickles dried, we glued it all together and added a red raffia bow. We made 14 of these. Kaitlyn took 4 to school for her house teachers and Kendra took the other 10 for current teachers, past favorites and the principal and staff. We were so impressed with how these turned out that they are going to become our new birthday card. (We are currently making our first for a party today... will post a picture when it is done).



This end of the school year turned out to be a little more crafty than normal but we had a great time making it all.

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