it's time again...

it seems that i only have the time lately to upload my lo for the a.c. blog challenge, but i have done many other los which i will find time to upload soon i promise. it was an 'all about me' challenge and i used one of the photos i took of myself in the june photo challenge month that i did with ruth and julie.


supplies:
cardstock: american crafts & bazzill
pattern paper and sticker: american crafts
butterflies: heidi swapp
letter stickers: doodlebug
bling: mm
hug: scrapworks

tfl!

how about another lo for the a.c. blog challenge???

this is one of my submissions for the american crafts design team, and since it was made using all american crafts products i thought i might as well use it for this challenge!

supplies:

cardstock: bazzill and colorbox

pattern paper, buttons, thickers & chipboard: all american crafts

pen: sakura

number stickers: creative imaginations

tfl!

it's a.c. blog challenge time again!

supplies:

cardstock: bazzill and colorbox

buttons, rub-ons, glitter thickers and pattern paper: american crafts

pen: sakura

tfl!

weekend fun!

so far it has been a fun weekend starting out with friday night when i had a nice relaxing dinner with nathalie and julie in st. lambert, after a very hectic day starting out at 6 am when i went for my blood test with the rest of the cattle at the clsc.

saturday we celebrated 3 birthdays, donald's was on monday, laura's yesterday and zoé's is on tuesday, and we finally had a great saturday weatherwise to do it on!!! here are a few shots from the day.



in this next photo, zoé is serenading us with a meow, meow, meow song and to keep the rhythm, her head went back and forth with the meows!



nemo took a surfboard ride which he liked better than going swimming!



elki was not in such a good mood and wanted her mummy until we blew up the alligator and then she was right in there having a ball with justin who was alligator wrestling, turning them upside down and just having some good old kid fun!



and to top it off the blowing out of the candles on the asked for strawberry shortcake, but zoé only watched as don and laura blew, she was more interested in using the candle end to sneak some whipped cream!



thanks for stopping by letting me bore you with our weekend photos!

a layout for the american crafts blog challenge

ok so i only own one american crafts pen, so i couldn't go crazy, but i did use it for the line under the title and the journalling and for the date on the photo!



supplies:

cardstock: colorbox and bazzill
pp, rub-ons & thickers: american crafts
brad: unknown
pen: precision pen by american crafts

tfl and good luck to everyone who enters!

oh happy day!

first reason to be happy is that i went to pick up lisa, dom and the girls at the airport today from their 3 week vacation in germany and the girls were so happy to see me they kept calling my name in the car all the way home. and of course i was very excited to see them too, because i missed them so much!

second reason is that i was chosen as the readers submission on scrapbook & cards today, well actually elki was since she took all the photos, i just scrapped them! ;)


i leave you with a layout i did a couple of weeks ago about some of the birds that have been coming to visit our back yard this year.

another week almost over...

here we are already thursday, where does the time go? the summer so far has been the pitts as far as weather is concerned but it has been quite good scrapping weather i must say. here are a few layouts that i did recently. elki turned 4 in june and this was one of the cutest photos from that day, she had just received this homemade necklace from one of lisa's friends.

and this one of course is justin's school photo from grade one, finished just in time for him finishing school and now they already have their list for supplies to start school again! sorry about the shadowy scan but some of the elements are pop-dotted.

a layout for the american crafts blog challenge

this week's challenge was for a red, white and blue layout, and here is mine!

supplies:

cardstock: colorbox

pattern paper, thickers and rub-ons: all american crafts

journalling spot: jillibean soup

pen: sakura

seed beads for the butterfly attenae

june's photo-a-day challenge layout

since the month of photo challenges is over, i got my layout done on the weekend. i used the mosaic maker to print up my photos, but then cut it all up because i wanted to lay my photos out like a calendar like i usually do, and the month started on a monday. not sure i like the way i did my journalling, might have to do that part over maybe with some hidden journalling!

friday already!

it seems that only yesterday it was monday, oh well, time flies when you're busy, right! i wanted to upload these layouts on monday, but what can i say, it's friday and i'm just getting around to it! this first one is justin's loves at his age, but i put what i know that he loves, but he also made a list and there are different things on it, so i might have to do another one for him!



this next one i scraplifted from a layout by heather bowser that was in scrapbook etc. mag. i just loved it so much that it's pretty darned close to the original! the interesting part about this is the polka dotted pattern paper that i used is the cut out piece from the layout above and i didn't want to cover it up.



a funny story about this last one. is that both times that elki came over to sleep lately we would go downstairs to my scrap room and while i worked on a layout, she would make a b-day card or father's day card. when i finished this one, i held it up to her and asked if she liked it and she put her head to one side and really took her time and thought about it and then said 'try it again!' well reg sometimes says that a layout may not be my best work, but i must say that elki is my harshest critic! :)

an interesting week...

on wednesday (our national holiday) i had lunch with some gals that i went to high school with and haven't seen in let's see, some 43 years! there was a school re-union, i believe it was about 10 years after we all left high school, but i didn't go, and then there was a class of '66 (our graduating year) re-union when we were all turning 50, but i didn't go to that one either. so this year we are all turning 60 and i finally caved and went and am very happy that i did. we had a great time reminiscing and telling some funny secrets of our years at john xxiii and asking what ever happened to so and so and where is he or she now and what are they doing? i was a little nervous about going because they were not the girls that i was most chummy with, because they were in the other class, but you would have thought so if you saw my welcome. it was as though we have been friends for all these years. and for 60 years old, we are like fine wine, we all aged pretty darned good, even though i do say so myself!!! i plan to do a layout about it, so hopefully they all won't mind if i post it and you can see for yourselves.

when i got home laura, don and justin were here for a swim so that was a nice home coming!

yesterday justin was here and we spent the day in the pool just to stay cool and tonight i get to see elki & zoe because it's lisa's birthday, so dom is taking her to a birthday dinner while i babysit.

what could be better than that, to see all my family this week and some really old friends too!

the weekend is over and...

i managed to finish 2 layouts friday night before elki came to sleep over at her 'nana's' on saturday! she has been asking for a long time, but when we tried it before, she always ended up going home because she wanted her 'maman'! we had a great time together, swimming, reading stories on the swing and painting her finger and toenails.

this first layout i started sometime during the week, so it was just a matter of sticking it down. elki got ahold of my camera a few weeks ago and went around her backyard taking photos of everything and so i of course, thought it would be a great subject for a layout!




and this one is don's loves at his age right now and came together quite quickly since i am doing them basically the same way!

continuing with 2 more 'age loves' layouts

i just made it under the wire with lisa's, since her birthday is in a week! as i said before, i found her list in a book i borrowed when we went to florida, so she started me on this 'love' lists at their present ages. i used 5 x 7's on both of them, so that i could use them for the a.c. blog challenge this week too!

here is laura's and now i only have the 2 son-in-laws to do!

i had lunch with my sister-in-law on a monday a couple of weeks ago and she said 'out on monday, out the rest of the week'! i had never heard that before but man oh man it happened that week and this week is shaping up to be the same, too funny!

here is another christmas layout, doesn't look like it eh? it started out being for a call, but i trashed that idea and just made it for the heck of it, because i could not follow the requirements for the call.

well i think i'm done with my christmas layouts now, moving on!!!

a series of layouts

i've been working on these for a few weeks and i plan to make everyone in the family one, but i'm missing a few photos to continue!

while i was in florida reading a book that lisa had lent me, i came across a little piece of paper with her loves at her age right now and i thought that this would make a great page, so there will be more along the way, these are just the ones i've finished so far. of course zoe can't talk yet, although she thinks that she can, so i've listed some of the words that she says at the moment!

weekend layouts

since it was such a crappy saturday and reg went to play golf in the rain, i ended up scrapping my day away and ended up with 2 completely different layouts.

this first one of elki, the artist, being so serious and oblivious to her photo being taken, came together quite quickly, and i even used up some of the old mme borders which i have had so much trouble using in the past because of their cream color!

and then i did this clean and simple one, go figure!!!

soggy saturday!!!

you would thing that we lived in B.C. rather than QC with all this rain! rain, rain, GO AWAY, come again another day!

here is a layout i did a few weeks ago about justin's week he spent with us down in florida for march break!



i think it's a good day to go down and finish cleaning up my scrap space that i started yesterday. my scrap table gets cleared off after each layout, but my desk seems to collect things that come into my room that don't put themselves away right away. i can only put up with that for so long and then i have to clear it away. but this time, i decided to re-arrange things when i started so it made much more work, but maybe it will be more efficient this way, i hope so anyway!

flower planting day and a layout!

we finally went to buy our flowers today and it was a good one for planting them, because it rained as soon as i finished. i planted 11 flats and 12 individual pots and oh my aching back! i think i will go and buy another couple of flats since there are still a few bare spots.

when i was finished i did my 2 mile walk on the treadmill while watching g.h. and then finished up this layout that i had started last night using the pretty 'my mind's eye' that i bought last week.

layout for the a.c. cardstock blog challenge

at the end of last year i bought this great package of 8,5 x 11 a.c. cardstock and was able to use the different shades of pinks for this photo i took of zoe on sunday in her cute little pink/green dress for the a.c. cardstock bog challenge. the only thing that isn't american crafts are the little prima flowers.

believe it or not !~!~!

this is a christmas layout! when it came for dessert on christmas, i had made a lemon meringue and sugar pie since in our family there are sweet lovers and some like it sour!!! well we certainly found out which category zoe fits into, because as soon as i started cutting into the sugar pie, she was all eyes and couldn't wait til i got some on a plate for her, she just dipped in her finger for a taste test!