Sunday Scrappin' #32

My second one in a row!! Albeit a day later, but still....

My TaDa's: I actually did make a card this week. It was for my dad for Father's Day. I cased it from PaperCrafters magazine (June 2008). I liked the way the card looked so this is my version.

The stripe and dot paper are from packs I got at Wal-Mart. The green and white is cardstock I got from where I used to work in Cincinnati. The gold was from a pack I got at Big Lots. The buttons and ribbon are from packs I got at Hobby Lobby. And the "dad" is lettering stamps and ink from Wal-Mart. On the inside I just wrote, "Happy Father's Day". It was kind of fun trying to find the right materials to mimic what I saw in the magazine.

My ToDo's: Hmmmm, I don't really have much planned for this week. I may try to get some of my photos printed so I can do some scrapbooking soon. I've got tons of pics with my new camera. My challenge will be to decide which ones I want to scrap. I think this is where I need to get really organized and plan out what I'm going to do. I've never really scrapped that way, although I can see how that can be very productive.

I had an idea for the challenge but I didn't have the right materials at home. I may still do it. The youth pastor at church is getting married and I could make the card for them. If I do, I'll post it.

{Edit: Well, I did make one and it wasn't what I had in mind. I couldn't get my other idea to work very well. I'll have to keep working on it. This one was very rushed as you can probably tell. The ink wasn't dry when I added the hearts so I smeared it. Then I left my ink pad open and laid the card on it. I was so mad at myself. And I had no time to redo it or try to fix it somehow. So this was the finished product. I can't believe I actually gave it to them. Oh well, that's what I get for waiting until the very last minute.}
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Well, good luck this week and thanks for reading!

Sunday Scrappin' #31

I have been gone so long from Sunday Scrappin', I almost couldn't remember what to do.
I have been incredibly busy. I've been on vacation to Florida and then training for vacation Bible school, camping, and just finished up vacation Bible school. It's been pretty crazy here. But now I'm back and maybe I can participate in SS more often. I love the challenges and can't wait to start on them! Some of you who have visited me before might remember that I had a regular film-based camera. So most of my blogs didn't have pictures, or the pictures would come at a later time. Good news!! I got a digital camera and I absolutely love it!!! It's a Kodak Easy Share and has so many features, that nearly 4 months later, I'm still discovering them. It even has video and audio capabilities. So I'll be able to post my pictures as soon as I take them! Yay!

But you didn't come here to listen to me go on about cameras. So here you go.

My TaDa's are actually from the past couple of months:

This one was for mother's day.




















The background paper was from a pack I got at the Dollar Tree. The dark brown came from one of those scrap packs you can get at Wal-Mart. I think the flowers came from the dollar aisle at Target. I printed the letters with my laser printer and mounted them to the card on heavy chipbard. I used copper brads I got at my local scrap store. Sorry I don't know the name brands of everything. They're just items I picked up here and there.

This next one was for my brother-in-law's birthday.

Sorry about the glare. I was using my old camera which takes terrible pictures. I had gotten a winter paper pack from Wal-Mart and liked the colors. I found ribbon to match and stuck on a couple of jewels. I made the bow with jute. I stamped the tag with "Just for You". I think the stamp came from Michael's. They had a bunch of bins with little $1 stamps. I wound up making my brother a very similar card because I loved the colors and style so much.

Finally, this is a birthday card for one of the girls in my Sunday School class. She's always creating something and loves making things for people. I probably would have done a little bit more to it, but I ran out of time.

It's hard to tell but the darker orange square is actually vellum. The "Happy Birthday" was an experimental stamp when I first got the stamps and the ink. And the flower was one of my first attempts at watercoloring. I loved the torn edge look.

My ToDo's for this week are to get all my vacation Bible school supplies and decorations put away and organized. I have to, it's all over my living room!

I'm not sure I'll be able to get to the challenge, but I sure would love to try. Thanks for reading!

Recap

I haven't posted anything about what I've been doing or what's going on in my life for a while. I think we'll start back in April and try to give some highlights since then.

First, I went on vacation. My first real vacation in years. I went with my parents and siblings to visit family in Florida. We rented this great house on Venice Island. Here are a couple of pictures.

The house














The pool















The sunset















We had a great time, spent every day in the pool. I didn't burn and the family didn't kill each other so it was a good vacation. We didn't get to the beach except once the night before we left. And that was just to say we'd been to the beach. We had a good time anyway.

Hmmm, what happened next. Not much this past month. My baby sister (who is actually 24) and her husband are in Africa on a two year mission with the International Mission Board. They've been there since October 2007, learning the culture, the language and making friends. They surprised us all by announcing they are going to have a baby! We (the family) are so excited. I'm still trying to grasp the fact that she's married, now she's going to make me an aunt. I can't express how happy and excited that makes me. Every now and then, when I least expect it, it'll pop up in my head and I get all excited again.

I took my Sunday School class to the circus. Ringling Bros. was in town. I don't have those pics loaded on this computer, but I'll post a couple sometime. We had a great time. The kids got along with one another just wonderfully. I wish they could do that all the time.

That's not everything by any means, but the main things. There is one more thing I want to write about, but that will have to wait. I'm going to be late getting back to work.

Be sure to check out Joe Joe & Michael's blog (goodbyeharan.blogspot.com) and my church's blog (aurorabaptist.blogspot.com).

Thanks for reading!!!