Indiana Covered Bridges album

New York City Album Slideshow

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

TAC Party of May 16

Here are the cards we made during the Angel Company Party of May 16th.




Tuesday, June 2, 2009

A New Era

We had been looking for a few weeks now... and here we are... Today Paul and I bought a Ford Escape to replace our beloved Dodge Grand Caravan. (And when I say "beloved," I do mean it... It simply was time to get rid of it but I am going to miss it...)

Now off to a new era with our just as beloved Escape!


Sunday, May 24, 2009

challenge card due June 20

Here are the pieces for the next challenge card...:

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Challenge card May 16

Here is what I started with:


Here is my take on it:

Card exchange May 16

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Cornelia's birthday

My niece Cornelia is turning 2 on May 14th. Here is her birthday card. If the card looks familiar, it is because I cased it from one of my own creations. I cased the card I made for Remi's birthday last year. I was very proud of that card, one of my favorites actually, so I chose to use the general idea again.
And would you believe that I do not have a stamp that says "Make a wish"????

Brigitte's birthday

My older sister is turning 45... Here's the card I made for her for that occasion. It looks nothing like what I had anticipated!!! I wanted to use brown and blue, and somehow the white got mixed... Stuff happens, right?



Joyeux Anniversaire Bibi!!!

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Thank you


Here's the card I made to thank the persons who helped in any way during the Pancake Breakfast fundraiser...

Thanks again... You know who you are!!!

Monday, April 20, 2009

Preschool Mother's Day Tea Party


Here is my current preschool BIG project. i am working on this tea party and thought it would be nice to hand out nice invites to every preschool mom... I made a total of 32 and I had fun for each and every single of them!

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Challenge card pieces due May 16th


OK so this one is quite interesting... What in heaven's name am I supposed to do with the rooster? oh, and also, it is supposed to be a Birthday Card... Time to think outside the box...

It is called a "challenge" for a reason... ;)

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Card exchange April 18

It started with this:

Then I started moving the papers around and ended up with this:

My dilemma was that I just could not pick which card I liked best so I had to test it out with people outside our exchange group, and the final card won...

Here is the inside of the card:


The cards were made using a stamp set from The Angel Company called "Be of good".

Challenge card due April 18th

Here is what we had to use, with also the requirement of using only black and white (and also silver and gold if desired...):
Align Center


And here is what I came up with:

I am actually quite pleased with this card. I admit I really like black and white...

Monday, April 13, 2009

random


A card I sent to Melanis, just because... I was sorting my paper scraps and came across everything you see on that card... I thought it fits our friendship perfectly...

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Thank you cards using scraps...


I really am working hard on getting rid of scraps... Here's the same paper as the one I used on the Mother's Day card (post below)... This card started out with the colors being reversed as shown below, but I prefer the final version...

original version:
I kept the flourish and sentiment background and here 's what i came up with after finding a piece of gold paper:

Friday, April 10, 2009

Mother's Day card


Scraps be gone... And there's more to come with the same paper...

bird card


OK, so I totally cased that card from the Spring 2009 CTMH idea book... I had been dying to do it, the only problem was that I didn't have a bird stamp. I finally bought a wood mounted one (Stampabilities company, the stamp is called Ornate Dove... isn't it gorgeous???). So here is my copycat version of it... Unlike the CTMH card, I am keeping this card without a sentiment on it, as a "just in case" card and will put a sentiment on it when/if the opportunity arises...

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Kindness Pledge

Funny what you can find when you clean your computer desk... I have been looking for this piece of paper for, never mind weeks, MONTHS!!! For the love of me, when I became the Preschool lead teacher I wanted to help the children learn about kindness and incorporate this Pledge which I learned from one of my previous Preschool mentors, Jacky... I just could not remember the words for it... Well, there it is... In an effort to not lose it again, I am thinking that posting it here will keep it safe...


KINDNESS PLEDGE
I pledge to myself
On this day
To try to be KIND
In every way
To every person, big and small
I will help them if they fall
When I love myself and others too
That is the BEST
That I can do!

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Challenge card due April 18th


Oops, I was so eager to get my card done while I has inspiration that I realized half way through the project that I hadn't taken a photo or scanned he items... Which is why the 2 pieces of black pattern paper are rounded and one of them was trimmed. They didn't come that way! The rest is the real deal... The additional requirement is to use only black and white, and gold and silver if we want...
The card is now finished but I won't share it until online until after the "due date." So come back to my blog on the evening of April 18th! See you then!

Saturday, April 4, 2009

"Ugly Paper" class












OK... some of the papers were indeed ugly. But Melanis once again used her magic touch and showed us how she did it...

Stampin' Up party card

Here is the card we made with Dana, at our last SU party...