Page I did today for the CMK scrappy formula - wow had forgotten I got these FABULOUS papers from Scenic Route - Oh I think SR is like my favorite pp to work with for summer. It just makes pages just fall together! DH went to my MIL's - my fair lady has turned 89 now and is getting feeble bless her sweet heart and alot of the family feel she needs a nursing home but the lady has all her mental facilties and she wants to live at home. We are doing everything we can to make that happen but if it doesn't she does NOT want to live in a NH so we promised her she always has a place with us. Hope you are having a wonderful weekend! I'm scrapping and just recovering from a really busy week at work!

Ok I'm like sitting on top of the world today. Got my page (shown below) highlighted on the Webster's Page - see here:http://websterspages.ning.com/photo
Then got an email that another page was highlighted on the jillibean site - see here:http://www.jillibeansoup.typepad.com/

then I got another email that scrapstreet (an on line magazine) wants a mini album I did to feature in their on-line magazine. Totally made my day!!!!

Another weekend! I was hoping for a quiet after the last couple. We had all of Charlie's kids and grandkids here two weekends ago and went all weekend long - out to Luckenbach and then Fredericksberg, then this last weekend my daughter, Kim, and her army (5 kids 3 dogs!) came down for Brandy's dance recital. The girl's went to the recital in the evening - talk about a HUGE studio - they have to break it up into two recitals - 50 numbers in the afternoon - another 50 in the evening. Being in the senior group since I don't remember when Brandy has always had to dance at both of them! Anyway I've never seen her dance better - she was awesome at every dance she dances including ballet. She hated ballet in HS and it showed but she's dancing now like it's been her favorite since she was 3!!! This weekend is a little quieter but we will celebrate Father's Day tomorrow although my dh is doing the cooking. Got the ribs all ready to stick out on the grill - y um!!! This is a page I did yesterday for the CMK Scrappy Formula using some yummy Webster's Pages. I've been busy for the last month getting pages ready to submit for the CHA core'dinations team. The more I work with their cardstock the more I love it! Well happy Father's Day out there to all the fathers I know!

Oh got my new June kit from IAAS! Oh what fun! Loving the colors of the Chatterbox paper in this kit. Just works wonderful with all the summer bright photos! Lots of goodies here and lots of the new prima products to show off. And more the new American Crafts letter stickers in the script.

My first month with the core'dinations DT. I'm still on cloud 9 here. The more I work with this yummy cardstock the more excited I am about it. Here are a few of my first cards and layouts using the core. I find myself looking around everywhere for inspiration on what I can use to emboss and bring out the underlying colors of this fun cardstock. On the first card here I used the fish grill grid from the barbeque to create the gridwork pattern. On the second card I used an embossing card from my Cuttlebug. I have also found that a color wheel is alot of help with using only cardstock - I've found some creative used for using colors that I might not have tried before. For the third card I have used some of the Black Magic together with the core'dinations cardstock. For the background I used the traditional embossing card and then sanded the paper. For the upper portions of the butterfly I punched out and embossed them and then layered them. For the larger background butterly I took a piece of Tim Holtz chipboard butterly wings and sanded over them and then cut them out. Love how it all came together. With the first layout I used different embossing folders and then sanded the different pieces. For the flowers I alternately sanded a few pieces and then left more natural but then tore circles to create the layered flowers. For the last page I opened up an embossing edge and laid it underneath the outside and sanded to create a border about 1" inside of my edge. The outside I just sanded some. Then to make the circle I used my Creating Memories circle cutter and sanded over the concentric circles. Loved how that turned out. Lots of sanding, tearing and embossing. LOVE this cardstock! I've even evaluated the soles of my shoes for inspiration.

Prom was last night for Jason. He was ready by 1:30!!! They all looked so nice! This group consisted of a group from the soccer team and there were 6 couples all together who had gotten a limo for the evening. Here's just a few of the pictures I took. Preston (with the shaggier haircut) is Jason's best friend and like my second son. They have been friends ever since we moved out here back in 1999.

Another Friday ! YEAH! I've been through the health check up this week - went for a pap, mamogram, bone scan, got two cortisone shots in my hip for some tendinitis, got my two allergy shots, went for my work physical and had my annual TB test. I still have a colonoscopy to get done and my teeth cleaned and I should be good for another 20,000 miles! I also had a wreck yesterday - first time I have ever in 43 years of driving hit anyone. Someone stopped in front of the suburban that was in front of me without a blinker to turn and they slammed on their brakes and mine seemed to lock and I hit her - yuck - hate dealing with all this!
Oh a good note - here's the page I did for IAAS for their homepage this month. My g-nephew, Brayden - darn he's cute! There were so many Jenni Bowlin and other goodies in this fabulous kit!

Then this is a page I just did with the Noel Mignon kit - so many fun yummies here too!