Pirate Talk

So a few years ago my daughter was a pirate for Halloween. I always want my girls to be something fun and sweet and they always pick something not so sweet. A pirate was a nice middleground.

Here is a close up of the buttons and the chipboard letters. I had to get creative as I had no t or y. I needed TWO y's.

I love waxy flax as you know I absolutly think this is a must have for every single crafter.

Here is the "journaling" I know itis not much but it is a tiny bit.

I hope you had a great day.

Down by the seashore

Many moons ago I drove all by myself from Chicago to the Atlantic ocean with my girls. It was a huge thing for me at the time and I think it still would be today. It was amazing and wonderful I had them convinced that they would see blue grass in Kentucky, we stayed with a friend in North Carolina and then on the way home we went into a cool cave. It was an awsome vacation! I had always wanted to dip my toes in the Atlantic as I had never been to the east coast. It was very pretty and so much fun. The waves are so much smaller than they are in the Pacific.

Anyway you want to know about the scrapbook pages not my vaction. This is from a on line crop challenge over at Personal Scrapper. The task...do a black and white page and use either color or black and white photos as well. Originally I was going to do color photos but then I ran across these as I was getting together photo's for my 8th graders recognition night. I knew right away that I wanted to use these photos of my girls on the beach!

I loved the polka dots from the get go but struggled with the flowers and the rub ons...did I want buttons, did I want rub ons, journaling space, something else? I decided on the rub ons as they are cute and fun!

The flowers came to me at the last minute and then I decided to do the black brads in the middle and oh...so cute. Just like my little girls in their matching suits.

Oh how I miss those days when I could get away with matching outfits. These are very pretty to with fun bright colors. Perfect for a day at the beach.

I love the simplicity and the pure wonder that is caught in these photos.

I can't wait to get that new baby girl to the beach and man oh man I need a family vacation as the last one was apparently durring the summer of 2000. Yikes!

The paper is from the Silhouette level 2 paper pack and then you have the colonial white flowers and black brads and My Stickease letters.

Scrapbook and Share contest

Hi everyone, I just wanted to remind you to enter into the Scrapbook and Share contest with CTMH during the month of May. You can enter more than once and your pages will be fetured on the blog. It does not have to be CTMH but of course it would be great if it were. There are different categories that you can enter into and you can win $150 worth of free product!

Life is good...

So I got this new stamp set Treetops and I think it is so much fun I had big plan for it. I thought oh...these trees would look so cute if they had a few layers on them.

I was looking at my friend Debra's blog last week and she had the most adorable postage card. I have not made one of these in years and I have always just loved them. She also has a template that is available.

So here are the layers up close

I used Sweet Leaf, Chocolate, and Hollyhock. I also sponged the sky with Crystal Blue. The patterned paper is from Boom-D-ada.

I waned to make a card that was fun and pretty. I spent the morning going to garage sales with my three girls. It was so nice out and there were so many that we just put the baby in the stroller and found all sorts of good stuff. My mission was to find baby clothes. My little one wore 12 months for about 2 seconds and is now in 18 months. At first it was all about the boy clothes and I was starting to think that maybe their were no boys in the town. Then I found it...a garage sale with adorable girl clothes yeah! We went to a ton more of them and found super cute stuff and then we went to lunch. As I was sitting there with my girls I thougth...life is good.

That is why I decided to work with this set when I got home cuae life is good. When I look at this card it makes me smile. Spring is here and it also makes me smile. My girls make me smile. My husband makes me smile. Blue skys and flowers make me smile...

I hope you tood time to smile and I hope you think life is good too!

Color chef challenge 4

Well I am back to playing with my new favorite and now you can get your hands on this great stamp set too! Be Yourself is the May Stamp of the Month.

KJ's color challenge this week was all about the pink. With three girls I know all about pink and I love it!!! I decided that my girl needed to be drowning in dimonds and pink...perhaps she is off to prom. My daughter wore a pink prom dress a few years ago and was just gorgeous!

Danielle is my girly girl all about shopping and girly stuff. She humored me and played sports for a long time and was really good at it but her heart is on the girly stuff.

She is so super sweet (she even brought me a blizzard today for no reason yummy) and smart. She is about to graduate high school and go to Nursing school. I am very proud of her.

Here is another view of my card I needed to add some bling! Every girl in a fancy dress needs some bling.

I hope you had a chance to check out yesterdays' blog hop. If not please check it out.

Close to my Heart Blog Hop!

Welcome to our Close to my Heart Summer 2009 Idea Book Blog Hop!!! Over 40 Close to my Heart Consultants are celebrating the release of the Summer 2009 Idea Book. We have all made fabulous creations using the new products that were released hop right in and check out all of the fun fabulous new items available on May 1.

If you just came from Corey's blog then you are heading in the right direction. If not go back to Erin's blog to start at the beginning.

I decided that I had to have the Moon Doggie paper and coordinating stamp sets. Here are a projects that I came up with.

The small card and the scrapbook pages came right out of the Workshops on the Go. I just love the way it turned out. When I was making my page I was just so impressed at how easy it was to follow the directions. I love how CTMH always remembers the details.

I mean just look at this close up with the pretty layering and the stamped Paradise definition...so lovely.

Here is page two

and again the attention to details.

I left my Journey Journaling Spots loose so that I could journal all about our vacation.

This double page spread uses paper from the Moon Doggie level 2 paper pack, Journey Journaling Spots, My Steakease Assortment (level 2), Extreme Happiness, Building Block Alphabet, Crochetd Ribbon, Cranberry Ink, and Desert Sand Ink.

My next project was a quick little 4 x 4 card featuring the exact same stuff as I used for the page.

The next thing I want to show you is a card that I made using the Originals Book from CTMH. I used the Three Elements pattern and I just love how it turned out.

This card is a 6x6 design and uses the Level 2 Moon Doggie paper pack, Cranberry, Garden Green and Honey Ink. I also used brads and crocheted ribbon. On fun element of this card is I used my paper cutter to score the Indian Blue card stock and sanded it down to the core.

This is one of my favorite techiques. The ohter thing I did here was rock and roll stamping. Basically you ink up your stamp, stamp off and then come back around on your ink pad loading up just the sides of your image.

I tried to get a good picture for you here of the flower stems. I used Liquid Glass on the ends. It looks really cute. I also popped up the flowers.

Well I hope you enjoyed your time here at Paisleys Playhouse. Please come back often.

Next you are off to see Amy at My life...as a whifey!

If for some reason you lost your place or just want to make sure that you have visited all of the consultants please feel free to review the list below.

Close to my Heart Blog Hop!

Erin Herring http://www.tazzygirl2000.blogspot.com/

Penny Doucette http://scrappinpenny.blogspot.com/

Kathleen Rensel http://scrapbookaddictkath.blogspot.comj/

essica Moore http://www.jessicaspaperpetals.blogspot.com/

Colleen Porter http://www.inkemup.blogspot.com/

Sherry Thompson http://www.picturespatternsandpaper.blogspot.com/

Jen Patrick http://www.roxybonds-scrappin.blogspot.com/

Corey Acton http://scrappytimeswithcorey.blogspot.com/

Amy Edwards http://www.paisleysplayhouse.blogspot.com/ (you are here)

Amy Schultz http://www.amylizschultz.blogspot.com/

Tresa Black http://www.fabulouslyartsy.blogspot.com/

Leslie Kolic http://www.leannesscraps.blogspot.com/

Rebecca Garrison http://www.stampingwithbekah.blogspot.com/

Miranda Kurz http://www.scrampinwithmiranda.com/

Terrie Dodd http://my-life-in-real-time.blogspot.com/

Traci Tanimura http://www.creativetraci.blogspot.com/

Debora Mcelhany http://www.mcdoodlesscrappinplace.blogspot.com/

Katie Paterson http://katiepaterson.blogspot.com/

Michelle Robinson http://amaizenbluelady.typepad.com/

Lori Scott http://scrapinglori.blogspot.com/

Amberlyn Gentry http://amberlyng.blogspot.com/

Wendy Kessler http://www.myscrapbookingblog.com/

Meredith Burgess http://www.meredithsscrappylife.blogspot.com/

Vicky Sullivan http://www.sullyscrapandstamp.blogspot.com/

Caren Goldstein http://www.scrappycaren.blogspot.com/

Jena Devries http://www.livelovelaughscrapbook.blogspot.com/

Kami Welter http://www.scrappin4memories.blogspot.com/

Traci Godbee http://createwithtraci.blogspot.com/

Julie Banzon http://www.scrapbookiejulie.blogspot.com/

Laurel Seabrook http://www.want2scrap.blogspot.com/

Alisan Smith http://scrappinalistamps.blogspot.com/

Haley Dyer http://www.inkyscrapper.blogspot.com/

Dawn Heuft http://www.stamptildawn.blogspot.com/

Ali Creel http://www.scrapali.blogspot.com/

Helen Onulak http://www.hookedonstamping.com/

Jean McNulty http://stampinmaui.blogspot.com/

Aaron Brown http://aaronsbooth32.blogspot.com/

Shannon http://www.rockinstamps.blogspot.comj/

ulie Lane http://raggedydoodles.blogspot.com/

Carrie Zrodlowski http://carriesinspiration.blogspot.com/

I hope you had a great time!

The start of something big!

Here is the simple design that we came up with for my grandma's 90th birthday party this summer.

We are going to change out the white for Colonial White and the center will be sparkly but I need to go grab some stickles. Oh how I love that stuff.

I got a new box in the mail today so guess what that means? Yep...gonna be playing this weekend and that means I am gonna be bloggin...soon with new goodies.

I got me some Moon Doggie and some Tree Tops. I am going to be Makin' Waves and participate in some Extreme Happiness. Are you curious now? LOL I guess you will have to come back soon.

Enjoy the simple card. See you soon!