This and That

I thought I would share the card I made for one of my neices recently. Again I have to say that coloring Mo Mannings images are just so much fun. As Meggie likes to cook I thought this image was perfect for her.



The areas to color were pretty small so not much shading but still I like how it came out.

And here is just a little image for fall. I haven't made a card with it yet. I have it tacked up in my office to look at everyday getting me in the spirit of the season.
Happy Columbus Day weekend!

Oh My Stinkin Heck check out this page!

I am a lover of all things Kerri Bradford. Kerri is so amazing! Really her designs are just a go to for any page you are creating. I have gone through many stages of scrapbooking...the sticker phase, the embellishment phase, the simple phase, the artsy phase....and now I am finding myself knee deep in the Kerri phase! Using cuts from my Silhouette with my pages...Hello!  Don't get me wrong I love a hybrid digital page just like the next scrappy girl but these cut files are just great!

Pictures.....die cuts.......DONE!



These are from her This and That Autumn kit. I went pumpkin shopping this past weekend to get what I needed to make a pumpkin topiary for the front entry and took pictures like any other crazy scrapbooker would do knowing I was going to make a page to commemorate the event. And yes...pumpkin shopping is considered "an event".

As always, my pictures are not perfect and my page has some design flaws but I love it! It may not have a lot or any journalling to tell the story...so be it. Pumpkins...it's about the pumpkins. Who cares that I drove to Sudbury and went to Russell's Garden Center and took over an hour or more to pick out three perfectly sized pumpkins to make a pumpkin topiary because I saw this idea on Better Homes and Garden!

Thank you Kerri for your wonderful designs. Thank you also to Nicole Magourik who I totally scrap-lifted my design from. CHECK! Another moment documented.

Pumpkin shopping

Took a trip to Russell's Garden Center to buy pumpkins. I made a pumpkin topiary for the outside entry way. Want to see?

The ugly concrete wall I am trying to ignore!

I have a scrapbook page coming on this momentous event! For now I am starting to enjoy the colors and feel of fall. Remind me of this in a month or two when it is freezing!

Nine blissful years

Today is my anniversary. Nine years have flown by in the blink of an eye. I still remember every little detail of our wedding. I suppose I always will.

This is the card I made for my husband. I am not totally thrilled with my coloring but like how the card came out over all. The corner piece at the top left and the flourish were done with my Silhouette. I like how it frames out the image. The image is from Mo Manning. My husband asked me why I made myself so old (he is 15 years older than me). I told him that is because Mo doesn't have an old guy young chick image. He said "well I didn't say young....". Let's see if he makes it to 10 years!



Have a couple other projects I have been working on and will post more about those in the next few days. One involved actually sitting at my sewing machine which I haven't done in ages! Felt good......

But blogging is hard!

It is hard! If you want people to follow it you have to keep it up. You have to nurse it each day or at least each week.  I want the people I just don't have the time. Oh I have the subject matter that is for sure just no time. I have however learned that there are now 3 people who read my blog! That is a major milestone in my eyes. Next thing you know there will be 4 then 5 and what if there were 10? I need to go listen to my relaxation app on my ipad now thank you.

So now onto a bit of my "life in general" day. I went shopping today! Get out! I did! At the mall no less. For those that don't know me and that would be everyone but the 2 no make that 3 people who read my blog...I work at home. I am lucky enough to have a job I love and get to work out of my house. The problem being...you get sloppy. Oh yeah, we are talking a lot of yoga pants here people and a bushel of white t-shirts and never any makeup. Say it ain't so Jane! As I am tired of looking like crap, although at least a clean showered piece of crap I decided to head back to the Clinique counter at Macy's for a financial blow out! I have been scraping every last bit out of all the samples I get in those stupid gift sets they "give" you. And yes I am aware of the irony in the word give. Forty dollars for some pore reducing serum, yeah I need that. Oh and the 7 day scrub. I cannot be without my 7 day scrub and I do not kid. I am telling you everyone has to have this. I have used it for years and love love love it. But I have been out of it for a while now and my skin is probably looking a bit dull. Yes dull. So I added on the mild soap cleanser and my Dramatically Different Moisturizer and $106.00 later I was bouncing out the door. Ah retail therapy...nothing like it. Oh and the nice sales girl suckered me into locking in my free gift in October! Do you know how many of those damn crappy little cosmetic bags I have gotten over the years. I try to tell them "just give me the product and keep the bags". They always come back with "oh but you may have a little one that would love to play with the bags".  I have no little ones, just a cat and I don't think he would be interested in the newest Clinique cosmetic bag if it was not big enough for him to crawl into.

How was your day?

The Barefoot Lunch

This past June one of my neices Meghan and her friend Kate came to Boston and we had lunch together at my house. Not just any lunch mind you. We had a BAREFOOT CONTESSA lunch! Oh yeah!
I learned a few years ago that my neice shares my passion for all things Barefoot and as it should be with any friend so does Kate. So when they agreed to come to lunch I made a Barefoot inspired lunch not just some average Joe lunch no sir not for my girls. Everything we ate was made out of her cookbooks. I even went in hot persuit the day before for the perfect wine glasses...you know the ones she uses that don't look like your average wine glass. What. You don't?

The table was set in Barefoot fashion (without said wine glasses). We started with guacamole, chips and wine then sat down to burgers with arugula, tomato and blue cheese and wine. Oh my stinkin heck those suckers were delicious...the burgers that is...wine goes without saying. I made a side of corn salad which could have used some work. My fault not Ina's. She said NOT to use frozen corn but I thumbed my nose at her advice and it did it anyway. DO NOT ignore the Barefoot advice!

I took some pictures before the girls got here knowing full well I was going to do a scrapbook page of the day but forgot to take one of the girls when they were here! I had to shanghai a picture from Meg's Facebook page (although it happens to be one of my favorite pictures of the 2 of them). My Meggoo is on the left and adorable Kate on the right. The page is a hybrid page. Mostly done on computer but mounted on card stock. I love these kind of pages as they are easy to get done. I had the pictures, I had a template and Lord knows I have plenty of card stock.

So yet another day in the life scrapbooked for no one other than me. Blogged for the 2 people who read my blog...you know who you are.

What I did on my summer vacation

Arrived home this past weekend from Bridgton Maine. Third year we have stayed at the cottage on Highland Lake. I took this week off just to get stuff done at home...like make some scrapbook pages, and update my blog.

If you are reading this (and you 2 know who you are) then you know I have already updated the blog. Filled up a full paragraph with the what, where and when. Now for the how......

The idea for this page came from Nichol Magouirk . I used the same layout and ideas but tweaked it just a bit. She used rubber stamps, I used my Silhouette to do print and cuts. I also purchased the This and That Summer kit from Kerri Bradford This and That Summer . I love her designs and had to have the Adirondack chair as that is where my butt was parked most of the week while I was away. Except for when I was floating on the lake in my Day Dreamer! Thank goodness the photo is blurry when you see it.

The dragonfly's are added because if anyone has EVER gone to Maine's lake regions they know that those suckers are everywhere! They eat the mosquitoes though so we love the dragonfly's.

Here are some of the details on the page:

I cut the Adirondack chair and the flower vine from the This and That: Summer kit using my Silhouette machine. The background paper for the non-photo squares is from the Basic Grey Urban Prairie pack. I stamped a water glass stain using my Inkadinkado rubber stamp in Stampin Up ink Sahara Sand. Phew that was a mouth full of product information for one little square!

This square was done as a print and cut. I opened the design in the Silhouette but instead of cutting it I simply made it a print and cut by outlining the design then printing it out. I also used my water glass stain stamp on this square as well. I used the same technique for the {get away} square on the top right.

The center was done using a 6x6 square of kraft cardstock. I mixed up some acrylic white paint and water in a mister and sprayed the square. I then ran it through my printer to add the word "destination". "Summer Vacation" was purchased from Silhouette. I added a simple banner with Bridgton on it and the date. The piece was then framed with a 6.25x6.25 piece of white card stock. I used dimensional adhesive to adhere the square to the page.

Each picture is 3x3. I cut each one out separately but if I did this again I would group them in PhotoShop for less cutting. Lastly the dragonfly's were done as a print and cut again with my Silhouette.

OK so there  you have it. What I Did On My Summer Vacation....floated in a lake in a big blue and white tube....with a drink in the cup holder!