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Hello all - Sorry I have been so remiss in posting lately.  With the start of the school year things got a bit out of whack.  On top of that add that I am remodeling my master bathroom and hoping to finish at least the major stuff before I move back from camp on the 1st.  Oh yea speaking of camp, I have to pack up to move home.  I have already done 4 carloads of boxes home (yes mostly scrapbook and card making supplies) and I still have several more to go before tomorrow morning.

Tonight will be my last campfire at camp.  Since dd is staying with her dad for a while, I'll be sitting in front of the fire all alone, wishing I had had more time to spend at camp.  Two months was just not enough.

Hopefully by the second week in October I will have finished my house and will be back to posting my pages and cards.  I will also be posting from the hotel during Crop for Healing on Oct 24-26.

Have a wonderful day!

Tina

DD's First Purse

The other week I got DD her first purse.  She was so excited, she was hopping about the yard posing (she is such a ham).  But I thought it was a big day in her growing up so thought I would do a page about it.

            

I created all the embellies by hand and used a patent leather cardstock that I picked up at a night crop the other night for the titleing

Enjoy!

Christmas Card and Cricut Truffle Box

Note:  You can check out my other Cricut Box on my November 13, 2008 post

I created this card with one of the images I stamped while out at Island Stampers place.  On the island I stamped the image in Always Artichoke and added berrys with Stickles Candy Cane.  The second layer is a very cool leather cardstock I picked up at Scrapbook Nook in Bellowes Falls, VT and the other layer is cranberry crisp.

I created the matching square box with the Cricut Cartridge Bags Tags Boxes and more.  I set the dial to 6" and cut the box.  Fold on the fold lines and use adhesive to put together.  I added a ribbon and cut out a holly branch to match the card.

I will be using this for my co-workers and putting a truffle in each box.

                             

Enjoy your day!

Halloween Layout

So a couple of years ago the family dressed up to go to Salem, MA which is a little over an hour away from here.  Salem at Halloween is an experience in itself.  Being dressed up while walking the streets of Salem is a whole nuther realm girlfriends.  So we start walking down the street and a tourista stops us and asks if he can take our picure.  Ok o prob.  Then we go down India Street which is one of the main thoroughfares.  Couldn't get more than 10 feet without someone stopping us.  LOL  DD had the best time.  Got to the point where she was just looking around and smiling waiting for someone to take her pic. 

For this layout I used papers from my Storytellers Pack from July 08, and added a few embellies from the kit.  The background is very busy so I tried to keep everything else fairly simple (even the layout).  Click on the pic to view a larger version.

         

Enjoy and have a wonderful day!

What a Wonderful Weekend - A Visit to Island Stamper

This past weekend I had the pleasure of going to visit my friend Island Stamper up at her place on Chebeague Island in Maine.  I have been going over to the island for about 10 years now.  I always have fun over there.  Just getting there is half the fun.

On Saturday I headed up.  I parked my car and got on the bus.  When I got off the bus I had a few minutes to enjoy the cove of Cousins Island while I waited for the ferry.               

              

Once I saw the ferry my heart started beating hard.  I just LOVE riding the ferry.  I always stand on the back deck and watch the waves that the ferry makes.

After 15 minutes I finally arrived at Chebeague Island.  After a bunch of catching up we had some lunch and sat out on the deck.  I love the view from the deck.  It’s just beautiful with all the boats in the harbor and the waves lapping just a few short feet from the deck.  People in the cove were starting to get ready for Hurricane Hanna to come in.  Most took their motors out of their boats.  Friends helping friends. 

Island Stamper and I headed to the boat house to grab some stamps and other supplies so that we could create some cards together.  She did some ATC’s and I did some cards and images.  I grabbed her bag of scraps, because those of you who read this blog often know I am currently addicted to scraps.  I love making cards at Island Stamper’s place because it’s like being in a scrapbook store.  She has EVERYTHING!  I got to play with a scorepal, some magnet closures, water color pencils and crayons.  It was sooo cool.  No matter what I said I wished I had or wanted to try, she had it.  LOL  Pics of my cards are at the end of the post.

Then the sky turned and things started getting dark.  We went to a cocktail party at a friend’s house and by the time we left the rain had started.  Then Hanna came in full force.  I actually tried to take a pic outside under the deck but there was just too much water and wind.

 

Sunday morning I got up early and took some pics.  Now my camera shoots in color but the photos came out pretty much black and white because there was such a lack of color. 

 

 

 

After spending some time on the deck the sun came out and I noticed that one of the boats in the cove didn’t make it that well thru the storm.  It was pretty much submerged. Can you see it in the picture?  Its above and to the left of the words.  Click to enlarge.

  

The deputy sheriff even came by and with the help of two other men, pulled the boat out of the water.  It really was quite the site.  It was even better when later that day the owner came with his sons and buckets to bail out the boat.

Unfortunately my time on the island was just too short.  So I headed back to the boat and made the long trip back to Mass.  I am already hoping to get back to the island soon.

So here are the cards I made with the help of Island Stampers Stash.

This is the one I was working on when I got to play with the Scorepal and the water color pencils and some distressing ink.  Click on the pic to enlarge it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This next one is a gate fold card.  I got to play with magnet closures on this card.  I used water color pencils.  Of course Island Stamper had the perfect embellies (asian medals) for this card.

    Enjoy!

Happy Haunting - Halloween Card

Well here at camp we have already celebrated Halloween, but for the rest of the world Halloween is coming up.  I was going thru all my CTMH stamps and found this Halloween set and it inspired me to create this card.

I stamped all my main images and then I   stamped a ghost in one of the windows and stamped the spider on a piece of acetate with Stazon and cut him out and used a clear pop dot to give the illusion of him floating on top of the spider web.  I used my SU, CTMH and Copic Markers to color in the images.  I used Stardust Stickles on the spider web to give it a little sparkle and all the orange areas on the house were spruced up with Orange Peel Stickles.

Recipe:  CTMH Happy Haunting Set, Orange Peel Stickles, Stardust Stickles, Stazon, CTMH Black Ink, SU, CTMH and Copic Markers, Acetate

Enjoy!

Cricut Box and Notecards

Well its been a few days since I last posted.  I was getting DD ready to start at her new school and go back to her dad's house.

Tonight I finally got a chance to just play a bit more with my new Cricut Expression.  I love playing with this machine.  Everytime I start I learn about more really cool features.

I created this box and notecards tonight with it.  Using the Bags Tags Boxes an More Cartridge I created a crayonla box by taking  my 12x12 page and using the "fit to page" option for creating the notecard box (it ended up being a 8.5" setting).  After cutting the box, I added a thin (1/4") strip of cardstock and threaded it thru the holes in the sides and adhered to create the flap holder.  Then I adhered it using a very strong adhesive in order to keep it closed.  One trick I larned when putting this box together was to press not only from the outside but also from the inside.  To decorate the box and notecards, I cut 1.5" and 1" flowers with Georges Font Cartridge and for the centers of the flowers I used the 1/2" and 1/4" circles.  All items were cut using real dial size.

For this project I used miscellaneous purple cardstock and Sugar Coated Cardstock by Doodlebugs in orange, blue, and green.

Enjoy!