Last day of School

104 days of summer vacation, and school comes along just to end it. Yes, this is the delightful tune my son just won’t stop singing. (from a cartoon called Phineas & Ferb) Today was the last day of school. I wanted to make my son’s teacher a cute card that would remind her of him. He is always reading and she knows of his love for books. I thought this image from coloring page Tuesdays, by Elizabeth O. Dulemba would be perfect. He agreed to let me use flowers on the card but wanted to make sure the worm was a boy. lol, he’s very insistent.

Of course I wanted to make the most of my final crafting days before I start school again, so these are the challenges I’d like to enter this card in:

Sweet Sketch Wednesday – Sketch

The Cupcake Craft Challenge – Boy, oh Boy (masculine card)

Bearlymine Challenge – Anything goes

Going Grey- Anything goes

The Paper Shelter – Punches and dies

Southern Girls – Anything goes

In this second photo you could see the MS branch punch I used on the top and inside of card.

And here is the inside along with a cute poem I saw online by Amy Fuchs. was short on space so could not include it inside.

I colored in the image with copic inks, and used all SU paper’s/ cardstock/ The Punch is MS branch and Spellbinders dies. Flowers are from wild orchid. I popped up the image on some dimensionals and used Sookwang Score-tape and my scotch ATG to stick it all together.

Hope you enjoyed and I will see y’all soon ~ Angela

A totally tubular birthday wish

Hi friends. I have been having some more fun making cards that I actually needed. My godson’s B-day is tomorrow, he’s turning 3. I got him a really cute outfit to match this card. He’ll look like he is truly loved by some surf addicts when he sports the outfit ;P

So for my card I choose my lil cutie, Sports Billy from pink cat studios. I used Stampin Up Card stock (boy I really to buy some more) I used my spellbinders to shape the card and a cuttlebug folder to emboss the waves. Chipboard for the star & the #3. I inked it up with SU Craft Ink and embossed some fine SU glitter. I colored sports Billy with Copic inks and added some Glossy accents to his board and the #3. It was still wet when I took the photo and that’s why it looks gluey but once it’s dry it will Shine like wet water. I created the sentiment digitally. I hope he will think it’s cute I just love the lil doggie with his toes on the nose! (she looks like my parents Chihuahua Mini Mouse) I would like to enter my card in these challenges:

Truly Scrumptious challenge – Summer sparkle

7 kids challenge – feeling hot hot hot

The ABC Challenge – W is for Wish

ATS Challenge – Aqua Yellow & lime

The Paper Shelter – Celebrate

The paper variety – for the guys

The Pixie cottage – Shape it up

Seems I only have one more week to play along. School starts Monday and I have a heavy load to cover. I’m just so happy when I do have time to join in the challenges. Thanks and be posting again real soon!

Encouragement

Hi friends. It’s been so great having a little vacay from school. I am so at carefree these days. I have been getting my fill of pleasure reading. Thanks to Gwen ;) If you fancy reading, you should totally check out her blog. It’s amazingly entertaining and you can always find something good to read. Right now I’m reading a book called Vixen. It’s about a rich beautiful & spoiled 1920’s girl who turns rebel right before her nuptials, because she wants to be a flapper. It’s better then reality TV!

 

Ok so on to my card I wanted to do a couple of challenges. I haven’t inked up any stamps in a really long time. I’m afraid they are feeling so very neglected at this point. DH even mentioned boxing up my rubber/ink for storage. My response was let me think about it, Umm NO! I had to buy something new to get my mojo back. I bought  new rubber, wonderful bible versus, so I can make some Christian encouragement cards. Variety is good. Paired up with Tilda praying makes a very encouraging card.

A closer look will reveal the adornment on her hair piece

Here are the challenges I would like to enter this card in:

Magnolia-licious  Purple & yellow

Copic creations  Color to look like distress (challenging technique)

cute card thursday Embellish your image

Our Daily Bread  Use your favorite stamp  (Scripture 2)

 

Thanks for hanging around and I’ll post more soon! ~Angela

Santa Barbara 5K Chardonnay run

I am preparing for finals this week (whaaa!) So this is just a quick post to share brag about the wine tasting run Tom and I did just a few weeks ago. It was really cool because this was my first run as well as Tom’s. What was really nice, is I had been complaining about not having time motivation to run as much as I’d like to lately. So Tom found this fun run that was along the Santa Barbara coast and signed us up. No time to back out. Just get out there and do our best and set a real PR. It was an awesome day and the weather was perfect. Our time was 32.32 not the greatest but not terrible. And the next run we do hopefully this year, will be at least 5-6 miler. Yeah! Anyway here are the photo’s courtesy of Santabarbarapix.com Sorry for the quality, I rec’d prints in the mail and my scanner didn’t do such a hot job copying them. none the less this is the start line.

Almost there, I’m a little winded but Tom’s all smiles! Harbor behind us.

And Crossing the finish line. What a great feeling.

 

What a Super fun, and memorable experience. Can’t think of anyone else, I’d want to share this moment with. Thanks for taking the time to read my post and hope to be blogging more over summer break. Have a great night. ~ Ang-E ~

Camera Bliss

 

Hiya blogging friends. I know it’s been quite a while since I have posted any projects or entered any challenges, but I wanted to let you know I have not abandoned my blog. The semester is coming to an end and my classes are requiring more work and studying. I hope to take a little break before I start the summer session. whew-wee  Between school, work and shuffling the kids around from school to karate, & catechism I have little time for myself these days.  But I have found time to end my search, for the perfect camera for me. First I have to say I have been wanting a D-SLR but I know I don’t have the time to invest in learning how to use one. One of the features I needed was a mega-zoom and I wanted a compact that took really good photo’s. Am I asking for too much? Well say hello to my little friend, The Nikon S8100.

I just LOVE this camera It has all the features I’ve been looking for in a ultra sleek compact. Did I mention how fast this little baby can snap away even before I am finished with the first shot it’s already taking the second photo. Plus it’s got a beautiful wide lens, perfect for panoramic shots. It has HD video, although I don’t intend on using this feature often. My boss is a professional photographer, many of his shots end up in magazine spreads. He said it’s a great buy and that made me feel even better about my choice. I decided to show you some un-touched un-edited photo’s I’ve taken. Here you go, Let me know what you think. And thanks for sticking around to read my post ~Angela

Ballerina Girl

Hello everyone.. I’m home today with my daughter Tyla, She rarely gets sick, she’s had perfect attendance for 2 yrs in a row. Today I had to make a mommy call and tell her she needed to stay home, because she was running a temp of 101. She was so bummed. At least she likes school :) Well, I figured since I have a little time to spare I’d enter in some challenges. This card is so girly. It was really my childhood dream to be a pro ballerina and open my own ballet studio. I danced for about 3 years from the time I was in 4-7th grade. I even went as far as dancing in Pro Toe shoes. I stopped for 2 reasons. I knew money was tight for my single dad who was raising me alone, and also I wanted to try out for cheerleading my 8th grade year. Still for the time I danced, I loved it. And It totally tugs at my heart strings when I see a little girls in tights and tutus.

These are the challenges I am entering in:

Simon says stamp – Coffee & Cream

Magnolia-licious – Brown & Pink

Paperpretties – Glittery challenge (glittery crown)

ResQ – Something that makes you happy (childhood dancer)

Myshericrafts – All about girls

PIO – Childhood dreams

party time tuesdays – anything goes

A Closer look at the image with glitter 

Hope you all enjoyed! Till next Time ~ Angela

A set that almost didn’t happen…

Hi everyone :) Happy valentine’s day. It’s officially V-day and here I am another doing another mid-night challenge. I just cant refuse a good challenge ya know. The reason for my title is that I decided to do the color throw down challenge thinking it’d be a cinch. I’m girly I can totally do Real red, Orchid opulence, Passion pink & black. That is until I started putting my card together, and nothing seemed quite right. I kept thinking of that pink stuff, pepto bismo? (my spelling’s probably wrong) but you get what I’m referring too right?  I went all out this time around.I even baked something special to go along with it for the Fussy & Fancy challenge. Here are the challenges I am entering this fun set in:

Fussy & fancy – Something Edible

7 Kids challenge – I Heart you

Color throw down – black, real red, orchid opulence, passion pink

A spoon full of sugar – show some love

Cute card Thursday – Heart’s and flowers

Secret crafter – Flower image stamped on card

Our creative corner- cut it out

Paper piercing on card around image and cutting of the corners on the goodie box.
cupcake inspiration – orchid opulence color and cupcake!

The cupcake box tutorial is from the Scor-pal website. It was easy to make. I accidentally taped the fold wrong.

What’s that you ask? What’s in the box? A closer look is what you’d like? It’s a Mini Oreo cheesecake!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yummy! I promise to post the recipe soon.

Hope you enjoyed!! See you soon, Until then have a Sweet day.