Poppin Pastels

This card is made using the technique poppin' pastels. I stamped the image with versamark ink then using a sponge dauber I applied the pastel color directly to the image. Hope you like it!

Supplies:

Stamps: Kind and Caring thoughts, Floral bg

Paper: Certainly Celery, Pretty in pink, white

Ink: Versamark, Old Olive, Certainly Celery

Accessories: Pastels, ribbon

Christmas in July

#1

I have a friend who has an old stamp set that she asked me to give her some ideas using it. I came up with these 3 cards:

#2

#3

#2 is my favorite!

Carston's Baptism

My youngest son was baptized the beginning of this month. It was such an awesome day! My parents flew in Thursday night to be here for the event and we enjoyed having them in our home until Tues. morning. Children aren't baptized into our church until they are 8 years old (or older). The reason being that they are then accountable and learning to make decisions on their own, thus becoming responsible to repent when they make wrong decisions. I'm happy Carston chose to follow Jesus Christ's example and be baptized. He truly seemed pleased with his decision.

I made this invite for our neighbors. Carston picked the colors and was happy with the way it turned out.

My mom made this AMAZING quilt for Carston. He loves to be in the garden and will probably be a landscape specialist one day. She knew of his love for all things that grow and came up with this. The small squares in between the vegetable squares are pictures of him in the garden. It absolutely takes my breath away, it's so beautiful!

July Club

I'm back! It has been a CRAZY month with all we've been doing as a family. I'm not complaining, but it is nice when we get back on schedule. As I'm writing that I know I probably still have about one more month of craziness ahead. We'll, in the midst of it all, we had our last club meeting about a week ago. We'll start again in Aug. with a new year. We had great fun making the above 2 cards. The first uses a couple of the new "In colors" that are so pretty! Supplies are listed below. Enjoy!

Card 1

Stamps: Bella's Bloom

Paper: Always Artichoke, Dusty Durango, Crushed Curry, White

Ink: Always Artichoke, Dusty Durango, Crushed Curry

Accessories: Choc. Chip ribbon

Card 2

Stamps: Polka Dot bg, Define Your Life

Paper: Real Red, Yo Yo Yellow, White

Ink: Real Red, black

Accessories: Top Note die, Flower layers die, sticky cuts letters, fine supernova glitter, felt, button, ribbon

Jon Schmidt

A few weekends ago we went on a 3 hour trek to go see Jon Schmidt in concert. If you don't know who he is you can check him out here on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v3d6SFcDys It was so AWESOME! We all loved it. All 4 of my children play the piano and we do all we can to show them what a great thing it is to be able to play. It's fun to see them all get better and really enjoy what they're playing.

Girl's Camp

Last week I was a leader for Girl's Camp with the young women at church. We had such a great time and I'm happy to say the girls all got along well. It was neat to see their testimonies grow as well as see them grow closer together. I've gone to camp for 5 years now and it just seems to get better and better. I feel blessed to work with such beautiful young women!

Color Inspiration #54

Kristina just posted a new color inspiration and I'm in! LOVE the color combo! I just might have to post a few cards. Thanks for inspiring us Kristina!

Stamps: So Many Sayings, Polka-dot bg

Paper: Taken with Teal, Pumkin Pie, Green Galore, White

Ink: White craft, Orange craft, Taken with Teal

Accessories: Ribbon, So Tweet chipboard, dimensionals