Perfect 10

Last year was our 10th Anniversary.  Now I know you must be thinking, 10th Anniversary layout about a car?  Yep, it sure is!  You see, this car is my baby.  In fact, it was purchased by my Dad when I was a baby (well technically I was 3 but close enough).  I have loved this car my entire life.  When I was little I remember telling my Dad that if I went to college that my gift should be this car.  Sure enough he remembered, and gave it to me shortly after graduation.  Now because the car is close to 30 years old, it was definitely showing its age.  For the last several years my husband and I have been slowly fixing it up, I say slowly because it's dang expensive to restore a car!  Anyways, for the last several years I have been wanting to get the rust fixed on it and it repainted but never had the money to do so.  So my husband decided to be sneaky and have it all done as an anniversary gift to me!  It looks so good now!

Supplies: Patterned Paper: ; Cardstock: Bazills; Alphabet Stickers: American Crafts Thickers and Cricut Cartridge - Winter Woodland; Embellishments: Embroidery Floss, Cricut Cartridge - Stretch Your Imagination, Pearls; Sketch: Sketches for Scrapbooking; Tools: Cricut.

Camp Croppin'

Every year a local scrapbook store puts on two day event called Camp Croppin' where you can take classes, meet some awesome people and crop your heart out.  This was my first time to Camp Croppin' and I had a blast with these girls!  I managed to get a couple of layouts done but I think I mostly gabbed the whole time!  Definitely a change of pace for me as I am usually a solo-scrapper in my scrapbook room.

I went a little cluster crazy on this layout!  I have a huge jar of loose embellies that I tend to add to as I open packages, use what I want and then need somewhere to put the leftovers.  I decided to take a look at what was in there for this layout and it was like I hit a gold mine!  Everything I kept pulling out was the perfect color or shape and I had way too many to narrow it down so I thought what the heck ... I'll use it all.  And so I did!  I love how it turned out and I might just have to hit that jar up more often now!

Supplies: Patterned Paper: My Mind's Eye - Quite Contrary Collection; Cardstock: Bazills; Alphabet Stickers: American Crafts Thickers and Cosmo Cricket Tiny Type; Embellishments: Way to many to remember where they came from; Sketch: Sketches for Scrapbooking; Tools: Creative Memories Corner Rounder and Stamping Up Curved Corner Tag Punch.

Thank You

Last week, we had to rush our dog, Angus, in for emergency surgery.  It was not something we expected and it was a very difficult day for us.  Luckily, Angus made it through surgery with flying colours and is now recuperating at home and is being spoiled rotten.  It's amazing how moments like this make you realize how precious life is!  The staff at the Animal Hospital were amazing and took such good care of our little baby that I wanted to thank them.  I decided to make a card and it's funny that when it came time write something on the inside, I was at a loss for words.  How do you really express how much you appreciate someones efforts to save someone you love?  I don't think words can.  Needless to say, I tried my best.  Thank you just does not seem to be enough!

Supplies: Patterned Paper: Bella Blvd - Tail Waggers & Cat Naps Collection; Cardstock: Bazzils; Alphabet Stickers: American Crafts; Embellishments: Bella Blvd - Tail Waggers & Cat Naps Chipboard Elements; Tools: Dymo Label Maker.

Time Flies

Happy 4th of July to all my American friends out there in blog land! Hope your day is filled with lots of fun, family, sunshine, and great memories!

I must of walked by this line a hundred times thinking I would never use it.  It's Basic Grey's Life of the Party.  I always seem to avoid Birthday lines.  I'm not sure why?  It's probably because I don't have kids so birthday parties are not a huge scrapbooking thing for me and for our birthdays my husband and I keep it pretty low key so that means there are rarely any photos.  As I was saying, I pretty much skipped this over because it was a birthday line since it came out.  Then the other day I was at my local scrapbook store looking for paper for these photos.  Yes I did look in my stash first but I couldn't find anything ... or maybe I didn't want to find anything and was looking for an excuse to shop ... who knows!  When I walked by this line the plaid paper caught my attention as the colors were perfect.  When I flipped it over I found it had a wood grain on the back.  Wait a minute!  I look at a couple of others and found they were wood grain too!  Next thing I knew I pulling a bunch of it off the shelf to do this layout (and maybe a couple more).  It seems that lately if it has wood grain, I will love it!  Seems odd, but I think it is because I have a lot of camping photos I need to do. I also find it easy to work with for both masculine and feminine layouts!  So once again Basic Grey has made a line that at first I had no need for and now I must own it!  They do that a lot to me!

Supplies: Patterned Paper: Basic Grey - Life of the Party Collection; Alphabet Stickers: GCD Studio - The Great Outdoors Chipboard Letters; Embellishments: K & Company Felt Flwoers and My Mind's Eye - Stella Rose Die Cut Title; Inks: Colorbox Chalk Ink; Sketch: Sketches for Scrapbooking; Tools: Dymo Lael Maker.

Happy Canada Day!

As you may or may not know, I am a Canadian and today is Canada's Birthday so to all my fellow Canadians ... Happy Canada Day! Enjoy your long weekend!