School's Out for Summer

The countdown to summer is here, 7 1/2 days left for my kiddos. It seems like the year flew by and I am still in denial that my youngest will be starting Kinder in the fall. I try to always take mental snap shots and try my best to remember all of the small things because they grow so fast. I wish I was better about keeping a journal or scrapbook, maybe that should be my summer project along with a million other things I would like to craft and organize.  What do you do to keep those memories?  I would love to hear from you.  I have always loved making Shutterfly books to get those pictures off the computer but I am very intrigued by Project Life too but haven't even started that.

Today I wanted to tell you about the latest challenge at  The Paper Shelter.  This time it is a little bit out of the normal comfort zone for most, we want to see those Shaped or Easel cards.  I had such a hard time with my card this time, well this was my third attempt and that is all I am going to say:)

 

I ended up using my Cameo to cut out the apple card shape which came from the Silhouette on line store.  The Cameo is another thing I need to learn more about for  sure.  I used my Sharpie  Paint pen to create the stitching and colored the little wooden scissors and apple with my Copics.  The paper is actually different journal cards and quotes that I pieced together from Pine Cone Press School Days collection.  I fussy cut cut my image Learning is Fun by The Paper Shelter.

Copics

Hair-E27 E47, E44, E42, E41

Skin- E11, E00, E000, R20

Clothes/Accessories- R59, R229, R27, R24/Y17, Y15, Y13/Y16/B95/C9, C7, C5, C3

Challenges

 Veronica and Pedro from The Paper Shelter are offering you a fabulous prize of $30 to spend on their website if you use a Paper Shelter image or 3 digis if you use another. 

Paper Playtime #11- Use 2 or more ribbons( I used 2 to create my bow).

Twisted Tuesday- School's Out for Summer - Must use a Child image Twist Use Yellow

Ribbon Carousel Blog RCC81- Celebrations(Celebrating Graduations and the End of School)

 Enjoy the rest of your week and I will see you in a couple of days with my card for the CMC Challenge that is going on right now.

 

Keep Cool and Anything Goes at The Paper Shelter

Happy Wednesday!! This week is just flying by as they all seem to do. It was busy for me last week trying to make sure all of the teachers and office staff had a little something everyday for Teacher Appreciation Week.  I hope they all know how much we love them for taking such good care of our kiddos.
 Today starts a new challenge at The Paper Shelter and it is one we all love Anything Goes so there is no reason not to play along.  I thought I would try to get in the mood for summer although I dread the heat that comes with it.  I used one of the TPS digis called Sunny Days that I have always thought was so cute.  Unfortunately, this didn't turn out how I planned because I found out the hard way that the blade on my Cameo was dull so my cute embellishments and cut out sentiment had to be replaced with a not so great flower.  Oh well sometimes you just have to go with it or change it up when the new blade comes in.

Don't forget Veronica and Pedro from The Paper Shelter are offering you a fabulous prize of $30 to spend on their website if you use a Paper Shelter image or 3 digis if you use another. 

I hope you have a wonderful week!!

 

Rock Star

I hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far. I just wanted to pop in and say "Thank You" to all of those who visited this past weekend for the CMC Birthday Blog Hop.
 This week there is a new fun challenge over at The Paper Shelter and MUSIC MAESTRO is the theme.   I hardly ever use purple, not sure why but I was totally in a purple mood and I kind of love the way this rocker chic's hair turned out.

 This TPS digi is called Rock Star.  I started by coloring her with Copics  and created a tag that I thought my girls can use for a book mark.

Copics

Hair- C9, C7, C5, C3/V17, V15, V13

Clothes- C9, C7, C5, C3/V17, V15, V13/B05, B04, B02

Guitar-V23, V24/E41/C3

Challenges

Veronica and Pedro from The Paper Shelter are offering you a fabulous prize of $30 to spend on their website if you use a Paper Shelter image or 3 digis if you use another. 

Die Cuttin Divas- #113 Anything Goes(Music notes are my die cut) 
Party Time Tuesdays-#118 Anything Goes 
Make My Monday- Anyhting But a Card
Allsorts- #204 Anything But a Card

Have a wonderful day!!