Peaches and Pages

Last weekend we went to Hartland Orchard to pick peaches and blueberries. It was a beautiful day and we got a ton of fruit. Now I'm looking for a good peach freezer jam recipe! :)

I'm working on my August class for ScrapbooksPlus. I'm a little nervous about it, but I'm sure it will go just fine. It's a clear layout set of three pages. The first two are on a 12x12 clear base and the third is on regular paper. When you put them together they layer into a beautiful combination.

I recently finished the last 1st birthday layout for Adrianna with July's Design Team kit. Now I just need to do the other four years!

When I was in Houston last I snapped these photos of the house numbers painted on the curbs. I thought they were pretty cool and we had a great time looking for new designs for my photo collection. Of course, this was on our accidental 2-hour walk where we probably walked five miles... so we had to do something to keep it interesting!

much love,

erin

Final July Projects

Looking over my project files, I only have 2 items that I didn't load yesterday... so I'm not sure why I didn't just put them up! I post on the Scrapbooks Plus Design Team blog on the 3rd, 20th, and 29th. I needed to get my post up for today and decided that it was better to stay up late to get it done than to get up early. I figured I'd post an update over here at the same time. I guess my brain was sleepy! Oh well... at least it's all up now. :)

Here is my 2 page layout featuring the new birthday paper from Bo Bunny. The center pulls off and is a little accordian album with all the details from the day. We tried to get photos of us with all of the different families of guests... and got all but a couple. It's a nice memory of the day. Hard to believe that it was almost 5 years ago! Wow!

My final card uses some of the KI Memories shimmer paper. I used my new Nestabilities dies to cut the bracket shapes. The inside of the card is stamped with "You sure dont' look THAT old! Happy Birthday!" The glitter paper was left over from last month.

Have a great holiday weekend!

much love,

erin

I can't make this stuff up!

My little girl is amazing... amazingly funny, amazingly cute, amazingly difficult... the list goes on and on.





Tonight she got me to laugh a couple of times. Once on accident... and once on purpose. Read on:



First, she announced that she is going to cancel her vacation for the rest of her life. Why I asked... this is a new topic, previously unvisited; my interest is piqued. Well, she said, I'm going to get a poodle so I need to stay home and take care of her so I'm canceling all my plans to go to Bolivia, and Texas, and Kansas... because I'll need to wash her and feed her and walk her and give her food and brush her and feed her. (This is why dogs have a weight problem... you know!) Last month we discussed getting a bunny or a cat... but poodle was never in the equation. I tried to mention off-hand that we haven't really made any definite plans to get a pet. Well I have, she replied... on July 3rd at 5:00 pm... I planned it. I didn't laugh... you should be proud of me. Totally wanted to. I can't wait to tell Sergio that his little girl has already made plans... and that it involves a poodle. That should be fun!



Second, we were watching the results show of So You Think You Can Dance. As were sitting there, an iPhone commercial comes on. This is good:

• Adrianna: Can I get an iPhone?
• Me: Well, honey, I don't really think that you need one.
• Adrianna: Well... can I get a butt phone then?
• Me: {grin} {giggle}
• Adrianna: {snort, snort}

I think this was her first real joke ever... or at least the first one that was funny! :)



Anyways... here's a bit of what I just finished for the store. We got papers from multiple lines and colorways... so here is the Doodlebug pink section for now. I'll get the rest up later this weekend.

First off a couple of cards. I love this one... especially the cupcake stamp from Elle's Studio. Too cute!




This card says "too sweet"... but it's a little hard to see here. I stamped in Robin's Egg blue ink on vellum and used clear embossing powder with rainbow sparkles.




I saw a beautiful centerpiece at the Melissa Frances booth at GASC. I am still looking for the parts to copy it. This is the closest I could do using a scalloped tray and an inverted bucket to create the cake plate, and wooden boxes for my cake. I added white tulle circles with silver sparkles from the wedding aisle to glam it up a bit. Crazily enough I cut out 20 ovals to overlap and create fluffy flower petals to intersperse with the Prima flowers on top.



Finally, my one page layout. Pretty simple and prettier in person. The pink is Bazzil bling cardstock and the blue circles and blue strip behind the ribbon is glitter embedded cardstock from last mont's DT kit.






much love,
erin


PS. Adrianna successfully read 25 books for the summer program already and is in possession of her color changing cup. She is a happy camper! :)