My First Road Trip

Good Evening,

The week-end has officially started. It's after 6:00 o'clock on a Friday. I really don't like dreary days. I have no energy those days. I did get a little crafting done this morning and then I headed out as I needed some buttons for this scrapbook page and I also wanted to stop at Costco again. Yesterday I bought a nice green sweater and I liked it so much I went back for the yellow one today. I didn't want to just purchase stuff for me...so yesterday I bought Xavier a summer outfit and it was so cute that I bought him another one today. They are just some little one piece short sets. I bought nice colors so when I scrapbook the pictures I'll be able to use different colors of paper. Sometimes you don't realize how long you've had some clothes or how often you wear them until you're looking through pictures and picking out paper to go with your pictures. I need to get a bigger wardrobe. lol
I mentioned yesterday that we were going to the Cirque last night. We had a nice supper out with Bob and Pam and then headed to the Metro Centre. The show was pretty good. i was maybe expecting a little more excitement. I would say it was only filled to about 60% capacity. They had a few high wire acts, a fire act, some contortionists, something similiar to a balance beam, tumblers, clowns. fun to be out with friends though.
This is a photo of Xavier last week-end when he came over for a visit. The little book on the left side will actually open up and that is where the journalling is going to go. I've wrote it in first person. So the road trip was from his perspective.


PS - Last day of May tomorrow. Today I realized my vehicle inspection needs to be done. I have an appointment for tomorrow afternoon. The car can be running just fine and when you take it in for an inspection there always seems to be lots of things that need repair.
Tomorrow I'll put up some pictures of the cards we'll be making at The Cutting Garden in June.

Have a good week-end.

Yvonne

Wine Anybody?

Hi

Late on my post today. It's afternoon.
Just waiting for Bob & Pam so we can go to Cirque du Soleil. Going to go out to supper first. Should be a fun evening.
Pretty basic card today. Picked the stamp up at Michaels for 80% off. Stamped and watercolored on watercolor paper. Added a little metal for some pizazz. Sometimes less is better. I've had this one colored for ages but had just never put it together. I did use dimensionals under the layer of purple so it would pop off of the card more.

Working on another scrapbook page. Maybe I'll have it done for tomorrow....maybe not.

Have a good day.

Yvonne

Beaches - Lake Ontario

Morning,
I told you yesterday was going to be a crafty day. I finished off my scrapbook page and finished up three cards. Just sharing the scrapbook page for today. Sketch from lst weeks challenge on 52Sketches52Weeks. Unfortunately I didn't get it in in time for the contest.
This is more pictures of my trip to Toronto. I sometimes think of Toronto as all smog and concrete buildings. The beaches are obviously the beaches of Lake Ontario and only maybe 15 minutes from downtown. The sand went on for a long ways and you should have seen the number of sand volleyball courts. I can't even begin to imagine what that park would be like on a hot summers day. But by the size of everything, busy comes to mind. It was one of their first nice days when I was there and there were a few people out. Also we were out on a Friday afternoon which would account for fewer people.

The second page is a park downtown that we walked to. I actually needed to stop and rest there. I didn't wear proper walking shoes and we had been out hiking around for about 3 hours by then. Ouch.

The paper I used is from the Chloe's Closet collection. Notice the brads, paper flowers and paper clip. They are also accessories from the same collection. The green vine and the flourishes in the corner are cut from my cricut as is the lettering. The cartridge used for the lettering is Lyrical Letters. It's a new one out. The vine was Zoobaloo and the flourishes are from Storybook.
Today I'm at the Cutting Garden. I'll be getting some samples ready for next weeks card class. I believe we will be working with chalks.
Tomorrows post will be cards.

Yvonne

Early Birthday Greetings

Good Morning,

Well I had a pretty productive day yesterday. A little cleaning (but not as much since the cats moved to Toronto), a little crafting (not very productive as I couldn't make a decision on my scrapbook page), and some errand running (that was productive).Oh yes, and a little exercise time. Today should be a crafty day - right after the washing.

I'm sharing two cards I received when we had our girls crafty night. The first card was made by Kim. Kim's cards always have lots of layers. There's gold, lilac, vellum and white cardstock. There's windows cut out of the white and leaves embossed and cut out at the base of each window. Prima flowers attached to the windows over the gold embossed stems on the vellum. Make sure you click on the photo to get a better look.

My second card is by Val. The butterfly is gorgeous. He was all cut out and layered up. Complete with glitter. Very pretty. Love the pattern paper.


Thanks again gals, the cards really are beautiful.

Hopefully I'll get something together today to share tomorrow.

Any requests as to what you would like to see?

Yvonne

Shadow Box Card

Good Morning,

Monday again. Had a terrific week-end with Xavier. He is so good. Oh and did I mention so cute! Will have to do a scrapbook page or two. Working right now on some more of my Toronto visit.

Moving right to days post. Remember last week I went out to a girls crafty night. This is the project Kim prepared for us to do. It was so neat. Would like to try another one or two of these. The only drawback is you need to deliver them in person. Not really designed for mailing. The writing and images are all stamped. I quite like the stamped words.


This card was from our swap that we did. The theme was to use a womanly stamp. I drew Kim's card and it was just gorgeous. Using photo stamps, vintage stamps is really Kim's style. It's so different from mine that I really appreciate her cards.

I still haven't got Deborah's project completed but will work on it.

Must see what I can do today. I have to mail out some packages. Watch your mail Kristen!

Yvonne

Fishing Vest

Good Morning,

Thought I would let you know how our crafty night on Tuesday went. It was great. Kim designed a really cool card for us. It's like a shadow box. Don't have a picture of it yet as I want to distress the paper a little. But I was very happy with how it turned out. We also did our card exchange, which I'll post pictures of soon and some other cards that the gals made for me. Oh... lucky me.

The first card today is the tri-shutter card again. If you remember the challenge was wonderful women. This was all I had so I had to try to make a fancy fold card to make up for the little image. lol We've already discussed how to make this card but the ribbon in the centre. See how it looks wrinkled. I tie my bow and then very carefully apply heat to it from my heat tool. It melts the organdy ribbon and causes it to curl. Be very careful as it doesn't take much heat. On another card I also after it was heated rubbed it into an ink pad to distress the ribbon a little and make it look older.


A little manly card here. Just in time for "Father's Day" It opens at the centre so you have to untie the hemp. Easy to make and then I just add stitching around everything and sponge with some ink.

That's all the excitement in my life today. Must call DS and make sure they are bringing my Grandson for a visit. I think he must miss me!

Happy Crafting!
Yvonne

Lattice Fold

Hope all of you had a good long week-end! I went out today for coffee and was surprised to see everything open.
I did get a few cards made this week-end. A couple of them I can't post until tomorrow night as they are for a card crafty exchange. It was a tough card to do. The theme of the card was wonderful women. I don't have a whole lot of woman image stamps.
I dug out an old template of mine that I purchased I think at Atlantic Fabrics years ago. It's a template to make different cuts/folds on your cards or scrapbook page.
The butterfly, flowers and leaves are all embossed and then cut out. Time consuming but worth the effort. All cut out images are raised up with dimensionals. Other than all the cutting the card is very straight forward.
The pattern paper is from Stampin' Up and double-sided.

Talked to my son last night and it looks like they will be bringing Xavier over for a visit towards the end of this week. Should be lots of fun. Will have to make sure I have my camera fully charged.

Heading back to my crafty room. Need to put some cards into envelopes so I can get them in the mail tomorrow.

Good Night.
Yvonne