To all my American friends, Happy 4th July! Here are a few pictures that have been taken that I would like to share with you on this day. Enjoy and be safe.
Tatoo Air Show 7-26-09 taken by my husband 
Few pictures of the many fireworks during our town’s firework display last night.
I was asked by a school friend if I would make her daughter a cupcake cake for her birthday party. The suggestions were pink, purple, baby blue, puppies, kitties, sparkles or pearls. 24 cupcakes with half being vanilla and half being chocolate.
I found a coloring page that had a girl holding a dog. Perfect! I colored the hair and eyes of the girl the same as the birthday girl and made the dog the same color as hers. I did a purple background with a lighter purple shell border. Sprinkled some edible glitter on it. I love how it turned out and I hope the family was happy too.
No, it’s not me…. it’s my mom, DawnL! I choose to case her Pearl Friend card. Now, I may have mentioned this before but when I (and mom) do the Featured Stamper, we like to go to their very first uploads and try to case a card from there. I started there but nothing was catching my eye with what I wanted to use so I ended up on her third page (if you have it set to 96 pictures) which is still cards from ‘06 and she only started stamping in ‘05.
Anyways… I changed the colors, stamp set and changed her pearl/future ex technique she did to watercoloring. I decided to pull out the new in colors that I preordered and play with them.
I stamped the bird once in soft suede on the white, and then again on another piece of white, cut it out and attached it with glue dots. Then I stamped the bird in rich razzleberry, cut it out and attached it with dimensions. Sponged on crushed curry and soft suede on the white piece and on the soft suede piece. The flowers were stamped in soft suede and then lightly watercolored in with rich razzleberry and old olive. Sanded was stamped in the background in crushed curry on crushed curry and distressed with only soft suede.
stamp set: Friends 24-7, Sanded
ink: crushed curry, soft suede, rich razzleberry, old olive (leaves)
paper: crushed curry, soft suede, rich razzleberry, white
accs: word window punch, brads, dimensions, glue dots, sponge
technique: watercoloring, distressing
In looking through the Fall-Winter ‘09 Definitely Decorative catalog, I spotted something that I knew Carmen, my 13 yr old would love and that I could preorder. A decor element that was designed to embellish your laptop lid! (It also adds flair to walls, frames and more) I let her pick what color she liked. Well it came today and I put it on while she was gone. I took pictures as I went so you can see how easy it is to apply one of these to your laptop lid.
Upsy Daisies decor right out of it’s packaging.
Rub on the grid side of the decor with a decor elements applicator (or in my case, Pampered Chef scrap for stoneware.) Peel the grid section off carefully starting in the corner. If the image doesn’t transfer to the other sheet, rub some more.
Lay onto laptop lid and rub on using applicator. This still has the transfer sheet on top of it.
After rubbing it on, very carefully peel off the transfer paper starting in the corner again. If for some reason it doesn’t want to transfer, rub some more.
The finished product!
Carmen loves it. At first she thought someone had spilled paint on her laptop as we have been painting rooms! I got "Pretty In Pink" Upsy Daisies for my laptop but it will be awhile before I get to put mine on as my laptop needs some work done. :(
If you like this decor and would like to see what is in the catalog, I would love to show you during a workshop. I will also bring this to any of the workshops I do so you can see what this looks like in person.
I had some images laying around on my table that I had stamped a while back but never got around to make a card. Today’s sketch on SCS was a perfect time to use them.
I pulled out a piece of design paper by Karen Foster that has boards and nailed wood to use as a background to the Nailed It set by Our Craft Lounge. The small rectangle pieces use a image stamped over and over and then distressed with distress ink and the distresser tool.
I stamped the jar of nails and then covered it with crystal effects. The crystal effects made the nails “rust” but I liked look. The lid was colored with Prismacolor marker. Once again I distressed the middle panel with distress inks and the distresser tool. I also distressed the brads with a hammer after attaching them to the cardstock.
I used Helmar Premium Craft Glue to hold all my cardstock pieces down. It did not buckle the paper at all like some glue does. For the middle piece I used Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots and also on used them to attach the jar.
Close up of the Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots under the jar of nails. 
stamp: Nailed It! – Our Craft Lounge
paper: chocolate chip, white, Karen Foster design paper
ink: distressed ink
accs: crystal effects, Helmar Liquid scrap dots, Helmar premium Craft glue, brads, distresser tool, sponge
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We had a wedding to go to today. None of my kids were in it but my nephews were. Here are just a few shots of the bridal party, bride/groom and the cake (no I didn’t make it, the bride’s sister also does cakes). Jorden thought the bride was a Princess and wanted pictures of her in her ‘princess’ dress. ahhh to see the world through little kids’ eyes!
The Happy Couple!
The bridal party entering the reception. My nephews are in the front.
The “Princess” with her followers. Jorden is in front of Benjamin.
The wedding cake.
Jorden finally made it down to the water to see the DUCKS before we left the reception.
So how does Geocaching come into play at a wedding and what is Geocaching?
Now I’m not saying the cache is right there but this neat gazebo was so of course I had to use it for a photo op. Doesn’t everyone look thrilled??
Like I said, Geocaching is a bad habit to start! It’s so bad that my parents (who have been traveling all week) were calling me asking ME to look up Geocaches for them!! To see where they have been and if they found any, see my mom’s blog at Dawn… A New Day.
