Field Flowers

Years ago at a Stampin' Up! Convention we made a card similar to this.  I hung onto to it all these years because I LOVED it!  But I finally let it go and decided to make a replacement.  To make the card you cut your 8 1/2 X 11 paper in half the long way.  Then score at about 1 1/4" for the flap and about 4 3/4" for the fold.  The original card didn't have any kind of closure, but I had these cute Sale-a-bration brads and decided to make a little button with a ribbon loop to keep the card shut.  The colors are Rich Razzleberry and Island Indigo.  The pattern paper is from the Sweet Shop paper pack in the Mini.

Flower Garden Embossing Folder

This is another idea using the crayon resist with the embossing folder.  The colors are Peach Parfait and Pool Party.  I used some of the Sale-a-bration pattern paper.  I also used the Beautiful Wings embosslits die.

Mixed Bunch

This is the card we made at Stamp Club a couple of nights ago.  We did the crayon resist technique using the Elegant Lines embossing folder.  First lay your Whisper White card stock over the raised side of the folder and then rub the paper with the flat side of a white crayon.  Next brayer over the top with your desired color of ink - we used Lucky Limeade.  After that just take a tissue and lightly rub the ink from the crayon image.  The flower is stamped in Wisteria Wonder and we used the Blossom punch to punch it out.  To 'curl' the flower we used a bone folder.  The Mixed Blossom set and coordinating punch can be found in the Occasions Mini Catalog.  The cute polk-a-dot paper is from the Sweet Shop paper also in the Mini.

Adri's 12th Birthday!

Adri talked us into giving her this awesome bike a day early.  On her Birthday she woke up at 5:30 a.m., got herself ready and headed out to ride her bike for a couple of hours before school started.  I think she likes it!

Adri started out her birthday on Thursday having a party with the Sorensen bunch.

Adri loved all of her birthday gifts!  These are big jawbreakers on a stick!

Her second party was Friday after school.

Her friends walked home with her and they immediately got busy and painted their own picture frames.  We had a picture of all of them sent to the one hour photo so they could have a fun reminder of the party.

After we finished the frames we headed up to Adri's grandpa and grandma's house to eat pizza and watch a movie in their theater room.

It was a fun day!!!  Happy Birthday Adri!
You're growing up so fast!

Mixed Bunch

The colors I used for this card are Poppy Red, Lucky Limeade, Pool Party and Very Vanilla.  The flower is embossed with white embossing powder and then I used a sponge to rub Early Espresso ink on it.  It gave it more of the vintage/Very Vanilla look. The pretty Sale-a-bration paper was first mounted on Lucky Limeade card stock and then ran through the Big Shot with the Petals-a-plenty embossing folder.  After that I once again rubbed it with the Early Espresso ink for the vintage look and to make the embossed flowers show up a little better.  The ribbons are Very Vanilla 1/8" taffeta and 3/8" ruffled Pool Party.

Valentine's Day Gingerbread Houses

Grandma Sorensen wasn't able to fit in gingerbread houses at Christmas time so she decided to do Valentine's Day houses.  What a great idea!  We did it yesterday after the kids got out of school.  There was tons of candy to choose from and the kids had fun taste testing it all.  The mom's had fun too!  We ended up decorating the houses at my house because Grandma's is being painted.

The kids worked really hard and all did a
great job with their decorating!

Here's Tori working on her house.  It took her a
long time to place each tiny little heart sprinkle
just where she wanted it on the roof.  She has a
little pond to the side with a frog in it.

Adri made a smartie house.
She taste tested the frosting quite a bit. 

Tori's finished house. 

Adri's finished house. 

Justus was gone when all of the cousins were over.  He worked on his a little, but didn't quite get it finished. 

He said he had the song 'Love Shak' stuck in his head.  Very fitting for a Valentine's day gingerbread house!

Thanks Grandma for the fun day!

Fancy Flower Punch

This is actually Hostess paper from last years catalog.  I loved how it looked with both of the In Colors: Wisteria Wonder and Concord Crush.  It's a pretty simple card.  I did add some scallops with the Adorning Accents edglits dies.  After I punched the flower I crinkled it up and then split it into two and layered it.