While the boys were away...

the girls played!

For the last couple of years, right after school has let out for the summer, my husband has taken the boys and gone on a little road trip to North Dakota. While they were gone I wanted to document the time that my daughter and I spent together. We started with a list of things that she wanted to do and then just worked our way through that list.

This layout was made using My Mind's Eye Kate & Co.- Cambridge Court.

The green arrow border around my grid is washi tape.

Stamped the little hearts and then embellished them with enamel dots.

Love me some girl time with my little one!!!!

Tonya

Card share

Found some spare time on my hands a couple of weeks ago, no assignments due. So, I pulled out some of my latest Papertrey Ink stamps and dies and made some cards just because.

As you can tell I really got into using the positive and the negative of the die cuts...more bang for your buck that way!

Papertrey Ink:

Apple Prints (stamps & dies)

Wonderful Words (stamps & dies)

Bubble Talk dies

Limitless Layers Hearts dies

The best hair

Hi there! Happy hump day! Today I have a layout that uses My Mind's Eye - Cut & Paste Adorbs collection. Such fun and happy colors in this line, and since I love bright colors it's an easy one for me to work with.

My daughter has this head of hair that many women pay a lot of money to have. This beautiful brown with these golden highlights that frame her face. Not to mention the fact that it is super thick and wavy.

For this layout I really wanted to focus on using the stamp set.  To achieve the glitter stamped arrows I simply stamped them with a glue pad, sprinkled on the glitter, and then sprayed them with a sealant. 

See that super skinny pink striped washi tape??? I LOVE that!

For the frame in the center of this stamp set I colored it in with a turquoise spica pen, in real life it has a pretty sparkle to it.

9/11 Always Remember............

                                                                          Tonya

WHEW!!!!!!!!

It feels so good to be home and to listen to the silence! It's been a whirlwind last 3 weeks for me. We were out of town for two weeks and came home the evening before school started. I got the kids ready for school, sent them on their way, bought groceries, did laundry, got the house ready for my parents and then my husband and I left the next morning at 4:30 (Thank you Laura!!!!) for a four day weekend in North Dakota for a family wedding. We got home last night, kiddos went to school this morning, my parents left (thanks Nana and Baba!!!!) and now I am home and it is peaceful!!!!

I have lots to share with you over the next few days. Today is a Simple Stories share, followed later this week by some My Mind's Eye projects and some just for fun Papertrey Ink projects.

First up a layout...both of today's projects feature the new Smarty Pants collection.

When I made this layout school hadn't started for us yet, so I was lacking in the school photo department. My goal...to make a sporty layout using a  school themed collection. I'm happy with the way it turned out!

and the card....I love those chipboard glasses!!!!

Thanks for stopping by to take a peek! 

I'm off to do laundry and errands.

Tonya

Simple Stories and I {Heart} Summer

Hi peeps! I have a layout to share with you today and it features my VERY FAVORITE of all time collection from Simple Stories...I {Heart} Summer. The colors and the graphics, with a hint of chalkboard black....sheer perfection in my book!

Used a pretty simple grid format for this one. I just dress up the squares by matting them with the contrasting yellow pinking sheared edge and some simple stitching. Chose to make the center my focal point and used some directional stickers above and below to help draw the eye in. 

The photos were embellished with some simple clustering of chipboard, brads, stickers, flair, layered stickers, and it was all backed with that adorable yellow Sn@p! die cut page.

Happy hump day!!! Thanks for popping in!

Retro Sketches

Today I have another card to share with you. It was made using the latest challenge on the Retro Sketches blog. The current sketch that this card was based upon is this one...

and here is the card that I made utilizing this sketch...used the My Mind's Eye My Girl collection and Papertrey Ink stamps (Delightful Dahlia Additions).

Thanks for stopping by to take a peek!

Tonya

Case Study #152

Happy Monday! In between the peach/blackberry picking and hiking this weekend I found some free time on my hands and decided to participate in the weekly challenge over on the CASE study blog. If you click HERE you can see the card by Jennifer McGuire that was the inspiration piece for this challenge.

Here is my take on the card.

I put two stamp sets from Papertrey Ink to use...Scrolling Script and Hello Sunshine, also sneaked in the Mat Stack 7 die.

Now, I have a question for you all...I love the Hero Arts Shadow Inks, but I have a problem with them and am hoping that someone out there has an answer for me. See the green stripe above in the photo (the one on the right)? See that smidge of red in it? Well, here's how it happened. I stamped the red ink first, which then stained my stamp. Cleaned the stamp off with a baby wipe AND stamp cleaner, then stamped the orange, then the yellow and then inked the stamp with the green Hero Arts Shadow ink and when I stamped it, it had "released" the red stain onto my image. The first three inks were from PTI, but I have had this issue with all inks followed by HA. Any suggestions???

Thanks and have a great week!

Tonya