Long Hot Summer

It's only March and already in the 80's so I was inspired by these papers by Jackie Eckles, appropriately named "On a whimsy", to create this tag for summer.  The reflection on the transparency caused me a little trouble when I took the picture but it didn't come out too bad. The flowers I cut from one of the papers and raised with pop dots. The grass I also hand cut.

Supplies:  paper & transparency - Fancy Pants Designs ( on a whimsy by jackie eckles ), Enjoy rub-on ( love elsie ), Summer font "Boysrgross" cut on Silhouette from BG "green at heart" paper.

Gorgeous Prima

Take a peek at all this yummy green goodness from Prima. It's to die for and I'm not saying that just because I'm Irish.

Why can't I get my pictures where I want them?

Some day I'm going to get the hang of posting. I drag and drop my pics but they won't go where I want them. I need blogging for dummies.
Happy St. Pat's Day everyone.

Lavender Layout

Hopping around my favorite blogs this morning and came across a beautiful lo of Carole Janson's Here.  She does such amazing cut out work. So I lifted this design from her. Hope she doesn't mind.
Used Silhouette designs for the flourish and corner_design flourish. A Prima flower and some silk flowers. I painted a doily for the corner.

One of the layouts I made for my upcoming scrapbook/garage sale this coming weekend. Scalloped paper is from M's dollar bin. Leaves and flower from Silhouette, border Making Memories punch and a strip of vintage ribbon.

Mother's Day card

Inspiration struck this morning and this is the result. It's a little early for Mother's Day but we are having a community wide garage sale coming up. I went through all my supplies and weeded out what I won't use.  I did some layouts and  I hope to sell those plus all the cards, mini albums and paper crafts I've made. Well, I know I won't sell them all but hopefully some. Besides it's nice just to get out and meet some of my neighbors and enjoy the spring weather.

Supplies used:  Cuttlebug embossing folder (reversed) for the green background. Paper doily, Prima flower, Silhouette to cut the tag and my PC to print the verse. For the felt leaves I cut apart a coaster from Michaels.

San Xavier del Bac & Tubac

Spring fever hit so we decided to take a road trip.  We drove down south of Tucson to see the San Xavier mission, something I've been wanting to do.  It always looked so beautiful in pictures and it didn't dissapoint. They have been doing a lot of restoration but the scaffolding is down now. From there we drove further down to Tubac and strolled through the shops.  Long drive but a nice outing.

Family

I think this tray from 7 gypsies is just too stinkin cute. I've seen several posts on Two Peas using it & had to have it.  I'm missing a picture of two of my children so hence the blank space, but I'm happy with how it turned out. I  attached the pictures with a little double stick tape in case I want to change it in the future.