Lasting Memories Challenge- Wishing You Blue Skies

Wishing You Blue Skies is the theme at Lasting Memories this week. Your layout should use Blue and White.

My niece is graduating from high school this year. And the school colors are Blue and White. I made her a graduation album. This page is for a 5 x7 senior picture.

Supplies:
Numbers: American Craft Thickers
Brads: American Crafts
Flowers and Leaves:  Prima and Petaloo
Cardstock: Bazzill, DCWV, Studio Calico

Challenges:
Craft for the Craic:  Something Summery of with flowers


I hope your week is filled with blue skies:)

Party-Female Graduation Layout

  Actually had a chance to scrap today! YEA!!!  I am still working on my niece's graduation present-which is a graduation album, so hence no pics.

Supplies are listed at the end of the post.

Challenges:
 Creative Scrappers 267

Life Paper Scrapbook Color Challenge

Crafter's Cafe Challenge #64 Girly

Crafting With Dragonflies Challenge:  Celebration (Mine is Graduation)

Divas by Design Anything Goes

Fab N Funky Challenges: Recipe: 3 Design Papers, ribbon and pearls or rhinestones- I used 3 design papers, ribbon and pearls.


Have a wonderful week!

Pink Paislee Infigo Bleu Tags	Pink Paislee Indigo Blue Collection	Pink Paislee Indigo Bleu Shipping Tags	*Martha Stewart HEART Craft Punch 283020 Love Valentine	*EK Success HEART & CROWN Punch Set Mini 54-10016
American Crafts Thickers	*Glue Arts GLUE GLIDER PRO PermaTac Adhesive Applicator	*Kaiser SOFT BLUE Pearl Brads	*03441 Fiskars PREMIUM CUT LINE Paper Trimmer 12 Inches	*Bo Bunny DENIM WRAPS Ribbon WRDW928
*EK Success CUTTER BEE Scissors EKCB01	*Tim Holtz Tonic Craft SCISSORS Non Stick Micro Serrated

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Lasting Memories Challenge:Green/ Happy St Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day! We're an Irish American town with Shamrocks as our Mascot, so St. Patricks' Day is a big deal around here:) And Scott, my adopted son is of Irish Heritage so we always make a special Irish Dinner today to celebrate his heritage.

And in the tradition of the Irish, Lasting Memories' Challenge this week is GREEN. And my layout is of James High School Graduation. A friend of mine is a DJ and she DJ'd  James party as her graduation gift to him. Isn't that awesome? An how James loved his "air guitar" LOL

Supplies:
Cardstock and Paper: Core'dinations Super Assortment Roy G. Biv8.5 x11, Stash
Alphabet: American Crafts Thickers Delight, Doodlebug Teensy Type
Musical Notes Stickers: Stash
Dies: Spellbinders Standard Circle


Have a magical week filled with the "Luck of the Irish!"

Female Graduation Card

Congratulations to all of the Graduates this year!

Inside of Card

Supplies:
Cardstock and Paper: DCWV
Stamps: Inkadinkado Graduation Wishes 60-30098 (retired)
Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento

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Challenges:
Pile It On-- Graduation in School Colors

Congratulations Larissa! Good Luck in your future acting career!

June 3 Lasting Memories How Do You Fold

This week at Lasting Memories the challenge is “How Do You Fold?”- Use some kind of paper folding technique like iris folding or teabag folding etc. on your layout. (Please include instructions or even a link to how you did your folding.)

2 page Layout using circle folds for the border

Page 1-Circle folds are at the bottom

Page 2-Circle Folds are at the bottom

Supplies: 
Cardstock and Paper: Core'dinations Lemonage Vintage Collection,

 Paper House Shamrock Stamp

Ink: Colorbox Bisque, Colorbox Verdigris

Adhesives: Glue Dots, Scotch ATG

Tools: Martha Stewart Score Board, Marvy 2" Circle Punch 

Embellishments: Micheals Shamrock Buttons, Petaloo,

 TPC Studio Class Act Fabric Buttons, Stash

Directions for Circle Folds

1. Use double sided paper or use your Xyron to glue two 2 1/2" 

strips back to back.

2. Using a 2" punch, punch out a circle.

3. Score the circle at 1 1/2" 

4. Flip the circle around and score

 again at 1 1/2"

5.  Fold each side down and secure with a glue dot.

6. Add embellishment or use as is. I laid mine

 side by side to make the border and I alternated

the embellishment.

The owner of Lasting Memories (Karen) is sponsoring the challenge 

week. She has a surprise bag of scrapping goodies for someone:) 

Can't wait to see your fantastic folds!

Have a wonderful week! 

Congratuations Graduation Layout

 I love doing Challenges! It is keeping me focused and getting photos into the scrapbook instead of them laying around for years. And it makes me work out of my comfort zone so I am learning new things. This is the first time I used my Spellbinders Nested Pennants. I have to be honest when I bought them I thought, "I will never use these," but I had an inkling they would become popular and  sure enough they did!

Supplies:

Paper: PAP Westfield Logo, Scrappim' Sports Gold Green Stripes, Laserline Westfield Shamrocks (Thus paper was all purchased 3 years ago when our Local Scrapbook Store went out of business. I am sooo glad I had the foresight to stock up at the time, because we only have chain stores (Hobby Lobby, Achievers, and Micheal's) and none of them carry Westfield logo stuff.

Dies: Spellbinders Nested Pennants, Large Oval, Label 1

Flowers: Petaloo and Doodlebug

Embellishments: Dress it Up Shamrocks, buttons from my stash

Floss and Twine :We R Memories Sew Easy Orange, Really Reasonable Ribbon Green and White Twine

Rub-Ons: Scrappin' Sports Graduation

This Challenge is sponsored by Stuck On U Sketches. Be sure to check them out. They also do tutorials and I have learned some new tricks on this site.

 I reversed the sketch to work with the paper. Here's the sketch:

Off to get my homework done for Summer Card Camp 2011. Another activity that is forcing me out of my comfort zone. No one can accuse me of being in a rut! LOL

Thanks for stopping by. Have a day filled with wonderful memories ready to be scrapped:)



Graduation Card Female

First drum roll please! The winner of the Copic Marker Blog Candy is:

OK so Blogger won't cooperate with posting the Random Number Generator. There were 268 entries. The number generated was 261. Congratulations, Cindy's Card Co! Cindy said, " How cute is this little guy??!! "

Cindy please contact me thought the contact me button and I will get these out right away:)

James graduated this weekend. It was a lovely ceremony. And to be honest I lost it when he texted me just before the ceremony, " Mom, thank you for the last 17 years. You couldn't have been a better Mom and I know that you are the sole reason I made it this far!" He's an awesome kid and I am one proud Mom! How fortunate I am to have a kid that values his upbringing!!

 We have had some pretty insightful conversations this weekend. James has done a ton of growing up. He is in an awkward situation because when he goes to college he will still be a minor in an adult word. (He skipped 4th grade, so he graduated early.) But he also recognizes that he was raised with values and has core values and a lot of kids leaving for college haven't been. We live in an affluent community. And when we moved here before the divorce we had a six figure income. With the divorce and my disability we had to learn how to count every penny. He told me he was "thankful" that we lost our income because he has learned how to appreciate everything he has. He has friends whose parents bought their kids $20,000 cars and the kids complain about what a piece of trash it is. And they go out and have several accidents and think nothing of it.  James on the other hand earned the $3,000 for his used Jeep. And he LOVES his Jeep and takes great pride in it. How many kids can appreciate that they have had to work for something and are not resentful???? I am indeed blessed.

We have a ton of graduations over the next couple of weeks. Here's a card I designed for the local high school girls done in their school colors:

Supplies:
Cardstock: DCWV Mini Scalloped Cardstock, Copic X-Press Blending Card
Card Base: DCWV Bright Solid Box of Cards
Floral: Petaloo Flora Doodles, EasyCraft Vine
Copics: G28, E29, E 35, R22, Y11, Y35
Stamp: Whiff of Joy Graduation Willow
Dies: Spellbinders Long Rectangle, Spellbinders Long Scalloped Rectangle

Have a wonderful day filled with appreciation of the little things!



Graduation Announcement

Good Afternoon Blogging Friends,

  Wow what a month it has been! Scott finished his first semester in college with a B average! And he got a job working full time unloading trucks at a local department store! And it is his dream job! It is so nice seeing him happy and smiling:)

  I ended up being admitted to the hospital on Mother's Day. Behcets causes oral and genital ulcers that are extremely painful all by themselves. One of the ulcers became infected with MRSA. I ended up very ill with a kidney infection on top of it all. We had to boost my prednisone to get on top of the Bechets flare and it caused my diabetes glucose levels to seriously spike. I am home now, but I have to go back to the hospital daily for two hours for IV antibiotics. The first antibiotic wasted away muscle tissue so we had to change course midstream and took a few steps back. However, it seems I am now headed in the right direction except that everything tastes like alka seltzer water and I don't want to eat or drink. I never thought I'd see the day where I couldn't stand my Diet Pepsi!

And in the meantime I had intended to get James high school graduation announcements in the mail over last weekend. Well the hospital took care of that. However they are in the mail now. Here's a peek at his announcement: (The black around the quotes is Core'dinations Black Tie-it shines in reality. And the embossed Core'dinations Pearl also has a shine to it in. Unfortunately the day is overcast and it it didn't show in the picture.)

Inside it says:
                     Every yesterday is a memory of dreams
                     Every tomorrow is a vision of hope
                     With great joy and pride Elizabeth Campau
                      Announces the Graduation of James Campau
                      With Honors from WHS Class of 2011

                       Please join us for an Open House
                       June 18, 2011 from 1 pm- 5 pm
                       At the Home of Elizabeth Campau
                       123 Any Street
                       Any City, State, Zip Code
                       Regrets only (111) 555-5555

On the opposite is his senior picture and the following statement
James will be continuing his education at Purdue University pursuing an Engineering Degree.

Supplies: Bazzill Linen Celebration Cardstock 8.5" x 11", Core'dinations Couture Black Tie, Core'dinations Pearl, Core'dinations Onyx, Black Satin Ribbon, Color Box
Platinum Metallic Pigment Cat's Eye, Glue Glider Pro Extreme Tac, Cuttlebug Swiss Dots, Spellbinders Labels 15, Spellbinders Just Right Nested Die Frames, Inkadinkado Graduation Wishes Stamp Set

Have a wonderful day!