My weekly update

It's me again ready to show what I was able to accomplish this week.  I was hoping to post a little more often, but it seems like time just seems to slip away from me.  Anyway, here are the layouts and cards I finished this week.

For this card, I used an idea from Paper Wishes/HOTP.  The paper was some HOTP paper in my stash.  The image was sent to me from the company for being a VIP.  I colored it with copic markers and other markers.  After coloring it, I covered it with glitter adhesive paper.  The card is a step card from the company, and I used a stamp set for the sentiment.  For a final touch I added a twine bow to the top.

I've been making layouts using CTMH products for over 5 years now.  Once a month a group of us would get together and put together layouts.  I still have several of these layouts in a drawer, waiting for me to put pictures on them.  This is one of those layouts.  It is one of the oldest layouts in the drawer, and I think the paper is Dakota, but I'm not sure.  The pictures are of my ds showing his Hereford heifer for the first time back in the fall of 2010.

This is one very simple layout I did for this picture of a hawk in a tree in our front yard.  I used a sketch and paper from DCWV.

Here is another layout from my CTMH layout stash.  This one uses paper and embellishments from the Blossom paper pack.   The pictures are of my dd and all her entries in the county fair.

These are the same pictures of my ds showing his first Hereford heifer, but this time I used a 4H paper pack.  I also used stamps from CTMH and a sketch with cutting guide from there.

Another card using HOTP/Paper wishes products and idea.  This is an oval flip card.  I kept it simple, adding only some gold die cuts, gold sentiment stickers, and silver stickles.

That's all for this week, but I feel like I've accomplished a lot.  I'm all the way to Oct. 2010 in my pictures, so only a few more months left to reach my goal of finishing 2010 this summer.  I also finished a cozy mystery book that I've been reading for two summers, Spackled and Spooked, by Jenny Bentley. 

Latest projects

The last week of June I went on a trip with my son as a sponsor.  He is in an academic club called Beta, and he went to New Orleans with them to the National Convention.  Because he was the only boy and I am a teacher with the school, the Beta sponsor asked me to go too.  We had a lot of fun.  Neither of us had ever been to New Orleans before.  The club did great too.  They competed in several competitions and made it to the top 10 in three of them.  That's big time for our very small school.

Anyway, since I was gone for a full week, and it took me several days to catch up, I was happy that my dh and kids went to the lake this last weekend, and I stayed home and scrapped!  Not all of these projects were from this weekend, but most of them were.

This first layout used all CTMH products - stamps, ink, paper, and embellishments.  The paper is from Surf's Up which was from several catalogs ago. 

Here are my sweet kids in their school pictures from 2010.  You will see these pictures again for their individual scrapbooks, but this one is for my scrapbook.  I used a kit from Paper Wishes but had to modify it a little for these particular pictures.

All three of these cards were made using embossing folders and ideas from Paper Wishes (or HOTP).  Except for vellum on the first card and the black velvet paper on the third card, I used scraps and stash.

Here are the kiddos' class pictures again for their individual scrapbooks.  My ds's page contains CTMH Scholastic papers and embellishments.  I also used Thickers for the "4th Grade" title.  My dd's page was made using papers and embellishments from a very old kit, and now I can't remember which one. 

Here's another layout using a very old kit that I know longer remember the name!  The paper, die cuts, letters, and embellishments were all included in the kit.

Another old kit.  This kit was a layout kit that I had already put together and just needed to add the pictures.

And finally two thank you cards.  These were also made using embossing folders and ideas from HOTP/Paper Wishes.  The top one I used scrap paper and ribbon along with their red firework paper and dazzle stickers.  The bottom one I did something new for me.  I used Inka Gold to color the butterflies.  The Inka Gold and the purple circle paper were purchased from Paper Wishes too.

Sorry for such a long post.  Hopefully I can get some more projects finished this week.