Top 3

It's going to be gorgeous day here today, so not a scrapping day - hopefully a boating day. I just thought I'd share that this layout made the top 3 at Pile it on. thanks ladies!

Mother's day Tea

My son's gr. 6 class put on a performance and a tea party for all of the mom's. It was wonderful, they had a few songs, a dance number & a slide show. My son was also asked to play the guitar for the first 20 minutes as all of the mom's were arriving.

Method Playground's current challenge is to use envelopes on a layout. I've included the DVD of the performance. The photos on the right are popped up to make room for the DVD underneath it's just not obvious in the photo. I used a sketch from The Scrappiest and the current combo at Color Combos Galore.

Thanks for the Band Teacher

This will be from a group of parents for our kid's band teacher. They were all first year band kids and she did a great job with them. We chipped in to get her a gift certificate at the spa and I offered to make the card.
The quote is "The pause is as important as the note." When I gave my son a list of possible quotes I was thinking of using, this is one that he's sure he heard her use. On the inside I've written "We hope you have a chance to pause this summer."
I used this weeks sketch at Card Patterns, and the card also fits into the following challenges: Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge (use patterned paper); 2 Red Bananas (use at least 3 patterned papers; Cute Card Thursday (use a quote) and again Pile It on (don't stamp your sentiment - mine is computer generated and use at least one other challenge).

paper: My Minds Eye

Taste of Summer

A Clean & Simple layout for "anything goes" week at The Buck Stamps Here. It also works for Scrapper's Block - scrap about your senses, and incorporate a sense into a layout. The sketch I used is #60 from Triple the sketch, I just flipped it on it's side. This one also works for Pile It On since I didn't use stamping in my title and I used at least one other challenge.
This was my son in 2002 - I just loved the pics and still hadn't gotten around to scrapping them!

Bright summery card

This is one color combo that always feels summery to me. The card is based on a sketch at Stamps & Smiles. I also thinks it will fit as a summer card for Fun-frilled and Ann's creative Nook challenges. AND the card challenge at the online crop today at Scrapbooker's clubhouse was to use ribbon on a card.

Fun in the Sun

There's a new challenge blog - Stamp & Scrap. I was happy to find one that gets me using my stamps in my scrapbooking not just my card making. This week's challenge was to do anything summer themed using two stamps & the following sketch. I flipped & turned the sketch to make it work for these photos, but I think it's obvious I still used the sketch :)
The layout also works for Cafe Mojo this week - create a layout with the theme Summer Fun.
AND, it works for the first challenge at this week's online crop at Scrapbooker's Clubhouse (a great place to hangout). We were to use either blue or yellow waves somehow in a layout. The online crop will be going on all week if anyone else is interested in joining.

mini Thank yous

Here are a few of the 3x3 thank you cards to go in the little bag I posted yesterday. I think I'll make another set of 3, include some stamps & maybe some chocolate to round out the gift.
The layout for these little cards, as well as the designs came from the talented ladies at Clean & Simple Stamping - thank you!! I just love their blog.
The color ideas came from a few different challenge blogs::
Black, White & a punch of color (in my case pink) from KJs Stamp pad
Pink & Green from If the Shoe Fits Scrap It
Pink & Orange from Pink Persimmon.