Dictionary pages

Okay, so it's Monday - not my favourite day of the week, but it has been a pretty good day so far.

Today's card(s) are for the current tic tac toe challenge at The Paper Players. I have chosen to use flowers, designer paper and the "free space" to make my line.

I have used a page I pulled from an old dictionary. It still hurts me to pull pages out of a book - you know, it just goes against everything I was taught as a small child - however, it is in the name of making a fun card and I have collected a few old dictionaries with this sort of thing in mind, so it isn't like we cannot look  up words in our house. Here is a close up of the flower I made.

And here is another quick card I made up at the same time, leaving it without a sentiment which can be added later or used as is for a note card.



Word of the day:
innocuous - harmless, not offensive
Hope you all have a fantastic week!
Shanna :)


What I used:
papers: from the scrap bin & an old dictionary
punches - SU and EK success
stamp: SU - Tiny Tags
buttons - misc.

Dream for tomorrow

Here is my take on Laurel's current Inspired By challenge. I went with flowers and worked with the colours from the photo though they are more vibrant in these papers. 

I hope you've had a fantastic weekend! It was pretty busy here, so keeping it short.


Shanna :)


What I used:
papers: from my scrap bin - woo hoo!
ribbon - SU
tattered angels glimmer mist
basic grey bling it gems

Peace Love Joy

Hooray it's Friday!

Switching gears - I have decided I had better get cracking on my Christmas stash. Here is one of the quick cards I made. 

And here is the inside.

I would like to share over at Christmas Card Challenges.

See ya,

Shanna :)

What I used:

papers: Simple Stories - 25 Days of Christmas

Catch of the Day

Is it Friday yet? Urgh, I am so tired this week - can't wait for the weekend! Enough whining from me, at least I have a card to share today! 

This is my second take on the current challenge at Inspired by. To see the inspiration photo, please scroll down two posts and check it out - it's a good one! 


I would also like to share at The Ribbon Carousel for their Anything goes challenge.


I may be a bit scarce the next couple of days as I'm setting out on a road trip for work. Please cross you fingers for me as this trip has been cancelled a total of four times (three times due to bad weather) and I would really like to finally get there! I've been anxious these last few days - I think maybe I'll feel better once I finally get there.


Word of the Day:
Chester asked me about this one a couple days ago and I had no idea, so we looked it up...


ornithology - a branch of zoology dealing with birds


Ciao for now,
Shanna :)


What I used:
papers: Kaiser Craft - Hunt & Gather
bella bling, kitchen twine

Grateful

Hello and thank you for visiting!


I don't know about you, but I am still trying to get used to the new blogger interface. Some of the updates are fun, but my posts may look a little funny for the next while until I figure it all out!

A co-worker asked me to make her some thank you cards and this is one of them. I was inspired by two different challenges that were looking for butterflies - Our Creative Corner and  the current Tuesday Trigger in the Moxie Fab World. I also used the sketch at The Paper Players - you will be seeing more of this one!

I had some fun with my Tattered Angels glimmer mist...gotta do that more often!

A close up of the butterfly, punched out of an old book, and a shot of the inside.

I just thought I'd share a few shots from our park excursion this afternoon. The boys had a few friends over and were looking forward to some soccer at the park. First we stopped at the playground and I hopped on the swing while they played. I had my camera of course and snapped a few shots. Everyone needs a good swing once in awhile - feels so good!

And, since the younger two boys decided they wanted to be the "photographers" and sit on the sidelines rather than play soccer with the older crew, I was assigned the position of goaltender. Hey, at least I was getting some exercise! We played two on two and stopped counting when we were down 4-0.

Doodlepants set up his friends for some gaming prior to leaving for the park...

 I hope you've had a fabulous weekend. What have you been up to?
Take care,
Shanna :)


What I used:
papers: Kaiser Craft - Hunt & Gather 6x6 (love this pack)
ribbon: SU
stamps: Grateful sentiment CTMH Treasure Life D1306, butterflies inside SU kindess matters
brads & gems: Bo Bunny
tattered angels glimmer mist - available at DAT'S

Today, tomorrow & forever

 Happy Saturday! 
Thanks so much for stopping by!


You still have time to join us for our very first challenge over at DAT'S Designing Divas where we are celebrating National Scrapbooking Day - whip up a project with a scrapbooking theme and then drop by and link up. We can't wait to see what you have to share! Click here to see my original post about the challenge and my Happy Scrappy Day card.


Today's layout is for Laurel's Inspired by challenge. Here is the inspiration photo:

And here is my layout - gasp, yes a layout! I am starting to get more in the mood to do some scrapping - which is awesome since there is no shortage of photos around here! The inspiration photo made me think of several things - maps, travel, caring for the earth, recycling - the possibilities seemed endless, but this is where I began - with the colours and travel. These are photos from our East Coast vacation last summer - these particular shots are from our fabulous day in Halifax. That huge rope made for an awesome backdrop for photos. We ended up using this family shot of the four of us as our Christmas Card photo.

I LOVE these fabulous papers that I picked up at DAT'S awhile back. If I'm not mistaken, there is still some of this line left. Since I wanted to use the sail boat charm, I took apart an embellishment from the 30 brads pack that came with the line and made my own.

I had to add this photo of the Canadian flag - we were so struck by the patriotism that we saw in Halifax. There were Canadian flags everywhere and they were playing music by Canadian artists in all the shops - it made us so proud to be Canadian!


I had a tough time figuring out where to journal on here since I didn't want to distract too much form the photos of our family - in the end I went with tone on tone papers and tucked it under the edge of my main photo.


I hope you are having a great weekend so far!
Shanna :)


What I used:
papers: MME - Lost and Found Two 
embellishments: Lost & Found Two 30 pack of brads, misc ribbon, spellbinders (labels 22)
stamps: CTMH D1386 Save the Date

Friends

Hooray, the weekend is almost here!!!

I'v had this tree cut out and sitting on my craft table for months - I love my trees - and it has finally found its home on a card!

I don't use a lot of yellow as a rule, but since the challenge this week at The Ribbon Carousel is "Colour-a-licious" (to use bright colours), I decided to step outside of my comfort zone. Isn't that the best part about challenges?

I also had in mind while making this, the challenge at Crazy for Challenges - buttons! Well, I managed to use LOTS of buttons on this one! The buttons along the bottom are meant to be "windfalls" - I really needed something down there in that space and suddenly it hit me - apples fall off of trees (and make a big mess in my backyard...) so there you have it!

I LOVE these papers too - so many fun paper lines out these days, and MME are some of my faves!

Word of the day:

indignant - filled with or marked by indignation

indignation - anger aroused by something unjust, unworthy or mean

Thanks for stopping by,

Shanna :)

p.s. Snappy - are you proud of me - I used my cricut again!

What I used:

papers: MME Lost & Found Two - Ruby

buttons: CTMH

ribbon & tiny tag punch: SU

background stamp: CTMH Live Inspired

Thank you portrait

Happy Wednesday!

I did it again, made a card with no stamping!!! Just stickers, great papers and a few embellishments! I should do this more often, makes for some fun and quick cards to add to the stash!

I would like to share today's card at:

The ABC Challenge - neutrals

and

Paper Sundaes - anything goes

Weather update - I am happy to report that most of our snow and ice have now melted thanks to the fact that the temp rose above zero yesterday afternoon. I am going to make another attempt to visit Marathon next week - this time I will cross my fingers and my toes - this week was the third time we had to cancel!!!

A comedy break - does anybody remember Kindergarten Cop? Well, my boys watched it on their snow day Monday - I'm pretty sure that Doodlepants' fave part was when the little boy in kindergarten puts his hand up when the guest arrives in the classroom and says "Boys have a penis. Girls have a vagina!" and is rewarded with fits of giggles from his classmates. Well, there were lots of giggles at our house too - I had forgotten about that part!

Take care,

Shanna :)

what I used:

papers: Bo Bunny ETC. (I believe there are still a few sheets of this fab stuff at DAT'S)