Summer Celebrations

 

July as well as August are busy birthdays and anniversaries celebrations! This card is for my sister and her husband.  The focus is on butterflies which I have seen all around my yard. They are loving the coneflowers! Happy Anniversary Chris & Tom!

This style card was a fun card to make. It is a Quadruple Z-fold card. I have seen the tutorial on youtube for a couple of different people and thought I would give it a try. Love finding new fun folds especially when there is plenty of room to put your sentiments. This one happens to be a "thank you" for a friend. I used the Ocean Blue Graphic 45's collection and also By the Sea collection.

Thank you for stopping by and I have to leave you with some summer fun! We now have a petting zoo in our pool!

The Heat is On!

We got back from our trip out west and was disappointed that our new liner was delayed by 3 weeks.  This past week they were able to put in the new liner before this 90+ degree weather.  We had a ball in the pool! Because of the heat, I haven't been in my craftroom but before that I was able to make a few birthday cards for my sister and a wonderful high school friend!  Check out pictures below of the cards I made for them and also a fun filled weekend with friends!

Finished the day with ice cream!

Both my sister and friend's birthdays are tomorrow and these are the two cards I made for these two! Happy Birthday Adrianne and Vicki!  Two special ladies!

I thought this cute birdhouse worked for Adrianne!

Fits in an envelope perfect!

Love this stamp set from SU

More flowers inside! Happy Birthday Vicki!

Flip Flop Wreath!

Colorful!

I love wearing flip flops in the summer!  Always a good day in flip flops! When I saw these flip flop wreaths on Pinterest last year, I knew I had to make one!  I just got around to do it this past week and found the colorful flip flops at Michael's for only a $1 a pair.  Basically this wreath only cost me about $12 to make.  There are butterflies and ladybugs not to mention the flowers.  Just makes me smile when I look at it.  I saw some flip flop wreaths on Pinterest that used design flip flop which were cute too!  Love more color around the pool area!  Perfect!

Love this!

Strawberry Picking in Maine

Entrance to the Strawberry Fields

Yesterday was a gorgeous day in southern Maine especially for strawberry picking.  Last week was the start of Strawberry Season in Maine and my sister, Connie and her husband Russ and I went to Fairwinds Farm in Bowdoinham for some red berries. It didn't take long before we picked about 8 lbs of strawberries each. At that point it was hard to stop because I kept finding some that were bigger than the ones I had already picked.  Now I am ready for the 4th of July and desert will be Strawberry Shortcake!!  Yum!

Beautiful Red

Better than the supermarkets!

More fields

I might have to go back at the end of the week to pick some more to freeze for the winter.  Can't have too many strawberries!!