For the Love of Camping

Making a double Z fold birthday card is perfect for any hobby or profession that the person has. It is a fun style and I never get tired of making one. This is for our friend's grandson who loves to camp in his grandparent's RV! They live in Florida but come every June to camp with his grandparents in New Hampshire's White Mountains. The RV is made with my Cricut and the other images are dies that I have from Elizabeth Craft, Stampin up, and Spellbinders. Happy 12th Birthday Caden!

Summer Birthdays!

This time of year I can't help but make birthday cards with flowers! My daylilies are in bloom and I just love all the color in our yard! This card is for my sister, Adrianne who has a birthday on the 23rd and had to use Graphic 45's BLOOM collection which is so beautiful! It is 3 panel accordion card which is another fun fold to make for a birthday card. Happy Birthday Adrianne!

This Z fold birthday card is for a grandson of great friends of ours. Caden lives in Florida and has become quite a football player. He is a quarterback for his team and his parents are pretty proud of him. He has a birthday next week and I hope this card gets to him in time. Keep up the good work Caden and Happy Birthday! Just a couple pictures of some summertime fun!

Fabric Folding

I found this video on Pinterest on making these Christmas ornaments and my sisters and I just love making them.  You really get better at it the more you do and having a 5/8 inch marker helps too! After we made these, we started making pine cones and I have started a Christmas tree and I know my sister has made an angel which are so adorable! There is also a tutorial on making a wreath too! The one thing that is different besides the positioning of the folded fabric for each of the projects, you don't have to iron the Christmas ornaments but ironing for the pine cones and Christmas tree is really important if you want a good point with the fabric.  Here is the tutorial for the ornaments if you are interested in giving them a try.  I feel like Jennifer and I are good friends because I have listened to her tutorial for the pine cones and the Christmas wreath.  She does a great job showing the techniques.   Check out the website below/youtube for her tutorial!

                                        https://www.pinterest.com/pin/34832597104229888/

Pine Cone

It has been a busy summer planning a bridal shower for my niece who is getting married in France and also having my brother and sisters here from Florida, Massachusetts and New Jersey.  We all were together for the bridal shower which was so special.  I'll show pictures of the shower on my next post because there are quite a few with a Paris theme. 

Also this past week, my son and his girlfriend, Sabrina were here from California.  So happy to see them and happy to meet Sabrina.  She is a doll!  Eric never lets me take pictures of him (just like his mom) but he relented.  It was a great week and the weather was perfect!!  Miss them already!

Happy couple

Eric and Mom

Hot, Hot, Hot!

 We are starting July off very hot for Maine!  Hazy,  hot and Humid for the next 3 days so we are enjoying our pool! Sometimes it is too hot to get out of the pool!  Yesterday the water temperation of the pool was 80 and that is early for this time of year.  I am not in my craftroom now because it is so hot but last week was busy making some cards for friends and family.

My sister and her husband's 25th Wedding Anniversary was yesterday and  here is a card that I made for them. Happy Anniversary Chris & Tom!  I used Marianne Creatables bride and groom die with SU design paper for the background. Memory Box heart die behind the bride and groom. Silver, gray, black and white make and awesome card.

Easel card

A friend from high school is having a hard time right now so I thought I would send her a "thinking of you" card.  She lives in California so I wanted to send her a little taste of the Maine Coast.  Love making the Diorama cards.  The lighthouse stamp set from SU was perfect for her.  Love our Lighthouses in Maine!

Love the way these diorama cards fold up and can be mailed in an envelope so easily.  I used a lot of dies from Die-namics, Sizzix and Impression-Obsession.  I have made quite a few of these types of cards and I never get tired of doing them.  Happy 4th of July everyone!!  Enjoy your day!

Take Me Out to the Ball Game!

"O Say Can You See"

Friday night we headed to the Sea Dogs game in Portland to hear Waterboro Elementary School kids sing the National Anthem before the game.  They did a great job and were so cute!  It definitely was a hot evening for the last day in May but fun.  I was looking around to try and find my husband because he didn't know where I was sitting as he was waiting for all the kids and teachers to arrive since he had their tickets and look who I saw!  See below....

Enjoying the game

My sister Connie and her husband Russ were there watching the game too!!  I was sitting between homeplate and 3rd base and they were sitting between homeplate and 1st base--so they were across from us.  It was a fun evening and below are some more pictures of the game with events for kids inbetween innings and Slugger singing his rendition of "Take me out to the Ball Game".  By the way, the Sea Dogs won!!!  Yeah!!

Slugger having fun

Batter Up

Running the bases with Slugger

Nice Welcome