Life and Happiness what will you do with it?

Hello my friends hope everyone is enjoying the last days of summer with Labor Day just a few days away, where did the year go? I know it's been on my mind having my baby turn 18 in July and he just started school senior year, our middle turned 20 on Sunday and our oldest will be 26 in a few weeks.

Life is just going past and I thought one day it's gonna be a just me and the hubby. We just enjoyed a nice week-end down the coast it was so nice to be kid-free but at the same time it got me thinking 27 years and we always made sure the kids were happy and all our family time was kid friendly we never had just grown-up time.

Just having a few days to ourselves made us realize we should do a get away when we can it was nice getting to know eachother again. And so my question to everyone is what will you do when life and happiness comes knocking at the door? Will you and your special someone take the time to enjoy it even if it's just a visit to the local coffee shop or a nice get away? Life is short and quickly passes don't let it get passed you to quickly. Take time to stop and smell the roses.

Here is my stairstep card hope you like it.
I used my Lori's Garden and also my Art Nouveau cartridges
I used DCWV in orange and the butterflies came from Lori's Garden cut at a 3.75 for the green one and the purple/blue butterflies were cut at 3.25 and my yellow one was cut at 3.5.
For my flower I cut it using Art Nouveau at 3.25 I then puched small butterflies using my Martha Steward punch and added Tim Holtz glitter to my wings.

Hello everyone !! Hope you all had a great week-end

For this weeks challenge it was teacher inspired using the color orange a little bling some ribbon and any color of our choice. I am so use to doing 12x12 pages I had to think out of the box and step away from my comfort zone for this one.

Using a cream color for my base  I cut my 8x11 smaller then a 4x5 and using my Nate's ABC cartridge I cut my letter A at 3.0 in the orange and using some back to school stickers and ribbon I also cut off the prongs of a brad and pop doted it to my corner for my bling I used to green jewels and some of Tim Holtz distress glitter.

The inside of the card was also cut at 3.0 and I used some blue glitter to add some sparkle to the pond of water. My little boy was cut at 3.0 and I surrounded him with a bit more back to school stickers.

I hope everyone likes my little creation and for all the mom's out in our group I know my home is ready to be teen-age free in two weeks back to school for my guys. Enjoy the rest of your week

Hello everyone it's been a crazy summer and this past week has been amazing first off there is a new addition to the family a new baby boy our first great nephew and another addition was announced on Sunday another boy due December 16 we can't wait and last but most exciting our niece got married on Saturday a beautiful wedding on the coast of Moneray and the weather was perfect. To say the least I did'nt think I'd make my deadline, but here it is!!!

This is our family dog Olfelia also known as Ollie. We adopted her six years ago from a shelter it was love at first sight especially for our son Christopher. She is our best friend, a safe haven on a bad day the best backseat driver, and a great walking compaion even if she is the one walking me boy can she pull when she wants to go!!!!

So in honor of my baby girl may we have many more walks, wet kisses and wagging tail years to come.

I used Nate's ABC cartridge
brown cardstock
12x12 DCWV
Buttons from Oriental Trading
Doggy paws boarder from colorbok paper

I cut my doggy at 3.50 and embossed her collar with baby blue and also embossed the MY GIRL in blue matted my photo on lime green DCWV 4x5
I also embossed the doggy paws cutouts

Blog Hop Saturday

Hello to all my friends I can't wait to see how all my DT Sisters celebrate the
season of summer fun. I hope everyone enjoys the blog hop, don't forget to stop by
Just a scrappin.com to see what's going on if you are on my blog you got here
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HAPPY BLOG HOP

WOW my first blog hop

The pictures I chose are of my son David he was in the fifth grade and in a few weeks he will be 18 how time flies I just remember as I worked on this layout how much of a child and so innocent he was and how much the world has changed since then. No worries no stress for this little boy in the photos. David could'nt wait for fifth grade just because of the four day field trip to Point Bonita which is on the other side of the Golden Gate only the ''Big Fifth Graders'' are able to participate in this trip night hiking, ocean beach walks, learning all about the earth and her nature. The kids were to pick out a nickname and he choose Little Lion I think it was because he thought our group leader was just to cool to be a girl and he caught a little crush on her name was Lisa Lion.

My supplies were from My Big Ideas paper 12x12
a mini seahorse punch
emblishments from Joilees and Hedi Swapp

I hope everyone enjoys my photos and layout

Christmas in July

Happy Friday everyone

Needless to say this July project was a challenge for me I had to think about it for a few days the 90 degree Califorina heat sure did'nt help :) I am a summer girl at heart so taking a walk to clear my head and get my creative juices going (LOL) I thought about the little critters that not only are around during my walk but the same ones that we enjoy during the winter and this is my layout that I came up with!!!! Using my Winter Frolic cartridge I choose the field mouse,and the beaver, I then added my winter elements Frosty, Mr. Penquin, a reindeer and of course the reason we celebrate this day the baby Jesus.

My cuts were at 3.50 using all paper by Recollections we were told to use pink,blak,white and one color of our choice I picked brown and of course there were little bits of color to bring my elements to life I also added a few glitter colors on some of my cutouts. I hope you all like it. Remember the blog hop tomorrow can't wait to see everyones Summer Fun projects!!!!

They're Back

The men in my life made it back from their yearly fourth of July trip.
It's back to me and all the men in the house again LOL. Was totally stressing out the last few days i could'nt for the life of me get into my blog (Senior Moment) but i guess that's a new blogger for all the experinced one out there!! hope everyone had a great weekend and talk to you soon