PeachyKeen Stamp Challenge- Summer Destinations

For this challenge you needed  to create a card or layout based on you favorite summer destination and needed  to include one of the 3B's,  buttons, brads or bling.  I did a layout of my grandson, Philip, with his first fish caught.  It was caught at our favorite place,  StoneyBrook, and  spent with our favorite little people,  our grandkids.

Throwback Thursday Challenge

The ThrowBack Thursday  challenge this week was to make a card for your favorite  holiday using the Wild Card cart.  Being I do not own this one I had to improvise.  For the moon and Santa/sleigh I used  Christmas Noel, the snow hills are from Everyday PaperDolls and for the houses I used Handyman.  Looking at the card, can you guess what my favorite holiday is ??

My CHA purse

My Sil , Tina, and I  will be going to the CHA Super Show in Rosemont, Ill at the end of the month. This will be the first time for both so we're going to do it up right.  We thought of flying out there but then  realized that that would take all the fun out of it.  So we decided that we'd  take a little road trip instead. We got together this past week, made some hotel reservations, planned our route and found some scrapbbook stores , to stop at, along the way.   We are both fiskateers, #6811 &   #5736,  and want to show some fiska-pride while we're road trippin' so we are  looking at accessorizing in Green and Orange. Tina came across these green satchels  at Target  and we decided to dress them up a little bit.  This is what I did to mine, I can't wait to see what she did with hers!! 

Vacation

We had the the week off and now I'm sad to say that its back to work tomorrow?? We spent alot of time up at our property in Pequot Lakes. We relaxed, worked, shopped, visited , crafted,  drank....we just had a great week!!!   But all good things must come to an end and back to the real world we go. But I must be grateful that we do have jobs to go  back to  and its because of those jobs that we were able to enjoy what we do have.

Our little piece of Heaven

In March of '09, my husband and I bought 20 acres of land in northern Mn. Our dream is to build a home on it but for now it has become a peaceful getaway for us.  For now, we have our 5th wheel parked there and are slowly adding on as money allows.  Last summer we built a deck and a storage shed and cleaned up an area for family and friends to come stay. This year we've started a little "orchard" which includes apple, pear and plum trees, we'll see how that works :)  And today electricity was hooked up, I'm really excited for that!!

I was at a swarm awhile back and a lady demonstrated how to add designs to t-shirts , bags,etc with fabric paint , vinyl and your cricut. This is my first attempt. I  used the Cuttin Up cart for the lettering and cut it out of the vinyl, took the backing off and stuck it onto the t-shirt, making sure it was all adhered. Using  a little foam paint brush I then painted the lettering. Once thepaint was dried I removed the vinyl and this is the result.  I thought they turned out pretty good.

NSD Rak

I  love to receive prizes in the mail!  On Friday I came home from work to find some "happy mail" for me on the table.  It was from  fellow fiskateer, Laura #5939,  and I had won her RAK  on National Scrapbooking Day.  I have never won a rak before so when I opened this up I was completely blown away, I couldn't believe all the stuff that she sent me.  I was  very happy girl :)

Husbands Birthday

My husband's birthday  was on Tuesday the 18th and  I was trying to come up with a fun card for him. So I sat in my craft room, thought about it for a bit and it came to me.  Last weekend he spent the weekend up north, on our land, with a his friend Pat.  He left with a shotgun,some ammo and the determination to get that beaver, that had staked a claim in our stream. He came home, beaver still alive , but the dam that it had built was destroyed.  What a man I have!!   So that was the inspiration  for this card, his reaction was priceless !