Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mom's day to all you moms out there! Hope you get spoiled rotten!!!!! What do you do to celebrate Mom's Day? We typically use the day to pick out and plant our annuals then go to my inlaws for supper. Not sure anything will get planted tomorrow as we are under a frost warning! Bizarre weather!

I created this layout using the May Kit.! I really loved the colors in this kit! and I love those butterflies!!!

More with the May KnK Kit

Here's the layout and card that I showed you a sneak peek of in my last post here. I did some distressing and machine stitching on this layout. I opted not to add any journaling. Sometimes the picture just says it all. I just love that background paper with all of the words by Prima! And how cool are those Jenni Bowlin vintage buttons? I love them!Happy Mother's Day to all of you moms out there! I created this card for my mom with the kit. It is a simple card, but I love how it turned out. The Pink Paislee die cuts in the kit are perfect for card making! Have a great weekend and happy scrapping!

Difficult Cards

We all have to make difficult cards from time to time ... nothing says they have to be dull and dreary ... sometimes you just want to sit and create something that will give comfort to another person. A card that will catch their eye on the windowsill when they are feeling sad ... a simple reminder that you care and they are not alone.
I have made this card with plain white card stock, I then blended Scattered Straw, Spiced Marmalade and Fired Brick to colour. I used the Stampendous Agapanthus set stamped in Coffee Archival ink and then stamped the sentiment in Jet Black Archival to make it pop slightly. I matted the card onto simple Brown card stock and added a Jenni Bowlin butterfly. The butterfly was tinted slightly using Spiced Marmalade Distress ink.

That's it from me for another week ... see you same time ... same place ... well hopefully a little earlier ... next week! Have a great weekend.

More with May and a **WINNER**

I hope all of you have had a chance to work with the Prima "Flights of Fancy" papers that are in the kit and add-ons this month! They are truly gorgeous and so fun to scrap with. Here's my last layout with the May kit...
And oh yes, I need to announce the winner of the sketch contest for April! Thanks to Laura for playing along, here's her winning layout! I love those black and white photos, they compliment her chosen paper just perfectly. Great work Laura!

Laura, your prize will be in the mail to you this week :) Keep on the lookout for another sketch contest, I'll be posting one soon!

Happy scrappin'!

Many thanks to the teachers

This is Teacher appreciation week and in my house that means cranking out the crafts all week long for our favorite educators!!!

Friday is bring in a note to your teacher...so we created cards using this wonderful Stampendous April Showers Flowers Perfectly Clear Stamp set.





The girls are so excited to write special notes inside; which I made them wait until I snapped a photo of each. I hope the teachers like the cards this year...I know I am so very thankful for all their hard work and dedication to the students in their classrooms.

Happy crafting.....Lynda

more layouts with the May Kit'n Kaboodles kit

I soooo cannot get ENOUGH of this kit. Here is another layout that I created with the basic kit. My only non-basic kit additions are the cork buttons from the add-on kit and the letters...and ONLY because I have done so many layouts that I ran out of the ones that I needed (and the 3 pearls)!

My second layout for today included items from the add-on kit and items that are available in the shopping mall. Again, there are the cork buttons from the add-on kit. Items for purchase from the mall are the chipboard letters/numbers, the flip notes, the Jenni Bowlin buttons, the Pink Paislee Bella brads, and the Borderlines Clear Stickers. I totally recommend buying every last one of these items. Actually...at least 2 of the chipboard letters/numbers...you will fall in LOVE with them!

I hope that you enjoy these items as much as i did!

Going Bald

I created this layout using KnK May Kit and Amy's Sketch Challenge. It has been a while since I used a sketch. I forgot how much fun they can be! I enjoyed doing this page because it documented a proud moment. I was a little shocked to say the least when my hubby came home one night and said guess what I am doing......I am going to get my head shaved!!!!!?????? WHAT???????????!!!!???? Then he told me what the cause was for...St. Baldrick's...People pledge money for him to get his head shaved and that money goes to help fight kids cancer! OK I guess I can handle him being bald for a short time ;) . He was quite brave when he got it shaved...especially when they handed the clippers to his youngest daughter.