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Sunday, May 24, 2009

A Lovely Wedding...

We went to a lovely wedding yesterday! It was a beach/sea shore theme bash and it was so nice! The couple was just beautiful and we had a great time. Just a few touches... leis on the seats, flip-flop chocolate suckers for favors, fun drinks served in stem glasses with little umbrellas. Loved it!
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I made the card above for the happy couple. It was super easy and I added some touches after I scanned it. I put stickles on the eyelet edges and the sparkles just gave it that finished look!
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Off to picnic with the family... we go to a ton of parades tomorrow, so we eat today!
Take care!

Thursday, May 21, 2009

I Found the Kitchen Table...

and promptly covered it with paper, punches, stamps and inks! There was important crafting to be done! My cousin Amy's daughter Megan is graduating and we were working on her party invites!



The pattern background paper was custom made by me on the computer. It has Megan's name on it, 2009, and the name of the school. It was super easy to make and I love that it makes her invites so completely personalized for her!
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To make your own paper all you need to do is open a word document and choose a font. Type in your line of text. Change text to any colors that go with your scheme... ours was blue and gold, the school colors. Then comes the easy part... highlight text, right click, copy and paste, paste, paste until you get a nice couple lines worth. Then rehighlight (or edit and select all) and paste, paste, paste again until you fill the page! I made my page set up for landscape and set the margins at 1/2 inch all around with no headers or footers so the page would be pretty full. If you don't want an entire page though, you could just insert a text box on the blank page and fill it up instead. Did I make that all clear as mud??
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I made some pages with just the school name and Class of 2009 on it as well to use on cards for some graduates.
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Glad to be crafting again!
Take care!

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Just checking in...

Nothing new on the crafting front here...
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I have been busy planting posies and hubby has been putting in the vegetable garden. Hopefully since my Dad no longer has the high jumping champion goats of last year we will do better with the whole garden this year!
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Also working on clearing out some stuff for spring trash clean up.
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And enjoying the nice weather, although it has brought on a bout of allergies like I haven't had in many years. I am going through tissues like nobodies business and coughing and sneezing and my eyes are a-watering like I am crying from peeling onions.
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Take care!

Saturday, May 02, 2009

Plum Spooky... FUN!

Not much crafting going on here. I have had my nose in the latest of the Stephanie Plum books, Plum Spooky! I finished it last night and I have to tell you, I LOVED IT! My poor husband thought I was crazy! Imagine watching someone reading a book, laughing so hard that she can't catch her breath, with tears running down her cheeks! Too darn funny! I only have one thing to say... Elmer the Fire Farter!
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No big plans for National Scrapbook Day here either... hope some of my friends are getting all crafty though!
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Take care!