Welcome to the world Grace Elizabeth!

My niece, Grace Elizabeth, was born into this wonderful world this morning. Isn't she precious?! She is such a doll and I can't wait to watch her grow up. She is already adored by her two older siblings and parents.


Here is the card I made for her parents. I just love House Mouse stamps. Thanks to Terry for this cute image!

Block Island Birthday!

Today Mike and I took the ferry from New London over to Block Island, RI for the day. It was my first time there. Lots and lots of walking. Little shops to peruse. Many eateries. We ate at a pub for lunch and went to a cheesecake place for lunch. It was to die for...but sadly I forgot to take a picture of it before I ate it. The above picture is the Statue of Rebecca. Below are some scenery shots.




Here is the fella card I made for Mike:
Happy birthday baby!

Back from the City of Brotherly Love!

Mike and I went to Philly for a mini vacation - our first one :) We took the train which was so nice. Relaxed and read a book on the way there and another on the way home. It was a whirlwind trip of the city but I think we saw almost everything and walked at least half of it.

On Friday, we went to the Eastern State Penitentiary. Al Capone was in jail there. It was very cool and creepy. We also saw the Museum of Art, got a lot of great pictures of everything around there. Here are a few pics of the jail and then one of the city taken from the steps of the Art Museum.

On Saturday, we went to the Philly Zoo which was a lot of fun. Again tons of pictures, lots of cool animals. Here is a goofy pic of Mike and I with a giraffe in the background.


On Sunday, we went to Love Park, Franklin Square and Logan Square. Oh and we went to the Liberty Bell, the Betsy Ross House and some other historical stuff. Here is one side of a really cool sandcastle in Franklin Square.
Here is a pic of Mike in another plaza - I forget the name. It was so neat though. There were large game pieces everywhere. Dominoes, monopoly pieces, sorry pieces and chess pieces.
Here we are at Love Park :)

Nice shot of an important building (i think...) Couldn't get close enough to see a name of what it was and a cop was shooing everyone away.

Its so hard to remember it all now! We didn't get to have a real Philly cheesesteak though, all the good places close at 6 pm! All in all, we had a great time together :) Now to edit and choose which pics to print and scrap...between the 2 of us we took almost 800 pics. Think we like taking pics or what?

Its C&C time!

What does C&C stand for?

Well tonight it means Clean & Create. Last weekend I cleared out my old computer desk and bought a tv stand and some organizing containers at IKEA. Its only the beginning as I need to alter some of the boxes and also need to buy a few more since there are still more stamps that don't have a home. But here is what it looks like so far!



I also plan to take that basket off and decorate the wall space with some altered art. It will take some time though since I need to create lots of stuff for swaps this weekend.

Tomorrow C&C stands for Color & Cut - still deciding what I want to do with it this time...I change my mind every time before I go and then change it again when I get there. So only time will tell as to what it will look like.

I'll close this post with my latest creation. I have a lot of things I've made in between the last post of creations and this but this is my new favorite. I have fallen head of heels for House Mouse - so much so that they have their own mouse house in one of the pink containers in the above picture LOL

Paper: DCWV
Stamps: House Mouse, Bee is from Bee Happy at www.sweetnsassystamps.com and the Happy Birthday is from a CTMH set.
Prismas pencils were used to color the image in. Love them!

TGIF!

April Card Creations

Here are some of the cards I created last month. Favorite things used were bellas and the cuttlebug!

Flowahbella from Stamping Bella, Swiss Dots cuttlebug folder, realllllly old patterned paper, flourishes on background are from a TAC set.
D'vine Swirl cuttlebug folder, small butterfly from a SU set, big butterfly from a =CTMH Flutter, sentiment from CTMH Make My Day
DCWV ppp, Bird from Inkadinkadoo, Birds and Swirls cuttlebug folder
Another flowahbella, DCWV pp, Thank You from Inkadinkadoo, prima flowers
D'vine Swirl cb folder, Flowers from the Stretch Your Imagination cricut cartridge
Stamps from CTMH, Snowflakes cuttlebug folder, Provocraft PP
Basic Grey pp that I've been hoarding, Owls from Hero Arts
Tweet stamp from Pink Cat Studios, Happy Birthday and Birds/Swirls folders, glittery background is a DCWV card from a Christmas boxed set
Swiss dots folder, cupcake from Hero Arts, DCWV pp, old satin ribbon
Billybootabella, inkadinkadoo sentiment, dcwv pp, bubbles cuttlebug folder
Savvyshopabella, sentiment from Inky Antics, Making Memories pp that I've been hoarding and a few touches of glossy accents
DCWV pp, Penguin from Imaginisce, forgot where Keep Cool came from, also rediscovered my glossy accents, now I'm adding it to everything I can!
CTMH flower from an old wood mounted set, blooms and dots folder, dcwv pp, glossy accents

Thanks for looking!!

Coming Soon.....

New creations from me! I was a SUPER busy girl in April. I made 96 cards and 15 scrapbook pages. I will get some uploaded in the next few days.