VMAA Challenge #3

I just loved Challenge #3 hosted by the wonderful Rhonda. Rhonda is a lady after my own heart. Her challenge was based on her favorite show, LOST, which is also my favorite show. I wait every week to see what new twists are around the corner and at the end of the night am shocked and excited for next time. Summer is hard to be without the drama and suspense. Our cards were to showcase our favorites (ie stamps, colors, notecards, etc.) I just love this Elzy so I had to use her and I have been loving the Purple Kitchen notecards and creative candy. Hope you like.
Jake (top) and Dylan (bottom) decided their favorite thing was to make birthday cards. Hope you like them.

VMAA Challenge #2

Our second challenge of the night was hosted by Geeta (who also hosted our online chat). She chose Gray's Anatomy. The challenge: Make a card that has something to do with love: any kind of love!

By now I had given up on stamping live and played online while getting things for the boys when they needed help and answering their many questions. Next time I want to know something I'm going to have them start stamping first. As soon as they started I don't think they stopped talking till I told them they had to stop stamping at 9:00.

My cards first. I love the coffee set. It was my first ever A Muse stamp and I always seem to come back to it.

Dylan (8) is next. He thinks the hiker and Elzy are in love. I love how he drew a heart in between them.
Jake (6) thought about the love theme for a couple minutes before he decided to make tons of girls ( there are 7 more on the inside and back of the card). He was very adamant though that he didn't love girls but that girls loved love.
Lastly, we come to my husband, Patrick. Since we stamped after the kids went to bed. This was actually the last card he made. He combined sets to make and Mom and her baby.

I never knew I had such a creative family. We'll have to do this again sometime.

I'll post the rest of the challenges later. I've got to run now, Dylan has a scuba class in 20 minutes.

Lara

Patrick's Passport to Europe

So I had the pleasure of stamping with my family tonight for VMAA. Dylan and Jake stamped till 9:00 and then after we got everyone to sleep Patrick and I sat down and did our cards. I know what you are thinking, "Your husband stamps?". Not usually but tonight he saw how much fun the boys were having and wanted to join in. He said it's just like when you were in elementary school except he's better at coloring now.

Challenge #1 - Passport to Europe

Well we may be behind but it's kinda fun stamping with all my boys. This is the card I made for Michelle's challenge. I loved the colors and was drawn to the window. The boys on the other hand were drawn to the "kayak".
Jake immediately looked at all my stamps and wanted to make Kayaks out of the essential oval set. I would have never thought of that. He has a starting line and a finish line for his race.
Dylan has a lot more going on in his. He also has the kayaks in water and a house for his window as well as a table on the patio with lemonade and the Eiffel Tower in the background.

Hope you enjoy.

They are hard at work on the next challenge.

My stamping family

These are my boys stamping for tonight VMAA goodness. Hope you enjoy. If you're interested the younger ones are 8, 6 and 2. I'll be posting all the cards in a minute.

Gift Bags

I want to share with you today a cute and simple gift bag and card I made using 12x12 sheets of patterned paper. For the bag I used a single sheet of 12x12 paper. I gave it some added height by adding a border at the top using coordinating card stock and scalloped scissors. I also covered both sides of the bag.

I made a matching card using another sheet of the patterned paper. I used the same card stock as on the bag. For the sentiment I cut out a single "dot", stamped my sentiment inside and layered it twice. I also added a twinkle sticker to the i to give it a little added something. It was simple to make but everyone was impressed.
Hope you enjoy!

Hiking at Cathedral Rock

Last Sunday we went on our monthly hike with our Cub Scout pack. It was nice and cool at Mt. Charleston, a welcome change from the heat of the valley. I turned up having some great pictures I thought I would share with you. I hope you enjoy them.

The picture to the left was taken about half way up the mountain looking to Cathedral Rock. I can't believe we made it all the way to the top of that.

The second picture was taking at a natural spring we came across near the final leg up to the top.

Next is the view looking to the west towards Mary Jane Falls (another great hike) from the top.

Lastly is looking south at Mt. Charleston and the surrounding mountains.