more cards

Here is the quick and easy one that I made for Valentines Day. They were pretty simple to make. I stamped the background with 4 different heart stamps and then I stamped and colored the bear. I punched out the hearts and attached them with foam squares. The inside verse is a stamp from an old hostess Stampin Up set (retired now) I just went looking through the stamps that I have for an appropriate saying that would work for anyone.

Oops, some of the cards didn't make it into the last post, I am still learning about all this blogging stuff!!! Here are a few more that I made.

Some cards

Today I thought that I would share some of the cards that I have been making. Some are cards that I made on my own and some are copied from the Splitcoaststampers website. I included the ones that I made for Christmas cards that I sent out to family and friends. I had some left over (imagine that) that I will save for next year.

new pages, finally

This photo of my oldest daughter and her family was taken in the fall on a cool day. I think this one was toward the end of the shoot so Amanda is looking kind of chilly!! The paper is from a kit from Scrapdango as well as the letters and the felt flowers.

So, I finally got myself going on doing some scrapbooking again. I am finished reading the Twilight series, they are fairly good books. I don't think they are as well written as the Harry Potter series but they are pretty good considering they were written with teenagers in mind!!
I am getting excited about going on our trip now. I have been cleaning and sorting too as I take down the Christmas stuff. It is just too cold to go anywhere unless I absolutely have to, like work!!! I have been making some cards as well, as my little box of extras was getting low.
This photo of amanda and santa is on basic grey Wassail paper and the embelishments are from cloud9 design. I used a sketch challenge from 52 Sketches...52 Weeks site.

post Christmas news

I was reminded today that I haven't posted in a long while, so I thought that I would remedy that. I was busy getting ready for Christmas, I made all my cards to send, I tried to visit with my granddaughter as often as possible, I had to bake this year as we were hosting the family get together here at our house, I decorated alittle more than usual for that same reason, so blogging sort of fell to the wayside. I "stole" Amanda from daycare one afternoon and took her to see Santa, sad to say she wasn't too impressed and wouldn't let go of me to sit with him. I had phoned my other daughter Jenn to see if she was willing to come with me in case I had trouble, so she ended up sitting with Amanda by Santa. I saw so many photos of kids crying or screaming while sitting on Santa's lap and I just didn't want that kind of photo. So here is the photo that we got of our little sweetheart with Santa and her auntie.

I have been playing with my camera lot as well. I took pictures of my decorations one day just because I wanted to play with the settings on it. Here are some of the pictures I took

I have to scrapbook some of the many pics I took over the holidays. Amanda had fun opening presents both at Christmas and then again on her birthday. She had a chocolate cake in the shape of a bear for her birthday cake and we have some great pics of her eating it!! I will have to decide which picture is the best and post that one. Then the poor dear got sick with a cold and ear infection, her first one ever and she is just recovering from that now.

In about 10 days Les and I will be heading down to Mexico for our annual winter holiday. Too bad we weren't there already during this ugly cold snap but c'est la vie. We will still enjoy our time together there because it's WARM, warmer than here no matter what the temperature is!!! I can hardly wait. All my christmas decorations are put away, I have even done some purging in the ornament box. I have cleaned a couple of closets out, (I was on a roll) and so I am ready for a holiday. If I can I will try and do a couple of posts on this blog while we are there. I am not sure if I will be able but if I can I will.
Here we are, the proud grandparents with our little princess. It's going to be very difficult leaving her behind while we go away, but think of the welcome home we will get!!

Another sketch challenge

Well, I found another website called Sisterhood of Scrap and they have sketches there too. They had one this week that looked pretty easy and kind of fit in with my way of doing pages, so I thought that I would give it a try. So here is my take on their sketchhttp://www.sisterhoodofscrap.blogspot.com/

I did another page too that used some of the wild and colorful paper that I have received in my kits that I get from Scrapdango. As I said before, I have a difficult time doing pages with such vivid and bold colors, not to mention the big prints!! But this one was kind of fun, I suppose because it is of Amanda and her auntie and mommy being silly with her and her new baby bans sunglasses!!

This child already seems to have a great sense of humor and even though she isn't a year old yet, can ham it up for the camera when she wants to!!

Isn't she Cute?

With her little pink nose and pink cheeks, doesn't she just look sooooo very cute? Amanda got to try out her new jacket and hat the other day. I think that pink certainly is her color! I can hardly wait until she sees snow for the first time. She says "wow" quite clearly now whenever she looks at certain things and can imitate a cat's meow too. Do I sound like a proud grandma or what!!!!! I just have to scrapbook this photo but haven't decided on the title yet, any suggestions?

Halloween visitor

We don't get many trick or treaters out here on the acreage, only a few stop by. But this year we had one very special little visitor show up. Here is our little Amanda all dressed up in her penguin costume for her first Halloween. She was so cute! Unfortunately it was getting close to her bedtime and she was alittle tired. Grampa got a couple of smiles out of her though. I didn't catch them with the camera
but they were there!!