A Crafty Birthday Card

I have one more card to share from last week. I made this for my crafty, scrapbooking friend Leslie! 

I made this with another PaperTreyInc stamp set. This time I used the Studio Style set. I just love this set and can see me using it for lots of cards for my scrappy friends. 


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A Birthday Card

This card is different for me. It seems busier than what I usually make, but I like how it turned out. 

I cut the pennant pieces on my Cricut, then strung some ribbon behind them and held that in place with some button brads. 

Then I colored the stamped image with my Copics. I thought this was a nice springy image that would be great for a spring birthday. :-)

And here is the inside of the card. This one is going in the mail today. 


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A New Card

I really like how this card turned out. 

I used the PaperTreyInc Everyday Button Bits stamps 

for the bike. 

Here is a closeup/sideview of the bike. And now that I'm looking at the pictures it appears that the front wheel is about to fall off of the bike. I gotta fix that with a little glue dot. :-)

And the inside. 

I have a few birthdays this March, so I will be showing a few more of my cards in the next few days. 


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Today: The Zoo.

The weather here today is stunning. Just gorgeous. So the boys and I joined our neighbors and went to the St. Louis Zoo. Along with the rest of the city. It was seriously crowded! It took forever to get through the traffic and find a parking spot. I really think the entire city that didn't have to work today (sorry Chris!) was at the Zoo. 

The boys at the front of the zoo 

when we first got in there.

We saw some fish. There were hippos here too, but I didn't get a good picture of them. 

We saw elephants.

And more elephants. The elephants were really out today. These two would bang that green container and food would drop out of it. 

And we saw penguins. 

We also saw cheetahs, brown bears, black bears, reptiles, gorillas and other assorted animals. It was a great way to spend this beautiful Friday. 

Unfortunately the nice weather is ending today. This weekend is going to be rainy and possibly some snow mixed in. Yuck! And tomorrow is the first day of Spring! I want this nice weather to stick around! 

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Spring Break Fun

The boys are on their spring break right now, so last weekend we decided to drive to Ohio to spend the weekend with family. We went up to Columbus, OH and went to their science center, COSI. (Be warned now: this post is extremely photo heavy. These are all pictures of our visit to COSI.)

This is their Grossology exhibit. The boys really liked this one. :-P

Here is Chris carrying 

Connor out of a LARGE nose. 

Next up was the Ocean exhibit. Here are the boys in a submarine. It was a pretty tight fit in there. 

Around the corner from the submarine was a really fun cave with all kinds of water activities. The boys ended up a little wet after this. Thank goodness it was a really warm day! 

I included the picture below because I was really impressed with how well our new point and shoot camera did in these low-light conditions. We got a small Canon camera to have on hand when we didn't want to lug the big DSLR around. I was very happy with these pictures! It is not as good as the big camera, but great for these kinds of outings.

After the Ocean exhibit and getting a little wet, we went outside for a little while. It was a really gorgeous day in Columbus, OH. 

I think it was around 70 degrees. 

The boys are "lifting" a car in the photo below. 

Next up was the Gadgets area. 

Here is Spencer getting a little wind-blown. :-)

We also got to see our very first (and hopefully our last) game of RAT BASKETBALL!!!! 

Those are real, live rats playing basketball. 

And here is Connor cheering on his Rat. (Our rat won!)

We finished up our day with a little experimenting in the Gadgets area. We only had time for two experiments, but as you can see from the photo below, it was an "explosive" experience! 

We dropped Mentos into some soda and got ourselves a soda geyser. This was a very easy one to do, and we are going to try and replicate it here at home. It was a huge hit with the boys. 

So if you made it to the end of this post, THANKS! We finished off our weekend by having dinner with Chris' family and the boys got to see their cousin Brocke play some hockey. I also got to do a little outlet shopping, which is always fun for me! 

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I'm so excited!!!

I just found out that my Maggie layout (from the post below) was featured on the Club CK (Creating Keepsakes) Gallery highlights page. Woo Hoo! I have never, ever had my scrapping noticed by anyone but family and friends. 


Here is the link to the page at CK.  I'm the second one there. This is so exciting to me. 


And this isn't even the message board that is holding the scrap olympics. I made it for that event (I didn't win there), but went ahead and posted in the CK gallery too. I'm so glad I did! 


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I made a Layout!

I honestly don't think I have made an actual layout in about a year. That is shameful, isn't it!? I seem to be more into card-making and mini-albums lately. 


One of the scrapbook message boards that I frequent is holding a Scrap Olympics this month. The idea is every week there are different "events" held and we can sign up for them. This week the event I signed up for is Best Sketch. This is really good for me because it is getting me back into the "scrap zone". 

So here is the sketch we had to work with and below is my layout: my first of Maggie. 

I'm really please without how it turned out! Below are bigger pics of each individual layout. 

I made the flourish swirls myself! I took a straight row of bling that I had and curved them into the shapes that I wanted. I'm really pleased with how they look. 

The butterflies are rubons that I placed on a piece of white cardstock, cut out (very carefully!), and then adhered just the body down, so the wings would pop up. 


When I saw that sketch with the butterflies, I knew that I had the perfect pictures for it! 


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