Kitty Paw Vultura

There is a "Roller Derby" Challenge going on between The Stamping Chef and Simply B Stamps.  They each created an awesome roller derby girl image and offered it for free to anyone who wanted to participate in the challenge.  Here is what I created with the image from The Stamping Chef.  For her part of the challenge we had to follow the recipe of 1 ribbon, 2 buttons and 3 background papers.

If you didn't get to participate in the challenge you can find the image here.

Other Challenges I'm also entering:
Card Crafters Circle - Bright Colors
Crafty Ribbon - Anything Goes with Ribbon
613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes
Robyn's Fetish - Rectangle Cards
Tammy's Scrapin Corner - Anything Goes
Bearly Mine - Digi Days

Saturday Spotlight Designer for The Stamping Chef

A couple of weeks ago I got an email that really made my day.  I got asked to be a Saturday Spotlight Designer for the The Stamping Chef.  You can image how excited I was!  I always told myself maybe in a few years....after I get better at card making and scrapbooking I would apply to be a guest designer.  I couldn't believe I was being asked to be one!  I had to do a little happy dance when I read the email.  Here is the project I created.

The image is available here.

Challenges I'm entering:
613 Avenue - Anything Goes
Sister Act - Anything Goes
QKR Stampede - Anything Goes
The Cutie Pie - Anything Goes

Lift Off

Here is my entry for this weeks facebook challenge for The Stamping Chef.  It's getting posted on here a little late because my computer crashed.  Luckily, I did get it uploaded to the challenge page before it crashed though.

You can find the rocket image here.


Challenges I'm entering:
613 Avenue - Anything Goes
Creative Craft - Not A Square
Sister Act - Anything Goes
QKR Stampede - Anything Goes
The Cutie Pie - Anything Goes

Scarlett Hunger

The Stamping Chef has a weekly facebook challenge.  Here is my entry for the "Scarlett Hunger Challenge"

The image is available here.

Challenges:
613 Avenue - Anything Goes
Penny's Challenges - Lace and/or Ribbon
One Stitch at a Time - Use a Digi
Sister Act - Anything Goes
Card Crafter's Circle - Winged Things
Just For Fun - Anything Goes
Make It Monday - Anything Goes
The Squirrel and The Fox - Whimsical
Scrap Creations - Girls just want to have fun
The Crazy Challenge - Anything Goes

Surf's Up!

 I haven't had a lot of time to play in my scrapbook room lately, but The Stamping Chef had a challenge last week that I wanted to join.  So, luckily I was able to make a little time to do this card.

 

The image is available here. 

 

Challenges:

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes

 The Squirrel and The Fox - Nautical/Sea Life

Dream Valley - Summer Days

 The Crazy Challenge - Summertime

Hobby Cutz - Summer

Cut It Up - Celebrate Summer

Creative Belli - Summer

 

 

Safari Birthday Party



These are the cupcakes that started it all!  

I probably would not have ever chosen "safari" for a birthday party theme had it not been for my mother buying this cupcake pan.  However...these didn't even make it to the party.  At 2:30am the day of the party, as I was making these cupcakes....five at a time cause I only had the one pan, I realized I hadn't bought enough cake mix and decided they were just taking too long to make anyway.

But, luckily I had bought some cupcake toppers when I was buying party supplies.....just in case.  And we ran to the store and bought pre-made cupcakes at the last minute.

I also found some yummy punch recipes on pinterest.  My "swamp water" had little toy bugs in it...but I didn't think to check them ahead of time and they were too heavy and sunk. 

We had lots of safari themed food.

 

And tried to find safari wrapping paper for the gifts.

And here is the invitation I made.  Our local library has a rainforest mural and a bunch of animal puppets/toys...so we used that for a backdrop and props.

And the little man playing in his safari outfit.

 



Happy Easter

I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter.  Here are a few pictures of our Easter.




Avery met the Easter Bunny at the mall.

We took Avery on The Easter Bunny Express at LM&M Railroad.

Went on an egg hunt.

 

 

 



Here's Avery's Easter bucket.



 

 

And we tried out a couple of Pinterest ideas while coloring eggs.

 

 

1. Use Kool-Aid to dye eggs.  2/3 cup water and one pack Kool-aid per color.

 

2.  Use a whisk for little kids to dip eggs.

 

 

 

And some more pictures of the egg coloring fun.