A layout share and a birthday!

I wanted to share a layout that I did back at a scrap retreat last December. I played alot with the Offbeat line from Basic Grey, I just love it. I'm still playing with the scraps!! This is pic of my son at a ballgame in San Francisco. We were at AT&T park watching the Giants play the Dodgers. It's the most gorgeous ballpark in the world. Right on SF Bay, looks out over the water, just beautiful. We were on the side of the ballpark and my son was looking out over the field. I just caught him with the Bay Bridge in the foreground. I so wish I knew what he was thinking??? Maybe if he was wondering if he'd ever be a big time ballplayer?? Or maybe just thinking about asking for more cotton candy!! LOL!!






That's about all I have today. It's been a busy week and there is no break in sight. Lots of baseball and softball and birthday parties this weekend. I do want to give a shout out to my youngest brother. It was his birthday yesterday, so Happy Birthday Paul!!! Hope you had a great day!


He's a fantastic cook, here are some vegan donuts he made at Christmas time. Yum-O!!!


Hope you're having a good week, everyone!

Monday Monday

Where does the weekend go??? I swear, it was just Friday and now it's Monday again. Our weekend was filled with baseball, baseball photos, softball, playdates, cinammon bread, fishing, snickerdoodles and running errands. Sound fun????? Not too much else going on! But I did want to share this cake I made for my BIL's birthday. It's yellow cake in the middle, which I cut each layer in half, so there are 4 layers. Homeade chocolate buttercream frosting...so so good...inbetween each layer and on top. The cake is a wee bit lopsided, but after it was all said and done I could not fix it. So, here it is!



Nice little smudge there on the border! That happened in transit. The kids made a boxful of decorations to use in my BIL's house. The afternoon of his birthday Craig took the kids over to his house and did a full sabatoge. Streamers everywhere, filled the pantry and fridge with balloons, the kids put their decorations up, the whole nine yards. Craig even contemplated putting vaseline on the toilet seat (which my kids thought was hilarious!!!) but in the end opted out of that. Not so easy to blame that on the cute little niece and nephew!!




I am taking another cake decorating class, this time at a real cake/candy shop. I'm doing it with a friend and it's for 6 weeks. I am really really excited because I think i'm going to get alot out of it. My last class was kinda a bust and I can do that scalloped cake border and that's about all. And for 6 weeks my family and co-workers will be enjoying cake every Thursday, so that's a bonus!!

Spring Treat Holder

I've been having lots of fun blog hopping lately and came across this great treat holder tutorial. Actually, my scrappy friend Beth alerted me to this super cute treat holder and I thought i'd try it. I did an acetate treat holder a while ago but it was square and hard to score. This one is a cylinder and thought it would be a tad easier. You can find the tutorial on Betsy Veldman's blog, she's a DT member for PTI stamps and does some amazing stuff!! Here's my treat holder using the March kit from Scrap N Supply Shack.




It's filled with Dove chocolate easter eggs and boy are they good!! hee heee...You could also make this shorter if you think they are too tall. Just cut the transparency shorter. Would make a really cute addition to an Easter basket!!

Hope you are all having a great weekend. We had baseball and softball and playdates today, so it's been busy!! Thanks for stopping by!

52 Sketches...52 Weeks

I recently discovered a 'new' sketch site called 52 Sketches...52 Weeks. They post 1 sketch per week and they are awesome sketches. Enough to give you some direction but plenty of room for your own take on it. Here is this week's sketch, #10:



And here's my take on it. I've been saving these pics from Kayla's birthday for a while and this sketch just really seemed to work for it.



I've been hoarding this Pink Paislee paper forever and finally decided to use it. Love the colors and thought they worked great with the cake. I cut the cupcake holder from a Starbucks hot cup holder and cut the cupcake top on my Cricut.






Notice a pattern here? I've been using tons of sketches lately!!! I like them for cards because i'm still not that good at cards. And I really like them for layouts. When i'm feeling creative but kinda stuck at the same time, sketches are a great way to jumpstart a layout. You should definitely check out 52 Sketches...52 Weeks!!

2 Sketches 4 U this week!!!

Here is the sketch #21 for the 2 Sketches 4 U blog:


And here's my take on it!!


Love this Basic Grey paper, and love using my scraps. Thanks for looking!!!

CPS #106

Here's the Card Positioning System sketch for this week:


And here's my take on it. For some reason, I found this sketch quite challenging.

I pulled my Grungeboard out of hiding and inked it up for that flourish. And I used a new sentiment set of stamps from Hero Arts. I ***heart*** Hero Arts!!

Thanks for taking a peek!!!

More Color Me Daisy Goodness

I cannot not get enough of the March Color Me Daisy kit. The bright, fun colors make me want spring...then summer!! Such great colors to play with. Did I mention that I liked the colors of this kit? LOL!! I've been wanting to scrap these photos of my daughter at a dress-up princess party for a while and this circular paper was perfect!!



That big butterfly cut is from my Cricut cartridge called Indie Art. I loooooove it!!! Here's another layout. We had an online crop this past weekend at CMD and one of the challenges was to Go Green! Repurpose something on a layout and use scraps. I used a flower punch to punch transparent flowers from some plastic packaging. I edged them in paint and then dressed them up. The strips are all scraps from this March kit. I couldn't bear to throw them away!

For some reason this photo is wonky and crooked. I can't fix it so I must have been leaning to far over when I took the photo!

And lastly, some cards!

These next 2 are for the crop challenge to use animal print paper or an animal on a card. The zebra print paper is in the March kit, fun to use!!



See that cutie bird stamp? It's Hero Arts, I just ordered some of their stamps and have been playing around a bit. So cute, love that little bird! Thanks for stopping by. I've been having lots of fun lately scrapping. I love that!!