Happy Birthday and Papertrey Princess Challenge

Time to get back to reality!

I hope everyone had a great long weekend.

We had a whole week of fun, family and eating....made yesterday a rude awakening!

My daughter skated well.  

She earned a 2nd and a 3rd place.

This was by far the toughest competition she has been to, so she was thrilled to place!

Great job Abby!!

 The birthday fun continues with today's card.
This is also a card for the most recent Papertrey Princess Challenge, posted by BethieJ.
Papertrey Princess Challenge

A simple masculine card for one of the many boys in our family!

Hope you have a great week...we are expecting snow, we can't wait!

Happy Birthday, again

Here is another one of the birthday cards that I have made this month.

I love the color combo and so will the receipent!

Hard to believe we are already to Sunday night...where has the weekend gone?

We only have 2 days of school and then lots of family time this week,

culminating in my daughter competing in a skating competition on Saturday!

It will be a great week, hope yours is too!

Enjoy!

Happy Birthday

This time of year we have a lot of birthdays in our family. 

This card is for another niece. 

Her birthday is not for a couple of weeks but she lives in China,

 so I needed to get it made, so my parents could take it to her!

She is turning 10, like my daughter...oh boy the tween years!

Happy Birthday, sweet Sarah bear!

Enjoy!

Happy Birthday Part 2

A week or so ago I showed you a birthday card for my niece,

well today it is time for her twin brother's card.

Boomer also turned 17 and is finishing up his senior year of high school.

My kids just love Boomer.

Luck for us, we see him quite frequently and

one of his top 3 college choices is right in our back yard, so we may see him more!

Happy Birthday Boomer!

Simple and just his style!  Enjoy!

No papercrafts...it's a post about furniture!

As we continue to remodel our house it has been a blast decorating

and coming up with unique and creative items for our house. 

Well we are almost done with guest bedroom,

so I decided to re purpose a piece of existing furniture and paint it. 

It has been in my front entrance way for about 6 months

but I knew long term it would need to find a new home.

So while my husband is traveling...it was time to play!

I forgot to take a true before picture but here is the piece without the drawers.

 Here is some of the detail after it was painted and distressed.

 Here is the finished piece.

The color will go perfectly with the wall color I chose.

Now we just need to finish the room, so I can move it upstairs!

Enjoy!

Happy Birthday Alex!

Late last week my niece turned 17! 

Where has the time gone?

She is such a delight, as well as her twin brother.

They are in the midst of college decisions, so they have a lot on their plates!

Alex's loves the color purple...so her card choice was easy!

I know she had a great day!

Enjoy!

Gratitude- Papertrey Princess Challenge

The challenge for the Papertrey Princesses was recently posted by Sue.  Here is the link for the challenge: http://fleurdelysamericaine.blogspot.com/2011/10/papertrey-princess-challange-gratitude.html

I challenged myself to not use the word than you but to find either grateful or gratitude.

 made most of my cards a simple one layer card gaining inspiration from fellow blogger Janelle who is going through a challenging time in her life.  She loves to make one layer cards....thanks for the inspiration Janelle!

Enjoy!