Peachy Keen Guest Designer Week 22, Day 4

Day 4 from Peachy Keen Blog ---------

Whew! What a week so far! I'm pretty excited to show you the project I made for today! As you might remember in my blog post from yesterday it is recital week for my daughter's dance studio. This year the dance studio is celebrating 50 years, which is a huge accomplishment! I was trying to think of something I could make or give the dance studio owner/director (I took lessons there when I was a kid too!)... and I decided on a shadow box to commemorate the occasion!
My husband attended the recital Wednesday evening and I instructed him to bring me a program - do not bend it, fold it, wrinkle it, tuck it under your arm... you get the idea. :) And from there I just sort of ran with her theme "Golden Memories".

I have to say, I know I've used my PK-640 Princess Face Assortment a lot this week but now you can see how wonderful they really are! Everyone neeeeeeeeds a set of Princess faces! The cuts for this Ballerina again are from "Twinkle Toes".

With all of the stage makeup and such these girls have to wear I thought this face from the Princess faces fit perfectly - love those eyelashes!

(Glad you can't see too much of a glare on the glass because you would see my messy craft room then! Ha!)

And here is a quick shot outside of the glass -- making it a bit easier to see!


This was a challenge for me to pull it all together because the color gold and I don't get along very well most of the time. We'll see what Miss Marcia thinks of her gift tonight at the special reception celebrating her 50th year! I'm so excited to give it to her!

Don't forget about the chance to win some lovely stamps from the new Anyday line!

To be entered into the drawing please leave a note on this blog post and also on my blog. You will have five days to leave a note, so that is five chances to win! :) I will use random.org to pick which day and post for the winner. I will draw and announce the winner on my blog on Saturday June 11th.

Have a fantastic Thursday!

Faithful Friend

I was digging through some photos tonight and I came across these pictures of our family dog, Radar. She was such a special dog and indeed, a faithful friend in the all of the ways that pets can be. Always knowing when something was wrong, when you needed some extra licks or cuddling, she just knew what she needed to be to each person in our family. She was a truly amazing dog, right up to the end.

Radar passed away when I was about 6 months pregnant with my oldest child. It was a sad day, but she will forever be remembered for the remarkable addition to our family that happened by "mistake". (I don't remember 100% how it happened, but she was my brother's dog. I think he needed somewhere for her to be for a while when he was moving -- he brought her over one day and she just never left.)

So there's my little jaunt down memory lane and without further ado - my dear friend, Radar. :)

Patterned Paper and stickers: Thrift Shop by October Afternoon
Flowers: Prima Marketing
Tags (both metal and paper): Tim Holtz
Alphas: Thickers by American Crafts and Tiny Type by Cosmo Cricket
Trim/crocheted ribbon: Maya Road

Basket Cat

My cat likes to sleep in this basket.... this is my first scrappy page of my cat. I always swore I would never scrap my pets, but hey, why not when you have paper as cute as the Max and Whiskers Basic Grey line? :) :)

Baseball layout!

I took my dear husband to a Brewers game last year for his birthday. Cubs vs. Brewers.... it was a great time!
We did one of those infamous one armed shots and took a picture of ourselves at the stadium after the game was over and I scrapped it yesterday! This was a challenge for me because I don't usually use paper like this. :) And well, sports... thats a different 'theme' for me.

Page Kit Swap! :)

Hello, hello! Its been a little bit since my last post. I've been holding onto my latest projects so I could post them in groups.

I was involved in a neat swap on a scrapbooking board where we made up little page kits and sent to everyone in our groups. I was in three groups and four people in each group.

Here's my first girl group I was in... there weren't too many rules. We sent 2 patterned papers and a piece of cardstock and some random embellishments to match. From there it was wherever our creativity took us!











This was technically a 'girl kit' - but I kept going back to this picture so I just had to use it! :)


I have one more girl group and an 'Anything Goes' group to finish up! I have a few done, but will post when I have all four for each group!