Mojo Monday on a low-mojo Sunday Scrapbooking in Melbourne, Florida

Hello, friends!

• I was anxious to make a card for last Monday's Mojo sketch
• I knew which elements wanted to use
• I had all my supplies pulled together in one location
• It took me a week to get to it 'cause I have been FARMING on Facebook!

Good grief.  Somebody stop me!  Tee hee.  Here's the sketch.  Nice and simple!

Here's my card - also nice and simple!  You know I usually 'pile it on' when it comes to cardmaking, so I am quite pleased that I used a bit of restraint!

The precious birdie image is actually printed on twill.  It's from a page of nine images and is called Homespun Cotton Scraps.  I purchased it a while back from Sharon Johnson's wonderful little store and it's been in the back of my mind ever since!  The image is matted on blue linen.  I'll discuss its origin in another post ;-)  The elegant papers are CTMH's "Perfect Day". The flower, metal and ink are all Close To My Heart as well.  It was so simple and quick....delightfully so!

Are you ready to go back to work?  Neither am I.  Although I feel it will be a very productive week.  I hope to sign two new doctors to the group.  Keep your fingers crossed!

Deb

Super Sparkly Card, but no more weekend - boo hoo Scrapbooking in Melbourne, Florida

Where does the time fly? I have been making cards all weekend long. What super fun! Alan and I have been staying up so late. I went to bed at 4:00 Saturday and Sunday mornings. Can you believe it???? I just did not want to stop playing! I decided to make cards for the CTMH Card Contest at Leadership, so I can't show those to you, but I'll take photos for later. I love them!!!

I also made cards for the Verve July challenge. Here is my favorite! We had a specific sketch, plus we had to use scoring. I used the Perfect Day papers. I love the Sorbet Damask pattern! It's double-sided; you can see where I used the darker and the lighter side of the same paper. I went overboard on the Sparkles, but I wanted it to look like tufting.

Did you have a good weekend? It was cloudy here most of the weekend, but we took my mom to lunch today. She is a hoot. We hear the same stories over and over again, but that's probably good - will help us remember them later on ;-)

RECIPE:
Paper: Perfect Day, Tulip and Sorbet CS (CTMH)
Stamps: Kindred Spirits (Verve)
Ink: Tulip (CTMH)
Other: Sparkles, Sorbet Ribbon Round (CTMH)

Sweet dreams,

My baby! - Scrapbooking in Melbourne, Florida

My baby is coming home! WOOHOO!!!! He finished his last finals and will be home from college this weekend for a few days before the summer term starts. I cannot WAIT!!!!!! I'm just a little excited about it, you see.

Here's a little mini-journal I made for my mom that goes with the Memory Keeper Box that I posted a couple of days ago. My hopes were that she would jot down childhood memories as they came to her. My family is one of those 'sweep it under the rug' families that doesn't share a lot.....so I was hoping this would be a way of learning some important details of my mom's life. So far it's blank...but there's still hope, right?

Deb

My Beautiful Mother - Scrapbooking in Melbourne, Florida

As I mentioned yesterday, here's another Memory Box. I love making these! This one was a Christmas gift for my mom. Yes, that's her on the cover. Isn't she beautiful? What you don't see is her beautiful spirit. I want to be just like her when (if) I grow up!

My mom used to be crafty when I was young. One of our funniest family stories revolves around a little sewing/redecorating project she embarked on many years ago. We had this big old wooden-based chair on our Florida room. Sort of like a modern-day Adirondack chair, but clunkier with an open bottom (seat). Their were thick cushions on the back and in the seat.

Well, one fine warm day my mom decided she would cover those ugly old cushions. I guess it was a three-fold venture - covering those nasty old things, being a little creative along the way, and enjoying the challenge. We do love a challenge! Well, my mom had made cushion covers for these bulky cushions (Lord, they were about 30 inches across - like a modern-day chair-and-a-half, now that I think about it). She was standing in the Florida room, struggling to get that cushion crammed into the cover she had made, when a lightbulb went off in her head (in her words, 'I had a brainstorm!'). 'Well, why in the world am I standing here doing this when I could be sitting down???'. So she backed herself up to the chair, leaned back and sat right down in that big old chair.....straight down to the floor! After all, the seat cushion was in her hand!!!

Now, in our family, whenever anyone falls or trips, we get the giggles, no matter how serious it is. She could have broken her tail bone and we would have been rolling on the floor, my mom included!

Don't ask me how she got up.....folded up in their like a pretzel, with the cushion on top of her. We were all too little to help, if we could have.

I guess you had to be there!

Deb