A is for Apple

Hey there! I finished a scrapbook page this weekend. I'm on a tear!


This page commemorates our trip to the orchard last fall for our annual apple-picking expedition.

The background paper is some of the dollarama insane deal paper we (mostly Wendy) picked up this spring. This one happens to be called "New School Apples". The New School papers are... vivid. I wasn't sure I'd use them and yet, here it is! Tada!

The 10x10 hunter green square is from the clearance aisle at Michael's (thank you eagle-eyed Nicole), with some Very Vanilla mats. The Cute apple brads are also Nicole's fault - I think they came from the Scrapbook Emporium. The other shapes/letters are all cut with my Silhouette (ok, technically I cut it on Nicole's Silhouette, but I cut the little apple at home!)

I'm playing right now to see if I can repurpose Cricut cutting mats to use in the Silhouette. The Silhouette ones are pricey and scarce. I've picked up a 12x24 Cricut mat (2 in a package) at Wally World and plan to cut it into 3 smaller mats. If it works, it'll save me a bundle!

Might have more soon. I'm off all this week - I'm bound to get up to no good in the craft room at some point, right?

Front butt

Go on.

Tell me this guy doesn't look like he has a front butt.

Eh? Am I right?

This is a birthday card for my father-in-law, who looks remarkably like the dude on this card (minus the butt).

Colours are Baja Breeze (retired) and Close to Cocoa, to match the old-man colours on the image. I stamped the card base in Baja Breeze ink using my striped background stamp (retired). By turning the stamp 90 degrees and stamping a second time, I got some nice old-man plaid. I bet this guy has plaid carpet slippers!

The cocoa strip across the centre is pierced and faux-stitched with a white gel pen.

A bit of retired caramel gingham ribbon finished it off.

Thanks for dropping by! Sorry I haven't posted much lately, but I haven't been creating much lately. No creating = no posting. Summer is just too darned alluring!