A Card to Share

Happy Monday! Really, do those two words even go together ? LOL! Well, it was a busy day for me - from bootcamp to dentist to doctor to swimming lessons and finally soccer practice - ugh!! I'm pooped. Thought I share a sweet, shabby chic card with you all using the beautiful The Queen's Heart Collection from 7 Dots Studio.

The beautiful flowers and bling are from ZVA Creative - love the subtle hint of elegance they add to the otherwise distressed feel of this card.

Be back soon with some more card creations to share and hopefully a few tutorials as well. Thanks for your visit today!

Birthday Girl!

We celebrated my wee one's birthday recently and I just wanted to share a few photos from the day - Enjoy!

 All dressed up in her 'party dress' and sparkle makeup.  Hairdo care of Auntie Kiki.

Some of the family.  Grammy, Auntie Whitney & Uncle Lars and Daddy.  Auntie Kiki & Uncle Tait and Tait with his girlfriend.

 The kids with their fave cousin.

My baby sister and I with the birthday girl opening some of her favourite prezzies.

Happy June!

Happy June 1st! Can't believe how quickly the month of May has passed us by.  Three more weeks and my kiddos will all be finished school (yikes!).  What do you normally do with your wee ones during your summer vacations?  Do you put them in camps?  Have tons of playdates or just leave things open for a spontaneous beach day?  I need some ideas...

In the meantime, I'd like to share a layout I created using the gorgeous papers from Bo Bunny's Isabella collection (I also added in a few pieces from their Mama-razzi2 collection - love the way the black adds a bit of punch).  Super shabby chic - love the muted tones in this collection.  (sorry for the poor quality photos as well - it was a dark/rainy day and even Photoshop couldn't help these images very much...)  On that note actually, I have had a few requests to post a tutorial/tips on how I take photos of my projects and I promise that I will do this in the next few weeks!

To get a little more dimension to my layout, I used sheets of crumpled up paper from an old encyclopedia and arranged them under the layers of papers, photos and embellishments.  Make sure when you do this you use tacky glue (lots).

Thanks so much for stopping in today. Wishing for some sunshine this weekend!