Flowers from EK Success Punches and the Ocean

This weekend I was at the Ocean for three days with family.  Granddaughter brought a new Scrapping Kit.. a "Hello Kitty" one.  It was fun for her.  I knew we'd be scrapping together so I brought something simple to do.  I've had these two EK Success Punches only a few months and wanted to create using them.  I took monotone pieces of cardstock to use for some of them.  For the thicker flowers I created I layered two punched strips, offsetting them some. It is fun to use two different colors for this process.  You can see in the pics the difference. 

EK Success website

The two punches I have are Doily and Dahlia.  There are a couple of others I'd like.  

I made one flower and was not pleased with how high it sat off the surface. I preceded to trim the bottom part of the punched strip before rolling it up and I was happier with the finished product. I used a hot glue gun for sticking the rolled up strip together. 

I will be dropping in something sparkly for the center of the flowers: soon. 

 Both of these Doily Punched flowers are done with two strips overlapped. The one on the left has two different colors of cardstock.  

 You can see the amount I trimmed the strips below

Just a couple of sunsets at the Ocean this weekend:

Middle of May

I am happy to say that adding Word Verification for those leaving comments has worked.  No spam comments since then. I was so tired of deleting 30+ spam ones a day...  

Not much crafting going on here. Gardening, getting estimates on some work that needs to be done on our house/making decision is taking up my spare time and energy.  I miss scrapbooking for sure.  For now I'm getting my craft 'thrill' by perusing Pinterest late at night..... sad: I know.

Since I cleaned up one table in my room, on National Scrapbooking Day, Granddaughter is using it on Wednesdays for "Scrapping".  She's finally old enough to be allowed in my room, supervised of course, and is loving it.  I have a bin with smaller containers in it which hold stickers, a Hello Kitty glue stick, paper cut for her to use.  She usually scraps with me for 1/2 an hour then needs to 'move on'.   It's fun and a good start. 

A pic to share:

....So many decisions to make when crafting...she's thinking hard here:

Good day to you all. I hear my gardens calling to me.  

Mother's Day 2013

I have had to add 'word verification' for those leaving comments..(well I think I did it right)...  Lately I've been inundated with spam comments and I'm hoping this will eliminate that (or some of it).  As someone who likes to leave comments I don't like having to do the word verification but now understand why bloggers choose to do it.  Just this morning I had to delete 32 spam comments...yuck.

My daughter had us over to her home for dinner yesterday.  I really appreciate it.  Having cooked dinner on Mother's Day for my mom on mother in-law for 30+ years, it's nice to be treated...  I received a pretty hanging fuchsia plant from her and a fuchsia tree from my son. I've never had a fuchsia tree so need to learn how to winter them over...if possible.

Friday I went to the local nursery to buy bedding plants, taking my Granddaughter with me. I wanted her to pick out flowers for her box I have here...  she wanted all the flowers she saw.  Here is a pic of her watering the flowers in progress.  That cute watering can was made so the water is to come out the beak of the duck.. but she had a hard time doing so last summer so I drilled holes in the front body area down low.. much easier for her.  Like the outfit she picked out for the day?  she does love her tutus.

Have a good day and week all. 

National Scrapbook Day..........

.............was yesterday.  I hope some of you entered challenges, went to crops or just created.  I was on scrapbook.com a lot yesterday. I signed up for four challenges and completed two of them yesterday. The other two have to be done by month end. I had fun..... 

The layout I'm sharing is for two challenges on sb.com. It's a pic I took of our Granddaughter with her new tea set we gave her on her 3rd birthday, at her party...I made all the embellishments using my Cricut. The Tea Pot, Cup, number 3 and the "Tea Time" font were cut using the Ashlyn's Alphabet cartridge. The "tea 4 two" was cut using the Martha Stewart Seasonal Cake Art cartridge and I welded them together using my Gypsy. This was a fun layout to do. 

One of the challenges on sb.com was to take and share a picture of a "HOT MESS" area of your scrapping area, clean it up and take a picture...share both pics......  My card making/die cutting area was a Hot Mess so I featured it... with before pic and two hours later the after pic. It is so nice to be able to sit down and work there again.  

HOT MESS area...

 two hours later and much better.........

Happy Sunday all and have a nice day.  It's suppose to be 80 deg. today... wow!