Dungarees Blog Hop!

Welcome to my stop on the Club Scrap Dungarees Blog Hop! If you started the hop on the Club Scrap Creates Blog, you are in the right place. If not, keep in mind that you can access the whole list of participants from there at any time. I chose digitally simple for this month's project. I used the Dungarees Layout Card to make a two page digital LO:

We celebrated Memorial Day at my parents house. My husband loves all the kids (because he is still a BIG one!). He is usually helping one of them get into trouble! They all started screaming for Chris to jump in the pool when we walked into the gate. Of course he obliged with a giant cannonball and spent the afternoon playing "shark" in the pool. The girls love it that he lets them climb all over him. He has been letting his hair grow and the girls were teasing him about it. They told him he needed to get the hair out of his eyes, so they fixed it for him!

Realistic Embroidery Photoshop Actions by Black Null

Dungarees Digital Kit

My best friend and my valentine... he plays both positions on this team. We started dating 22 years ago, when we were both babies! We've grown up together. We started out "playing house" and built our family. My "balentine" has a raunchy sense of humor, doesn't mind offending people, likes to be the center of attention, loves us with every fiber of his being, is and has the most loyal friends in the world, you either love him or hate him, but he's mine. I am as in love with that big kid as the day I married him. I don't ever want him to change!

Your next stop on the hop is +Karen  at Club Scrap Creates. Thanks for looking!

Read More »

app happy Wednesday #5

Jake and Drew made dinner tonight...homemade salsa with roasted peppers, fresh toasted tortilla chips drizzled with a little olive oil and sea salt for the appetizer...

Spanish rice...

Fajita chicken and beef grilled in the Pittmaster...

DELICIOUS! Food always tastes better when someone else prepares it for you!

I'm linking up to +Barb Brookbank's app happy Wednesday. Click here to check out the other cool pix edited with apps! 

Read More »

Texture Tuesday Black and White Edition

Our patio is alive with "wildlife". The backyard looks so harmless out of the kitchen window. The grass is all cut and nice, flowers are growing...but if you sit, listen and watch it is a jungle out there! Chris calls it Wild Kingdom. The lizards have populated my garden and will venture out to my potted plants on the patio. They fight each other, try to charm the females and occasionally get snatched up by a bird. This little flirt would look at me and seem to pose for the camera! He was the star of his own show and it was pretty entertaining.

kk_rainy day texture, JoAnne Brisbois photo overlay, Fun in the Jungle font

Check out +Kim Klassen's Texture Tuesday Black and White Edition  and the other cool B&W photos!

Read More »

This Magic Moment...

I took this of my mandevilla on my front porch. It was so beautiful last year. The tendrils climbed all the way to the roof. Flowers are pretty amazing. How that little bit of pollen gets to the inside of the flower and sticks to the stigma is just short of a miracle. Mother Nature is a pretty cool chick.

Canon Rebel EOS T3i, EFS 18-55mm lens, Macro setting

Read More »

Graduation 2014!

Big excitement for the class of 2014, GRADUATION! We received five graduation announcements this year. I made these cards with the Cricut Wild Card cartridge and used card stock to coordinate with school colors. The "For the Graduate" envelopes fit inside a #10 sized envelope, perfect for mailing. Everybody loves getting mail, especially if it is $$! Congratulations to the Class of 2014! 

Read More »

“app” happy wednesday #4

We planted our front garden 12 years ago in April. I remember because I hosted my sister's baby shower and "had" to re-landscape our front yard for the party! This is my Pineapple Guava, my favorite. As long as I've had it, it has never produced fruit! I love the blooms though. Supposedly it requires 50 hours of winterchilling to fruit. We've certainly had that this crazy Louisiana winter, so maybe this will be the year!

I took this picture with Pro Camera and edited with DistressFX and added word art with Word Swag. The quote is from the anonymous poem called the Bronx National Anthem. I thought it was cute since birds have taken up residence in my garden! I can hear them scatter when I walk down the front steps, but all I see is a blur of feathers. 

Hop over to +Barb's blog to check out the linky party, app happy wednesday #4. 

Read More »

2+2=37

My Memaw turned 89 last week. We celebrated her birthday on Mother's Day with a family picnic. All of her children, most of the grandchildren and great grands were there. It was a good day, even with the few rain showers. I think we all had a good time! I wanted to make something she would enjoy, so I made her a folding album chock full of everyone's Facebook pictures. You can find the instructions for this mini scrapbook album at Club Scrap Creates blog.

My aunt sent me some pictures of her, daddy and my uncle when they were little. Those were my favorites. My sister said she could see a little of all of us in daddy's sweet little face. 

Memaw is pretty crafty herself. She could make anything! She even writes a blog! Click here to visit her blog and read some of her stories. My earliest paper crafting memory was paper dolls in the McCall's magazine! And she could sew the most beautiful Barbie clothes. If something didn't go just right she would say, "We're just going to do it like this," and she would magically make it work. Well, that echoed in my mind when I got a little frustrated while making the album. My envelopes kept tearing from the weight of the pictures! I ended up taking the whole album apart and reinforcing the folds where the signatures were attached. Worked like a charm.  I sure am glad I got some of those crafty genes. Love you Memaw. 

Read More »

Vintage Flashback!

I was born in 1969 so I was a 70's kid. Who remembers ponchos, huarches, braids, bell bottom jeans...and embroidered denim?!

My Memaw is a pretty awesome seamstress. She could make anything, or at least that was what I thought! She made our clothes, dolls, dress up clothes, dance costumes, booster and cheerleading uniforms, quilts, blankets...we were well dressed. I can't remember if we got our embroidered jackets for a holiday gift, but we all got one. My sister's and my jacket had patches embroidered on them. My dad's had a beautiful design on the back. He still has it. Memaw even made me a little jean purse and embroidered my name on the front.

Jean jacket and purse circa 1976

These memories inspired my digital card for the new Club Scrap Dungarees kit...

Includes Digital Elements from Club Scrap Grafitti 2014 and Wildflowers 2012

I found some very realistic embroidery photoshop actions and frayed denim brushes that worked great in Photoshop Elements 12. Love the effects! I recolored parts of the embroidery designs using the lasso tool and adjusting the hue/saturation. How's that for a vintage flashback from the 70's?!

Read More »