Say Goodbye To Summer

In the last week, we finished a short vacation, sent the high schooler back to school, took the college senior to her school and our temperatures have dropped to chilly in the morning. I think it's officially time to say goodbye to summer. cry. I love the lazy days of summer and no schedules and spending time with the kids and going places we've not been. So, a fond farewell to my favorite season in pictures.

family being weird in hotel hot tub

the swings at Michigan's Adventure

daughter posing with Snoopy at MAdventures

Silver Beach, MI

random gull hanging out by me

fave pic of the son at the beach, gull in the background, setting the scene for me.

And, yes, I noticed that I didn't make it into the pictures...although I am in one that my husband took on his phone, so I have proof I was on this vacation with them :) Does that ever happen to you? Lots of pics of everyone else? I guess I need to take more selfies like the kids, who will literally jam my camera with their weird selfies if I leave it about for them to find. And someday, I'll put those pics up and maybe, just maybe, that'll keep that to a minimum :)

Happy Weekend and Happy Fall!
Chark

Celebrating Summer

I'm officially going to celebrate summer as it's my son's first day off school and my daughter has been off for a couple of weeks. No more getting up early, quizzing for Spanish vocab or Algebra, no more calls from school, "mom, I forgot..." and no more "let's go!" in the morning. Whew! As Alice Cooper says, "School's Out For Summer!"

My older sister used to play Alice Cooper and he should've scared me as a kid, but he never really did...even though now I think "ew" when I see him perform. That's why I used the Muppet version of this song. Less blood and more cuteness.

Here's a card I made at a lss, The Paper Cottage, where I get all my new paper lines. This one is Crate Paper called Maggie Holmes Confetti and I love how well it all goes together.  The colors are soft and beautiful.

The second card took a wee bit of time. We hand cut all the banners and they were little! But I do like how it turned out. And the bird is so cute! The wood grain paper was some of the prettiest I've seen. I'm not a huge fan of using wood grain, no idea why, but I love this one. I do like when I see it on other people's projects, I just never buy it. It's behind the banner.

Happy Friday and Happy Summer!
Chark
p.s. if you love Paper Smooches, and who doesn't, you should check out their new release blog hop here! that baby chick, though!

Sparkling Lemonade Card

So, I just got some Judikins' Sparkling Embossing Powder and loved what Jennifer McGuire has done with it, and I had to try it out. I made sparkling lemonade by using Hero Arts Neon Yellow ink, vellum paper and the new powder. Here's how it looks. Yum!

I took a wooden hello from Studio Calico and colored it with a pink Tombow Marker and then added the Magenta Stickles on top. the daisies are a border punch. Distress inks give a little depth to the edges of paper I picked up. Maybe at Michael's...it's the kind you buy by the sheet.

That's it!

Happy Monday!
Chark