Gingham or Plaid

That's the challenge this week on the Phindy's Place Challenge Blog. I am on a tear trying to create  OWH Any Hero cards. I need to have as many available as possible for our Annual Shrimp Boil a week from Saturday. Instead of singing for their supper, our guests are expected to write a thank you note to a service person for their supper.

With that thought in mind, all my challenge cards this week have been Patriotic themed. When I was choosing the right image, this one made me think of the Ticker Tape parades for heroes. The image is called Unwrapped and can be found at the Phindy's Place Store. I'd give you the specific link, but I'd rather you hunted for it, so you get a chance to see all of her great images. I've paper pieced his pjs, and colored the rest of the image with Copics.

The digital papers are from the kit by Clementine from My Grafico called Star Spangled Sketches. I used the sketch for this week's Tuesday Morning Sketches.
Off to get this entered, I have 5 more of these to put together.

Thanks for stopping by.

Let's Build a House Gran

It's SMT time on Sassy Cheryl's Blog, and this week I decided to share my latest construction project. MM asked me last Friday if we could build a house out of cardboard. Well his idea and mine didn't quite match. He wanted a house big enough for him, and I wanted something small enough to manage. I won.

With my Make the Cut software, some chipboard, printed digital papers, this is the house that we built. MM's job was to glue the nail the board(glue the paper) to the the walls. We even used transparency to give the windows a real feel. The fun and easy part was the shingles. Notice the doorknobs. They're shank metal buttons.

Now here's the mess that was left after the construction project. Never fear, it's been cleaned up and at least two messes have been left since.

Finally I ended my week last week with a boat ride to an outdoor symphony. If you've never heard of the American Wind Symphony Orchestra, please click on the link. It's an amazing organization and the head of it and the conductor is a man by the name of Robert Boudreau. He's 85 years old, and he's been taking this floating symphony on the rivers of the world for 55 years. I went with my walking buddy and her DH. Since it was just across the river from our houses, we went by boat, which meant we got home a lot faster than if we'd had to contend with the automobile traffic.

This picture was made around 8 p.m. as the sun was making it's way down. My walking buddy said the concert got a lot better once the sun went down. It ended with a great medley of Patriotic music and fireworks. So for me it was an early 4th of July celebration.

Let's Celebrate Red, White and Blue At Sassy Cheryls

This week the challenge at the Sassy Cheryl's Challenge Blog is Red, White and Blue. It's perfect for me, since I'm trying diligently to get a stash of Any Hero cards ready for our Shrimp Boil on July 7. It's a captive audience and a write for your supper.

I've actually got two other sets of cards done that would have qualified for the challenge, but you know how I am. I have to use a Sassy Cheryl's image. I was all set to use the new Bella Honors the Fourth image, when lo and behold this morning, Cheryl had two new images up for sale. One of them was this adorable and totally perfect image called Sassy Sally Honors the Flag.  I've colored her with Copics.

The papers are from a digital kit called Star Spangled Paper by Clementine from My Grafico. The sketch is last week's sketch at Tuesday Morning Sketches.

Here are the other two cards I've worked up. I have all the parts cut to do multiples, just have to assemble them.

The flag card flags are from a digital kit from Just So Scrappy 2 called , and the small squares on the Where Liberty Dwells Card is from the Patriotic Brad Freebie from DCCreations and the paper is from the Patriotic Papers from DCCreations at Enchanted Dream Boutique. Both sentiments were created by me.

Thanks for stopping by. Now I'm off to do my assembly line thing.

More Beach Babies

One of my favorite things about the Phindy's Place Challenge Blog is that you're able to enter up to three cards per challenge. Since my cards are for Operation Write Home, it's an incentive for me to create more than one. Of course, Phindy's images are so fun to work with, and as a plus, if you use a Phindy's image you get two entries. Now tell me just how can you lose?

For my second entry, I had to go back to one of my favorite Summer Cuties from the Phindy's Place  Store called Seaside Baby. Doesn't she look like she's making a splash? She is colored with Copics.

The papers for this card are also from Just So Scrappy 2 digital kits By the Sea and Pool Time. I created the Word Art in Make the Cut, and did a print and cut.

The sketch is from Sketches by Carly, and it worked perfectly for that umbrella to protect that tender skin.

Well, I got two cards done, and I'm happy with both of my cards. Thanks again for stopping by.

Beach Babies

The challenge this week at the Phindy's Place Challenge Blog is Beach Babies.  A perfect theme for this time of the year, with summer arriving and folks headed to the beach.

My first entry is using this delightful image from the Phindy's Place Store, called Daring Diver. I've actually seen some swimmers recently that look just like her. I've colored her with Copics and had a great time doing it.

The papers are digital and from two kits from Just So Scrappy 2. One kit is called Pool Time and the other is By the Sea. The word art was a part of the By the Sea kit, and I think it was perfect for the card. How many of us have fond memories of vacations at the beach as a child..

As usual, I'm the last minute getting my cards entered, but I sure didn't want to miss a challenge. Phindy's is one of the few challenge blogs that allows for multiple entries and double entries just for using a Phindy's image. My question is why wouldn't you use a Phindy's image. They all resonate with me.

Thanks for stopping by and come back soon, because I have another card for the challenge.

It's a Family SMT This Week at Sassy Cheryl's Blog

Sassy Cheryl had a two week SMT this week due to her son graduating from High School. She did say we could post each week and get a double entry. Winners get a free Sassy Cheryl image, and whether you win an image or not, if you'll blog hop the entrants you'll get the chance for winning in another form, friends, ideas and beautiful scenery. So  hop on over to Sassy Cheryl's Blog and get in on the fun.

This week I'm sharing what's been going on with MM this week. One of the things his DM has insisted from the time of his birth is that he would know his Mississippi family. To that end, she and her DH have been bringing MM home regularly since he was two months old.

This summer we've been making sure that MM is getting to know his 2nd cousins that are closest to him in age. Our niece on my DH's side came down Saturday with Coleman, her 21 month old and DD, MM, my niece and Coleman went to see our niece that gave birth to DH's namesake in May. So here are pictures of some of the younger 2nd cousins. DD was supposed to get a picture of MM holding Charles, but she said none of them were cooperative, so it was a rug shot.

Then late Saturday afternoon, MM and Coleman went jumping on MM's trampoline. The funniest thing was Coleman trying to escape from the inside of the trampoline net. Once out, he wanted right back in.

Then yesterday, I took MM to Tupelo, as one of the nieces on my side of the family has a son that is 9 months older than MM and then had a second baby almost two weeks ago. I got to spend some time holding the newest member of the McLemore clan and then took MM, and his cousin, Brayden out to lunch and then to see Madagascar 3 in 3D. I figured out real quick that shopping with two in booster seats that had to have help with the seat belts wasn't a good plan in 90* temps.  My sister and my niece informed me that baby Brycen wasn't sleeping, but I'd say he's pretty much out cold in this shot.

This was shot was funny because I had asked MM and Brayden where they wanted to eat lunch and the both did the shoulder shrug at the same time.

And finally this is a picture of the three boys taken right before MM and I left for home.

It's a Birthday Celebration Challenge

This week the challenge on the Sassy Cheryls Challenge Blog is to create a project for a Birthday Celebration. Sassy Cheryl is so generous and doesn't require that you use a Sassy Cheryl image, but if you do, you get two entries in the challenge.

For my birthday card, I had to use this new image from the Sassy Cheryls Store called Peyton the Bumbling Bear. I've colored her with Copics.

The papers are from my stash box, but they're digital that I printed at some time or another.   The sentiment is a circle sentiment is from Scrap-a-licious Times. Her sentiments are free and are really wonderful.