Congrats ~Graduation~

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Hello everyone...I have been sooo busy...it seems crafting has been put on the back burner here...I know....just summer is soo much going on. I have a big garden and it takes up so much time..but anyway I wanted to get something done. I have a few like this I am gonna try to get done over the next few days...I call them BIG Picture Scrapbooking. Fun too. The pic is of me and Colten last year at his Kindergarten graduation....I had Dusty in just a little over a month later...surprisingly I was able to get down that low...LOL!! You can just see PROUD written on his face. June 2008.
Products used:

• Bazzill Black raven and red

• Cricut Graphically Speaking, and Lyrical Letters

• White swirls cut from my Dear Friend Betty (Thanks Betty..LOVE them)
  
• Prima flowers
• EK Success Baby Border punch
• Jolee's verbena

The border was cut on fit to page on page 36 Icon, Congrats was cut from Lyrical letters pg. 69 using connected cut at 2 1/2.
TFL!!!

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S.E.I. Lifestyles has put my Layout on their blog......SO EXCITED!!!!!

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Okay Everyone this is sooooo exciting for me!!! I was so thrilled. Check it out.......http://seilifestyle.blogspot.com/2009/06/cut-it-out.html
Description: Hello everyone.... This is my butterfly (papillon meaning butterfly in French). This is Alexis in 2006 her senior pics.....now in the end of the second year in college....boy was that a time of change...going from my sweet innocent dd to a grown women. I so love this pic. Products used:
~S.E.I. papillon chocolat pp, cherie pp,
~MM note worthy pink half circle.
~Bazzill pink cardstock
~MME 29th St. "fresh Mother" pp background
~Cricut Storybook Pg. 67 Marquee3 for the fit to page frame.
~Cricut George for the circle flowers cut at 2 3/4, 2, 1 1/2, and 1. Distressed part of the challenge.
~Title cut from Stone Script Cricut at 1 1/2. I used Coredinations cardstock oh my I love that cardstock I then sanded the title..(do this on the mat with out pulling your paper up)
~Quickutz Revolution for the 4x4 die 3-d butterfly ....love this I then added wire and beads.
~Hand sewed the butterfly train (stamped first then sewed)
~Pop dots, ribbon, the brown ribbon was actually a belt I had sometime ago, ricrac, Fancy pants strait pins. Needle and thread brown DMC floss. Thanks so much!!!

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Chirper Challenge #16 ~Life is a Highway~

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Hello everyone....well it's time for the Chirper Challenge #16. The challenge this time was to use red and green and have wheels and no Christmas. Jackie's sons came up with the challenge....Dylan and Tyler. So I was trying to think like them.....what would little boys like....this should be easy for for me I only have six.....well was I wrong!! I thought I don't want to use the tractor, the four wheeler, the bike...I was really thinking here....LOL!!!! So applaud Dylan and Tyler cause this was an awesome challenge!! Check it out....Chirper Challenge. The creations are incrediable!! So much fun too!! Can't wait to see what others come up for the challenge so hop on over.
The products used:

• Cosmo Cricket pp Jack's World
  
• Cosmo Crciket pp Dutch Girl Sofie (for the white only)
• Cricut Cars Cart. L. McQueen cut at 3 1/4 see pg. 36 McQueen in his dress clothes
• Fillmore cut at 3 1/4 on the flip pg. 65
• Ink and distressing, staples
• Making Memories Felt Alphas
  

The Journaling reads: We were riding to pre-school one morning and I looked back, you were just cheesing away. So I pulled over to get your picture. Cody 05/24/01. Cody will be 12 this Sept. OOOO does time go so fast. TFL!!! Dawn

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A gift in the mail from Dandelion Designs

I wanted to share what I received in the mail on Friday. What a wonderful adorable magnet from http://dandeliondesigns.blogspot.com/ She had made these for a Mother's Day giveaway and telling your story about a special Mother's Day......see http://dandeliondesigns.blogspot.com/2009/05/boxed-magnets.html She has some adorable stamps you gotta check them out!!!
Thanks So Much Dandelion Designs !!! I love it!!!! Made my Day!!

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Family Picture

Okay so many of asked me to post a family pic. I tell you it is hard when everyone has and lives different lives. It can be so hard to get a family pic, when I told everyone out front for a pic.....they said no one said we are taking pics....so this is us all on a lazy(yeah right) Sunday cookout afternoon. Jr. now 22 is living close by but works alot. Alexis is in college but now home for the summer but has several jobs. Crystal graduates from High School this year and leaves for Basic Training for the Army July. Amanda now 16 helps me alot and is busy in the 10th grade. Cody 11 is graduating from the fifth grade and participating in the DUKE tip program. Colten is in first grade and is very artistic. Colby will be starting school this fall and will miss being at home. Cooper is 2 and has now mastered potty training. Dusty is 9 mons. and is crawling everywhere. Me and Bruce well we are just mom and dad.Oh Yeah.....and Boomer!!!! Have a GREAT weekend!! Dawn

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