Card #8 - Scrapbooker's Anonymous and CPS 223

My poor auntie, she just had surgery on her foot. Something to do with nerves and/or tendons, and she has to stay off her feet for a while still. I made her this card, even though she might not get it for a loooooong time, seeing Canada Post is on strike. I still had out my pretty Basic Grey "Sugared" scraps I used for my last layout, and discovered...

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Photo Fun Day 21 - Micro

My camera has an actual mode for taking photos of flowers close-up in bright light, so that's what I used to get these shots of our front porch flowers and the lilacs I had in the mason jar for Day 16. The trickiest part was keeping my camera steady and getting it to focus, but I did manage to come up with these, the best of the bunch! I think they...

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Photo Fun Day 19 - Summertime

Once again, I am cheating, but it's my blog and I can do that, so ha! Jason took these photos yesterday, but if I was there, I probably could've taken ones just as good! The first photo shows a little spit of land where the fawn was lying - it is just amazing how close he and Ailis were able to get. Isn't it adorable? And the photo of Ailis by the...

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Photo Fun Day 17 - Bokeh?

OK, I'm not embarrassed to admit I didn't know what the heck bokeh is. I thought maybe it was a game like Sudoku! Anyway, googled it, and it's a photography effect where the foreground subject is in focus and the background is blurred. After thinking about it for a while, I remembered I'd taken these action shots of my teammate Danielle at Femsport...

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Photo Fun Day 16

June 16th's prompt was Mason Jar/Jelly Jar. The lilacs have been blooming here like crazy, and oh, they smell sooooooooo good!!! So I snipped a few off the bush in our front yard, placed them in a mason jar, and snapped away. It was really fun to experiment with different angles, and I'm not really sure which I like best. What do you thi...

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Photo Fun Day 15

The prompt for June 15th is "Action". Brenna has always been fairly active, even in the womb, but never more than now that she's learned to walk. I took these photos while my mom was visiting, and she was showing off all her tricks within a 2 minute time span. This is how it went down: walking, sitting (and sucking), up, down, yoga pose, "nose"...

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Photo Fun Day 14

I was supposed to photograph someone I love on June 14th. I already have hundreds of photos of the kids, so I thought it might be nice to take a couple of the main man in my life. Now I know I called him a jerk in one of my more recent posts, but I know he wouldn't take it personally. That's kind of how our relationship is, lots of laughs and bugging...

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Photo Fun Day 13

"Reminds You of Childhood" is the prompt for June 13th. I kinda cheated on this one. I took this photo (and a few more) of this Easter Bunny on moving day. I won him in a colouring contest when I was six - first prize! He sat at my parents' house for all those years until my mom showed up with him in Burns Lake one day. I guess she got tired of housing...

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Card #7

I made this card up for three different challenges, and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out! First off, iCopic Lover wants to see how I can colour with Copics from the E family only, and believe it or not, this entire Tobie image is all done in browns. (Perfect challenge for me, as I only have a few copics, and nearly all of them are E's!) Some...

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Photo Fun Day 12 - Sun Flare

I haven't had any luck yet with the June 11 prompt, which is "Silhouette". But I guess I can always post that one later. While I was hunting for that elusive sunset photo for Day 8, I inadvertently obtained these sun flare photos - who knew? Kinda cool, eh? I li...

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A Macho Card...

...for my manly man, haha! I whipped this up yesterday using the sketch over at Creative Accents Challenge blog:Don't ya love it? It made putting this card together very simple. I just misted the base and the bingo card with some Tattered Leather Glimmer Mist, distressed all the patterned papers, and stuck everything on! The "Dad" bingo card is a digital...

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Photo Fun Day 10

The prompt for June 10th was "Animal". Well, normally I would just take some photos of my beautiful Karelian bear dog Casie, but she is being babysat at the in-laws' place right now. This yard is not exactly ready with a proper fence for her yet, but I'm starting to miss her. Sometimes I even forget we have a dog! So we have to work something out ASAP!!!...

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Photo Fun Day 8 - Sunset

The prompt for June 8th is "Sunset". I tried for 3 days to get a decent sunset pic, and this is the best of the bunch. I had to go for a drive around the neighbourhood to capture this one, and even then, I'm a bit disappointed. There's telephone wires EVERYWHERE around here! I'll have to track down my Hawaiian sunset photos, now THOSE are something...

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Photo Fun Day 7

The June 7 prompt for the 30 Day Photo Fun Challenge is "High Angle". I didn't know if this meant to take the photo from up high looking down, or from down low looking up high. So I just followed Hollie's lead! I snapped these photos at the 100 Mile House Visitor's Centre. Did you know that 100 Mile is the home of the world's tallest pair of cross-country...

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Layout #23 for Twisted Sketches

The twist for this week's Twisted Sketch is "result", so I used that word to inspire this layout about how it feels for me to get a decent haircut! It took years of ho-hum cuts and stylists for me to find "the one", the perfect stylist for my head o' hair. Whenever I leave her chair, I feel gorgeous, and although that feeling usually only lasts until...

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