Just Scraps Challenge #12 - Butterflies, Flowers and Birds

I have to apologize big time - I’m not ignoring my blog - I am just swamped right now with so many other things that I’m finding very little time to scrap or blog! On the up side, summer holidays start in just two weeks and I will have eight weeks to play! The little I have been doing has everything to do with buttlerflies, flowers and birds - favors for the upcoming wedding. So that’s my challenge - create something - anything - with butterflies, flowers, and birds - as long as it’s not a name tag! When you do hundreds, it gets a little ho-hum. But what a great way to use up scraps!

Looks like I am not the only one flat out busy - not a whole lot of scrappers participating this week - and so to those of you who have, a great big thank you! I do so enjoy your visits and am feeling pretty guilty about not being a good hostess - promise things will be back to normal soon.

Congratulations Susan! Your name was randomly drawn for this week’s blog candy. Email me your snail address at justscraps.ca@gmail.com and I’ll get a little package in the mail to you this week.

Get to work on those layouts, cards, ATCs, or 3D projects. Can’t wait to see them! You have until Sunday, June 20th to leave a link to your creation using the Mr. Linky at the bottom of this post. Mr. Linky will close on that date and we will draw for a bit of blog candy.

Happy Birthday to me! What a great day! We had sunshine - I can hardly believe it! A balmy ten degrees and we’re rolling up the shirt sleeves, throwing aside the jackets and rolling out the barbecue. Never mind that the rest of Canada is basking in temperatures two to three times greater! The dandelions are popping up everywhere. Gotta love those sunny little flowers. They are so so hardy - as are we! Bet my bottom dollar everyone at work tomorrow will be talking about what a beautiful day Sunday was. Yep! Like I said, a balmy plus ten. We are so so easy to please . . .

In addition to having a delicious barbecued supper and a CHOCOLATE birthday cake - a real treat as all my crowd like everything and anything but chocolate -  I got to have the family here to share it with me. Preparation time - 0; clean up time - 0. I love the whole being pampered thing. If it wasn’t for getting older, I’d have a birthday EVERY day. The boys gave me a whole bunch of scrapbooking stuff: two Cricut cartridges, stamps, paper, containers. Such fun! Will play with those goodies later this week as I work with my yellow scraps.

Yes, the challenge this week is to use a little yellow - a little splash of sunshine. Next Sunday we’ll draw one name for a bit of blog candy apropo to the occassion.

So get to work on those layouts, cards, ATCs, or 3D projects. Can’t wait to see them! You have until Sunday, June 6th to leave a link to your creation  using the Mr. Linky at the bottom of this post. Mr. Linky will close on that date.

Sorry for the late post but it’s the May 2-4 weekend and here in my part of the world that’s a very big deal - the kick off to summer. I’ve been in holiday mode so last night forgot all about posting to my blog.

Saturday was the day of the big launch for us - a little disapppointing as one of the pumps wasn’t working right and we had to pull her up again. Max, however, was thrilled with all the excitement - he still got to eat his lunch on the boat. haha.

After we pulled the Northern Lights home again, we went to visit friends and from there we took our boy home. “This was a great day, Grammy”, he said - Is your glass half empty, Max, or half full?

Sunday it was Sam’s turn. Sam isn’t quite as active as Max just yet, but still takes up all our attention when he visits. DH had him chuckling away here. He’s sitting up like a big boy!

Today I’m spending in the loft. DH just put a fire in - it’s all of two degrees! I have some wedding favors to work on for my niece’s upcoming wedding - chocolate chip with a splash of color so ……. this week I challenge you to use just that - a scrap of brown with a splash of color. I’ll post pictures of my own work later today.

Hope you had a safe weekend and that there are lots of good things in store for you this week. I have a birthday on the horizon - next Sunday actually, so to everyone who participates this week, I’ll send a pattern from paperandpiecings.com - your choice. This is the last week our challenge will be sponsored by Paper and Piecings. Something new next week so here’s your chance to get your favorite pattern for free.

You have until Sunday, May 30th to leave a link to your creation -  card, layout, ATC, any paper project - using the Mr. Linky at the bottom of this post. Mr. Linky will close on that date.

Congratulations to Yvonne whose name we drew this week. Email me Yvonne at justscraps.ca@gmail.com with your pattern choice and I’ll get that to your right away.l Thanks to everyone who played along!

Happy Scrapping!