Saturday, May 23, 2009
Shanna's Grad - May 2009
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Back From All Level Worlds
The girls left Thursday night. Burt competed Friday (as well as the Youth Elite Team), Shanna competed on Saturday (as well as the Senior Co-Ed team who took 1st place - way to go Reign!)
Saturday afternoon Burt and her friends went off to Hollywood to shop. Sunday both girls joined a bunch of other girls and took a stretch Hummer limo to Santa Monica to go to the beach and do more shopping.
I made an important discovery upon their return - apparently neither of them are related to me by blood. They had the opportunity to go to Disneyland and neither went..... WHAT??????
New Cards Again
Well we had a very productive day yesterday. We knocked off five new designs - not bad for a day's work. Of course, this is because I didn't allow Jill into the beer while we were working! LOL She made up for it when we went for dinner afterwards.
This really cute little guy uses lots of fun techniques. We ran the background through the Cuttlebug to emboss it, we used our Copics to colour/shade in the pic and then we airbrushed the background.
One of my all time favorite cards that we have done. This one was done a while ago but has never got posted. The text says "Happy birthday Little Lady". Again we have used the Copics for colouring/shading and the Copic Airbrush System for the background.
I have a daughter graduating this year, so I figured I should do up at least one Grad card. I was really pleased how this one turned out. It is very classy. I printed the words on vellum and then used eyelets to attach it to cardstock that I inked the edges on. This picture really does not do this card justice!
The next two are also cards that were done a while ago. Jill's youngest daughter loves dinosaurs and we did up these two cards for invitations. We wanted to use the dinosaur images but also keep it a little bit girly for a three year olds party.
I know I say a lot of cards are my "favorite" but I think this one just might "be the one". It's a baby girl card and it's so girly and fun. The saying under the stamp is "Does this diaper make my butt look big?" It's just so cheeky and cute!
Here's another Baby Girl card that I did up really quickly for my daughter's teacher. I used the Sookwang tape and Glitter Ritz on it although I still haven't been thrilled with any of the results I have had using this stuff.
Monday, April 6, 2009
New Cards
Thursday, April 2, 2009
My National Championship Winners!
This is a picture from their team from last year (the one I owned) but I don't have another pictures of them in their new VAS uniforms so..... (to see them in their VAS uniforms, scroll down) Last weekend they competed at Sea To Sky International Cheer Championships and both of their teams took first place - thereby winning National Championships... I was so excited for them - they were just bursting. This was the third year that they competing at this event and have wanted those Championship sweaters sooooooooo bad! I haven't been able to get them out of them all weekk to wash them! Seven of VAS's teams won National titles at this competition. It's just the most awesome program out there! I'm very happy that my girls are members of this club!
They leave for All Level Worlds in LA a week today and are busy getting prepared for that trip. There are, I believe, 15 competitions taking place simutaneously in 15 different cities across the US next weekend, so the teams won't know their final standings for a few weeks. Video of each team will be gathered and then the final judging will be done at a central location for a World's winner in each age category and skill level. (My girls compete Junior Level 2 (Burt) and Senior Level 3 (Shanna) Burt is also an alternative for the Junior Level 5 team.
Best Christmas Present Ever
Yes, I'm a bit of a computer geek - that is two computers in my office. The one on the table is actually my girls computer. Mine is the one in the background with the HUGE screen..... I told Marc when we got married, "you never have to buy me jewelry again - just keep me up with all the new technology and I'll be happy!"
Some New Cards
I love this little fishy card and so far, everyone else who has seen it, loves it too. I used my Copics to colour it, but it's really too small to do much shading.