10 photos for August

the summer crop at Piece of Scrap has had us taking a lot of photos this summer!  these pics are for the challenge of 10 photos in August

At the bank where I work we are celebrating 110 years of being in existance this month.  On Friday, August 2 we had a party to celebrate.  These are some of the pretty flowers that we had around the bank that day.

 

 

Of course our Northwoods League summer baseball continues through a couple weeks in August.  On the night of August 10 my cousin's daughter went to the game with us.  She is from Wausau, the team we played that night!  La Crosse ended up winning but Ele still had a lot of fun!

Our pitcher who led the league in strikeouts for 2013! 

 

Last weekend I went to a scrapbook retreat for a weekend of crafting ..here are a couple pics of the inside and outside of the house.

The retreat is just a half mile from a bike/walking trail .. these last couple photos are sights along the trail

 

OWH sketch challenge 186

This past weekend I was at a scrapbook retreat so I was able to get some scrapbooking and cardmaking done.  I finished 9 pages and 9 cards!  Not the amount I wanted to finish, but enough that I was happy

On Sunday morning I finished this week's sketch for the Operation Write Home stars and stamps blog
I love to make Christmas cards and to get cards to heroes for the holidays now is the time to be making them.  This stamps on this card are from a Hero Arts set and the papers are from Stampin' Up and My Mind's Eye

I also made some fallish looking cards for my next operation write home box and here are my favorites from the bunch I made

                                                Thanks for Looking!!  Robin

OWH sketch 185

for everyone who is an avid cardmaker like me I'm sure you're in love with the 6x6 designer paper pads for cardmaking.  But what do you do when you have a full 6x6 design and need to make a standard size (4.25x5.5) card?   here is a little something I did today using this week's sketch at Operation Write Home stars and stamps blog

These are the papers I started with:

They are from a pack of Christmas papers that I got last year at Michaels.  The cards I created using these papers plus the reverse side of them:

dynamic duo birthday

I've been playing with some items from the newest Stampin' Up catalog.  By far the favorite color from the new incolors to me is the Strawberry Slush and this week the challenge at dynamic duos includes this!

My favorite stamp set from the catalog is flower shop and the matching pansy punch.  I have seen so many cool things made with these and I knew when I saw this color challenge I would have to use the flower stamps and punch, so this is the card I made:

 

Thanks for Looking!