Summer's Here!

Well, it seems summer is finally here.

 

School is over and the weather seems to be finally settled.

Yesterday, it was my daughter's last day of elementary school: they were all very sad, tears and memories and a long afternoon spent with her, playing and trying to enjoy the start of the summer holidays and forgetting the sadness of the end of these wonderful 5 years.

 

The school is very close to our home and I'll surely be sad in September when, walking by, she won't be there in the park playing and laughing with her friends and running towards me to say hello!

 

Anyway, as I tell her, we have been blessed with great teachers, with 5 incredible years, with amazing friends that she won't miss even if they attend different secondary schools.

 

So today it's the official start of the summer holidays and, even if I still have my spring cleaning to be done, walls to paint, winter coats to put away and a great mess around, I want to celebrate summer with this card:

 

 

I used Honeymoon Toodles from Broken Box Stock (available here in black and white and here in a colored version) and colored them with Copics. I chose patterned papers in bright colors (sorry, they are old scraps and I don't remember the Company).

 

They are honeymooners but I think that the image is suitable for a beach vacation too!

How I'd like to be leaving for the seaside!

 

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Fan-Tastic Tuesday Challenge # 38: Summer

Craft a Scene June Challenge: By the Sea

Just Inspirational June Challenge: Summer

Crafty Creations Challenge # 264: It's All About "S"

Papertake Weekly Challenge: Anything Goes

Sweet Sketch Wednesday Challenge # 77

Hello!!

How was your shopping yesterday?

I did some shopping this morning... Hopefully, the gifts for the kids in our family are all at home, ready to be packed. This is a real relief, every year it's more and more difficult to find new ideas for them all but for 2010 we are done!

I told you yesterday that this week I have made some cards and one of these is for the Sweet Sketch Wednesday Challenge # 77 (http://www.sweetsketchwednesday.blogspot.com/) and this is the skecth to follow:

Considering how difficult is for me to purchase patterned paper, when I first saw the sketch I thought I could never do it but last week there was a craft show here in my town and I decided to invest in some scrapbook papers in order to have a better selection when I make my cards.

And here's my card:

 The sponsor was Bugaboo Stamps and I've used one of their lovely wedding stamps.

I wanted to do something a bit out of the Christmas mood and I thought that this cream and light green papers look sweet, a bit vintage and perfect for the wedding theme.

Papers are from DCWV, while the stamp has been colored with watercolor pencils as usual.

 I really love this card!

Well, better go and do some laundry!

Have a nice weekend!