papaya collage and perfect wedding card

Summer is flying by, and I have had little to no time to stamp.  However, I did make these two cards for Stamp Club in July:

This to me is the perfect wedding card.  It is simple, elegant, and can be changed for the wedding of your choice.  It uses the big shot "vintage wallpaper" embossing folder, the stamp set "papaya collage" for the frame, and "make a cake" for the insides.  I used Cherry Cobbler for the accent color, but you can change it to the color of the wedding you will attending

This is totally different for me, but I love how it turned out!  It uses almost every stamp in the "papaya collage" stamp set (my MUST HAVE) stamp set for the new catalogue... and it's accented with Calypso Coral, which I will grieve when it's gone in less than a year!
Hope you enjoy your last little bit of Summer!  I am looking forward to fall, routine, scrapbooking, hot tea, and sweaters!

Olympics Part 2

Our final count is we made dishes from 44 Countries!  Here is the display after Audrey finished coloring all of the flags:

I'll be posting card projects I've been working on next week, but for the most part, I've been taking it easy from crafting during July and August.  Thanks for looking!

Olympics 2012

It's been a busy time in our house, we are expecting our 3rd Child in February, we went on a vacation to Black Creek on Vancouver Island, and my husband and I are in a Worship Band (www.hillsworship.com) and we opened for the band Starfield on August 5th at the Abbotsford Aggrifair!
Needless to say, it's been insane.  On top of all this, it was the Olympics for the past two weeks.  My mom started a tradition with the Olympics when we were little, to make dishes from some of the Countries represented at the Olympics, to have us try different kinds of foods and to grow appreciation for different cultures.  At the Winter Olympics in 2010, my sister and I made a dish for each Country.  This year there were over 200 Countries in the Olympics, and we were on vacation for 1/2 of the time, so we were only able to do about 60... I haven't got the exact count yet.
Here's a sample of my kitchen wall:

That was early last week, we've done more Countries since then, I will post when they are done... my daughter, Audrey, just turned 5, and she has loved coloring each of the flags, and learning about different kinds of foods.
Here's a sample menu of one of the nights we did:
Carribean Night:
On the menu tonight:
Drinks:
Ginger Beer (Jamaica)
Kanpe Tea (Haiti)
Banana Punch (British Virgin Islands)

Appies:
Spicy Mango and Avacado (Antigue and Barbuda)
Johnny Cakes (Cayman Islands)

Potato Salad (Panama)
Fried Plaintains (Dominican Republic)
Mango Chutney (Dominica)
Barbados shrimp with raspberry sauce (Barbados)
Belinean Rice and Beans (Belize)
Cheeseball (Honduras)

Dinner:
Empenadas (Costa Rica)
Bahama Mama Chicken (Bahamas)

Dessert:
Barfi (Trinidad)
tropical fruit pudding (Saint Kitts and Nevis)

It was a blast!