Happy 150 Canada!!!!

July 1st is Canada's 150th Birthday!!!
I always thought I was special being born on a Centennial year  ;)
What better way to celebrate Canada's birthday then spending it out doors in this beautiful country I am lucky enough to call home.
So off to the cottage we went with plenty of food, family and fun.

We will start with the food :)
Ashley came up with the idea that each of us was to bring a food for Canada Day that was red and white (as those are our Canadian colours)
I brought potato salad, Tyler made brochette and Wayne made hamburgers (we added a Canadian flag to the burgers as they really aren't red and white)

We had many desserts ;)
Ashley make angle food cake with strawberries and whipped cream. Heather made Oreo bark with red and white chocolate. Blake made peanut butter and jam cheese cake. And Kristy made red velvet cookies with chocolate chips as well as red velvet chocolate balls.
Lets just say there was no calorie counting this weekend, teehee.

The best part of the weekend was being able to spend so much time with my family.
I love when we are all able to get together...I am one lucky mom and grandma.

Here is Heather and her daddy :)
They both don't like to get their photos taken, but they were game this weekend.

Kristy and her boyfriend (of 7 years) Blake.

Ashley and her husband Tyler and baby Sawyer...and of course Oscar their doggy.

And we also had some fun!!
Heather and Kristy enjoying the water.
The water is still way to cold for me.

I picked up some bubble solution as I thought Sawyer would like to watch them...but it seemed like Oscar had way more fun playing with them :)

But like any weekend up at camp....there is a bit of work to do.
Sawyer was able to sit with Grandpa in the little loader.
I was surprised, I thought Sawyer might get scared as it is very loud.
But like his grandpa and great-grandpa, he loves his machines :)

Wayne was going to trim some branches off of a tree down by the lake, but (as I predicted) he ended up cutting the whole tree down.
So everyone helped bring the branches and cut tree, up to the fire, and then the girls wanted to clean it up, so they raked up all of the old pine needles.

Ashley wanted some slabs for decor for her table, so Wayne used the chainsaw to cut them.
Then Blake used a hand saw and cut some coasters for Ashley.

And of course what is a weekend at camp if Wayne and I don't get to take our toys out for a ride.
This is an odd sight....Wayne is in front of me, lol.
We checked out one of my favourite riding trails and there was a huge tree across the trail and the brush was so thick that we couldn't drive around it (believe me I tried).
So we had to turn around.
We were then stopped by the conservation officer.
He just wanted to know if we were fishing and check to make sure we had the proper papers for our machines and that we were wearing helmets.
All was good and in order, so we ended up just chatting with him for about 20 minutes.

So much more happened this weekend that I had better write it down in my camp journal before it fades from my memory.
I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and if you are a Canadian, I hope you celebrated our country's birthday with your family and friends :)

Tracy :)

Bridal Shower card and some Canada Fun

Here is the card I made for Ashley for her Bridal Shower.
I love this stamp, but this is the first time I have ever used it.
I coloured the image with my Copic markers.
A simple card, but I like the feminine look to it.

Canada Day Evening, I was lucky enough to enjoy some fireworks from the comfort of my living room.
Some neighbour, a couple blocks over, had a wonderful fireworks display going on :)
It was awesome!!!!
Thank you unknown neighbour ;)

As Wayne and I were enjoying the fireworks show.
Heather, Kristy, Blake were over at Ashley's and Tyler's enjoying a fire in her new fire pit :)
I am sure a few toasted marshmallows were consumed :)

Onto My Day:
I worked in my a couple of my flower beds today…that was until the rain and thunder brought me inside.
Almost all of my plants I had planted last year, didn't make it this year :(
My Hosta plants are so small, they could have easily been missed if I didn't mark them.
I located them to a different flower bed hoping that the change in sunlight will perk them up.
I took everything else out of the beds (as most everything were weeds) and will go to the Garden Center to see what will work better in my flower beds.

I hope you all had a very Creative Day :)

Tracy :)

Happy Canada Day

Happy Canada Day to all of you that are celebrating today.
As you know I am proud to be a Canadian.
I am so lucky to have been born here and to have grown up in this beautiful country that I live in.
There is nature all around me, and I love living here.

Onto My Day:
My daughters are all at Ashley's house enjoying an outdoor fire in Ashley's new fire pit her and Tyler put up.
Wayne's company wanted a long weekend, so they took Monday as a holiday and worked today.
So I invited my SIL/friend Sharon over to create with me.
I got her hooked on Pocket Letters….I have no idea how, I just showed her the ones I had made, teehee.

I hope you all have a great, creative Canada Day :)

Tracy :)

Canada Day Card Challenge

I was asked by Tiffany of "Paper-Garden.ca" if I would like to participate in their Canada Day themed card challenge….not only that, but she offered to send me some papers to play with.
It sounded like a fun challenge and being a proud Canadian, I was excited to play along.

Here is my take on the challenge using their papers :)

The one thing I love most about living in Canada, is our beautiful land.
There is nature all around me here.
But how to incorporate this into my card…..then it came to me….birch bark :)
I punched the Maple leaves (on the banner) out of birch bark.

I coloured up this cute Prima Doll image with my Copics and then paper pieced her dress.
I added some lace to the bottom of her dress and some sparkly brads for her dress buttons.

I added a cluster of red and white flowers and then added a bit of birch bark swirls to as filler.

Here are the papers that Tiffany from Paper-Garden sent to me.

The papers on the right has such beautiful shimmer to them.

Here is a closer look at the shimmer..so pretty.
The weight to the shimmer paper is too thin to make a card out from, so I just cut it to size and adhered it on the lovely card stock they sent me :)

How fun are these simmer envelopes :)

If you would like to join in on the challenge yourself, check out this link "Canada Day Card Challenge" they have prizes as well :)
I have also came to realize (yes I am dense like that) that you can vote for the card you like the most.
If you would like to do that here is the link "Card Voting"  I'm going to be sharing my card on there, so pop on over and check them out :)

I hope you all have a very creative day today :)

Tracy :)

Happy Canada Day and more creating

First off I have to wish all my Canadian friends near and far a very Happy Canada Day :)
Most businesses were closed today, except for Wayne's company as they decided to take yesterday off and make a long weekend out of it :)
I love that the stores here in Canada close for special days :)

This is a card I had made a couple of years ago when I was on the Redonkulous Design team :)
Coloured this image up with my copic markers.

I am in a monthly card challenge with Pea from Whimsical Endevors.
We come up with a few challenges or elements that we have to put on our card, or type of card we make.
June's challenges were….
-make a garden themed card with a garden image
-make a criss cross card
-use embossing powder
-add a recipe to the card.
I love this paper. I had picked it up about 15+ years ago. Designed by Debbie Mumm.
I love folk art, and Debbie Mumm is one of my favourite artists, I have made a few quilts out of her fabrics.
I used a real plant stick, adhered some pattern paper to it and the "grow" tag.
I also popped up the mini plant signs that are in the paper.

Because the image was to big for the front of the card…..and I didn't want to cover up this pretty paper, I put the image by Mo Manning to the inside file of the card.
The sentiment is one I have on a garden angel I had made for my own garden many years ago and I thought it was fitting for this card.
"May all your weeds be wild flowers".

Here are both parts of the card together.
You may ask where the embossing powder is?
I honestly forgot about that, I use a stamp on the backs of my cards, I just happened to emboss that stamp ;)
Also the recipe I just popped into the card. I didn't want to adhere it to the card, as she may want to use it and put it in her recipe book or file.
The recipe I had included was my recipe for "Impossible Pie". I used a image of a girl holding a pie on the recipe card.

I also made a video of this card in more detail.
If you would rather watch it on my YouTube channel, just click the link "Tracy's Treasures24"
 Not only was Wayne's business open but so was the movie theatre :)
So my daughters and I went to the movies tonight :)
Heather, Ashley and I all read the book "A Fault in our Stars" so Heather wanted us all to go together to watch it. Great book and a great movie.
But the little wieners (being my daughters) wouldn't let me take a photo of us all.

I hope you all had a very Creative Day :)

Tracy