Simply Altered

spring has GOT to be near!!!

yes?   Spring has to arrive sooner or later !!!   (Can ya tell, I am ignoring the forecasted snow this weekend!!)

I made these two cards for fellow SCS swappers, and just had to share them with everyone!!  

The first chosen theme is the artist “Susan Branch” .  Does it not make you want to take the top off your car…..or atleast roll down the windows and take a road trip???   Looks like a FUN time!!   wandering out on the open road and nothing but FRESH AIR!!!!   {sigh}  

The second one is nothing too fancy, but I freehanded the “vase” and the “stems”, and used a paper punch for the layered flowers.    In the past, I have tried VERY hard to accomplish a whimsical look, to no avail!!!   maybe I was trying TOO hard???   this one was literally off the top of my head, with no forethought, and I ended up MORE than pleased at the unstructured look, with a whimsical touch!!!  

Yes, spring will arrive eventually, but until then, I think I will just continue creating fresh new looks, and remain in denial of the weather outside my window.    :)

Here’s to a great weekend ahead……..

An April Fools tradition, near and dear to my heart, but one I finally gave up  (boo!!)   when my kids quit humoring me on this, and got too busy to play moms games, I had to resort to normal April Fools pranks…..but since they were very little, we ALWAYS had a mixed up meal on April Fools.   Oh how I remember their little faces, in shock that it was never what it seemed!!!   dessert  looked like supper, and supper looked like dessert!!!   

I will let you in on my “secret”  haha.  

What looked like breakfast was really dessert.  (hashbrowns) Pound cake cut into chunks and drizzled with strawberry sauce.   (eggs) whipped topping and a peach half sprinkled with poppy seeds.  (sausage pattie)  brownies cut with a circle cookie cutter.    

What looked like dessert, was really supper!!   Meatloaf baked into a pie pan, topped with tinted mashed potatoes !!!!    Yeah, looked just like strawberry pie, …yes???  

And of course, Kool-Aid for a drink, which was really cherry jello, with a straw “set” into it.  

Yes, memories past.  I did MANY MANY different combinations from meatloaf cupcakes, to spaghetti and meatballs, to minced chicken doughnuts!!!!   Yummy!!!!

All for the sake of April Fools!!!!  (since all of this was pre-digital camera days, I had to photograph the scrapbook page I made of this years meal.  I really do not own a checkerboard table cloth!!!)  it is paper.