Birthday Treats for School & A Layout

Happy Thursday!

Ok, so I said before how my daughter's birthday fell on Easter

this year and that we are actually having her party this coming

Saturday because of all the holiday things happening last weekend.

Anyway, on Monday of this week I baked a couple of cakes

(strawberry chip...very yummy!!!) and took them to Emily's

school so that she could celebrate her 10th birthday with her

classmates and of course it made every single child in that 4th

grade classroom quite happy...sorry parents and teachers for the

sugar rush but at least they had recess immediately following so

that all the kids could run off some of that excess energy.

So, my entire point to all of this is that I created a layout last

night using the photos that I took of Emily and her classmates

while they were all enjoying their cake and lemonade. It's very

hard to take fabulous photos in that horrible lighting in school

classrooms, even with the best of cameras and I was using my

cell, so to make that not so obvious I printed the photos in

3.5x5 and cropped them a bit to fit together on the layout.

I also made my own dye to spritz on the page using an old

body spray bottle and just my color choice of acrylic paint

watered down a bit...it's a very cost effective way to have

any color spray that you'd like whenever you'd like without

breaking the bank!! Also, the giant butterfly is a stamp that

I used with a rasberry colored ink. I'm quite happy with the

way this page turned out and I hope that my Emmy had a

great time sharing birthday treats with her friends at school.

Thanks for looking and this makes post #98. Don't forget to

check back for the GIVEAWAY celebrating my

100th post coming soon!!!

-Sarah