It WAS Balmy!!!!!
So I missed the Feature yesterday because well Monday got away from me? I made this at the crop over the weekend! I used Dianne's Owl-Bert from justjohanna coloring him with Glaze and Stardust pens. Then I put him floating in the hot air balloon. The paper is Making Memories and Scenic Route. Then punched out lots of hearts with my heart punches and added stickles red and crystal on top of them. Rub Ons are Karen Foster. The Feature was Stickles and all of the other designers did an amazing job with their projects so check it out here!
If Summer Were Here......
I would wear this cute little dress! HA! Who are we kidding we're usually at the pool everyday! I don't generally go anywhere else! The mirror card stock is hard to see but it's the belt buckle. I wish I could scan silver! The dress is my own pattern. Papers are DCWV and Mirror card. The buckle is stamped with staz on onto the silver card stock and cut out. Stamp by justjohanna.
So in other news Abbi is home sick today. She's had a high temp since yesterday afternoon. She cried and cried she couldn't go to school today it was her turn to count all the kids. She was very upset they would give her job to someone else.
Cris had to go to the hospital in TN yesterday with chest pain. We were freaked out for awhile. About 10:30 my mom called, they were on their way home. Turns out he tore some muscles in a workout that caused an elevated enzymes causing quite a bit of chest pain. He has to stop lifting for about a week and he'll hopefully be back to normal. So that's a huge huge relief!!!!
Countdown crop continues 1 more day! Can't wait to get away for a day or two!
I WANT SUMMER!
Enough about my dream weekend! HA! Here's my summer wish since. I'm wearing my gloves around the house! I wish for Lemon Ice Snow Cones! Yum-O. And the weather to enjoy them! The lemon is justjohanna the paper is Heidi Swapp and the ice is Stickles!
Have a great day!
Kiddo's Home Today
GREAT news I made the Ready, Set, Create Creative team last week. I am so excited I've just now stopped grinning from ear to ear, only because my cheeks hurt though!
Girl scouts started selling cookies so we're doing that. Our PTA Holiday Dinner was a lot of fun even if we had to drive out in an ice storm. Camp was great fun Friday and Ana brought a new friend Cathy she seems like she will fit in perfectly if we didn't scare her off! I made Randi's Ruby Martini so things got lively! Sat we rolled our hangovers out of bed and Ana drove us all to Archivers to shop it was great fun to have a field trip with my girlfriends. Sunday was Em's Football/Cheer Banquet! She was excited and we had a lot of fun! That's it in a nut shell!
Today is our DT Spotlight over at Linnecards. We are featuring Inque Boutique stamps and the DT has made some amazing cards. Mine is above. I used my Cricut to cut the tag. The paper is Basic Grey Two Scoops, the stamp is of course Inque Boutique, ink is Clearsnap Fluid Chalk which I might add is on sale at Linnecards! The ribbon is Martha Stewart. That's all for today enjoy the rest of your day!
Zesty!
She's Sooo Stinkin Cute!
Ok so enough of that or I'll be blubbering all day about something I cannot control.
So this is my card feature today at Linnecards. Here I used Prima paper as the background and only water colored 2 of the hearts in the bottom right corner. I did add stickles to the little one. The 3 hearts down the side are from Creative Imaginations, I outlined them in stickles. The rub on letters and bird are American Crafts. Hope everyone is having a Happy Monday!
Chance of Snow
So here is a wintry layout I completed. It uses all Rusty Pickle papers, I cut those stars out of one of the patterns. The dots are a Heidi Swapp mask and the flower is Heidi Swapp. Then everything else is ink or pen.
Hope your having a wonderful dry weekend!
So Much Better
So I've been stamping and even Scrapping! I have a few layouts to share coming up! Anyhoo this card was all Dave's idea! He was looking over my shoulder a few days ago as I was cleaning stamps and suggested the egg falling out of the nest! The stamps are justjohanna, Spring Tree, nest and egglet. The paper is Daisy D's and Basic Grey and the ribbon is Stampin Up.
That's about it things are very quiet here it's been raining and everything I've done it the last 2 days has been BLUE and GREY! I need to get out of my color rut! So I'm off to find some inspiration!
I wish I were 4 again!
Anyhoo now that I've vented that I feel much better and just in case everyone thinks I'm raising mean girls. Here is a card I made for my oldest daughter. For Christmas she got her own die cutting system Cuttlekids. She was so excited she asked if we could sit down and make cards on Christmas day together so here is what I made for her. The paper is DCWV she loves the pinks and blues. The die cuts are Cuttlebug and Sizzix(I used my machine not hers, she has a really cute dog I'm going to borrow soon though!). The stamps are justjohanna XOXO big(jj mix). And the glitter is Stickles yet again! They really are loveable most of the time! We've just had a little too much time together as of late!
It's all gone!!!
I made this Wall Hanging last night for the Wednesday Stamper Gothic Arch challenge. I shrunk the arch down a bit and turned it upside down then stamped it and added these wonderful American Crafts chipboard thickers! The stamps are justjohanna, circle dot background and inverse heart. There the same on the back side and I have crepe paper sandwiched between them. Also I added some rhinestones and glitter. They are strung together with wire.
Hope everyone had a great weekend!
Break Is almost Over!
Yesterday we ran around doing errands then we went to Daddy's new office and went out to lunch to his favorite close to the office hot dog stand! After that one more errand to the produce store to stock up on fruits and veggies for the week and home. We went to the neighbors to see all the painting they are having done inside the house and visit a bit. It was a very pleasant day! The kids then stayed and played all afternoon while I put groceries away and such! Today is quiet Dave went to give blood and the girls and I are lounging a bit watched a movie and so on! I've been doing a bit of stamping lately. It seems I keep starting projects and finding them near completion a few days later. I finished this one up last night. So here I used Cosmo Cricket Paper(one of my favs), CI Creative Cafe Velvet Brads(very cool aren't they?), the stamp is justjohanna, Aldenville. I stamped it then masked it off and sponged the background on. There is glitter on portions of the buildings(stickles of course) but you can't really see it here. The handwriting is my own.
So today I plan to stamp more I have lots of new stamps to mount and assignments to work on classes to plan, challenges to do etc. etc. and I get to go play at Dianne's house tonight! WOO HOO! PARTY PARTY PARTY! I'll be back tomorrow if I actually complete some projects to share! No holding your breath now!
Happy 2008!
Here is a project I did for Illustration Friday the theme was Soar! Here I used 4 justjohanna stamps. Charles Cardinal, Earth, Hot Air Balloon and Little Cloud. I colored the earth, balloon and Charles with Sakura Glaze Pens love love the affect these give the water on the Earth is glossy like water! The basket is a Souffle pen by Sakura as well. The clouds and patterned paper(KI Memories) are embellished with Stickles by Ranger. The words are rubons by Reminisce.