Motivet/last post

Well, everyone, it looks like Christmas is just around the corner.  Tomorrow is Christmas Eve.  My how the time flies.  I am excited to have the preperation part over and done with.  It is so daunting and tiring on my body.  I am also so excited to see the excitement on my boy's faces when they wake up in the morning and see all the presents they get to open.  Because, believe me, they will have a TON of presents.  They are lucky and have so much family that loves them that they are never wanting for presents.

So for my last post before Christmas I am showing you a non-Christmas card.  I was thinking I may have got you guys burnt out on Christmas projects.  This card is for the Motivet challenge.  It is a sketch.  So fun to do, I love sketch challenges.  It takes the hardest part for me out of the challenge, the rest is just fun.

I used an image my mom let me stamp from some she had, this one is called "Hilda on an innertube".

The paper is from a mat pad I got a while back from me and my big ideas.  The cardstock is from PTI and is dark chocolate.  Most of the rest is just scraps I had lying around and hardly use.  I know the colors are all wacky but I did have so much fun putting this card together.

Well, I think I will leave ou with that.  So, Merry Christmas to you and yours!!!  May the spirit of Christmas reside in us all.  And if I don't get a chance to come back before New Year's...Happy New Year!!!  May 2010 bring you happiness that you all so very much deserve.

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Whimsy chips

Good morning everyone!!!  I hope you are ready for Christmas because this is the week it will get here.  Can you believe that Friday is Christmas?  It seemed to have snuck up on us yet again.  I really hope that I can get a better head start on the festivities than I did this year.  Of course that is what I hope every year.

Today is Monday, obviously, which means it is time for another wonderful Whimsy challenge.  This challenge with last for 2 weeks.  That means you have until Jan 4th 2010 to post your creative project.  Can you believe it, 2010, this is the last challenge of the year, simply craziness.

For this challenge you are to use chipboard.  You don't have to use chipboard on every square inch of your project, just one piece will do.

I have gotten burnt out on cards so when I sat down to make my project for this challenge I decided to do a wall hanging/ornament/whatever you want it to be.

I started off with some chipboard I had in my stash and cut it out using my biggest labels die that I got for my birthday.  Since the chipboard was "naked" and I wanted it clothed I cut out some enchanted evening paper using the same die and glued it on.

I used some more vintage paper from making memories and used a Martha Stewart punch to give it some lace feel.  From there I just used some silver paper in my stash to mat the adorable snowman on.  He was colored using both copic markers and koh-i-noor pencils.  The flower and buttons are also chipboard I had lying around in my desk.  The sentiment is from PTI but suits the cutie snowman so well.  I just love how it turned out.  So different than my usual stuff, in my opinion.  I am trying to jump out of my comfort zone here lately and so far it is suiting me, I think.

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Another late challenge post

As I mentioned before and gave a link to, my mom introduced me to a stamp company called Motivet.  Their images are absolutely precious.  Well, she did a challenge with them and after going to their blog decided to participate as well.  But I only had a little bit of time to do it.  Once I got going on the card I realized I wasn't going to have time to finish it and post it in time so I just took my time after that.

This is what I came up with.

I think this little angel is absolutely precious and all their images are so fun to color.  I used some new paper I picked up during a shopping trip with my mom.  It is from Making Memories and we got it at a HUGE discount.  I don't think I would have picked it up if it wasn't on sale.  It is called "Vintage Findings".  I just love the vintage feel of anything.  I swear I was born in the wrong generation but I know the big man upstairs knows more than I do.

The base and mats are all made with kraft cardstock.  The patterened paper are both from vintage finding.  I used a Martha Stewart punch for the lattice or lace feel to the strip.  The buttons are both PTI and cheapos from Wal-Mart.  The snowflakes I have had for a while and probably got at Michael's. 

The little angel was colored in using koh-i-noor pencils and baby oil.  I also used stickles for her wings and crystal effects for the scissors.  I just love how this card turned out and wish I could have gotten my act together in time to enter it into the motivet challenge.

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Birthday Boy "Knight Connor"

*Updated with card details and a little chat*

Details to follow soon.  I just wanted to get the picture posted so you have some eye candy.

This is the card I made for my son for his birthday party we had on Saturday.  It was a good day with family.  Very quiet.  Maybe a friends party next  year but this year we decided to do a quiet family party again.
I used some aqua mist cardstock (I think, from PTI).  the rest is all basically scraps from the goody bags I made for his class party.
I used PTI polka dot basics and borders and corners monogram edition to make the pattern on the colored scraps of paper.  The Knight Connor from Whimsy was the exact same one I used for the goody bag.  We had a few extras so I just took it off and retaped it onto his card.  My son seemed pleased with it and I was pleased with the fact that I was able to get rid of some scraps instead of just throwing them out or forgetting about them.
There is still plenty of time to enter the giveaway on the post here.  I hope to see your creations soon.
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Happy 6th Birthday!!!

Today I am a little late because I was volunteering for the first time in my oldest son's kindergarten class.  They had a half day today. His kindergarten is only half day anyway but he goes during the PM schedule.  So today was a little crazy for us.  We had to get up early and get ready for school right away.  I think all in all it went very well.  A friend watched my youngest son so I could spend some time helping out in my son's class.  It was a lot of fun and seeing them have their own little Thanksgiving "feast" of pocorn, fruit and cookies.  There were two classes there since we were combining.  My son's class was the Indians and the other class were the Pilgrims.  It was so cute.

Anyway, today I wanted to share with you the projects I made for my son's class yesterday.  Yesterday my oldest son turned 6 years old.  I am still in shock that he is one year older.  It amazes me how much he is growing and maturing now that he is in school.  I am so proud of his accomplishments and just know that he is going to grow up to be a wonderful man someday.

My son decided that he wanted a Knight on his goody bag tags(?).  It was quite the intricate project but it wouldn't have been so bad if I had gotten started on this part much earlier.  That is my procrastination coming into play here.  I kinda cheapened it up a bit with staples but the morning before I was supposed to take them in I just couldn't get the rope to work the way I wanted.  You will see in the picture. 

I am also adding a couple of pictures of my son. 

This is the day we brought him home from the hospital.  He was 2 days old in this picture.  The outfit is an outfit my Mother in law made for my husband when he was born to come home from the hospital in.  My youngest son also wore this outfit home from the hospital and now this baby will be coming home in the same outfit.  I just love tradition.

And this is my son on his 6th birthday.  I can't believe how much he has grown and how much of a young man he looks like now.

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Monkeying around

Hello everyone!!!  It is another Monday.  I am determined to make this a good week.  The weekend was wonderful.  I got to spend another weekend with my parents and some shopping with my mom, sister and my niece.  It was really fun and I hope to do it again very soon.

Well, as some of you may have guessed it is the week that I get to participate in the Whimsy challenge.  I am excited about this one because it is a sketch challenge.  Sketches can be difficult for me to come up with.  That is why I always have Friday sketchers and CPS sketch blogs on my favorites list.

This card is made using the Whimsy monkey that is absolutely adorable.  I colored in some of him with copics, kohr-i-noor pencils and some sparkly fluff.  I just love it.

As always we would love to see what you can come up with this sketch.  And as always, we do not require you to use a whimsy stamp but if you have it we would love to see it. 

Have a great week.

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Kindergarten

So today I was just going to show you a little something I made for my son and his new backpack. It isn't anything special but my son seems to like it. I didn't have much room to work with because the piece of paper had to fit within a small window that was on the back of my son's backpack.

I looked through all my stamps (which, admittedly aren't very many) and gave him all the options I thought would work for him. First he was interested in the OCL peanut (elephant) stamp because he really likes elephants. And then I showed him the Billy stamp from Pink Cat Studio's. I wanted him to see ALL of the stamps I picked out so he can decide from there instead of just picking the first one and then being upset that he didn't get one he really wanted.

I gave him all the options that dress up Billy has and he finally settled on the crown and scepter. That totally surprised me because I never expected him to pick that one. The Indian or the Firefighter, maybe, but not the crown. He did mentioned the firefighter but I told him you might not be able to see all of the jacket or the boots and he didn't like that idea. So he settled on the crown and I got to work. I let him pick the colors and everything. After all, it was going to be on his backpack and I felt he should have total control over what it looked like.

Unfortunately I had to write the information because I do not have any nifty alphabet sets that would work for this small space. I guess I really do need to get either the justrite stamps or the mini alphabet set from Papertrey Ink. I will be looking into that now for sure.

I have decided to include some pictures of my son from the first day of school as well. If you don't care to see than go ahead and skip it.

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Missy

Kona rocks!!!

Wooohooo!!! I am on a roll. Another post in a row. Craziness. I am just making a point to get something done for all you wonderful people that come to my blog.

I wanted to start off by saying that today is a sad day. Not really but to my mommy heart it is. We had a bit of a confusing issue the passed couple of days but it got figured out. Today my husband checked on my son's teacher. The school here posts a note on the library window with a list of all the teachers and who is in the classes. We found out my son's teacher. It isn't the teacher we were hoping for and I know nothing about his teacher so it will be interesting. I just hope and pray that they are a good match and he has some wonderful kids in his class. We are one step closer to him starting school and another step closer to my son getting older. I know it is going to happen. I can't prevent it. What mom in her right mind would literally want her kids to stop progressing, right? To me this just seems to be a big step in motherhood after the toddler years. Something that is hard because instead of helping our children to this next step we have to let them go and let someone else take over. But I know we both need it and I am excited for him and my youngest son. My youngest because now he gets a few hours a day with me alone. It will be fun to get to know my youngest son even better.

Okay, back to our regularly scheduled program. I realized I haven't played with Kona from Our Craft Lounge in a long time. I stamped and colored him in and then decided I was going to make a scrapbook page of the last time we went to Sunset Beach with my parents. I am not good with scrapbook page layouts. I love to scrapbook but find it easier to make a card instead.

My goal was to look around some blogs and such and get a layout idea and then go from there. Well, I only have a few pictures so I had planned to make the page and add the pictures later. but after looking at the layouts I liked I realized that I actually need the pictures when I make the page so I scrapped that idea.

Instead I went to Card Positioning Systems knowing I could find something to do with Kona. Guess what? I did :)

This card has a bunch of elements to it and I love it. It isn't over done but it has a lot of things to grab the eye. I think it turned out wonderfully. Do you think I am getting my mojo back? Well, kinda because I still need help with layouts, but that is okay.

The card base is a scrap of PTI Pure Poppy and then layered on some rustic cream which I love so I better get busy on ordering some more. The PP is from Me & My big ideas. I just love that paper to go with Kona. Kona was stamped using Staz-On ink on rustic cream, colored using Koh-I-Noor pencils and sponged with PTI Ripe Avocado (Oh my goodness, who doesn't love avocados? I so need some but they are expensive here, lol) as well and sponged with Stampin' Ups bliss blue ink.

The buttons were threaded with DMC floss in the ripe avocado variety and glued on. The "sentiment" was stamped individually on ripe avocado and rustic cream cardstock. The sand rake I had in my stash of buttons from Wal-Mart (I think) and the shells are real shells I picked up during our first visit to Sunset Beach. I just love the extra element the shells give. Well, I believe that is it for now.

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Missy

Buy me some peanuts and cracker jacks...

Yeah!!! It's Friday!!! Today is actually the start of our weekend. My hubby got a "Family Day" which means we have a wonderful 4 day weekend. I am so grateful sometimes for the few perks we get as a military family.

I promised a gable box and it is a gable box you will get. In fact, I will do you one more, okay 2 more. There are 3 gable boxes. I actually made 4 but I only took a picture of 3 because that is all I had finished before I had to leave for the party.

I don't know if you remember this post but it is the same thing, just changed up the embellishments. I am pleased with how it turned out. I just wish I had more time to think about how I was going to embellish it but it went over fairly well.

I am going to make this short. Lots to do and not a lot of time, as usual.

I realized too that this box qualifies for the newest Whimsy challenge. The challenge was to use flowers on your project. They have changed their rules too so go by and check it out, even if you don't have Whimsy stamps yet *wink*

Deets:
stamps: PTI polka dot basics, Whimsy Baseball Connor
ink: PTI summer sunrise, staz-on jet black
paper: PTI kraft, vintage cream, black; Joann's orange
Queen & Co., brads, Making Memories "Chloe's Closet" buttons, SU! linen thread, detail silver embossing powder for the bat, Micheal's cream twill ribbon, crop-a-dile eyelets, I can't remember where the flower came from.

I think that is everything. I hope you enjoy the eye candy. Have a great weekend. I may or may not be back on Monday depends on the weekend.

I do have something I started. I didn't mention it but Our Craft Lounge was doing a blog hop for all the sets they were putting out for the summer. With every blog there was a giveaway of one of the stamp sets. Well, I actually one of the new sets and I was so excited too. I am not going to mention which one but they are so fun to color. I hope to have some stamp time on Sunday and I can get you some new stamp eye candy for Monday.

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Missy

Whimsy challenge

Happy Monday everyone!!! We had a great weekend. A really HOT weekend but it was fun. Just had to run into town for a few things and then back home to relax and enjoy the weekend.

Saturday night we took the boys to the soccer field (where they play T-ball) and let my oldest play some T-ball, get him used to hitting off a "T" and then throwing the ball. It was a really fun family activity and I am so glad that we took the time to do it.

Today, and the rest of the week, I have a challenge to share with you. This one, today, is for the Whimsy stamps challenge blog. This is a new blog they started and the first challenge they are doing. It is called Occasion Celebration. You are to make a card or other project for a special occasion or a celebration.

I decided to use the newest of Lauren's My Timeless Templates box template to make a goody bag to give out at a birthday party (or other party).

I love how it turned out and because of it I had an excuse to buy something I have been putting off, Staz-on ink. I know, I can be so behind of things but I had no reason to buy it so I didn't. This time I wanted to do something special (and I had a coupon) so I went ahead with my idea to make a window and use vellum to stamp my froggie on.

Here are the deets and be sure to check out the challenge. Like I said, I have many more challenges to do this week and might have a day or so with 2 posts so keep checking in :)

paper: PTI kraft, Marcella K, PTI vellum

ink: staz-on jet black

stamps: Whimsy frog, PTI polka dot basics

ribbon is from Michaels, buttons are from making memories (chloe's closet), the frog is colored using kho-i-noor (another new buy thanks to a coupon), the flower is making memories, and the thread is from Michael's used for jewelry, I also used my crop-a-dile and eyelets to make a whole for the ribbon which holds the top down.

Just wanted to leave you with another picture of the adorable frog from Whimsy. Isn't he cute??? All of their precious animals are adorable and I am loving Connor and Emma.

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Missy