Cutesy meets classic

Happy Tuesday everyone!!! I hope you had a great day yesterday to start off the work week.

Mine was a little crazy since I had my boys back. If you remember my sister was kind enough to take the boys for most of the week. It helped with a doctor's appt. I had and plus my husband and I got to be a couple again. It was really nice. It just took a while to get back into the swing of being mommy again. My boys really are great and doing well. It amazes me how much it seems they grow in such a short amount of time. Both my boys seem to be speaking a little more clearly than they were when they left. Plus, they seem to behave just a tad bit better. Of course they did find every opportunity to fight over toys or just fight with each other. It is a sibling thing, not going to get over that one.

I know you all have your own woes and don't really care to hear about mine so I will get on with the card.

While the boys were gone I got to get into my scrap area quite a few times and were somewhat pleased with the outcome.

I had been wanting to ink up the cute bees from C.C. Designs set "Bear Hugs". The hard part is trying to think of a layout and idea to do with it. Then I saw my cuttlebug embossing folders. I pulled out my flower set and embossed the card base front (SU! kraft cardstock).

The yellow is PTI lemon tart and the PP is PTI as well. On the yellow cardstock I inked the edges with Palette brown and the PP was inked first with the brown and then sponged with PTI lemon tart. The flower is from PTI "Floral Frenzy" and was inked using PTI summer sunrise, the center is palette brown and the stem/leaf is Palette landscape.

The bee was colored using copic markers and then the wings were glittered up with diamond stickles.

I wanted to leave space for a sentiment when I chose to use this card. I always like to leave the card open like this so when I needed a card I can just add a sentiment real quick.

I am really pleased with the turnout of this card. I wasn't sure how well the classic flower and the whimsical bee were going to work together but I think it looks great. I hope you do too.

Have a great Tuesday and as always, thanks for stopping by!!!

Missy

More Snowmen

I really need to come up with something crafty for the titles. I am so original when it comes to stuff like this.

I certainly hope that you guys had an awesome weekend. Mine was busy but nice and kid free so I got to relax a little with my hubby and *gasp* we went and saw a movie. We had to pull a name out of a hat because we had no idea what was out. We ended up watching "Eagle Eye" and we had no idea that it was opening weekend. Ugh!!! But the movie was AWESOME!!! I seriously would recommend it to anyone who likes suspense. So good. I had a few moments there because of the car chase but I am still so glad I went and saw it.

On to my card. When I did my scrapbook page I also wanted to try a card with the "made of snow" PTI stamp set.

This is what I came up with. I started out with some kraft paper. Stamped my snowman on PTI white cardstock. I was going to flock the snowman again but wanted to try something new so I didn't get stuck in a rut.

I colored him in with my purple copic markers and used some gray to add some dimension to the snowman.

The buttons on the snowman are beads I got in a kit a while back from my mom and sister's LSS.

I like the idea of blue and purple together so I used the blue gingham ribbon from the same kit and blue paper from Leavin' Prints I got a LONG time ago.

I used the crystal snow glitter again for snow and white PTI cardstock torn to the snowy hill. the snowflake stamp was a find at Michael's $1 section. I used my clear glitter pen to make the snowflake sparkle a little and on the sentiment for "snowy" and "frosty". The sentiment was found in the "made of snow" PTI stamp set and the circles were made with my nestabilities. I think that is it for today. Have a great Monday and thanks for stopping by!!!

Missy

Snowy scraps

Happy Friday!!! Yeah, it is Friday, time to relax, yeah right, hehehe.

Sorry I have been MIA the last couple of days. Things have been crazy. Crazy and quiet actually. My sister was kind enough to take my boys for a few days. As much as I love those guys I was ready to strangle them (not really, I am not that bad. I just needed a break). Plus, I had a doctor's appointment yesterday morning and it made it easy to go without having to worry about the boys.

I got some goodies from PTI last Monday. I was so excited. I picked up the ink pad of Poppy Red and the wonderful "Made of Snow" stamp set. I couldn't wait to get started and play with this set. I do have to admit that this set does have a learning curve. I made a couple of creations with this set. I have decided to show you my least favorite of the two first so you can get excited with me about the second.

My first project is a scrapbook page. We have several pictures of my boys playing in the snow being that we used to live in Alaska. I took the snowman and dressed him up like I thought a traditional snowman would look. I took Lauren Meader's idea and tore some paper to make a "snowy" hills for the snowman. I also had some Crystal Snow I got from Michael's (I thought it was white glitter). I glued some on the paper snow with glue. The snowman was stamped on kraft paper and then I used white fun flock to make him soft.

The trees were paper pieced. I decided to use 3 trees, 1) Alaska has a lot of pine trees, 2) I have two boys and look forward to someday bringing home another baby (that is why I have 2 tall trees and one small tree). I also took some of the crystal snow and put that on the tip top of the trees. Lastly I want to mention that on the top right corner of the page I stamped a snowflake (Michael's $1 spot find) using versamark ink and used some EP to make it sparkle. Now the only thing I have left to do is put the picture of my boys on the page.

I think that is it for the page. If I missed anything let me know and I will post it.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great Friday and an even better weekend. Believe it or not even though we won't have the boys this weekend it is going to be fairly busy. My hubby has a class he has to take for the cub scouts (he is a cub scout den leader for our church) and I get to do some window shopping while wasting time. Saturday night we are going to have our usual date night (when we get to have one) and getting something to eat and going to watch some movie (we don't know yet because we aren't sure what is even in the theaters anymore).

Again, thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend.

Missy

Alzheimer's giveaway and my card

Happy Tuesday!!!

I am sure most of you have heard about the heart to heart giveaway. Cammie from "My Blog" has one great blog candy. Not only is it worth over $1000 worth of stamping products and goodies made by some of the best stampers out there, but it also helps some great people.

Check out her blog on the link above and see how you can enter. I did. And here is the card that I decided to make for it.


















I call it the tree of life. I made it pretty small. It is a 4X4 card. I also used Lauren's Saturday Sketch here.
The card base is a 4X8 piece of cardstock with a 3/4" piece of sweet blush scallop, a 3X3 piece of crafter's select from PTI, the PP is from Joann's and the blue was cut out with my nestabilities using Leavin' Prints paper. I used PTI's "Father knows best" stamp set. All of the paper was sponged on the edges with SU! mellow moss ink. The tree was stamped on the blue paper using Palette brown and the leaves were stamped with spring moss and I used some yellow cat's eye chalk ink to make it look like the leaves were changing colors.
What you can't see is on the inside. I took the striped PP and pasted a strip on the side and stamped "thank you" in Palette brown.
Oh yeah, the brads were from Target's $1 section and the ribbon is from Michael's.
I am so happy with how this turned out. So cool. I am looking forward to mailing this to a great place. Cammie gave an address to send your cards to the caregivers at the place her grandmother was taken care of.
I want to say that this is near and dear to my heart. My Father-in-Law was diagnosed with Alzheimer's about 7 years ago (around the time that I met him) and lost his battle this passed March. It was very hard hearing the things my Mother-in-law and Sister-in-law had to deal with taking care of him. What was really hard was seeing how my husband dealt with his health issues and ultimately his death. My heart just sank when we got the phone call that things weren't looking good for him. I hope that everyone out there decides to do something for the great people that take care of our loved ones. The address for the caregivers of Cammie's late grandmother are on her website.
Also I wanted to mention that Cammie designed a stamp set for Gina K. Designs and has decided to donate ALL of her proceeds from the sells of the set to Alzheimer's research.
If nothing else who can resist the great prizes that are going to be given away. Let us all remember those we love always.
Have a great Tuesday and thanks for stopping by!!!
Missy

C.C. Designs

Happy Monday to you all!!! I really hope that your weekend was great. Mine was good. Nothing too busy but we didn't stay home and mope either. We actually got to spend Saturday with my parents and my sister and her family. Very nice. My boys actually adore their grandparents.

The craft part was so much fun. I got some goodies in the mail and had to play right away. I have loved so many of C.C. Design stamps and have been fighting with myself to not get any. After the August release ( I think it was August) I couldn't hold back anymore. I had to get these cute bears and bee's. I wanted to go with the set that had the bees because my "real" name is, of course, Melissa. I have since realized that the meaning of my name (which I am so into) is Honeybee, hence the need for the bee stamps, too funny I know but I am dorky like that.

Well, I wanted to play with the bees but ended up inking up the cute little bear instead. I went kinda simple with this one. I just grabbed the paper that was left on my craft table from the picture frame I made for my brother and SIL.

The bear was inked up with cat's eye chalk ink in dark brown and then I used my prismacolor pencils and baby oil to color in the bear. I think that is really the extent of the hard stuff. The rest is just fancy stuff. As always, if you want details feel free to email me and ask. I am always up for answering questions (heaven knows I have plenty of questions myself).

Until tomorrow, thank you so much for stopping by and I certainly hope you saw something you liked.

Missy

A wedding gift

It is Friday WoooHooo!!! Can I just say that I am SOOOOO glad it is Friday. I so need the weekend right now, you would not even believe.

I don't know if anyone remembers me saying that I went to my brother's wedding last month. I made a nice card and some thank you cards for them. Well, there was a mishap and the cards got wet and I wasn't able to give the either. I didn't even know they got wet until we were leaving to go to the wedding so I didn't even have time to go buy them a card, ugh the horror hehehe.

I finally got their wedding gift done. It took me this long to find out what I wanted to do for them and then do it.

I found a nice frame at Wal-mart pretty cheap and then spruced it up with a little of my style. I know it is very "girlie" but that is their colors. She chose to have her girls wear pink and my brother was wearing a pink vest and bow tie. Now all I have to do is print out some of the pictures from the wedding and throw it in the frame and then I can finally mail it to them almost a month late, hehehe

It is late and I am tired from fighting a headache so I am going to be very non-talkative tonight. If you want some deets I am more than willing to give you the answers, just email me the questions. I hope you all have a great weekend planned and thanks for stopping by!!!

Missy

10 minute card

...and it shows. I had a busy evening again last night and that is when I usually do all my crafting. So when my husband and I got the boys in bed I ran to my craft room and through this card together. While I am not completely satisfied with how this card turned out I am not totally unhappy with it either.
I wanted to use my Billy stamp so I went with "boy" colors. This card is made completely from scrap paper. I have so much scrap paper that I need to start using it. Since this card was made from scraps I have no idea where the blue and red cardstock is from. The kraft is SU! and the PP is Leavin' Prints. Does anyone even remember Leavin' Prints? They used to be a scrapbook supply company like Creative Memories but within the year I found out that they went out of business. It is too bad because I really liked their stuff.
I found this piece of blue that was already cut to 8 1/2 X 7 1/2 so I just scored it at 4 1/4 to make my long card.
I took my red paper and cut it smaller by a 1/4" and then used my cuttlebug paisley embossing folder and embossed it.
Then I just the PP and cut a piece for an accent and made the kraft paper a 1/4" larger. I had this extra piece of kraft so I decided to use it for the picture. Again I was going to use my Billy stamp but instead grabbed my Pond Life set from PTI. I stamped the lily pad in Palette landscape but then realized it didn't "match" the rest of the card so that is why my frog is blue and the dragonfly is red. I don't know if you get it but the frog was supposed to look like he just jumped off the lily pad to eat the dragonfly. Do frogs eat dragonflies?
The ribbon is from Target's $1 section and the white accents are from my white gel pen. I hope you liked it. Thanks for stopping by and have a great Thursday!!!
Missy