Late Mojo

Happy Friday everyone!!! Wooohooo!!! Who isn't happy that today is Friday? Not me, I am so excited. I so need a break this weekend and that is all we have planned. Actually we don't have anything planned and I need a weekend like that before my life gets crazy.

T-ball is dominating our lives already. I cannot believe it is as bad as it is. I thought, sure a few days no biggie. Now I know what it is like to be a Mommy with a lot to do. I am loving it though. I love seeing my son so happy and excited about something.

I don't have a whole lot of time to post today. I have to go see the dreaded dr. Really, I hate doctors. It isn't the person really. It is just that I don't like what they may or may not find. I stress, about everything, and doctors are you of the things I stress about. My blood pressure is no good when I go to the doctors.

I didn't want to leave your eyes missing something so I am posting the picture and then I will be back later to post all the deets for it. I hope you enjoy it. I am pleased with how it turned out.

okay, I am back. The doctor's went over as usual so it took longer than expected to get back home. I am glad to be home though and can finally try to relax the rest of the day.

oh, and a side note, the layout is from a mojo sketch from Poetic Artistry that I didn't get a chance to participate in.

deets:

paper: SU! kraft, PTI lemon tart and $1 spot at target

ink: palette black and versamark, pti lemon tart

stamps: c.c. designs, pti boxes, bags, and tags

extras: OCL sparkly fluff, black fun flock, $1 ribbon at Michaels, crystal stickles, prima flowers, joann's brads

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Missy

A quickie post today...

Happy Monday all!!! I hope you have a good day today. I have to post quickly today. I have one really sick kiddo and one that is getting over a cold so I need to get this posted and then cater to my babies.

My youngest isn't a big deal because you wouldn't even know he was sick unless you heard him cough, sneeze or saw his runny nose.

My oldest, on the other hand, is bad. All he wants to do is lay around, doesn't want to eat, barely drinks anything. I have to coax him to do just about anything. But on the bright side, I get to do a lot of cuddling that I normally don't get to do.

So today I am showing you a gable box that I found on Jen Del Muro's blog I {heart} stamps. Again, the computer I am using doesn't allow me to link to anything but I am sure you can find it if you google either her name or the name of the blog.

With this template she gives you you are able to make 2 gable boxes out of one sheet of cardstock. Great idea in my opinion. I hate wasting paper.

I realized I don't have much for Easter when it comes to craft supplies but I did find this cute bunny I bought a long time ago. It is from C.C. Designs and is just adorable.

I am thinking about making a couple for my boys and putting Easter candy in it for them. I am sure anything with candy will be very exciting for my boys.

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Missy

Deets: paper:PTI berry sorbet and stamper's select white, Joann's blue cardstock and PP

ink: PTI ripe avocado and spring rain, palette black

copic markers, silver eyelets, michael's ribbon

Baby girl bear

First off Happy Thursday!!! Wooohooo!!! The week is almost over. I am so excited, I can't even tell you. I so hope to hear from my husband sometime today. I miss talking to him and hearing his voice. This also means you guys get to stop hearing me complain and mope around about him being gone hehehe!!!

So, I had a few ideas about what I wanted to create and show you ladies today. I was going to pull out my sewing machine and see what I can do about sewing on a card. But then I got playing around with the boys, talking to neighbors, watching a friends daughter, etc, etc. and the sewing machine never came out.

So, after I finally got the boys in bed I sat at my craft table determined to make something. Then I remembered that I bought the DCWV Nana's nursery baby girl pack from Michael's last weekend. I couldn't wait to pull some of the papers out. They are just gorgeous. I have to admit, I didn't think about who I was going to make it for. As far as I remembered everyone I knew was having boys. But to my happiness I remembered a friend I worked with in Alaska is having a baby and she just so happens to be having a girl so when I find out her baby shower date I will be sending this with a gift. Yeah for girls!!! hehehe, I so wish I had one, anyway...

So, I knew with a girl I had to use pink so I pulled out my PTI sweet blush cardstock. I picked out 2 coordinating PP from the DCWV pack. You can't really see it in the picture but the onsie paper is on top of the same PP that I used to paper piece the bear.

I was trying to go with the homemade stitched bear look when I made this bear. I loved the Pp pattern for that look. I figured the pattern on the paper worked for the look I was going for. I popped the bear and the matting on dimensionals.

I really love how it turned out. I am happy to send this to a friend expecting her first baby. I hope you like it as well.

Again, happy Thursday!!! Thanks for stopping by!!!

Missy

A new nephew

Wooohooo!!! I am so excited. My younger sister is having her 3rd baby. I was so excited for her just for that reason. She has 2 girls and I was sure she was going to have another girl. Well, the news came down recently and I am so excited to be wrong on this. She is having a boy after 2 girls. Who wouldn't be excited?

So, to honor my new nephew I had to make him a card. It is never too early, right?

Since my sister and I just made a trip to Michael's and we found that some of the paper packs were on sale I had to pick up a pack, I hope they are still on sale I would like to pick up another.

I got DCWVs Nana's Nursery Baby Boy Stack. I paired that with PTIs aqua mist cardstock and chocolate pattern paper. The DCWV and PTI PP are both cut in 3" squares.

I gotta make this post quick as I am not feeling so well all of the sudden. I guess I better be making an appointment with the Dr. I have something going on and I can't seem to get it to stay gone. Oh well, such is life.

I hope you enjoy the card. I think it is adorable and hope my sister does too.

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Missy

ATS Challenge

Happy Thursday!!! The week is almost over and then we can relax for a little while, right? Yeah, sure.

I am sorry I am getting this on here late. I almost forgot last night to get in the craft room and make something. Luckily I did remember and also remembered that All That Scraps has a design team challenge. The challenge was a sketch. I just had to play along. Layout challenges are so fun because half of the work is done for you.

I wanted to use PP for the panels because I haven't used PP in a really long time and I do have a lot just hanging around. I was going to try to figure out a way to incorporate a certain color into my design but then I noticed a paper pack I bought a while back at Joann's and found 3 different but nice patterns that go well together. It makes the card more of an elegant, chic type card. It isn't really my style but I really like it. I think the PP pack is DCWV and is called "Old West". The matting is the opposite side of some PTI chocolate PP.

I also stamped the cute little bear on the same PTI paper just on the back side and that was matted with PTI Spring Moss.

The jumbo eyelets are from SU! and the ribbon is a Michael's $1 spot find (I just flipped the ribbon over because it was a little too harsh of a color but had a nice pattern). The flower is a find I found at Hobby Lobby while I was in Kansas for my brother's wedding and the brad is just a Joann's pack of brads. I colored the bear in with prismacolor pencils and baby oil. A tip: when using paper that has a pattern on the back side make sure you use as little baby oil as possible or use dark colors. Otherwise I found that the pattern will show through. I am not sure if that is the same for OMS but I did notice it when making this card.

Well, I think that is about it. I really hope that your Thursday is a great one!!!

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Missy

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

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