Masks

Happy Friday everyone!!!  I hope you have a wonderful weekend planned.  We are not sure what is going to happen for us this weekend.  We should know by end of the day if we can even start making plans.  I think that is going to be the norm for us while here.

I wanted to share this picture with you and show off my crafty boys.  I had a meeting to attend yesterday morning and since my husband had the day off my 2 little guys stayed home with daddy (big man was at school).  While I was gone my middle man decided to have some crafty fun with my supplies.  One of the things he got a hold of was my stickles.  I have forgotten about them so I guess it wasn't a big deal (at least they were getting used.)  Unfortunately during his craft time he got stickles on the floor or kitchen cabinet.

Later in the afternoon my husband decided to put some locks on the kitchen cabinets since little man has been throwing things around.  Needless to say some of the glittery stickles got on my husbands drill cord and the cool thing, it is my favorite color.

What you don't see in this picture is that after it was taken my middle man grew tired of holding the drill and dropped it.  The drill bit, that was still in the drill, landed first and broke.  Now I owe the hubby some new drill bits  :(

The card I am sharing with you today is one I used trying to channel Dawn McVey.  Her style always inspires me and wants me to try to be better.  I saw a post of hers explaining how she is always able to make beautiful cards.  She said something that made sense but at the same time was like a "duh" moment.  "When things aren't going just right just take it apart because it is only paper." (not a word for word quote).  Cards are only paper...duh, I knew that but I didn't understand it.

Why do I share this, because I wanted to make a thank you card, I wanted to use the new PTI Make it Monday challenge.  The challenge is masking.

I used a Martha Stewart border punch at my mask and sponged using plum pudding ink.  The border is spring rain cardstock.  The flower is prima and the button is PTI.

The sentiment border was stamped using a WaltzingMouse Label 4 stamp with versamark and heat embossed with clear embossing powder.  The sentiment itself is stamped using 2 wplus9 stamps in black.  The fun stuff in the middle was first drawn on with a white gel pen and the circles were stamped with PTI polka dot basics stamps in fresh snow.  I also added a bit of fun with a scrappy cat stamp on each corner and ran over it with a glitter pen.

I am so happy with it I am glad I took Dawn's advice and took apart what I didn't like and started over instead of just finishing just because I had already started something.

Have a great weekend...just got word, we may be without the hubby (he is on standby), not sure  :(

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93 years

Happy Monday everyone!!!  I am back with a fun and different card.  Not something I normally create.  Because of that I like it and I don't like it.  I love the shabby look it seems to have, to me anyway but I am also not sure if there is just too much going on or not.

This card is for my grandmother.  My grandmother is 93 years old today.  She is my last grandparent and now that we have moved I am no longer close to her.  I miss her terribly and loved the 3 years that we got to spend near her, my parents and my sister.  Being military brings it's joys and disappointments when it comes to moving.  I love moving and getting to see new places I would never go to but being away from family can be hard.

Back to the card.  I used simply chartreuse for the base.  The PP strip and the sentiment scrap are both PP from My Mind's Eye "Home is where the heart is".  I just love this paper.  So fun and such bright colors.

I used my Martha Stewart border punch for the PP and the twine is really just some rope I bought a long time ago from my local BX (base exchange) at Edwards AFB.  I tied it at the top and glued a blue button tied with terracotta tile DMC floss, I also added a metal charm for some extra fun.

The sentiment was stamped with staz-on ink on PP that was stamped (WaltzingMouse stamp...Label's 4) with dark chocolate cat's eye ink first and then again with versamark and then heat embossed with clear embossing powder.  The doily is from Hobbly Lobby and is actually for baking (the idea I got from Dawn).

The flowers are from my stash, I can't remember where they are from.  I also rounded the bottom edge to match the round flower.  I love that little touch.

Oh yeah, the cardbase was stamped with simply chartreuse and heat embossed with kaleidescope embossing powder.  I realize after that using regular ink doesn't work so well with embossing but I still like the uneven cover it gives it.  I hope my grandmother loves it as well.

Happy Birthday Grandma!!!  We all love and miss you.

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Another late one

My younger sister's birthday was this past Monday (Labor Day).  We like to joke in our family.  My Mom was literally in labor on Labor Day.  I wasn't going to say how old she just turned (since she is my YOUNGER sister but it is only a number, right?)So, my wonderful younger sister celebrated her 30th birthday on Monday.  I wish I could have been there to help her celebrate, she is in Wisconsin and I am in California.  We have been through a lot together and I am so proud to call her my sister.  I look up to her a lot.Happy Late Birthday Carrie, I love you!!!

 So to start off I know I wanted to use green since it is her favorite color.  I also used one of Geny Cassidy's layouts she used recently.  I just love her simple and fun layouts.  It makes it so easy for me to put something together quickly since I don't have a lot of extra time to create.The base is Simply Chartruese and then topped with kraft cardstock (I am not a fan of plain white and my vintage cream and rustic cream cardstock is out, gotta get more).I used Harvest Gold stamped with simply chartruese dots and a fiskars border punch to add some pizzazz  :)The ribbon is also harvest gold and I used a spring moss button to add a little more color to the embellishment.The main image was stamped with chartruese again and is a Waltzingmouse stamp (Label 4) and then the metal is actually a clip I bought at Michael's a long time ago.That is about it for today.  I hope you have an awesome weekend planned.  We aren't doing a whole lot here.  Tonight we are going out to dinner with a bunch of my husband's co-workers and their families.  I am excited, I love getting together with friends and making new friends.Thanks for stopping by!!!

8X11 Box

Hello everyone!!!  I hope you had a great weekend.  This week is going to be pretty crazy for me.  I sure hope that makes the week go by fast.  I do plan on going to the movies on Wednesday though.  The plan is to go down and get a haircut and see "Eclipse" with my mom and my niece.  I am actually looking forward to it.

So today I am finally able to show you a box I had made a while back.  I wanted a box to put the Amish bread starter in.  I thought that I would try my hand at making my own box.  I just wanted to use one sheet of cardstock and all my templates use two.  So, I set out to make one.  I did, however, it was too small to fit the starter in.I figured I would continue to make it though, decorate and use it for something else.  I stayed the night at my sisters house Friday night and went to a performance for my niece on Saturday.  As a thank you for putting myself and 3 sons up for a night I left the box for my sister.I started with some kraft cardstock.  Stamped the background image using Wplus9 background stamp using tim holtz distress ink.The medallion was made using spring moss cardstock cut out using a nestability and stamped with another background stamp and then embossed with kaleidoscope embossing powder.  I then used a Waltzing Mouse stamp, stamped on terracotta tile cardstock and then cut out by hand because I do not have the nestability to match.  The butterfly was a sticker I bought from Michael's.I am very pleased with how this turned out and might have to make more.Thanks for stopping by!!! 

Colors in my mind

Hello everyone!!!  I hope your Tuesday is going okay.  I have been busy since 1am :)  My little guy slept with me since 1 so I could get some more sleep but he ended up fidgeting and fussing enough to keep me up every hour until 7 when I had to get up.  I am feeling fine now but I can assure you that in a few hours I will be ready to collapse and tonight is a long one for me.  My husband is cub scout leader and my son tags along until he is old enough to officially be a cub scout.  Tonight is pack meeting and I go to those, of course tonight I have to go because I am going to have my son with me until it is time for pack meeting.  (I have an appt for one son in town 45 mins away and...well...it is really a long story so I will just leave it at that.)  Anywho, no one wants to come here and hear about my life's details.  I have been thinking about color combonations since reading Geny's blog post here.  I think she does a magnificant job of combining colors and making them beautiful.  I am still sad that she is no longer with Papertrey Ink.

 

So, since last night/early this morning I have been thinking of the pastel PTI colors.  I decided I was going to put together spring moss and spring rain together.  Later I decided to add in lavendar moon.  It was actually a good thing I did because it turns out I do not have any spring rain cardstock.  I plan on making up a list of all the colors I need.  I also need to get the new formula ink of the original colors.  I am also working on getting all the bigger ink pads for all the PTI colors.  I am just loving them all.Like I said, I wanted to use spring rain but unless you look really hard you are not going to see it on this card.  When spring rain came out I was just buying the cubes and it is in the old formula that has somehow ended up watering out, or whatever they are saying happened.  I used the spring rain ink to stamp background basics: spots and dots on the kraft cardstock mat and then inked around the kraft card base.  That is why I have the blue button.  I hope it doesn't look too out of place since it is hard to see the spring rain on the rest of the card.I hope you like this card as much as I do.  It may have not been the card I planned on making but it is the card I ended up with and I am very pleased.  I am so happy to finally be wrapping up my thank you cards.  I need to get working on a birthday card.  My niece will be 14 tomorrow (OMGosh, I am old) and her birthday party will be this Saturday, so thankfully I have a bit more time to get it done and get her a gift as well.Thanks for stopping by!!!

Inspiration

Hello everyone!!!  I hope you are still around.  I can't believe it has been so long since I have posted something here.  I feel terrible about it.  I have just been so busy with appointments and such.  We have more appointments again this week but not as many, so far.Today I am going to share a card with you I made thanks to my mom.  We decided to take a trip to Big Bear City for the day on Saturday.  My parents came along for the company.  There was a store that that had a bunch of "cowboy" stuff.  I found an adorable outfit I put together.  My mom saw the outfit, loved it but said that it was Terricotta tile and dark cholocate, PTI colors.  Since then I have thought about a card that would be awesome to recreate that "outfit" using those colors.  This is what I came up with.  Thanks mom!!!

It isn't all PTI, the cardstock is though.  I used terracotta tile and vintage cream like DMC floss, a chole's closet flower I had in my stash, as well as a button.The stamps I used were PTI Backround basics: hearts, Waltzing Mouse Labels 4, scrappby cat, and martha stewart stamps.  The ink is colorbox dark brown and PTI vintage cream.  The punch is a fiskars.I am so happy with it.  One card down more to go.Thanks for stopping by!!!

CASEing Spring

 

Hello everyone!!!  I am so excited to show you my cards today.  I had already started typing this and then lost everything so this is going to be shorter than it was originally because I can't remember what I wrote and don't have the time to try very hard.These cards were almost 100% CASEd from Geny Cassidy's cards here (Madison Avenue).  She was inspired by some crabapple flowers she has in her yard and her cards inspired me to make some semi-simplistic thank you cards to finish up the thank yous I still need to make.All the supplies are Papertrey minus the punches, versamark ink, embossing powder, flower and brads.  Oh yeah and the dots were stamped from Waltzing Mouse stamp set Labels 4.  I love those stamps.  I need to get some more too.Of course my hubby said the cards look like Halloween, thanks babe! : )

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Thank you

 

It is Monday, let's all hope that it is the best Monday we could have.  Thank you for taking time out of your Monday to visit with me.  I am very grateful.As you may know I have many, many thank you notes to get together and sent out.  The lovely young women at my church threw me and another wonderful lady, who had a baby girl just a few weeks before I had Garrett, a baby shower at the church last Tuesday.  Sadly, I have only gotten one thank you card done.  I guess I better get cracking.Todays card is simple and fun.  I love how easily it came together but I also love the non-traditional patterned paper that I used.  Of course, it only works with boys unless you have some pink camo patterned paper.  I used this layout from another card/blog that I read daily.  If it is yours please let us know and I apologize for not remembering.Since it is fairly simplistic and I should be doing other things I am going to leave you with the eye candy for today.  Have a great Monday!!!Thanks for stopping by!!!

Back to basics, kinda

Good Friday Morning everyone!!!  I am so excited that it is Friday.  My husbands schedule this week has been horrible and with everything that has been going on with this pregnancy, it has been stressful.  I am looking forward to this weekend.  I plan to do a lot of walking and shopping and hopefully get things going so I can see my precious baby.  If not, then I guess I will be waiting until next Friday.  I can do that though, next Friday isn't too far away.

Yesterday was an exciting day for me.  I FINALLY got some new stamps I have been waiting on.  Granted these stamps are coming from overseas so it will take a bit of time to get them once you have ordered them but I am so impatient.

These stamps are from an up and coming company called Waltzing Mouse Stamps.  I have to craft on a budget, I am sure like most people.  So I don't get to get a lot of the new craft things that come out.  But this struck me as awesome because even if you can't buy the nestabilities labels dies right away you can still enjoy the fun they can cause.  I bought the Very Vintage Labels No. 4.  Of course I had to play right away but wasn't sure what I was going to do.  But I have been eyeing one stamp since I saw it so I pulled that one out first.  Then I decided to use it on a template I got recently.  I printed up the largest Back to basics template from PTI on Terracotta tile cardstock.  The PP is from making memories vinage finding and he flowers are from chloe's closet.  the rest was in my stash so I am not sure the company. 

This is so not my style but I just LOVE how it turned out.  To me it gives a vintage/spanish feel.  I don't know, I just know I am really happy with it. 

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