You Are So SWEET!

Hi, everyone! This is a really quick post because I am exhausted and just burnt my hand embossing my card for this challenge. But, hey! Quitters never win, right? :P

The challenge from Cas-ual Fridays blog was to make a simple and sweet card. Honestly, this came out even a little more simple than I'd hoped but it took all I could to cut it out after burning my right hand. Urgh! Here's the proof... LOL

Sending you a line...

To let y'all know I'm still alive!!! HAHA It's been 10+ months since I've last posted on my blog and I won't lie, it had been a long, long time since I'd done much crafting at all. I've been busy with my little ones. My youngest son turned 3 in April and my baby girl will be turning ONE on July 23rd. I can hardly believe it, she's growing up too quickly! I will post a few pictures on my next post. In the meantime, I've been doing a lot of shopping (so many enablers out there in the crafting world! LOL) and rearranging my craft area a bit. In the house we're renting, there's a large loft area outside of the kids' bedrooms. I *thought* I could put them in their rooms and they'd play BUT I was wrong. They are just so up my behind that almost as soon as I put them in there, the baby's crawling out to find me and she's not 100% stable on her feet so she falls and it just goes on and on! Then by the time they go to bed, I'm too wiped to do anything. It was a miracle that one night, I dragged myself up to my table and made not one, but TWO cards. They're both pretty simple but they took me a while since I was so out of it for a while. I used kraft for the card bases and cloud paper for the background. The stamps are from Unity Stamp Co.'s Watermelon Gazpacho Soup. I tried paper piecing then I tied some string into little bows and attached them to the ends of the line. I definitely need some practice (not thrilled with the pink bathing suit) but I do like the effect. I also made a little boo boo (I'm good at that! HAHA) and got a little extra ink around my sentiment. I used some white puffy paint and drew a little cloud around it to cover it up. Not sure if it looks better or worse. :P On the second card, I just used the "For You" sentiment with a few butterflies... my FAVORITE! Hope you like them!!! And, I'm happy to be back!

My poor abandoned blog...

Well, I know I don't have many "followers" BUT just wanted to say hello and let whoever checks in from time to time know that I haven't disappeared off the face of the earth! The last couple of months of my pregnancy were hectic as there were a lot of changes going on with our household. My husband got promoted and took a position a couple of hours away from "home". He was living out of a hotel during his work week and we visited when we could. It was a bit much with me staying home with my teenage son and our two year old but I survived! We are now all together, renting a house in between his new store and my parents' house so things are going well. Our baby GIRL who remained sexless throughout my pregnancy (LOL!!!) was born on Friday, July 23rd at 7:42 am and weighed a whopping 9 lb. 11 oz.!!! It's hard to believe she'll already be 6 weeks this Friday. Though, my oldest son just started HIGH SCHOOL yesterday. It doesn't seem that long ago that I was in high school but this year was my 15 year reunion. It's just crazy how time flies!!! I won't be posting any artwork for a while since all of my stamps and scrapbooking stuff is packed from our move and I'm obviously tied up with a newborn and my two year old but I will try to pop on occasionally and post some pictures and eventually get back to crafting. I hope everyone enjoyed their summer. I myself am looking forward to fall, my absolute favorite season!

Have a Happy Day!

We started getting some nicer weather here in New Hampshire a month or so ago so I made this spring card. I really love the cloud background paper! I stamped the sun onto velvet paper and cut the grassy hills out of felt. I originally stamped the phrase directly on the felt but it came out fuzzy so I added the ribbon and layered the sentiment on top. I love when you are able to fix your booboos and it looks intentional :) The tree, well, it got blinged out! HAHA Typical for me I guess. What'd we ever do without all those little gems??? Hope you all have a happy day!!!

Oops, 1 more Valentine card!

For this card, I embossed the roses with my Cuttlebug on white velvet paper. I added the velvet leaves, punched out little hearts and handwrote the numbers to go with the "How do I love thee..." quote from one of my Technique Tuesday sets. Actually, I think it was from one of my friend Melanie's sets. We both have so many! HAHA This is one of those cards that isn't really my style, if I even really have one! I kept looking at it thinking "I made that?!" Does that ever happen to any of you?

Valentine cards... in April??? LOL

Gosh, I am so bad!!! I always have good intentions but somehow I just don't manage to get on here and update my blog. A lot probably has to do with the fact that I don't get to play as much as I would like to. Here are a few Valentine cards that I actually did make before the holiday :)

Better late than never!!! LOL

I have to admit that I am a huge procrastinator. It's one of my faults but at least I acknowledge it, right? HAHA I had made a bunch of Christmas cards at the retreat I went to in November and never posted any!!! Better late than never is what my mom always used to say so here are some of them! I think I ended up making 25-30 total and when I went to mail out my xmas cards, I was short and ended up using some boxed ones. Eek! I know but when you know a lot of people end up tossing them out, it's hard to justify putting in the time. Some of these were super fun to make and I was giddy at just how cute they came out. The snowglobe card was one I saw a lot of on SCS and just had to try it out. It was the first pattern I ever attempted. The snowball fight one was just adorable. I found these cute little white pompom things and attached them as snowballs. The "Ho!" card had to be one of my personal faves! She just cracks me up but was a PITA to color. I had to color in around those tiny polka dots. Now that was a chore!!! LOL I had found this awesome green garlandy looking ribbon that I wrapped around the tree. Well, onto the next holiday... Valentine's Day. MAYBE I'll post them before March ;)