Card Swap
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I dunno, now that I look at it, it’s not that bad but, since it’s my upline’s workshop and swap, I figured an SU stamped image would be more appropriate, thus the other design/card.
Material:
Everything from Stampin’ Up! except for the center stamp, which is a Bella stamp. Pattern paper is Cutie Pie. The shoes and pants were colored using my Copic sketch markers. Embossing was done by my Cuttlebug template.
I am so excited for tonight. It’s been a loooooooong time since I went to a workshop. There was one last month but it was when I was out of town for my conference. It’s always fun to meet up with other ladies who love to stamp too and just chit chat about anything.
Oh, I have an M story… since M was born we’ve always done all sorts of educational activities with her. That was why we took TV service out so that TV will not be the center of her entertainment. Since she was 3-months-old we’ve signed with her and she signed back at 6-months-old and she’s always been a little sponge. M knew how to count to 50 when she was just over 2-years-old and we’ve been playing math games since she turned three. I’d show her my fingers and asked her, “If I have four fingers and two went to sleep, how many do I have left?” She’d count my finger and tell me, “two.” Last night I told her that it’ll be a long night, I still have cards to make for the swap. She asked me how many I needed to make and I told her five. She asked me how many I’ve done and I said two. Then she said, “ooooh, you have three more to make.” Wow! I do fractions with her too… we’ll see if that sticks {::SMILES}.
Gift Card
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The first one, the red dots background (I did myself by the way {::SMILE}) is actually M’s. Well, she claimed it. I felt bad, I always make cards for others but hardly for her and so I said sure as long as she takes good care of it. She said she will. So she has it now. The stamp is one of the new Bella stamps that I got earlier this month. I just haven’t had the occasion to use it. The dots and the sentiment is from PaperTrey and the rest is Stampin’ Up! I think I kind of combined a few challenges from last week on this. I used black to highlight my red cardstock and made my own BG paper.
If you haven’t done any challenges, you should. It always gets me motivated and help think outside the box and try something new.
The second card I did with a new Digi Chick kit: Total “Mom” - Sense Collaboration Kit. Awesome kit for digi AND hybrid. I’m not kidding you. Even if I’m not a CT for TDC, I’d be bragging about this kit. I’ve only used a tiny portion of this huge kit and I can do A LOT of cool pages and cards not mentioning digital project with this one kit. Mother’s day is coming around the corner!!
I wish my hubby makes cards. He’s only made me one card all the times we’ve been together. I’ll have to show you that sometimes. Kind of cute in a manly way, ha ha! It was sweet and I always look at it. It is after all, the ONLY card hand crafted by him.
Below is how the inside look. 
I didn’t do a lot of decorating but of course you can. Check out the SCS gallery for all the submissions to this challenge.
It was an odd day yesterday. I had a headache, which went away after a nap and some pills, but my throat just hurt. My sore throat happened Tuesday night. I feel fine now, just still hacking a bit. I wonder if it’s because people’s been (including the husband) burning around our house. We burnt off our field and the neighbors did the same. Not sure if it’s a country thing or it’s just something everybody wanted to do the last few days. I am sensitive to smoke. I can’t be in a smoking section at a restaurant, pass by people who are smoking, or enjoy a bar/club. I wasn’t always like this, more so after I had M. I’m glad they passed the no smoking in Kansas City. Maybe it’ll spread to our little college town. Hmmm…
My Bellas
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So here are my two Bellas. They’re so fun to color. I used all Stampin Up stuff except for the Copic on the Preggo Bella, the Bella stamps of course, and PaperTrey Word Art on the BDay card.
This birthday card was for my good friend, Guenevere. This was whom I went out with Saturday. Took her out to sushi lunch and we stopped at her favorite store, Costco, and I stopped at a scrapbook store to grab a few items. We had a great time as always. Our babies were with us too. She has a 5mo/8mo baby boy. Super cute. He was born at 27 weeks with the following measurements: 2 lbs 7 oz and 14″ long (I think I have the numbers right). Isn’t that amazing?!
This other card is for my other good (college) friend, Bernadette. Coincidently they’re both Filipino.
She’s been married for awhile and they finally decided to join the parenting club, ha! She’s so petite, maybe 5′, and I think this is how she’ll look like when she starts to show. Unlike Guen, this chick can talk. She’s so fun though and both are awesome in the kitchen (must be a Filipino thing). I chose this color combo because there’s a bit of pink and also blue. She’s still in her first trimester. I also used Beate’s sketch for this card. Great sketch as usual.
Have a great week! I’ll post more stuff later… not sure what. I have a couple SU stuff, my Sale-A-Bration goodies that I haven’t inked up or used. I want to do another glitter project too even though the first and last was a big WOW. I’m so bad… I just bought a lot of stuff and I feel the need to buy more stamps. I think my hubby wants me to join a stamping and scrapping therapy clinic… ahhh….
