Goin’ to Argos
Posted on | May 22, 2010 | 12 Comments
I think something like Argos (this is my personal/project 365 blog, more pics and UK stories from each and everyday) is a must go if you visit the UK. I don’t think there’s anything like this in the U.S.! We made our selections last night and going to Cambridge to pick them up.
I made a card last night using my oh so romantic lighting… this was inspired by Embellish Mag: green, kraft, black, and butterfly, and WPlus9, paper-piercing:
It’s a simple card with a pop. With a bit of trimming and some dimensional tape + a bolder color you can make a simple card stand out a bit more. Oh, if you’re interested in making butterfly trails it’s really easy. Just grab a pencil, have a NICE eraser handy (I use the Steadtler Mars plastic, it’s white, or a rubber eraser — used these two since my graphic design days in college), and draw your path. Then with a piercing tool start punching holes. What’s the spacing? Eye-ball it and try to keep it consistent. Practice on a junk mail or something until you’re happy with the end result and try it on your card. Cause of my lighting situation I couldn’t really spend a lot of time/details but the colors, dimension and later the trail completed this little card. I’m old you all, need more light to see straight without getting a headache {::SMILE}.
Ok, going to Argos in Cambridge, will check out the market there too, and just have a good time. Laters!!!
Materials:
Stamps: WPlus9 Woodgrain Silhouette + Addition and Funky Foliage sentiment
Ink: SU
Tools: SU paper piercing tool
Paper: PTI
Flabby Butt and Signing
Posted on | January 27, 2010 | 12 Comments
My M said this evening:
M: Mommy, when are you going to start working out again?
Me: Why?
M: You have a flabby butt.
Me: (deep inside: AAAAAAURGGHHHHHH!!!!)Thanks, M.
So I was doing the P90x but that was short lived. I blame it on M. She puked all over my workout rug. Don’t ask me what happened. I think all the rolling around and crazy moves that I did made her sick. After she threw up she went to bed and was all better the next morning. I ended up watching the video while cleaning up M’s mess. I had to air out the room too and it was probably 0 degrees outside.
BUT, it will continue! I have the kids on a schedule this week and so far so good. If this continues I should be able to workout at around 9:30 p.m.! Of course we’ll see. My hobby might just distract me, ha!
The signing deal… my baby is growing up!! Jovie can sign “milk” and “change“. I use change instead of “diapers” because it’s harder to see the sign for diapers. She’s also understanding “bath” and “all done“. The milk sign started a few weeks ago but I wasn’t sure until a week or two ago. We have this parents as teachers program here and her mentor was here when Jovie signed milk. We’re so proud of our little peanut!! M signed when she was 6-months-old and she got “dog” at 7-months. The rest came tumbling through quickly (we watched the My Baby Can Talk video and Signing Time) and at 14-months M knew about 33 some words. M started talking at 14-months. She skipped babbling and went to talking but a few words were sometimes unclear and so M would speak and sign until she was 18-months-old. By then she was speaking in 4-5 word sentences.
We’re hoping Jovie can do at least the basics. We’ve noticed that she’s a lot slower than M in terms of development timeline. M had a few teeth at Jovie’s age while Jovie’s still toothless. M was already pulling herself up too while Jovie is still not crawling although she loves to sit up by herself and jump on her jumparoo. It’s so interesting to see how different each are. Fun fun!!
I did make a card and this one is based on the current Embellish magazine challenge: stripes and the colors kraft, purple, and brown. So ok, it’s not a traditional stripe but I’ve got some lines in there, right? I wanted to use more of the PTI stamps I got!!
Before I go I want to share this photo. I love how solemn Jovie looked. Have a nice one and more later!!!
M’s Sketch #4
Posted on | November 17, 2009 | 18 Comments
This is a sticky, scroll down for latest post! Oh, deadline is Nov. 25th by midnight CST.
Hey, M got motivated and made us another (HAAAAAAARD) sketch. Ok, it was hard for me for her, she just whipped her card right out after she did her sketch. Now, the weather has been dreary here and since I work during the day I’ve been having a hard time taking good pictures. So this will do. M was also not feeling too hot this morning. She said her tummy kind of hurts and so that’s why her face looked so sad (I cannot stand her sad face… she always gets me with it or her little pouty lips… I just want to give her whatever she asked but I always have to be tough).
Ok, so here’s the sketch…
M’s card is her usual minimalist style. She used a marker for the lines. I love her buttons. The colors are great against the dark card stock (Dawn McVey, if you’re reading this, she LOVES the card stock you gave her)!
My card… I combined M’s sketch with Embellish’s color challenge: red, yellow, blue, and green. Talk about primary colors!! I thought it’d be tough but I had fun with the colors. I actually used different shades of the four colors to make this card. I have all sorts of blue, green and yellow. The only color that’s consistent is the red and white. I think that’s the fun part of colors you can change it around a bit and still stay within the challenge requirement. Ash also wants us to add some brads. Well, I did and uhm I had to fight with my Crop-a-Dile cause I can’t remember when I used it last. I even did some dry embossing with the COD… not straight (look to the right of the stitches) but I did it.
And the prize for the little crafter this week…
And for you big crafter… This week’s sponsor is Krystal Hartley (click on her name, it’ll take you to her blog with some AWESOME freebies <– there’s a freebies link on the right!) from Sweet Shoppe Designs. Krystal’s an amazing designer and she’s got four pages of goodness in her store! Here’s a bit about her:
“Krystal has been designing digital scrapbook products for just over two years, but she has many years of paper and hybrid experience, including various design teams and published projects. She loves collecting stamps, inks, tools, and more and loves to combine them with her digital obsession to create beautiful keepsakes and gifts. Krystal lives with her husband and two kids near Dallas, TX.”
This week’s winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to her store. How sweet is that? For you paper crafters, this will be a great way to try out a digital/hybrid kit to either print for a card or use Gimp or even Photoshop to create a digital page.
Check out some of her digital stamps too:
Okie dokie, can’t wait to see what you gals create with her sketch! Do encourage your little ones to craft with you. It does the brain good AND it’ll be a nice mommy and him/her time too. Trust me {::SMILES}.
Embellish Owl + Colors
Posted on | November 5, 2009 | 25 Comments
NOTE: You still have time to play with M’s sketch AND to participate in the messiest room/desk contest. Come on, do the last at least, it’ll be fun and I have an awesome prize for it!
Isn’t that owl on the card cute? Got his from Embellish Magazine. There’s a color + owl challenge there and I just had to play. See the flowers hubby got me? Love how the sun hits it. Do you see my little owl feltie that I made a couple years ago? I’m going to be felting again here soon. Got to make some presents for this Christmas. That’s my goal at least, as always, we’ll see.
I also want to share some photos of M before school this a.m. Check out her drawing. Aren’t they great? She freehand them… they were pictures from a book. Oh, like our radio? It’s from 1958 and because it has a mono plug-in our mp3 players works on it. Awesome, huh? M’s clothes… I should have taken a whole body picture. I love her style. The hat and denim skirt came from the consignment store.
Alrighty, have a great one!
Freebie: Ornament + Embellish Circle Card
Posted on | October 18, 2009 | 12 Comments
Hey, hey, I’ve been BUSY and in a great way…crafting AND using my toys! Today I have a card using Ashley Newell’s challenge, #2, and it’s a circle card with the following colors: white, blue, green and brown. This is what I came up with ((All but the ribbon from PapertreyInk. Ribbon was found at an antique store, 20 yrds for $3 and still made in the USA)):
Pretty simple card and I used my Klik-N-Kut machine again. The ornament I made myself and again I am sharing the file (right click image and save as to save the jpeg file to your computer:
As I mentioned in the previous post, because it’s complimentary I am not going to save it to every die-cut extension. If you don’t see your format or your machine cannot import any of the files, download and install Inkscape and save as/export to the correct format yourself. I did try opening the DXF and KNK in my machine and they work.
Glad Ashley renewed the deadline so that I can play too. Had lots of fun doing this and it was also great to be able to use my machine AND create sharable files. Have a great one!
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