2-in-1

Posted on | July 17, 2009 | 28 Comments

A card for Kristina’s colors and Cuttlebug challenge. Yeah me {::SMILES}. I had fun making this. I had no clue what I was going to do with all the many colors but I did it! I LOVE the new SU animal set, love me these owls!!! Behind the owls there is twine going around the frame but I got carried away and ended up covering it. Oh well. But it’s not bad, I kind of like having bits of red poking out.The clouds and branch is Sassafrass (an owl set too) and using one more of Cloud’s flower (LOVE!!).

Ok, short post. M and I are going on a lunch date. She wants Mexican, YUM!!! Laters!

Finally a Card

Posted on | June 23, 2009 | 19 Comments

Just a really quick post. I haven’t been doing a lot of crafty stuff. But today I really need the break. Had a rough night with the Jove. I don’t think she liked the onions that I ate. So no more raw onions for me. Darn. I love them on hamburgers!!!

For this card I used Kristina’s colors: Gray, rust, mustard, and cream and Kazan’s sketch. The background paper is Cosmo and the stickers are Basic Grey. For the YOU I used my Klic-N-Kut. That thing’s been neglected.

Ok, we’re off to visit some friends. More later!!

The Poo Story…

Posted on | June 12, 2009 | 17 Comments

Before the story, here’s my card using Kristina’s colors for this week. Just something quick and simple. I need a few thank you cards to give to all sorts of people, from friends to the folks at the hospital. With baby I can’t spend an hour working on a card so here’s my simple creation from today:

My poo story… I think there should be a note on every onsies: Take cautious when unbuttoning. Without much care, poo can literally propel from the buttons on to your face, clothes, arms, and wall.

The poor husband. He’s been a great sport. A lot better than when M was a baby. Hubby’s been changing poopie diapers like a champ, until the other day. His poopie phobia came back. He was screaming for me to come into the room. When I got there he was running around in circles and said: Hurry, hurry, hurry, I got shit on my face. I thought he was kidding and when I realized he was for reals, instead of being a great sympathetic wife, I laughed my ass off. Ahh… the joy of parenthood {::SMILES}.

He’s recovered but now he’s taken extra caution when changing Jovie’s doodoo he he he…

One More Week…

Posted on | May 26, 2009 | 21 Comments

Almost!! Until my due date of June 4th. So far nothing exciting is happening in terms of labor. With my luck, just like M, she’ll show up on her due date. In the meantime, during my insomniac moment, I made the below… I used Kristina’s colors for this week: black, white, red, blue, and yellow.

Oh, I’ve gotten a few emails on what envelope I use for my larger/super bulky cards and where I get them (most of my cards are 4.25×5.5″ but a lot of times I have stuff sticking out of them… like this ribbon). Well, I’d go to Hallmark, we have one in town, and ask if they have any leftover bigger size envelopes. They usually do and they’d sell them to me for $.03 each. Pretty cheap I think. Even though I can stick this one in a regular envelope I hate how the ribbon will end up looking once you take it out. So I stick with bigger envelopes. If I give a gift with a card sometimes I don’t even do an envelope. I just tuck the card under the ribbon inside the gift box and it’ll be part of the gift decor. Is that rude? I don’t know but my card stays nice ha ha ha…

I also have a little toot… I’ll be guest DT-ing at CardPatterns next week (sketch #17). Yeah! It was my first time playing there and really didn’t expect to win sketch #15. So I was super super happy when I got online Monday and clicking through my Google Reader and saw my card plus the email from Michelle. I’ll get working on this tonight… in case I have a baby {::SMILES}.

Oh, one last thing… it’s SIX (6) more days until the big 2Sketches4You contest!!! TONS of prizes and the big winner gets to keep over $500 worth of stuff!!!!

Back to Basic

Posted on | May 19, 2009 | 18 Comments

Back to just plain-o stampin’ {::SMILES} using Kristina’s colors #52: baja, saffron, mustard, sand, and white. I used my Inkadinkado stamps and SU’s Congrats. For the dragonfly I adhere some Pixie Pixles by Pink Paislee (I have a pen glue by Martha Stewart so it’s easy to go around the edges of the dragonfly). Just something sweet and simple for a friend who just had a baby… and C-section. She had a boy and I thought I’d keep the card neutral with a dash of blue of mama and him.This is my second attempt. I’ll show you my first (and improvised) attempt on my next post.

I have two more weeks, yeah! Yesterday I got myself a treat… a handicap pass! Yes, much needed!!! The folks at work are redoing the parking lot across the street from my office and so I have to park a bit away and on bad days it’s soooooooo painful. Just like today. So for the next two weeks I can park right outside my building door. It’s really nice since right now I feel like somebody kicked me on the crotch and then crushed my bones to little pieces. I have good days and bad days. Today’s one of them bad days.

Ok, hope your day’s a lot less painful than mine. More later!