Happy Happy Monday

Posted on | November 23, 2009 | 7 Comments

Another week and I’m at home just relaxing with the girls while waiting for Mr. Brown. This lens that I’ve been waiting for months was finally shipped from Adorama (I buy from Adorama, B&H, and Calumet). So excited and I can’t wait to try it out!!! Hopefully I can use it decently and share some photos soon!

Last night while hubby and I watched loads of Law and Order (my FAVORITE show) I made a couple cards. M was creating me with but she collapsed on the couch after three cards. I had a few card making stuff with me last night, I was creating on the coffee table. I’m doing this to see what I use the most. We found out last week that it’ll take 35-55 days for our belongings to get to England and I still want to be able to do crafty stuff during that time. So far everything fits into a small craft bag. Pretty good! We are allowed 2 suitcases/pp at 70lbs each bag so my small bag of craft goodies will be on the plane with me with clothes and who knows what else. So from April – May you’ll most likely see the same stamp sets (mostly PTI cause they take less space to store) and a two handful of colors over and over again and whatever pattern paper that in my little paper carrier.

Alrighty, more later! The card was created with some scrap paper, Jenni Bowlin and Making Memories, with a chipboard tag from American Craft. The twill ribbon and pom-poms I got from WalMart. The stamp is PTI and the ink is SU.

Freebie: Butterfly Die-Cut Template

Posted on | October 14, 2009 | 12 Comments

Hi! I made a card AND used my Klik-n-Kut. I’ve been wanting to cut out a butterfly for awhile and last weekend at the expo I saw this acrylic butterfly that was part of a scrappy kit. Well, I didn’t want the kit, just not my style, but the lady wouldn’t sell me just the acrylic butterfly. She said there’s probably one somewhere in the expo I can buy individually <– NOT helpful, lady!

So last night after all the kids have gone to bed Savitri went to work and I got this:

Feel free to download the files (if you want the jpg format, just right click the butterfly image above and save as) and use them for your projects. I have them in a few different format so that other Klic-N-Kut users can use it and also those who has a Silhouette, Craft Robo, Wishblade ((by the way, the three are the same machines, just sold by different companies with different software/download and warranty packages)), and Cricut Expression. I could have converted it to other formats but hey, it was midnight, it’s free, and so if you don’t see your file type, download Inkscape ((it’s free version of Adobe Illustrator, kind of like what Gimp is to Photoshop)), open the SVG or DXF in it and export/save as (I can’t remember which) to your format. I think the only thing missing is the WPC format for Gazelle or Pazelle users.

SVG - Cricut users who can SCAL can use this format
DXF – Probably the most versatile, most die-cut machines that hooks up to a computer can open this format
KNK – Any users with the KnK software, like studio GE used by some Silhouette, Wishblade, and Craft Robo users)

For the acrylic butterfly I used the acrylic protector that came with my PaperTrey Ink stamps. It’s the part that the stamps stick on. It’s nice and thick but not too thick. I could still bend the butterfly to give it form. Then for the pattern paper (PTI stars) I shrunk the image using my KnK inline embedding/layering tool and took it down to .4. Look in your manual on how to do this, you can’t just grab a corner and shrink the image because the size will not be right. That’s it. ((The rest of the material are PTI ribbon and stamp, Making Memories paper, Martha Stewart butterfly punch, and border punch by Fiskars))!

Have fun and I can’t wait to see what you make with this!!

Did You See?

Posted on | May 4, 2009 | 4 Comments

The new 2Sketches4You DT? WOW! Special congrats to Clouds. You’re awesome and can’t wait to see all your work this summer!!!! Uber uber talented girls have been selected at 2S4Y and I can’t wait to see what each of them come up with each week and of course play along as often as I can. I was hoping to get into the summer team. I submitted two cards with a different name, blog address, gallery, etc. but I didn’t make it. Darn! Ha ha… ok, just kidding but I did think about it since I had so much fun there {::GRIN}.

How’s your weekend? My friend’s baby shower ended up being at PF Changs due to Cheesecake’s reservation policy (none at noon) and waiting 30-45 was not an option. Had a wonderful time! I did some errands, felt great, but Sunday I was laying down A LOT. Sciatic nerves!!! Hubby gave me a really nice rub and I took a higher dosage of B12 and I’m all better now. I swear that B12 is magic!!!! The doc recommended it when I had M and had the same issue.

Ok, here’s a page that I did over the weekend. I used a GSD paper for the background and Prima stuff (LOVE the flower! One of the many I bought at Michael’s for 50% off). The “create” is Making Memories, the pink tree and birds are Hambly, and the fonts are Sassafrass and MM.

My Turkey Butt

Posted on | April 7, 2009 | 23 Comments

That’s what M said last month or so. It came from this: I call her little butt “chicken butt”. I don’t know if there is such a term but it came from chicken legs in my little head. When I ask her to do something I’d say something like, “get your chicken butt up stairs.” So one morning while I was getting dressed… to be more exact I was putting my pants on and my bum was facing the door… Emma came in my closet and she said, “Mommy, you have a turkey butt. Your butt got big!” AHHHHHHHHH!!!! If not her daddy it’s my (oh so honest) little girl who makes “sweet” remarks. So from that day on, every so often, the turkey butt comment would surface — and even the neighbors know that I have a turkey butt (husbands and kids aren’t shy about announcing these types of things, huh?). The last time hubby used it was when he asked me to sit on his back and give him a little cracking (his chiropractor loves him… he helps pay for her mocha every week) a few weeks ago. He laid down on the floor and said, “Can you get your turkey ass down here and push my back?” GRRR (imagine a cartoon character… Donald Duck or something… beet red, twisted face, and horns coming out of his head)!!!! So I sweetly agreed and I plopped my turkey butt down on his back. I literally took his breath away ha ha ha ha… I did this for a good minute, moving up his back, until he got his lungs functioning again and he told me to get off. I think if I wasn’t pregnant he’d box me but hey, if I wasn’t pregnant I would have the privilege to be called turkey butt, huh?

Ok, here’s a card that I created using Laura’s sketch #23 at 2Sketches4You and Kristina’s colors #48: chocolate chip, kiwi, baja, and white. The chipboards are by K&Co, the ribbon is Making Memories (awesome find at the $1.99 — 6 yrds total — bin at Archivers), and the stamps are Stampin’ Up!

2S4Y + Blog Candy

Posted on | March 23, 2009 | 44 Comments

Scroll down for the candy!!!

Here’s my card for 2Sketches4You. It’s Laura’s sketch #22 (very versatile sketch – LOVE it!!!). Our sponsor for this week is DeNami stamps and they’ve got a few goodies for this week’s winner. So go and check out 2S4Y to see all the prize details, what the other DTs did with the stamps they received and their take on the sketch!!

From DeNami and what’s posted on 2S4Y site:

DeNami Designs is also offering a special 10% coupon code exclusive to 2S4Y readers!

The Code:

March2S4Y

The expiration is 3/30/09

the discount is good for anything on the website

My weekend was productive and relaxing. Not a lot of crafting but got the house cleaned and we even visited with a friend and her little man. Laundry is still going but hey, that part of our chore never seems to end, right? Sometimes my laundry pile makes me want to join a nudist colony ha ha ha…

The blog candy… I have put together a few stuff which you can see below. I’m very bad at these types of things. I totally missed my one year blog anniversary and plus I have no idea when it was exactly since I started this blog early last year and didn’t actually do anything to it until months later. I just saw that I’ve passed the 100k mark a long time ago and just checked my Feedburner and I have 320+ subscribers (WOW, very amazed!!!).

So, as a little thank you for subscribing, visiting, and/or leaving comments, I have the following to give to one winner: American Craft alphas + flower/swirly stickers and “Party” pattern paper, a little bit of Amy Butler and Three Bugs in A Rug paper, brads from Doodle Bug and Stammina, and the Jan.’09 Scrapbook Trends magazine. One of my digi layout and tutorial is featured in there and lots and lots of scrappy and a few card inspiration – very fun magazine!!

What you need to do is simple… just leave a comment with a suggestion of an awesome book (or two or more) that I can read at the hospital while I’m waiting for #2 and after she’s born — when she’s asleep and I have nothing else to do at the hospital (the hospital was so relaxing compare to the first few months at home – are you with me, moms?). Reading takes my mind off things (e.g. pain) and of course it’s always more enjoyable when it’s a good book. I love non-fiction (although Harry Potter, Gone with the Wind, and Emma’s awesome too) and my latest read was Jen Lancaster and Three Cups of Tea – which I love. I really enjoy stories about Americans in France, like Almost French or Norton the Cat: The Cat Who Went to Paris (deep inside I wish to live in France). It’s ok if you haven’t read it yourself. If you heard it’s good, let me know! Good luck! I’ll close the blog candy Sunday the 29th at noon CST and it’s open to anybody in any part of the world.