Card Patterns Guest DT

Posted on | May 30, 2009 | 7 Comments

Happy weekend! Here’s my take on Card Pattern’s sketch, #17, for this week. Such a fun one and the digital images from DigiShack are so fun! I don’t color well but I think I didn’t do too bad he he… If you’re wanting to try digital images and not sure how, check out this video tut that I made. Super easy using Word.

I LOVE the ribbon. It was in the discount bin at Michael’s. I got 4 yrds for a buck! I decided to go with earthy tone backgrounds so that the flower will pop. I think I accomplished that goal. I hope you play along this week and I can’t wait to see what you come up with!!

CP #15

Posted on | May 21, 2009 | 18 Comments

I’ve been wanting to do a CardPatterns’ challenge in a while but 15 sketches later I finally have the opportunity. Again I used the same stamps from Inkadinkado. I promise this is the last one for a little while. Due to my inability to move around much (just HURTS!) I’ve only been making projects using whatever’s within arm’s reach. Next time I’ll grab a different stamp set from the closet before I plop myself down {::SMILES}.

Today I feel so much better. I hope it stays until I pop the baby out or at least until Sunday. I have a wedding to go to Saturday in the city and we’re also going out to lunch for hubby’s bday — our favorite SUSHI!! The bad wife me… I still have NO gift!!! I have no idea what to give him… he hasn’t had any wants lately (he only wants baby to hurry up and come out so that I won’t be in so much pain) and he’s got enough car parts to last him a while (for Jane, the ‘62 Impala) – plus he’s as picky with his car stuff as I am with my crafty goodness. A GC is the only thing I can think of. This way he can buy himself THE perfect tool or something. We’ll see. He’s been SOOOO awesome, even cooked all week, and I do want something special. Ahhh….

Have a great Thursday! The weekend is ALMOST here!!!

Insomnia

Posted on | May 5, 2009 | 13 Comments

And it’s not me… it’s hubby. I’ve actually been getting great sleeps the last couple days. Monday I emailed him at work and told him my sleeping time was awesome and he replied with this:

“I did not sleep.
At all.
I lay there all night watching the clock tick time away.
I want to kill that clock.
It mocks me all night with
its smug attitude and astro-green numerals.
I hate how it just turns itself on at 0515 as if to say
“Get up right now asshole.
I know you did not sleep at all
but now it is finally time to give up and start your day.”
Oh how I long to rid myself of that scourge, that unsympathetic
digital sentry that keeps watch over me throughout the night.
Such an unholy and unforgiving device,
faithfully carrying out its duty without regard!
Oh how I fear and loathe it’s robotic gaze each time the moon rises!
Oh how I pull my hair and gnash my teeth upon each inaudible tick
as I am shown visible proof of my insomnia!!!
Oh sweet relief,
remove this terror from my daily burden!!!”

I love his writing style. He writes this way every so often to me. Cracks me up each time. I think she should take more writing classes and also literature… what do you think? {::SMILES}.

Here’s a card for 2S4Y, Laura’s #25. I used a lot of scraps for this card. Even the ribbon… I only trimmed the edges. I didn’t know where I was going with this card. I just knew I wanted to use that pattern paper and the Damask. I like it and it’s going to a special couple.

My Sketch and 2S4Y Card

Posted on | April 27, 2009 | 7 Comments

Hiya!! Today I am honored to present to you my very first card sketch. It’s for 2S4Y bonus sketch for this week. It’s a simple sketch that I think can be very versatile. I can’t wait to see what you make from it! This is also my last card as part of their spring DT (::SNIFF). It’s been soooo much fun!!!! This card was created using a stamp set from: Norsk Stempelblad AS, which is this week’s sponsor. The base is cardboard from a box that I painted using Gesso and inked up with SU chocolate chip.

How was your weekend? Mine was relaxing but seems like all my special gadgets need fixing. My iMac won’t power up. When it does, it’s only for a bit and then dies. I reset everything but still does it. My geek-clusion: Need new power supply aka $250-$350 will be spent at the Mac store. The best part… JUST out of warranty.

My new lens only works on manual. Ok, it does auto but sometimes. Glad Amazon has a nice return/exchange policy. I’ve only used it twice, this one and the coffee maker we got (we think the UPS man dropped it) but each time has been great. My replacement lens should be delivered today and I have to remember to ship mine back.

Last but not least… I am working from home. Why? Hubby’s truck won’t work. Granted it’s not mine it effected me because hubby had to take my car. Jane… where’s Jane? Oh yes, the ‘62 Impala is tire-less… or is it wheel-less… she ain’t got no front feet, how’s that? He took the two front to paint… the metal part. They just have primer on them. Guess he’ll have to figure something out. Oh, the part that’s not working… he knew they needed fixing but they’re still in the mail. Awesome, huh?

Have a great week. Hopefully your weekend was relaxing AND luckier than ours.

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!