Sweet Baby Boy

My best friend just had her third baby - a boy. She has a boy the same age as Justin, a 2-year old daughter, and now a newborn boy. He is the cutest little thing and sadly I missed seeing him when I went home before Christmas because I was sick and didn't want to share my germs.

I did finally mail this card and some goodies for him, though, so I can post it here. This image was a RAK, and I don't even know what the name is. If you recognize it, give me a shout in the comments because it is just too darling!

The round panel is actually a coaster that I covered with the star dp. The curve of the moon was perfect for the circle, and the image is popped up a bit. The sentiment and rick rack die are from MFT. The little pearls are from Queen & Co.

I hope you all have a safe and happy New Year celebration. We actually hired a babysitter and are headed out to a neighborhood party. Thanks for looking!

160 Rounded Corners and 80 Cuttlebugged Letters Later

I made these bookmarks for Justin's classmates. I originally was going to just have them red with paper, but they looked too plain, so I added the "read." I had to run the letter die through the Cuttlebug 88 times and glue each letter, but I love how they turned out! The kids loved them, too :)

Merry Christmas to you all. Thanks for looking!

Gift Card Stockings

I needed more last minute gift card holders, and didn't want to make a plain one. I found this template link from Silke Ledlow's post HERE. **ETA** that link is for her stockings, the template is HERE. So cute and SO easy to put together!! I didn't go too fancy on the stocking top, just added some Queen & Co. self adhesive felt swirls. The papers are (you guessed it!) MME.

I hope you are getting all your last minute things done! I have been sick since coming home Monday night and hope the antibiotics kick in quickly. Carter is on antibiotics for a sinus infection, and Justin has Fifth Disease. So far, DH is healthy, but who knows with all the germs floating around the house if that will last. This is not the way to spend the week before Christmas!

Thanks for looking!

Snow Swirl

I have to say this is one of my favorite cards made with the leftover MME papers and die cuts on my desk. There are more, but I just love this on! I don't even remember where the sentiment came from. The snowflakes are embellished with some flat backed pearls and I threaded some round pearls onto the linen thread across the sheer ribbon. This paper is just beautiful, and I will have more cards using up every last bit for next year! Have any of you started on Christmas cards for next year yet? I will get to them this week :)

Thanks for looking!

Santa's Watching

How many of you have Elf on the Shelf? I need to pick one up for next year. I have heard great things about it helping to keep kids in line during the holidays. Some days, an upcoming birthday and Christmas all at the same time sends Justin into overdrive and there's no return without a meltdown. At least Carter is still pretty much clueless about everything going on!

This card uses more pieces from the MME Christmas kit. There are still a few more cards coming up using it, and I still have some leftover bits for next year. I'm starting my Christmas cards in January again - it was so nice to not rush at the end of the year to get them all made!

Thanks for looking!

Season's Greetings

Can you believe it's December 15th? Yikes, I'd better start posting the cards I've sent out for Christmas before it's time to start posting Valentines! I am just about finished with all the holiday prep. We do have to figure out what to do for Christmas dinner, but we know we're having S'mores on our new patio for dessert! We had a huge landscaping project finished in our backyard, complete with new built-in grill and huge fireplace. Can't wait to get out and use it!

I hope you are all enjoying the season! Thanks for looking!

Gift Card Book

I am quite pleased with myself for coming up with this one on my own. I needed a holder for multiple gift cards, and didn't want to make a bunch of the standard ones. So, looking through my stash of stuff, I found that coasters are just the right size for adding a pocket and slipping a gift card inside! I used 3 coasters here, covering them all with papers from the MME pack I've been nibbling away at this season. The pockets are essentially scraps of red card stock that I trimmed with the scallop edge punch. A gift card will fit horizontally or vertically, but it's a little snug horizontally. To bind the booklet together, I added some silver eyelets to each coaster and tied them with some thin white ribbon. So easy, really!

Are you all getting ready for the holidays? I have been mentally buried since Thanksgiving with getting everything together, but the end is in sight. I just felt so unorganized this year and like I was moving in slow motion. However, the cards have been mailed, the packages have gone via Fed Ex, and the goody bags are just about finished for Justin's class. Two more card packs to make for my mom to give away and I'm DONE!! Well, except for wrapping for hubby and the boys...

I hope you are able to slow down and enjoy the holidays. They always seem to pass in such a mad rush! All the best to you! Thanks for looking!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We have skipped town for Thanksgiving, and are enjoying a few days in sunny San Diego. Justin doesn't know, but we are headed to Legoland and he will very surprised!! He has become a huge Lego fan this year, and has wanted to go for a while. The best part - his latest Lego catalog contained a coupon for a free child's ticket!

This card is very simple - made from some scraps of ribbon and some rub-ons. The sentiment looks a little crooked to me, but the card is in the mail anyway. I hope you all have a very happy Thanksgiving! I'm happy to not cook, but will miss my day-after-Thanksgiving-sandwich! Thanks for looking!

Tilda bag

This is my entry for the current Embellish Magazine challenge, sponsored by It's In The Bag. The challenge is to use gray, black, dark pink and light pink and to embellish a bag. I started with a plain brown lunch-sack style treat bag, and mounted a black and pink patterned layer on the front. Then, I used the Nesties Labels die to cut a window, that I then put a piece of acetate behind. I stamped Tilda with tights in Versafine and colored her with Bic Mark It pens. After she was all colored, I cut her out and mounted her on the edge of the window, so you can see her around the treats inside. (there are currently no treats inside, because I didn't have anything suitable in the house)

The sentiment is from SU! Yummy, and I stamped it first with Versafine black then used the stamp-a-ma-jig and stamped the word "yummy" in Pixie Pink. The pearls are from Queen & Co. The wide satin gray ribbon is from my stash.

I love how it came out! Thanks for looking!

Love Times 4 - Blog Hopping!

Welcome to the OWH Be My Valentine Bloghop! If you don't know and are just stopping by, OWH stands for Operation Write Home, an organization that passes along homemade cards to our troops overseas so they can keep in touch with family members back home. You can find more information about how it works HERE.



It's hard to believe that we are thinking of Valentine's Day when it's not even Christmas, but the deadline for OWH to receive and send along Christmas cards is long gone. In order to get cards to the troops in time to send back to their loved ones, OWH shippers need Valentine Cards by January 7! Which is not so far away, really.




I had fun making these cards, and with the supplies out, it took no time at all to make the whole set. I used Chocolate Chip as a base, then a layer of Pretty in Pink, topped with a layer of Whisper White. The hearts are punched with the SU! heart punch that goes with the I {Heart} Hearts stamp set. DP is from MFT. The Sentiment is from Elzybells (sadly gone out of business), and is stamped first with Chocolate Chip ink then again slightly offset with Pretty in Pink. To give the sender lots of room for a letter home I adhered white paper to both sides of the inside of the card. This is important if you are using a dark base, because the soldiers don't have all the fancy colored gel pens like we do!



Thanks for stopping by and viewing my Valentine cards. I have TWO challenges to you: First, vote for OWH as the Joann's Craft for a Cause winning charity. You can vote once per day here: http://www.joann.com/CraftForaCause. Second, make a Valentine card (and embrace the white space!) to send along to OWH. Remember the January 7 deadline, but there is a special program going on with Archway Cookies. If OWH receives 4000 cards by December 1, Archway will send cookies to the troops! Make their holidays sweet by helping out.

Have fun as you hop along, and Thanks for looking! Your next stop is:

Kelly at The Weekend Stamper

Diggin' on Damask, Take Two

I realize this is my second post of the day, but I wanted to get this card submitted to the Diggin' On Damask challenge at Moxie Fab World. It's also another entry for the Clean and Simple Stamping FTL115. The stamps are from a Prima set I recently got, and the sentiment is from MFT. The ink is Pacific Point, on Vanilla and mounted all on a Kraft base. Sorry for the poor lighting - the sun is going down too early now!

Time to get the boys to bed. Thanks for looking!

Fall Hello

I made some fall cards that I will be sending out for Thanksgiving. We will be spending Thanksgiving week on vacation on San Diego, visiting the zoo, Legoland and some other fun places. We are not spending it with any family, and since Justin has the whole week off school, we decided to get away and relax a bit. The best part is that Justin has no idea we are going to Legoland and will be thrilled when we pull up to the park!

This card uses some scraps of Crate Paper that I had out and another rimmed tag that I've had forever and am trying to use up. There are only a few left, but they say "lucky" on them, so I guess I'll be making a few St. Patrick's Day cards with them in a few months. I'll be glad when they are all used up! I'm trying what we all do - not buy anything until some of my supplies are gone...

Have a good Monday. Thanks for looking!

Be My Clean and Simple Valentine

I recently discovered the Clean and Simple Stamping blog and don't know why I never found it earlier. I love the weekly sketches and am learning to embrace the white space on my cards! It's hard not to add a little something, but my postage budget especially loves the clean and simple style!

Here, I used the small heart from I {Heart} Hearts and a sentiment from Verve. The U is a sticker that I've had in my stash for a while (a long while). The hearts are stamped in Pretty in Pink, and the sentiment is in Basic Gray. Can you believe that I have almost NO red paper left in my stash, and also that I seem to not have ANY sentiment that says "Happy Valentine's Day"? How did that happen? I guess I'll be adding that to my list of things to get.

Please be sure to stop by next weekend, as I am participating in the Operation Write Home Valentine Blog Hop! You can get details HERE. I know it's early to think of Valentine's Day, but hop along and see everyone's creations!

I hope you are having a good weekend. We finally got chilly here, and I actually turned on the heat yesterday. It was 62 in the house when we got up in the morning, and we gave in. There was actually frost on the grass in the yard and I'm glad I brought in my basil plant so it didn't get frostbitten. Thanks for looking!

CPS 191 x 2

Did you see the CPS sketch this week? Yikes! What a challenge! First, I made this cute little 3x3 card using a new stamp set I got from Prima. I thought the circles looked just like peppermint candies, to I used Stickles to color them in. The "wrappers" are bits of organdy ribbon from my stash. The papers are scraps! The sentiment is from the Pure Innocence set I used in the next card.



This time, I paper pieced the hat and jacket with some MME paper that I also used as the side shapes. This was such a tricky sketch, I wasn't sure how to work with it. But I think this card came out VERY cute and I love it! The base is Cherry Cobbler (my last piece - boo hoo!). I love that new color, and am no out of red card stock. How can that be? Cindy, I'll be emailing you again soon! Good thing my Christmas cards are all completed for this year.

Can you believe it's November already? I cannot. I need to get the Christmas shopping done! Have a good day and thanks for looking!

Super Simple Holiday

Here's my take on a Clean and Simple one layer card, holiday style. Stamps are from Kitchen Sink Stamps, Playful Christmas. This set is dated 2007, but I still love it! I have to fight the urge to add something else, and just call it done. Is there too much white space at the bottom? I added a rhinestone to one of the trees, then took it off. Then I added it again, and took it off again. I thought of piercing the lower right corner, but I'm putting it aside and calling it finished. Why is it so hard to make a one layer card??

Thanks for looking!

Damask Butterfly

A few weeks ago I made a bunch of vellum butterflies with the Cuttlebug die. Some were embossed, some I left plain. This one, I added a damask stamp to in silver chalk ink. The color combination is very different - Always Artichoke, black, and some pale yellow textured card stock. The sentiment is from Sheetload of Cards last year - they are digital sentiments and I only had them printed on white stock. Ribbon is May Arts silk from my stash, and the silhouette stamp is SU! Just Believe. The damask stamps (on the butterfly and on the yellow layer) are from Prima. I'm entering this card into the Moxie Fab World damask challenge. It's not the most unusual use of damask, but it's getting my creativity flowing and I hope to make some others this week.



We've already had a busy day with Fall Festival at Justin's school. Tomorrow is pumpkin carving and trick-or-treating. Have a Happy Halloween!! Thanks for looking!

Always Moss

A few weeks ago, one of the challenges on SCS was to split an image. I have to go back and search the challenges, but this is my take on it. I have had the Always stamp set since last year, and knew I wanted to ink up that pretty heart. I used Mellow Moss and cut it into 4 pieces, then mounted those on Mellow Moss cs, and the rest is self-explanatory. The ribbon is not SU!, but it matched perfectly :) The scallops are an EK Success scalloped scallops edge punch. A few new punches have added themselves to my collection lately, and I've been having fun with them.

There are a few more Halloween cards for me to post before Sunday, so I hope you come back to see them! Have a good weekend. Thanks for looking!

CPS Christmas

I recently bought some baker's twine from Monika for a great deal! I got a ton of twine, and she shipped it very quickly. If you are in the market for some, go check out her site and send her an email!! I wanted to use the twine and the red and white was perfect for this Christmas card, made using the CPS Sketch 190. The stamps are Tree Trimmings and the papers are kraft, white and Cherry Cobbler. The ornaments are stamped in Cherry Cobbler and then clear embossed. The sentiment is from Martha Stewart.

That's it for today. I can't believe it's already Wednesday. Being sick on Monday and not getting anything done has thrown off my entire week. Justin has an allergy appointment today - he was recently tested again and his milk allergy levels have tripled since last time he was tested. I have a ton of questions for the doctor that I have to get down on paper so I don't forget. And there's more laundry to get to today, and the usual dinner, cleaning, etc. Maybe some stamping, too ;)

Thanks for looking!

Vintage Fall Butterfly

I'm hooked on the challenges at Embellish Magazine lately! I think it's because the really stretch my brain, but they are so much fun. This challenge was to use rust, green and yellow, and make a vintage card. Vintage is hard for me. This card uses some paper from my stash (I bought it several years ago and keep finding small bits of it), along with green flowers from my Prima basket. The button is from my grandmother along with the lace. I used a Nesties label die and stamped it with the script stamp from SU! Botanicals to layer under the butterfly, which is from a Cuttlebug die and embossing set.

Here's a closer picture of the butterfly and flower:


That's it for today. I was sick yesterday and am still fighting a headache. And I am SO tired, I want to lie down and sleep all day. BUT, there is laundry to catch up on and Carter is waking up from his nap. Have a good day and Thanks for looking!

Sketchy Penguin

I love this little penguin from The Cat's Pajamas! The set is You Say It's Your Birthday, and I've had it for a while and just inked it up this week for the SCS sketch 303 challenge. The papers are from Heidi Grace Designs for Fiskars. I flipped the sketch on it's side and used the Scalloped and regular Ovals, along with the Scalloped and regular circle dies from Nestabilities for the mats. The chocolate layers are from my scrap pile, which is only growing, no matter how much I use from it!

Here's a close-up of the chalked background. It barely shows, but adds a little interest IRL.

Hope you are having a good weekend. Ours went by MUCH too quickly for my liking. Thanks for looking!

Happy Bird-day!

Here's a simple, SIMPLE, birthday card that I made with Pun Fun and some pre-printed card bases. I made a set of them, and have actually used a couple of them!

Well, how's that for a short post? I'm watching My Sister's Keeper and don't want to cry on my keyboard. Have you seen it?

Have a good weekend. Thanks for looking!

Live Like You Mean It

I made this bright card a few weeks ago, and it has been sitting in my post list. Today is a good day to share it. It is something I have been striving for lately - to enjoy (almost) every moment. Not always easy, but I am reading The Happiness Project and it has opened my eyes to many qualities I don't love about myself. The good news is that there is always room for improvement, and I have already noticed that our morning routine is smoother, just for one example.

There isn't much to explain about the card itself - the main panel is stamped with Versamark and I added some bling to the flower centers. The sentiment is embossed in black and adhered over a strip of ribbon. Easy, easy!

I hope you are living like you mean it today! Thanks for looking!

CPS Love Letter

With my recent SU! order, I got this lovely Love Letter dsp. I love the mix of vanilla, black and red. I have had these gate fold cards in my stash FOREVER, but never use them because they are so big! They are #10 size and can be intimidating. However, when I saw the CPS sketch for this week, I knew they would be just right.

The main image is from Kim Hughes for CHF (so sad that they closed!). I stamped it in Red Riding Hood, then stamped it again with Versamark (there was still red on the stamp and I probably stained my Versamark pad) and embossed with clear EP. The sentiment is from the same set and I finished it off with some silk May Arts ribbon. I was so happy that the sentiment fit on the lines of the paper!

Here's a close-up of the main image panel:



I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! Have a great day. Thanks for looking!

Flopsey Gets Embellished

The current challenge at Embellish Magazine is to use the colors brown, red, pink and yellow and to incorporate felt. Since this challenge is sponsored by MFT, I got out my Flopsey Cupcake and found some pink felt in my stash. The rick rack strips are made with the MFT die, and I ran the brown and yellow layers through two times to get different thicknesses of the rick rack. I love how it turned out! And I have to mention that the die ran through the pink self-adhesive felt like magic! I LOVE their dies and am restraining myself from running over to buy them all!

Flopsey is colored with brown pencils and then flocked, and has tiny black pearls for eyes. Let me tell you, I think Fun Flock is NOT. I never used it before and maybe it takes practice, but I wasn't sure how to best apply it. The frosting of the cupcake is also in the pink felt, colored over with a glitter pen. The patterned paper is from Basic Grey, the Junebug 6x6 pad. I love those patterns but am never sure when to use them (never mind mixing them!). This one has pink red and yellow, though, so here it is!

Here's a close-up of the cupcake:



Phew! This card did me in for today. I've got low energy anyway because our house alarm went off in the middle of the night and I couldn't get back to sleep till about 2, and I get up at 6. Justin heard the alarm and thought it was morning! Luckily Carter slept right through it. Thanks for looking!

Too Cute To Spook!

Did you see that Elzybells is going out of business? Another cute stamp company gone by the wayside. I love their images and made some purchases since they won't be available anymore. I chose this cute Halloween trio and it arrived last week, just as I was ready to put away the Halloween supplies. Then I found more, so they are out again, LOL. I might have to try an inspiration basket at the beginning of each month to address the card needs that are coming up. Maybe I'd feel more organized?

Anyway, the image here is colored in Prismacolor pencils and blended with OMS. The paper is from Basic Grey's Ambrosia pad and it reminds me of little spiderwebs. The ribbon is from my stash, the sentiment is from a set of dollar stamps. I have more Halloween cards coming up in the next few weeks. For some reason, I felt compelled to make them this year, even though it is not my favorite holiday. Now I just have to drop them in the mail!

Have a good Sunday! We are off to the neighborhood Fall Festival and I still have to get Carter's costume together and make cookies. Thanks for looking!

Playful Color Throwdown

This is my Take One attempt at the Color Throwdown combo this week. I used the CPS sketch as a starting point, but I'm not sure of my execution. I have more papers on my desk and ideas in my head, so I'll try again later. Meanwhile, I have yet another card for the Christmas stash!

I used the patterned papers from the In Color pack from the SU! Hostess level 1. The stamps are Kitchen Sink Stamps, Playful Christmas. Ribbon is from my stash. The trees are embossed with a pattern over the color, but you can't really see it. Bummer.

We have another busy weekend ahead of us. Our neighborhood is having a Fall Festival on Sunday, and tomorrow we are headed to get our own pumpkins. I don't know if we'll get to carving them just yet, but we'll see. I hope you all have a great one!

Prima Christmas Wreath

This card is for the Ways To Use It challenge at Splitcoast today. Julia challenged us to use an embellishment in a new way. This is the most original I could think of this morning, and was able to put the card together during Carter's naps. Not that he slept, but he was in his crib and not crying! I got down my basket of Prima flowers and found that I had a bunch of this green color that I cannot see using on a floral card. Green just doesn't say pretty flower to me. However, it is a nice color for an evergreen wreath, especially when attached with the silver, gold and red brads. The bow on the wreath is another Prima with one of the petals folded back.

The papers are Always Artichoke and Cherry Cobbler along with some My Mind's Eye Christmas paper. I mounted the whole thing onto Whisper White. Let me ask a question about Whisper White cs. I have a pack that seems to be rather thinner than the other SU! cardstocks I have (I have almost all the other colors!). It is marked 80lb just like the others, but it just doesn't feel as robust. Does anyone have any insight into this issue? I don't want to order another pack just to see, because the last thing I need right now is more paper! Your thoughts are appreciated :)

Here is a close up of the wreath:



Another Christmas card for the stash - yay! Thanks for looking!

TSSC143 + CC292

This was my first attempt at this week's Monday Lunchtime Sketch, but I'm still not sure if I love it. I think the black is too much and the color doesn't show enough on the butterfly's wings. I tried to ink the embossed dots with pale blue chalk ink, but you can only see it close up. I also opted not to use the big bow on the bottom strip, and wish the ribbon was lighter. Oh, well, that's why I tackled the sketch again, this time flipping it onto its side. The second card uses today's Color Challenge at SCS as well.



Here's a close up of the detail in the image. I added Stickles to Cosmo's party hat, and pieced it in pink. The lolly is also embossed with Dazzle Versamark and clear EP on Real Red cs. The spots on Cosmo's shell have some glitter on them.



This card was fun to make, although I was stumped for a while about the red. I think it works though, with the felt flower border. In the centers of the flowers are small pink Bella Dots that I got forever ago. Can you tell I'm really starting to dig through my stash to use some stuff up? It will take me years! BUT, I got a new desk chair and can sit longer at my craft desk now! My old chair made my back hurt no matter how long I sat in it. I only wish they made cutely upholstered chairs!

That's enough rambling today. I have to remind myself that today is Tuesday because of the holiday yesterday. Hope you're having a good one. Thanks for looking!

Understated Elegance Wedding Card

Don't you love when a card falls directly from your imagination into reality? This is what happened with this card, and I am loving how it turned out!! I have a cousin who is getting married next weekend, and we can't be there. It's too bad, because our family has FUN weddings! I will send this card out to them after they return home.

I used Just Believe, which is another set I just ordered from SU! I love this big floral silhouette image. Here, I stamped it in some light blue Cat's Eye Chalk ink, then embossed it using Versamark Dazzle and clear embossing powder. The main image panel is Very Vanilla and all the layers are from an old pad I have - Story of Us by Momenta (which just happens to be in NH, where I am from!). I added a small strip of vanilla organdy ribbon across the center. What's a wedding card without a touch of ribbon?

To give credit for the sketch - it is from OWH Stars and Stamps blog. Go check it out! What fun sketches and challenges each week :) I keep collecting cards to send to them to forward to our overseas troops and one of these days I just have to get them in the mail!! I had a big box all ready and they got smashed in our move, so they all need some TLC before I can send them. I was upset, but now I just have an excuse to make more!

Thanks for looking!

Funky Four Fun

Funky Four has been on my SU! wish list for some time, and finally I placed an order (thanks, Cindy!) and got it! I also got all the updated colors so my ink collection is complete. Well, except for one that I forgot to include, but I'll get that next time! I had this Crate Paper patterned paper from last year and just knew I wanted to use the two together. The "happy" tag is from Target - years ago, and the "birthday" sentiment is from Curly Cute, also in my latest SU! order. I used some Cat's Eye Chalk inks for the stamping, and I love how all the colors coordinated.

For the sketch, I used Mary Jo's Monday Lunchtime Sketch and changed the size of the main image panel just a bit. On the original sketch, it is larger, but the mushrooms would have been floating in space on a larger panel.

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday, everyone! Thanks for looking!

Saturday Inspiration

So I think I finally figured out some tricks in uploading from iPhoto to the web. I tell you, I need a Dummies class!! Thank goodness the "Help" is good in the iPhoto program :)

This card is for the Inspiration Challenge at SCS. I used colors I NEVER would have chosen together on my own, but I think they really work! They are Bordering Blue, Going Gray and Kiwi Kiss, along with Vanilla. I love this nature set from Clear Artistic Stamps and haven't used it in quite some time. I stamped the background with the tiny dandelion fluffs (what are they called, anyway?) and then used the larger dandelion stamps for the main images. The sentiment is anchored with some Going Gray taffeta ribbon.

We had a great day today - went to explore a really cool park close by, I got pampered at the salon, and then we took in a free concert at the nearby outdoor shopping center. They have interactive fountains that the kids can run and splash in, and Justin had a blast. We brought dinner and had a little picnic. Carter charmed all the ladies with his dance moves! Ah, and now they are sound asleep :) Thanks for looking!

Basic Grey Meets Basic Gray

I liked this Ambrosia paper so much, I bought it twice! I got a great deal online for the kit of paper pad, rub-ons, chipboard stickers and some other elements for the Ambrosia collection by Basic Grey and I finally opened it up. I LOVE the big butterfly and found this SU! Basic Gray taffeta ribbon that matched nicely. The sentiment is a Verve sentiment (don't you love their sentiments?).

This week has been SO busy for us, we've had something going on every day and evening! Justin wants to participate in the Run Club at school (Tuesdays), goes to gymnastics on Wednesdays, and now is joining Chess Club on Thursdays. Add to that his growing circle of friends in the new neighborhood and play dates! He's got a full social calendar! It's nice to see him so willing to join and try new things, so we aren't saying no. I feel like just as we settle into a routine, things change and we start over!

Anyway, that's my rambling for tonight. I can't believe it is already the end of another week. Here's to some relaxation this weekend! Thanks for looking :)

More Fall Cards

When I had all the supplies out from the previous post's card, I went ahead and made these as well. This time, I added the bird punch and used the leaf dies from the Cuttlebug collection. The backgrounds are embossed with the fall embossing folder, too. On all of these cards I used Marigold Morning and True Thyme - how are those colors for a blast from the past? Old, I know, but I still love them and have a bit of each left. However, I did get my new SU! order yesterday with the new colors of ink and papers, so I may put the old back on the shelf for a bit.

I have tons of card ideas floating through my head, but I swear Carter has a sixth sense about me. Whenever I stop chores and decide to sit in my craft room, he wakes up. I'm going to have to get in the habit of sneaking up there after the boys are in bed to have any quality blocks of crafting time. But that will mean no quality time with hubby. Hmmmmm, what to do?

Here's hoping you are all having a good day. Thanks for looking!