Love These Boys!

Hi All!! Just a quick post this morning to show you a layout I made last night. I'm shirking my household responsibilities and blogging instead right now, so I've gotta post and run so I can vaccuum...fun right?! lol

I saw this sketch over at Get Creative and I so inspired by it, I just had to make something!! 

I found this picture from almost 2 years ago when our youngest son, Kieran  was born. It's very rare these days to get all 4 of my boys together for a photo and I just love this one. Caleb (my little middle) is looking at Kieran like he's a disease or something and Ethan is making a scrunchy face (which he told me this morning when he saw the layout that he doesn't like this picture of him because he has a runny nose and is making a funny face!)

The journaling says: "3 beautiful boys. 1 amazing husband. I couldn't be more in love with my life if I tried!" sappy I know, but it's true!

Frosted Designs wants ribbon and/or twine on your projects, so I'm going to enter this one there.

So, Whaddaya think?! I'm off to clean my bathroom...and vacuum my living room! Hope you're all doing something more exciting than I am!

Supplies: Cardstock: American Crafts. DP: Bobunny, Basic Grey. Chipboard: Scrap that. Flowers: Basic grey. Ink and paint:  Tattered Angels glimmer mist, dollarama acrylic paint. Embellishments: Prima, Ribbon: MME, Alpha stickers: Basic Grey

Thanks for stopping by!

"Anti-Valentine's" Graphicat Blog hop and New Release!!

Good Morning Blog Land!! Today we're saying hello to some new designers at  Graphicat Designs and sadly saying goodbye to some of our other DT members, so we thought what better way to do that, than to have a BLOG HOP! Wooohoooo!!  If you've just come here from the AMAZING Carla's then you're on the right track, but if you've just stumbled in here you'll want to go back to the Beginning because there are some faaaabulous works of art to be seen! 

I made my card using the Kraftin Kimmie Potion Master and Graphicat's  new "If you love someone" sentiment. She totally looks like a crazy stalker doesn't she?! The stamp originally has a pumpkin in her flask thingy, but I just cut out some cute little teeny hearts with my Cameo and put one over it to cover it up :) 

Sorry about the horrible picture...I couldn't take a good one to save my life last night...damn that lack of natural light!! You might get a better shot of the sentiment if you click to enlarge, but it says "If you love someone set them free...If they don't come back...Stalking is always an option"  Be sure to go check out the rest of Graphicat's new "Anti Valentine's Day" Digis Right here!!

The flourishes were cut with the Cameo as well, but those fabulous roses were made with Tim's Tattered Pine Cone die! I loooove the roses it makes! 

And of course this card was made using Cheri's amazing sketch which you can play along with too until the 19th of February, then link it up Here. One lucky winner will receive all the new "Anti Valentine's" images!!! 

So there you have it! Thanks for hanging out in my neck of the "web", now hop on over to the ever so talented Chris!

***PRIZE ALERT!!!**

Don't forget to leave some love at all the DT's blogs because there will be random winners chosen to win some Graphicat Digis!

PS: I'm also entering this into the Scrap Fit challenge: clusters

supplies: DP: Echo Park, Fancy Pants, Basic Grey and MME. Cardstock: Coredinations Kraft Core. Stamps: Graphicat Designs, and Kraftin Kimmie. Dies & Die Cutting Machines: Spellbinders, Tim Holtz for Sizzix (tattered pine cone, gadget gears, and scallops) cut with the Vagabond, and hearts and flourishes cut with the Cameo. Ink: Distress Ink and Crackle Paint, and Memento (black), and Perfect Pearls Mist. Markers: Copics. Tiny Attatcher (staples).

L.O.V.E is in the air!

Good Morning Bloggers! It's time again for another fabulous challenge at Creative Accents and this month we're in L.O.V.E! Yup! We want you to create a project with layers, ovals, vintage and embellishments! 

Here's the layout I made for the challenge. I'm really happy with how this turned out :)

I used this cute little vintage tricycle from the graphics fairy. She's got tons of great vintage images, and they're free! woohoo!

I must admit, I had a hard time trying to decide where I was going to use an oval on this layout, but I decided to stamp the word "love" on a piece of MME patterned paper, and put a TH oval fragment over it, and voila! Instant oval embellishment! I made the hearts by stamping my new Hero Arts Heart stamp set 6 times and cut them out and stitched them together. I love how that gives a dimensional look to my layout. It's not always easy to add dimension to boys layouts (unless you want to load them up with flowers...and there's nothing wrong with that, but I'm always on the lookout for other options!)

So there you go! I hope you fall in L.O.V.E. with this challenge and join us! You can go check out the rest of the DT's projects for more inspiration Here.

I'm entering this into a couple other challenges: Sarah Hurley Challenges "Love is all around"

and Scrapbookers Anonymous wants you to use hearts and stitching (at least 3 hearts)

D's Paper Studio is doing a challenge to use a sketch for a layout and I used  this sketch from Handmade by Suzanne

I hope you all have a crafty weekend!!

Zonked!

I saw this challenge over at Frosted Designs just a couple days ago and I just had to play along! It's a recipe challenge. They want us to use 3 patterned papers, 2 buttons and a 1 word title. So when I found this picture of Kieran and Chris fast asleep on the couch I knew it would be the perfect layout for this challenge! 

The papers I used are from Simple Stories. I just love the Yearography collection! The buttons are from my stash. I won them last year when I won over at Creative Scrappers and I love them, but they can be quite difficult to use seeing as they're so big. I've been waiting for just the right layout and I think I've finally found it!

I used a Quickutz alphabet for the title (Katie) it's one of my favs! And I punched the circle border with an EK success punch ;) 

I used Sketch 192 from Creative Scrappers, but I missed the boat to get it in last months challenge. It's all good though, because it's a fab sketch!

Well there you have it! I'm going to go now and relax on the couch with Caleb and watch Alice and Wonderland and try to get over my gross cold! 

Have a crafty day everyone!!

Deepest Sympathy

Hello everyone! I hope you're having a crafty weekend so far! I'm working at my LSS and I've been hoping to get some time to play, but it's been sooooo busy!! I did manage to get this sympathy card done last night after work though. It's never fun to have to make these, but it does need to be done unfortunately. I used the sympathy set from Kraftin Kimmie and a new set from Hero Arts. They make dies to go with their stamps now! Yay!!

I used a cute little nestie in the middle, and a sizzix embossing folder on some neenah paper to make my cute little cluster. I also used Distress Ink in stormy sky to color the ribbon...added a few little pearls to the center of the flower and topped it all off with some smootch paint to color the stamen?! is that what the middle thingy is called in a flower?! I have no idea! Maybe some of you gardeners or flower lovers out there can help me out with that! hehe :)  The sentiment originally said "With Deepest Sympathy" but I really wanted to use the new Hero Arts stamp and die and it didn't all fit in there, so I just used the last part...hey it works right?!

I'm gong to add this card into a few challenges: Stamptacular Sunday is "Seeing Spots", Paper Sundaes wants fussy cutting, and I used the sketch from CPS.

I'm hoping to get some actual scrapbooking done this weekend, but ya never know...this working thing could just kill me! lol 

A goofy picture and a sad goodbye

Good morning Bloggers! This is my second post for today, so if you'd like to see my SIL's birthday card, scroll down please! 

Last night I went to Walmart to print some pictures (do any of you have a hard time remembering to say "print" instead of "develop"?! I do it all the time!!) and I found these photos on my memory card! I laughed so hard! I'm guessing my sister must have grabbed my camera and taken these when I was sick over the holidays because I don't remember this at all, but I'm sure glad someone captured these!! It's pictures like this that make me smile so much and remind me to take time to be goofy and play! I was finally able to use all that girly paper that I buy because I love it, but never use because I have boys! What better way to capture a dress up moment than with purses and pink?! 

                                                       

I used my Silhouette to cut that tag out and then I did something really fun with it...I put a sketch pen in place of the blade and did my journaling on it too!! How fun is that?! I just made sure I didn't take my cut piece of paper out of the machine before I sketched the journaling! I just love this machine more and more every day!!

This layout was inspired  by Sketchy Thursdays last and final sketch!! I know right?! I'm sooo sad that they're closing up for good! So knowing it was my last time to play with them, I had to play along! I'm so sad to see you guys go! I loved playing along with all your fab sketches!! *sad face*

I'm also entering this into the challenge over at Scrapfit, which is to scrap the simple things in life that you cherish...nothin quite like playing dress up with the boys is there?! Also, Frosted Designs is challenging us to use paint! How fun?! I love painting on my layouts!

Well there you have it! Thank you so much for stopping by and leaving a comment! I do enjoy reading them and I really appreciate it!! Time to go make the boys some lunch! Have a great day and try to enjoy this FREEEEZING weather if you're in Canada!

Oooh Pink!

So it's 1am, and I'm having a hard time falling asleep and I fiiiiinnnaaallly found my usb cord for my camera, so I thought I would share a card I made for my Sister in Law's birthday. I was kinda late on this one, but better late than never eh?! 

I made this card on Friday at a crop at Creative Accents. I don't know what was up with me, but I just wasn't into colouring, and it shows! I am happy with the way her hair turned out, but her dress is horrific!! I can't even blame it on the benadryl either! (I found out at the crop that I'm allergic to apricots of all things and I had to dose myself with some antihistamines! yikes! Thanks to Carla who is always prepared, or always carrying drugs?! lol !!)

I used a sketch from Mojo Monday, but I couldn't find my cord in time to get it posted before monday! lol

I'm going to enter this into the challenge over at CAS-ual Fridays, because they want to see a card with scallops.

Thanks for stopping by! I'm going to try to go to sleep now!

Goodnight!