favorite layout.

This is one of my all time favorite layouts. I *LOVE* these pictures of Levi, and the page is about his love for the color orange, which is a favorite memory that I always wanted to remember.

All these pattern papers are Little Yellow Bicycle. All the shapes and letters are Quickutz. I didn't have the right color of orange for the hearts, so I just used some dye ink and covered my white cardstock. I also used Doodlebug sugar coating on the middle heart.

The little flower is just hand cut from kraft cardstock. I embossed it with the Cuttlebug swiss dots folder before I cut it out. I printed my journalling out on more Little Yellow Bicycle pattern paper. ( I printed it out once on regular copy paper first to get the placement right.)

I like the contrast the brown buttons add with all the orange and blue :)

Thanks for stopping by! Miss Emma hasn't been feeling well for the past few days, so she needs extra snuggles hugs!

supplies: cardstock: diecuts with a view,pattern paper: little yellow bicycle; diecut shapes and letters: quickutz; buttons: autumn leaves; glitter: doodlebug designs; embossing folder:  provocraft cuttlebug

A birthday post

I mentioned in my last post that we celebrated my birthday. Yes, I turned 30. It's kind of weird....I think I never actually thought I would turn 30 lol. Though in all honesty, it feels no different than 29, or 28 or 27....lol.

Anyway, I didn't mention what Tomio got me for my birthday. Now, Tomio is always spoiling me with getting me way too many presents heehee :) This year, he got me a new oven. No jewellery or clothes or shoes like usual.  But I absolutely LOVE it. You see, he did mention jewellery, but after 15 years of birthdays together, and even though I wear 13 rings and 6 earrings at all times, I still have more than I need :) A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned to Tomio how much I loved baking sweets lately, just in passing. But he remembered and looked for the best oven for that. And, I love toast. But we don't have room for a toaster, plus I don't like mine toasted on both sides(yes, I know I'm strangely picky). Our old oven took a total of at least 20 minutes to make toast once you preheated etc. And my word, for some reason it was really loud! But the oven worked fine. Tomio knew about all that, and found an oven that not only is ideal for baking, but it makes the yummiest toast in a just a few minutes and you can't even hear it! He also got me 2 cookbooks that he spent over an hour choosing that are full of yummy looking sweets :) I really love the oven he got, but what makes it so special to me, is the reasons he got it and all the thought he put into it.

This picture has nothing to do with my birthday, but since I was reminded of how much I love my sweet hubby, I thought I would post one of my favorite pictures of him. (This is of whenLevi was only 1 :))

Thanks for stopping by! I plan to have something scrappy to share tomorrow! 

valentine inspiration

I saw this Tuesday trigger on the Moxie Fab blog and I thought it would be fun to play along. I also thought it would be a good chance to make another Valentine's day card for Tomio.

Several different ideas went through my mind, but I went with the first thing I thought of.

Very simple card, but I like it alot.  I love these colors. The purpl heart is Papertrey's Bitty Dot pattern paper. I stamped the pattern on both of the aqua mist hearts. The top one I stamped with the text background stamp in Papertrey's hearts background set in brown. The bottom one is Papertrey's Damask Design in versamark. The sentiment  is from Verve. I might be leaning toward giving this one to Tomio, because it seems less girly lol. Which one do you prefer this one or this butterfly one ?

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you had a great weekend. Since Friday was my  (30th!!!) birthday, Tomio took the day off and we spent the weekend doing some of my favorite things--eating ice cream, watching dvds, going to Hard Rock Cafe, eating cheesecake...all fun stuff we cuold do as a family :) Levi kept saying "happy birthday Mama" all day--it was  so cute :) Definitely a great birthday.

supplies: cardstock-pti; pattern paper-pti; stamps-pti & verve;heart die-quickutz

embellish color challenge

I played along with one of the Embellish challenges before, and when I saw this week's challenge, I new I wanted to try to make something.

These colors are so pretty and I pretty much always use ribbon :) Here is what I came up with:

I decided to make a Valentine card. Since I always make at least different cards to choose from to give to my Tomio, I thouht I would start now :) I wasn't sure if it was too girly, but I figured it was ok for a Valentine :) I did some machine stitching on the light turquoise panel. I stamped a damask pattern on the chocolate base. I wondered about scattering some pearls on it, but I decided that the ones on the butterfly might be enough. The challenge calls for ribbon, so I did my very favorite thing to do with it-tied a big silky bow :)

And since Miss Emma looked so cute sitting and waiting while I took pictures of my card, I thought she should get her  picture taken too :)

Thanks for stopping by!

supplies: cardstock: pti; stamps-damask-pti, script-chf, sentiment-verve; ribbon-pti; butterfly-quickutz; gems- hero arts; label die-spellbinders; ink-green-pti, versamark

Birthday Bash

I thought I would join in with Papertrey's celebration :) I really wasn't too sure about using a digital graphic on my cards...I just don't really ever DO that sort of thing lol. BUT, I absolutely LOVED  Heather Nichol's cupcake!!! loved. I always love her designs--and well, it's a cupcake :) So I printed it out on PTI Stamper select white. And this is the card I created:  

I used lots of Papertrey :) I really like the aqua mist, lavender moon and kraft combination. So pretty! I did some stitching down the sides although my sewing machine is STILL not cooperating with me..wah!!  I really like the nice detail the stitching adds. Just a simple quick card for the celebration :) I love me some Papertrey and I'm excited to see what else new they have coming out heehee :)

Thanks for stopping by!!

supplies: cardstock: pti; pattern paper: pti; background stammp: chf; digital image: heather nchols(pti); label die: quickutz; other-machine stitching

it's time for some mojo again!

This week's Mojo Monday sketch was a little bit harder for me than last week. But I figured it was probably better for me to stretch myself anyway :) Lately I seem to always make Thank you cards lol. But I guess you can never have too many thank you cards in your stash, right?

I stitched on this card too :) Although, my sewing machine STILL seems to be having tension problems argh!!( if anyone has any tips as to how to keep the tension from going wonky when you're sewing on cards PLEASE help me out!!) I my pretty new music background stamp from CHF on the light green panel. The  border punch I used on the kraft strip is also new to me from Martha Stewart. I think I like how the Raspberry Fizz looks with the light green and kraft. I was afraid it might be TOO bright lol. I really like the look of twill, but I have trouble making a regular bow look nice with it,  so I did a double loop and secured it with a button instead.

Thanks for stopping by! We got some snow today, and the kids were thrilled. I must admit I liked seeing it too. Unfortunately, there really wasn't enough to play in. They did all get some snow off the balcony and make some snowballs to throw lol.

Supplies: cardstock: white, green-pti, kraft-paper reflections; pattern paper-pti; stamps: sentiment-verve, background-chf; ribbon: pti; buttons: pti; punch-martha stewart crafts; other-machine stitching

I am so blessed to have my kids :) I try to actually remind myself that when I'm having "one of those days" *grin*. But I really do know that....and I am never bored :) Levi announced to us yesterday that he was spoiling...How can I help fix that I asked. By giving him something to eat of course, because, he was spoiling *smile* My favorite though, is when he said,  obviously very upset, "mama, my belt is just useful!!" Heehee :) Apparently, a useful belt is a belt that needs to be put back on properly.(I bet you didn't know that.)
Anyway, here is a layout I did of my silly boys:

 These are pictures from 2008. All of these pattern papers are from Cosmo Cricket's "The Boyfriend" collection. I wasn't sure if I would be able to use them much even though I thought they were really fun, so I almost didn't get them. but I really love them! So great for boy layouts.

 The thin label outline at the top is from Quickutz. I have been wanting Spellbinders Label 8 dies forever, but they are always out of stock, everywhere. So I got these from Quickutz that are very similar. They don't have as many sizes, but the make this fun outline too.Of coures they make the solid shape too. I might end up getting the Label 8s too if I ever find them, but I'm really liking these too.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope your February is starting off well. I LOVE February because its my birthday month, and Tomio always spoils me *grin*BUT....it's a big one this year...sigh lol.

supplies: cardstock-white-cored'nations, kraft-paper reflections; pattern paper-cosmo cricket;  die cuts-quickutz; buttons- autumn leaves