ahhh!

It's already October! I knew this would happen, so  I started working on Halloween costumes back in April...but I still haven't finished. I'm just glad that all of them still want to be the same thing they decided back then :) I really have made progress though, so there's still hope that they will be done in time. Levi's is mostly done and he already likes to wear it around the house :) I think I did pretty good since even Miss Emma pointed at him and said "Batman!" when he had it on.

The card for today actually took me alot less time to make than the one I last shared. But I like it SO much better.

I really love how this one came out. It's full of distress inks, background stamps and butterflies :) The base is a Hero Arts note card in Pool, I think. I stamped the stripes in Tumbled Glass distress ink. I stamped the label with Wild Honey Distress ink and inked the edges. Oh, and the leafy- flourishes are in Walnut Stain distress ink.  I did the butterfly in Momento Tuxedo black so I could color it with my Copics. I LOVE this butterfly. And the coordinating die just makes me love it even more :)

Well, I hope your October is starting off well :) Leah had another golf test today, and she passed with ease :) Tomio was so proud :) Thanks for popping by!!

simple

Just a simple card I have to share today. This is one of those cards I make up when I want to make something, but nothing seems to be working. So I just took out some cardstock and some stampes, and started stamping...I used some of my faves of course--text background stamps and kraft cardstock ;)

I did the white embossed leaves before I stamped the background in versamark so the embossing powder wouldn't stick to the background too :) I heat embossed the sentiment too. Anyway, like I said--really simple.  Oh, all these stamps and carsdstock are from Papertrey Ink.

Ok, I'm off to TRY to go to bed. Tomio has been SO busy at work lately that he has been leaving BY 6. Which means I've been up at that time too... I couldn't stay up late when I was younger, much less now that I'm....well, you know :) Hope you have a restful day!!! Thanks for stopping by!

Blah...

Miss Emma has been saying so much more lately. And she has been working on calling each of us by name too. Daddy was of course one of the first words she actually said :) She's been calling me Mama, and Rhys was the first of her siblings' names she picked up on. Levi she decided to call "Cutie", since that is what we call him at least half of the time :) She'll even point to each of their clothes in the laundry and say "Rhys" or "Cutie" accordingly, and get it right. But, she never seemed to have a name for Leah. Even though she likes Leah and would go to her if you told her to"go see Leah". When Rhys was little, he called Leah "Ya-ya". When Levi was little he called her "Ee-a". But Emma, nothing. That is, until a few days ago.At first I wasn't sure if Emma was talking about Leah or not, but by the 3rd or 4th time she said it, I was sure. Emma has decided that Leah is...Blah. Yes, Blah. Leah was kind of bummed that Emma didn't have a name for her, but I don't think she's sure Blah is any better :) I think it is though: ) heehee :)

as I uploaded this picture to my blog Emma kept pointing and saying "Blah!Blah! " :)

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you're having a LOVELY day :)

Embellish magazine challenge :)

I wasn't too late this time :) I usually end up discovering the newest challenge when it's already too late for me to start making a card....but not this time :) I don't usually make cards with just these colors, but I LOVE yellow and gray, so I was happy to try them : )

I was also really wanting to try coloring these pretty butterflies( from Papertrey Ink) with my copics. I LOVE how they turned out! And they were really esimple to color too. The background stamp is from Cornish Heritage Farms. I love my Papertrey Ink text backgrounds ALOT, but sometimes it's nice to be able to stamp the whole background at one time. The pattern paper, ribbon and sentiment are from Papertrey too. I just hand cut the tag and attached it with some twine.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Miss Emma is finally napping, so I'm off to get some housework done:)

wow...

I had no idea it had been a whole week since I last posted! So sorry!! I'm not even sure what I was doing last week that kept me busy :( I don't like it when that happens though.  I've thinking to myself for the past couple months that I really need to officially make a prioritized list of what I really and need to get done. Am I the only one that needs this? You'd think if it really was important you wouldn't need to....sigh. Now that I've actually voiced(typed?) it though, I think I'm obligated to actually act upon it...right? I have accomplished one of the things that I've really been wanting to though :) Leah likes veggies and eats them just fine all the time. My boys on the other hand though, will avoid them as much as possible. So, one of the things I wanted to work on was serving veggies each meal that hopefully would be easier for them to eat. Nothing major  or anything, we eats lots of veggies sticks with dip an cabbage salads. But that actually liked them.I couldn't believe my ears when they said that they weren't enough veggies to eat(!) I also got them to see that lettuce on sandwiches really IS yummy :) I  can tell that we HAVE actually been eating more veggies because what normally would have lasted a week, didn't. Might not seem like that big of a deal, but it was to me :)

Anyway, that's the goings-on around here :) I'll be back tomorrow with a new card. Today I'll share some pictures of my cuties from the park: ) This is Rhys...just being silly :)

Here is Miss Emma getting used to park :)

Leah showing how much she enjoys climbing trees.

And Levi's excitement at actually having been able to hang from the monkey bars :)

Thanks SO much for stopping by!! I hope your week is starting off great!

happy days

Another week........ :) Leah has a golf test this week. They are supposed to play a full round on a course and if they get a certain score or better, then they can move up a level in class. Tomio said that the class she is in now is really too easy for her, she should have no problem moving up at all. I think she is excited and nervous at the same time. At least it has cooled down considerably so she won't be roasting :)

I did another card with my cute car die and Enjoy the Ride stamp set from Papertrey. LOVE this set :)

A simple card :) I stamped my favorite text background on the kraft label die, and inked the edges. I also used buttons for the headlights on the car :) so fun :) Finished it off with some machine stitching around the edges and a button threaded with twine :) I love how you can change what the license plate says depending on what type of card you are making. I think this is my favorite one of all :)

Thanks for stopping in :) Hope you are having a "happy day" :)

park play and a card

We made it to the park 3 times this week. It was so nice to just be able to get out of the house for a bit. Miss Emma was a little wary of the grass and park area at first.But after I went with her  a few times and showed her how fun they were, she really got into them :) By the third time we went, she was trying to run off to the play area as soon as we got there :) We have our own "spot" as we call it, that we always go to. We lay out our blanket, sit, eat, and relax. Well, really we don't relax-ha! They like to run wild. There is a tree they like to climb right by our "spot" too. Leah has mastered it quite well, but the boys are still working it. Rhys can get up with a little help, but his goal is to make it by himself heehee :) I hope the nice weather keeps up so we can keep going all fall :)

Here's a kind of different card for me. I think I like it though. I could easily change the sentiment for another occasion if I wanted. I stamped the text on white cardstock with Old Paper distress ink. Then I inked over it before I cut it into the 1 inch squares. The polka dot paper is from Fancy Pants. I just went through my button stash looking for ones that I thought went well. I tried actually stitching down some of the buttons since I had heard it was sturdy and simple...but its not for me lol. I actually had harder time getting it to look nice. My current favorite way to adhere buttons is with glue dots.

Thanks for dropping by! I hope you are enjoying your weekend :) I've been working on a layout, so I've been enjoying mine :)