Happy mail :)

Well, just another day of costume making and studies. Made Levi's boots and "stabbies" for his gloves. Because, of course, Batman has "stabbies" his gloves :) Lots of everyday stuff....but I also got some happy mail! I *love* happy mail. A little bit of this:

and this:

This was my first every order from Unity. I was super excited anyway when  I was waiting for them to get here.But wow :) I think I'm in trouble. I {heart} all of them. They are all so cute. And they stamp SO well. I got to do just a little bit of playing with them. The backgrounds are great. And do you see those cute sofas?! I'm pretty sure I'll be ordering from them again quite soon. Oh, and they have great overseas shipping too. Which is a big deal to me.

Ok, I'm off to bed. Hope to have some Unity cards to share tomorrow :) Tomio's work finally calmed down a little after today, so he won't be having to bring any home for the next few weeks anyway. yay :)

A new week.

Sometimes I'm amazed at the difference in the amount of stuff I can get done on somedays compared to others. I mean, they do all have the same number of hours...But for some reason, some days I'll get SO much accomplished and still have time to sit and relax, while other days I'll barely get the basics done just before I get to bed....Why is that?!!? I'm not sure at the moment, but I'm trying to figure it out so I can have more of the days where I get everything done...:) Oh, but I DO know that whether I actually do get everything done or not, it is very important to get in some crafty time. Otherwise, I can be sure the next day I won't be quite as...chipper :) (you know what they say about a happy Mama....)

Lots of different stamp sets on today's card. I started by stamping the base with Polkadot basics 2. Then I stamped some flourishes it in Fresh snow ink. I also used the same flourish on the label and some more background stamps. I don't think you can tell in this view, but I stamped a big Damask on the chocolate circle. The butterflies are from Butterfly dreams (of course :))  I stitched around the edges with my machine before I adhered it to the card base. There was so much going on already that I didn't add a sentiment on this one.

Thanks for stopping by! Is your week starting of well? Mine't not bad :), and I hope to just make it better and better :)

just stuff....

I didn't get to create anything today. Tomio is swamped again with work and has claimed my scrapping desk for his work. (Admittedly, his "hobby" place at our house is his garage, and there really isn't any place for him to work there :))... I did spend almost the whole day upstairs with the kids (have you tried to get some work done at home with 4 wild kids running around? apparently its not *quite* the ideal situation) I worked on costumes some more. Both Rhys and Leah were very pleased with their boots I made them. Just a few more finishing touches left.

Two days in a row, strange men have come to our house asking if they could look around. Ok, that sounded alot creepier than it really was :) Our new house DOES look...different :)Especially when the garage door is open and you can see all the cool stuff Tomio has in there including my...er, our coke fridge. Anyway, the first guy thought he had seen our house on TV. I said no, but it was in a magazine once when they did an article on Tomio :) And then the guy today said he was building his own house right now and wanted to use ours for insipiration. What can you do, right? I  know Tomio was pretty pleased that other guys "got" how cool our house is :)heehee:)

Ok, so no card today. But I have some pictures of my "peeps". That's what I call them. Whenever I want all of them to come, I say "hey PEEPS" and they come running :) Emma has picked up on it too. When I finish making lunch and start to call them all down, she will go to the bottom of the stairs and say "PEETS! PEETS" :) I love it :)

Just some pictures of my peeps all enjoying the nice weather we have had these past few weeks. Rhys is actully rolling down our driveway....for whatever reason :)

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you got some crafty time this weekend :) I intend to make up for my lack of crafty time tomorrow. heehee :)

sewing, sewing...

Well, I didn't get any crafting done today. But my sewing machine sure did get a work out. I spent the whole day working on Halloween costumes. And boy I am glad I started months ago. I thought I was "almost done" with them. Haha. NOW, I am a closer to being actually almost done. I'm not that much of a sew-er, really. I cross-stitch ALOT, and of course I saw on my cards and layouts :) But I'm not that into actually sewing clothes or bags...So it is all the more special and rewarding when they like what I make them. Rhys *loves* his Flash Gordon costume and was dying to wear it today. I said yes, since I figure the more use they get out of it them the better, right? I'll be sure to post some pictures of all 3 of them when they are officially done :)

I do have a card that I made earlier this week to share :)

I used more Hero Arts layering papers on this one. I wasn't sure if I would like them after being spoiled with my Papertrey thick cardstock-heehee. But they are really nice. I stamped Damask Designs on the blue with Broken China Distress Ink. Then I stitched it onto the pink, which is also from Hero Arts. I stamped the text on white cardstock with Spun Sugar Distress ink and diecut it with Spellbinder label 8. Then I stamped the flower from Green Thumb in Spun Sugar on top of the text.Then I stamped the sentiment in black on top of that. After that I attache the ribbon and then the label, to the base.

Thanks for stopping by!! Everyone else here is asleep, so I'm going to join them :) Hope you're enjoying your weekend!

cookies and cards

The cool, rainy, wet, weather continues here. It has been that way for the past few days. I'm pretty sure it's the reason for the 3 batches of cookies we baked and finished off already this week. But it's baking weather, right? Definitely would be worse *not* to bake something :)

Ok, I have another scripture card today. I'm really loving my woodgrain background lately. It's one of the easiest backgrounds from Papertrey to use, I think. And it goes with everything :). I cut the Quickutz label from Papertrey kraft carstock and stamped it with tin types background. Then I stamped the leaf image from in Walnut Stain distress ink. It took almost a year(!) after I got my distress inks to actually use them much at all, but I don't think I could stamp without them now. Love them :). I knew I wanted to stamp the verse in white on top, but white never shows up very well for me. SO, I stamped it on a transparency and covered the whole card front with it. I folded the sides over and ahered it on the back. Then I added the cream strip at the bottom,  stamped with text. Finally, I stitched down the sides with my sewing machine. It was a little trickier sewing over the transparency, definitely good to have it adhered down first.

Thanks for popping in! Miss Emma is letting my know just how sleepy she is, so we'll see if we can get her to take her nap :) It's almost the weekend ~yay :)

too much internet?

My kids LOVE *love* getting books from the library. Leah reads books like nobody's business --really just about anything:) Rhys likes reading 2nd grade level ones, while Levi likes to have me read him lots of picture books. His current favorites are this one:

and this one:                                    

  

He'll tell me which one he wants me to read by the title. He'll either say "Let's read Click Clack Moo!" OR, "Let's read GOOGLE, GOOGLE, quack". :) And no matter how many times I read it the proper way or Rhys tells him, he never says "giggle". Now I'm pretty sure when I was little, the word giggle was alot more familiar to me than the word "google". And I'm also pretty sure I can thank the internet for that....:)

ANYWAY :), I have a card for the challenge at Embellish magazine today. The challenge is to use the colors red, pink, yellow, and brown. And to use felt. Here is what I came up with:

I honestly just don't use alot of red. I noticed I don't even own much read cardstock at all. But I really like the way the red looks stamped on the pink cardstock. The music stamp is from Cornish Heritage Farms. I stamped the label with Polkdot Basics 2 in Old Paper distress ink. The pink flourish is from Turning a New Leaf. For the flowers I used Papertrey Ink felt (yum!) that I diecut with a Quickutz flower. But instead of using the centers that came with it, I used some Fancy Pants felt buttons. I finished them off with some red baker's twine. Oh, and the sentiment is from Verve. I love all their wonderful Scripture Plain Janes.

Thanks for popping in! I hope you gave a SUPER day :)



cute pink labels...

I went through my cabinets and  put cute little pink labels with red letters on all my canisters and tupperware. It really only started with me needing to have a place to put my new salt...but then I had to make sure it wasn't confused with baking soda. And then the sugar looked like it needed a label, since the salt beside it looked so nice. And then, of course I had to find a container (and label...) for the cocoa...and the cornstarch. I *think* I might have gotten a bit carried away. But it did inspire me to straighten the cabinets with all of Emma's bottle supplies in it too :)

Something a little different for today's card. This one basically started with me wanting to try to use some summer sunrise paper and the Wonderfully Whimsical stamp set. But I think it turned pretty nice.

I stamped the music background in brown to kind of soften the look of the bright summer sunrise. I stamped the house from Wonderfully Whimsical and colored it with my copics. I stamped the text background so to give the green some more texture. I just hand cut the hills and layered them on. Then I matted it on the dark chocolate base and stitched around the edges. Oh, the cloud is from Fancy Pants. I added some red stitching to give it some definition and tie it to the red in the house. I love all the different little sentiments you can fit on the sign :)

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you are having a crafty week :)heehee :) If we get enough sun today, I'm hoping to wash my sofa cushion covers....exciting :)