Simple light.

Clean and simple "light" card today :)

I got the dies for this set too, but I went with paper piecing instead on this card. I stamped wood grain on the bottom and top  and then heat embossed it with clear.

 Pretty subtle, but I like the detail it adds. And that's about it :) Oh, I really like this sentiment too.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!! It's SO windy here again today >_< I'm really hoping today is the  last day so we can start enjoy the spring weather :)

One of many :)

I mentioned my new favorite stamp set the other day, Beautiful Butterflies. Once I started using it on some cards, I couldn't stop. Leah passed by my desk and said "whoa, that's a lot of butterfly cards" heehee :) So here is one of the many cards I made.

I love how this set just lends itself to CAS cards. I also used three colors that I hardly ever used before. But I love how cheerful the butterflies look in bright happy colors.

I'm not a fast stamper, I'm afraid to say. But, this card really just came together in a few minutes. Love when that happens :)

Thanks SO much for stopping by today! I hope your week is off to a wonderful start.

Heat Embossing.

Wow--it's already April?!? At least for us here in Japan :) Leah is off at a golf tournament today. So glad the weather is SO nice for her. The boys are planning some kind of super hero games for today, and I am, yes, hoping to get some crafty time in :) But I will try to get my housework done first. Really.

Really CAS card with some heat embossing today.

One of my favorite Wplus9 sets. I also really like the rustic cream cardstock for the base. It goes so well with the kraft. To be honest, the reason I choose the cream base as opposed to white is because my "white" embossing powder is really more of an off-white. But it seems to go really well with the cream cardstock :) I'm also pretty sure I'm going to put in an order for some actual white embossing powder, and hopefully some clear "detail" powder.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!! I hope you have a wonderful day :)

my new favorite.

I have a new favorite stamp set. And, big surprise :), it's a butterfly set. I know, shocking, right? heehee :) I  got Maile Belles new set called Beautiful Butterflies. I had so much fun just stamping and stamping with it.

This is one of the cards I made with it. I was really just playing around, and I liked how it looked and turned it into a card :)  I really like the big sentiment too.

Not colors I use all that often, but I think I will start more. I'm loving how cheerful they are.

Short and sweet again today :) Still getting up really early with Tomio for work, and it seems to be taking its toll. Hoping to get to bed at least a little bit early tonight.

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

Going back.

to my go-to color combo :) Today's card I made with one of my favorite color combos-kraft, chocolate brown, and just a pop of white :)

I have bigger stocks of all three of these colors of cardstock than any of my other colors lol. The pretty stamps are from Wplus9. I almost didn't get this set, but I'm so glad I did. Really easy to use.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Leah starts her spring break golf camp today, and I've got a bunch of things I'm supposed to get done...I hope you have a wonderful day!!!!

Papertrey Blog Hop

I haven't participated in a Papertrey Blog Hop, well, a long time. I almost gave up this time too, but I got my card made just in time. yay :) Here is the inspiration picture:

Love the colors! And the polka dots and stripes. And the ribbons. But I seem to have trouble working from whole photos for inspiration...I think I kind of get caught up in trying to work in all the different elements... I was hung up the ribbon and the fact that I didn't have any big, aqua ribbon. Anyway, here is what I came up with:

I think I like it lol. I used to of my new-to-me sets (that I just *love* btw)

I thought it might be really hard to line up the little circles, but it really wasn't. For the yellow and grey inks I  used Jenni Bowlin inks, everything is Papertrey.

Thanks SO much for stopping by today!! I can't wait to look through all the lovely cards in today's hop!

allergies.

Not my allergies.
My Rhys-ter's. We had him checked to see why his nose was so stuffy all the time.
After a couple of different doctors with different opinions, we got a definitive test result.
Yes, apparently he is allergic to mites and house dust.
Now with a...umm... shall we say *extremely* neat husband :), I have learned to keep my house quite neat and dusted. (well as much as is even possible for a Japanese house). But, I went through the house and cleaned up even more, especially Rhys' room and bed. Hopefully that combined with his new allergy meds, will help a lot. I'm very glad we found a good allergy doctor, and that there are some things we can to help. I am also very thankful that I got all those tests done and got his meds, and I didn't have to pay a cent, er, yen :)

okay... on to today's card.

This is another one of those cards that I made with things I had  left over from other cards, and ended up liking the results. I really love these flowers from Papertrey. Probably my favorite of all of theirs I have. Well, top 3 for sure :`)

I used some of my favorite background stamps too-- the text and the envelope pattern.

Okay, I have a diaper to change, and some kids to put to bed :)
Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you are having a great weekend!!