Quick!

Just a quick card to share. Kind of busy around here with school, golf swimming...

Anyway, here it is. I  heat embossed the flower in white after stamping the background. Then I colored it in with copics, just for a little bit different look. I kind of like it...lol. But it was fun to something different :)

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more clean and simple.

Here's another clean and simple card for today.

I used some of my favorite PTI stamps on this card--these flowers from Larger Than Life. I also *love* the background text stamp. It is from Stampabilities. It took me awhile to find a fancy script stamp that I really liked, but this one is perfect. I embossed the sentiment in white--I seem to be embossing on several of the cards I have been making lately.

Thanks SO much for stopping by today! Are you ready for the weekend? I definitely am :).

goodness...

I didn't expect to be so busy last week. It was good though. We had a great Easter service at church, a BBQ and a fun Easter egg hunt.

Leah didn't place in her tournament this time, but she DID manage to get a HOLE-IN-ONE!!!! Pretty amazing, if I do say so myself :) They interviewed her for the paper and everything.

okay, on to today's card.

Sticking with the clean and simple. I really like how stamping with red on kraft looks. And well, I always like brown and kraft together. It was a little trickier than I hoped, masking off to stamp the leaves. Made me think of getting some Eclipse masking tape I've seen others use...Oh, the leaves are from Papertrey, frame from Waltzingmouse and the sentiment is from Sweet N Sassy stamps.

Thanks SO much for stopping by today!!! Have an awesome day :)

Tomio and Leah..

are gone the rest of the week. Leah made it to the all Japan Junior golf tournament (actually 2 of them!) this year. They are far away, though, now that we moved to Kyushu, so they won't be back till late Saturday night. Praying the weather holds out, she does her best and has a great time :)

On to today's card:

This card came together really quickly. I liked using all the bright colors--made such a cheery birthday card. The cupcakes are from Stampin' UP! and the banner is from Papertrey Ink. Everything's popped up for a little dimension.

And that's it for me today. Thanks for stopping by!! I hope your week has been going well!

pirates!

We had a fun weekend :) It was full of strawberry picking, bowling, pirate parties...and presents too of course :)

Will Turner on his cake--Daddy drew it, of course :)

Everyone had their own personal bottle of "rum" :)

Red velvet cake.

And the birthday boy himself, with a surprise present of all the Dragonball mangas.

some decorations.

"Happy Birthday" time.

And some pirate games.

Oh, I do have a card today. I thought I would share a more masculine one to sort of go with the pirate theme today.

Here it is.  I wasn't sure how it was going to turn out...but it's pretty good I think.

Okay--that's all for today, everything goes back to regular scheduled programming this week.
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yay!

My kids all had their swimming tests today, and all 3 passed :) So proud of them. (Emma doesn't start till she is 4.) I wanted to make sure we found them a new swimming class that they liked right away when we moved out here. That's why I started looking for one as soon as I heard we were moving. I'm thrilled that we found one they all enjoy. Emma likes coming and watching with me, and she is pretty excited about starting when "she is a big girl" :)

And here's today's card. Can I be honest? I really like this card :) I like the subtle woodgrain. I like the silhoutte flowers. I like how the white embossing turned out for the sentiment. And I like the colors :) Plus I just started stamping and it came together really quickly and smoothly, so that was fun too :) The flowers and sentiment are from Unity, the butterfly is from  Stampin' up!, and the woodgrain is from Hero Arts. Huh... I just realized there are no clear stamps on this card. That is rare for me....
Anyway :), thanks SO much for stopping by today!! I'm off to do some party prep for my big boy that is turning 10 this week *sniff* :(

well it's over.

the weekend, that is. I've noticed that school on Mondays always seems to take a little longer, and attitudes seem to be a little more pouty.... I haven't come up with a way to remedy it completely yet, but at least I'm not taken by surprise when it happens :)

I've been getting a lot of card making done this last week or so (yay!)
This is one of them. I like the red and black together. It was a little tricky to mask of the edges when I stamped the flowers, but I think it turned well :) The poppy image is from There She Goes stamps, the frame is from Waltzingmouse and the sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

Thanks SO much for stopping by!! I hope you have a super day!!