Im dreaming of a crustacean Christmas!

Ah, Im in a weird mood today! Im not quite sure why, maybe it was the almost total lack of sleep last night! Oh that would do it wouldnt it?????????

Yesterday my nesties came in the mail which caused me to bust out a dance at the mailbox, the dude next to me must have thought I was crazy…..and I just might be! Yes, and from here on out the “Spellbinders Nestabilities” will be called nesties. I cant be bothered to type that long name and it deserves something cute. I know it sounds a wee bit like something naughty, but I dont care! It’s my blog and Im calling them nesties.

Today I managed to make some cookies for Ava then she decided she wanted to go down and play Yoshi while I stamped. I cant complain with that offer really. I loaded up Laurens guide to using her nesties on her blog and it worked! Thanks Lauren! There’s nothing fancy pants going on today with them. This is oh, my 3rd time using my cuttlebug and my first try with the nesties, Im just glad I didnt break anything!

I went ahead and tackled yesterday’s SCS color challenge and todays sketch challenge. The colors are soft sky, wild wasabi and rose red. Can you feel a Christmas card with those colors? I know I can.

Does this little crabby not make you happy or what? I would giggle if I got it in the mail! I love him. And ric-rac is just the ultimate Christmas ribbon to me. When I was little my Mom had us make ornaments and some of them were adorned with ric-rac, that’s probably why I associate it with Christmas.

Instructions:

1. I started with a piece of wild wasabi CS cut and folded to standard size. Then stamped 2 of the snowflakes in versamark and embossed with white EP.
2. Next I adhered 3 pieces of SU retired “flirty” ric-rac ribbon to the center of the card.
3. Using my 1 3/8 square, I puched 2 squares out of rose red DSP.
4. Then I cut 2 soft sky squares about 1 1/2. I stamped one of the open snowflakes in versamark on the soft sky and embossed it with irridescent ice EP and adhered that to the rose red square.
5. Next I inked up the “sandy claws” part of the sentiment only in stazon black and stamped that onto one of the squares. After cleaning off the stamp I then inked up only “is coming” and stamped that onto the next square. Then with my black marker I had drew the exclamation point and adhered those to the card with dimensionals.
6. Using my rectangle nesties I cut out a piece of watercolor paper. Then stamped the crab in black stazon.
7. I used a mixture of classic ink and markers to watercolor the crab, real red, wild wasabi, black, rose red for the hat and soft sky for the sky around him.
8. Then I used my liquid applique and more irridescent ice EP on the hat and wrist cuffs.
9. I highlighted the hat and parts of the sleigh with stickles for a frosty look.
10. Finally I adhered the crab to the card with dimensionals.

I’m definately going to have to make a few cards with my crabby friend, he’s too cute to just keep to myself!

Luckily my accupuncture yesterday helped my ankle and wrist a LOT! Im still a little sore today, but what are you going to do? I fell down the stairs.

Oh, and on a totally seperate but SUPER fun note, Sean and I are going to Disneyland! For sure this time! Every time we try to go I get pregnant and your not really supposed to go while your pregnant. SO…..since we want to have another baby we decided to plan a trip around wanting another baby, if that makes sense. Our trip is sometime in March which is when we wanted to start trying for another baby. Yippee! And it’s only us, no kids.

And I cant believe that it’s November 7th and I havent made the official it’s 18 days to my birthday yet! I usually start on November first and countdown the shopping days left. This year I’m turning 30. I dont feel weird about it, I guess I started to feel adult when I had kids, so 30 doesnt mean much to me. That and Im still younger than my husband and my sister! I’ll always be younger than my sister…….that’s fun!

Ok, enough rambling. Time to go get Audrey and play with the kidlets.

The DEETS:

Stamps: crab and sentiment-Gina K designs, Snow flurries -SU
Ink: stazon black, wild wasabi, soft sky, real red, rose red, versamark-SU
CS: wild wasabi, rose red DSP, soft sky, watercolor paper-SU
Accessories: white EP, irridescent ice EP, dimensionals, square punch, rectangle nesties, retired “flirty” ric-rac ribbon, stickles, liquid applique. 

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