So much to do and finally some time to do it all!
I have had an exhausting and looooooooooooong craft day! This is week 2 of Sean’s vacation and we are each taking a couple days to get things done for ourselves. Today I worked on finishing my ATC’s for the MFT swap. And then after that I got to working on some samples from the latest releases from Treehouse Stamps
The first one is from the new set called My Hero:
The layout started as Jen’s SFYTT, but somewhere along the way I swapped the paper placement and now it’s just inspired by her sketch, lol. I really tried to give the dudes some tan, sun kissed skin. Since I’m so pale you can practically see through me I had a hard time adding tan tones and worried it just looked like they had a weird skin condition. I hope they dont look sick, just tan, lol!
The next two samples are using the Elegant Sentiments :
I have so much more to show, I was on a crafting ROLL today I tell you! Tomorrow I have to take Audrey to her speech and OT and then it’s a relaxing day at home. We just got the new Mario Kart for the Wii and it’s soooooooooooo fun! Ava really loves to play it and surprisingly she’s not too shabby!
Happy Monday everyone!
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Last night was the release party on the MFT forums at Splitcoast, and I MISSED IT!!!! I can’t believe I missed the WHOLE thing! That’s just not right! But I got there in time to sign up for the new ATC swap, and I can’t wait to get my new stamps to start making mine. And I took a peek at the MFT guest designer challenge and it just sounded like too much fun not to play.
The challenge is to use background stamps in unique ways and not for a background. So here’s what my brain came up with:
I used the pretty pattern BG from CHF on the pants, and the rain background from ‘Rain or shine’ on her shirt. I decided to cut her out of her box and have her yoga mat be a little rock pad island so she can sit in the middle of her pond. I stamped the lotus flowers once in black and colored them, then again in green for the bottom leaves to be green and cut them both out and popped them up.
When I was looking for pictures of lotus flowers on google I came accross a peacock and decided to turn the chicken from ‘Punny farm’ into a peacock! I used the stem bunch from ‘Punch a bunch’ and then drew the feathers with my copics and accented some of them with dew drops.
I made some bamboo out of the branch and leaves from ‘Its a jungle’ and I brought them down to where her face would be to give her privacy and take care of the head issue.
To be honest I am not sure how I feel about this scene. I made this last night starting around 10:30 and just went down to my craft room where there is no clock. When I finished and came up to load it, the time was 1:00 am! I went to bed dissapointed and thinking it was an ugly card and then when I woke up this morning I wasn’t even sure I had actually made it!
But I like doing things like this because it really pushes me to use things in different ways and try something new. So I’m happy with working on it so long last night.
I hope you all have a GREAT day…….tomorrow is Friday, yippee!
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I had some time today to play with Beate’s weekend sketch, hooray! And I have found another new favorite color combo……artichoke, basic grey and PTI’s aqua mist! It is oh, so lovely together!
*Sigh*
I am LOVING the 2 PTI colors I got, sweet blush and aqua mist. They are so pretty with such a number of SU colors, Nichole really did a great job!
Today my mom is coming over to watch the girls and Sean and I are heading down to Ikea. That’s about a 50 minute drive from us, I do wish one was closer. But since we don’t go that often it’s not too terrible. I’m looking for some new bookcases and storage items for my craft room! It’s time to decorate it and make it my own space! How exciting!!! I’ve been in it for almost a year but I have yet to paint it and truly make it mine! I’ll be sure to share all the exciting detail of it’s progress with you. (That is said in a completely sarcastic tone as since I can’t imagine too many of you are on the edge of your seat about this!)
I know I’ll squeeze in some more time this weekend for something crafty. I hope you all have a wonderful Saturday!
The DEETS:
Stamps: Always-SU Pretty Pattern BG-CHF
Ink: Aqua Mist-PTI basic grey-SU
CS: artichoke, basic grey-SU aqua mist-PT
Accessories: CB folder, aqua mist ribbon, dimensionals, sponge, 1/2 punch, slot punch, dew drops, liquid pearls
A quick card that I’m in love with!
Last week I received my new PTI colors, I had ordered the lighter pink “sweet blush” in CS, an ink spot and 2 ribbons. I also ordered a bit of aqua mist in CS, ribbon and an ink spot. The sweet blush is just the most lovely shade of pink! I have always loved SU’s pretty in pink but this is just a little lighter and almost more heavenly.
I paired it with soft sky and old olive for the card below:
So first, I just LOVE this card! I LOVE the CHF BG!!!!!!! This is my favorite BG of all time, ever! I love how simple it is and yet it doesn’t need anything else. And I love the glittery popped topiaries.
I needed to make a card for a friend who needs some hugs and this is just making me really happy and I hope it makes her a little brighter. And then this was also a prototype for some swaps Im doing. If your part of my swap something similar will be coming to you!
There was plenty of play time this weekend, with the girls and for myself. So I have a lot more to show this week! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.
Stamps: Thinking of you-Gina K Pretty Pattern BG-CHF
Ink: adironadck pitch black, sweet blush-PTI
CS: sweet blush, white-PTI, soft sky, old olive-SU
Accessories: SU glitter, glue pen, dimensionals, corner rounder, 5/8 GG ribbon, copics
I like you a latte!
Today I finally used the *perfect* ink for me and copics……adirondack pitch black! I had been using graphite brilliance black, but it needed to be heat set…….I am too impatient even with that small little step! It was seriously driving me banana’s! Then sometimes if I was feeling lazy I would use palette noir, but it would run if I went over the line. Anyway, I have seen on some other bloggers supply lists the pitch black so I decided to order some from Ellen’s store. I also ordered my first CHF stamp, “Pretty Pattern” BG, I LOVE it!
So I used my new goodies and one of my favorite, although terribly neglected sets from Crafty Secrets for todays SCS sketch challenge:
I’m really digging that scalloped bottom, it reminds me of an apron!
This past weekend we got Audrey some new toys. After watching her at her different therapists and seeing what she is attracted to I went through our current toys and got some to put away and some to give away. Ava has always liked musical and light up toys but Audrey hasn’t been interested in them. She loves stacking, nesting and building toys. Luckily the kind she likes are CHEAP, lol! I also found the most awesome bubbles! They don’t leave a film on our hardwood so we don’t worry about the girls slippin’ and sliding after blowing a lot. And then I got a big tub of foam stickers from Michaels and the girls and I have been decorating the patio door every day.
This is HUGE for me! I have OCD and stupid things like making messes with stickers have been something I just would not do, especially sticking them to a nice clean glass door! But something has changed (slightly…..I’m not going crazy and messy) and I just decided that if it makes Audrey happy and keeps her interested and gets her to participate then I’m for doing it.
Along the OCD lines, Ava has finally given play-doh a chance! And she looooooves it! So we have had some wonderful afternoons of bubbles, stickers, play-doh and blocks the past few days.
And we’ve also introduced pictures at home for Audrey, I believe it’s officially called PECS. We take pictures of different things for her to choose what she wants to eat or play with. So in the kitchen we have different pictures of snacks and when she gets hungry she goes to them and picks one out and shows them to us and then we give her a snack. Little small baby steps of communication but they have made such a HUGE difference.
I’ll be back soon with a few more cards and some pictures of the sticker window!
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