Cute Pink Puppy

I actually got in a little stamping time last night and made two cards!   This one is my favorite of the two.  I just love this little puppy!! He's so adorable isn't he???   I used pink with him for the Avery Elle I Heart U challenge and also to go along with the Hope You Can Cling to challenge to use a tag. :)

Stamps:  Avery Elle Furry Friends

Ink:  Memento Black, Copics

Paper:  Neenah Solar White, Stampin' Up! Strawberry Slush and Baked Brown Sugar, misc designer paper

Accessories;  MFT Stitched Traditional Tags, Stampin' Up! Strawberry Slush ribbon

Our butterfly garden is still amazing!   We had two butterflies emerge and fly away yesterday and lots of baby caterpillars continuing to feed and grow.  

I Heart Pink

Last night Jason and Mom were busy sewing so I grabbed my Copics and sat with them and colored.  I am useless with a sewing machine, so I didn't even try jumping in.  lol   I worked on another Hope You Can Cling To challenge and combined it with Avery Elle I Heart U challenge to use pink.   My background is drawn by hand and colored in with Copics.   I added a sentiment from Avery Elle's Simply Said Hello and a little ribbon of hope and called it done!   It's simple, but I love how it turned out!

Stamps:  Avery Elle Simply Said Hello
Paper:  Neenah Solar White
Ink:  Copics, Sharpie, Memento Black
Tools/Embellishments:  Paper Smooches Hope Die, Glossy Accents

Sadie is not much help with stamping, but she's great at holding down this blanket.  :o)

AEIHeartU Kraft

I took a little break from "work stamping" to play along with the AEIHeartU Challenge and CAS(E) this Sketch.  I love kraft, so it was a perfect challenge for me; I think I also managed the sketch even though my sentiment is a bit different?  I wasn't sure and didn't originally link it because of that, but I decided to go back and do it since I did start out with the sketch.  I used the stars and sentiment from the AE Party Animal set.  The rest is just die cutting.   Easy, peasy!

Red is so perfect with kraft.  I think I would be happy to just stamp with those two colors forever.   Do you have a favorite color combination?   I normally like stamping with blues, so this has been a nice change for me.  Something different to mix things up.  :o) 

She just had to have me take her picture when she saw the camera.   We have had the best day today and I am so thankful.  We went out to lunch and then to Whole Foods.   I put her in the shopping cart that looks like a car and she "drove" all around the store.   Long nap, woke up happy, and is still laughing and playing. It hasn't been too bad of a week so far, so I hope this trend continues for a while.   

I Heart Sunshine

Avery Elle has another great challenge at the AEIHeartU challenge blog this week.   Since I've been feeling a little blue, I decided that sunshine was just what I needed today.   I used a stencil to make some sun rays, die cut the hello like a rainbow, and added some sequins and baker's twine for a fun element.   It makes me happy to look at, so I'm saying this card is for me.  Maybe I'll mail it to myself since next Saturday is the most difficult day of the year for me.

I hope you are stamping a bit this weekend  as well.   I know I haven't been doing it nearly enough myself.   I want to try to do better, so maybe you'll see a few more cards from me next month.   The Dare to Get Dirty challenges are coming up soon at Splitcoast and those are on my list to work on when they start up next week.

Laila needed her picture taken after her bath the other night.  lol   She's so silly sometimes.  

AEIHeartU Hello

A while back I had purchased some Faber-Castell Gelatos and they got put up and never opened.  I decided to try them out and here's what I came up with.  I knew I wanted to use my hello die from Avery Elle for a second AEIHeartU challenge card.   I thought it would be awesome in black against the backgroud.   I added some shimmer with a Wink of Stella glitter brush pen because glitter makes everything better, right?!  lol

I really love playing around with some different mediums.  I am not artistic at all, but it can be fun to just try things.  I'm usually pretty scared to do that, but I'm trying to push myself a bit.  If we just do the same things over and over, a hobby can start to get boring.   Spicing things up with new products can make it almost new again.  :o)

Someone was sad that they missed the card photos, but she still posed anyway.   lol  She slept great last night without any medicine, so fingers crossed that the cough is gone for good!

AEIHeartU Baby

Sorry for the not so great picture.  I finished too late for the good lighting and wanted to get it posted while I had a minute to sit down.   I just got in some new stamps and wanted to play along with the AEIHeartU challenge using one of them.   I also need more baby cards, so the theme was a pretty easy choice.  ;)   The challenge this week was to use just one word on your card.  Fun, right?!

I might sneak and take a better picture tomorrow once there's better light, but we'll see how that plays out.   We have company coming for breakfast and I know it will be a busy morning.   Quiche and company are totally worth it though.  

Here's another picture from Laila's birthday.  Jason says it is her "Toddlers & Tiaras" picture.  lol   This week has been much better than last week.   I think Jason and I were both about to run away last week and I knew we had to figure out something.   My friend recommended the 1-2-3 Magic book and so far it seems to have helped.  Toddlers are just crazy little humans aren't they?   Right now she has a cough and it has me wondering what's going on.   I feel like the worry that comes with a sick child is so magnified after you lose a little one.   I had awful dreams last night because I was worried about her.    I just have to keep telling myself that it's just a cough and she will be fine.  I just hope it's not a summer cold coming on because those are the worst!  Fingers crossed for some sleep tonight...  

Hello!

Hello!  :-)   This tired momma finally ran off to the stamp room today to make something.   I have been fighting off headaches and exhaustion for a while now, but today I decided to take some Excedrin and go stamp anyway.    I saw the fun challenge at AEIHeartU to use gold and gave it a shot.   I am not a big fan of gold, but I had fun with this card.  

I used the Avery Elle Simply Said Hello stamp set with the coordinating die, plus I threw in a few stars from my favorite, Party Animal.   Fun stuff.  I paired the gold with navy, a sponged ombre strip, and a cute tag.   Can't forget the sequins either, so I threw in a few of those as well.  

 I cut out a few layers of the hello die and glued them all together to make it a bit more sturdy and give it dimension.  

 My assistant for card photography helped out.   She said it was a cute card, so it is officially Laila approved!

Party On Animal

It's one of THOSE photo editing night, so pardon the picture.  The colors seem way off no matter how much I try to get them to look right, so I give up!    This is a pretty simple card that I made for the AEIHeartU challenge to make your own designer paper and the color challenge at Colour Me.

     

I am really try to get back to working on embracing the white space, so there's lot of it on this one. I'm not sure about it since it's not my usual style, but I'm working on expanding my horizons.  :)

Yesterday Laila grabbed her smoothie and a piece of toast and next thing I know, she's sitting and having breakfast with giant Elmo.  lol  She's so funny sometimes.