Chillin' with the Divas

Howdy!   It's been a few days.   I've been a bit busy answering 5,235,345 toddler questions.  lol   I did want to share my card for Two Paper Divas today.   It's been hot and humid the few days it hasn't rained, so I went for a fun summer card using this new set called Summer Chillin'.  It has a lot of fun images and my favorite is this popsicle!  So much fun to color.  I did add some Wink of Stella to them so they are glittery in person.  I left it simple because I loved the pops of color against the white!

Laila and Jason did a bit of stamping with me yesterday.   We have to work on their technique a bit.  Well, Laila's.  She was all about pushing the stamp down into the ink pad as hard as she could.  She was a bit pink at the end of her stamping session.  

Freshly Made Monsters

Oops!  I forgot to do my Freshly Made Sketches post.  I had my card made early, so something had go to wrong, right?  lol  Linda has a fabulously fun sketch this week and I had a great time working with it.   I just love these Lawn Fawn monsters and paired them with some Crumb Cake, Real Red, and Coastal Cabana.  

There's a lot of ways to interpret this one and I thought the team did a great job of showing that!

You're Purrrfect!

I tried to stamp a bit this weekend to work out of the funk I seem to be in and it did help.  I feel a lot better mentally and have some new cards to send out to friends.  Win, win!  I played along with the MFT Card Challenges sketch.  I hadn't used this cute Pure Innocence stamp and thought it was time to try coloring it.   I seem to have a lot of cat loving friends, so it's a great stamp to make cards for friends.  :)

I did do a *bit* of interpreting for the sketch so I hope that's okay.   :)  

I'm so happy she finally lets me take her picture again.  She's at such an adorable stage with her little curls and cute smile.

Two Paper Divas Inspiration

A bit of a late post today, but it's been one of those weeks where I haven't stamped much and needed to do a bit tonight.  I wanted to show off this great new set from Two Paper Divas.   It is called Let Freedom Ring and it is a fabulous patriotic set.  You can't really go wrong with stars and pennants!  :)   I did a watercolor background in blue and then used the stamps to make a banner.  It's a fairly heavy card with all those layers, but I wanted to add more of the red, white, and blue in so I just kept adding more and more mats! 

It's storming here again tonight, so it might be a rough one.  Laila seems scared of thunder lately and wakes up if it's too loud.   We've discussed that thunder means rain and rain means the flowers grow, but that only works to calm her fears part of the time.   I can't say much since I'm scared of storms too.  She gets that honestly.  

My little sleeping beauty.   She rarely naps now, but she did today and was then up late and full of energy.  It was cracking us up!  She was just going and going!   She's been working on using the potty for a while now and keeps getting better and better about asking to go when she needs to.  We are super excited about that!

FMS Crazy Bird

It's Wednesday and time for a new Freshly Made Sketches challenge.   This week is my sketch and it's a simple one.  For my card I used one of the awesome Tim Holtz Bird Crazy birds.   My sweet friend Jen M. was kind enough to send me some of the birds to try out and man!  They are so fun, but they are a bit difficult to color.  I thought my poor guy looked a little sick, so I made him into a get well card.  lol

The design team has some fabulous creations, so be sure to go check them out!  I was just blown away with their work again this week.

Our latest cooking adventure was banana pudding!  She sure loves whisking.  :)

UYS Monday: Lawn Fawn Edition

I chat with some of my stamping friends quite a bit and one thing that always comes up is how we have stuff we've never used or stuff we haven't used in a long time.   My friend Holly and I wanted to dedicate a day to using up some of this stuff, but for months we only talked about it.  Today we start!   We recruited our friend Lisa to join us so she can use her stuff too.  We are calling it Use Your Stuff Monday and hope to use some of our unloved and neglected stamping stuff before we buy more.

For my card this week I had two Lawn Fawn goodies from Christmas that I hadn't used yet.  The Stitched Leaves Die and Violet's ABCs.   I used some distress inks to color my leaves and then left the card simple so that they could really stand out.   I popped them up to add some dimension and play along with the current Lawnscaping challenge.

Do you have a set or dies you haven't used?  Or one that has been collecting dust for a while?  Get it out! Use it!  We are hoping to do this every other Monday until we get some of our stuff used up.  It's a great way to play around with stamps and also "stamp" along with friends.  :)

Mom has been very patient and is working on teaching Laila a lot of new things.  Laundry folding, using the potty, cleaning up her toys...  it's nice!   :)   We are sure going to miss her on Wednesday when she leaves.  Sad face.

An InLinkz Link-up

MFT Super Awesome

I was in a purple mood again, so I grabbed my stamps to play along with the MFT Card Challenges sketch.   I LOVE the sketch this week and think it will work with so many different stamps.  I'm totally obsessed with this set right now though, so I grabbed it and went to work.  I made it for a good friend of mine and I hope she likes it.  :)

I got a little happy with my Wink of Stella pen.  :)   That thing is addicting and it's hard to put down once you start adding the sparkle.   You get a sparkle, you get a sparkle...  

I'm off to sneak in some Easter candy while Laila is in quiet time.  If I don't sneak it, she'll eat her candy AND mine!   Momma needs her chocolate. 

Two Paper Divas Daisy

Sharing a little sunshine and happiness today.  I love this cute new set from Two Paper Divas.  It's a new release this month and it's so perfect for Spring!   I kept my card simple (and embraced the tilt again) to show off the simple beauty of the stamp.   It is definitely one of my new favorites!

Stamps:  Life's Simple Pleasures, Banners #2

We had a fun day at The Aquarium yesterday.   We talked Mom into riding the Ferris Wheel and touching some stingrays.   I always love taking her to do new things, so this was our "new" this trip.  :)