Not in the cards

I hope you all had a wonderful holiday! Ive been enjoying time with the kids and hubby before he had to go back to work today! YUCK! The kids dont go back to school until next Thurs here so they still have time to enjoy. I got up this morning ready to stamp! I went to look at SCS and see what the challenge was NO INTERNET! WHAT??!!?!? You gotta be kidding me! So I called to find out what was going on and our area was having server probs. GREAT!!! So I called my backup!LOL! Mom! She told me what the sketch was and about 15 mins later we had internet. YAYYY!! I made a cute card with the sketch and color combo from yesterday. So I have my card completed and now Im getting ready to take a pic! UHHHHH......wheres the camera! CRAP!! My MIL has the camera still from Christmas! (she takes the pic for me while Im handing out gifts, etc.) So to make a long story short I will have a pic to share with you later today when MIL gets off work and brings home the camera. She decided today was the day she would take the card to Walmart and print off pics! But for right now its just not in the cards for me to post a pic!LOL! Have a great day!

MFT triple challenge

My Dad called me the other day and asked me to pick my stepmom up a little something for under the tree since the computer he got her wouldnt fit!LOL! I found her a body splash, lotion, and body wash set. He called today and asked me to wrap it. How perfect....todays ways to use it challenge was "Its a wrap!". I decided to make a bag I used a lunch bag since I was out of kraft bags and made a genie bag (a little larger).

How cute is that KI memories Chill out blizzard paper! Ive been holding on to it waiting for my MFT stamps to come in!LOL! Today is the 20th so its also celebrating MFT day!YYAAAAAAYYY! For the layout of my bag I used the MFTsc09. I used basic gray for my base and layered w/KI memories dp. The pink strip is pixie pink and I tied basic gray taffeta ribbon on it twice. My main image is colored w/you guessed it...prismacolor pencils! I applied stickles to the snowman, the hill, and the tops of the girls boots. I layered my main image on ruby red and going gray. The sentiment is stamped with black stazon and outlined in pixie pink and layered w/ basic gray and going gray. I used black brads in the right corner to finish it off.

I will not be posting tommorrow. I have 2 class parties and we are having Christmas here at my house tommorrow night so I have tons of cleaning to do since hubby was here for 2 days w/kids while Brayden was in the hospital. Hope you have a great day!

Wintergreen Jingle

I have really enjoyed the sketch challenges the last couple of weeks! Todays sketch is AWESOME!LOL! It did take me a few to find an image to work with! I bought the jingle sentiment on my last trip to Michaels and I completely forgot I had the bell image until I went digging today!LOL! Come on ladies I know you all have them to! You know the big box with all the $1 stamps you've bought b/c they are only $1 and so cute and you'll sure you will find a way to use them!LOL! I think the bell was from last year but Im not sure.

I colored the bells with my primsacolor pencils. I think Im going to add somewhere on here all images colored with prismacolor pencils and blended with gamsol unless noted otherwise!LOL! I use them everyday! I actually have very few bold image stamps! I used my 1 1/4 " and 1 3/8" circle punches for my main image. I applied silver stickles to accent parts of the bell and diamond stickles for the bow. My sentiment is stamped in always artichoke. I had to put the sentiment over more than I wanted to to cover up a boo-boo!LOL! SHHH!! Dont tell! The photo corner was made with artichoke and I used silver eyelets and silver cord to tie it closed. All dp is Wintergreen dp. My cs is certainly celery, always artichoke, soft sky and PTI white. The soft sky looks darker in the pic for some reason.

While making my card this morning I ran out of mono! I went in a panic looking for some glue and pulled out this UHU glue stick I bought like a year ago. I love the stuff! OMG!! I cant believe Ive never used it before. Let me tell you it sure holds!LOL! Hope you have a great day!

cc145 Believe

Im back this morning in a much better state of mind after a good nights rest in MY bed and some REAL food!LOL! Brayden did great last night but b/c of the weather here I decided it was best to keep him home one more day for breathing treatments. The Dr. wants him to have one every 3 hours until his follow up visit.

When I saw the color challenge this morning I had to fight my usual urge when I see green in a challenge: Flowers or Christmas tree of course. I wanted to do a non floral/tree card. Ive had this Baby Jesus is born set for awhile and I thought the colors would work for this image. I was very happy with how my card turned out since I havent stamped in 3 days. Usually the first thing I make after not stamping for a few days takes me 2 hours and I still dont like it!LOL!

The image was colored with my prismacolor pencils and blended with gamsol. I applied Tulip white puffy paint to the lambs. I have become a complete Tulip puffy paint junky!LOL! I love stickles but I always have to order it online and that usually ends up with a full shopping cart at electic and a mad hubby!LOL! Tulip puffy paint adds dimension that the stickles doesnt so I like it when I want dimesion and sparkle! The puffy paint is also cheaper and I can get it at Walmart. I got 6 colors of puffy paint for less than $5. Dont get me wrong Im not knocking stickles b/c they have an advantage too especially with smaller images you have better control to not make a mess!LOL! I just like having options and I like using both just depending on what I want for my card.

Okay enough blah blah! Card recipe-

stamps: baby jesus is born, Believe in miracles (last year) Michaels $1 stamp

Paper: so saffron pp, so saffron, wild wasabi, elegant eggplant, PTI white

Ink: black stazon, elegant eggplant, wild wasabi

Other: wasabi ribbon, tulip puffy paint white, prismacolor pencils, gamsol, stumps,

Home

We're home. My Mom posted the previous post for me so you would know why I wasnt posting. Brayden is doin better. We still have to go for some follow up labs to check his white blood cell count his is very high even for an infection so they want to monitor it. He had pnemonia buidling in his left lung so thankfully we caught it and he had RSV. Basically all of his problems were respiratory. He scared me so bad Saturday Ive never seen him like that and dont ever want to again! He can go back to school tommorrow so he's happy. They have a field trip and class party this week that he didnt want to miss. Hopefully now everyone will stay well! I have alot of things to finish up this week before Christmas so I will be posting to share what I've made. Be back tommorrow!

Sick Child in Hospital

Just to keep you up to date and explain why I have not posted in the past few days I have 3 kids and for the past few weeks it seems like if it is not 1 it is the other one sice. Well Saturday I left the house to go meet my Dad to help him get his wife a computer for Christmas. Brayden slept the whole time we were at breakfast then started getting sick at his stomach. I did not like the way he was looking so I took him to the ER while my Mom and sister that we were meeting at Wal-Mart to finish up Christmas shopping took my 2 girls. 4 hours later we were taken up stairs to Brayden's room with a diagnosis of RSV. He was just at the docs earlier this week and put on high powerful antibiotics but either he already had it or picked it up after. I will be back in full swing next week, I hope.

Tangled Kitty

How cute is he??!!!? I stamped this Rubbernecker image along with a few others while I was at Mama's the other day when we were making candy. I only have a couple more Christmas cards to make and I've realized I havent inked up a few of my new Christmas sets so I will probably be posting more Christmas cards this week and next. As long as I ink up the stamp once during the holiday season I can justify buying it. Right!?!!LOL!

This card is for todays limited supply challenge to use a white card base. I colored this image last night and it fit perfect for todays challenge. I used PTI white for the card base its my fave for a white card base. The tangled kitty was colored using prismacolor pencils and blended with gamsol. I applied stickles to all the lights and the star. My card base is 5x5. The red ribbon is from Taylors share.

Alana is doing better today she had to get a shot yesterday and she did better than I would have!LOL! I have never seen medicine in a shot that was as thick and milky as what they gave her. OUCH!!! Im such a sissy when it comes to needles! NO Mama! I didnt pass out!LOL! All 3 kids are home today and we get to go back to the Dr. for them to swab Madison and Brayden so make sure they dont have strep too. I want to make sure and get them all well before Christmas.