More Monday Madness

Things on my work table right now. These are going to be used on my Ohio State Buckeyes inspired Christmas cards. LOL Well, we live in Columbus, and my husband is and OSU graduate and he worked there for 15 years. He jokes that if cut he bleeds Scarlet and Gray. The day after Hunter was born hubby held him (both dressed in Buckeye clothes) for most of the "first game together." LOL It was too cute.

Some pieces for a Christmas gift, 6x6 pieces of chipboard and card stock stamped with the months of the year. Hummm, I can not wait to get this one done!!

Lastly, hubby likes to deer hunt. He was up bright and early on Saturday to get in the woods and wait for the "big one." It was raining and chilly, but that did not bother him. He came home around noon, and look what he brought home..........

The New Meatball pizza from Donatos!! Yummmm!! I LOVE my deer hunter!!!! Apparently the deer were in their nice warm, dry beds and planned to stay there for the day. LOL

Have a great one!!!

Until later~

Another Christmas card

Little by little and bit by bit I am getting our Christmas cards done. I have had something on the schedule every day this week, so I had to skip my Tuesday work day. I have taken advantage of a few minutes whenever I can "steal" them. LOL I just do what I can when I can. I need about 100 Christmas cards, so I am keeping them very simple this year. I must admit for the first time ever I am really enjoying creating our Holiday cards. Don't get me wrong, I have enjoyed the other's, but after card 37, 62 and 99 looking the same it can become a chore. This year I have made some simple changes to some basic designs and each one feels "new". YKWIM?

Notice I am finally using my little reindeer? LOL

I love his cute little face, I bought Christmas Fun just because of this little guy. I think I have always used red Stickles on his nose- reminds me of that one reindeer. You know the one, all of the other reindeer, used to laugh and call him names....... LOL

I found these papers at the LSS early last month and knew I would have to have them. I just hope they still have some when I go back. **fingers crossed**

The "Merry Christmas" stamp is from a set of clear stamps that match the paper. (I really need more practice using clear stamps- I need to find the right pressure. Somethings I smoosh too hard and get a deformed shaped. LOL Not good!)

Oh, we started our Christmas shopping. We have decided to not go overboard this year. The kids are pretty easy to buy for- we have always done 3 gifts- just like the wise men brought to Jesus. (It can be very difficult for a 4 year old to narrow his list to 3, but he has already told me that some toys will have to stay on his list. LOL. Whenever we go shopping and check out the toy section I always tell the kids to put those toys they really want on their list. Hey, we don't have kids throwing tantrums in the store for toys. LOL It is funny when I tell Hunter to put something on his list, and he replies, "It's already on my list." LOL Too cute!!)

This year we are starting a new tradition. I have already started preparing the kids, and at first it didn't go over too well. LOL But, I think they finally "get it". This year we are leaving some of our older toys under the tree for Santa to give to the other children on his journey. I hope this helps rid some toy clutter and instills a Spirit of giving in Hunter and Hailey. After all, that is the TRUE Spirit of Christmas.

Sorry for being so gabby today. LOL

Until later~

So, what can you do in two minutes?? This card felt like it only took 2 minutes. Actually, it did take a little longer, I had to wait for the glue to dry after I applied the glitter to the scarf. And if you look very closely you will see that I should have let the blue marker dry for another minute on said scarf. LOL It NEVER pays to get in a hurry. LOL Looks good for my prototype, I can work with it. LOL ** The image is from the Wal-Mart clear stamps**

This is my latest Christmas card design. LOL- Funny, neither the paper nor this cute Polar bear image was anywhere to be seen in yesterday's post. Yep, I swear I have crafter's ADD. I have pieces for several Christmas card designs in various states and yet when I get a minute I start something brand new. LOL Can I get a witness?? Where is my "Amen" corner?? PLEASE don't tell me I am alone on this one!!

My cards may not be done yet, BUT I have printed off my return addy labels, AND got my mailing list started.LOL Little steps, little steps!!

So, go ahead and leave me a comment. Tell me that your Christmas cards are:

completed,

mailed,

designed,

you've thought about them,

What's the big deal, you still have 44 days.....

Until later~

Monday Madness...

Yummy Christmas papers- cut and ready to be used on our family's Holiday cards.

Oodles of reindeer, stamped, colored, Stickled, punched and matted-ready to be used on our family's traditional Holiday cards. (Not necessarily to be used on the above papers. LOL) **Please note the reindeer were not injured during said stamping, coloring, Stickle-ing, punching and matting!!!** LOL

Fun non-traditional card - ready to be sent to our Flamingo loving friends for the Holidays.

Another busy week here, I will try to catch up with you as you go flying by me.LOL

Until later~

Birthday Flowers

Grandma B's birthday was last week. Here is the card we sent her. Daddy called and chatted with her, catching up on all the latest. Hailey was eager to tell her "Happy Birtday!" LOL But she did chicken out and not sing for her. Hunter wasn't in much of a mood to talk.

(Everything used except for the image is from The Angel Comapny and can be found in my on-line store-link on the right-->.) If you look closely you will see that there is an embossed "frame" around the matted image. I love using the Scor-pal to achieve that effect- it is so easy with the right tool. The image is one I had picked up about 4 years ago, I love those cute little heart-shaped leaves. I wanted to use a watercolor technique- picking up a little color from the tip of the watercolor crayons using an Aquaflow water brush. The colors are so pretty I just could not bring myself to mute them with more water. LOL Stickles added to the center of the flowers adds a little sparkle and shine, and the petals of the flowers were dotted with a white chalk pen. The image was matted with DP from the Miss Moxie SWIC and the beautiful sheer ribbon is from the same collection. I hope you enjoy it Grandma!!

We had an unexpected visitor show up at our home around 2 AM Friday. Both Hubby and I ended up with the Stomach flu. I thought it was so strange that we both got it at the EXACT same time. Hummm, I did wonder for a minute if it was food poisoning, but it wasn't. How do I know that it wasn't? Well, because Hunter woke up around 12:30 Saturday morning with the SAME thing. Poor little guy. He was doing much better yesterday evening. So, my word of advice- If the tummy bug comes to visit at your house, just pretend you are not home!! LOL

Until later~

A week?

Seriously, someone must have hit the fast forward button- you know the 8x one. It seems like I have been losing time since August. (Yeah, I am still trying to find the couple of days I lost while staying at the hospital with Hailey- in August!!) It has been almost a week since I posted, and what have I done in that week??? Well, just a whole lot of little things. Nothing huge, just TONS of little things.

Tuesday night I did get in a little work time. I almost finished 18 Christmas cards. I need to find the perfect ribbon to finish them up, and then I can share them with you. I have one Masculine Birthday card to do yet this year. My goal was to send B-day cards to my dad's side of the family. Well I have almost made it. That was almost 50 birthday cards for the year. Wow!!

This is my heat and dry embossed card. The Metallic green paper was dry embossed with the Big Shot and a texture plate.The Cars image and the word "cars" was heat embossed using black ink and clear embossing powder. A little bit of black card stock and a thin green ribbon finished this one. DH thought this one was pretty cool looking- in other words it was more to his liking, he prefers it to the more girlie cards I make. LOL

My Aunt had her surgery last Thursday. The kidney was removed, and she will not need any Chemo or Radiation. The surgery went well, and she is recovering nicely. Thank the Lord for watching over her.

Until later~

Fall Festival

Hunter has been hooked on Garfield for a coupleof months now. He even tells everyone that his name is Garfield, he will not answer to Hunter- only Garfield. A couple of weeks ago we had am all day seminar at church, the ladies from the church's day care came to provide child care for the afternoon. Hunter told those ladies that his name was Garfield. LOL He decided he was going to be Garfield and Hailey would be Odie- good thing is she is too young to argue. LOL Well last week the kids saw the Chipmunks- now Hunter says he is Alvin. I told him he had to be Garfield for at least another week.LOL After I had to order their costumes on Ebay a couple of weeks ago He was not changing his mind!! LOL So tonight we had Garfield and Odie- thank goodness for nice warm costumes!! It got chilly after the sun went down.

This is the pony ride, look how cute that little pony is!! They had him dressed like a Pirate, honestly I wanted to bring him home with me. I was very surprised that Sister got off of the little guy. The last time she rode a horse she did not want to get off. LOL

This little pony was giving rides on the little cart. Again, I wanted to bring this little one home too.

We had hot dogs, chips and fresh apple cider. We did the "trunk or treat", they really liked stopping by each car and getting some candy. And then we finished off the night with a hay ride. Needless to say- we all really enjoyed ourselves.

I hope you all enjoyed your Halloween!!!

Until later~