A little Valentine Treat!

I've been seeing so many boxes being made and thought I would give it a whirl. I made some heart shaped rice cripy treats the other day out of strawberry marshmallosws and cut out hearts with my heart cookie cutter. I made the box with my Scorpal....it is very easy and if you are interested in how, just leave me a note and I'll explain. The box is 7 x 4 with a 1" lip. I made an insert to go along with it. The box lid is clear. I added some hershey kisses for some chocolate fans. I stamped the hearts with the Heart Prints set from PTI and then punched them with the heart punch. It can't get any easier than this. I didn't stay up late last night though....I crashed when my head hit the pillow.

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Back to work again tomorrow. Then I'll be off for a few days before the weekend gets here. I wish we didn't have to go anywhere because it is in the single digits outside. We put the horse and burrow away in the barn to keep them a little warmer and we are staying inside where it is warm.

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I entered this treat box for the PTI Guest Star Stamper contest.....so wish me luck! I got a nice surprise when I got home today, the Stampin' Up! catalogs arrived! I love a lot of the new sets and they have some really neat new ideas.

Hope all of you are having a great week! Thanks for stopping by.

May all your wishes come true!

Pink Cat Studio is hosting a contest until "tomorrow". I have been wanting to play with this fairy for the last week and finally got to sit down to do this while my husband watched 24 and the kiddos. I wanted to make a rainbow so I used my nestability circle templates and drew the partical circles on the paper and then used my cuttlebug to emboss. The sentiment on the cloud I just made in word with a little cloud from my clipart. It says, May all your Wishes come True! I added a lot of bling to the fairy's dress and wings. Isn't this fairy wonderful! Check out the Pink Cat Studio link to see a sneek peak of some of the new stamp sets coming out. I honestly think Melissa has my kids in mind when she creates these. Now if she comes out with a "little donkey" stamp set I will know that for sure! :-)

Today has been very busy on the medical front. We left around 7:00 to get labs, found out around 9:00 that Ethan needed platelets and then headed on our 2 1/2 hour trip to the hospital for a transfusion. We got home a little after 5:00, headed to my nephew's 7th grade basketball game and then came home to get the horse and burrow in the barn for the next few days as we are expecting very cold weather. We are finally in now and getting ready to head up for bed. There's always something going on here at our house and today was definitely no exception. If I have the energy, I'm going to come back down and work on PTI's Guest Stamper challenge. I've had my little valentine treat made for a week now, but haven't gotten it totally finished! I need just a few more hours in the day and a few less trips to the hospital.

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great week!

It's the Weekend!

It's Saturday and time for Lauren's Saturday Sketch! We've had a crazy week here at our house. I usually work on Mondays and Tuesdays, but I didn't have anyone to watch my kiddos on Monday, Tuesday Ethan was in the hospital all day, Wednesday we were home and just played catch up on everything, and then I decided to work Thursday and Friday! So, needless to say we are a little tired around here this morning. We all slept in, we didn't go to bed very early either, but it still felt good to sleep in!


My Mom played along this week and actually created the card for this weeks sketch. I asked Lauren about trying out scrapbooking with her sketches, so that is what I did. Here are 2 Valentine day ideas with Lauren's sketch. It's so easy to take a card sketch and use it for a scrapbook page. Ava was so funny last night when I was making this. She was sitting right next to me of course and she got all upset when she found out that I had "broke her". I used my nestabilities on her picture and she thought I broke her, it was really funny. Mom's card uses SU's stamp set, So Many Scallops and I didn't end up stamping at all. I printed my title from Word and added a little glitter. I made my own background paper with the small heart punch from PTI. I added glitter to my hearts for some bling!


Hope all of you are getting a good start to your weekend. We don't have much planned. Hopefully we'll be home all of this weekend and next week, that would be so nice for a change. We did finally find out a schedule for Ethan's upcoming scans, so that is nice to have "somewhat" of a plan. The kids are doing great. They even went upstairs by themselves last night for a half hour and played with a puzzle and they didn't come down screaming or crying at us....now that is amazing.

Thanks for stopping by! Be sure to check out the other gal's cards too.

LaurenMeader
Tamara Harder
Maria Levine
Dawn Easton
Kirsten Dubosque
Kristy Vernon
Kim Gasper
MacKenzieBruckler
Kendra Wisenbaker

Welcome Little One! and my Little M&M

My friend, Jen, had her new little baby boy today around 9:30 this morning. I'm a little jealous because it sounds like she had him pretty quickly. My little Ethan....I was in labor for over 18 hours! That was after my husband discovered that the IV drip from my epideral had been dripping on the floor after they put it in! That made for a very fun afternoon!!!

Here is what I came up with. This is an old SU set called Welcome Little One. Isn't the baby just precious. The paper was from my stash and the ribbon is from PTI. I absolutely love this gingham ribbon that they are carrying. I drug out my nestabilities to cut out my main image. It seems like I go in spurts with that and use it a lot and then put it away for a while. I'm really loving this new Martha Stewart lace edge punch.

We had a very full day here at home. I did all the usual stuff and really tried hard to get all of my Christmas decorations put away. I managed to get "almost" everything. The trees are still sitting waiting to go to the basement, but I finally have my house back. After Christmas it always feels so much bigger when I get the decorations put away! I'm off to work tomorrow and Friday. I usually work on Mondays and Tuesdays, but that didn't work out this week. Ethan is pretty bummed that he can't go to school tomorrow. He was going to go, but there is so much flu going around that we decided to keep him home.

Hope all of you have a good Thursday and Friday....I'll be back on Saturday with Lauren's sketch! If this picture doesn't make you laugh....isn't this too cute. Ava came downstairs with this and "only" this on a couple nights ago. She went to the corner where the Christmas tree was with her kitty slippers and was eating Valentine Sweetarts! She's too funny!

Loads of Love

Thought I would share a card with you that I made last year. I know it's "old", but I really liked how it turned out and it's getting closer to Valentine's Day so I thought I would share it with you. This is a great set from SU called Loads of Love. This set is very versatile because you can do so much with it. I'll be back later today...I hope to share a new baby card. My friend is in the hospital right now having her first baby. Hopefully her labor will go quickly.

Yesterday we spent the day at the hospital in the clinic with Ethan. He had to get a stem cell rescue. Basically what this is are stem cells that were harvested back in Sept before he had his MIBG treatment. The doctors were expecting Ethan's counts to drop and that he would possibly need this and he did. So we are now waiting on Ethan to engraft and for his bone marrow to recover so we can proceed with a new drug. It's all so new and scary, but we are praying hard that all works out. You would just be amazed at our son. You honestly can't tell a thing is wrong. He runs around with endless energy, has a full head of curly hair and is just a very imaginative, fun 4 year old. We are so grateful for that. Today we are just very grateful to be home and enjoying some down time.

Check out my list of blogs on the left....I have some new links listed so check them out. I'm going to try to keep on track today and make a couple scrapbook pages. Yesterday I obviously didn't get to do anything, but I'm hopeful I'll get back at it today. Ethan is having a friend over to play so it will be a busy day. Ethan is really excited about getting to play with his friend. Thanks for stopping by!

Always on my mind - forever in my heart.

I saw this card at Lily Bean Paperie and I instantly loved it. So I went to the drawing board and this is what I came up with. I just got this stamp set last month from Stampin' Up! called Stem Sayings and I love it. I got the Martha Stewart Edging punch for Christmas and the heart punch is from PTI, but you can also get this new heart punch from SU in the new catalog! So, I'm excited because I can use this punch at my stamp club too! The lace came from Wal-Mart and I used my cuttlebug to emboss the pink background paper. The colors are Pink Pirouette, Baja Breeze, and Chocolate Chip. The ribbon is from PTI, Ocean Tides Satin. The felt flower is from SU in their Flower Fusion pack of felt flowers...they are so pretty. Hope you enjoy this card as much as I do. I am defnitely going to use this color combo again. Now....I think I have to get to "work" and pick up some stuff and gather more ornaments from the tree!

Last, but definitely not least, here are my kiddos today "posing" for Mommy on the couch. We have been home all day and it is frigid outside, so we've been doing indoor stuff. The kids want to make brownies yet today so I know that is on the agenda for after naps. Hope you are having a good Monday. Thanks for stopping by!

Look Alikes and Four Generations

Here's another scrapbook page to share with you. I used my PTI set, Floral Frenzy, to create the flowers. I took my paper piercer and made the stems. The paper is Pretty in Pink from SU. I took the center of the flower to create a background for my title. The title I cut out from my Pazzles Inspiration.

Here's a closeup of my flowers and title. When I cut the titles out of my Pazzles I like to use my sticker maker by Xyron. It makes adhering these to my pages so easy.

I like to make 2 page layouts, even if my pictures aren't from the same event. This is how I make it work, just put a different title on each page, but coordinate the pages so they go together. This is just how I like to scrapbook, others do just one page layouts, but I like the continuity of how it flows together. I finished up Ava's baptism pages this morning. I'm really trying to stick to my goal. Have a good Monday. I'll be in the hospital tomorrow with Ethan so I might not have time to post anything, but we'll just see how the day goes!