Saturday Sketch Time

It's Saturday and I finally got in the mood to stamp a bit. It's been a long week of waiting and we didn't exactly get the news we were waiting for. I'll just send you to Ethan's caring bridge link.....it's easier than telling the story twice. We could still use some extra prayers for our Ethan. We aren't heading to Philadelphia next week, but to St. Louis for one more heart test and some biopsy results. The waiting game isn't any fun at all, the not knowing isn't any fun either, but it is what it is and we are trying to make life go on like there isn't anything wrong at all. So I decided to get up and stamp! I have to have 2 birthday cards for this weekend anyway, so I thought I better get in gear. I'm wanting to make the birthday card box that Lauren has showed recently on her blog so maybe I'll get to that sometime this weekend!

Here's my card for Lauren's sketch. I used elegant eggplant for the first time in a long time. The cupcake is from Maya Road. Isn't it cute.....it's my Mom's for her birthday (shh!!!) She doesn't know she is getting it, but I'm sure she'll read my blog before her birthday tomorrow! I had to try it out and make sure it "worked" okay! It does!!! I made the background paper and added a little ribbon from my stash to finish it off. I had "1" heart button to add at the top and added a little bling with my dazzling diamonds.

Mom's card is really pretty. She actually gave me a recipe this time! The patterned paper is from Basic Grey, Cloud 9 Designs and the cardstock is Mellow Moss from SU. She stamped with Rose Romance, Old Olive, and Mellow Moss and used the Marth Stewart butterfly punch. The sentiment is from SU.

Hope all of you are having a good weekend. We are making the best of ours. We really aren't just sitting around dwelling on Ethan's latest scan reports. It doesn't do us any good to worry. We still don't have any biopsy results from his bone marrow, so we'll just wait on that Monday and see how his heart echo test turns out on Tuesday. We always have something to think about at our house. Thanks for stopping by and for all the nice comments. It helps to know that there are so many people out there thinking and praying for our son!

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

Waiting and Praying!

We are home.....I know some of you follow this site for my "stamping", but some also follow my son's progress as well. Ethan had several tests/scans today. He had a cat scan, bone marrow biopsies and a MIBG scan. We don't know anything yet, so as my title says, we are "Waiting and Praying!" These tests tell us what our next steps are. Right now we have tickets to head to Philadelphia next week, but that can change in the blink of an eye. Our lives are always subject to change at the last minute. Hopefully we'll know something tomorrow. We just keep praying for good results!

I don't have any cards or scrapbook pages to share. I do have a few pages that I haven't taken any pictures of yet....just haven't had time this week. I did get to stop off at Michaels on the way home this evening and got a new stamp set....it's so cute. I can't wait to play with it. I'm sure I'll be stamping some tomorrow....it definitely helps to keep my mind off of things.

I'll be back on Satuday morning with Lauren's sketch. What do you think of me making scrapbook pages or are you wanting to see more cards? Thanks for stopping by!

Love Ewe!

A very QUICK post as I should be in the shower getting ready for work! This is what we'll be making tomorrow night at stamp club. I actually made a card without ribbon, can you believe it? I think it turned out pretty cute. I have everything cut and ready to go, just in case Ethan has to get platelets today! Ethan is on his way with his Daddy right now for labs.....I'm praying so hard that he has held his own, that would just make my whole year!

Thanks for stopping by. I have some scrapbook pages that I'll share if I have time this week. We have a busy one with scans for Ethan on 2 days. Please keep my little boy in your prayers. We are praying for good news from these scans!

Love You Forever

It's Saturday....THANK GOD! It has been a whirlwind week. Monday we were at the hospital getting my son platelets, Tues and Wed I worked because they needed me to finish up a project before the end of the week, Thursday Ethan needed blood and we didn't get home until after midnight, and yesterday......we were so lazy and stayed home and inside all day! Ava and I did venture out last night and ran a couple errands. It was sure a fast week!

Last night I made a scrapbook page for Lauren's sketch and my Mom made a card. Here's a peak at Lauren's sketch.

Check out the other gal's cards too! LaurenMeader Tamara Harder Maria Levine Dawn Easton Kirsten Dubosque Kristy Vernon Kim Gasper MacKenzieBruckler Kendra Wisenbaker

My Mom went with a cirlce theme throughout. The background is embossed with the cuttlebug and then dobbed. She added some PTI ribbon and then layed her circles. My Mom needs to start doing a write up because I'm really just guessing what she did. I really can't even tell you the colors....I'm helpful aren't I??

Here's my scrapbook page for Lauren's sketch. Now this was very fun to make. I had cut all of these hearts out with my pazzles a few days ago and planned on using them on another scrapbook page, but I took a picture yesterday that I just loved and wanted to scrapbook it right away. The background paper is called Queen of Hearts by Splendid. I LOVE it! I used Riding Hood Red, Pink Pirouette, and Baja Breeze cardstock from SU. I've found that the Ocean Tides ribbon from PTI matches pretty closely with the Baja Breeze so I've been using that a lot lately. The lace is from Wal-Mart. There are my kiddos yesterday! I put pony tails in Ava's hair for the first time and she loved them. She looks pretty funny though when she takes them out! Hope all of you have a great weekend. We're off for scans next week on Wed/Thursday so we could use some extra prayers for our son! Thanks for stopping by!

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