Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day!! This is going to have to be a quick post... my bed is waiting for me! lol Here are a few cards that I made the last time Tara came to visit. I am really pleased with the way they turned out. She got the new You're Great (D1434) stamp set from Close to My Heart. When I saw this set, I just knew I had to play with it....soooo cute!!! I used every stamp in the set to make this little set of cards. The designs are my own. I hope you enjoy!!

You're Elaphantastic!!

I'm banana's over you!!

You're Great!! (no Lion)

Later gator!!

Hippo Birthday to You!!

Paper: Close to My Heart Twitterpated Level II paper pack. Cardstock: Colonial White, Chocolate, Sweet Leaf, Sorbet. Pearls are Connections Club reward. Flowers are Prima. Images are colored with copics, I do not know the colors because they were Tara's and I didn't write them down. (Oops!)

Tools: Spellbinder's Nestabilities, EK Success Scalloped Edge punch, SU scallop, 2" scalloped circle punch, SU scalloped circle punch, SU scalloped oval punch, SU large oval punch, SU 1 3/8" circle punch, CM 1 1/2" circle punch, SU designer label punch, SU ticket corner punch.

Thanks for looking!! Hope you all have a WONDERFUL Mother's Day!!!!!

2 days in a row...help, I'm outta control!! lol

Good morning!! How is everyone out there today? I'm tired, but I guess that's just the nature of the beast anymore. If I'd get my butt to bed before midnight, I might not have this problem!! lol. It is working up to be a beautiful day here...already 70 degrees! Woohoo!! Can't wait till the dew burns off so I can take all the little rugrats outside to run off some energy. If only I could bottle some of that for myself, that would be wonderful! No more lazy days 4 me!!

Anyway, here are 3 cards that I made back in March using the Unforgettable Level II paper pack (X7106B). I was vendoring a crop at the local catholic school for a fundraiser and was able to crop myself. I made cards because the mere thought of hauling everything along to scrapbook, quite frankly, scares the heck out of me. It never fails, I bring everything I think I'm going to use and then want to use everything I don't have along. So scrapbooking is strictly an at home activity for me! lol All products used are Close to My Heart unless stated otherwise.

1st card: The card stock colors are bamboo, colonial white & twilight. I used Antique Copper brads from the Mini-Medley Accents Collection (z1275), Say it in Style (D1283),Butterfly Wings (D1341) , Creme Brulee, Chocolate & Sorbet ink.

2nd card: The card stock colors are Creme Brulee, Sorbet, Bamboo, Chocolate & Colonial White.This one uses Treasure Life (D1306), Say it in Style (D1283), Antique Copper Photo Hangers (Z293). Chocolate, Creme Brulee & Sorbet ink. Border punch: EK Success. Ribbon: Joann's.

3rd card: The card stock colors are Bamboo, Juniper, Chocolate, Sorbet & Colonial White. Thank You (D1361), Say it in Style (D1283). Sorbet ink. Antique Copper Photo Hangers (Z293). Border punch: EK Success. Scalloped Circle punch: SU

Thanks for looking!! Go out and let the sunshine warm you from within!!

OMG!!! Has it been that long?!?!?!

Would you believe it took me a moment to remember my blog address, after I typed in what I thought it was, I was taken to some crazy tourist website. Oops!! Anyway, i figured it out and here I am!! I want to apologize for how long it has been since I have posted last. No excuses, but I can't even begin to describe how overwhelming the last year or so has been for me with 4 children....so I won't! You'll just have to trust me on that one!! lol

I have done a few things here and there but mostly my scrap stuff sits in the basement collecting dust waiting for me to come down, blow it off and play again. My scrap stuff has a bit of a savior in my BFF Tara...she comes to spend the weekend with me now and again and forces (well not really, lol!) me to go do and be creative. It sure does take a lot to get those creative juices flowing though! It's funny how much truth there is in "when you don't use it, you lose it!"

Anyway...where to start? Here is a card that I made recently. I made this a weekend or so ago when Tara came over and "forced" me to be creative! lol

Isn't he cute!! I just LOVE him!! He belongs to CTMH's July 2010 stamp of the month "Happy Forever". I can't wait till Tara comes to play again so I can play with this set some more!!

The scalloped border is done with Spellbinders Nestabillities. I am now the PROUD owner of a set of these!! I have been waiting for soooo long to get them, and wouldn't you know it....Michaels carries them now!!! Used my 50% off coupon to get them for just over $13. LOVE IT!!!

I used all Close to My Heart on this one except the blue flowers, those are Prima. The paper pack I used is Caboodle (x7121B). Cardstock is sweet leaf, chocolate and white daisy. The pearls are the Autumn/Winter 2009 Connection Club reward. The chocolate ribbon was a Spring 2010 CC reward. Border punch is SU. Hedgehog was colored with Copics ~ Body: E00, E31, R20, Shadow: C1, Back: E33, E35, E37.

Thanks for looking! I will try not to fall off the face of blogger for to long! lol! See you again soon!!

Double $$$ Savings @ Kmart!!!

This week is double coupon week at Kmart. They are doubling all coupons up to $2. My BFF Lisha told me about it and showed me her mega savings so I had to get in on the action too! I got all this loot ($196.12 worth) for less than $100! $98.52 to be exact! I won't be needing cleaning supplies for some time to come!





1 - 6 Big Role Viva paper towel
1- 2 Big Role Viva paper towel
1 - 18 Double Rolls Cottonelle toilet paper
4 - Lysol Toilet Bowl cleaners
2 - Lysol 4 in 1 All Purpose cleaners
2 - Lysol Bathroom cleaners
1 - Lysol Kitchen cleaner
1 - Lysol Mildew remover
2 - Dreft detergent (32 loads)
2 - Dove Cream Oil body wash
1 - Secret invisible solid
1 - Venus Embrace razor
1 - Schick Quattro razor
1 - Schick Quattro refill cartridges (4 count)
1 - Infants Motrin (1 ounce)
1 - Infants Tylenol (1 ounce)
1 - Huggies Overnight Pull-ups (34 count)
1 - 64 ounce Ocean Spray Light Cranberry
2 - Cascade Complete dishwasher pouches (16 loads)

I thought I did pretty good! I saved $39.60 because a lot of it was on sale and then I had $29.00 in coupons so I saved an aditional $58.00 for a grand total savings of $97.60! I hope they keeps this up every month! Here is a list of all the stuff you can get free or super cheap....I didn't have any of these coupons of course!!! Click here!

Now round up them coupons you've been hoarding and get your tail to Kmart!!! lol!!!

Still on baby leave...

Hello all! It's been one heck of a month since having baby. This is the first time that I've been able to get to my computer for more than 2 minutes to check email and go again. I feel so bad that I haven't been on sooner! Please forgive me!

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My daughter Samantha Ann was born Saturday, January 24th @ 2:02am. She was 7lbs 9ozs and 20 inches long. Labor and delivery went pretty smooth considering it took a little over 16 hours. So much for getting faster with each one you have! Of 4, she took the 2nd longest to make her grand entrance in to the world (and might I add - sunny side up!) We had a little bit of a scare toward the end. Her heart rate kept decelerating with each contraction but with flipping and flopping around back and forth, we finally got it to stop. The Dr said that her cord was getting pinched when I would have a contraction, it was so scary for me. I lost it there for a while and cried but the Dr didn't get excited, I guess it happens quite a bit.

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We spent 2 days in the hospital before we were able to come home. When we got home, we got a lot of visitors. Only those that are healthy are allowed in my house. Pediatrician said 'no bye-bye's and 'no sick people'. RSV was going around really bad at the time and now the Flu is heavy in the area. I had my Flu shot while I was pregnant but I'm not taking any chances. They just had on the news the other night that 2 teenage boys in DC were killed by the Flu in the last 2 weeks. Can you imagine? How awful! My heart pours out to those 2 families.

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Things have been pretty good considering she has colic. After supper, she would start in and not quit until 1 or 2 in the morning. I took her to the Dr and he said 'yep, sounds like colic'. I was thinking "wonderful!" My oldest had colic, I was not really excited about doing that again. I did a little research online and found out some information. Some Dr's believe that lactase enzyme is the answer and some Dr's believe that a pro-biotic is the answer. We decided to try the pro-biotic first. She's been on it now for about 10 days and we've only had 1 bad night since. So (knock on wood) I think it might be helping. (Don't want to jinx anything, lol) The only thing is now I'm up till at least 3 with her but at least she ain't screaming! and she sleeps till around 10. Take what I can get I guess. When the hubby is home, I try to get a nap in when I can. Those really help! It's funny how you forget about all those sleepless nights that you have when they are little until you have a little one again!

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I haven't touched anything in my craft area since my last post over a month ago. So no projects to share. But I do have a few pics of baby to share with you. Hopefully once baby gets on a better schedule I will have more time and energy to start posting regularly again. I apologize again for taking so long to get back on and thank everyone that is bearing with me. Here she is...
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A couple of hours old...

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So sleepy...

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A week old...

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Hoping those eyes are gonna be blue!

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So happy to be a BIG sister! lol...

Till next time....Happy stamping!

Lot's to do and running out of time to do it!

I haven't been on here a few days because I have so much to get done and I'm running out of time to get it all done! I went to the Dr. again on Friday for my weekly check up and got in trouble again! My B/P is still high so they are inducing me a week early on Friday. She wanted to take her sooner but my body isn't ready yet so she gave me a few more days.

Since then I've had to hurry up and try to find nursing bras only to find out that the specialty store that I normally get them from went out of business earlier this past year after 40 years of business. I was so mad. Finding nursing bras is no easy feat for me to begin with since I'm a bit larger in that department than the average gal to begin with. I found some at Motherhood that will have to do for now and then once my milk comes in I'll have to order them online in the right size. The ones I got only cost $16 and will never last. When it comes to nursing bras, you get what you pay for! lol!

Then I had to get caught up on the laundry and stay caught up cuz there's no way in he** my hubby will be doing laundry while I'm in the hospital. I'd kill him! I'm very particular about my laundry and he'd screw something up I'm sure so it's just best he don't go there! Update: The washing machine is on death row and can't be fixed. The Maytag repair man said to run her till she dies. It has since temporarily fixed it self. It made all this racket and noise for a few more loads and then stopped as soon as it started which is a very good thing since I have no moola for a new one right at the moment.

Next was to get the Christmas tree torn down. That was a chore and a half! I hate taking it down almost as much as I hate putting it up! It took half the afternoon getting all the Christmas stuff taken down and re-packed away but it's finally done! Yippeee!!!

Then I was off to clean my 6 year old's bedroom! OMG - never knew the kid was such a pack rat. I hauled 2 loads of dirty clothes out of his room I bet! It was never ending! I got'r done though and then threatened the little shits life! lol! We have a laundry chute for a reason and he needs to start using it!

Finally got my basement cleaned up this weekend too! I am supposed to be on bed rest! Yeah right! I thought, she gave me a week to get my life in order before baby and I have a 3 yr old running around, who's got time for bed rest? It's more like 'crunch time' instead! The basement only took a few hours to get cleaned up. It was pretty easy going after I got all the kids toys picked up and put away. Then it was just a matter of vacuuming and throwing out the trash.

I still have Thank You cards to make from my baby shower, 2 bathrooms to clean, a ton of laundry to put away, clean my daughter's room, clean up my bedroom, sew ties onto the babies bumper pad for the crib, pack for the hospital, go to the dump tomorrow, go to the recycle center and vacuum the entire house. I have 2 1/2 days left to get this all done so I guess I better get this wrapped up and get my butt off the computer so I can get all these wonderful chores done! Here is the set of 3x3 cards that I made while Tara was here last weekend. My camera didn't take very good pics of them the first time so I had to wait to post these until I got a chance to take better ones. Thanks for stopping by and listening! Have a wonderful day!

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All 4 Cards...

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Insides of the 4...

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Card 2...

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Card 3...

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Card 4...

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I used the following Close to My Heart supplies on these...

Stamp sets: D1309 Heart Throb, B1297 Heartfelt, D1269 February Word Puzzle, D1254 Soul Mates Word Puzzle.

Cardstock: Tulip, White Daisy, Baby Pink, Blush.

Ink: Tulip, Baby Pink, Blush, Chocolate.

Chocolate Ribbon & Pewter Brads.

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Tools:

Martha Stewart's Heart Lace border punch, Mini-heart Scallop border punch and Scalloped Heart punch.

Paper Shaper's 2" Scalloped circle punch

SU's 1 3/8" circle punch, Scalloped Circle punch

CM's 1 1/2" circle punch

Valentine Layout and a broken machine!

I had every intention of getting my basement cleaned yesterday until my washing machine broke. I have no idea what happened, I had done 3 loads already and went to put the fourth in. Well when I did that it just started making all kinds of loud obnoxious noises and my laundry was not going to get finished till after hubby got home. When he got home he looked at it and said I needed to finish the load that was in there before he could try to fix it, so I ran it. Eeesh, you should have heard it, not good. Well of course American Idol was on last night so we HAD to watch that and well tonight is poker night so my machine is still broke. Good thing I only have 2 more loads sitting there and not 10 or we'd really be in trouble! So hopefully tomorrow he can fix it. It's kinda of funny too that it happened because the load of reds that I put in when it broke didn't all fit. I had to leave some out, and I said to myself "this would have all fit in my Mom's washer" that I absolutely fell in love with while we were at her house! Maybe the good lord is on my side on this one! I still felt guilty and told my hubby "I swear, I didn't do anything to it!" lol. So I guess my basement will get cleaned once my washer gets fixed. I can't stay down here and clean without doing laundry too...idk what it is. Maybe it's that multi-tasker in me!

While Tara was here this past weekend we made a valentine layout using random stamped paper we made and the layout pattern from one of our new workshops on the go. This is how it turned out...

The whole layout...

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This layout uses all Close to My Heart ~ D1309 Heart Throb stamp set, B1297 Heartfelt stamp set, D1269 February Word Puzzle stamp set, D1336 Cupcake Sprinkles stamp set, D1280 Spot on Backgrounds stamp set, Love Letters rub-ons in chocolate, Pretty Pins, Blush Ric-Rac Ribbon, Tokens to Treasure, Big Pinks Just Blooms, Cardstock: Tulip, Blush, Baby Pink, Chocolate, White Daisy. Ink: Tulip, Blush, Baby Pink, Chocolate.

Tools ~ Paper Shaper's 2" Scalloped Circle punch, CM's 1 1/2" circle punch, SU's 1 3/8" circle punch, Martha Stewart Heart Lace border punch & Mini Heart Scallop border punch