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One Down, One to Go!

Copic Markers, Her Badness, Inky Antics, Photography 12 Responses »

Aug 192007

I can’t believe it’s been a week since I’ve posted. It was definitely a busy week for this mom. Wednesday was moving day for our youngest daughter and I had a lot to do getting Mallory ready to leave home. There was shopping for the last minute things, laundry and sitting on my flabby fanny watching her pack. We left around noon on Wednesday to take her to college, and her check-in time was between 3:00 and 5:00. Luckily, there were a couple of boys helping to carry stuff up to the dorm rooms, and by the time Lance and I got our cars parked, they had most of the stuff carried up. It took us just a couple of hours to arrange the room and put things away.

Mallory just has a way with looks sometimes, and this is one I often get — what is a mother to do but take pictures!

Kate went along and her main job for the day was getting the laptop online and ready to go for her computer-challenged sister.

Just before we left to go have dinner together one last time, I was able to get the girls together one last time for the day.

Needless to say, I’ve already had a few calls and emails about things she would like to have that we forgot. So I have a shopping list together and ready to run some errands in the morning. I’m working on her first care package, and needed to make a card to send along. See there is some stamping in this post! Mallory loves the little penguins from Inky Antics, and I never had a chance to make a card with any of them before she left, so here’s the card that I’m going to send along with her package. I hope she gets a kick out of it!

Stamps: Innertube Pals by Inky Antics, Simply Circles

Ink: Green Galore, Real Red, Tempting Turquoise

Paper: Neenah Solar White Cover, Basic Black, Tempting Turquoise

Accessories: Brads, Ribbon, Copic Markers, Mounting Tape

Stamps, Shopping and Puppies!

Challenges, Her Badness, Photography, Stampin' UP! 19 Responses »

Jul 182007

Oh my do I have so much to share with you today. First off, I want you to meet Elliott! She is actually a female but the girls decided that Elliott was a unisex name (much like Pat I guess) and we are calling her El. I like Ellie so most times Ellie May comes slipping out but I try to make it Els.

She is four months old and I presume by her size is going to be rather small. But, she is cute and so playful. Now Sydney who is now close to seven months is huge compared to Els. AND, she is rather jealous, quite protective of all of us, and just this morning actually started to play with Els. But she gets rather aggressive in her play, starts to growl and bark and then Little E (hehe) backs off. Here is a picture of both of them, Mallory struggling to hold them both, it is rare trust me!

Moving on! As most of you know, Mallory my youngest daughter, just graduated from high school this year, and is heading out to college. We shopped yesterday, shopped till we dropped. It actually became a major family outing. We picked up my mother so she could go with, my sister called while we were in Target and she and my aunt met us at Bed, Bath and Beyond. Another full shopping cart and we all headed out for lunch. After checking our list, all of us headed back to Target for one last run through. So here we have three shopping carts worth of stuff, all piled together, and there is still a few things like toiletries, snacks, etc. to get.

Oh my it just keeps getting better! I knew that my first order from the new Stampin’ UP! Catty was due yesterday. By the time everyone left my house yesterday, of course all the aunts and grandma had to come see the new baby, and then my sister got a call – her new kitten was ready to be picked up. Yep, she has two already and just adopted an orange tabby named Tony! She and Mallory headed out to pick up Tony and introduce him to his cousins. Anyhoo, it was close to 5:30 when things here settled down and Mr. Brown was still not here. With each truck I could hear go down the road I ran to the front door only to be disappointed. I finally gave up about 7:00 and headed to the studio to do a little organizing so I would be ready. I checked again at 7:30 – nothing. At 8:00 I decided to give it one more look see – WOO HOO, packages by the front door!

Now late last night I was talking with my other BAD self on the phone, and we were rattling off some of the new in-colors we thought looked good together. Well, I just couldn’t help myself. My card today for the Sketch Challenge on Splitcoast, and we all know that I can’t miss many of those (I did last week, SORRY Roxie), using one of those combinations – Purely Pomegranate and Groovy Guava!

The main images were stamped first in Groovy Guava, rock and rolled in Purely Pomegranate, and then stamped. I stamped the flairs in Groovy Guava and then went back and stamped again in Purely Pomegranate. Oh my how I love this over stamping looks! As you can see, I also got some of the new ribbon in my order – oh my! I was going to use just a one layer card of the Groovy Guava, and after I stamped it and laid it out, I just couldn’t leave it alone – nope, had to cut off the panel and stick it on a card base of the Pomegranate. All three of the panels are raised on mounting tape too!

Stamps: Priceless

Ink: Groovy Guava, Purely Pomegranate

Paper: Neenah Solar White Cover, Groovy Guava, Purely Pomegranate

Accessories: Dauber, Mounting Tape, Ribbon, Brads

I know this has been a very long post, but I’m just so excited to share all the news! (In addition, I knew my sister and cousin would want pictures of the new pup.) Hope everyone has a great day!

A Fluffles Friday!

Challenges, Copic Markers, Her Badness, MFT Designs, Photography, Techniques 11 Responses »

May 182007

Whoa it’s Friday! This week has gone really fast for me. I actually don’t know where the time went. My daughter’s tennis team won their second round of Sectionals last night – WOO HOO! The final is tonight at 4:30. So if they win tonight, guess what – that puts Regionals on the day of Graduation! Now isn’t that just a big whoop! Of course, there are only two seniors on the team, one being my daughter. It just occurred to me that I have never shown you a picture of Mallory. Katie has been featured on here before so I fair is fair. This is a picture of Mallory with my mother on the night of Baccalaureate.

Now, for today’s challenge on Splitcoast. Friday is the Limited Supply Challenge. Jen has really changed these up in the last few months and is actually limiting the stamps, accessories, etc. I’m finding them so much fun, but I have to be really careful. I always read the instructions, sometimes it just doesn’t sink in though and I find that I’ve made a boo boo! Hah what else is new – I am Her Royal Badness!

For today’s challenge, we are limited to flower images. One flower stamp (no double stamping, no triple stamping – hmmmmmmm wonder if she was thinking of me when she came up with this), one sentiment, one small background, 1-3 colors of cardstock plus white or vanilla, any inks or tools, ribbon, brads, flower punches and the only technique is doodling. Now here is where I almost blew it. I got the card done and thought the edges of the background layers needed something else and was getting ready to run to the sewing machine . . . . . . Then I remembered DOODLING only! So I doodled!

The image is actually one Jen sent me a long time ago. I ran across it the other day, and thought what a perfect image to use today. So, I know it’s a Fluffles but other than that I can’t tell you much else about it. I did however, color the image with Prismacolor pencils and Turpenoid. My one sentiment is the friend stamp from Bundles of Bouquets by My Favorite Things, and my background is the small dot one from Polka Dots and Paisleys. I used my Fiskars scalloped edged scissors to trim the black panel around the image and my corner rounder punch to make the scalloped edge on the panel behind my sentiment. To make the dots I used my Signo white gel pen and the doodles were made with a Pilot extra fine black gel pen.

Stamps: Fluffles image received from Jen, Polka Dots and Paisleys, Bundles of Bouquets from My Favorite Things

Ink: Bashful Blue

Paper: Whisper White, Bashful Blue, Black

Accessories: Signo white gel pen, Pilot black gel pen, Ribbon, Mounting Tape, Prismacolor Pencils, Turpenoid, Blending Stumps