Happy 4th of July...a little early

Here are a couple of 4th of July cards that I whipped up last night. DH has been working evenings so I put the boys to bed early and went to town stamping. My dear friend, Candice picked up these adorable stamps by Stampendous at Archiver's for me. They are called Patriotic Pair and are just too cute for words. I just love that they are little kids!! :) I used Nesties to cut out the rectangles and scalloped rectangles. I colored the images in with Copics and masked off my main image to add fireworks behind them. I used some bling in the middle of the fireworks and accented the card with some ribbon. The background paper is from my stash and is by Doodlebug. TFL

No More Training Wheels!

Here's my newest LO of my DS, Max learning to ride his bike without training wheels. He picked up on it so fast once HE was ready to try. He's been zooming all over the place ever since. I used the Sesame Street Cricut cart for Elmo and Grover. Both were cut at 4 1/2". The bike was cut using the Going Places Cricut cart. It was cut at 4". I had the Sesame Street paper from my stash from when the boys were babies. That paper is at least 5 years old!!! I love hanging on to paper. TFL

My Baseball Players

WOW!! It's been a while since I've posted. I've been super busy. I went to a Cricut Swarm in Indianapolis last weekend and I got 27 pages done. WOOHOO! I'll try to get those posted soon. I've also been busy being a Baseball Mom! The boys' season started on April 18 and it's been go...go...go ever since. We're trying to get the school year finished up, baseball under way, and planning yet another vacation to Disney World in June. We're just SO busy. But I wanted to get these pics posted of the boys. They are really enjoying playing t-ball and baseball. Evan is on a 5 year old t-ball team and Max is on a 6 year old machine pitch team. Both are doing AMAZING!! Enjoy!

Here are my two in their helmets that I decorated for them. I used Wall Pops and my Cricut machine to cut their names and put them on their batting helmets. Every other little boy has a navy blue helmet and I wanted to be able to spot my two on the field so their names are on the front and their numbers are on the back!


Here are Max and Evan before their first game. Aren't they adorable??


Evan celebrating after his first "home run". LOL He was the last batter so he got to run all the bases at once.


Evan hates being in the outfield. He gets bored!


Max is in his ready stance! Isn't that cute??


Max was playing catcher at his first game. He's so tiny to have on all that gear!


Run, Evan, run!!!


Max got the Game Ball and was the Player of the Game on April 25, 2009!! We're so proud of you!


Evan likes to wave to his fans when he crosses Home Plate. LOL He's such a ham!


Max crosses Home Plate on Saturday, May 2, 2009!! Go Team!

Oh Fudge!

OK, so my "Herd it's your Birthday" card didn't get picked to be in the running for the next Stamping Idol being hosted by MFT. So, they said that us "losers" can still play along with the challenges each week and post to a special thread and you never know when maybe they'll pick a "wildcard" and give things a twist. So, while the top 10 are celebrating their victories with the challenge being a "celebration card of making it to the top 10", we losers are "celebrating not making it". Here's my take on it. It's my "Oh Fudge, I didn't make the top 10 to be the next Stamping Idol"...LOLOLOL I had a blast making this one. I used my MFT Here's the Scoop set and stamped the sundae and colored it with my Copics. I then used Glossy Accents for the Fudge and sprinkled red seed beads to resemble sprinkles. I inked the edges, did some Paper Pleating, and added some ribbon and some Primas. TFL

MFT Stamping Idol Audition

MFT is holding auditions for the next Stamping Idol over on SCS. I have several sets of MFT's but just haven't had time to use but one set. So, this was a great opportunity to ink them up and see what I could do. I used the Punny Farm set. I started off by stamping my girl and then hand-drew my fence and even added the wood grain. I then masked off my fence and stamped the cow. I stamped an extra girl and cow and cut out the hat, buckets, and cow's face so that I could put those on pop-dots to add dimension. I colored the entire image with my Copics. I soaked a paper towel with my Copics and blotted it on for the sky and even added a little to the grassy area.

A Couple of LOs

Here are a couple of LOs that I made this week. The first is Gingerbread Boys. I snapped this adorable pic of Max and Evan in their gingerbread sweatshirts that their G-ma (my mom) made for them. I used Cricut StoryBook font for the title and added some little gingerbread boys using Paper Doll Dress Up. It was all welded together and cut using the Cricut Design Studio. The background paper is by Martha Stewart and the strip behind the picture was punched using Martha Stewart gingerbread edge punch.
This one is titled Claus and Co. I just loved this years' picture of the boys with Santa!! I used Cricut StoryBook font for the title and Paper Doll Dress Up for the sleigh, toy bags, and reindeer. I embossed the sleigh with the Cuttlebug D'vine Swirl folder and the strip behind the reindeer was embossed with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder. I used lots of Stickles too. The printed paper is by Doodlebug.

Teacher's Gifts!

Here are some gifts that I made for Max's teachers and for his teachers that he had last year. He just adores them so I made them each a little something. We delivered them on Thursday and they just LOVED them!! I used the Cricut Disney carts for those cards along with the tins and I used my JustRite Monogram Stamper for the monogram cards. The holder for the monogram cards was scraplifted from this blog. It's cute and very easy to make. Enjoy!!

Our Christmas Pics

We had our Christmas Pics taken at JCPenney's this year and I thought I'd share. I just got them back last week. I think they turned out wonderful. I wished I had taken these this week or next because I've lost 12 pounds since Thanksgiving so I'm looking different!! :) Part due to better eating and part due to the stomach flu! Enjoy!!

My Candice Card...

I'm calling this card my "Candice Card" named after my best friend Candice Lighty. You can view her blog here. I need a shirt that reads, " Everything that I know about stamping, I learned from Candice". So, I'm dedicating this card to her. It has stamping, paper piecing, hand drawing, layering, embossing, eyelets, and ribbon!!! I just adore her stuff and I want to stamp just like her when I grow up!! :) Anyways, she got me an awesome gift certificate to My Favorite Things stamps for my birthday so this is one of the sets that I got with it. It's called Merry Christmas? I paper pieced the wall and chair on the stamped image and colored the rest in with my Copics. I hand drew the wood floor. I embossed the background with my Snowflakes Cuttlebug embossing folder and added some snowflake brads and some ribbon. I hope that I did Candice proud!! ;)

HO HO HO

Here is another one of my Christmas cards that I made. I only made 2 of these because this image takes a long time to color in. Santa is a 4x4 inch image from Whipper Snapper stamps. Isn't he just adorable holding those two cute penguins? I colored him in with Copics and used my new Snowflake Spellbinders die. I added some bling to the snowflake too. I used my Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder. There isn't a whole lot of extra space on this card once you get that huge image on there but I'm very happy with this card. :)