Welcome Jenn's baby!!!

There's a contest going on right now at the Starving Artistamps blog. Simply make a baby card for Jenn and her hubby with a little baby tip and you can win a Starving Artistamps stamp set AND a set of sentiments! This is GREAT prize! I would love to win a Doodle Factory set with sentiments. :) For all the details, just click on the link.

Here's my card-
I used Basic Grey's Porcelain paper and Doodle Factory's Oh Baby! stamp set. I've had these little safety pins FOREVER (years!) and this was a great excuse to use them.



I hope Jenn likes the card and that everything goes well when it's time for her to deliver. She is scheduled to have her baby on the 11th so that's the deadline for this contest!

A yakking Yak!

This stamp set came out a while ago and of course I had to buy it because I LOVE Doodle Factory! But... I wasn't really sure what to do with it. It has sat sadly uninked in my binder for months. I am challenging myself this week to use some of my old Basic Grey paper (so I can justify buying all those new amazing lines that came out at CHA) and ink up some unloved stamps (to justify the new ones that are on their way to me now). ;)

I really like how this card came out. It turned out just like I had imagined it would. I love it when that happens! :)

Have you been thinking about your word of the year yet?

Ali Edwards- One Little Word

One Little Word.
I saw this on her blog.
I saw this on friends' blogs.
But I just didn't feel like I had a specific word that would represent what I wanted to accomplish or focus on in 2010. Honestly, I hadn't been feeling like myself for a few years now. I felt like my migraines ruled everything. When they were bad, I couldn't be the mom or wife I wanted to be let alone have extra time to accomplish much of anything. In the last three months though, that's changed. I've had two migraines in three months when I used to get at least three migraines a week. I have my life and my time back. And because of that, I decided to really sit down and pick a word to motivate and inspire me this year.

My word is EMERGE.

I hope to emerge from 2010 becoming the person I want to be and to get back the person I was.

There is a super fun challenge this week to make your word with pictures of the letters in your word. I'm going to head out and take some pictures over the next couple of days for my word. I'll post my creation on Monday or Tuesday.

Check out the Ali's post. Maybe it's something that can inspire you. If not today, maybe someday soon. :)

Valentine card #1

***These pictures suck. Jason bought a new camera/video recorder and it sucks. It is going back to Best Buy tomorrow.***


I love the Twitterpated paper. :) It is one of my absolute favorites. The squirrel and saying are from Doodle Factory. I colored him with my copics. After taking this pic, I thought that the green areas looked a little bare. I put some circle/dot things I have from Stamping Bella in the upper left and bottom right corners. It looks better now, more balanced.

A baking/horse birthday party invitation- I think I did it!

I had an Etsy request for a horse birthday invitation. It is also going to be a baking party. Hope they like it! :)

Now I'm off to make Hello Kitty favor tags...

*I made a million Valentine's day cards today. A couple are going to my Etsy store but the others are for teachers. I'll post them this week. :)

For Valentines day!

I made the heart with the ribbon through it for another card but it didn't go with the card when it came together. I really liked it though so I put a card together for it. :)
The paper is from Bittersweet (Basic Grey), the hearts are grunge board (this stuff is so cool- it is like chipboard but flexible which makes it so easy to distress) and the rub-ons and ribbon are from my CTMH stash. :)

Celiac disease!!!!

I haven't posted in awhile. :( I hadn't been feeling well at all and things have been slipping. But I have good news! We finally know what's wrong! Woo hoo! I have Celiac disease. This means I have an allergy to gluten. No more wheat anything for me. I haven't had any wheat in several weeks and I just keep feeling better and better. :D Jason and I went out tonight and got 3 gluten free cookbooks and I can honestly say that I am so excited to start cooking again! I love to cook but it had become such a chore. Everything I cooked made me feel ill just looking at it. Don't get me wrong, I'm a good cook but the sight of food was making me sick to my stomach. I am so glad to finally know what's been going on and that by making a simple diet change, I can feel so much better.