A little Paper Makeup!

I recently ordered a bunch of stamps from Paper Makeup. I LOVE the monsters by Stephen Hammond. :) They have some really cute fairies there and a new line of animals that are simply darling.

My friend Sparkle recently started a new stamp company! Her store official opens on July 10th! There will be a blog hop on July 10th to celebrate her grand opening! I have some cute cards to show off too. :D See you then!

Spring in Washington

Apple blossoms...

Lilac...

Stuff is just sprouting everywhere!


I haven't been making as many cards as I would like and I am SO behind on my scrapbooking but it is just too nice outside to be inside!!! I do have some new cards to show you using Doodle Factories newest release and some of my new Paper Make Up stamps. :) Check back soon!

Pets

An animal came to us this week in incredibly bad shape. She can barely walk and is very deformed from poor nutrition. Sadly, she'll need to be put down this evening.

If you're going to get a pet, any pet, please do your homework first. Every health issue this animal has could have been completely avoided with proper housing and diet.

I'm not mad, just so, so sad that she won't get to have a long and happy life.

Baby cards

I need some baby cards for a shower this week so it was time to get stampin'!


I used Basic Grey Granola and Figgy Pudding for two different looks. I'm not sure which I'll use but I really like how they came together. :)

**I haven't forgotten about my EMERGE project for February. It's all printed and mounted and I just have to add some finishing touches. I'm thrilled with how it turned out and it was very fun to photograph too. :) Here's a sneak peak of one of the letters-

This R is from an old fortune telling machine near a magic shop at Pike Place Market. I loved the bright R against the green patina!

Yeah! Who says Mondays stink?

Today has been GREAT!

Tracey emailed me and I won the challenge for Jenn's baby card! I won a free stamp set plus the sentiments! I am so stinkin' excited. I am going to try to hold out until the new release but there are stamp sets that have been calling my name for a long time now...

I went to the beach this afternoon and got seven pieces of bonfire glass, one red, TWO pink (this is a very rare color and my first pieces of this color), one orange and a larger piece of bright yellow. I found other really great pieces too (and a bunch of sea pottery) but those were my top finds.

Hope you had a great day too!

You send me!

The TCP Tuesday challenge this week is paper piecing. It's as if this challenge was made with me in mind!!! :)

I've had this little flying letter and sentiment for a while. Mine are rubber but I think they are sold now in an acrylic set. The swirl is from a Christmas set. I stamped it and then touched it up with a sakura stardust pen. The paper is some of my Basic Grey.

A purple cow kind of day.

Obviously I'm in a Basic Grey/Doodle Factory mood lately. I just can't get enough! :)
This cow and saying are from the Country set. I paper pieced the cow and colored her spots, ears and udder with my copics. I'm lovin' how this turned out and might pull it from my Etsy store if I need a thank you card before it sells. :)



I woke up today and just felt like getting outside and doing something. It was in the mid 50s here, the sun was shining and it just smelled good and kinda springy outside. We loaded the kids into the van and headed over to the Market. We picked up a bunch of dollar bags at the #2 Arcade (yum!) and went over to Uli's sausage. If you've never been, you are really missing out. I think we've eaten almost every kind of sausage he makes and it is all incredible. I also got all my pictures done for my word of the year. I'm excited to get those developed and do something with them. We also took the kids over to the Bug Safari for one of our famous "Shirk Family Adventures". It was pretty interesting but tiny. Everyone seemed to have a good time, even Kait who wasn't thrilled with the idea said she had fun.
We decided it was too early to head home and went to the beach. It was so nice! They have huge fire pits there so Jason went and got some firewood and we grilled up a bunch of our sausage, some asparagus (this was one of the $1 bags at the arcade! woo hoo!) and roasted marsh mellows for dessert. It was a very nice, picture perfect day. :)