Happy New Year!

I am super excited for 2009.  I hope that the new year is bringing a lot to you too.  :)

This year, I'd love to do more with my CTMH stuff.  I really enjoy scrapping and stamping with friends and would like to share that with others.

Getting published would be great too.  I need to get over my fears and submit to magazines.

The many challenges online have helped me grow a lot.  I'd like to set aside time a couple of days a week to participate.

What do you plan to do in 2009?

Riley relaxes

I love the Urban Prairie collection from Basic Grey.  They are bright and so fun.  

My Scrapling!

Sparkle posted about Scraplings on her blog. I decided to try one!

My kids brought home these super cute magnet/bookmarks and they were the same size as the Scraplings. You can see in the second photo, that you just put a couple of strips of magnet on the bottoms so that the bookmark stays on the page. :)

This is Bookabella. I paper pieced her with Basic Grey's Urban Prairie. LOVE that paper! :)

My gift to you

This is for your entertainment. Hope it brings you a chuckle. :)

This is a picture Kait drew of me.  The letter of the week was W.  She picked the word MOM to draw.  I think if she had flipped it over, WOW would have been more appropriate and matched the assignment too.

Happy Belated Birthday

While I make a lot of cards, I often forget birthdays, anniversaries and am late sending out holiday stuff.  :P

This card is for my nephew who had a birthday on the 12th.  Oops!

Pink Poison/Greeting Farm Anya

These Anya stamps are not my typical stamping style but I keep seeing them over and over again on blogs and I love what people have done with them.  Pink Poison (soon to be Greeting Farm) makes these and several other adorable stamps.  Their stamps are mounted onto cling foam so I can use them with my acrylic blocks (LOVE that).

This is Teacher Anya.  I thought she would be cute for the girls to make gift card holders for their teachers.  The third picture is what the inside of the gift card holder looks like.  I learn how to make this particular design at an A Muse Art stamps open house about two weeks ago.  *I'll try to remember to post those pics with instructions in the next couple of days.

Super simple, nothing fancy.  :)

I embossed Anya with black embossing powder and then colored her with my Copics.  The paper is from Evensong (Close To My Heart).  

Snow day without the snow

I have been making tons of scrapbook pages and cards the last few days even though I have been a slacker at blogging them.  This is one I did for The Cat's Pajamas Tuesday challenge.  :)  We had to use a tree stamp (preferably a TCP tree if you have it).  I used some old Basic Grey paper for this.  I love this paper and have two packets of it.

If you were wondering why I was slacking, read on.

As a child growing up in Colorado, we did not get snow days unless there was a snowstorm that the weather people called "The Blizzard of 19--".  And usually, we got maybe one or two days (at the most) off from school.

This past Wednesday, it was supposed to snow in Kirkland.  Nothing major, just snow.  The whole school district closed school because of the THREAT of snow.  Guess what?  IT DID NOT SNOW ON WEDNESDAY!  Not a flake.  It did snow on Thursday and Friday though so school was cancelled those days and winter break began three days early.  

While this may be every child's dream, it is definitely not every parents dream.  These little stinkers are going to be home for two more weeks.  During this time, we will have the crazy before Christmas, the mess/joy of Christmas Eve and Day and then the crash of it all.

It might be time to start adding something to my eggnog...