A Little Late -- But Who's Keeping Track?

Okay, I know I'm a little off schedule for this card, but last night I had an incident. Those of you who know me are not surprised. My life is full of "incidents"! So yesterday I subbed and had a great day. I got home and was doing some dishes and cleaning up a little before I took the kids to church for King's Kids (choir). The inside of my mouth started feeling funny on one side and then my cheek started sort of itching. I went to the bathroom to see what it looked like and my cheek was swelling up! Then I realized that my eye had been itching on the way home from school, so I took off my glasses and, sure enough, my eye was swollen on the outside edge. I was having an allergic reaction to something -- I still haven't figured out what -- so I had to take some Benadryl. It was all I could do to get home from church before I fell asleep, so I really just "lost" the whole evening! I think I slept from about 7:30 until 5:30 this morning.



So, now that I have awakened from my long winter's nap, here is the card for today! This is another from my Birthday Bash workshop in early January. (I think it looks better in person, but would probably look better in a photo rather than a scan.)

Here are the details:

Stamps: Party Hearty
Paper: Pink pirouette, Rose red, Chocolate Chip and Whisper White
Ink: Chocolate chip and Rose Red
Accessories: Scallop edge, non-SU scallop square, 1/2 inch circle and pink pirouette striped grosgrain ribbon

The party hats have stickles on the tops, but you can't see that in the scan. The ribbon is fed through both holes from the front and the crossed over and fed back through the opposite hole. It seems to lay a little flatter that way than if it is tied in a knot.

Well, I have to go (frantically) get one more card made for my 10 for $15 workshop for tomorrow night and then cut all 5 of them. My friend Kimmay offered to help me cut, but I'm not sure I'm even organized enough to take her up on it. Besides that, she might call the health deparment if she had to come in my house! I'm sure there are laws about children living in these conditions!! But hey, who has time to clean house when you've gotta' stamp?!?

Have a great day!

Today's Birthday Card

Okay, here I go -- 2 days in a row I'm posting a card! That's a record for me. Here are the details for this birthday card from my Birthday Bash:

Cardstock: Baja Breeze, Basic Black, Baja Breeze Designer Series Paper, Whisper White

Stamps: Pick a Petal, Bitty Birthday

Ink: Baja Breeze

Accessories: 2 Way Glue Pen, Dazzling Diamonds, brad, ticket corner punch, word window punch

This card is really simple, but cute. Stamping the bow is a little tricky, but if you stamp the first two bottom "petals" straight across from each other, then stamp the one straight up and fill in between with the other two, it seems easier to get them spaced evenly. Other than that, everything is pretty straightforward. Of course, as always, the glitter makes the card! I always say that glitter makes everything pretty!

Thanks a lot for looking! I have to go make some cards for my workshop this weekend. But wait -- it's only Monday -- no need to start too soon . . .

Have a great evening!

Another Busy Week

Where does the time go?!? I can never believe how long it's been since I've posted. The last week has been blur between trying to get gift bags finished for an SISF swap to photo frames for an event at church. All that and throw in a trip to the emergency room (he's fine -- "just" a migraine) and the week is gone and I'm not ready for the one coming up!

I wanted to get something posted (just in case anyone out there is looking) because I'm teaching 3 days this week and have a workshop on Friday, so I'm not going to have much spare time. I was looking back over the last few posts and realized that I didn't post any of my cards from my birthday bash back at the beginning of January. (Yes, I threw myself a party and people paid to come!) I really liked all of the cards, so I think I will (try) to show you one each day for the next 5 days. We'll see at the end of the week how that worked out!

I love the way this card turned out! The colors and supplies are:

Cardstock: Yo-yo Yellow, Pacific Point and Whisper White

Stamps: Bitty Birthday

Accessories: Corner rounder, Scallop punch, 1 3/8" circle punch, whisper white ribbon, Cuttlebug Happy Birthday embossing folder, both tag punches (inside), dimensionals and tissue paper.

I got the adorable idea for the real tissue paper from someone on Splitcoast Stampers -- sorry, I can't remember who. The gift is raised up on dimensionals.

For the inside, I stamped "And many more" from Party Hearty in Pacific Point on white and punched it and layered it on a large Pacific Point tag.

I hope you all have a great week!