It's our hammock!

I had caught Audrey trying to sneak her pillow and blankie outside. The second time she actually made it out the front door before I got to her and that's when I saw that Caitlyn had already set up a bed in the swing, lol. They were too sweet and cute for me to scold them for taking their bedding outside, so I just tucked them in and then snapped some photos. Kids are so silly! Anyway, I realized I'm a bit behind on my page a day scrapbook goal. Counting today even though it's just barely Sunday morning I should be at 174 pages. So I have some catching up to do ^_~

For this layout I did another Share & Tell quickie type layout except this time I used a Page Maps book layout for my creative side. This page I put the pictures I didn't want to cut up and the journaling, and the creative page used the same sketch I used for the Shake the Tree layout.

This is the card I made for Paul's best friend's birthday. He hates the peeps marshmallows, but has a peeps shirt that he loves so I thought this was fitting, lol. Uses CTMH cardstock and embellies, the sentiment was simply printed off our computer. I used the MFT punny farm for the peeps and then Say it in Style by CTMH for the birthday sentiment. I had to cut the picture down since we had already written the note inside before I remembered to take a picture. Anyhoo, I hope everyone is having a great weekend!! Thanks for dropping by :D

Color Challenge #16

And also what I was doing in the meanwhile when I spaced my own weekly color challenge, lol. Cait's emergency room visit wasn't the only thing that had me forgetting the color challenge this week for Monday. There is also a super fun color challenge going on the Hanna forums on SCS for the new Hanna release that I thought I'd play along in. And I also had my own little 'in the back of my mind' challenges to use up some of the scraps that have been laying out for the past couple weeks and doing something with a pretty flower image that Linda sent me, but that I couldn't figure out what to do with. But first let me put up officially the color challenge which was inspired by the card in the previous post that I had made Monday night ^_~. Only three colors this week, feel free to add another color if you like and please don't forget to email a link to your card so I can post it here :D And have fun!


Hollyhock
Blush
Garden Green

Laurel's Sassy Ipodabella Card
Sparkle's Yummilicious Watermelon Card
Sue's Sweet Mother's Day Card
Jenn's Lovely Thinking of You Card

My Sample :



I added in some bamboo as well. Papers and stickease from BFF paper pack and also a sheet of retired Cozy B&T. Lots of embellies just here and there, I think everything on here is CTMH. I love these close ups of Caitie and her messy face and journaled about how she always manages to look cute whether she's dirty or clean, her hair done up or still crazy.



And here's my card for the Hanna challenge. I was pretty obsessed with doing this one, not only because you can possibly win a free set, but mostly because I hadn't played with my Hannas in a long while. This Hanna is my favorite! I really like how this card came out too, it's the first time I haven't pieced her outfit with this stamp set. CTMH CS used, the colors are Blush, Holiday Red, Ocean, and Breeze. The challenge was to use three colors (I forget the SU names), and Blush and Holiday Red (or Cranberry, it looked pretty close in the pics) fit pretty perfect but the blue seemed right inbetween breeze and ocean so I just put them both. Spot on Backgrounds used for the background red on blush and Friendship Wordpuzzle for the flower center. The blue flower is by doodlebug, the pink by prima and the ribbon by CTMH. Hanna colored with CTMH markers and highlighted with the white gel pen.



Here's the card I made with the image Linda sent me while she was my SS. I thought it was so pretty but really hadn't a clue what to do with it for the longest time. So I decided to just start by coloring it. Colors were Spring Iris, Lilac Mist, Amethyst, Kiwi, and Key Lime. Then the rest just seemed to fall together. It made a pretty large card, 6x6, but also gave me a chance to use the Spring Beauty Mother's Day sentiment which is pretty long itself. Everything but the image is CTMH.



And this one was to use the scraps that have been sitting in my cubby slot that I use to hold my stamp scrubber and foam pad. They kept getting in the way so I finally decided to just use them up. I'm not quite feeling it with this card, probably because it was made after my mojo was already used up on the others, but at least the scraps got used and it's fairly cute ^_~. Besides, I can always use more thank you cards. So these three cards were what I was up to before I got Sparkle's email and went 'oops!'. Not an hour later I also got one from Jena warning me of the search party on the CTMH forums for the color challenge, lol. And here I thought my color challenges weren't really a big deal!

Oh where oh where has my mind gone?

My theory is that my kids stole it and are holding it ransom for cookies. So I totally spaced the color challenge this week and I would have not even thought to do it except that Sparkle had emailed me about it, lol. I'm going to be a little cheater this week and make the color challenge inspired by the card I made last night. I'll be making another sample as well since I can't post this one on the CTMH boards. Only three colors this week and they are :

Hollyhock

Garden Green

Blush

My sample:

There is a story to this card that has to do with yesterday morning. It's starts out as a usual enough day: I get Caitie ready for school, I get dressed, we all eat breakfast, and then we're off. Well the first mistake of the day was this - I let Caitie wear flip flops to school. She's worn them before and yesterday was mid-80s so I was letting her wear them again. We get to school, Caitie practically skips to the class door and starts to open it. Here's Mommy mistake #2 - I try to help her. The result - her toe gets smacked by the door. Smacked so bad that it actually cuts her toe and then there's crying and I'm looking at her foot to make sure she's alright and for a small moment it looks fine.... and then there's blood.

She's bleeding all over her shoe and standing there crying while the teacher comes out to see what happened. I, as calmly as I can be seeing my little girl's toe smashed and bloody, tell the teacher that she's obviously not going to be in class today (while silently narrating in my head 'thanks to me!'). She just smiles and says it's okay, that it happens. And then I'm carrying Caitie back the way we came while thinking the teacher must think I'm some horrid mother.

We're back in the car and I'm trying to tell Caitie it'll be alright. We make a quick stop at home for some motrin and to see if she'll let me put some guaze on it - motrin yes, guaze no. And then I'm driving her to the hospital telling myself it's alright, to just breath. I'm taking deep breaths in an effort to calm myself down because despite Caitlyn having much worse injuries before and that voice in my head telling me she's actually all right, my pulse is going 250 mph and I feel like I'm panicking. Me telling Caitie it'll be alright felt more like it was for my benefit than hers.

Deep breaths, "It's alright Caits. We're almost to the doctor," deep breaths. "I want a bandaid!" Deep breath, "We need a special bandaid from the doctor sweetie, we're almost there," deep breath. "I need a bandaid!" "I know sweetie, I know." The same conversation continued on the entire 20 minutes to the hospital because Caitlyn is extremely obsessive about things which is nice in situations like this since I don't have to think up any new answers. Not that I could even if I wanted to at that point.

We go to the emergency room because I'm not waiting 4 hours as a walk in patient at the clinic before anyone even looks at her foot. I think if there's anything you never get used to, it's rushing your kids to the emergency room. Even when you know things are alright, just the fact that it's serious enough to go there sends my blood racing. I carry Caitie in, and upon seeing her foot has stopped bleeding I actually calm down quite a bit. Her toe looks ghastly, but at least the bleeding has stopped. The nurse takes a peek and starts the paper work. She thinks it needs stitches.

Skip to about 30 minutes later after another nurse and the doctor say it's going to need stitches. They give her the numbing shot (the worst part), then clean off her toe and get ready to stitch. Well guess what.... no stitches needed. She did tear off a good bit of skin and break half her toenail off... or I did that I suppose you could say :( . But she's fine, even more so now since her toe was numb. Another deep breath. We got through the morning, which needless to say lasted almost her entire school day by the time we got home and that was topped off with ice cream to soothe Caitie's trauma as well as my guilt. No hard feelings from my little girl, now was my chance for the big deep sigh of relief.

I guess you could say I had reason to forget the color challenge after that, lol. Caitlyn played outside the better part of the day acting like she had never been hurt at all. I still made her wear socks and tennis shoes despite her argument of 'I'm fine!' every two seconds because I'm paranoid of her hurting her toe even more. And probably the worst part now (in her mind) is that I won't take her to the waterpark until she's healed up (she lives for the waterpark, lol). And it's supposed to get up to 90 today. Live and learn, right? I recommend deep breathing through the learning part ^_~.

Anyway, later that night to help soothe my nerves I made the card. I just got the couple of MFT stamps that I ordered in the mail and this one went perfectly for the mood of the day. Not that I was serene in any way, but the thought was there. Outer calm, inner turmoil; that was me yesterday.

Mini Farm Book

Colors : Star Spangled Blue, Orange, Sweet Leaf (BCC13)

Stamps : Veggiebella (stamping bella), Doodle Alpha, Sans Alpha, Charmed Lowercase, Punny Farm (MFT), Sketchin' Caps

Accents : Orange Waxy Flax to hold the book together

When I read the Bella color challenge for this week I immediately thought of veggiebella. So I went to work mounting my new bellas on EZ Mount then decided instead of a card I'd make a cute little book and use the Punny Farm animals. Caitie loves my bellas and she loves the new Punny Farm stamps I got as well. So I made her a little something cute! I'm hoping she likes it :D

Here are the inside pages :

Wool you be mine?

Colors : Heavenly Blue, Indian Corn Blue, Cranberry, Holiday Red (ink) for CC150 on SCS

Stamps : Punny Farm (MFT), Ho Ho Ho (CTMH)

Accents : Eyelets (MM), Rickrack, Satin Ribbon

I just got these in the mail today!!! I love these sheep (well I love all the animals on there, lol) :D And the color challenge seemed to fit them so well! I actually masked for the first time with this card. With all the cards I've made I could probably give my hubby one every day in Feb until Valentines! I'd have to make a tiger one for Valentines day though. Tigers are his fave! And seeing that I've made 30 cards this month already and only 8 pages I think I need to start concentrating on my scrappin' otherwise I'll never catch up! lol Now, how to use punny farm in a layout.....