So Many Challenges and NO Time

So today I had every intention of getting to school nice and early so I could get a whole lot of work done on my term paper so I could get out for an early walk and all that good stuff then come home and unpack my scrap gear from the crop I was at on the weekend. Well obviously my day never goes as planned EVER so I overslept (only by 3 hours though...) and then I am up the dear boy gets an email from his office. Here is the story; yesterday he called in sick with some "flu like symptoms" however just a little lower GI issue, touch of fever and maybe a little headache. Well don't they decide that he can't go back to work because he may be carrying the swine flu... yep no word of a lie. He hasn't been to Mexico, stepmother we don't live with was there maybe a month ago but has showed no symptoms, some people in his office were there but he hasn't really had contact with them. So in order for him to be let back in the door he has to be showing NO "flu like symptoms", fill out a questionaire to their satisfaction and have a doctor's note.

Even though we live in Canada and have free healthcare, getting in to see a doctor can be a pain in the butt. We are lucky that I am at university and they have a doctor each day who only does same day appointments. So I call and tell them the situation and they give us an appointment but tell us not to come into the main waiting room, so we basically get quarantined. We also get the crankiest nurse I have ever met in my life (most nurses are so wonderful, so I find her strange especially since she is always like this) who freaks out at us for pretty much wasting the doctors time. She then calls the department of health to complain about the dear boy's work even though they are only trying to protect their other 500 employees who work in the building. So I am sure that there will be some fun with that when he is finally allowed to go back.

Anyways since he isn't allowed back in the building until at least monday, we ended up taking advantage of the remainder of the gorgeous day we had and went for a walk. So we got home and I was exhausted (now I am awake though, since it is time to go to bed..) and just sorta crashed and did some bloghopping. I have to say I love having the little dashboard thing that will show me my stalkee's updates and when....

SOOO there are so many challenges want to do, but first I gotta get the stuff unpacked and probably sorted back out because there is nothing organized about a crop!!! I need a better way to pack for crops I think, I can't seem to plan ahead enough to not take anything I own. I am not a good planning scrapper, I am more a dig out absolutely everything I have and see what I like and fits scrapper. Does anyone else suffer from this problem? I don't even know how all you people with kids manage to get any scrapping at all done, especially those who work on top of that.

Well thank you for reading my mildly scrapping related rant, have a great week and happy crafting!

Intregued

Well that is most definately spelled wrong, but it is ungodly early and I have already been awake for too long today so I am not going to figure out how to fix it. So there.

In my blog stalking this morning I have found this cool online event happenning this weekend at Cuttlebug Challenges which I thought I would share. There are a ton of prizes going on and I am not exactly sure how things are going to work, but I am a sucker for winning stuff and may crawl over my own mother for a free cuttlebug!!! I would imagine that there will be some challenges and some chatting with other paper-holics so that will be spiffy. Here is the info

Beary Box 23 Entries

Hi all,

I hope everyone is having a great week. Mine was super busy trying to finish up cards for a charity auction I was organizing, as well as trying to finish gathering items from sponsors and making sure people showed up. I am really disappointed at what my cards sold for actually, but oh well, I know they went to good homes (my Mom, and 2 friends) and I do know that if they would have paid more if the bidding had made it further.... just not a lot of people into handmade crafts I guess.

So today was another round of Crop 4 Cancer which is an all day, 16 hour crop!! I missed some of it for my sister's birthday dinner, and of course I was so not ready to be up and out of the house for 8am this morning after the fundraiser last night!

At the crop today I made a card and 2 layouts, one of which is for the contest. I was really not anywhere near as productive as I had hoped, due in part to an epic battle with a Cricket machine. I am pretty sure the Cricket won.

So my card for this week is using a super cute stamp that reminds me of my 2 great aunts who used to swim everyday in the summer, bathing caps under the chin and all. They would then join us for cocktail hour. I coloured in the image with my watercolour pencils, and there are some glossy accents on the glasses (both drink and sun) to give them some oomph. I obviously needed to use a drink brad in the center of my flower as well. I didn't want my sentiment to be too overpowering, so I put it on acrylic and used drink eyelets to hold it in place.

My LO for this week is of my gorgeous neice and I earlier this year. I used some CTMH flourish stamps as accents and had some matching chipboard and paper that I got at Michael's that I obviously can't remember the brand of and am way to lazy to go look up. I have a little bit of bling for accents, and did some stippling on the matting to give it some depth. sorry that it is sort of at a weird angle.

Thanks for looking, love to hear your comments.

First House Mouse Submission

So I have always loved the House Mouse line of stamps from stampability and they have been on the list of things to buy for a while. However after my blogstalking resulting in finding the House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge I had to splurge. I am REALLY certain that the definition of addict is to make a special trip to the stamp store for a challenge you think sounds like fun. I am so full of excuses.


So the challenge was to use multiple images on your project in any way you wanted. I ended up with 2 versions of my card and don't know which one I like better so I am posting them both. They both have several uses of multple images.

1. I had to stamp each image multiple times to get all the details to show up the way I wanted



2. I wanted to make the lollipops stand out so I stamped the image first on cardstock, then again onto white vellum. I cut the vellum lollipop wrappers out so they are a little crinkley like real suckers would be.



3. In one card I sent cut out a 2nd bunny too.

So both cards are on CTMH cardstock, coloured with their inks and I used a sentiment from them as well. Dollar store ribbon. To make the lollipops shiney and have some definition I added some Glossy accents, and it doesn't show up very well on the picture but the cup is painted with Vanilla Bean twinkling H2Os. Also I wanted to have some dimension in the sucker sticks they are embossed with a plain white.

I am glad I found this website ladies, you are going to get a christmas card for next week because that was the only other house mouse stamp that our store has in stock (apparently they can't keep them on the shelf right now!!).

Bryn's Beary Box Entry

My friend Bryn also did up a layout for this week, but we forgot to take a picture of it until just now. His faceplant posting was a pain to link to so until I can convince him to get his own blog or whatnot I will share.

I have to tell you that I am so excited for Bryn, his work is looking really good especially considering this is his 2nd lo EVER!! That is right, EVER. I have brought him over to the darkside, and got him into cards and everything.

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Boy oh boy am I cutting it close today. I am going to post first, then go post the link then come back and edit.

Ok first the card. Love these little hedgehogs from Rachelle Anne Miller. I used some CTMH ink to colour them. The paper is SEI and Daisy D's, hearts are die cuts off my sizzix. Had to add a little bling so I used some glossy accents on the stamps and some stickles.

This is another wedding layout from Denices wedding. In the picture is my sister, me, Denice's sister and of course Denice. Sitting in the chair is one of our childhood nanny's Elizabeth who we were so glad to see her there and looking pretty healthy.

The title is vellum one from one of the DCWV "Once upon a time stacks" and the patterned paper is from another one of their stacks and is all flocked. I wanted to keep the background fairly simple, but I thought it needed more than just the flowers so out came the sewing machine. I have added a closer view of the stitching because I am impressed that an old hand-me-down machine had such a cool option. If you look really close you will see that there are slightly different shapes, which is because one was done in forward, the other was done in reverse.

Have a great week ladies.

Blogstalking!

So I have been blogstalking again, and there is a whole series of people having "blogoversaries" with give aways. The catch is posting a link on my blog, so here I am! Seriously, this is what happens when I am sick, can't get to school and can't sit up to scrap or stamp. It is starting to get a little out of hand here eh?


I would seriously LOVE for someone to tell me how to be able to link with a picture on a sidebar so if you know how PLEASE tell me.

Loras Cards

Carols's Paper Playce

Everything Paper Crafts

Lainys Little Blog

Stamped Smiles

Creative Ideas by Katharina

Yvonne's Creative Cards

All The things I love

Judy's Crafty Moments 10000 hits celebration!!

Starsdust ribbon and gems (open until 14th)

Malin's Birthday giveaway (open until 12th)

Crafty C's Creative Library (Closing on the 18th)

Inked Inspirations (closing on the 19th)

yummy scrummy create (this is a reminder to myself cause it hasn't happenned yet!)

Beary Box 21...

Oh wow, I knew I had been off the ball but I hadn't realized it had been this long since I spent quality time in the scraproom!! Well one course is totally done, and so long as I can make it to school during the days that leaves the nights wide open for getting some challenges done. A word of warning I still have a TON of wedding pictures requiring attention for my dear Denice so I should probably get going on those!

Ok so on to the challenge pics. I was so inspired by the butterfly and my new CTMH set that I knew exactly what I wanted to do as soon as I saw it. So alchohol ink on transparency, then stamped with staz-on in, cut out and bent a little. Almost everything is CTMH because I am on a binge with them lately (also they are still in the top of the pile!). Ribbon and the paper on the right edge are random Michael's brands. Sorry for the strange angle, my camera is acting up tonight. Oh I had to add a little stickles for some bling!

I wanted to show a side view because the camera didn't do justice to the gorgeous way the butterflies stand off the page, I am very happy with them.

Last but not least, for those of you who aren't face stalkers you may not be aware that one of the fabby DT member Shirley is having a very important birthday today!!! Happy 40 Shirley!!

Thanks for looking.