Sesame Street Fun

That's me--Super Duper Flooper :)

You Are Big Bird

Talented, smart, and friendly... you're also one of the sanest people around. You are usually feeling: Happy. From riding a unicycle to writing poetry, you have plenty of hobbies to keep you busy. You are famous for: Being a friend to everyone. Even the grumpiest person gets along with you. How you life your life: Joyfully. "Super. Duper. Flooper."

The Sesame Street Personality Quiz

Technique Time and Spring Break fun

It's that time--I'll be teaching my monthly technique class this week. We're focusing on re-inker techniques this time around. Here are three of the four cards we'll be making. The fourth will use flowers dyed with re-inkers.

Baby Wipe Technique

Painted chipboard ribbon buckle with Black Re-Inker

Background painted with Buttercup and Cranberry Re-Inkers (both the second and third section were combos of the two)

Here's a few pics from our whirlwind week:

San Diego Zoo

I love watching the boys' reactions to the animals--so fun!

The pandas--our favorite :)

Gotta love the back rolls--LOL!

Polar bear fun

The Skyfari ride--the kids were scared before we got on, but we ended up riding it 3 times :)

Brendan's new habit is to cover his ears whenever he's scared or nervous.

The only picture I got the day of the Kidspace Museum. I took it before we left. The rest I took on a throw away camera and they didn't turn out :( I did get a cute one on my phone, but I have no idea how to transfer it.

Easter Eggs

And finally,

ONE

TWO

THREE Easter egg hunts--what fun!

And today, we were tired!

Happy Easter!

I hope everyone has a wonderful and blessed day with their families! We will be running around trying to spend time with all the family today. I have lots to post about from my fun week with the boys, and also some new artwork, so I'll get to that tomorrow--I promise!


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A couple square cards

Sorry for the general lack of posts this week. Austin is out on Spring break, so my routine is off. I spent the first part of the week getting stuff done and now for the fun stuff. Today we are headed to San Diego to go to the zoo. I'm just killing time on here while cleaning out my camera so I have room for pictures :)

Here's a couple cards I made this week. The first is my attempt at the Dahlia fold. I used CTMH's Floral Impressions paper. This took me a long time and ended up a lot bigger than I imagined, but was fun. Not a technique I'll use very often.

This card is for my monthly SOTM swap, so it uses CTMH's upcoming April stamp of the month, Express Postage. The papers are the Silhouette pack.

All righty, little one just came in all excited for the zoo, so I guess it's time :)

Crazy snow!!

We have been waiting all winter for snow. Living in the CA desert, it's not something we see often. In fact, the last time we had a lot of snow was in November of 2004. Every time it rains, my boys get their hopes up. Well today we went to a friend's house about 40 minutes away and this is what we came home to:

This was Brendan's first time really playing in the snow and he was ecstatic!

Austin loved throwing snowballs (here he had just gotten me)

And you can tell who's the biggest kid of all :)

The snowman before it colllapsed..

Austin and I wimped out first and Daddy had to drag Brendan in crying. Now we're all warming up with some hot cocoa. Next a fire in the fireplace and a movie--March--who knew?!

Fun cards with my new toy and a challenge card

I finally had a chance to really play with my Cuttlebug today. My only problem with it is that I hate covering up the beautiful embossed backgrounds. I am loving how fast and easy these cards are. Simple, but fun :)

This one is for Marjorie's color challenge for this week. I used markers and a blending pen for the flowers and a sponge for the background.

Well this is fun :-P

Last night I took the boys out for pizza (Mike was at a training) and as we were eating, I crunched on something hard. Well in the next moment, I realized it was my tooth. One of my back molars completely chipped--on pizza--aaack! Luckily, I wasn't in pain and I was able to get into the dentist today--a big THANK YOU to my friend Julie , who watched the boys for me!! Turns out I needed crown, but at this point, not a root canal. Three hours and $300+ later, we're all back home. What a crazy thing!

I haven't had much time to stamp, nor have I felt inspired the last couple days. However, here's a few cards I've made recently with my Sweet N Sassy stamps. I can't wait to get the farm set--that's next on my list :)

Thank yous from Austin's party--it was a month ago and I've made all of three cards. I may never get them done. The first one is My Mind's Eye papers. The second is retired Cocoa Cafe paper from CTMH.

This one uses Penguin Hugs--I just love this little guy. Papers are My Mind's Eye. When I used Stickles on him the ink bled a little, but he's still cute.

And this one is my favorite! I used Pond Pals stamps. Then I used my cuttlebug to emboss the background and brayered and sponged the background. These are fun bright colors that I rarely use; I don't know why. They're actually the colors from LAST WEEK'S color challenge on Marjorie's blog--better late than never :)

And because he's two (at least that's the only reason I can think of), Brendan decided that every shoe he could find needed to get moved into my scrap room. This is what I found next to my counter. Oh and he threw a few animals in there just for fun.