Winner--Bunny Hop Blog Candy

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I'm sorry it's taken me so long to announce a winner. It's been a crazy couple weeks with the end of the quarter looming on Friday. I've been trying to balance family, catching up on grades, and two classes I'm taking. Somewhere in there, I managed to get 25 cards out to Operation Write Home. Busy, busy!

Anyway, I'm happy to announce the winner is Dana! Dana, I emailed you, and as soon as I hear back, I'll pop your package in the mail :)

OWH Bunny Hop

Welcome to my stop on the Operation Write Home Bunny Hop! As most of my loyal readers know, I've been making cards for OWH for the last six months or so. I can't think of a better way to help others. I get to make cards and support our troops at the same time! I am so grateful to be able to do something for the men and women who give their all for our country.

To find out more about Operation Write Home, click here. To find out about upcoming deadlines, click here. The next two dates are March 18th for Easter cards and March 31st for Mother's Day cards. If you want to read the heartfelt notes from the troops, be sure to visit the hero blog. The notes and stories never fail to bring a tear to my eyes.

The spring cards I decided to include both use Close To My Heart's new Sofia papers. I love these papers since Hollyhock and Blush are two of my favorite colors.

This first card uses Happy Forever (the adorable hedgehog) and For Every Occasion stamps with Opaques.

This one uses CTMH's Rosy Regards and A Little Everything stamps with Stickles and CTMH Designer Ribbon.

Be sure to leave a comment with your name and email. I'm giving away blog candy to one lucky person that includes a stamp set and fun embellishments!

Cindy is the next blog in the Bunny Hop at www.mostlymarkerscards.blogspot.com

Be sure to visit, and don't forget to leave a comment!

Baby Card

I made this card for a friend of mine who just had a baby girl. She'll probably see it on here long before I ever manage to get it in the mail. The card was inspired by this outfit. I fell in love with this outfit not just for the adorable jeans, but the fact that it was cute and girlie without being pink. Aren't the little striped socks just too cute for words?! I love getting to shop for little girls :)

The card used all CTMH products (except the Copics). The stamps were Ms. On the G0 and Express Postage. The papers were Whoops-a-Daisy. I found a whole unopened pack of that paper when I was cleaning. I don't even remember buying it. Must be one of the free packs I received at some point.

Cafe Lucy Birthday Card

For this card, I used Cafe Lucy from Sparkle Creations and CTMH Happy Birthday. The flower is cut from the CTMH Designer Ribbon, Pink Collection. I also used Stickles, brown ribbon, and CTMH Opaques (pearl in the center of the flower). The paper is Jolie Chocolat from SEI.

A very special Happy Birthday to my sister today! Happy Birthday, Sossy!!

Project Life Weeks 6 & 7

Week Six:

Week 7:

Still sick around here. I went to the Dr. yesterday. After waiting 3 hours, I found out that in addition to my cough, I have a sinus infection and an ear infection. The bad news is that the cough medicine they gave me actually made my cough worse, and I got no sleep last night. The good news is that they gave me Z-pack, so I'm already starting to feel better. I stayed home today, along with Brendan, who is pretty stuffed up. Here's hoping we'll all be back to school tomorrow!

On another positive note (trying to be grateful here), I had time to read the novel The Help. I loved this book! It deals beautifully with the tough subject of segregation and race relations. It made me laugh and cry. I couldn't put it down. I was sad when it ended. I would definitely recommend this book.

A Couple 4 am Cards

I've had a horrible cough for the last week, and haven't been sleeping well. At four this morning, I gave up and headed to my scrap room. I colored a few of my new Sparkle Creations images, and I decided to make a couple cards.

The first card used Celebrating Chloe and CTMH's Piece of Cake, as well as Opaques as embellishments. The papers are Basic Grey's Perhaps. I love the way the colors and papers came together.



This card uses Birthday Josh. I used CTMH's Shining Star and Express postage for the sentiment. The papers are retired CTMH Birthday Bash.



I am loving my new Copics, but I'm not sure about 4am stamping sessions :)

What happens when you give a 5 year old your camera?

This weekend is our big district basketball tournament for 7th and 8th grade. Since normally, the kids play on teams with members from all the schools, this tourney is all about school pride and playing together as a class/school. It's great fun, and it also means that we've already attended 5 games in two days. The boys weren't thrilled about going, but did a great job of supporting their school.

This morning our seventh grade boys had to play our 8th grade boys. That was a hard one for me, since I teach both grades. The 8th graders won. Brendan was bored, so I asked him to take some pictures of the game, so I could post them on my Smart Board Tuesday. In all, he took 49 pictures, and MOST of them were of the game. However, it was the in-between ones that were my favorites. I'm sensing a scrapbook page in my future!

Look at me!

Now look at the game (I posted a far away one because I don't want to post any minors without permission). He did actually get some great shots.

Now back to me

My shoes

Me again. Nice chocolate face, by the way.

My drink

Mom and me

Austin playing DS.

I love seeing Brendan's perspective!

Here are a couple of shots I took to round out the post. Bren watching the game. Gotta love the plumber crack! This was after I already cinched up his pants once.

Little monkeys hanging over the gym floor at halftime.

We took a break between games and hit the Discovery Center--check out that bubble!