Mojo Monday, on Thursday

And if that doesn't confuse you enough, this card was actually made on Tuesday...lol

I love the Mojo Monday sketches posted at Poetic Artistry, and this one was done for #23.

Paper, stamps, inks, and brads are Stampin' Up!

Ribbon is Martha Stewart from Michaels.

Large grommet is from the Crop-A-Dile Big Bite sold on HSN a few weeks ago. I definately recommend buying it if you come across it. It makes a great tool in addition to the original CAD.

This makes me happy....

Three months and Baby girl will be here!!!! I can't wait! Oh, and her name isn't Abigail anymore, need to fix the ticker :0

I got an invitation for her baby shower the other day (I wont be able to go...waaaaa!) that has the two stores her mommy and daddy are registered at. While browsing both registries I was just oogling all the stuff and getting even more excited. And wanting to buy every stinkin' thing they what for this little girl!

The bedding Morgan (baby girls mommy) picked out is soooo pretty! I can't wait to see her nursery. And take pictures of her in it. :)

Next week I'll be on vacation in California and working on Baby girls birth announcements. Once they are finished, Ill post a picture here. If everything comes out on a paper like it's set up in my head, they should be pretty cute, especially once her picture is added to the front of them.

Im a bad blogger

The lack of school work and the increased number of overtime at work this month has made me exceptionally lazy lately. When I actually am home, I dont feel like moving around much.

Here it is, Jan 28 and my Christmas tree is still up! Partly because Im lazy, partly because when I am home it is either raining or (like today) snowing and I have to pull all the boxes out of the storage closet on my deck. Not an easy task in the wet.

My little bit of creativity, you can see below. I had to make a baby shower invite to hang up at work and it needed to be done in the middle of a stretch where I worked 7 12 hour shifts. I think it was after day 4.

Inspiration being low, I headed to Debbie Olson's blog, Thinking Inking, and settled on the first thing to catch my eye, this card and it's layout.

Simple enough! I quickly printed up the details onto a piece of vellum, and grabbed the nearest stack of paper with a boy theme, and WALA!!

Cardstock: SU!

PP: DCWV stack from JoAnn's

Stamps: SU!

Punches: Marvy and SU!

Ribbon: SU! and May Arts

Around this same time, a large order I had placed with Stampin' Up! showed up as well as my order from Inkspirations (who, might I add, still has 40% off all their stamps!) with ZERO time to play! I did, however, have plenty of time to unpack and at least oogle everything that came. (see second picture)

See all that pink at the bottom of the pile?? That is for Miss (insert baby girl name here since they changed it from Abigail to who knows what now...lol) Swan's products for her birth announcements in May. I haven't started yet, but they liked this layout so Ill be working with it. It's a card that I did for Mother's Day last year and it photographed really nicely! :)

Check out all that rubber! It was soooooo fun sitting by a fire with the tv on and scissors in my hand putting all those sets together. And then (to my surprise) the last few sets were diecut! And you know I just fell in love with those sets for that very reason! The rubber pops right out, you peel off the backing , stick it to the wood and you're ready to go!

The metal tin is filled with SU!'s new felt flowers and they are soooo pretty! I need to break them out and play with them sometime tonight :)

Next week I have a 5 day stretch off and I promise to share some stuff then, if I don't make it back before then. At least one of the days I hope to be taking down the Christmas stuff! LOL And another one weeding out and rearranging my stamp room. Something I've been saying I was going to do for a month!

Love is in the air

I love blog surfing and finding that a new "season" is among us. Christmas cards started so early, I was positive that they'd never come to an end!

So when the holidays came and went and everyone picked up again with their card postings, I was happy to see that the new trend is all about love. And it inspired me to create a couple of cards to show off.

Both of these cards use paper from two different stacks that I bought at JoAnn's.

Im having a blast with heart shaped Nestibilities. And I've even dug into stamps I havent looked at for most of the year!

Cardstock is all Stampin' Up, as well as the ribbon on the first card. The second card contains ribbon from May Arts.

Snobby little kitty cat!

My new lenses came last week and so of course I had to pull them out and play.
Alex is tired of being the easy target, so after a couple of shots he turned his back on me. I got swishing tail shots instead.
Then I gave up and moved on to still objects. Those are his toys and they behave much better!

Find Strength

For those of you who hang out at the Shack, you've already seen this card.
My aunt has hit a rough patch and I sent it to her for encouragement. She loved it!
Stamps: Roses In Winter
Paper: SU Groovy Guava and Shimmery White
Inks: SU Groovy Guava and Certainly Celery