A Picture Frame

Saturday I will be attending a baby shower for a friend. This is a picture frame that I made for her.

The saying says: She will fill our lives with sunshine and our hearts with love.

There are a few more things that I am working on for her. I will post them as soon as I have them done. I am also taking pictures of her baby shower that day and making up an album of them to give her. I hope she likes what I am doing for her as it is not a traditional baby shower gift.

Good New & Bad News

Have you ever realized just how much you rely on your printer on a daily basis? I didn't. That is until last night. After we had returned from a Labor Day out and about yesterday, I decided to do some scrapbooking while my kiddos were busy playing. Unfortunately I was unable to print any pictures out. And of course I do all my photo printing at home. At first the coloring was off and then it just didn't print anything at all. So I hollard to my hubby to come and fix the problem for me. He usually is much quicker at fixing stuff like that than I am. Well, he tried everything. He tried cleaning the printer head. He tried replacing the ink cartridges. He tried absolutely everything he could think of and then he called Kodak. But of course it was Labor Day and they were closed for the day. So I couldn't do anything last night that had to do with my printer. So as soon as they opened up this morning my darling hubby got onto the phone and contacted them. After telling them what it was doing and what he thought it was they agreed with him that it was just what he told them. The printer head was busted!!!! The good news? Kodak is sending a replacement printer head free of charge. The bad news? I'll be without a printer for a few more days while I wait for the new printer head to arrive. At least I can still make some cards while I wait!!!

Another Year Older

Today I celebrated my 33rd birthday. I have to say that even though I didn't go out and do anything elaborate I had a really good birthday. I got to spend it with my family. My hubby did have to work for a little while but he sent me an email with a nice bouquet of flowers in it. He always does something like this for me on my birthday and our anniversary. Isn't he just the sweetest?!?!?! Tommorrow I will be going and picking up my birthday gift from him. A new mouse for our computer. This is something that I have been hollaring for for some time now. The one that we have just doesn't work right anymore. I spend more time trying to keep sane as I am hollaring at the thing to "just work for a little while longer will you!" That seems to be happening a lot lately so we are going to go purchase a new one tomorrow.

We were also celebrating my nephew's birthday (Sept 15th) today too. So we shared some birthday cupcakes and ice cream.

I was able to catch this great shot of my daughter enjoying one of those cupcakes.

My Take On: Simon Says Stamp Challenge Sketch #12

This is the card that I made for the Simon Says Stamp Challenge. It is the first Christmas card that I have made so far this year. This is the sketch that was posted to use.

The stamp that I used was just a simple teddy bear stamp. I'm not sure which company made the stamp as there is nothing on the stamp to say and I bought it several years ago. After stamping I decided to cut out around the bears and then paste onto the cream colored oval. Instead of just stamping onto the oval. It is hard to tell, but the teddy bears are colored in brown and tan. The Joy stamp used is a Studio G stamp. The ribbon at the bottom is actually a thin piece of the stripped paper that I used at the top of the card.

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A Couple Cards

I made this first card using a free digital stamp from Bird's Cards. You can get the free stamp here. I used colored pencils to color in the carriage different shades of pink and then I used Cotton Candy Stickles to go over different areas of the carriage. I added three pink gems to the bottom of the card. It's a simple card, but a card that would be great to give to any little princess.
This next card I made for a friend at church who happens to have the same birthday as me. I'm not sure what company the stamp is from. As the stamp wasn't marked and I purchased it several years ago. It's hard to tell but the bears are colored in light brown and tan.