FWF: Finally!

My littlest, my baby, my little guy REALLY starts kindergarten today. Our school eeeeaaaaasses in the kinders because a full day is a lot for those guys. We started off with an hour orientation, then a half hour of one-one baseline testing, which takes two days because of the class size. So finally, on the fourth day of school, they get to start. Kind of. He has two half days before they start with the full school day. He's more than ready to go- I'm stocking up on my personal supply of kleenex.

 

My third grader started the other day, which left a lot less refereeing for me to do. So I got out m'new Phyllis Harris stamps and my Copics and had a BALL coloring the afternoon away. For the first time in about a month. I've missed Friends with Flair!

 

I actually bought this set for the Abraham Lincoln quote: Whatever you are, be a good one. But this little girl reminds me of my own.

 

I'm off to enjoy my few hours of full choice on the TV and junk food for lunch if I feel like it. Have a great weekend!

 

Cure for the Winter Blues

Moxie Fab is having a "Cure for the Winter Blues" Challenge over at Moxie Fab World. There's a stamping technique that I've been wanting to try for a long time, so here goes:

The background was stamped using bleach on Papertrey Ink Enchanted Evening cardstock. I found the technique here. When the bleach started working, it bleached it to exactly the color of PTI Fine Linen.

AAaahhh.... matchy-matchy. My friend Shawn would be proud. She's the queen of matchy-matchy.

I used Unity Stamp Co/ Simple Stories Generations and Faith sets, Prima flower, PTI die and ink. I really like how flat everything is. This might actually fit into an envelope now!

Putting myself out there, TV and Movie Version

My new semester has started with a doozy of an assignment- at least for me, and it kind of sums up how I started the new year. We have to make a video or a podcast of ourselves.

Ugh. I am in hardly any of my family pictures because I'm usually the one taking them, and I like it that way. The last time I had to make a video of myself was at the end of student teaching, and the kid helping me had to leave the room for the introduction because I was so clearly uncomfortable.

I'm choosing to look the assignment this way: it's something I need to learn how to do, and my kids are THRILLED that we now have a webcam because they LOVE seeing themselves on any screen. I'm not sure where they get this trait because my husband feels the same way I do about pictures and videos. He laughed yesterday when I told him my dilemma.

And so this brings me to cardmaking, in a roundabout way. I would LOVE to be published. I realized that the only way to get published is to actually SUBMIT something and that takes a lot of courage. I see the fabulous cards in magazines and wonder about my own crafting skills, so in the words of Wesley from The Princess Bride, "Get used to disappointment". But I'm going to keep that hope and maybe one of these days I'll be pleasantly surprised.

So here are my cards for this week's Friends with Flair Friday:

PTI and Core'dinations cardstock

Sizzix embossign folder

7 gypsies dp

Unity Stamp Co. Stamps

Cricut

Mark's Finest Papers pins

This was one of the first cards I submitted that didn't get chosen, and "I'm ok with that" (That guy from SNL in the 90's)

This month's KOM has a daisy that screams Andy Warhol to me, and I found this picture at Warhol.org:

"I love daisies. They're such a happy flower" (You've Got Mail). And this is what turned out:

PTI and Paperstudio cardstock

Basic Grey dp

Unity Stamps

Copics

"Whoever would have thought that I would write?" (You've Got Mail). If you actually read all of this, bless you. I'm not usually a sharer and this took quite a bit of courage, too.

Webcam, here I come!

Smokin' Deal

Welcome to Friday, my friends!

I did a little Unity shopping over the holidays, and I ordered this Tiny Trinity set:

I actually thought I was getting an itty bitty, which as you all know comes in a baggie roughly 3x4" (I'm guessing here). This set actually came in their normal packaging and is not tiny nor itty bitty. I had to check my packing list to make sure they had sent the right thing!

I've been on a colored pencil kick lately. Every time I try to color with Copics, the details get blurry and I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I like my colored pencils MUCH better, although the red doesn't compare to a marker. The sentiment is from the Something Within set, the border is a Martha Stewart punch, and the twine and cardstock is PTI. The background paper is Basic Grey.

Have a wonderful weekend!