Fairy Wishes

FWF:
Here it is another week of FWF.  I told myself no more cards as I am super behind on my scrapbooking, but I had colored and stickled this fairy a week or two ago when I was doing stamping with my daughter.  When I went to get the sheet I used I discovered that our 80lb labradoodle dog had been laying on the chair where I set it down last night.  Since my son went to college last fall she has become a naughty dog.  She takes things out of the garbage, chew up the papers, and now will readily jump up on the chairs.  Something she never did before.  I have tried giving her extra attention but it does not replace her true companion, my son.  Anyway, I had to be creative to cover up some of the dirt she got on my stamped image.  Here it is.

Supplies:
Stamp: Unity KOM What lies within us and Unity Growing in Unity
Markers: Copic
Stickles
gems: Websters
flowers: Teresa Collins
ink: Momento
patterned paper: Websters and stash
glitter string: WRMemory Keepers

Thanks for checking my blog.  Have a terrific weekend.

LBAB

Life is Beautiful

The weather went from below zero one week to 50 above the next week.  I hope it is safe to say that Spring has come to Minnesota.  I am feeling happy and warm.  My oldest is home for Spring Break and we had not seen him for two months, I met up with my oldest and one of my best friends this past weekend, attended a great nephews birthday party and tomorrow it may reach 70 degrees. How can it get any better, I am surrounded by the people I love and it is officially Spring next week. So for me "life is beautiful". 

 I am entering my card below in the Unity {be inspired} challenge and the 3 Girl JAM March Challenge-Anything Goes with Ribbon.  

Here is the inspiration from Unity Stamp Company.

                                                      

Here is the card I created for the Challenges.  I love love Melody Ross Stamps.  I like how the card turned out too.

Supplies:

Patterned paper-

Stamp- Unity Stamp Company Beautiful by Melody Ross

Ribbon- 3 Girl JAM wine-jewels-bundle

Ink- Momento

Glitter mist- Ranger egg shell and Yellow Daisy

Markers-Copic

Enamel dots- MME

Flower- Prima

Today is the deadline for this months Unity {be inspired} Challenge but have no fear there will be another awesome one to play along with for the next month.  The 3 Girl JAM Challenge does not end until March 27, 2015.  Go over and check out their ribbon.  They are offering their new beautiful ribbon for one dollar with your order during the month of March- click here. 

For those of you coming over from 3 Girl JAM click the website version on the bottom of this page. For some reason it is sending you over with the mobile version.

Thanks for stopping by and have a beautiful day.

LBAB

SWEET 16

Happy FWF Day:

I broke out my water color pencils for the first time.  I had a blast making this fun card for my niece.  This is why I craft, for fun days like these.

Have a great weekend!
LBAB

Unity stamp:Mind and beauty
Pater: Sweet fairy by Prima
American craft thickers
Color box Ink
Derwent Water color pencils
Embellishments: from stash

Headcold

FWF:

I used the 11/14 KOTM for this card.  It is called What Lies Within Us.  I just love the sentiment in this kit.

Supplies:
Bird journal card- Basic Grey  Hello Die Cut Journal Cards
Stamps- Unity Stamp Company  KOTM What Lies Within US
paper-MME Lost and Found
Burlap paper- DCWV
Twine- American Crafts
Wooden hearts- Um Wow Studios Heart Confetti
Trinket Cross- stash
Pearl- Memory Makers


Here we are again.  Another week another card.  The card I made took me ALL day.  Not because it was complicated but because I have a cold.  It is the kind of cold where you have a scratchy throat so you wake up choking in your sleep.  My mouth is actually sore from sucking on cough drops.  You cannot go to work as hospitals(I work as a Speech Pathologist) frown on fevers, you are too miserable to sleep but too miserable to really think and accomplish any work.  So I would try to sleep, doze of wake up coughing and get up work on cards and cleaning then try to go back to sleep.  I did slip in a few episodes of Psyc on Netflix than I decided I should try to watch a movie.  I am not a movie person.  I never really enjoyed watching them.  If I watch a movie it is usually a comedy and I will let you in on such a little not so much secret.  I HATE kids movies.  I have been going to kids movies for nearly 15 years.  It is a consequence of having a huge age span from your oldest to youngest.  Oh you say what about....nope.  I really dislike them all.  OK, maybe "Up" and "Sponge Bob The Movie" had their moments, but for the most part I think it is a miserable way to spend an hour and a half.  Yes, I have seen parts or all of everyone of the Disney movies. I have two girls, one which lived in princess dresses for three years of her life.  Perhaps I have a missing mommy gene for children's movies.  I think it was circa 2001 and Thomas and the Tank Engine movie, that I love my last bit of patience for them.  Peter Fonda should have to give back his Oscar for appearing in that terrible movie.  If any you had a boy that is around 19 now you know what I am talking about.

Today I decided to rent Magic Mike on Amazon.  I did not see it the first time around and a friend of mine said, "Oh, you have to see it".  Plus with all the new trailers out for it I thought I should check it out.  It was sort of like a bad 80's movie like Flash Dance but instead of a beautiful girl that welds by day and dances at night it is a handsome guy that dreams of being a furniture maker by day and dances at night.  The plot line was not any better than a Disney movie, if Disney movies had nearly naked men in them.  The men are very attractive, but truthfully I wish I would have skipped it.  It made me feel like I should go to confession(which I have only done once, when I converted to being a Catholic) after I watched it or at least take a shower to wash away the feeling that I was a creepy old lady for watching it.   So I am thinking I will not make it through a showing of Fifty Shades of Gray when it opens up next week.

Have a great Weekend.
LBAB

Sock Fairy

FWF:

I will spare you my philosophizing today.  I have really done nothing all week in the form of cleaning my humble abode or laundry for my irritated crew...  "Mom I do not have any clean socks in my drawer".  Even after I explained to them numerous times there is a basket in the basement overflowing with socks, they think there is a magical sock and underwear fairy that delivers them to the drawers.  I say,"go find them in the sock basket", they look at me blankly and either crash in to a sobbing puddle on the floor or put on yesterdays socks(depending on the amount of sleep they had the night before).  Really... really the seven steps to the basement and the cognitive stress of finding a pair of socks that match are just to stressful for you?  Anyway this girl needs to hit the laundry before there is mutiny here or they are quarantined for stinky feet by their school.  So here are the cards I made with Unity Stamps Gossip, hot flashes & Crazy.  I made tons of cards with these stamps.  Birthday, hot flash funnies, encouragement card for a friend getting chemo, and "just a note" cards.  I will post them below after I show share my FWF card.

Than I made another one for my best friend since I was in 4th grade.  She is a year and a half older than me and I always tell her how old she is and she just turned the big 5-0.

How fun it this?  I added stamps from Damn your old Unity stamp. Just spruced the cake up with a little Stickles and a green accent.  I can not lie.  I love this card.

Here are some of the mixed bag I made from the Gossip, hot flashes & Crazy.  Great stamp and I was looking for the link it is on sale this week at the Garage Sale over at Unity Stamp Company.

Happy Friday everyone.  Spend it with someone you love.

LBAB

That LB, she has got try.

Unity Challenge No. 23

One problem with the new year is I always make the decision to try to better myself.  Some may call it resolutions, I just call it "trying".  If anyone who reads this comes from the cowboy world you may know the word "try".  It is not a verb but is a noun.  When you have  "try" it means you are giving it all you got.  So this year I am giving it the cowboy try.  One of my many things I am going to try to do this year is participate more in challenges and such in the scrapping and card world.  It is easy to let the weeks pass and not participate.  So I guess my resolution is to give it all I got.  If I fall off that Bronco at least I was in the arena and not sitting in the stands.  Here is my Unity Monthly Challenge entry.

Here is the inspiration:

Unity Monthly Challenge

Supplies:

Unity stamp-hello little one

Unity Background Stamp-Hearts of Old

Silver mist- Huey

pink ink- Martha Stewart

badge and pink patterned paper- Studio Calico

enamel dots- lawn fawn

washi tape- stash

twine- American Crafts

I have a lot of things I am trying to be better at:
1. Going to bed earlier- nope I watched Sherlock on Netflix until 1 am
2. Walking-nope, come on the wind chill was -30 below this morning I came home and watched Young and the Restless instead
3. More patience with my kids- nope, it was -30 below wind chill and our school was not cancelled but most others were- they were absolute jerks to me.  Like I wanted there to be school today.  I would have loved to have slept in(see goal one for reason).  
4. Better organization-nope there is an elephant on this card because I could not find the stamp I original planned on
5. Cut back on sugar-nope, empty Hot Tamale boxes do not lie.
6.  Enjoy life everyday-yes,  I participate in the Unity Monthly  Challenge and see all my other activities listed above.

Like I said...that LB...She has got try.

Stay Warm and give it the Cowboy try,

LBAB

FWF and itty bitty Day 4

I have become somewhat obsessed with making cards since Unity Stamps started the itty bitty {show & tell} challenge.  Today for FWF I made a card.  I am trying to get pages done but I just keep making cards.  Today,  I went out of my normal card making style.  I do not know if any one out there has ordered from  the warehouse sale at Webster's Pages? Well I did a while ago.  I packed it away and kind of forgot about it.  But, today took it out and had a look.  It has only been like 2 years.  I love the prints on Webster's Pages.  They are so gorgeous.  But, I find that I have a really hard time using the products. It is a little more fancy than I am and I find you really need the right picture to compliment it. So to continue with my season of challenging myself I took on using it.

         I tried to use actual cork for the background.  After a frustrating hour I gave up and went with the paper version of cork.  I had it all planned out at 3 am in the morning.  I learned a 10am in the morning that, I need to find thinner cork.  I will have to tweek this a bit.  If any of you out there are in a Book Group, you know, this is a perfect card for them.  I need to make 6 more.  I may try to make a picture,  I can frame. That would be the definition of perfection for a Christmas gift for book group members. I guess I will have to ponder that another night at 3am.

Supplies:

Paper-Webster's Pages petite pages and Simple Stories

Ribbon-3girlJam

Ink- momento(rich cocoa) and Tim Holtz(tea dye)

Crystals- Prima

Stamp- Unity Stamp Age and Wine

Markers- Copics

Glimmer Mist-  Wine by Tattered Angles

Pop Dots- best creation