Lazy Saturday :)

What are you up to today? We slept a little later than usual, then I did some school work and Iain walked Tasha...now Iain and I are having our tea and coffee and the kiddos are playing down in the basement. It's a nice lazy Saturday. We all needed haircuts this weekend, though. I got mine done yesterday (no more gray!), and Iain and the kids will have their turn this afternoon.

I have some projects to work on this weekend: cards for my next class at Artistic License on June 7th and some pieces for Terry at Creative Cuts and More.

Today I'm posting a box that I decorated with MFT's Dino-Mite set :) It's for Mary at Artistic License to display in her store. Enjoy your Saturday!

Happy Thursday :)

One more MFT card for you today - I love the "Kids with Fur" sentiment! LOL! The stamp sets used here are "Gone to the Dogs" (lady and dog), "Setting the Stage" (frames), and "Essential Sentiments". The patterned paper here is a new favorite line of mine. It's called Confetti and is made by My Mind's Eye. I loooove the colors and used the papers to paper-piece the lady's skirt and shirt :) The coloring was done with colored pencils and Gamsol.

No huge plans today - I have school work to do and stamping to do. Which should I do first? That's a tough decision - NOT!!

More MFTeasers

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Here's my first card made with a new set called "Going Places" that will be released by My Favorite Things tonight. The paper here is from the Die Cuts with a View "Travel Stack".

My TCP Tuesday card :)

Sorry for the delay in posting this - yesterday was "one of those days"! This is my TCP Tuesday card for this week: Katie (our Hostess this week) asked us to design a card using TCP's "Ring of Flowers" stamp; isn't it pretty? The flower in the middle is by Petaloo; I got mine at My Favorite Things.

Talking of MFT, tonight is the release party at Splitcoast Stampers for the May stamp sets. I'll be posting separately about those later today :)

Have a great day!

TCP Tuesday and upcoming from MFT!

It's TCP Tuesday again! This week's Hostess with the Mostest is Katie :) She'll be posting the challenge some time this morning and I'll post my card this afternoon. You'll like this one - very Spring-like!

My Favorite Things is releasing 3 brand new sets tomorrow. I've been playing with them this week and will post some peeks tonight and tomorrow. Those of you with doggy furbabies will be happy, happy people! Kim posted a peek here, there's another one from Carole, and Michele has one here. Enjoy! Have a great day - I'll be back later :)

Lost tooth! And where did 13 years go?

Jamie lost his first tooth last night! It has been noticeably loose for a while, but we didn't think it was coming out as soon as this. I actually got pretty emotional - my "baby" (don't let him hear I called him that!) is growing up way too fast for me!

Coincidentally, yesterday was also 13 years since we had our stillborn baby girl, Carol Helen. I can't believe it was so long ago. Iain and I were living in Orlando; we had been married just 18 months and, looking back, we were very young: I was 23 and Iain was 28. It was an awful time for us; our excitement and happiness were shattered and turned to grief and sadness so quickly.

Carol had spina bifida, and in honor of her birthday I've made a donation to March of Dimes. This is a great organization that (among other things) educates the public about birth defects, premature birth, and infant mortality. Before I got pregnant again in 1996 with Nattie, I started taking a mega-dose of folic acid, and I continued to take it all the way until I had Jamie in 2002. It took us 6 pregnancies to have 2 healthy babies, and I am thankful every day for being lucky enough to be Carol's, Nattie's and Jamie's mom.

I hope you enjoy the "toothy grin" photo of Jamie :) He was more than happy to pose this morning!

Queen Kat Designs' Big Reveal!

Vicki has some exciting news! Here's the scoop:

A STAMP CLUB!!!! Called "Take 3". Each month QKD will have 3 large stamp sets exclusive to the club. If you don't subscribe to the club, you won't be able to get ALL of the images ever again! Sure, we MAY release 1-2 of them... But you won't EVER get these sets in their entirety ever again! Tanis, SJ and Vicki have been working hard to bring you the best sets possible and man, you don't want to miss out on this Take 3 club!!!!

The filmstrip shows the stamps for May. I think my favorite is the set with the frames - very versatile!

Cowboy Acrylic Stars Project :)

Alma sent all of us TCP DT gals some acrylic to work with recently...my pick was a set of 3 acrylic stars from Clear Scraps. Instead of making an album, I decided to make a wall hanging using photos of Jamie from Cowboy/Cowgirl day and some of the Cowboy stamps by TCP.

We had to use TCP stamps (of course!), and some other goodies I used from Alma included stitching rub-ons, star brads and some "love" bling (on the top star). You can click on the photo to see it in more detail :)

What are your weekend plans? Tomorrow I am giving a class at Artistic License using stamps by My Favorite Things - we have 6 people signed up, which is a really nice sized group. 2/3 of our new furniture arrived this morning, so I think Iain will be taking a trip to Goodwill while I teach my class. Sunday, I'm not quite sure yet.

Have a great weekend, everyone! And don't forget to stamp your TCP Tuesday card by the end of Saturday - it's all about the BLUE!

Snowy Thursday :)