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One week from today my family and I will be in Minnesota (at my parents' house) for a three week "vacation." It is hard bringing my life into someone else's (even if it is my own parents), but I'm so looking forward to it. It's African heat here in Texas, and I'm just tired - just having another set of eyes and hands and sometimes more will be nice...and it's always nice to go "home."

Anyways, I'm organizing all my stuff so I can feel more productive. It's fun! I have made a few cards too this week! I thought I'd share today a card I used with the bffABUGG from Stamping Bella. I love the buggs! And if I'm not mistaken, I think there is a release from Stamping Bella today. Always dangerous : ) For this card, I used Amy Rysavy's sketch from this week (I'll try to load the sketch but I've been having issues with loading more than one picture!). Or you can go to http://prairiepaperandink.typepad.com/ to see for yourself.

Details
Stamp: bffABUGG (stamping bella)
Ink: Brilliance Graphite Black
Paper: Lemonade (basic grey), purely pomegranate, kiwi kiss, regal rose, whisper white
Accessories: Buttons, Copics, dimensionals, swiss dots cuttlebug embossing folder, nestabilities

YEAH!!!!

So first things first - thanks to anyone who voted for me the other day for the Ketto cards. I won!!! And will be receiving a new ketto image soon.

A second YEAH for making the cut to the final round for the Guest Designer call for Hanna Stamps - http://www.hannastamps.com/. If you visit regularly you'll know I use a lot of Hanna stamps - namely the adorable lovable Riley and Sophie moose. I'll be sent a not-yet-released image after July 5th, and get to make three projects to show off my creativity...the top six will be picked from that. I'm so excited. There are lots of talented ladies...I hope I have a style they like. I LOVE Hanna Stamps! and would love to be a guest designer for them. Wish me luck!

The card for today is from last week's TCPTues63 challenge. I had this "idea" for a card in my head ever since I received the new release a few weeks ago. It didn't come out exactly as I had pictured, but I love it nonetheless!

Details
Stamp: Happy Camper (The Cat's Pajamas)

Ink: Brilliance Graphite Black

Paper: Whisper White, Black, Real Red, DP Basic Grey June Bug

Accessories: Copics, Prima flowers with pearl brad, ribbon, dimensionals

Hanna Guest DT Call

I feel sort of like my husband in the fact that Hanna Stamps has a call out for guest spots for their design team and the deadline is tomorrow (he's an attorney and if it's due on June 20th, you get it on June 20th). That being said, I've been wanting to play with my Hanna stuff - and today I finally got my submissions completed!

Check out the Guest DT Call Forum over on Splitcoast - http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/showthread.php?p=14415281&posted=1#post14415281. And to see all the awesome stamps from Hanna Stamps, go to www.hannastamps.com.

So today I'm potty training a 3 year old boy - the pressure is on and he is a stubborn little thing. I've learned now with him that he has to be pantless/underwearless/diaperless in order to use the potty. We have only the starts of accidents today, and he's catching on. Needless to say, I've spent many minutes cheering him on in the bathroom - and in between, trying to be creative with my stamping! I wanted to use both a Riley stamp (since I LOVE LOVE LOVE them), and a Hanna stamp!

Here's my Riley sample for the guest DT Call -

Details
Stamp: Riley Train
Paper: Bordering Blue, Real Red, Chocolate Chip, White (Papertrey), All About Boys DP (DCWV)
Ink: Brilliance Graphite
Accessories: Nestabilities Wavy Rectangles, Dew Drops (orange), Copics, Dimensionals

And my Hanna sample (of course, the picture doesn't do it justice!)

Details
Stamp: Cafe (Hanna Stamps)
Paper: Cosmo Cricket Farmers Market, Chocolate Chip, Riding Hood Red, White (Papertrey)
Ink: Brilliance Graphite
Accessories: Dimensionals, Oval Punches (SU), Ribbon, Copics

Wish me luck in my personal goal of working on a design team. Hanna stamps is one of my favs and I'm so excited to even have the possibility.

Vote for me, and MFT challenge completed

OK - so first things first - I participated in a Ketto swap on Splitcoast. The cards have been posted on our blog host's blog - http://www.enchantedstamper.blogspot.com/. Go there now, and vote for my card - because remember, a girl can never have too many Kettos! My card is in group 2 under kjlowrey...of course, to be fair, I should say to vote for your favorite card...but I say vote for kjlowrey in your ear!

I finally got something new made! It was just in the nick of time for the MFTMFC3 challenge! The challenge was to make a tri-fold / gate fold card. I made the gate fold card - sorry the picture isn't the best but it was late and I had to get it in before the deadline. And I have to get this in the mail to my dad this morning!

Details
Stamp: MFT Let's Hear It For The Boys
Paper: Mellow Moss, Chatterbox Tie Plaid and Dark Tie Circles
Accessories: Copics, Silver Bella Bling, dimensionals

A birthday oldie and my angels

Whew - where does the time go??? We took the kids to the Fort Worth Zoo on Friday - I can't remember what we did on Saturday and Sunday : )....and now it's already Tuesday and I realized I should blog.

This is a card I made for a challenge, but now I can't find the details (happening a lot lately, isn't it?!). Anyways, the set is from My Favorite Things... It's a fun image for all our gal friends out there!

Yesterday I took the kiddos to get their pictures taken - always a workout! But I thought I'd share the close ups of each of my monster angels!

Isaac (2 years)

Jacob (3 years)

Joseph (4 years)

Hannah (6 years)

A/C Fixed, Tree and Fence Down, Blood Everywhere...

WOW - it's been a crazy week. Wednesday night we had a good ole Texas storm - the sirens went off, I went to the hall with four kids and two dogs, and for a few minutes, I was pretty scared thinking this might be the time we're hit with a tornado. When it was all done, our only tree (and a big one) in our front yard was down...or at least half of it...and a fence post is broken so we have the leaning fence of Frisco. It was a heck of a night (and I missed half of SYTYCD)...

And then - Thursday night - Hannah is talking to her grandpa on the phone, her littlest brother throws a wooden train track, it hits her in the head...by the time I get up to get Isaac to put him in timeout, Hannah's white blonde hair is all red, and there's blood everywhere. It was rather traumatic, and I've never seen so much blood. Finally got the bleeding to stop, and her cleaned up, and the "gash" wasn't deep enough to warrant a trip to the ER (thank goodness!).

So what will 6:45 - 7:00 pm bring tonight?????? I'll let you know...

My card today is for the Bellarific Friday June 12th challenge. You can check out all the awesome entries at Bella's blog - www.stampingbella.com/blog/ I used a stamp from a recent release that I love, especially with all my monsters : ) The stamp is Monstah Bash...Lovin' it!!!!

Here's the card...

Details
Stamps: Monstah Bash (Stamping Bella), Sentiment (SU)

Paper: Animal cracker DCWV

Accessories: Ribbon (SU), dimensionals, copics

Here's the Scoop - No A/C in Texas is no fun!

Yep - our upstairs A/C went out Tuesday. Sure, we have the downstairs but all the kids bedrooms are upstairs, as well as my scrapbooking room! The repair man is to come "after 1pm" today - not quite sure what that means, how much it will all cost, and if we'll have AC by tonight. And yes, summer has hit in Texas.

The card today is for a My Favorite Things Challenge over on Splitcoast - MFTMFC2. The challenge was to use three designer papers, from 3 different lines. I thought this one would be easy with all the paper I have. Well - first of all, it's hard using three designer prints on any paper, and then trying to get three different lines, etc. etc. It was a fun but more than I thought challenging challenge - if that makes sense : )

Here's my card with the details to follow!

Details

Stamp: MFT Here's the Scoop

Paper: Soft Sky Designer Prints Paper (SU), Lemonade (Basic Grey), MFT Summer pack

Accessories: Copics, MFT Summer Pack Buttons, hemp twine