My oldest

*Sniff, Sniff* My first born has started Pre-primary yesterday...it is a 10 session program that runs until May 31st. He started it yesterday and LOVES it :)! He is going to the pre-primary Mondays and Wednesday afternoons, then he is going to Preschool on Tuesday/Thursday mornings. He loves both the programs alot, and asks me when he gets to go next when the school session is over. Hard to believe he will be starting school in the fall!!

He is excited about starting school, but at the same time he is sad about going because his little girlfriend (he met at preschool) won't be going to his school. Lol, he apparently is very very much in love with this little girl (Julie's daughter) and tells me that they are very serious. They are planning their wedding already, the little girl has her grandmother on standby to find her the perfect dress and new tiara for this big day. Isaac has already apparently started making wedding invitations, and is learning about princesses so that he knows how to be a good husband (this is what he is telling me at meal time or whenever he gets a chance). The other day he told me that he has to ride around the bottom of a castle on a horse, then climb up the stairs (or ladder) to rescue the princess and kiss her to get her to come with him. Too cute eh? He then leaned over and said, "because that is what is done!!

Had to share, thought it would bring smiles to you all :)!

My Accordian Card

Hope everyone is having a great day, our day started out kinda grey but now is a hot sunny late afternoon/early evening. I attempted to make an accordian card, here is the link that I got the directions on how to make it: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/accordian.php


I am pretty happy with how it turned out, please excuse the poor picture quality that my picture has and the ribbon isn't actually not off like it looks like it is in the picture :(....here's the picture.

I think I would make more of the tri-fold cards, and perhaps even save this card for special occasions because you need matte board for it. They suggested using cereal box kind of cardboard, but I think the matte works better! Well, off to find another fun new card to make...happy card making :D! I forgot to mention that I haven't designed the inside yet, because I am waiting on my SU order to come in that has the 2 tag punches and set of stamps too. I am itching to get them :P! I will post a picture once I get it done...

My Tri-fold Card Attempt!

Here is my first attempt at a trifold card. I used 3 1/2" by 9 1/2" piece of rose colored cardstock for my base. Then for my patterned paper I used a bit of my 12 by 12 sheet of "Young Girl Flowers Flat Paper" cut, which I cut into a 3 1/2 " square and then cut in half. For the inside I cut 2 different colored pieces of cardstock to fit inside, then used the butterfly stamp from my SU set called "Watercolor Minis". The ribbon I used is called "Dashes, Dots and Checks ribbon which I got from Michaels when they were having a ribbon sale :D! Here are the pictures for the card:

Inside of the card:

If you would like to try this card goto this link: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/triangletrifold.php

Enjoy!

Ugh

Just when I thought I would be able to get a card making session in, during nap time here...things got not so good. I had full intentions of getting several cards made today, but I woke up with what appears to be a nasty stomach bug :(! So needless to say there goes my card making time, and I spent most of my day on my futon, with the children sitting somewhere around me either snuggling or playing with a great toy I had when I was a little girl. This toy are a bunch of cardboard boxes that look like bricks, well the boys just loved playing with them and boy was I thankful I had something new for them to enjoy. Think you can get them at Toys R' Us! Anywho, sorry for not a long post or no new card projects...I will get some done soon.

Hugs,
Catherine

My cabinet!

My sister in law and her DH (darling husband), were here visiting us (they live 3 hours from us) and I just happened to notice that they had a beautiful cabinet in the back of their car. I told them that it was a nice cabinet, and where were they going to put it...that sort of thing...they then told me they were getting rid of this cabinet. They then asked if I wanted it, I said "Yes, for sure...I could def. find a good home for this thing!" So they loaded it into my car, and I took it home and had it mounted on the wall...here is the cabinet:

It looks not straight in this picture but it is! Anyways, I use this beautiful cabinet to store some of my stamping supplies, to show off some of the cards I make. Good find if I do say so myself :)!

I am

My Bad!!Sorry everyone for not posting the past couple of days, but I have been having some issues with my blog. I wanted to have a new template, so I went on a great search and found the one that is posted there now. Then I thought wow, it would be great to have a slide show of my pictures rather than having them up the side where it takes up room. Well, let's just say that this task is harder than you think...and I have spent 2 days trying to figure out how to get the stupid www.slide.com to work for me. I gave up on that site, now working on a different slide show...let's hope this one doesn't test my patience! Anywho, I will or should be back posting on here soon...sorry for the lack of posts. Might just have to do some blog candy or something....hmmm.

Hugs to you all :)!

Good morning all!

I am going to work on some cards today that I will post on here and explain what I did, first attempt! Before I do that here are some more pictures of my children...more recent than the last one's I posted.

Off to do some cards and a technique I haven't done before!