TY, Deborah you are such a sweetie :)!

Thank you so much Deborah for your beautiful card, and the Gem brads that you included in your card...it made my day to find this in my mailbox :)! I know that it took a lot of work (well at least I think it is a lot of work, since I tried to do this technique at your place), to create this card :).







Hugs to you all,
Catherine

Trina's Timless Treasures blog

Please run on over to Trina's Timless Treasures Blog, because she has a fun card challenge over there. It has also been a long time since I did a card challenge too, so I thought what the heck...I will give this one a whirl :)! LOVE the tree stamp by the Artful Inkables, and the sentiment came from the set by Papertrey called "Spiral Bouquet". Two beautiful "must HAVE" sets :)!



Happy Creating,

Catherine

The happiness is there again

Hard to believe this day has come, you are probably wondering what exactly I mean by that statement...well let me tell you :)! My 4 year old son has been having some behavioral issues since he was 3, he has been having Sensory Integration issues too and it is hard to explain but it is like the light in his eyes just wasn't there. Anyways, my dd didn't feel safe around him or never wanted to play with him at all or hug him...it seems she is always looking over her shoulder to see if he is flying around the corner without looking where he is going. Well, we have had him on a restricted diet (no dairy, eggs, corn, wheat, sugar, juice, or fruit* he can have 2 servings of fruit a day*) for about 3 weeks now and let me tell you the change is AMAZING :)! Last Tuesday I wasn't too sure that this diet thing was working, so I took him off just to see what it has done for him...let's just say complete and utter chaos errupted! He went from being a very verbal child to a non verbal child in a short period of time, he just grunted, groaned and screamed at high pitches. He became so frustrated/upset that he cried all afternoon and evening, so I put him to bed early and vowed to never take him off that diet again!!
I took this picture yesterday, and I had to share it with you...look at them sitting there happily and she wasn't trying to get away. Since he has been on this diet the light has come back into his eyes, his little sister has wanted to hug him constantly and she wants to play with him :)! I am just amazed that something so simple could cause such chaos, but now the challenge is to figure out what of those things he can't have is the cuplrit for that huge change in him??? It really makes me think, that we all should go back to what our grandparents used to eat...by that I mean meats, veggies, homemade things that don't contain processing or deep frying. I know, I know, you don't have time...but do you know what think of the changes you might experience if you start eating those things again??? Worth a try right, worth the time???

Anyways, that's enough rambling from me today :)!

Hugs,
catherine

Simplicity

I wanted to make a simple "Thank you" card for a friend of mine, and here is what I came up with...pretty simple and yet elegant (sorta) :)! The patterned paper came from one of my patterned paper slabs from K&Company pads from Walmart, you have to check out these beautiful papers there. The stamped image that I used is from Inkadinkado set (has an owl on a branch in the set too), and the sentiment is one of Michael's clear acrylic stamps from the Studio G line.


Hugs,
Catherine

My boys

Yesterday, was the first day of Grade 1 for my oldest and I forgot to take a picture because I was stressed out enough as it was. I also didn't take one of our middle child when he started Pre-school last week....bad mommy, lol! So since I was actually running early this morning I did a quick photoshoot of the boys, this was the best pic I took of them. I still can't believe how much the boys, well actually all three children have grown up so much...in just a blink of an eye. Well, I gotta run now to pick up the oldest from his bus stop, then off to my mom's to pick up her, then run over to my son's preschool to pick him up and then back to my mom's for supper :).

Hugs,

catherine

Another fun card

I used one of the other cute stamp sets that I got in the mail the other day, from All That Scraps and it is called "Sweet Treats". LOVE these characters a lot :)! For the background I used a background stamp called "Design Block Butterfly" *shh don't tell Julie that there are butterflies on this background stamp*. For this card I also had stamped, then cut out the snail and the dragon fly...then used dimensionals to have them stand up off the card a bit.

Hugs,

Catherine

Monkey business

I have been waiting awhile for this stamp set to arrive in my mailbox, it has been almost a month and half now for this to arrive along with 3 other sets. I LOVE these sets, they are too cute :)! Here is a card that I created using the All That Scraps stamp set called "Summertime Fun". I am also hoping to try out the "Backpack card" today too, using a tutorial I found the other day. Will let you know how that goes...

Oh yeah, my blog counter is also getting up there...it will be time for blog candy soon enough :)!

Happy stamping,

catherine