You know you are addicted to Stamping when....

So, I was doing some Blurffing tonight and I came across Iheartart blog which had this posted on it...just had to share it with all of my crafty people who read my blog *am hoping I still have some readers :P*.

YOU KNOW YOU’RE ADDICTED TO STAMPING WHEN…

” you are eating your zuchinni, onion and pesto fritatta that you just made and thinking: *these colors are SO pretty, they would make really nice DP!!!* YIKES!!!”

“it’s a beautiful sunny hot day – and instead of going outside and enjoying the weather – you check out the daily challenge and run up to your stamping room to make a card!”

“you prefer buying stamping related stuff than clothes”- GUILTY as charged!

“You realize you no longer have a guest room, in fact it’s become a rubber room.”

“you are at the gym and take off your bra to put on your bathing suit and a PRIMA is stuck to your Bosom!!”

“There’s glitter in the washing machine.”

“You drive hours to go to a new craft store.”

“your ‘manicure’ consists of black ink, FabriTac and glitter.”

“you stalk the employees as they restock the stamping aisle.”

“you would rather give up Chocolate for Lent, than give up stamping.”- for all my fellow Catholics

when you “keep an envelope in your purse with cardstock color chips just in case you see a SS when you are traveling, or just going to Wal-Mart for groceries.”- I DO THIS ALL THE TIME

when “your husband sends you a link to a stamping blog that he ran across when doing research at work! What on earth was he researching!?!?!?!”

“Vacations are planned around class schedules at a stamp store two states away.”

“When going on vacation you scope out where all the local Scrap/Stamp store are and make hubby take you to each one.”

“You can’t invite friends over due to the embarrassment of all of your rubber room stuff overflowing into every room of your house.”

“When your boss asks you if you have an extra stamp in your purse and you don’t know why he would want one. But you ask “what kind” and he says “Um, a postage stamp” Oh yeah there are other kinds!”- In this case CHRIS would be “my boss”!

“you update your artwork blog more than your family blog!”- GUILTY

Enjoy!

Inky Hugs,

Catherine

Fiesty, Frugal, and Fabulous vinyl letter giveaway

Please head on over to the Fiesty, Frugal, and Fabulous blog and check out the vinyl wall lettering blog candy they have up for grabs ...they are just gorgeous :)!

Inky Hugs,

Catherine

Mojo Monday sketch challenge #95

Today, I decided that I had better get back at blogging here...or I will be flogged I think :p! Anyways, I decided to start with MojoMonday's sketch challenge and here is what I came up with...I used a new stamp set that I received as blog candy and it is a CTMH stamp set t

hat came with a kit called "Tickled Pink".

I stamped the image of the flower out, then I stamped it out again and yes I did cut out every single petal...then attached them using

dimensionals. I just love how this flower turned out :)!

Here is the side view of the card, so you can see how I cut out every petal of the flower and used the dimensionals on them. It made the flower look a lot better, then leaving it as a single layer :)! The patterned paper I used is by Cloud9Design, called Cinnamon Stick...beautiful paper that I picked up from Michaels.

Inky Hugs,

Gift for my brother and sister inlaw for their Bdays

I found this great wooden picture cube that can spin around at Michael's and thought that it would be a great bday give for my Brother and his wife for their Bday, I am also on a mission to find something else for them. I altered this cube, this isn't how it came...it came so you could alter it or leave it be I suppose.

I then found some gorgeous paper to use for the lid of the cube, and then found some other paper for the sides. Lol, then I realized that the sides were going to be a whole lot harder to do than I thought. Plus, I am a newbie at this altering other things...and am in serious need of a lesson or two from my local altering queen Julie.

So since the sides were harder to do than I thought, I thought I would make it easier :p! I got out my tole paints, then painted the sides of the photo cube...then I put a layer of "Hodge Podge" over what I had painted. Turned out really nice :)!

Inky Hugs,

Broken Flip flop story

*Sniff, Sniff*! The other night my dh came into our living room and asked me if we had any sandwhich meats down in our freezer, I told him not unless he bought some. I then told him that if he wanted me to go grocery shopping that I would go, not really actually wanting to go that night but I knew he needed meats for a sandwhich for work the next day. So, off I went child free (which is nice) to get groceries but then when I got into the van I realized I forgot my reusable grocery bags. I run back into the house and got them, see I am forever forgetting them and I didn't want to pay 5 cents for about 4-5 plastic bags.

I get there to the grocery store, all is well so far...I go inside and got about a cart full when trouble snuck up on me and nabbed my flip flop and broke it. Okay, so it wasn't actually trouble who broke my flip flop...it was the fact they were getting kind of old and I did know I needed a new pair. Now, I am stuck there with half an order of groceries with a broken strap of my flip flop (they sort of look like the one's above), and I don't have anything with me to fix it until I get home. So there I am walking funny to get the rest of my groceries, kind of like a slide/drag...nearly decided to take them off to do the rest in my bare feet but I thought they would kick me out. What would you do in my situation???

I then remembered about the cheap sandals one can get in the clothing section, I shuffle over to the aisle and found a great new pair for $4...so off I scooted awkwardly to the cash to pay for my order and to get the new pair of flip flops on my feet. I was kind of sad though about the pair that broke, because they were my favorite pair...

Will have some crafty things posted for you in the next couple of days, sorry I haven't been here posting as often as I would have liked to be but have been busy with taking my oldest son to DVBS. So will be back!

Inky Hugs,

Update

Just wanted to pop on by to give you an update on my middle guy, this is now week 2 on new dose of meds and it is AMAZING the changes we have seen in him over the past two weeks. I am so happ

y, and very exciting too :)!

To give you an idea of the kinds of changes I am talking about:

~He can tell us now without too much trouble what is bothering him

~He can ask for help if he needs help

~He is talking a whole lot more

~He is hasn't had as many meltdowns, and when he does have them he can calm himself down within minutes NOT hours

~He doesn't stim as much anymore either, only if his senses are overloaded or he is very upset

~He is more helpful (telling his sister who is 2 to use her big girl words or to listen to his words)

~He is telling us he loves us, without any prompting

The list just goes on and on of the good things that have been happening with him :)! There is something we didn't think was such a HUGE problem which has become more evident that he is on the meds. He is seriously lacking in the area of socialization, he is at about a 2-3 year old level we think! He has no idea how to act in public, what is appropriate to say, how to start/finish conversations, he doesn't really know how to ask other kids to play with him ( he will introduce himself, then tell them all about who is in his family and then by that point the kids have given him a weird look and run away). He doesn't understand why sometimes people don't want to talk to him or why they don't want to play...we are at the "why?" stage with him when it comes to socialization. He also doesn't know emotions, by that I mean he doesn't know how to read people's faces and tell you how they are feeling...or why they are feeling that way.

This just breaks my heart to see, but it means I have to create a program for him over the next week or two to help him learn all of these things and more. We also have to first figure out how he learns, he is a very visual learner and have used social stories for him but they don't work. The pictures have to be so simple with one to two words on it, then for some reason things click...but now here is the tricky part. How do you teach someone all the socialization skills they need when they are 5 years old by inch by inch pictures??

Inky Hugs,

Passion for ProMakers image by Ruth

I was looking over on the blog "Passion for ProMarkers" and I came across this beautiful image that I just HAD to make a card from, Ruth made this image and what an amazing job she did too. If you want to use this image, please go on over to the blog and get it from there don't take it from here and please give credit where it is due. so here is what I came up with using this image :)! The sentiment is a Unity stamp, and it says "Meditate.Live purely. Ben quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds SHINE" by Buddha

Inky Hugs,