what I have been upto....

1) Hurray our cousins are here to visit for almost a month, so here we are visiting with them over at Nana and Poppy's house where they are staying.

2) The first week they were here we went on hiking adventures and a picnic with Aunt Diane in Hemlock Ravine by the heart shaped pond.

Then we went to Aunt Diane's house for a tea, to admire her garden and to have a playdate...the fun we have at Aunt Diane's :)!

Here are some flowers from Aunt Diane's garden, you can't write a

blog post about her garden and not show you some of her flowers :).

3) That weekend we went to Aunt N

ancy's house for a pool party, with Nanny and Grandad...plus, several of the other cousins.

4) The next day after church, good friends of ours were home visiting for their daughters 2nd bday and we were invited over for a visit. This cutie pie is my husbands goddaughter.

5) This past Thursday morning, my friend watched my 2 kids while I took my middle guy to another appointment. Then we came back to the beach for an hour, so that E* could play with his friends for a bit.

6) That same afternoon we went to my Nephews 5th "SPACE" themed bday party. Here is a picture of my niece in her space suit :p!

Think that covers it for now, will be back later on today with crafty things :)!

Inky Hugs,

Catherine

Cool Space card for my Nephew

My Nephew Gideon turned 5 the other day, but we had a bday party with all his cousins and a few friends at Nana and Poppy's house. Anyways, the theme was "Space" and so I just HAD to create a really neat card for him...one that he could play with later too :)! So here is what I came up with, but I am thinking one needs a bit stronger magnets for it to really work.

So I stamped out, colored a rocket and then I used my glass finish stuff to make the rocket look cool and shiney. Then I attached a small round magnet to it using some glue, while I waited for it to dry I made the rest of the card. once I stamped out all the stars, I felt it needed a neat looking planet to sort of pop off the page like the rocket but still be stationary. I used dimensionals on the back of the planet, once I got it cut out and colored in :)! Now, once I got the card made, I added a second magnet to the inside of the card so that you can "slide" your rocket all over the card (carefully) so I didn't have to use a slider kind of card.

Here is a different angle of the card, so you can see how the planet and rocket sort of pop off the page...I am happy with how this card out and so was my nephew :)! Just have to find better magnets :p!

Inky Hugs,

Catherine

Win a EZ view desk top

Go on over to http://andreawalford.com/?p=2674 and check it out :)!

There’s several different ways to enter the draw to win the EZ View Desktop. The more options you choose the greater your chances of winning:

• Visit The Original Scrapbox website and choose your favorite product. Once you’ve done that come back here and leave a comment and tell me what your favorite is and why you would like this product.
• Post about this contest on your blog. In your blog post you need to post a photo of the EZ View Desktop by right clicking on the image and then selecting “Save As”, this will allow you to upload the photo on your blog post. You may use photos of the desktop from my blog or The Original Scrapbox. Feel free to copy and paste the information above into your blog. Please link back to my blog and also to The Original Scrapbox, and of course come back and leave me a comment in the comments section of this post with a link back to your blog post.
• You get 5 extra entries for each friend you refer who then posts about the contest on their blog. Just have your friend post an entry, come back here and leave me a comment with a link to your friend’s entry that says something like, “I told Becky about this contest and she posted it on her blog (include blog post link)”. This friend will also be entered into the contest according to contest rules.

Inky Hugs,

Catherine

Also, please mention that I sent you :D, and blog about it too!

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,