sorry I haven't posted anything in a bit

I have been looking after 2 children after school now for the past 2 years now, and have taken on 2 more children in the afternoons after school. Yes, that is plus my 3 and no I am not crazy. They all get along, all goto the same school and are all good friends so it makes it easier :)!  

I also have been busy with getting ready for a meeting with the right hand guy to the Education Minister in Nova Scotia and a few of the school board members as well tomorrow morning. We are going to present our case about getting more support services for ALL children with Special Needs and Learning disabilities in Nova Scotia in ALL schools. Will let you know how that goes tomorrow afternoon, fingers crossed this isn't a "let's meet you to keep you quiet" kind of meeting!

I will be doing more crafting in the next couple of weeks, but thought I should update you on why I have been absent. 

Inky Hugs,

Catherine

Crafting Life's Pieces blog candy giveaway

Hurry on over to the blog called "Crafting Life's Pieces", as she is having a "thank you" blog candy giveaway :)!

Inky Hugs,

Catherine

Jak Heath blog candy giveaway

Please head on over to the blog called "Jak Heath Creating Beautiful Things", as they are having a blog candy giveaway and  these stamps you see above is what they are offering up :)! 

Inky Hugs,

Catherine

"Black Haired Lady" Sweetpea card

I used a background stamp by Hero Arts called "Dandelion frame", but instead of stamping it with ink I stamped it on using my VersaMark watermark ink pad then put Glitter Ritz micro fine Glitter on it which has a purple highlight to it. Looks better in person, it was hard to get a good picture of this card with the glitter on it any suggestions for when taking pictures of a card like this?? 

Here is what the "Dandelion Frame" stamp looks like in case you couldn't get a good look at it on my card above :)!    

        

Inky Hugs,

Catherine

Stamps: Sweetpea "Dark Haired Lady", Hero Arts "Dandelion frame" 

Card stock: Black and green Carousel Rubber stamp store, watermark paper from Deserres

Ink: Archival Ink Coffee, Versamark Watermark ink pad

Accessories:  Glitter Ritz micro fine glitter, Touch Markers, Copic Markers, Dimensionals, Sook Wang double sided tape, Classic Oval Nesties, Scallop Oval Nesties

haircut for my dd

This past summer, my dd let my middle guy cut her hair because he wanted to see her ears and sadly he forgot she was the flower girl in my sisters wedding several weeks later. Anyways, she had a mullet looking hairdo for the longest time but yesterday we were able to go to the hairdresser to level things out. Well, my dd was unsure of this hairdresser or this idea of getting her hair done until the hairdresser told her she was going to get a "Dora" hairdo. That was it, enough said my dd was SOLD! Here is a picture of her with her new hairdo, and with my new watermark...let me know what you think of my watermark?? Oh yeah I also changed my blog's background too...lol! Guess I was getting into "spring blog cleaning" mode and wanted change, so this is what I did :)!

Inky Hugs,
Catherine

A bday card for my dd's friend

Here is a card I made for my dd's friend who just turned 3 this week, and he just LOVES trains...so luckily I had the Cricut train die set to use :)! I attached the train using dimensionals, and I made the train go over the edge a bit because it looked funny any other way...

Inky Hugs,
Catherine

stamps: SU "Well Scripted"
Card Stock: Green, cream, red, blue, black card stock from Carousel Rubber stamp store
ink: SU "Bashful Blue"
Accessories: Sook Wang Double sided tape, Classic circle nestabilities, and Scalloped circle Nestabilities, Dimensionals