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Forgotten Swirls

This is the card that I came up with tonight for the few minutes that I spent in my stampin' room. I decided to pull out the ol' SU Soft Swirls background stamp that I had to have last year and I think I've used it twice! Have you ever made one of these decisions. Silly stamper woman! (That's me, by the way, that I'm referring to.) Note to self, I must practice better self-control when it comes to buying stamps... Ok, enough ranting, I really just wanted to try out my new aqua painter and pastels. Can you believe this is my first time using pastels. Crazy, eh? Well, I must say, either it's gonna take some practice or I just don't like the aqua painter that I bought. I went el-cheap-o and didn't buy the SU ones that I love and I think I may kick myself for that. But, it might just be the pastels that are the problem. I've always used SU watercolour crayons, which I love love love, as well. Anyway, I'll play more over the next bit and see how they work out.

Got a rest today and now I'm off to bed at an ungodly hour, shame on me, and how wonderful the time changed tonight so it's even an hour later. I hope the girls sleep in, in the morning. LOL That's wishful thinking! :)

Thanks for stoppin' by!

Junior cardmaker and sleepy girl...

Thought I would post a couple more pics of my girls. First one is of my little self-napper, Natalia, this afternoon. She's happy as can be, surrounded by Dora and clutching 'the beloved, Cookie Bear' very closely! He goes everywhere with her. It's a stuffed bear made by Cherished Teddies. He has the name of Cookie on his belly. He sports a red sweater with a Gingerbreadman cookie on it. Here's another pic of her at Xmas with Cookie Bear in tow. We've almost lost him n several occasions and gone back to where we lost him and with luck got him back again! Unfortunately they don't sell this line of bears anymore, we'd love to have a spare, just in case we lose him, so if anyone has one that they would like to pass along to her, just in case, it would much appreciated!

The third pic is of Alexandria, my junior cardmaker, in the making! She loves making cards and says she's learning how to be a cardmaker, just like Mummy! (As Jim rolls his eyes... I think he knows it's gonna cost us more money! :) lol) Can you tell she loves pink and red and especially my new 'toy' as she calls it, my new SU Spring Bouquet Flower punch. She was just in a punchin' frenzy! :) The card on the left was one she made for her Daddy and the one on the right was for me. Don't ya love the big silver flower I got on mine! The other one she calls a snow angel flower for Jim. She's a creative little one!

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My Little Cutie Petuties

I love watching the girls making snow angels! They were so happy to play outside in the new snow a few days ago. It was really cold though, so we only stayed outside for a few minutes. Just enough time to take a few pics to add to the scrapbook! lol :)

Unfortunately, I think they're both coming down with my flu. :( Natalia, my 3 year old, doesn't nap in the afternoon anymore and she just put herself down for a nap. All was quiet upstairs and we went up to check on her and she was all tucked in bed, sound asleep.

Alexandria, my 5 year old is laying on the couch, very quiet as well, nearly asleep. Poor little girls. I fear it's gonna be a long few days if everyone is under the weather.

I'm feeling much better today. My head still really hurts from the fall, but the dizziness is gone, so that's good. On the bright side, I've lost 3 lbs since Thursday morning! lol LA Weight loss will be pleased with me when I go in for my weigh-in on Tuesday. I'm down 48.2 lbs now! I just tried on a skirt this morning that a friend of mine gave me and it fits! Yippee! I've dropped 4 sizes so far! Oh, how happy was I over that! :)

What a crazy day!

Wow, what a crazy day today! I wasn't feeling well last night when I made this card, sore throat, just thought my cold was coming back yet again. Think I've been fighting it for about 6 weeks now. I just get rid of it and then my daughter Alex brings more sickness home from pre-school again! Arg! Gotta love school and germs! But, then I woke up this morning really dizzy. Tried getting around and I just couldn't, so I had to stay in bed as the girls played in my room or their rooms. Feel like a bad Mum, but I knew Jim would be getting home right after lunch, he was duty on the ship last night so they have to sleep there. I had got up and was about to get their lunches ready and I passed out! I don't think I've done that since I started to go through puberty with hormone level changing! At least the girls thought I just playing around, so it didn't scare them since I was home alone here with them when I passed out. I went back to bed and laid there until Jim got home 45 minutes later. Stayed in bed the rest of the day. I think I lost about 5 lbs today from all the sweating from the fever I had. Crazy! Hopefully I'll feel better tomorrow. Starting to feel a lot better already. The dizziness is going away. Jim made a nice supper for us, it was nice to actually have him cook for a change and for me to be able to relax all day as he took care of the kids. So, that was my day!

Here's the card that I made last night. I was having internet issues last night and wasn't able to get online to post it last night.Thanks for stopping by!

One Sheet Wonder Template

This is the sample template for the One Sheet Wonder cards that go with the Stationary Box Tutorial, next post down. Also, pictured are the cards that I included with my box. You could alter them however you wish, this is just a guideline to show you how the one sheet wonders work. I also have the template done up below that shows where to cut the stamped sheet to use for the cards shown. Once you open the picture, you'll see the diagram shows all the dimensions for the pieces that go with each card. In bold, you'll see the card number that that piece goes with. Hope this all makes sense! lol :) I'm a weeeeee bit stressed at the moment!

One Sheet Wonder Diagram
(On 8 1/2" x 11" Cardstock)

*On section #8, the measurements below should read 5.5" x 4.25" not 4.5"

One Sheet Wonder Stamped Sample

This is Card 1

This is Card 2
This is Card 3

This is Card 4

This is Card 5

This is Card 6

This is Card 7

This is Card 8

This is Card 9

Thanks for stopping by and happy stampin'!