I've been having way too much fun! I got to try out some stamps before purchasing and got to use some fabulous paper to create these cards!  They are on display at Stampin' Cat!!  Penguins are favorites of mine, so this was an extra special treat!  Thank you, Lisa!!


I used a little bit of this and a little bit of that.  I used bic markers, copics, and prismacolor pencils and some odorless mineral spirits as well. 

I raised the icicles and the candy cane with dimensionals...love how they look!




For my other card, I used some of the glimmer mist, some amazing glitter (that will adhere to me for the next ten months), as well as pencils, and cute paper too.  The black and white paper is on the reverse of the cute hat and scarf paper!


He's juggling all the yummy goodies that come with this set from Inky Antics!

Hope everybody has a wonderful Thanksgiving!

My Cross Country Runner

Here we have the "before" picture...all set to race.
And here is the "After" the 3.1 miles in warm weather. Ugh...exhausted. He didn't "PR" but he still came in first for our school's varsity team. His time was 19:45 for 3.1 miles (pretty darn good for a freshman that ran for the first time in July). It's hard to believe the winner came in at under 16 minutes!! That's just incredible.

Look at this candy!

Yummy! Check out Cindy's outrageous blog candy!! I would so love to win this! Wouldn't you???

Stair Step Happy Birthday

Love how this turned out. I used the little $1 acrylic stamps for the medallion and thought it turned out great. For the medallion, I used the SU scallop punch. I absolutely had to purchase the "Wonderful Words" from Papertrey...I had no choice. It was a need. Really. Need. I love them. I would like many more words that cut out so beautifully!!! I think the majority of paper is DCWV. I'm happy with it!

First team in league and third team ALL STATE!!!

I couldn't help but post about my junior daughter. So proud that she was recognized as the awesome softball player that she is in getting selected to 1st team for her league and 3rd team ALL STATE!!! She plays 1st base, and she hit really well this year too! Proud mama moment.

Make and Take Winner!

I was SO excited to be one of the winners to get a little bag of make and take stuff to play with. Cheryl, from the Fiskateers blog sent me a wonderful envelope of Vintage Street Market stuff to play with. Was it ever fun. As soon as it came, I stopped what I was doing and started crafting!! I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it, but it was a blast! Thank you Cheryl!!!

Cuttlekids!

I don't think these are my typical cards, but I just couldn't help myself. I went through my bin of Cuttlebug accessories and had to use the KIDS' Cuttlebug stuff!!! I used the party hat for the banner and I love it! On the bottom card, I used the kids' tulip die. I even used the Cuttlekids cutter! It's so tiny and did an excellent job cutting. It's a shame they didn't make it the right size to accept the border embossers. I think it would be a lot more popular if they had. But, I am impressed with the dies. Some of them are quite detailed and they're all really cute!