Sites of the week

So are you ready for Thanksgiving yet? Christmas? I am looking forward to spending time with friends for this Thursday and Friday. Did I mention that pedi that I’m getting on Friday?? Woot Woot!! To top it off, I am pretty close to being d-o-n-e with Christmas shopping..YAY me!

Before I get on with my card post, I want to share another Ellie story…

A couple weeks ago I was giving Ellie her bath and she asked if she could do something {I can’t even remember what}, but the answer was “no.” She looked at me and replied, “Don’t tell me that.” To which I replied, “Sweetie, sometimes the answer is just ‘no’.” While I could tell she wasn’t exactly pleased with this, she dealt with it. The next day she was drawing pictures and I asked if she would draw one of me. {Side note…she drew a picture of me a few weeks ago that had a big circle for the belly and I wanted her to draw another one}. She looked up and said “No.” “Awww, I wish you would” I said. She then put her marker down, looked at me and said, “Yea mom, sometimes the answer is just ‘no’.” Then went back to coloring. I just **love** it when my 3 year old uses my own logic on me!!

Ok, so onto the creative part of this post…

It’s TCP Tuesday {check out the sale info at the bottom of this post!} and Amy Rohl is challenging you to an embossing challenge. I chose to do a little of heat and dry embossing on this card…

Gotta love the penguins!!…

A couple detail shots…

I clear heat embossed “merry” {using the Coolvetica alpha} on red cardstock…

Close up of the bling bling and the American Crafts super spar-ka-lay glitter paper…

The Cat’s Pajamas is having an awesome sale this holiday weekend! Be sure to check out **everything** at a 25% discount! If you are playing along with us for this challenge, be sure to take a peek at the guidelines for uploading and such on Amy’s {or Alma’s} blog.

Hello! It’s been another busy week at the del Muro house. Not quite as productive as would like, but that’s seems to be life. I really noticed yesterday that it takes me 10 times longer to do anything. Trying to get dinner ready was a feat! Ellie came out from going potty looking totally dressed and says, “I just didn’t feel like putting my underpants back on.” Really? I did eventually have her go get them and then had to help her put them back on. Bending over these days is just so not easy, either so it took a while! Tony actually had to tie my sneakers the other day because I couldn’t reach and my toes haven’t seen a fresh coat of paint in I don’t know how long! Yea for pedicure appts. with my bestest friend, Rosie, next Friday!!! I went to the OB this week and had a sonogram and baby boy del Muro is currently in a very comfy {for him} breech position. Fortunately, I still have 8 weeks and we are hoping he puts his head down on his own, otherwise the doc said he would flip him. That sounds like fun! Well, I have more Ellie stories to tell, but I think this post will just get a little overwhelming if I spill them all out now. I will have more trials with a sassy {but oh so lovable and sweet} 3 year old next week.

THE WINNER OF THE $10 GIFT CERTIFICATE TO YOUR NEXT STAMP IS…

#22 {from Mr. Linky} Mary with THIS gorgeous card!

Mary, email me {link under my pic} and I will get all the deets to you!

Ok, here’s the sketch for this week…

My card using new stamps from THE CAT’S PAJAMAS {this bear is my fave!!!}…

Detail shot…

Designer of the Month, Amy, has this “Wild” card to share…

Want to see more SFYTT goodness? Check out the SFYTT sisters…
Amy Rohl
Amy Sheffer
Kelly Lunceford
Susan Liles
Leigh O’Brien

I’m hoping that you are going to play along, too! Just link your creation to Mr. Linky below

Greetings on New Moon release day! While I am a fan, I have to admit that I probably won’t be able to see the movie until next week at the earliest because of this and that going on today and this weekend…including COPIC CLASSES at Scrapper’s Boutique. Maybe I will see you there!

So, are you hopping along? If so, you should have arrived here from Pam’s blog and when you leave here, hop on over to Dani’s blog. If you happened here on a whim, you can see the hop from the beginning from the Twilight Tuesday blog.

My Twilight inspired stamp set didn’t arrive in time for me to use it for this hop, so I fell back upon my handy Slice Machine and used the Spook Alley design card to make this card…

Detail Shot…

The houndstooth paper is from Jenni Bowlin and the apple note card is from a die cut sheet from October Afternoon. I wanted to incorporate the apple somehow because it is the Twilight series after all. I also wanted to incorporate a moon into the card because of the “New Moon” release today. I know my moon isn’t a new moon technically {for anyone that wanted to correct me}, but at least you can tell this is a moon.

Alright ladies, it’s time for you to keep on hopping over to Dani’s blog to see what Twilight goodness she has for you!

Anyone else getting chilled by the cool air that is rolling in with Autumn? I can’t decide to love it or hate it. On the one hand it’s nice not to be pregnant and sweating bullets, but on the other hand I just don’t like cold weather. I think I have mentioned before that I could wear flip flops year round…if the TX weather would allow, that is! I think for now I will hate to love it…LOL!

Over the past few months, I have done a couple GLUE box projects. You can see them HERE. This month I have a Thanksgiving box to show…

As you can see, I got out the Slice machine {again!!}, the Think Pink card to be exact…

One more shot…

I’m gonna make this post short and sweet, as I have a lot to get crackin’ on! Including a Twilight Blog Hop {click the link to find out more}…

A couple weeks ago I showed you THIS card from a new stamp company called YOUR NEXT STAMP. Today I have a sketch, as well as another card to show you featuring stamps from them PLUS…a chance to win a $10 to the YNS store!

Let’s get started! Here’s the sketch…

Here’s my sample using the Fhiona with Friend Penguin rubber stamp, plus a Limited Edition digi sentiment {one of the digis is even named Ellie…gotta LOVE that!!}…

This month’s Designer of the Month, Amy White, has a beautiful floral card to share…

Want to see more SFYTT goodness? Check out the SFYTT sisters…
Amy Rohl
Amy Sheffer
Kelly Lunceford
Susan Liles
Leigh O’Brien

I hope that you will play along with us this week. Each participant will be entered to win a $10 gift certificate to the YOUR NEXT STAMP store. Just link your creation on Mr. Linky below. The winner will be announced on next Saturday’s SFYTT post.