I have known that I was going to do my ABC Friday post with some of the new Stamp A Sweet Impression/Taylored Expressions stamps. Hmmm…what to do, what to do?? Finally I came up with a musical ornament. What is that, you ask? Let me show you…
First, here is a pic of the ornament. I took 5 scallop square Nestabilities dies and scored them about 1/4″ in on each side. I cut the corner pieces off, embellished, glued them together, leaving the bottom open. When it’s hanging on the tree, you won’t be able to see that the bottom has been left open…well, unless you put it at the top of the tree.
Here is a detail shot of what the four sides look like. I used red and brown Prism cardstock from the Christmas Key Ingredients Kit, as well as Papertrey Stamper’s Select White. I colored the image with Copics, cut it out and mounted it on the Swiss Dots embossed panel with dimensional glue dots.
So, how did I make it musical? Well, it started off with a trip to Hobby Lobby to get one of those scrapbook voice recorder thingamajingies. I could not find one, even though I KNOW I saw one there last time I was there {which we all know was not that long ago}. I wanted the one that you can record into because I thought it would be darling to get Ellie to sing into it and that would be a perfect grandparent gifty. Anywhooooo, I asked one of the employees and she lead to me the doll area where I found this Jingle Bells button {for less than $2, I might add}…
I adhered it to the top of the inside of the ornament using 4 dimensional glue dots, 2 stacks of 2 high, to compensate for the ribbon that was pulled through the top panel. Viola…musical ornament.
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Now I have to give myself a little pat on the back. It’s been one month since I started eating right and working out. I am now down TWELVE pounds! While I am doing cartwheels over that, I know that I still have a ways to go. I met with a trainer and he did all that measuring and fat pinching and assured me that I am still fat. Well, not in so many words, but the numbers and the charts don’t lie! So, I continue this adventure and in another month will hopefully be able to report that I am a total of 20 pounds down.
I’ve had some people ask what I am doing to lose the weight. As of this week, I am counting calories. 1,200 for three days and then 1,500 on the fourth. This is just to keep me on track of my goals. However, I must tell you…Yesterday was the fourth day and we had to go to the airport. Well, Johnny B’s Burgers is right by the airport and I had a DELICIOUS cheeseburger with fries. Next, I am doing cardio 6 days a week. Right now I am doing about 30-35 minutes on the elliptical machine to “warm up” and another 10-15 minutes on the treadmill after my weight training. I do weight training 3-4 days a week. I just hired a trainer to do 5 mini sessions with me. It’s more to show me what I need to do, rather than a coach for me. Although, today was my first day with him and I would love to be able to be coached and put to the limit with a trainer. I did 6 exercises that were core involved. The first 5 weren’t easy, but I didn’t want to curl up in a ball and cry for my mom…the last one was!! I want everyone to TRY this… get into a push up position {palms and toes on the floor, body straight}. Not bad, right? Now “walk” two steps to the right and do a push up. A little harder, huh? Repeat 10 times without resting. OMG!! I have to say that it was awesome, but soooo hard. The only thing that I could do to make it a smidge easier was to do girly push-ups {on your knees, instead of your toes}. Let me know if you try it and tell me what you think!!
Alright, this is getting waaaaay longer than I expected. See you tomorrow with another Sketch For You To Try!
just one more day. I have lots of Verve stuff to show and I hope you like all of them. So, here we go…
