A day late...anyone have a dollar?

Can't be a day late and a dollar short if you don't have any dollars right? lol Maybe I have some change in my purse. Anyway, yesterday was the QKD challenge and I had my project done and I was all ready to go until Blogger was acting wonky and wouldn't even load. I had lots to do yesterday and didn't get done with everything till late last night. Painting a chicken coup is not as easy as I thought it might be. So, here I am right now with yesterday's challenge. We were challenged to make something that wasn't a card! I stamped the skull from Happy Skullz set 5 times onto white shrink plastic, cut them out, colored the heart eyes (each one is a different color), and used my heat gun to shrink. I attached them to one of her bracelets with jump rings. The whole thing only took me about 25 minutes to do. She loves it too!

• STAMPS- Happy Skullz (Queen Kat Designs)
  
• PAPER- white shrink plastic
• INK- Stazon Jet Black
• OTHER- heat gun, Sharpie markers

Be sure to check out what the other gals posted yesterday! Click the links!
Juliet
Lindsay
Tanis
Penny
Toni


Thanks for stopping today and I hope you have a great day!!

Cupcake Spinner Card!

Afternoon all! Hope everyone had a great weekend!!

Today is another Queen Kat Designs challenge! Nancy hosted this time and asked us to make a spinner card. I think I have made one other spinner card before years ago, and that's it. So, this really was a challenge for me! I still feel like something is missing or it's lacking something. Plus, it was hard to take a picture of!

• STAMPS- Sweets (Queen Kat Designs), Snap Stamps (Karen Foster)
• PAPER- Basic Grey 'Cupcake', pink
  
• INK- Palette Hybrid black
• OTHER- Copic markers, ric rac, metal flower, Word Window punch, Slit punch, foam, penny
  

Be sure to check out what the other girls created this time!
Jules
Lindsay
Nancy
Penny
Tanis
Toni


I posted my article on Craft Critique today too. It's on the Provo Craft 'Sew Crafty Mini'. Check it out and leave you opinion if you get a chance.

Hope you have a pleasant day! I'll be back tomorrow. Thanks for stopping by!

Ahhh, my head is back!

Since I have been posting so much lately, I hadn't realized how weird it would feel to go a whole week without posting. Although, if it would have been any week, this last one was it! I had lots to do and in the end it paid off because the girls had such a great time at their party!!! Here are a few pics of them all dressed up. I even dressed up! However, although I wanted one, didn't end up getting a picture of myself with my girlies. You guys know how that is!

































And here is the new go kart! I just love Ava's face in this pic! And Jolee is concentrating so hard!



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I haven't had much time to stamp this past week but trust me, I will make up for it this week! This morning I made my card for the bi weekly QKD challenge! Tanis gave us this sketch.


And here is my final product!

• STAMPS- Happy Skullz (Queen Kat Designs)
• PAPER- Basic Grey 'Gypsy'
• INK- Palette Hybrid black
• OTHER- chipboard star, Coluzzle, Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder, Stamping Bella baubles

Check out the other creations from these talented gals too!!
Nancy
Tanis
Penny
Lindsay
Toni


Well, now I have to go clean the mess from what looks like a tornado that ripped through my house! Hope you all have a happy Monday!

QKD Challenge

Hey all! I hope everyone had a blessed Easter!! We spent time with each other and with my family so I had a very nice time!

Today is round 2 of the Queen Kat Designs bi-weekly challenge and this week I was hosting. I am posting a little late today because I went to Target today to pick up a few bags of jelly beans for the jelly bean jar guessing game Jolee wants to play at their party. Well, I didn't find many jelly beans but I found almost every single thing for Jolee and Ava's birthday party! I was so happy! It was flowery spring stuff that was 50% off because it was considered Easter! We really made out nicely!

Anyway! The rest of this post will be short and sweet!

It was my turn to challenge and I dared them to make a one layer or no layer card! Here is my take!

• STAMPS- Mrs. Piggie (QKD)
• PAPER- Bazzil pink
• INK- Chocolate Chip (SU)
• OTHER- Nestabilities, white Souffle pen, ribbon, sponge

Don't forget to check out the rest of the gals' creations!!!!
Nancy
Tanis
Penny
Lindsay
Toni

I'll be back tomorrow!! Have a great night!

Queen Kat Challenge

Hey all! I'm adjusting to the time change so I'm posting kind of late this morning. Sorry! I decided to organize a bi-weekly challenge for some of us girls over at Queen Kat Designs. I love being able to have a challenge every other week at smARTworks so I thought it would be cool to start one with QKD too using only QKD stamps!

So, here is our very first round was provided by Penny and her challenge was to use tan, white, gray, black, and red. Love the colors! However, I had no gray (hmmmm, I guess I need to take a trip to HL to fix that!) so I just stuck with tan, white, black, and red. Here is my take! I stamped the paisley in black and then added some dots and stripes with my white Souffle pen.

• STAMPS- Paisley, Happy Skullz (Queen Kat Designs)
• PAPER- kraft
• INK- Brilliance black
• OTHER- white Souffle pen, ribbon, rhinestones, pop dots

Make sure to check out the other QKD gals creations throughout the day!
Nancy
Tanis
Penny
Lindsay
Toni

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On another note, I have to get some ideas today for the girls' birthday party invitations. It's a princess-tea party-sleepover party. I don't have any princess stamps so I was trying to come up with something sweet but not babyish. Plus I have a million other deadlines I have to get done this week also. I am excited about getting them done though because I am really looking forward to using the stamps and hopefully finding some untouched creative genius! We'll see about that though!!

On another other note, {grin} I am working on a new banner. I ended up having a lot of Joe time this weekend, which was nice. We played the Wii and looked at truck bed campers and just plain snuggled. He is really looking forward to switching shifts at the end of the month. When he does, he will have Monday-Thursday off and work Friday-Sunday on 12 hour shifts. It will be awesome to have 4 days off so we can go wherever we want and have mini vacations here and there. But, our social life will come to a dead hault (which was never really going anywhere anyway, lol) and I will have to do a lot of weekend things (birthday parties, holidays, etc..) by myself with the kids. It's definitely more of a positive thing though. I know it will be a lot better for his stress level too!

Well, I am off to make the kids lunch and get a few deadlines finished. Hope you all have a fantastic day!

P.S. This is what the girls and I did yesterday!