Mojo Monday Madness

Finally! It took me longer than usual to finish my card using the Mojo Monday sketch for this week. I love these sketches, and a lot of them go together quickly for me but this time my brain was not cooperating. Then when I finally got going, I realized that if I used the full image of the little girl the way I had originally planned to, the card would have to be gigantic to fit it all on. So I just moved the scalloped circle up to cover the girl's feet, and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. And I finally used some Verve stamps! This is a card for my husband. The tag on the side has the saying, "he loves me, he loves me not," which might look a little odd with "so wonderful." The way I have it in my head is that it is so wonderful to not have to question anymore whether "he" loves me or not. I know that my husband loves me and all the hundreds of little things he does for me as well as the really big things make me feel very loved!

Celebrate!

My baby girl is turning 5 next week! I just can't believe it. In so many ways it doesn't seem like enough time has passed that she could possibly be turning five. So I wanted to get her card ready this week, since I'm sure this week will fly as fast as all of the others have. I used Julee's Mojo Monday sketch for the card. I love this sweet little girl from Paper Pretties. Whenever I see her, I feel happy. And I hope my daughter has a wonderful, happy birthday!

Paper Pretties!

A few weeks ago, the Paper Pretties website had an awesome sale. 45% off!!! I had been wanting a few of their stamps, and when I saw the sale, I finally ordered my favorites. They are based in Canada, so it took a while to get them. But it was worth the wait, they are so cute. Then today at church I was visiting with one of my friends. She was talking about how she is not much of a reader, but she's reading a new book and can't put it down. So I came home and decided to use my pretty little Sophia stamp to make her a bookmark. So I made the bookmark, and took the picture, and decided my little girl needs some color on her skin. I made this decision knowing I don't have a good skin color in chalk, ink, colored pencils, or paint. But, I decided to proceed with caution. Well, the first coloring job made poor little Sophia look like she sprayed herself with a really bad self-tanner. So I tried again. Then she looked like she had jaundice! So I'm keeping this picture up even though her skin is a little on the light side of things! For the back of the bookmark I used my cuttlebug blooms and dots embossing folder, and stamped some of the empty spaces with my Stampin' Up Little Flowers set. I also wanted to give my friend a little chocolate, so I put some M&M's in a bag, and stamped a little bag topper to go with the chocolate. The set Time Well Spent has an awesome saying, "Too much of a good thing is a good thing." I thought this fit perfectly with giving someone chocolate, so that's what I used for the bag topper. The flowers are also from the Time Well Spent set.