True Love. ..

True love is beautiful new patterned paper, and new stamps!

How STINKING CUTE are these stamps from Cornish Heritage Farms!? (Click here to see the whole set - its sooo fun!) I had my eye on that stamp set for a while, and when I had some publication endorsement credit coming my way, I knew JUST what I wanted!!!

This is my card for CPS this week, sketch number 156. . .a clean and simple and super fun sketch, because you can do almost ANYTHING with it! It will be fun to see the samples throughout the week, so be sure to check in on the CPS blog!

Over the course of this week, my one sick child turned into two sick children and a sick husband. I have so far managed to stay fairly healthy. I had a bit of a sore throat last night, but I feel better today. Hoping it stays that way!!!! Today while we are home from church I am going to wash sheets, towels, toys and anything else I can hit with soap, water, or Lysol! Fun fun!

I'll be back tomorrow to share the NEW STAMPS for March from The Stamps of Life! (I think this might be my favorite set yet!!!)

XOXO

(card goodies: patterned paper - October Afternoon, stamps - Cornish Heritage Farms, cardstock, ink - Close To My Heart)

spring? almost!

Is it feeling like Spring yet?

Well, maybe not quite. Although here in Florida, it's probably a lot closer to Springtime than where most of you live! I will admit, although it's chilly today, I was in flipflops and capri pants a few days ago. And now that I think about it, there was pollen all over my car too - so perhaps Spring IS just around the corner.
I have had some time to just PLAY lately, using whatever stamps I felt like, no assignments, no duedates - so I pulled out these cute Kim Hughes stamps from Cornish Heritage Farms. I've had them for ages now, and they had not touched much ink yet. It was wayyy past time! I paired them with some new October Afternoon papers, and Papertrey Ink buttons.

(card goodies: stamps - Cornish Heritage Farms, paper - October Afternoon, ink, ribbon - CTMH, buttons - Papertrey Ink)

a little more papertrey goodness

I realized that somehow I forgot to share my CPS card from last week's sketch. Running late. . .that seems to be about how I function these days! You may remember me gushing about the big box of Papertrey Ink goodies that Nichole sent us for the CPS sponsorship -so I used them on last week's card as well. Everything is Papertrey except the CTMH white cardstock, ink, and tiny jewels on the flowers.

This card is pretty clean and simple. I kept trying to decide if I should jazz it up some more, but I sort of like the simplicity of it. Not too much clutter or fancy schmancy stuff. I seem to be one extreme or the other lately. . either really clean and super simple, or crazy time consuming things (like all that paper piecing in that schoolhouse card!!!)

The squirmy baby on my lap is demanding that we MOVE ON from blogging, so I will say So-Long! Have a wonderful day! The week is halfway over!

XOXOXO

back to school (CPS 155)

I'm runnin' with the school theme right now. How can I help myself, with all the CUTE October Afternoon Report Card papers! I also used a little strip of lined paper, I think from (Creative Imaginations?) This is my CPS card for this week's sketch. You can check out the sketch, and all the designers projects throughout the week, HERE!

We are staying home from church this morning, while my little man finishes getting over his cold. He felt well enough to run around in the yard yesterday for a while, (the weather was soooo perfect! 60 degrees and sunny!) but he still sounds pretty crummy. I am going to take advantage of the lazy morning, put on some cartoons, and clean the bathroom - wooHOOO!!! I keep telling my hubby, "Someday, in our dream home, I am going to have a girls-only bathroom. Just for ME." I really actually LOVE being the only girl in the house, but I really would like to have my OWN bathroom - stink and mess free!!!! Let's just say the "aim" of a 5 year old is less than perfect, and from the smell and the mess, I feel like I'm in a gas station bathroom half the time.

Okay, so there's my Sunday morning card and rant. (I'll spare you my daily rant about the little-little one who still isn't sleeping at night!)

I hope you have a terrific day!

XOXO