Catching Up

Hey, there! :) Long time no chat. Life has been keeping me pretty busy these days. I haven't had the time or the energy to create much... until recently, that is.

I finally got around to ordering everything I couldn't live without from the current SU! catalog (good thing, since it expires in a few weeks LOL), and it was all delivered just in time for the weekend. It's been a fury of stampin' ever since. :D There's nothing like brand new toys to get the mojo goin' again! ;)

As I was taking pictures of my latest cards, I noticed on my CF that there were a couple of cards I had made and photographed some time ago, but never uploaded. Here is one of those cards.

For my super sweet pal, Jenny L. :) She's expecting her third baby soon! (Sorry for the dark photo.)

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All supplies - with the exception of the preggo lady, sentiment, and ribbon - are Stampin' Up!. The lady is of course from the $1 stamp bin at Michael's, as is the ribbon. The sentiment was made with a Stampendous (acrylic) alphabet. I'm embarassed to admit that I didn't put a comma after "Hey"... as a homeschooling mom, I honestly had every intention to do so, but quite obviously forgot to follow through with that intention. LOL

Since Jenny has an enormous amount of willpower and is waiting to learn the baby's gender until birth, (!!!) I tried to go with colors that weren't really gender specific. I'm not exactly certain which ones I used here, but I want to say Lavender Lace, Certainly Celery, and Barely Banana. The BB strip was stamped with the Linen background, which is retiring this year - I can't believe it! The flowers on the card front were stamped with craft inks... not sure what SU! set they're from, however. The preggo lady was colored in with Prismas, blended with Gamsol and a stump, and then shadowed with my #C1 (Cool Gray) Copic marker. I popped her up with dimensionals. The sentiment inside reads: "Hope you're feeling 'swell'!" Heh. ;)

I hope you and yours had a great Thanksgiving holiday! We sure did - my very first Thanksgiving dinner that was entirely done by ME and ME ALONE. And we survived! :D

I'll post my more recent cards soon. Thanks for stopping by! :)