non-traditional colors

hope you all had a wonderful thanksgiving! i enjoyed the week off and had some time to play with paper in between entertaining the boys.
i love to make holiday cards with non-traditional colors. glitter has been fun too BUT, very messy!!

starting to make teacher gifts and will show those later in the month. i also have a few other projects i'm trying to finish. i've been collecting vintage glass bulb ornaments and making a wreath out of them. anybody else working on fun stuff? i'd love to see!

swinging good time

good morning! we've had beautiful weather the past couple days. this morning, brandon is back to school and me & brybry are back to our regular schedule. this morning, we went to the playground with a friend. any guesses to where we went this past weekend? more pics to come later :)some more altered pocket calenders i'm making for friends, coworkers AND sister. hey sis, you want either of these?

always have to smile back at the smiley egg! LOVE!

just a quick post today......need to get ready to go take bryan to meet up w/ another friend to the kiddie pool to enjoy more of this weather. hard life i have, don't i? ;) happy tuesday! thanks for stopping by!
BTW, there's a new video to the right of this post of the boys playing just dance kids on the Wii (the middle video). guaranteed to make you laugh!

distress

funny story here....when i first made this card back in sept, this was my 1st attempt at the emboss resist technique. i got a tinted emboss ink pad that turned pink when i heated it. that was mistake #1.
mistake #2 was the applicator in which i applied the distress inks with. i bought this when i thought it was this. =( this one's for you, amy!so, i finally got the right tool and made this. except--------i still have the ugly pink tinted emboss pad and i didn't want any tinge of pink on these butterflies . i did use the blending tool to color the butterflies with distress inks. i can definitely get addicted to coloring with this blending tool. so fast & easy. by no means this is blended perfectly but considering it was my 1st (official) try and finished it in less than 90 minutes [yes, i am a slow worker].

have a good monday! i have a week with both my boys home.......what to do what to do?