Happy 29th (or 39th) BIrthday!

One of my friends celebrated her 39th birthday over the weekend. I made her this card. The plan was to put 39 scoops of ice cream on the front of the card. But, unfortunately they didn't fit!! So I decided to put 29 scoops on the front along with the saying "Happy 29th Birthday" and on the inside, I added another ice cream cone with 10 scoops and the saying says "Plus 10!" She really liked the card and had a pretty good birthday. It finally stopped raining here, after 4 days straight of nothing but rain. I think I see the sun coming out now! WooHoo! Hope you are having a great week!

Yup, Cleaning does suck!

I love this new stamp set from C.C. Designs. I was going to send this to my mom for Mother's Day saying I hope she doesn't do any cleaning on Mother's Day but I think she'll take offense to the sentiment. She's pretty conservative so I'll have to come up with something else for her card. I stamped 27 of these images and made a bunch of RAK cards to send out. I used a few for a basic grey patterned paper card swap I'm in. I colored the images with my copics. Hope you don't have to do any cleaning today because cleaning sucks!

Grilled Chocolate Marshmallow Bananas!

I worked on my Iron Chef recipe card swap over the weekend. This month, the secret ingredient wasn't actually an ingredient, it was a cooking method - grilling. And of course I have to go and choose desserts as my category! Yikes! I had to search high and low on Google to find a grilled dessert recipe. I found this recipe for a grilled chocolate marshmallow banana. I've never had one but it sounds good. I may try it this summer. I'm pretty happy with the way this turned out. The stamps are by C.C. Designs. I just love their stamps, they are all so cute! I'm feeling a bit under the weather today so I'm keeping this post short. Hope you all have a great week!

Chalkboard Technique

I'm back from WI and am exhausted!! I stayed up very late (or early) crafting and chatting while I was there. I had a blast! I went to meet 14 other ladies from the Paper Crafts message board. Everyone was so friendly and welcoming. I loved getting to know everyone better. I can't wait to do it again! I'm hoping someone plans another get-together somewhere around the east coast.

I am feeling the pressure of getting my swaps done. I have about 4 swaps due this week and I don't have them done! The month of May just crept up on me! I cannot believe how fast this year is going by. One of the swaps I joined was for cards made using the Chalkboard technique. There is a tutorial on how to do the technique on Splitcoaststampers. It was easy and it really does look like writing on a chalkboard!

I just had to share this picture of Bunny & Zubie. I was getting ready for work yesterday morning and came out of the bathroom, and found the two of them on my bed. Bunny is laying on my pillow with her head resting on Zubie's back. They are just too cute!

Zubie Leash Holder

I'm getting ready to head to WI for a couple days for a retreat with some girls from the PaperCrafts site, so I won't be around until next week. Before I go, I just had to share this. I had a friend from the PaperCrafts site make this leash and key holder for me. She painted Zubie's picture on it. I was so excited with how it turned out! Everything about it is perfect. She really impressed me with her artistic talent. Don't you think it's awesome?!

It's a sad day...

My beloved Capitals lost in overtime last night to the Flyers. I am so happy for them for coming that far in the Playoffs. They had an amazing year, and I'm sure no one thought they would be in the playoffs this year, after being in last place at the end of the season last year. Okay, now that I'm done whining, I'll tell you about my card. I promised a couple days ago to post this card. The stamp is by Bam Pop and I colored it with my copic markers. I think the stamp is so cute, reminds me of the 80's. I don't know if they still make Polaroid cameras? Hope everyone has a great day!

Another Birthday Card...

Just playing around with my new Lasting Impressions templates. I think this might be my favorite of the new templates I got. What a quick and easy card! I popped up the balloon with foam tape, and used sandpaper on the paper to expose the white core.

Driving into DC for the last Caps game, I was stopped at a red light, and I looked over at the car to the left of me and it was Alex Ovechkin!! (The star player of our team, and arguably the best player in the NHL right now). I got so excited and was honking my horn and waving frantically. he looked over at me with a look like 'who the heck are you?' I just kept waving and smiling and probably jumping up and down in my seat, who knows, it all happened so fast! He then gave me a cheesy little half smile and a quick wave. Then the light turned green and he sped off. So cool, that totally made my weekend.

Caps play tonight... It's game 6 of 7 in the playoff series with Philly. Philly is winning the series 3 games to 2. The winner of the 7 games goes on to the next round. So it's go time, or go home for the Caps. I will be cheering them on (hoping, crossing my fingers, toes, arms, whatever!) for a win! Whatever the outcome, it's been an incredible season, and I am so proud of the team! Go Caps!