Happy Days

I took a break from working on my blog and made a card this evening.  Our theme at Paper Craft Planet is spring and I am definitely in the mood for spring.  It is supposed to be in the 50s this coming week and I hope the sun shines every day.  The stamps I used for this one are retired Stampin' Up sets except one.  Here they are just in case you have them in your stash:  Many Happy Returns (retire), Touch of Nature (retired), Tiny Tags (currently in the occassions mini catalog).  Oh, I almost forgot I used my new mini tag punch from SU.  You know I love my punches.

I watercolored the flower.  I don't use that technique enough.  It is easy and fun to color with my inks pads and a waterbrush.  Have you tried it lately?

I hope to unveil my new blog design this week.  I have a few things left to do and then Emily, The Blog Fairy, can upload my new design.  Oh, I am so excited!  

Have fun creating!

Kim

Fabulous

First, Tanner had a fabulous day at school on Tuesday. This is what he said to me that morning..."Mom, I am so excited! I bet you can't make me NOT smile!"....LOL! I had to laugh.

Here he is walking into school with his new Mario Galaxy backpack. I was so happy to be one of the parents whose child was not crying. Why? Because my third grader cries the first day of school still. Yes. I am hoping that doesn't rub off on Tanner....we will see.

I took the day off from creating to work on PTA "stuff". We kicked off our first fundraiser and I am writing letters to ask for donations for our Open House dinner in September. It is going to be a busy PTA year again, but there is a silver lining.................this is my last year as president....YAY!

Since school started and I have a very full schedule with all the meetings, etc. I started Fly Lady again. If you are familiar with Fly Lady, you know you receive a lot of emails. I didn't sign up for that part. I go in every day to get my task in the Baby Steps area right now. I don't want to start cleaning too fast...LOL! If you are not familiar with Fly Lady, here is the link. If you don't want a million (okay it just feels like a million) emails, don't sign up for that part. Just bookmark her and start flying!

Since Fly Lady, I am cleaning off my craft desk (still) and have another DZ Doodles image to share with you. This time I took apron 1 from the Kitchen section at DZ Doodles and colored it with my copics. For some reason when I think of kitchens I think of a cheery yellow. Now, my kitchen is blue, but I felt like yellow. Once I finished coloring, I thought of the Let's Get Together level 2 paper pack from CTMH. It is retiring this year, so if you want it you better order it soon.

I had to change one thing about the pattern paper. This paper has buttercup, which is a light yellow and I needed a brighter yellow. I took my regular paper punch and punched out sunkiss yellow circles (that matched my apron) and adhered them over the buttercup circles on the paper and ribbon. This solved my problem and gave the paper a little umph. I like how that turned out. Since I had Fabulous on the brain, I used the retired SU set, Many Happy Returns for the sentiment. Added bling flowers and buttons...viola!...card is finished!

Happy Stamping!