Do You Like Lips?

I am feeling awesome!  I am doing my foot exercises and can start bending my toes...yay!  I am walking better every day.  Thanks to all of you who have sent me get well wishes, cards and goodies.  You are all so sweet and make my recovery even better.

I have shown you some artwork from my  oldest son, Tate.  Tanner has started to bring some of his artwork home from Kindergarten.

He came home from school one day and asked me "Do you like lips?".  I said, "Yes."  He asked, "Do you like big lips?"  I said, "Yes."  He took this picture of his fish with big lips out of his backpack.  I love it!

We had Seth's dad make a frame for it, and we hung it in our bathroom upstairs.  I get to see it every day and love it each time I see it.  He knows the way to his mother's heart.  He used orange....my favorite color.

Chocolate, Anyone?

We made this cute chocolate box at Kim's this month.  This was made with the new Petal Cone Big Shot Die and the Eat Chocolate stamp set from the Occasions Mini.  Awesome!

Boy, I could go for some chocolate now...How about you?

Scrappy Sunday - Moving Lines

I am healing well from my foot surgery.  I went to the doctor today and my foot looks a lot better than I thought it would.  Of course, I took pictures...hee hee!  The incision looks great.  My foot is still swollen and now I can start to walk on it.  I am a little slow.  My mom came out to be my chauffeur, since I can't drive for another week.  It is nice to have more company while I heal.  I am going to get spoiled.  REALLY spoiled...it that is even possible...LOL!

Since I was on the couch all week with my foot up, the only opportunity to create was digital scrapbooking.  I am loving it!  I played along with Susanna again at Paper Craft Planet.  We used one of Noell's flexible templates again called Moving Lines.

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Christmas Card Challenge - No Stamping

This week our challenge at Sparkles' Christmas Card Challenge is to create a card with no stamping.  No Stamping!  How I am going to do this?  I love my stamps and punches.  Well, I love these challenges, because it makes me create with materials I don't always reach for.  I decided to use my chipboard letters.  To jazz them up, I used my new Glimmer Paper from the occasions mini catalog.  I love how my JOY jumps off the card.

Hope you can play along with us this week.

Framed Tulips

Here is another card I made at Kim's this month with the framed tulips impressions folder.  Don't ya love that frame?  We used the stamp set Just Believe, which is one of my favorite flower sets.  Look at those cute little butterflies.  Those are from the embosslits die Beautiful Wings.

Do you ever wish for days where you could put your feet up and do nothing.  Well, I am on day three of doing nothing and would love to do SOMETHING!  LOL!  We always want what we can't have.....

I have four more days of keeping my foot elevated and iced.  I am getting my computer hard drive cleaned up and more digital scrapbooking done.  I am so ready to create some cards.  I got some new stamps right before my operation and they are lonely.  Hee hee!

Thanks for all your get well wishes.  You are all so sweet!

For You

Here is a card I made at Kim's this month.  I love, love, love the new framed tulips impressions folder.  It makes such a pretty frame on cards.

My surgery went as well as it could.  Now, I am just on the couch with my laptop, remote, ice packs and foot up on pillows.  It is so weird to be waited on all the time.  I have four great helpers.

Enjoy the Journey

I am still having fun digital scrapbooking and following along with the Scrappy Sunday challenges at Paper Craft Planet.  This week we used the Third Lines Flexible Template by Noell Hyman at Paperclipping.  These templates are such a great way to inspire your creativity.

My layout is about Great Grandma Medsker.  She is 93 now and looks great!  I hope to reach 93 plus and want to enjoy the journey.  That is how I chose the title of my layout.

I tried to figure out how to Photoshop the glare off of Great Grandma's glasses, but couldn't figure it out.  I have that on my list to learn now.  I didn't want to get hung up on that and not scrap this layout, so I reduced the glare just a little and scrapped the pictures anyway.

Christmas Card Challenge - Recipe

This week at Sparkles' Christmas Card Challenge, we were given a recipe: one designer series paper, stars and rub-ons.  I just realized I used two dsps.  My bad!  At least they are from the same series.  I wanted to use a star as my main image, so I used my Movers & Shapers Big Shot Die to cut a star image out of the front of my card.  Then I used my star punch to create a star with pattern paper to peek through the star opening.

I have wanted to use my BIG striped ribbon and this was the perfect card for that.  I don't know why, but I love, love, love strips and polka dots together.

Still Here

Yes, I am still here!  I have been busy getting ready for my foot surgery (nothing bad) next week, March 22nd.  I will be on crutches for one week, and I can't drive for two weeks.  The good thing about my surgery is my sister is coming to help the first week, and my mom is coming the second week.  So, I do get company...yay!

I have been going to doctor appointments, conducting a My Digital Studio class and working on projects that are due for when I am out of commission.  I will be able to create the second week, but not the first one.  I am hoping to do some digital scrapbooking when I am on crutches, but I will have to wait and see.

Anyway....................I thought I would give you an update and a sneak peek at what I have been creating.

I am hosting this Saturday's sketch challenge, so I will be back then.  I am off to do more for when I can't.