Thoughts of a Grasshopper

Well, the year deployment is over and he is back home!  A picture of my kids holding the signs they made to greet him at the airport.

Most likely you just came here from Robbie's blog, InkedX2 .   Aside from the traditional sized card, this is my next favorite size to make.  The card is 3-1/4" x 6-1/2".  The first time I made a card this size was June '09 with the Blooming with Love stamp set.  I haven't been able to part with that set because of that card.  Crazy!  I like today's card just as much.  Stamps:  Friendly Phrases CS:  VV, Pool Party, Cajun Craze, Comfort Cafe DP Ink:  Cajun Craze Misc.:  Beautiful Wings embosslits, Adorning Accents EF, Pearls Your next stop on the blog hop is with Janice at Stamping with Janice .  Enjoy!! If you need to start at the beginning or want to see the complete list of participants, you can go to the VC Rocks! blog. Thanks for stopping by.

We were on vacation for two weeks.  When we were at my cousins house for a cookout, I was taking pictures of the family and my daughter didn't want to look at the camera.  I continually took pictures until she would look and smile.  At least I didn't start singing some made up song because then she would have been embarrassed.  I don't know why they don't like my songs. Some day I'll get to all of the other pictures and make pages for them.  We went to DC to visit friends and to go to Arlington National Cemetery and the Mall with all of the monuments/memorials.  We were stationed there from 01-05 but the twins don't remember too much of the sights.  The older two remembered the places we visited. We also went to Massachusetts for a couple of days and did the usual things we do when visiting there (family, shopping at Bob's, duck pin bowling, Faneuil Hall, etc.) and we went to the JFK Library.  Then we went to Pennsylvania for the shoppi...

One of the Scout leaders from our unit organized an event and opened it up to other troops in our area.  The Scouts had the opportunity to visit a military installation and work hands-on on the badge with Airmen that are trained in this area.  Pretty awesome experience for them.  This is a merit badge that you really can't earn on your own, you need to have an opportunity like this.  The event was flawless and they are looking to make it an annual event.  Yay!

So glad you are here.  You just came from Karen's blog where you saw her 3D bags.  I hope you will consider joining her swap.  Perfect way to get some ideas on 3D fun!  If you want to go back to any of the blogs, you can go to the VC Rocks blog and find the list of participating bloggers there. Somehow, time got away from me.  I'm still playing catch-up from being sick and have so much work to get done for the coming week.  Crazy what the last week of school brings but so glad that summer is almost here.  I was going to make a card for my husband.  He is so close to being done with his deployment so I wanted to make a fun, sassy card but I couldn't fit the hearts in, in a way that I liked.  I made another card using the Apothecary Accents Framelits.  You can see the large label is good sized.  I managed to include hearts with the adorning accents embossing folder, a heart punch and framelit and the stamped image has a heart...

There is a weekly challenge now.  When it first came out last Sunday or Monday, I thought it would be easy peasy.  Layered pink flower and it could be a card, scrapbook page, 3D, the skies the limit.  I ended up very behind last week.  I functioned, but barely and if I wasn't busy with something I "had" to do, I was asleep.  Whatever I caught has kicked me down pretty hard.  Still not the best but at least I didn't want to crawl back into bed once the kids were off to school today.  With 7 minutes to spare on the deadline, I got the above card done.  Still want to add a butterfly just haven't gotten around to it. This "dude" is a picture of my son's flour baby.  Remember when we were in school we had to carry around an egg.  He had to carry around a 5 lb. bag of flour.  They had to wrap their flour in duct tape or shipping tape so they wouldn't have flour all over the school.  I kind of liked this vs. the egg because car...

I either picked up a cold from church or from the hospital.  Day 2 of no voice and day 3 of a stuffy head with a bit of a headache.   My kids find it humorous to listen to my squeaky voice if a sound actually does come out.  At least someone is humored by it. Pretty much a CASE of a card on Pinterest.  It didn't link to the creator, just another picture.  For their green portion they used a striped DSP, I chose to use the Textured Impressions Stripes embossing folder.  A fun greeting for a birthday. Stamps:  Just Believe, Sincere Salutations CS:  Old Olive, WW, Real Red, Basic Black Ink:  Old Olive, Black Misc.:  Pearls, textured impressions stripes EF, scallop border punch, black 1/4" grosgrain ribbon.