I'm Back!

I finally figured out how to log on again, it has been so long since I had posted anything and then I forgot something so it took longer. Thanks to Kerry who reminded me about my username so that I could log on, so here I go again!!!!!
I will try to post things I am working on regularly.
Riley, since the last post in June, has healed perfectly. He only had his cast on for 3 weeks, not 6-8 weeks!!! Praise the Lord!

I have been stampin' lots lately possibly for a craft fair or two, we will see how much stuff I get done by the time they are.
I will also post what I have been doing with my S11 club. So keep watching!

Broken :(

Here is some pictures of my broken little boy. As you can see he doesn't seem to have a problem with it. He is such a content little boy that he just dealt with the fact he can't do what he normally does. He did have rough time with it at first when we brought him home, he wanted me to put him down so he could walk. In a couple weeks I know he will walk but he needs to keep weight off of his leg for now.

This pictures shows his traction that he was in for a week. He would roll around which the nurses and doctors were amazed at becasue normally patients are in to much pain and discomfort to be lying on thier stomache but not my tough guy, he has a very high tolerance for pain (unlike his mother)

Here he is reading up on his hospital stay, a book that Jordan and Jessica brought for him.

This was how he normally was in the hospital, happy, content and wasn't bothered by not being able to get out of his crib and play. As long as he had his cars and his shows he would just play. I managed to read 3 Karen Kingsbury books while I stayed with him.

This is the cast that he will be wearing for the next 6-8 weeks this summer. Again he doesn't look to bothered by it and is on his stomache again, it didn't take him long to figure out how to roll over.

We are at home here and he doesn't look to hard done by does he!?!

We will have to be creative this summer and find lots of fun things to do here at home with him and the girls.

If you have any ideas for me please leave a comment.

I also want to thank all of our visitors in the hospital, it really helped pass the time and made both of us feel special. The cars and trucks and book for Riley helped pass the time away. Some ladies in our care group are making us meals which is above and beyond what I ever imagined. Thank you so much.

I am hoping to get back to my scrapbooking, and I need to write a bunch of thank you cards! So I hope to post more soon!

Carrie

I've not forgotten

I have not forgotten to write but I've been hung up in the hospital with my little guy. He has broken his femur bone and has been in traction for a week and today he will get his cast, I am taking a quick sanity break thanks to my MIL. I will post a couple pictures tommorrow when we come home of how he is doing.
Keep us in your thoughts and prayers
Thanks
Carrie

Yarrow Days

I thought I would share a couple pictures from the parade and Yarrow Days. (Mostly for my family, and to show off my cute kids!)

Madee and Riley give the FireTruck a wave. The other little girl is a friend from school. Riley of course loved the firetrucks and police cars, Madee loved the horses and Danielle loved the candy!!

I liked this Noah's Ark that a local church group made. We are getting ready for the possible flooding in the Fraser Valley! What a good idea!

This is a cute picture of Riley and the Bear that I bought to support Children's Hostpital. Riley just wanted to cuddle the bear for awhile.

Danielle wanted to cuddle this bearded dragon that was at the petting zoo, what a thing to cuddle!

We had lots of fun and look forward to Yarrow Days each year!!!

Dixie Girl

Last nite got a chance to scrapbook some more, I had developed some pictures to enter for the new Blueprint Layout book. So this is thier layout, I was to late to enter, but I still wanted to make my page. The background cs is SU Chocolate chip and the alpha set is my favorite Whimsical Alpha, the rest of the supplies I pulled out of my stash. The flourishes are from CTMH.

I usually don't scrapbook specifically one of our pets but Dixie has been on my mind lately and I thought that I would use some pics of her when we first brought her home. I guess I will have to pull some pics together of Snoopi and Luci.

Living in the Fraser Valley has been quite eventful lately with the flood watch happening. Fortunatly we live on the mountain but most of our friends and our shop are in the flood plain. Debbie has brought over her pics and scrapbooks for safe keeping in case it floods over the weekend. Anyone else want to bring thier scrapbook stuff over I promise to take good care of it! I'll try not to use it all up! LOL!

They say the river should not reach as high as they first expected, but I'm not convinced on their techniques of determining this. We are prepared for power and gas outages and to have company if needed!

Anyways off to clean!

Happy Scrappin'

Carrie

Three

Here is a page I did for the same family album as my last post. This one is of my adorable children, this will be a two page spread but I have not figured out how I am going to do the second page. I used all SU patterned paper from Playhouse. The chipboard is misc from MM and SU. (I love chipboard!!!)

I found the layout in a magazine, of course now that I want to find which mag it was I can't find it. I love the little saying that I also got from the magazine (I will have to edit this when I find it!)

Three beautiful children to adore...

Three beautiful souls to guide...

Three beautiful reasons to smile each day.

My three children can be a handful sometimes, but there isn't a moment that I don't feel blessed by them.

Today I go and pick up Dixie from the pet hostpital, yes she has been there for a whole week, but now she is well enough to come home! Yah! We have missed her so much, so has Snoopi.

Have a great day!

Carrie

Family

This is a layout of our family to start an album for our family pictures taken 2 summers ago (I'm really up to date aren't I) I used the AT HOME Simply Scrappin Kit for the word Family and the patterned paper! I used the set Doodle this, my favorite set, I preordered the Baroque Motifs from the preview cattie because I love swirls, they add a neat element to a page.

Have a great weekend! I am going out to enjoy the sunshine and Yarrow Days!

Happy Scrappin'

Carrie

Last Scrap Club

Last nite was the last of my Stampers Clubs. I had 2 going, one for cards and one for scrapbooking. Last nite was our scrapbooking club. These are the 6x6 layouts that we did. Normally we only do 2 pages, usually not a double layout like the camping one, but this time I wanted to do a double layout as well as a single (to finish of our book!).
The camping layout is using Happy Camper as well as tidy alpha (I forgot it was retired, but they didn't mind). We also used the jumbo wheel Nature Hike. We heat embossed the bear with Chocolate Chip Craft ink and clear embossing powder. It is a pretty simple project, somehow I managed to line up the wheel punch on both pages, I wheeled them separately but they still lined up! I sometimes impress myself.

The second layout I got fromhttp://cis-stylish-sketches.blogspot.com/ This is a great site for sketches! They were using it for a 12x12, but I adapted it and made it into a 6x6 page. We cut out the flower and put it through my Xyron machine then put Dazzling Diamonds on it then curled it under to give it some dimension. There are so many ideas out there that you don't think on your own, that is what is nice about blogs and idea sites like SCS, you can get simple yet beautiful ideas on how to use what you have on hand!

Next year for my club, I think that I will do a card, 3D item, and a 6x6 scrap page (for the gals from my scrap club this year!) I think that I will only have one club rather than 2 and try to do more classes and get people using what they have purchased!

Update on my baby Dixie (german shepard pup) She is still in hostpital, but I saw her today and she looks like a different dog from when I saw her last. She was bouncing around, chasing the vet's cat, where last time she barely got up, her eyes were sunken in, and she looked so sad. She has to stay in the hostpital one more nite (crossing my fingers), all of this from eating something wrong, I have no idea what it is even, nothing looks that disturbed in our yard, and we don't have poisons here because of the kids. Could have been a stick or something Luci (the cat) dragged home! Anyways, she is on the mend!

Have a great day!

Happy Scrappin

Carrie

Baby Girl

Here is my baby girl card, I used all of the same punches as the baby boy minus the duck punch. Isn't she sweet! personally I like the baby boy better.

Today I had to take my baby puppy (6 months old) to the pet hostpital, we don't really know what is wrong with her, she hasn't eaten for a couple days, but we thought that she didn't like her food, our older dog did that as a pup also. But today Dixie was lethargic and wouldn't move when called, when usually she would bound over to say hi! I really mean bound, she is a german shepard, and a real sweetie. So hopefully she gets better quickly. Here is a picture of Snoopi and Dixie, they have become real pals, play fighting lots. Why is it that a dog that is half the size of another thinks that she can take the bigger dog? It is very funny to watch them interact.

My kids on the other hand feel fine the two younger ones were 100% back to normal today.

Happy Scrappin'

Carrie

Mondays : (

I really don't like mondays, I usually feel bogged down with what I need to do that week. Today is no different although the start of my week begins with my younger two being sick. Doesn't Riley look so sweet, he has been sleeping all morning on the couch while Danielle watches tv.

So I won't be leaving the house today to say the least. I did have a VBS meeting that I will have to cancel now as well. Oh well hopefully I can get all of my cleaning done today and do the rest during the week.



Last nite I made my thank you cards for my Stamp club ladies and as I was doing that I noticed that my scalloped circle that I had sitting there with another hole in it looked just like a bib. So I thought I would make a card using punches only. So here it is.

I used the 3" scalloped circle, and the 2.5" circle punch for the face and bib. Then I used the 3/4" punch and the 1/2" circle punches for the soother. 1/4" circle punch for the eyes. The 1/2" circle punch was also used for the ears. The hair was a tuft of grass from paper shapers. The duck I believe is paper shapers as well. Other than the patterened paper all cardstock is SU. I sponged some color with chalks for the cheeks and shading around the face. Isn't he sweet. Watch out for the baby girl, I will post her tommorrow!

Happy Scrappin,
Carrie

Inventory of Stamps

I decorated this SU art journal so that I could keep track of which stamp sets that I have. So that when I am scrapbooking I can just look through it to see if I have anything that would work on my pages, rather than going through each package. How does everyone else keep track of their sets? I would love to hear some new ideas.



I used all SU products except the scalloped punch and the circle punch. Doodle this is one of my favorite stamp sets right now. I still have lots of sets to put into my book, I have gotten all of my flower sets into it.




Our house is located on the mountain, just above a popular walking trail. As I was preparing this post I heard sirens, and they started coming up our driveway and stopped at the entrance of the trail. We have had various things happen at the trail, such as stolen vehicles dropped off there, once they even torched a truck, just after I left to run some errands (I saw them there and thought nothing of it) When I came back home a policeman was there and the truck was torched. I could give a description of the getaway vehicle (I guess that was what the other vehicle was doing there) I wish I would have taken a plate # down. Anyways, today an elderly gentleman with altzeimers went for a walk or something and fell down a short embankment. He slept there all night when finally someone's dogs had found him, so the owner of the dogs called 911. He's okay, maybe a sprained ankle or something, I couldn't imagine sleeping outside all nite in the woods wondering if anyone will find me. There has been cougar tracks spotted in our area too, I think that I would go crazy in fear.

I guess I should try to get something done this morning. Have a great day!
Carrie

Smiley Riley

These are scrapbook pages that I did at a M.O.M.S scrap and craft this month. I got the layout out of the "blueprint" book. The background paper is from Autumn leaves. The cardstock and the ribbon is SU, the star brads are Deja Views.

Doesn't Riley look sweet in these pictures. He is all boy!!

I could spend all day scrapbooking pictures of the kids, but cooking and cleaning get in the way. Oh well! I will do it when I can.

Have a great weekend!

Carrie

A little of me

Here are a couple cards that I did last nite.

This one is using Fishy Friends. I love the colors of the spring mini DS paper Petals and Paisleys. I colored in the fish with SU markers to match the patterned paper. I can't wait until I can give this card away. I really enjoy using the 3" scalloped circle punch, many of my cards I have incorporated it into. I will have to collect the other sizes as well.

This card I used up some leftover birthday page stickers and paper from Doodlebug Designs. My DH likes this card better than my fishy card. It is a pretty simple card, not much to it but I think know that a little boy whose birthday is coming up soon will love it!

I am a scrapbooker more than a card maker so you will probably see more of my scrapbook pages than my cards. This page is using SU DS paper petals and paisleys again! I used the sizzix to make the letters, then put Crystal Effects to give them a raised effect. The flowers are Heidi Swap and Bazzil wings the ribbon is SU gingham light pink.

Well that's all for now, I'll try to post regularly, if life doesn't get in the way!

Here I go

I am going to try this blogging thing that everyone is talking about. Yes, if my friends jumped off of a cliff I probably would follow just to see what it was all about!!!
I have been inspired by so many creative ladies through blogs that I felt the need to share what I have learned and hopefully inspire others.

I will post some pictures of some of the fun things that I have been creating.