Potty time!

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Still having fun catching up on back dated picture.   My boys we're belly giggling so much at this layout...they really like my skull placement! LOL!  My YIPEEEEE title was actually cut out from the back of a Prima pack and colored with Copic Markers. 

I've actually will have projects to post this week! I crafted a lot this week end! So check back soon.

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I can bake!

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The boys birthday went really well yesterday. They are still having their Superhero party, but that is not till next week and  their actual birthday was yesterday so we just had the family over.  It took me all day to bake their cake...its was a giant cupcake, and that sucker took a long time to bake! I used the recipe it came with; a chocolate pound cake,  not the yummiest cake I've eaten, but luckily the icing saved the day.  So next time I make this, I'll use a my grandma's tried and true chocolate cake recipe.  But anyhoo...this icing ROCKED!!!!  It's basically meringue.... YUMMY!  I made a double batch as I wasn't sure how much I would need, and we had a lot left over.  So as you can see we had a lot of fun with the extra, and then I baked them into yummy meringue cookies...FYI...grease the pan! I didn't so getting them off deflated them! LOL! They went from Fluffy Stay Puff heads to little deflated dog poo's! LOL! But boy did they taste amazing! You can find the recipe HERE.

Happy Birthday 2 my boyz!

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Today my twins are 7! Can't believe it!!!!  I gave them their Ed Hardy shirts today to open after breakfast...they couldn't believe they didn't have to wait till after school! Too cute.  Tristan said he "totally feels 7" and Ethan said " I don't feel any different" LOL! 

So today, I'm taking a break from picking out shelving, doing my business planner and all the other "fun...NOT" stuff I've been doing later for the shop to be a good Momma and make the boys an Oreo cookie GIANT cupcake cake for them.  Hope it turns out alright.  I'll blog it tomorrow.  Keep your fingers crossed for me, it's not made out of paper so I'm out of my element!

Looking for Crafty, Handmade Products!

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Do you make  fun, funky, original HANDMADE Crafty products?  Superhero Capes? Funky Stuffy? Canvas Art?  Funky Embellishments? Purses? Retro Hair Slides?   I'm looking for suppliers for my shop! I want to help  the Crafty Ladies out there to sell their wares! Leave a link or email me your products and your costs.

I'm Opening a STORE!!!

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I couldn't wait till Monday!  I am opening The Inked Stamper store in St.Albert in June!!!  I can not wait!  This is my shop..doesn't look like much now, but you just wait!  It's going to be a funky Rockabilly Scrapbooking and more shop by June!

For my current SU! customers, I will be sending out a newsletter soon.  

I hope this was worth the wait for YOU!  I can't wait to share more later!

ALmost...almost

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Today's LO was one of my club LO's from February.  It's of my hub's and I on our 15th anniversary; we flew to Vancouver for a wonderful weekend! I forgot our camera at home, so all our pictures were taken on the Iphone! LOL...classic ME move!

  This is a great LO for me to post today as without my hub's help these last few months, my Big Project would have never happened!!! So THANKS Hunny!  Now I know you are all waiting for my announcement, and it will happen ob MONDAY!!! My last "i"is being dotted today officially!!!!! Soc check back Monday for the announcement!!! PROMISE!! 

Flying High

FYI : Just waiting for one final "i" to be dotted before I make my big announcement!

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Your going to be seeing a lot of layouts with my twins when they were 2!  I'm enjoying scrapping them this little again, soon it'll be their 7th b-day and as all you Momma's know, Time FLYS!!!  

Today's LO has a mix of a bunch of supplies: SU!, Tim Holtz, Rusty Pickle, Teressa Collins and American Crafts. 

The picture is not picking up the detail of the crown very well; but it looks amazing in real life and I wanted to share with you what I did.  Click on the picture to make it larger, hope that shows it better.

1. Trace crown around you card stock back ground paper and cut out. (not top of crown)

2. Cover cut out card stock with Crystal Effects, let it sit and start to harden about 10 min; lay crown on top and gently press in.  Let dry for 10 more min.

3.  Add another thick layer of CE on and leave to dry.  Attach to LO.

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Nursery Suite..blast from my past

FYI my big project plans should be announced soon! Just jumping though my final hoop today!

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Well a few weeks ago I decided to organize my scrapbooks in chronological date order; most were that way already, but since I became a demo 3 years ago, some of my club and class pages just had random pictures on them not in any order; just what looked best on the layout.  While I was doing that, I discovered that I am missing a whole year of the twins; age 2!  I know I had a computer melt down at that age and lost a bunch of photo's, but I didn't think I lost everything!  It's hard to remember details like that...twin 2 year old boys were VERY busy to say the least!  So after staying up till 3am and tearing my house apart; I came to the conclusion that I missed scrapping that year!  I did find some, not many pictures of them at two that I'll be scrapping for the next little while.  And I must admit it's fun doing toddler pages again; I was a new scrapbooker when the boys were this age...so lets just stay my style was still developing! LOL! 

This LO is made with SU! Nursery Suite; I've had people say to me that they don't want this paper cause they think it's too girly, well, here is proof that it is not! With the gorgeous shape of the main page, I was able to leave the LO pretty simple, but I think it still looks stunning and very boy..even with some pink accents on it!

Bring on the Superheroes

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I'm still working on my big announcement so I'm still very busy, hence the lack of posts! Don't give up on me though, I promise it will be worth the wait!

Today's post is my Mommy Labour of Love; yesterday I made the invites for the boys 7th Birthday party.  They were a lot of work, but I'm so proud of them..and the boys love them, which is what matters most!

The inside of the boy invites have a photo of Batman and Superman which I printed off at London Drugs, and the girl invites have a photo of Wonder Women.  I found both on Google Image, just click large file so you find a suitable picture to get printed.  The outsides are decorated with actual comics; the boys and I spent 1 hour yesterday morning combing through comics at Warp to find appropriate comics to decorate their cards.  Let me tell you, it was harder then it sounds, comics are made for adults! Lot's of violence in them!  Each card is covered with a belly band with an awesome POW Zap or Bif tag! I had to hand cut all those, took me ages! And also my printer was running out of black in so I had to go over all the black parts with a sharpie..again took a long time!  I found those on HERE.  There are some GREAT ideas on the internet for Superhero parties, I'm taking bits and pieces from them, plus a dash of US, to make the boys party AWESOME! 

Hope you guys love them as much as we do...It makes me feel like a fab Momma to be doing something that is just for THEM! Yes, it would have been quicker and much much cheaper to buy invites or make digital ones, but I wanted to do something that was 100% handmade from Momma just for them!  After all, as a Momma of twins only, we only get to celebrate each birthday once...I will never again get to throw a 7th birthday party again!  That's one of the hard parts of twins.

Spring will alway come, no matter how long the winter....I HOPE!

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Well I'm posting a "naked" Layout today because as you can see it is a spring theme design, and as my back yard is covered in at least 3 1/2 feet of snow still....and YES that has melted, it used to be 4 1/2 feet...I have NO spring pictures to add to it yet!  I just temporarily added the one of my husband and boys to the left side one so you could see the robin better.  If you click on the picture it will make it larger to see all the little details; the pastel chalk painted robins, eggs, Smootch painted eggs, robins, flowers, the banners.  The layouts are simple designs because the paper is so pretty; I just wanted to accent it with a lot of little details. I love how the flower turned out; it's only 2 flowers plus a center, but look how think and full it looks! 

TFL

Sew Sweet and Simple 5 min Card

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Well it does not get any easier then this for a card! This is the 4x4" Pendant Note card; it is already die cut with that cute shape in the middle; you just need to pop out the card stock and attach a DSP to the back side..or fabric...or leave it as a peek a boo card.  SO simple and tons of possibilities.  I used the SU! Sweet Stitches range again; stamp and dsp; the little wee tag is from the same sheet I talked about a few posts ago.  I just cut t out and corner rounded it.  Now that I see it in the picture, I should have ink distressed the edges in Chocolate Chip, I'll have to do that before I give this away.

TFL

Scottie Dogs..does it get any cuter?

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This is one of my favorite cards I've made; I know the layout is beyond simple and not original, but I still love it! I have a thing for Scottie dog silhouettes, so clearly I love this.  The polka dots are Melon Mambo and Pretty in Pink; I cut the collars from the melon mambo and added a Rhinestone to bling it up! 

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Sweet Stitches Card

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Sorry I've been MIA; I will be for awhile..BUT it will be worth it!!  I'm working on something HUGE that I'm just not ready to announce yet. But SOON! ;)

Today's card was made with the SU! Sweet Stitches range; DSP, fabric and buttons.  No stampin' involved..except on the inside.  The cute tag was cut from a 12 x 12 sheet that comes in the DSP package, it's a full sheet of tags, you just need to cut them out.  They are sooo cute!  And the flower is HAND STITCHED, yes I pulled out a needle and thread and sewed a lollipop flower and sewed on the button too!

Men men men manly men men

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Sorry it's grey and gloomy here today in the Edmonton, the tundra of Canada..so my pic it kinda dark even after fixing it on my mac!  Anyhoo...I cased this card from Make a Card Monday; I LOVE her style! Very re-creatable and I find she has a great vintage vibe to her designs which I totally dig!  As soon as I saw this card, I went right down to my studio to make it.  It's so simply and clean and so very manly!  I used retired SU! patterned paper as it was the manliest I had; my base is Chocolate Chip and I used the Brights Glimmer Brads (pumpkin pie) to jazz it up.  To make the flames, I used the wing from Bird XL punch in Daffodil Delight. Perfect eh? I love finding other uses for the punches. 

Any of you have any good tips for using punches to make other shapes?? Leave a link in the comment section for everyone to check out.

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Rockin' Rolla

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Ok I know my spelling sucks, but I promise this was on purpose! Do you remember the movie Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure? Well Wyld Stallyns is their band name! Don't know why, but these pictures just screamed B and T to me! LOL!  And lucky for me, my sister watched the movie the night before and I told her I was doing a LO and needed to google a B and T quote, she said she had the PERFECT title for these pics! And it IS perfect! The pics we're taken on my iphone after the boys got their hair cut in January and the girl sprayed their hair red..I bought the spray as it made them SO happy!  Tristan kinda looks like  a weird zombie in the picture, I think he was moving and it does not really look like him! It's an ODD picture of him but it was just to perfect with him air guitaring and Ethan playing drums that I had to use it.

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