Look Mom - A Trophy!

First up I have to share a pic of the boy. He is absolutely in love with his trophy, and of course he really wanted to take it to bed last night. We decided that we would put up a special shelf in his room and he can put it on there, but for now it found a home on his dresser. First thing this morning, he tells me he is pretending to be a shelf, puts the trophy on his head and backs up to the wall. :) I love this kid!

And on a scrapping front, this is just a quick hybrid project I did for a challenge over at Scrap Takeout. I'm not really sure if I will use this for my paint brushes or if I'll give it to the kids, but either way it turned out really cute and I love the colors. I used the Aida Scrap Hipster Soul kit to make the label, printed it off and put it on the can. Can't get much easier than that!

I do wish I would have painted the inside, but I have decided that there are few projects I wish I hadn't done something different too. And of course, if the kids wind up with it I'm sure they will gunk it up soon enough anyway. 

Thinking of You Card

Today's share isn't spectacular in the paper crafting sense, however I did put a bit of thought into it. I needed a card for a 3 year old who is in the hospital for an extended stay. Getting a plain card might  be kinda boring, but hopefully including something interactive makes it a little more exciting.

I don't work with a ton of digital stamps, but this seemed like the perfect project for this cute little guy from Stamping Dragon Designs. I opted to not color it in (although the boy thought the first print was his personal coloring sheet), but tied some crayons to the front with a ribbon. I covered the entire back with my xyron cheetah so I knew there would be no slipping. The rubon is an old Rusty Pickle piece from my stash.

I thought about adding some embellishments, but honestly felt they would get in the way of little hands when he colors in the giraffe. I also paid the extra postage to have the card hand sorted so hopefully everything arrived in tact.

1st Trip to the Park

These pictures are from last year. Braelyn's first trip to the park. The thing she really wanted to do was eat the rubber mulch. I swear, that child will put anything in her mouth. So the pictures where she is about to cry, that's cause I kept telling her no.

I decided to do this one in 8.5 x 11 just to mix it up a bit. I'm sure I will regret that when printing time comes though.

And if you haven't heard about some of the great things happening for National Scrapbooking Day this weekend, check around - there are loads!

Here are just a few...
Tally Scrapper has a crop happening.
Xyron has a week full of fun.
Little Red Scrapbook has a blog hop.

Altered Wood Box

Tuesday is here and today I'm sharing an altered wooden box I made for Braelyn's room. I'll put my complaints about the IVP at the bottom so you can easily ignore them! ;)


The wooden box is actually from Melissa & Doug - a playdough set. I love their toys, and so do the kids! :) The box was cumbersome to store the supplies in though, and I knew it would be perfect for altering. I just didn't know what. LOL!

So I painted the box white and it suddenly dawned on me that Braelyn needs some extra stuff in her room. Since Grayson already has his name in his room (and various other stuff) I decided to do something fun for Braelyn.

I have these huge letters for years, so I figured that would be a great way to use one up. The papers are from Momenta and go perfectly with the color scheme in her room.

So after the wooden box dried, I cut the background paper and attached it using the xyron 900. I also ran the B through the 900 and attached it to the paper. After I trimmed and sanded the B, I wrapped some beading cord around it for dimension.

Next thing was putting the name on there. I decided not to center it since the big letter wasn't going to be centered.

Since I didn't want the B flat against the back, I used helmar liquid glue dots. Not the best picture, but hopefully you can see what I mean in this picture. I let that sit overnight (I am notorious for putting my fingers where I shouldn't and squishing that to nothing).


The next day I added some layered flowers, a flourish and some random gems around. Nothing too much though because I didn't want to overpower the emphasis on the huge B. And if I'm being completely honest, it means more to dust.



So that is it - cute project that came together quickly. The only thing left right now is to get it hung up. Wonder how long that will take me?!



Now, in case you are at all interested in my kidneys and IVP I had yesterday... feel free to read on. The IVP wasn't as bad as I had anticipated. It took a little over an hour and I didn't have to be completely still, only while they were actually taking the x-rays (huge plus). The original girl who tried my IV (notice I said tried, LOL) completely missed the vein. Now I'm not afraid of needles, and I'm completely willing to let people learn... until it hurts! Thankfully another girl stepped in and got it sorted out. And she wasn't lying when she said I would get a warm feeling in my throat and then in my bladder. How does that happen, you would think it would flush through my veins but it doesn't.

So I finished my exam and had an appointment with the urologist yesterday afternoon. Turns out I've managed to form another kidney stone. That makes three right now. The only good news, they are small and if I can get them to move they should pass without problems. Getting them to move seems to be the problem though. So I think total I'm up to 14 now, all in the past few years. I have to have some more lab work done in a few weeks to see if the new meds are working... it is possible this stone formed prior to me starting it.

Hope everyone is enjoying their Tuesday! See you tomorrow - and I plan to share some of the things I've done from my pinterest boards. :)

Easter Monday, just a week late

Here we are, the start of a new week. I hope everyone had a fabulous weekend. Ours was uneventful, and honestly that is just fine with me!

Today's layout is of Braelyn on Easter. She had ripped out her pigtails and honestly needed a nap, but she was quite happy once she got the basket and could trompse around my parent's yard.





Lots of fun things on this layout - The butterflies were cut out of on the wishblade and the top one was held up with Helmar's Liquid Scrap Dots. The flowers and buttons came as a RAK from a friend. Machine stitching around the edge, liquid pearls around the butterfly and to make the butterfly trail. I choose the pink flowers and blue butterfly to sort of mimic the design on her dress. :)

Hope everyone has a great Monday, I'll see you tomorrow (be forewarned, I'll probably be complaining about my procedure today)!