Mommiedom

So today's card is for two challenges. One is a color challenge from Create with Connie and Mary:


The second challenge is from Sketch Frenzy Friday:

So I was a wee bit excited for school to start this week.

http://leaguecity.macaronikid.com/article/550069/mommy-confessions

My daughter has a friend who turned 8 and we were invited to her birthday party. The little girl is so sweet and loves just loves office supplies and craft items. Last year we got her this craft box you could decorate and she loved it and still plays with it, so I felt the need to do as good of a job this year for her birthday.

I decided to create a gift basket full of craft and office supplies. I may or may not have gotten out of hand with it because I decorated and monogramed some of the supplies as well. I really like how it all turned out.

This week on Unscripted Sketches, I am being very literal with my card.

What a fun sketch this week over at retro sketches and it screamed rainbow for me. I created a hybrid card this week using My Digital studio for the pennant background and than stamping the image and cutting it out using this month's stamp from Paper Pumpkin.

This week's cQc colors are so pretty but I was lost on what to do. I for some reason was drawn to the British police/phone box stamp that was part of the SU saleabration. I had gotten the set specifically for that one stamp because it reminded me so much of Doctor Who so I only stamp it ever in a variety of blues.

Here is the cQc color pallet:

Here is my Macaroni Kid column for this week

The Kids Clothes all bought- check. I like that we have nice weather almost year round, so we can be in shorts longer and warmer clothes do last longer on my kids who grow at a much slower rate though I admit I know one of these days they are both going to shoot up.

School Supplies- check. I admit to loving the annual school supply trip. I always buy extras for both the classroom, Girl Scouts, and the house. Especially when I have a kid who mostly colors and cuts paper all day. Even though I KNOW the scissors help with gross motor skills, I don't know how much more I can take with the constant clean up. At least he knows we need to sweep it up and he is helping.

Lunch and snack station- check. I decided to bring the snack bins inside and stick them up on my black shelf in the kitchen. The first thing out of the mouths of both kids is always I need a snack. I took the four tubs I got from the dollar store and filled them with granola bars, fruit snacks, etc. So I should be good for awhile because all three are basically filled to the brim and I still have a stash of fruit snacks in the garage. I like Miss O to  buy lunch because it is way cheaper than me making it but Mr. L may have to take it on occasion and I also don't mind Miss O taking it to break up the regularity of school lunch.



Teacher gift for the first day- check.  So I saw this on Pinterest and thought it was so cute and super easy to do. I just filled the drink cup up with about 30 drink packets.  I hope who ever she ends up with will like it- actually I know which ever 2nd grade teacher she gets will appreciate it.


So only a week to go for the first day for Miss O and a week and half for Mr. L (I am so excited for him to start Preschool- we both need it).

Becky

My husband and I wandered into Downtown Houston for the Flea by Night Market at Discovery Green Park.  It was a quaint little market with a variety of goods. One of the vendors was The Tin Armadillo  who took cans of all sizes and created amazing artwork out of it. On our first pass of the market this hanging lamp caught my eye and I wondered where I would stick it.

After we tried some of the yummy food from the food truck, we passed them again and I decided that this lamp would find a place to live in my home. I am a sucker for owls and the artist told me they had also done a sculpture as well of an owl which had sold. Lucky thing for me that if I had seen it I might have ended up with that too.

So today my hubby hung the lamp in the corner of my living room over where my white tree is. I love the soft purple blue light that radiates out of it. It is such a unique piece of artwork that was hand created. I love handmade things!

So this week I really liked both challenges on the colourQ and Unscripted Sketches so I thought that I would use both of them to create a single card.

colorQ offered a color inspiration:

Here is a list of all the awesome blogs that have card challenges.


Clean and Simple

Sketch Frenzy

retro sketches

Mojo Challenges

Crazy 4 Challenges

Create with Connie and Mary

ColourQ

Try Stampin on Tuesday

Unscripted Sketches

Hand Stamped Sentiments

Tuesday Morning Sketches

Stampin Celebration

Technique Twist

My Pumpkin Challenge

Macaroni Kid Column :http://leaguecity.macaronikid.com/article/537705/mommy-confessions

Now come on you didn't really think I wouldn't have a wreath for Back to School. I love these colors that I picked out. I used muted primary colors because I didn't want something so vibrant.


This was an easy one to create, the only problem was I had on a black dress so I got all the little fibers on it.

I just quickly painted the ABC in red and only did one coat so they were muted. So now only a few weeks left till school starts.

Well I missed the deadline for last week's challenge so I made sure I had ti in this week because I really liked the challenge for Sweet Stop.  I am trying ombre with blues this week because it seemed that the eyeglasses screamed to be used.

This week has started off with some fun card challenges. As you will notice with my theme so far I am trying ombre with different shades of tealy blue. I always love the retro sketches has to offer and I created this card using this week's sketch.

Fab Friday  had a great pastel color challenge this week with this palette:

This week I made the stop to see what the challenge was and this was the sketch and I totally missed the deadline to get it in but here it is anyways.



So I also had to create a card for a swap next week, and I really liked the sketch.

This week colourQ has this color challenge.




So I once again did a modern MDS take on it. It is clean and simple but is dynamic in my eyes. I mimic not only the colors but the picture as well.

So this week's retro sketches was one I used to create a Halloween card plus I have to make a bunch for a swap and I thought this would be perfect.

Here is the sketch:

So last school year I started using this bird hook thingy for backpacks, purses, hats, etc and than I added the bench there which is more decoration that usefulness (it had to be repaired after a certain seven year old stood on it).

Oh my was I excited when I saw this color challenge because those were the colors that had just arrived in the mail. I got them to start okaying around for the holidays (yes I know it is only August).

Here is the color challenge:

I have been wanting to do a Back to School banner but I Really didn't want to use the traditional primary colors because they would have stuck out like a sore thumb with my muted pallet of my house so as I was trolling the world wide web today and looking at the different challenges out there, I came across Hand Stamped Sentiments and the awesome idea of having a inspiration challenge. You could be inspired by the colors which I totally am and I added in more to complement it and you could be inspired by the back to school theme as well which I am too.

So you know me, I of course got to work at creating. I am home alone with no kids and no hubby and after my trip to Hobby Lobby and my slight redecorating of the backpack area (see it reveled on Monday), I got to work.

I used some of the new DSP from SU called Etcetera. The colors in there were  just perfect so I went to work. Yes I made rosettes which are a pain so that was why only three were created. I had at first thought of doing ABC/123 but I liked the triangles with just the rosettes. I die cut out from the apothecary framelits and than using a old letter stamp set did the ABC. I added in some silver bling.

I really like how it turned out and I am off to working on a new wreath for the front door which will also be back to school themed but with more of a punch of color.

Okay this week I am getting back into the swing of things with being gone for all of July. I finally got my desk cleaned off and all of the stuff I brought back with me. I am kidless for the next 24 hours as well and completely alone till 5 when my hubby comes home, so I am off to the craft store to wander by myself. I NEVER EVER get to do that. Usually a crying three year old prevents me from going in very long.


Here is this week's sketch:

Well this week's sketch was an fun one after I got going with it. As I was cleaning my desk up (see previous post) I was inspired to create a card and I also thought what a fun card for some one with a milestone birthday. My Mom just turned 60 two weeks ago so I used that age and I hope someone else will too or I can always change out the numbers.

Here is the sketch:

My desk at the moment looks like this:


Here is this week's sketch:


Here is my creation:

Oh my what a fun color challenge to some back to after being gone from my stuff for over a month. I was itching so bad to craft especially if you saw the pile of stuff sitting on my desk which includes the July Paper Pumpkin as well as a whole new slew of papers I ordered plus Halloween. My hubby laughed at that but I told him it is never to early to get ready.

When I saw the color palette this week from ColourQ, I was so excited because these are some of my favorite colors right now and from what I already saw from the other projects submitted, I am not alone.

Here is the palette badge for this week. I love it because I love peacocks. I so want to redo our master bathroom in these colors and I have been slowly picking up stuff here and there for when we tackle that.

July 30 Column

July 21 Column

July 16 Column