What to do when its a weatherful day??

Why, make cards, build a fire and a cushion fort, of course! Its hard on all of us to be cooped up inside for all of these days with the frigid wind and the driving rain. Coming up with fresh ideas is the way to go, but its not always easy.

Whilst Noah slept, I took advantage of the time and made a card for the second November sketch challenge over on the Cute Critters Club. The image was from a swap I did months ago. Its a Penny Black image, though, I do not know the name. I used Stickles on the bubbles (okay, Lisa...YES, I am addicted too!). (Please excuse the upload. Not sure what is up with that?)

This Changito Thank U card is uber simple and made entirely out of K and Company double sided recycled paper. (go green!) The brads are also K and Company. The glitter glue is G Studios.

After Noah napped this morning, we decided to change his bed to a toddler bed....GULP...I am not convinced this is going to work, but we will never know if we don't try...I see some napless days in our future....but nevertheless, Noah is thrilled and I am sure he can't wait to sneak out of bed. DH figures we will find him curled up by his toys exhausted trying to sleep, lol! We shall see.

Daddy built a fire for us to get warm. He then built a fort out of the couch cusions for Noah. It cured the grumpies for awhile. Gave me time to organize some pics and type this out, anyway!

I made these two cards for another cute critter challenge the other day. The person who posts the most Christmas Cards wins. I am lagging behind, but hoping to catch up this weekend. I made the icecicles from a Dawn tutorial that I adapted for the items that I had available. I had no wax paper, but good ole Heather suggested an old cereal bag. I used Glossy Accents and glitter, let it dry and viola. Icecicles. I beleive that both images are from Stampin Up. They were also from a swap, so I am not sure of names. =0)

Deck the halls with boughs (sp?) of holly...

Thanks a LOT Heather! All I have DONE is think about Christmas for days! lol! The day you posted that Christmas Challenge over in CCC, I found myself humming Christmas songs while doing the dishes and had to chuckle. You did it! I was in the spirit!

First, though...I got the most SWEET RAK the other day from a good friend over on Cafe Mom, Toothy/Heather. All I can say is...THANK YOU! I have been borderline coveting (but not really cause I am a sweet Christian lady...lol) a ticket punch and stickles. Every Stickles order I was poised over the page going...I can order one or two..but never did. Just cause DH says you can does not mean you should. Needless to say, like most of America, money is tight, and not in that cool way, either. SO ANYWAY! Here is some of my AWESOME RAK!

The punch is a Stampin Up! ticket punch. LOVE it! So versitile, and until I had a good quality punch I had NO IDEA what I was missing! Also, a bottle of the most beautiful stickles in the world! I have used them on every card I have made recently! (all...2? lol) Also, beautiful dew drops, baubles...whatever they are. She sent some Riley images and other cute critters as well as some awesome Makin Memories paper. She also made the adorable card! Love that bella, right?

So with this awesome RAK I made this uber simple card the other night with Savvyshoppabella which I received in a splitcoaststampers swap recently. It was late, but I HAD to use some awesomness!

This morning I got cracking on some more simple Christmas cards. The first one is an image I received from a VERY good and VERY talented and VERY good friend of mine who shall remain namless in the name of finances! Just in case anyone flocks, lol! I used Stickles, (duh) and fake stickles on the garland and the ornaments. This paper was ALSO from my RAK.

The second card was also simple. I originally had the same image with stickles, but the ink was not dye based (swap image) and the ink RAN and it looked aweful so I removed it and replaced it. On this one I just used a Gelly Roll glitter pen.

On a final note, Fall is almost over! What happened? Summer to Winter! Hardly any Fall! Noah is finally getting over his fear of the leaves! (about time!) So I took advantage of that and let him run around while I tried to get some shots of him this morning. It was SO cold, though, so we came inside pretty quick. He told me, "hands COLD". Poor guy!