I should have known...and cards!

I should have known...

It all started about a year and a half ago when my husband took my son camping and told him that "All men just go behind a tree when they really need to."

Well, my son took this very literally. Over the past year and a half, Ben has urinated on one of my neighbor's front lawn, urinated in my sister's backyard playhouse (during my nephew's high school graduation party) and even pulled down his pants to go number 2 in our playhouse during a play date.

Needless to say, after these acts, I had to explain to him that really the only place for that is in the potty (unless you are camping!)

So, when Ben (now 5) came up to me today and said, "Is this a potty?" (holding the tiny toilet from my daughter's Fisher Price dollhouse)---I should have known.

But, it didn't click....at first.

After I responded "Of course," It took a few seconds for the question to sink in.....and Ben was gone.

And then it hit me---I ran into my bathroom and there he was, pants down, trying to figure out how to aim at that tiny target.

I shouted "Stop!" and luckily caught him by surprise......urine on the wall....but playhouse potty---unscathed.

Whew!

I should have known.

I did accomplish some card fun stuff today!

Yesterday, I received my package from Michelle from Stamper's Dream. It included all the stamps used to make this card: the hedgehog stamp called "lazy days" by Penny Black and the sentiment from Hero Arts. The sentiment is a clear stamp--part of a cool set of sentiments and frames. I just love it.

I stamped the main image in brilliance ink and colored it with primacolor pencils. I stamped the sentiment on a piece of transparency then used my Cuttlebug machine and ribbon slider die to punch the sentiment out. This way I could attach it with ribbons on top of the image. LOVE that!


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Isn't he cute!?

Materials used: Stamps-Penny Black and Hero Arts (available at Stamper's Dream); brilliance black ink; stazon black ink; Prisma color pencils; cardstock-red, white; paper peircing tool; cuttlebug and flower embossing folder and ribbon slider diecut; eyelet (Stampin' Up!); Cropadile; Ribbon (Offray); transparency sheet (Office Max); Dimensional stickers (Stampin' Up!).


This next card features another stamp from Michelle's store Stamper's Dream--the flower from Paper Inspirations. I LOVE this flower--what a gorgeous stamp. The sentiment is from Kim Hughes (Silhouette Blooms I from Cornish Heritage Farms).

This card was created for a challenge a few friends and I do each week. This week's challenge was the interesting name challenge. Once a month, we pick someone on Splitcoast Stampers who has an neat sign on name and this week it is Shelly (Papermoon). Our challenge was to only use shades of grey (and white) and there had to be a moon shape on it. Clearly, there are lots of full moon shapes in the center of those flowers (I am sooo gonna be in trouble for this!!!)

I like the way this turned out with the background embossed strips, cut at different thickness. Although it doesn't show up in the picture, there is Sakura gelly roll glitter on the flowers and all of the raised embossed sections of the background! Very cool in real life!

Materials used: Stamps: Flower (Paper Inspirations from Stamper's Dream store); Sentiment-Silhouette Blooms I (Kim Hughes); Going Gray classic stamp pad (Stampin’ Up!); Confetti card stock (Stampin’ Up!); Going Gray card stock (Stampin’ Up!); Confetti card stock (Stampin’ Up!); Basic Gray card stock(Stampin’ Up!); Cuttlebug and textile folder; Photo corner punch (Stampin’ Up!); Hardware (We R Memory Keepers); Silver cording (Stampin’ Up!) Ribbon (Michael’s); Sakura stardust gelly roll pen; Cropadile; Dimensional stickers (Stampin’ Up!)

Coming soon....stamp sale and blog candy!

Thanks for stopping by!