Quick Bind it All Album

We had a pretty rough hospital stay in April when Eil had the first of his big operations, didn't help the situation when my Granny died on the same day of his surgery. He took a bad reaction when we got home from Dublin and spent another week in Castlebar Hospital. Pretty crappy time all in all but using my 365 photos that I had to take on my phone I decided to make an album with them. I wanted something simple just to focus on the photos so not much embellishments and I used my new Little Hero's Waltzing Mouse add on set. Of course the set made me cry because it was just perfect for this. A great release for me to make this, helps me to process it in my own head and have it recorded for Eli when he wants to know about his story later on.

This took me about 1 and half hours using kraft card as the background and an American crafts paper pack I got in TK MAXX recently. Quick bind with the bind it all and even I was impressed with the speed of it!

Front cover

Waltzing Mouse stamp at top of page says - once upon a time there was a boy

and he was very brave

After surgery and he was in a morphine induced sleep, I added a filter to it because it was so blurry and out of focus but I think it adds to the effect of it

He was so nervous before he went down, they gave him a premed. He acted like he was so drunk, giggling and falling over himself. Made it easier bringing him down to surgery as he sang twinkle twinkle putting the gas mask on but I cried as I came back up. It's not an easy thing bringing your child to an operating room and leaving his life in a team of surgeons hands. The stamp says- and I was so proud of him (how fitting for this photo)

We got home late Saturday night but were back in hopsital the next day...twice

Not easy being confined when you love outside

Never seen him as sick and it was heartbreaking seeing him in such panic and pain. It didn't help the situation when I got the gastro bug from the hospital and passed out, cutting up my face. I looked like I had gone a few rounds in a boxing ring

First smile I had seen in over a week

I was so happy we were released when we were.... I thought Eli was getting Munchausen syndrome!

Last stamp- and he could do anything

And I truly believe he can, 1 surgery down 4 more to go....

PTI Birthday Card

A quick PTI make, I need a good session just stamping some spares up. Always handy to have!

One layer tag

I love layering up on my tag but tonight I just wanted to kind of zentangle over a few stamps & see how it turned out. Using mainly the tim holtz itty bitty grunge set I stamped all over using permanent black ink. I got some lovely little colour inks from pti but haven't used them yet considering I didn't need much blending it thought it would be ok to use. On all the videos and blogs I see they all recommend this white pen but I find it crap, I've even bought two just in case I got a bad one... I must have gotten two bad ones! The silver pen really made it pop and I added a little glitter gel to the stars. I still think it needs about 4 layers but it'll do as they say ;)

 

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Cheer up grumpy britches

Just watch..and don't let the moment pass. PTI clouds and sun die and stamp, dylusions ABC stencil and scraps of paper just fitted into each other

Cheer up grumpy britches... is what I say to a face like this but in all fairness he was mid air when I took the photo after Phil threw him up!

Smash*ing fun

What's another way to spend my money & torment myself for not having enough time to do it? Smash* books ticked all that criteria. Really haven't a clue what I'm doing but it's fun to smush everything in :) I did a swap recently with Aideen who was very generous starting me off my smash stash. I decided the theme of the book should be a time capsule do I'm taking a capture of the fufu's in 2012!

 

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Fuzzy cutting wedding card

Anne spotted my cutting today (Got the new Tonic TH scissors ahhhh) and said a cross communication between Americans and fussy cutting is sometimes called fuzzy cutting :) So here is my fuzzy cut card with PTI camera & new flower  stamp. I think it took no more than 5 minutes but like how it turned out! I wanted to personalise it but the person who ordered the card didn't know the names of the couple...should be a good wedding!

Ohhh new scrap stash!

The whole window shopping online is very dangerous when all you have to do is push confirm to buy...a few drinks saturday night and I bought a little (if Derek can't see this, I bought a lot!) I got a chance to scrap in peace & actually enough it for the first time in ages.

Paper is echo park & I got a huge stash of coloured card stock by Papermania. My hexagon stamp is pti ( my stamping is so fricking bad!) and a few hand made embellishments such as the banner, flag & ribboned buttons

 

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Anniversary card

Again one of these days that isn't really sprung on me... 4 years on 08.08 and I decided at the last minute to make a card. Pti Rosie posie stamp and hand cut wobbly hearts but it's what's on the inside that counts right?

 

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Stocking up my card pile

Tim Holtz Tree die embossed with a chequered die, hand cut hills and a PTI greeting stamp

PTI tree die and buttons, same as before. Waltzing mouse sentiment

A Rosie Posie PTI stamp (love this set!) and covered in glossy accents

My new waltzing mouse stamps, perfect for Eli scrapping and boys cards. I stamped a load out and coloured them in with watercolour pencils. Such a cute set and perfect for little boys!