♥ ...smile is the beginning of love. ♥

Happy Saturday everyone! I hope you all are doing well! This week my kids are sick-free! Yippe! Me?? Not so much! I have had a sore throat for 2 days now and my head feels like a balloon! What is the deal with all of the summer viruses lately? But as long as my kids are well, that's all I really care about! Except this coming week I need to get ready for my son's 2nd Birthday party next Sunday. I can't believe it's been 2 years since Santino was born! And on the 5th of September, Antonio starts 1st grade! My stomach is already turning with the thought of my baby being in school full time now! I guess I am selfish! I like my babies being home here with me!! ;)

Here's my 2 boys sucking on lollipops. This was Santino's 2nd time having one and he was in his glory!! LOL They make me smile! :)

This card is for the current challenge at the Word Art Wednesday Challenge Blog. Love this beautiful quote by Mother Teresa. What a beautiful and loving woman she was!

I also used some Cosmo Cricket chipboard, seam binding and Liquid Pearls. The beautiful Die Cut is Romantic Rectangles by Spellbinders. Does anyone out there in Blogland have these dies?? They have given me such a hard time! I love Spellbinders dies! There is nothing that compares to them! And I have many of them. But the Romantic Rectangles dies have given me such a hard time. After talking to Karen Haas at Spellbinders CS she told me to try using wax paper in between the die and paper. That helped in removing the paper from the die but now I have to use a paper piercer to remove all the little pieces of paper which is so time consuming. Any tips from anyone??

Well, I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! I am going to "try" and rest up for the coming week.

hugs...

♥ Happy {Inter} National Scrapbooking Day! {a little late}

I hope you all had a wonderful Scrapbooking Day yesterday and found the time to create a little something! I had an unexpected but wonderful visit from family yesterday so I didn't get to make a little something until late last night. But at least I got to make something!!

I made a card using a wonderful challenge from the Pumpkin Spice Blog. It was their first challenge of the day. It was to make a Card - any size, even a mini, with the following elements:

- the color Blue,
- something Round,
- at least 3 layers or 3 different papers

I must admit, I had a lot of fun making this one! I used a mix of papers from Crate Paper and Cosmo Cricket, chipboard pieces also by Crate Paper, handmade stick pins, pearls, lace and seam binding.

You still have some time left to join in on the fun at the Pumpkin Spice Blog! There are challenges there for everything from cardmaking to scrapbooking and more!

Have a wonderful and Blessed Sunday!