This card is for Verve's Mojo Monday sketch. I wanted so badly to use my new Love Bakes set (SU! 1995, retired, highly sought after, and MINE!-albeit missing 5 stamps, but hey, 29/32 isn't bad!). I made this card as an invitation card for someone, ahem, who reads this blog. I want them to come to my house. They shall remain unnamed. Anyways, the sketch is here: http://mojomonday.blogspot.com/. Not the greatest picture, but I **love** this set, and I like the card.
Isn't this set darling?!? There will be much, much more coming soon!! It's really hard to see (practically impossible), but on the blue, there are rolling pins and flour sacks, and on the red, there are teacups, saucers, and sugar bowls. Much better IRL. I'm sorry; I'm no great photographer.
***ingredients***
Paper: bravo burgundy, barely banana, bashful blue
Stamps: Love Bakes
Ink: bravo burgundy, bashful blue, versamark
Other: ribbon from Making Memories, sponges
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PS- Crystal wants me to add that she helped me make my light studio. She says she was fearing for her life because I was hacking away at the box with a large, very sharp kitchen knife. The hacking was completely necessary in order to cut through the cardboard to make the windows so I could secure my typing paper. I want to add that she is fine now and has undergone only a tiny bit of therapy to help her through that traumatic night (just kidding!).
It's nothing like the entire room I had in our Alvord house, but I'm thankful everything is downstairs where I can use it! This is the whole space- I have a lot of stuff crammed in here!
This is my "light studio". My camera just couldn't take nice pictures of my cards, and I wanted a way to take professional looking pictures to take to craft fairs, etc., to show people my work. I found this awesome tutorial here: 
This is how I store my punches. On the side of this white thing that I got at a rummage in Sioux Falls. Its supposed to be a computer organizer or a desk organizer or something. I don't know. I looked at it and saw crafting potential! In the drawers I have markers, ribbon, and various other little things, and on the bottom I store my albums and all my SU! catalogues.
The twist this week was to make a masculine card. Here was my thought process:
"Now, how does this go in here?"
And a few pictures of Micah--we went to a birthday party in the park on Memorial Day, and we got some really cute pictures of him:
Finally, one last picture. Myron got the swingset put up in our backyard last week, and on Sunday, after Michelle woke up from a 3 hour nap, he volunteered to take her outside (without me asking--he doesn't do this very often!). I caught them swinging and playing through the window in the house. I'm pretty sure they were unaware of my presence! 
He's just such a good dad! No wonder she loves him!
Okay, here are the stairs. Very steep, although not quite as steep as our Alvord house. And here's Michelle looking very excited to be in this picture. :)
Here is Micah's room. Remember, ugly carpet and walls? I wasn't kidding, was I? I put some stuff on the walls next to his crib, and it looks a little homier now.
This is Michelle's room. Very cute- Pam had done some freehand painting a long time ago, and it gives it a really girly feel. I love the soft carpet. How do you like her big girl bed? That's her New Bed. She loves it.
Here is the store room off of Michelle's room. When we first started putting things in it, I didn't think we would use all the space. Now, guess what? It's full. 
Okay, I just realized I forgot to turn the picture. Oh well. Turn your head.
Here's the kitchen. Nice, big kitchen. Pam (my sister in law) did a really nice job painting. I wish I had a grape/wine themed kitchen. But, I don't. Oh well. The only thing I don't like is there is not alot of cupboard space. I have about half the cupboard space I had at our Alvord house.
Please ignore the gigantic mess. I'm slowly wading through it all, but the kids tend to tear it right apart again. See that white thing in the lower right hand corner- yeah, that's a dishwasher. Albeit, a small dishwasher, but a dishwasher nonetheless. And I love it. One small comfort in an otherwise pretty bleak situation.
Here's the living room. Nice, big room, too. I like that. We have a lot of stuff in this room: two couches and a chair, two endtables, the piano, the computer, the toys, and my scrapbooking stuff.
This is the living area. The couches face each other. I like it alot. In the lower right hand corner, there's a bookshelf to tie it all together. It looks very homey.
Here is the last picture of the living room. Bad picture, but you get the idea. I rearranged my scrapbooking stuff, too, and I'm excited to take another picture of that. You can get the before and after feel. It looks really nice.
Here's our bedroom. It's right off the kitchen, next to the stairs to the second floor. Kind of small (way smaller than our other house), but it'll be just fine.
Here's the outside of the house. Not too bad, right.
Now look again...yes, that's plastic over the house. In the summer. Because everyone is too lazy/busy to take it off. I hope it doesn't affect how hot it gets in here. We'll see. Ignore the big dead tree in the center of the picture. We're not going to cut it down. Why? Because it's not our problem.
And one last picture. These are from Michelle. My mom helped her plant them and give them to me for Mother's Day. They are looking a little worse for the wear because we have had 90 mile an hour winds the past few days. But, I just watered them and I think they will survive. I hope. I am notoriously bad with plants. Why I want to badly to have a garden, I don't know. I just do. Another year, maybe.
Here's the first one. This one corresponds with Week 3, I think. You can find the challenge here: 
This one is a little easier to see. This is for Week 2. The challenge is here: 
