Thursday, April 5, 2012

Canvas and Watch Gears

Happy Thursday!  Very much looking forward to this long weekend celebrating Easter!  It's still absolutely beautiful outside and Carter and Ariel are playing together quite happily outside in the sunshine!

It's been a great day today as one of my cards won Fab 5 at the Hero Arts blog for March's contest!  Whooo hooo I love Hero Arts and it really made my day!  :>

I wanted to stop by and share a masculine card using my favorite masculine stamp Watch Gears.  Since I'm using my favorite masculine stamp I am entering this card into A Blog Named Hero's challenge of playing favorites!

I am also entering this card into the Simon Says Stamp challenge of Use your favorite tool!  I did my heat gun of course!

I recently discovered Claudine Hellmuth's sticky back canvas, well I should say rediscovered as I did take a class with her at Scrapfest that used the canvas!  :>  It's soo easy to stamp on.  Heat embossing on it is a breeze and works just as well as paper!  Distressed it with ink too and the edges!

Today has been a nice relaxing day.  Yesterday late afternoon the spring cleaning bug hit me and I went crazy cleaning up the house until I dropped.  Finished up this morning.  Carter and I enjoyed playing outside.  I can see he is so much happier since it's nice out.  He goes around and joins which ever kid is outside and plays with them!  I think since he is young he doesn't get that he isn't always wanted!  LOL Yesterday he played baseball with the neighbor kids and I heard the mom say "Okay it's Carter's turn to bat everyone go back!"  And sure enough he can hit it far!  He really excels at sports!  

I have a sweet photo from the other day when Carter wasn't feeling well.  Ariel was sitting on the couch near  Chad and Carter went to cuddle her:

They love each other so much!  :>  Well I am off to get dinner on the go!  Tonight I am shopping for last minute Easter stuff and hitting my scrapbook store too!  :>

16 comments:

~amy~ said...

Such a fab masculine card...love the pic of the kids...soooo SWEET.

Virginia L. said...

This masculine card is cool! I JUST got some CH Canvas Sticky Back (AFTER doing errands!) today! It's half off at Michael's! You just gave me the idea---thanks!!! The photo is adorable....you should start scrapbooking--just saying! And poor Carter with his VERY pink and puffy eyes!!

Brenda said...

Congrats on your HA win! Love your masculine card, so gorgeous on the canvas! That photo you shared is so precious Anita!

Greta said...

That picture is a treasure! Congrats on another HA win--so many new things to choose for your prize--have fun! Love the stamping on canvas--may have to get some. Wishing you a blessed Easter.

Christiana said...

What a great masculine card. Your kids are the sweetest!

Christiana said...

What a great masculine card. Your kids are the sweetest!

Lynn said...

I adore your card...and the pictures of your little ones make my heart melt.

jennfontaine said...

Such a sweet picture of the snuggling kids- I love those moments of such tenderness!

I love the card! The canvas looks so crisp! The edges are done perfectly too. That stamp set is so great for guys! Great job!!

Anonymous said...

This is such a great card Anita! Perfect for a guy! Also congratulations on your Fab Five win! Your card was gorgeous!

CanadianScraps43 said...

Love this Anita! Such a beautiful card. Love the pick of the sweeties. So nice for you to have kids who love each ohter this much. Happy Easter to you & your family sweetie.

Robin K. said...

Congratulations on your recent HA win Anita!! You really rocked last month's challenge - loved all your cards :) Your masculine card is awesome! I have some of that sticky backed canvas and have never used it - thanks for the inspiration! Love seeing pics of the kids :) Hope you and your family have a blessed Easter! Hugs, Robin :)

Mary Dawn said...

i love this, anita! stamping on canvas just makes me happy. thanks for playing along with our first challenge!

also, who is that giant girl hugging carter, she's practically a teenager! when did that happen? she is going to be a heartbreaker for sure <3

Chari Moss said...

Wow stamping on canvas! Awesome!

Joy said...

Gorgeous masculine card Anita, I love that you stamped and heat embossed onto the canvas... thanks for joining us at Simon Says Challenge blog

Melissa Bove said...

Gorgeous card! Love that image!! And what a sweet photo!! Beautiful children! I hope Carter is feeling better!!

Thank you very much for joining us this week at the Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog!

Hugs...
Melissa

Kristen said...

so hard to do a masculine card - but...you make it look easy and fab!

xo, Kristina
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