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Lawnscaping Challenge #82 - Distress Mania - Welcome Baby

So I'm FINALLY entering another Lawnscaping Challenge - YAY! (For an update as to why I've not been able to craft for the past 2 months, see this post here, you won't regret it!) I know I had a goal to enter every Lawnscaping Challenge of 2014, but sometimes life (an incredible amount of schoolwork) has to take precedence. But, I made it through and am now back entering another challenge.

My almost-7-year-old niece came over this afternoon and wanted to use my stamping supplies to create a card to send to her penpal, a girl her age who she met at our wedding in July. So, I looked up what the current Lawnscaping challenge is - Distress Mania - and we got to work.

 

 

First I'll share my niece's card, which I'm not entering into the challenge, but merely just showing off for fun. I showed her some different ways of using Distress markers with a water brush. The only thing I forgot to do was use archival ink, so we had a slight smudging issue, but we were ok with that. Here's her card...she likes to do the front, middle and back, so here's views of all sides:

 

 

Pretty cute, huh? Ok, so here's my card, which I had to mostly work on after she went home, lol. I decided to make it into a baby card to welcome a former student of mine's new baby who was born this past Friday. I love how it turned out, and the new mom wore a flower clip in her hair to the hospital just like the dino here :)

 

 SUPPLIES USED:

Lawn Fawn CRITTERS FROM THE PAST Clear Stamps	Lawn Fawn CRITTERS DOWN UNDER Clear Stamps	Lawn Fawn HAROLD'S ABC'S Clear Stamps	Lawn Fawn BANNERIFIC Clear Stamps
Lawn Fawn HANDMADE WITH LOVE Clear Stamp	Lawn Fawn A GOOD APPLE Clear Stamps	Lawn Fawn SCIENCE OF LOVE Clear Stamps	Tsukineko MEMENTO Full Size Ink Pad TUXEDO BLACK
Martha Stewart SCORING BOARD Score Craft Tool	Martha Stewart Precision Scissors	Ranger Inkssentials US HEAT IT CRAFT TOOL	Zots SMALL Clear Adhesive 300 Dots
Zots 3D YELLOW BOX Clear Adhesive 200 Dots	3M Scotch PINK ATG ADVANCED TAPE GLIDER 1/4" Adhesive Glue Gun	3M Scotch ACID FREE 1/4" x 36 Yard REFILL Advance Tape Glider Rolls	Ranger Inkssentials Non Stick CRAFT SHEET Reusable
Tim Holtz BROAD WATER BRUSH Ranger Watercoloring TIP	Tim Holtz DETAILER WATER BRUSH Ranger Watercoloring TIP	Tim Holtz Distress Markers WORN LIPSTICK Ranger	Tim Holtz Distress Markers PUMICE STONE Ranger
Tim Holtz Distress Markers DUSTY CONCORD Ranger	Tim Holtz Distress Markers FIRED BRICK Ranger	Tim Holtz Distress Markers BUNDLED SAGE Ranger	Tim Holtz Distress Markers SHABBY SHUTTERS Ranger
Tim Holtz Distress Markers GATHERED TWIGS Ranger

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Catching you all up on my life!

So.... it's been a while, I know. Since I've blogged, since I've entered a challenge, and since I've even crafted! I do have a good excuse, though, and that is that I've been busy finishing up my coursework for my doctorate. The good news? The semester (from hell) is finally DONE and I'VE ADVANCED TO CANDIDACY!!! So, the doctorate isn't done yet, but the coursework for it is and I'm left with my dissertation recital to work on. YAY!!!!!

Oh yeah, and there's MORE big news....... I'm PREGNANT!!!! with baby no.1.
Bryce and I are SUPER excited about the baby! I'm finally far enough along that we could finally announce our happy news just days ago.

Here are the two baby pictures that I have so far. The first is when we had the pregnancy confirmed and our baby (which we are referring to as "BOB" (baby on board) for the time being) at which point I was only 4 weeks and 6 days along.

 

The second is from my first real pregnancy appointment at 7 weeks 5 days. We got to see BOB's heartbeat that day!

 

I had another appointment at 12 weeks exactly and, while I don't get any more pictures until the 20 week appointment, we did get to HEAR BOB's heartbeat for the first time, so that was exciting.

Something I didn't expect with being pregnant is how nervewracking it can be....constantly worrying that the baby is ok in there when you really can't feel or see much. Hopefully now that school is over I'll be able to relax a bit. Here's me at 13 weeks pregnant exactly (I am now 13 weeks 3 days.)