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Sunday, April 8, 2012

The Outlawz CAS challenge: Shape-Up

I've been asked to be a guest designer for another month at The Outlawz CAS challenges. This week's challenge is:

Did any of you, like me make a new years resolution to get into shape? 
Now's the time. 
This week's challenge is to use shapes ie" shaped card, sponging shape negative, use dies, punches or trace around household items.

I decided to make a couple of onesie cards for the challenge:

A girl onesie using Rustic Cream cardstock and PTI's Beautiful Butterflies stamp set. Sentiment is from Hanging Out.


And here's a boy onesie. I got the idea from an Etsy seller here. So if you'd like to buy a real heartthrob onesie please check her out! The heart and 'throb' were done on my computer and the 'pulse' beneath it is from Grunge Me.

Im entering these cards into the following challenges:
Simon Says Stamp! challenge - Use your favorite tool! Of course my Cuttlebug is my favorite tool! Use it all.the.time!

Yesterday the in-fighting got so bad at my house that I decided to take the kids 'holoholo' (to go out). We ended up going to Kawainui Marsh in Kailua and to Punchbowl's National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. Before heading out we went to our friends house to borrow a fishing pole because I refused to buy one for Jacob since we've never fished before. An hour or so later, we were on our way!

Jacob helping Teia with the fishing pole

We didn't get very far into Kawainui Marsh because the kids wanted to start fishing at the first pond we came to. Unfortunately there are a LOT of ducks there and they kept stealing the bait right off the hook.

Teia feeding the ducks. She got scared when they all started swarming her

It was our fault though since we started off by feeding them some bread first. Note to self, fish first THEN feed the ducks. They kept following us around expecting a handout. Jacob did manage to catch a couple of fish. They were very small so I told him to throw it back into the water.



My camera battery died when I got to Punchbowl so I didn't get any pictures but Jacob did take a couple with his iTouch. That was my first visit there and I found it a very peaceful, serene area.

Hope you're enjoying your Easter day with your family and thanks for stopping by!

19 comments:

  1. Aww!! These are so cute! A wonderful idea and so adorable!
    Glad you were able to take the kids out for an excursion. Never been to Kawainui Marsh, but I have been to Punchbowl and yes it's really beautiful and serene there. I could stay there for hours and not get tired of it. TFS the lovely pictures!
    Happy Easter!!
    ;)

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  2. Gorgeous onesies Nadine - especially the heart throb one - great idea!!

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  3. Gorgeous cards Nadine :-) the shape is lovely and the designs on both are lovely :-)

    Beautiful photo's too :-) what a lovely day out :-)

    thanks for joining us on the Simon Says Stamp Challenge :-)
    luv
    Lols x x x

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  4. Nadine, both these onesies are so cute. Thanks for the inspiration. Sounds like you had quite an adventure yesterday. Thanks for sharing.

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  5. Cute onesies and look like the kiddies had fun fishing even if the ducks were pestering them...

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  6. Love both of those onesies! How cute! Your outing looks like fun as well!

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  7. Cute onesie cards...great idea. Oh and those pesky ducks, sure had a LOT of 'em following your children around. Glad they had fun.

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  8. The onesies are perfect! I love the heartthrob one - very cool. and I totally get what you mean about the infighting between the kids. Some days I really want to just bang some heads together to get them to stop (I don't, of course.) I usually have a few tricks up my sleeve to contain it.

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  9. Oh My! Love both of them, Nadine. The colours of the butterflies are so beautiful and the design on the boy onesie is just perfect. Great work :)

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  10. These are so cute! Thanks for the inspiration.

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  11. These are some of the cutest onesies I have every seen. the butterfly one is so sophisticated. That heartthrob one is awesome.

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  12. Adorable cards!! Love the fun onesie shape. Thanks so much for playing along with The Pink Elephant!!

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  13. Awesome onesie cards Nadine. The butterflies are perfectly placed and stamped. Love the pics of the kids. Jacob is getting so big. Wish I could holoholo with you:)

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  14. Love your "onesies" shaped cards! Both are pretty in their own way, but that Heart Throb is darn cute!

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  15. Now these are my kind of Onesies! Both are too cute! Such a delightful use of the butterflies and the Heart Throb is beyond fantastic!

    Thanks too for sharing such a lovely insight into your family life. What a pleasure to read. :-)

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  16. These are so sweet, Nadine! Just beautiful. I love love love the butterfly one especially.

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  17. Nadine your onesie's are super cute, gorgeous photos too :)
    Thanks for joining us at Simon Says Stamp
    hugs Mandy xx

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  18. Loving these onesies! So fun! The girl one is just adorable

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  19. Love your work....where did you find the template or die for the onesie?

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