{Aug SFYTT} Baking Agnes

Eek! Last semi-week before school starts! The kids go back on Thursday and my middle monkey will be starting kindergarten:( I am not looking forward to not seeing the boys for huge chunks of time....yes, the time I will have to spend with the baby 1:1 will be awesome, but I seriously miss the boys when they are in school. No, I don't overly miss them when I am on a beach in Mexico, sipping tropical drinks and soaking up the rays...but everyday life without them with me makes me sad. I am sappy I guess! I feel that they are only little for such a short time that I want to drag it out as much as I can!
On another note, my husband told me my blog is not as good as it used to be. I says huh?? Apparantly I was funny and now I'm not. Well, he was once young and good looking...and, well....
He likes reading about my little daily hang-ups and catastrophes...I am starting to wonder if maybe he's a closet sadist. I have nothing horrifying to report today, but cross your fingers honey, and maybe something traumatizing will happen later. The day is still young and I am heading to the beach with the boys, so that in itself is an invitation for trouble.
Onto crafting. My good friend, Trista, asked me to make a few cards for her. She gave me the general theme that she wanted based on the recipients interests. The first is a birthday card for a friend, who likes cooking and baking. I had this Kraftin Kimmie image, Agnes, coloured up from when I took my copics and a bunch of stamped images on a road trip this summer with the fam. I think I coloured her pretty good considering the old man's driving. Don't you just love Agnes' 'mom bum' and sport socks? Hilarious! Kraftin Kimmie is sponsoring Jen's SFYTT this month, so I used that sketch.

I used some MME dp ( I bought two packs of this 6x6 pack and the first one is almost gone!), TCP's icing cutup and seam binding, and used Jen's trick for matting brads/rhinetsones. My orange brads were getting lost on the dp, so I punched out circles of chocolate CS and layered the brads over top. Now they really POP!

Here is a closeup of the colouring:

And the inside:

So that's it for me! Off to the beach for one last day in the sun:) I have a few cards that I'm working on, as well as a big project for TCP that I'll be blogging about real soon, so stay tuned!