As you may have guessed from the title, I am still sick. I went to the specialist yesterday, and I was sent in for an emergency CT Scan. I needed to have IV contrast done before the scan. Now I have had about a million blood draws and IVs in my life, I have only had to be double stuck once. They tried FOURTEEN times. After about the fifth time, I started crying, and they just kept trying. They never got it, either. They still did the scan, and I am now waiting for results. I am just trying to stay positive and not freak out. I am resting today hoping that that helps my body heal from whatever I have.

Thank you so much for your well wishes, guys! It means so much. I am still in pain today :(. Grr. I have an appointment with a specialist set up tomorrow (technically today). Let’s hope they can figure something out. I did find a position to sit in on the couch that made things less painful, and I was able to get some work done. Woo! Unfortunately, my craft room, my happy place, has been neglected. Oh, how I miss it! Good thing is that I have lots of photos of cards I have done to share! 🙂

I love red and green together. You can run the risk of looking a little too “holiday” sometimes, but I don’t care because it is so fun! 🙂
These cherries are from my cute stamps, and they are seriously cute! 🙂 I colored them in with copics and outlined them with the lightest grey copic for some definition.
Look at me using patterned paper again! I also did some faux stitching with a white gel pen. A girl’s gotta faux when she doesn’t know how to sew!  

(Oh, but how I wish I had a sewing machine and someone to teach me how to use it so I could do some real stitching!)
I had to use my scallop punch again. Scallops are so pretty! 

Well, I had a heck of a day yesterday. I ended up in the ER with abdominal pain. They did a million tests and everything is okay, which is good, but I still don’t feel very well. I am so frustrated this happened on my second week of my new job. Ugh!

I am in love with this butterfly stamp from Basic Grey. Isn’t it gorgeous?!
I used green stickles for the butterfly’s trail, and the happy birthday is from a PTI set.
I colored in the butterfly with copics, cut him out, and then smeared liquid pearls all over the cut out. It makes the butterfly look pearlescent. It is the coolest technique that I saw on Jennifer McGuire’s blog. 
I made the woodgrain “frame” by cutting a piece of computer paper to the size I wanted, putting removable adhesive on it, and adhering it to the middle of the card. Then I stamped my CHF woodgrain backgrounder, lifted off the computer paper, and voila, a woodgrain frame! I saw that technique on Kristina Werner’s blog.