Charlie's giving away Hanglar & Stanglar!

Check out Charlies blog here:

Love her creativity and look at the images she's giving away! Just adorable!!

More Blog Candy From Deb!!

Deb is giving out blog candy too.. check her out! She's got some great stuff on her site :-)

Michelle's Blog Candy!

Michelle is giving away some great blog candy!

Check it out!!

Long Weekend, Scrapbooking and I Won Candy! Yippee!

Well, for all of us here in the USA, it's our long 3 day Memorial Day Weekend which officially starts off the summer. Take a moment to honor and remember all the Service men and women who serve, have served and died for our country. My husband and my brother both served our country as well as my two of my uncles and one cousin. My daughter's boyfriend is in the Marines and we have several very close friends who are serving. Hi to Patrick in Iraq, CJ in China, Darrius in Japan and Kevin in California! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! Thanks for all you do!

I don't have any new projects to share with you tonight, but I have been scrapbooking all evening! I've got to finish my daughter's scrapbook....two weeks to graduation. I'm feeling the pressure of getting it done. I'll post some photos tomorrow :-)

I'm so excited!! I won a new stamp set from My Favorite Things! I love the stamp set I just purchased last weekend and can't wait to play with the cupcake stamps I won!!

My parents are celebrating their 44th Wedding Anniversary on Monday and I plan to make them a card. I will get that posted when I finish the card.

I'll be posting some exciting blog candy next week...so stay tuned!

Good Friends.. Good Times...

I made a few cards on Saturday evening. Had 3 of my stamping gals over and we all made cards.
I purchased this stampset on Saturday from My Favorite Things. I LOVE It!!!

I made the card on SU Bravo Burgandy Cardstocl.
The DP is from Basic Grey- Sultry line.
I paper pieced the ladies dresses from DP also from Basic Grey.

The Sentiment is stamped on a clear transparency and then adhered to the card with the brads.

I used dimensionals to place the awning on top of the Cafe window to give it a 3-D affect.

Really like how this card turned out.

Thanks for looking!

Blog Candy!!

I have got something really fun to tell you about!

I am one of the Stampin Gals... and we've got a great Blog Candy Giveaway going on.

We're giving away three great prizes... shown below:

• Winter theme (DP, stamps from Sweet n' Sassy and Michael's, ribbon, chipboard, etc.)
• Thanks/thinking of you theme (DP, stamps from SU! and Michael's, ribbon, chipboard, alterable tin, etc.)
• Birthday/cupcake theme (DP, stamps from Queen Kat and Michael's, chipboard, stickers, etc.)

Your going to embark on a scavenger hunt on several different blogs to find a specific word that will be used to complete a phrase. There are 8 stops you'll need to make!

RULES: You have to collect one word from each of the Stampin gals blogs and enter into the comment in Stamping Links To Love blog candy post.

If you came here by chance and no clue what is going on, start here:
If you came here from Suzanne's Blog get your "LOVE" and go Here to finish out your phrase.

Good luck!

Happy Mother's Day!!

Just a short post to wish all you Moms a Happy Mother's Day!

This is a photo taken last night at my daughter's Navy Ball.

Have a wonderful day everyone!!

My Try at Faux Stitching...

I made this card tonight and tried the Faux Stitching technique. I think it turned out pretty good for my first try!
I LOVE this image.. I got it from Kelly from our Swap Images and it's a High Hopes Image.

The Faux Stitching was done with my paper piecer and a white Signo Gel Pen. Very easy!

I used SU Cardstock and DP and colored the image with my Prismacolor Pencils.

Thanks for looking!

Have you seen this???

There's a great new site called Sheetload of Cards... it's a monthly online magazine or e-zine as they properly are called.

There are so many cool features. Bellas are the feature this month and you know how much I love my Bellas!

Check it out!

I've been Tagged!

Allison from Stampin When I can tagged me with this Circle of Friends award. OMG isn't this just hillarious? Look at the hips on these ladies! LOL

Anywho.. I have to tag a few others to play along.. so I'm choosing:

Robyn

Kelly

Charlene

Pam

A Little Sneak Peek.....

This is for my SBS-15 Sistah's!! I colored two of the swap images today and made two cards... I love how they turned out!
Girls.. The images that everyone sent are wonderful...and we're going to have so much fun with them.

Today, was National Scrapbooking Day and I'm sad to say I didn't make a scrapbook page. I was too busy getting all the swap images sorted and ready for the post on Monday. Of course after sorting through them I was in the mood to make cards!

Top Card:
Cardstock: SU Choc Chip, Pretty In Pink, Purely Pomegranate and DP from My Minds Eye.
Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Ranger Distress Ink, Prismacolor Pencils and OMS. Prima Flower and Brad.

Bottom Card:
Cardstock: SU Only Orange, DP-Basic Grey- Color Me Silly
Ranger Distress Ink, Eyelets from Joann's; Prismacolor Pencils and OMS. Ticket Punch from SU.

I made 3 additional cards today and I'm sure I'll be sharing more tomorrow. I hope to get some more Mother's Day Cards finished tomorrow as well. Hope everyone had a wonderful day!

Thanks for stopping by!

Totally Cased Card.. But I LOVE It!!!

A couple of weeks ago, Lauren posted this totally awesome card she created for her Mom for mother's day. I used her idea to create a card for my mom and I really love how it turned out.

Lauren, thanks for inspiring me! I know my Mom will LOVE this card. I did use some different Bella's from the ones in Lauren's card as I didn't have all of the same ones she used. I actually used lot's of Shelley's Bellas to make this card since I only own about 6 Bellas right now.

I started making this card the weekend of the 20th. I colored each circle with Prismacolor Pencils and used OMS to blend. Stickles found a place on each circle somehow to pop out some colors! LOL

My First Magnolia....

I've been dying to get my hands on a Magnolia and a wonderful fellow SCS'er swapped images with me recently! I just got these beauties last week and finally colored one and made a card tonight.

The card is very simple as I didn't have a lot of time to spend on card making tonight. My DH is home on vacation this week and I'm having to devote more time to him.. LOL.

He works nights, so my quiet time for crafting is usually when he leaves for work. Well this week... he's not working so I don't know how much I'll get to do.

My SBS-15 group is doing our first swap and I am hosting it. I am loving the images that have come in and I think everyone will be happy with the wide variety of different images we'll have to play with. Theresa, your's arrived today! They are wonderful!

Thanks for stopping by~

SBS-15 Sistahs! Image Swap Update

I have received swap images from the following people:

Naida
Lainy
Lisa Brown
Kelly
Joana
Yesenia
Robyn
Pam
Sammi
Jessica

I'm still waiting on packages from:

Teresa
Roz
Lois

Please let me know if you have already mailed your images to me so I
can be on the look out! If you haven't mailed them yet, please mail
them as soon as possible. Thanks!!

I'm In Love.......

with my new purchases this weekend! I went with my friends Amanda and Lynn to the craft show on Saturday. I bought some embossing tools and powders, eyelets and two picture frames at the craft show.

Then we headed over to Lakeland to check out a Stamp and Scrapbook Store that we'd never been to. I found some cute stamps there and bought a set of Circle Nesties! The DP is from BoBunny and its beautiful!

Next was a trip to Michaels to buy my box of 120 PrismaColor Pencils! I used the 50% off coupon.. Yippee!! I already sharpened them all, have a callus/blister on my thumb now from doing so, and colored the above images today to make the card shown above.

I cased this card from an example at the store I bought them from. I really like how it turned out!

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Thanks for looking!

Proud Mom!!!

Nothing crafty to post tonight.. Sorry!

Tonight my daughter was inducted into the National Technical Honor Society! She has worked so hard to accomplish this goal. At the beginning of the school year she said " Mom, I want to graduate with Honors and I'm going to work my tail of to do it" Today she found out she made the NTHS. She gave me two hours notice today at work to get to her ceremony! I made it in time and was so proud of her!

Way to Go Kristina!!

In other news, I received two swap packages from my SBS-15 sistahs today. Pam and Jessica, your packages arrived!

I also received an awesome package full of Magnolia stamped images from Amy!! She was kind enough to answer a post I made on SCS asking to swap images with someone. I will take a photo of the images tomorrow and share them.. I can't wait to color them and play!!

Tomorrow night, I'm going to make some cards and maybe even scrapbook. I'll have some pictures to post this weekend!

TTFN!!

Stampin' Up... Great News

Effective today, I can accept credit cards as payments for your orders! I know that's good news to quite a few of my customers.

If you'd like to place an order, please let me know. I can have the order shipped directly to you!

PIF and I've been tagged!

One of the bloggers that I follow daily is Charlene McKenzie and she was giving away a PIF and I was one of the winners of her PIF contest. Charlene has some beautiful cards, scrapbook pages and other crafts on her blog. I love her style! Go visit her and see what you think! Leave her a comment if you stop by!


I'm so excited..I love blog candy! :-) So, stay tuned for another round of PIF ( Pay It Forward) to show up here on my blog in the next few days...

Charlene also tagged me... so I have to re-post this and pick 7 new people to tag!

7 Things Game


The Rules for 7 Things:

1. Link your tagger and list these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

These are my 7 things.....

1. I love ladybugs
2. When I was three years old I stuck black eyed peas up my nose and had to go to the ER to have them removed.
3. My favorite color is blue
4. I was born in Florida and have lived here all my life. (unusual..most people move here!)
5. My pet peeve is people that don't look at you when they are talking to you or you are talking to them.
6. I LOVE Thunderstorms and rain.
7. I am diabetic.

I am going to tag....

Robyn

Kelly

Roz

Allison

Theresa

Claudia

Christy


Here's a couple more of the layouts I made over the weekend...

Some Layouts from This Weekend

I still have the journalling to do on these layouts. I am going to do them on the computer and then add them to the pages. My favorite is the top layout. :)

You Have Got To See This!!!

I am totally in love with Bella Stamps. I am an avid reader of Lauren's blog and today she posted the MOST AMAZING Bella card I've EVER seen! Please take the time to read the post along with viewing the card!

Isn't that the best card?? Tell me what you think!