Card- Hello

Hey everyone! How has your day been? I haven't been feeling to good today, maybe I'm just tired! Anyway, enough whining! :) I did make a card today, but I didn't feel up to taking the pictures of it. So I am sharing a card that I made a couple of days ago. The paper was already adhered to the card and just sitting on my desk, wanting to be finished. So I just sewed around it, cut out some of the flowers and popped them up with pop dots and added a sentiment. Really easy, but I like how it turned out! So here it is!

Supplies:

Paper- My Mind's Eye, white cs

Stamp- Studio G - Hello

Ink- ColorBox Chalk Ink- Chestnut roan

Accessories- White thread from sewing machine, button- Paper Studio- Bag -O- Buttons, white crocheting thread

Have a Blessed Night!

Use It Challenge #17 & A Happy Momma

Hey everyone! How was your Wednesday? Mine was OK, I went to the Dr. today. The Dr. said I was dehydrated and needed to drink more fluids. It has been in the 100's around here, so I wouldn't that a lot of people are. I also have to go get a sleep study test done on Sunday, to test for Sleep Apnea. So to get my mind off of all that, I made a card for the Use It! Challenge. I found this challenge from Tiffany's blog, and it looked fun, so I thought I would play! I made this card for my niece Caitlin, her birthday is next month, she will be 10.

The challenge is to get you to use some of your stash. The rules for this week is to:

1) Use your newest papers.

2) There has to be a name on the card.

3) Use at least one button.

4) Use a sewing machine if you have one, or sew by hand.

They will pick a random winner, and the winner can pick the next weeks rules, pretty cool huh?! So go by and check it out!

I also wanted to share something that makes me so happy, beyond words!

As some of you may know, my husband is pastor, and at Church we have a worship band. My husband plays guitar and sings, I sing, we have a drummer, piano player, a bass guitar player, and another lady sings too. We have band practice before Wednesday night Church service. My daughter (11 years old) got a mic, and started singing with us tonight, she looked so comfortable. Then I look over and see my son (8 years old) play a DJembe (a drum that came from Jerusalem). It was just amazing to see them singing & playing music to the Lord! Thank You Lord! :)

Here's the card!

Supplies:

Paper- ColorBok, white cs

Stamp- Autumn Leaves- hand written alphabet, alphabet stamp from $ spot at Target

Ink- SU!- Close to Cocoa & Pink Passion

Accessories- Green ribbon- RibbonFX, white thread- sewing machine, buttons- Paper Studio- Bag-O-Buttons, white crochet thread

Cards- Miss You & Sending You Thoughts & Prayers

Hello everyone! Sorry it's been a couple of days since my last post! I have been busy and spending time with the kids. They helped me clean my car today, which was a BIG help, I'm ashamed to say I haven't cleaned the inside in about 1 yr. ( I have gotten out trash and such, but I haven't vacuumed it in that long) and my husband and kids washed the outside, about 10 months ago. Isn't that terrible! It was HOT outside and the car was dirty, so we just decided to go swimming in the pool afterward, that was GREAT!! :) I did get to make some cards last night, and after the swim today, I took pictures of them! I wanted to share a couple of them! I found something out about myself last night, I drive a sewing machine, like I drive my car, TOO FAST!! :) I did a lot of stitching on these cards, and I wasn't very careful, so I need to work on that! I used the some of the paper that I got in that kit a couple weeks ago from ColorBok, I really like them, and I used some of my scraps that I had on my table! I got the inspiration for the first two cards from here and here. So here they are!

Supplies:

Miss You Cards-

Paper- ColorBok patterned paper, white cs

Stamp- PTI- mega mixed messages

Ink- ColorBox Chalk- charcoal

Accessories- Crochet thread, Paper Studio- Bag-O-Buttons, green ribbon- RibbonX, white thread- sewing machine, small square punch

Sending you Thoughts and Prayers Card-

Paper- ColorBok paper, white & gray cs

Stamps- Studio G- owl & sentiment, All Night Media- wood grain

Ink- ColorBox Chalk Ink- charcoal

Accessories- white satin ribbon, white thread- sewing machine, small circle punch, large circle cut from my Cricut

Have a Blessed day!

July 4th - Color Chef Challenge #12

Happy July 4th! We don't have alot of plans today, we went to a birthday party this morning where the kids rode jet ski's and went tubing. Now were home and my husband had to go to work for a while, and I think we might go out to eat this evening at an AMAZING restaurant. I know usually everyone eats Bar-B-Que, but we ate that last weekend, and I don't feel like cooking today! :) Then tonight we will go watch fireworks, we have not had rain in over a month, so we are under a burn ban, so we won't be popping fireworks ourselves! Anyway I needed to make a card for the birthday party this morning, and since the party was on July 4th, I had to use red, white , & blue! I also wanted to make a card for a lady from our church, her late husband was in the military and received a Purple Heart, so she is the most patriotic person I know! I also found these cute little candy firecrackers from this blog. The small one is mints and the big one is sweet tarts. So I decided to make one for each of the cards I made! I made these cards using the Color Chef Challenge, it was to use the red, white, and blue for the 4th of July! I know on one of the cards I used kraft, (sorry about that)! I also got to use my digistamps from Digiments, that I won, Yeah! And I used the Sporty Billy stamp again from Pink Cat Studio. Ok so here are the are.

Supplies:

Paper- white, red, blue, white, kraft cs, graph paper from WalMart

Stamp- Pink Cat Studio- Sporty Billy

Ink- StazOn- jet black

Accessories: Sentiments from Digistamps, ribbon from stash, star punch, hemp twine, candy, color pencils, circle punch

Have a safe & Blessed weekend!

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #11

Hey, I'm back again! It's time for another color challenge from Dawn. My daughter loves to draw and sketch dress designs, so I wanted to make her a little design sketch book. Kristina made a book a couple of days ago, and she left a link for the pages inside. I also liked the dress on this card, so I tried to create a dress to go on the book, since it is for dress designs! :) I plan on making me one of these books too for cards and layouts. It was a little hard for me to use red in this challenge, but I guess it worked out! I also had a fight with the stapler, I think it won! :) I wanted it to have clean edges, but while I was stapling the book together, the staple messed up and tore the paper. So I just distressed all the edges and added some stitching, and I think it kind of reminds me of frayed edges and stitching that fabric would have! I really need the stapler that swivels around! Anyway, here is the book!

Here is the inside.

Supplies:

Paper- ColorBok cs

Stamp- Autumn Leaves- Hand drawn alphabet, Studio G- high heels

Ink-StazOn-jet black

Accessories- hand drawn dress, flower punch, black satin ribbon, green grosgrain, pink with black polka dots grosgrain ribbon, black marker for lines and dots, Heidi Swapp distressor, Fiskars scallop template, inside pages- KWerner Design, staples

Have a Blessed day!

Traveler's Inspiration Challenge #1

Hey everyone! I am so excited about this new challenge over at travelingmama's. I am trying to get my post in quick, so I'll try to hurry! This picture is adorable of all the shoes! I started looking through all of my pictures, and I found this Ballerina shoe card I made a couple of years ago, for my daughter. It is a Dance recital invitation, I made them for family and friends. I loved it then and I love it now. My daughter loves shoes, (she gets it honestly) :), so she really loved this card too! This card just reminds me of how much I loved to see my daughter dance, she was in tap, ballet, and jazz for 4 yrs. From 3 yrs. old until she was 7 yrs. old. She doesn't take dance anymore, but she still loves to dance. We love to watch "So You Think You Can Dance" every
week together and she dances around and preforms for me! She even puts on costumes! I wish there was better dance studios around where we live, so she could get back in it! So I thought this was the card I would use for the challenge! I know there is a shadow in the pictures, but I really liked it because it reminds me of a Ballerina bar! :) So here it is!
Supplies:
Pink & white cs
Pink satin ribbon

Have a Blessed day!

Baseball Game

Hey! I'm still here! We have been super busy with our A/C business, I have been answering tons of phone calls, so I can't get away for long, so I decided to file all those papers that I'm behind on! Not fun, but boy did I get a lot done! I did get to make some cards today though, but it got late and I didn't feel like taking the pictures of them. So I decided to share some pictures of the baseball game from last Friday night instead! We had such a good time, and our team won 5-4! Yeah! I took these with my new camera, I still have so much to learn, and I haven't even opened the owners manual, (I guess I should do that)! :) The lighting was a little weird at times, it is a covered stadium, but one side is all windows, so when the sun went down it was a little orange looking. Anyway, here are some of my favorites. Don't we look like some serious fans, with all of our Astros shirts and hats?! :) (Some old man, that worked at the stadium, took this picture. He didn't know what he was doing and I was scared to death he was going to drop my new camera! :) He didn't, and the picture came out pretty good!) This was so sweet, someone proposed! (She said Yes!) :)

I'll be back tomorrow with some cards! Have a Blessed night!