A Simple Layout

Hey! Happy Friday! It will be a busy weekend for us. We have the "Super Bowl" for the Pee Wee football league at our school, so that means 6 play-off games tomorrow at our field and hours of working in the concession stand! Chance will be announcing 3 of the games. Our team did get beat a couple of weeks ago in our first play-off game. The other team did have some cheating going on and the refs had some bad calls and the score board wasn't working, which meant the clock didn't work! So they had to keep asking the press box what the time was! Very aggravating, and I'm not just complaining because I'm a sore loser...really I'm not! If the team was better, than I can admit that...but they weren't! Our boys were Devastated! :(
Our older team from our town is in the Supper Bowl, and I really think they will win! :)

Ok, I wanted to share a layout that I made over the Summer. I know...I am waaayyy behind on posting my projects! I really am trying to get caught up! :)
I have had this pic printed out for awhile, I usually would have wanted it in black and white, because of all the colors. But it was printed, so I just went with it! I really like the collage of flowers and the butterfly.


Well that's it for today.

I hope ya'll have a Blessed weekend!

Wishing You A Speedy Recovery & Thank You Veterans

Hey everybody! I have been trying to get back into posting on my blog. I have so many projects and sometimes it just seems like to much work to even get started on editing pics! But I edited a ton of pics this weekend, so that helps alot!

So today's card is a card I made for my sweet friend Kelley! I tried to make a card that she would like, so I made it on kraft and used a single black pearl! And that is what she told me she noticed first! I love when that happens! :)

I also want to Thank all the Veterans that have served, are serving, and will serve one day! At my son's school they are having a book fair this week, and the theme of the book fair is "Hero's"! They had to do a project, where they had to write about their Hero and draw a picture of them. Chace wrote about his Grandpa David (Chance's Dad) and how he fought in the Vietnam War. He told his Daddy he would have wrote about him, but he wanted to write about how his Grandpa fought in the war! How sweet is that?!

Me and the kids never got to meet David, he died from cancer when Chance was 13 years old. But I know that we would have LOVED him and he would have LOVED us! He truly loved Chance and I know now that Chance shows his kids love the way his Dad showed him love! I wanted to share a pic of his dad when he was in his late 20's. He looks SO much like Chance! :)
I hope you all have a Blessed day!

A Note of Thanks Card

Hey everybody! I wanted to share a card today! It's for all of you who have been praying for me! I really Thank Ya'll SO much! Prayer is VERY important in my life and I take it very seriously. Please let me know if I can ever repay you, by praying for you too!
My little man "Chace" is home sick with strep throat! :(
But praise God there hasn't been any fever! Remember last year when he had it and had 105.3 fever! That was SCARY!! But it is very contagious, so he has to stay home from school until tomorrow. I don't like for them to be sick, but I do enjoy them being home with me! :)
The card looks better in person. It's a little hard to get a good pic with this Smokey Shadow cardstock for PTI.



Well that's it for today! I'm going to hang out with my little man! :)

Have a Blessed day!

Tags

Hey! Well today I wanted to share the gift tags I made for my niece's Birthday (in August). They matched their cards that I made them here. They had a swimming Birthday party, so these went perfect with the theme. I LOVE how they turned out! :) These are some of my favorite Lawn Fawn stamps.
I went to the throat Dr. again yesterday to go over the CAT scan results. He said the CAT scan looked normal, no stones in the saliva glands. He was still unsure as to what is going on. He said sometimes your tonsils can have some issues going on and cause the glands to swell. He suggested maybe taking the tonsils out if it continues. I suggested maybe trying another round of antibiotics to see if that helps, so that is what he did.
It is still frustrating, but I am still trying to Thank the Lord for the good results that I have gotten! It could be ALOT worse! I will continue to pray for the healing and ask if you would Please do the same. I have to remember that healing is in His time...not my own!

Have a Blessed day!

Handmade Gifts

Hey everybody! I have been going through all of my pics and getting them edited so I can post them. I have SO many cards and gifts that I have never posted and I really want to post them. So here is a set of gifts that I made for my twin nieces and then I figured that I could make their sister (my other niece) a set too. Their school mascot is the Bull Dogs! But I did give the twins money too, so they felt like they got more than their sister! :) This is the first time I have ever made bows like this. I looked it up on YouTube and figured it out how to do it! They were really easy, I will be making more of those!
Here are both of them together. I also bought black shorts to go with all of them and they looked SO cute when they tried it all on.
My niece Gracie is cheering for the Pee Wee football team this year, so she needed a shirt and bow like this for spirit day at school! :)
I made a tag to match for Gracie's. (The twins tags matched their cards and bags. I will post those next time.) I made some little pom poms for the tag.
And the tag on the bag.
I used a PTI (Ploka Dot Basics II) stamp for the dots and Lawn Fawn's (Harold's ABCs) for the name.
We have had a pretty relaxing weekend! I LOVE when we have those! :)

Have a Blessed day!

Caring Hearts Card Drive

Hey everybody! I am finally getting my old programs downloaded on my new laptop, so it is starting to feel more normal for me. So I was finally able to post my pics of the cards I made for Vera's Caring Hearts Card Drive! She is collecting cards for the elderly in nursing home for the holidays. I really do enjoy making cards for card drives and I really want to make it a point to do it more! Thanks for the card drive Vera! I ended up making 16 cards for this drive, but I am going to just show a few of them. I LOVE the new Practicing Creativity stamps!

I love adding glossy accents too! Love the new PTI stamps too! And who doesn't love this turkey?!These lights are so fun and glossy accents make them even better! :)

There is still time to send some cards in for the card drive. I hope you will join us in making some elderly people VERY happy this season! :)

I wanted to give an update on my step brother. He was released from the hospital on Thursday and was moved to a Rehabilitation center for 5 to 7 days to work on his walking. He is doing REALLY well! Thank ya'll for all the prayers!

I did go in for my CT scan on Thursday and I have an appointment with the throat specialist on Monday to go over all the results. Praying that they figure out the real issues and that there is a quick fix for it too!

Have a Blessed night!

Card Drive for Logan & Bekah

Hey everybody! I have been crafting the last couple of days! I have been doing some card drive cards, and I really LOVE doing that! I need to do more of them! I haven't been submitting lately. I just really needed a little break from all the deadlines and I guess the Lord knew I would be dealing with all of the health issues too, so I guess it worked out! I have had more time with my kids and husband...which I LOVE!

I saw on Giovana's blog that she was doing a card drive for two sweet little kids who are dealing with health issues and I really wanted to help out! When I had the card drive in February and SO many people helped out, I really wanted to pay it forward and give back! So I made a card for little Logan. Here is his card. Supplies: Cardstock- (Pure Poppy, White, Aqua Mist) PTI; Stamps- (The Whole Cycle) Practicing Creativity, (Sentiments) Stampabilites; Ink- (Tuxedo Black) Memento; Other: Copic's

And one for Bekah, here is hers.Supplies: Cardstock- (Pure Poppy, White, Aqua Mist) PTI; Stamps- (The Whole Cycle) Practicing Creativity), (Up, Up, & Away Sentiments) PTI; Ink: (Tuxedo Black) Memento; Other: Copic's, (Printed tape) ColorBok

I really hope they like them! I had fun making them! I hope you all will help bring a smile to their face! :)

I can't believe it is already November! October has been crazy for me with all the throat issues and my step-brother being in the accident! I do have some updates for you!
Last night I got a surprise call from my step-brother! He said they took the trac out and he wanted to Thank me for all the prayers! It was so good to hear from him! Thank ya'll for all the prayers! We are truly seeing God's hand in this! :)
And for an update for me: Well the Dr.'s and I are still unsure what is going on! I went to my thyroid Dr. and he said that the nodule was 7.5mm 2 years ago and it is now 3mm. So that means it has shrunk! Praise God for that! He also said that he doesn't believe this has anything to do with the thyroid! All the blood work came back normal! Praise God for that too! But I am still left not knowing anything! He suggested go back to the throat specialist, so i went back there last Thursday. He did a scope to look at my throat and he didn't see anything wrong there. He seems to think it is a stone in my salava gland. They can cause pain and swelling, (Praise God I haven't had pain!) So he wants to do a CAT scan on that area and see if there are stones in there and see what is going on! I know the Lord is going to take care of me, I am just SO ready to get back to normal! Not knowing is very frustrating! Thank ya'll for all the prayers through all of this!

Have a Blessed day!

~Winter