Remembering

Taking time to remember all of those who have fought and even paid the ultimate price for all of us. So that we may sit with our families at dinner time and talk about how our day went at work, at school or whereever the day took us. So that I can send my child to school safely and know that he will be safe there today and always.

Thank you to all, past and present! for all that you do for me and my family and all of us. Thank you so very much!

Image from: Reidblog

Keeton's Mustang tunrned Police Car

This is my 5 year old Keeton. His daddy sup'd up his red Power Wheels Mustang and turned it into this:



I just had to share this. Keeton's most prized posetion at this point. Hope you enjoyed.

1st Attempt at a Beaded Necklace

I actually made this last Halloween but wanted to share.

I just have it hanging off of a thumb tack in the side of my cd case above me at my desk. I don't know what else to do with it . . .? If I went anywhere for Halloween ever I'd wear it out. But other than trick or treating I don't go anywhere and wearing a jacket or sweatshirt would not allow me to show it off. If you have any suggestions, I'ma listenen.

Save The TaTas!

A very cute company I stumbled upon today Save The TaTas


ta-tas® Brand Clothing Celebrates Breast Cancer Awareness Month by Donating 5 Percent of All Proceeds to Support Research
- Year-Round Donation Includes All Apparel and Accessories Sold by the LA-Based Company

“Our core values are to bring joy and healing to the world, and I don’t know of a better way of doing that than by supporting the research to find a cure for breast cancer,” said ta-tas Founder and Designer, Julia Fikse. “We are proud to play a role in the awareness of this disease and the search for the cure.”

I am buying boob lube and a shirt, definitely check this store out!

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Just because . . .

I made these cards a while ago (about a month ago) They were part of a pack of 6 cards I was making for a swap I entered. However, I read the instructions of the swap incorrectly and had to drop out of the swap. So here are the two I got made anyway. I will have them in my etsy shop within the next 24 hours.




















The cardstock used is PTI
ribbon from my old stock
rub one from Hambly Screen Prints
Ebellies from my old stock - butterflies at walmart, bling came from a kit.
Stamps used are from Stampin Up

Quote Card

Ok . . . Not only is this the first time I've done a digital stamp card, but I made this card for the Unity Stamp Co. Challenge for wcmd over at scs. I like how it turned out, I was struggling a bit with it though.

Incentdly . . . I've been away while trying to get my boys on a set schedule with school and I am soooooo glad to be back.

Keeton's First Day!

This is my reason for not being able to get anything done and uploaded to my blog for the past almost two weeks now.

I have been so busy getting my baby - not anymore : ( - ready for kindergarten. Today is his first day and he's "a big boy now mommy!" "but don't be sad mommy" he says, "you can have another baby if you want" LOL

Anyway . . . I thought I would share some pictures of his first day. At first he wouldnt cooperate, he DID NOT want his picture taken for some reason. Well he was a bit cranky this morning untill he had breakfast. After he ate and it was time to go, he told me I could take his picture.






And just so were all clear . . . I am not having anymore children - hehe

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Back to School Album

hello everyone and TGIF. I have been so busy the past week or so I havent even had time to sit down and craft like I'd like to. I will more than likely be accomplishing some thing this weekend so look for some things to be posted either Sunday or Monday. Sooner if I can swing it. I thought since I didnt have anything to show you that I'd pull out something from when I first starting to scrapping/card making and etc . . .

This is a Back to School Album I made oh gosh I think it was 2007 but not 100% on that. A long time ago anyway. Hope you like it.

Wish

Okay, I have completed the blog hop for the Caardvarks/Coordinations very first blog hop event both yesterday and today. As I went through the blogs I was so very inspired by all the super duper cards and other projects using this paper! Then I realized . . . I have 2 packs of the Coordination papers and have had them (unopened even) for like a year now.
So I finally got some time tonight and busted the packs out, opened em up and this is what I came up with.

The idea I had in my head for this was completely different than what it turned out to be. As I went along I must have changed my mind like at least 10 times. I am a woman after all, I am allowed to change my mind when I see fit ; )

I like how it turned out. I had to make myself stop though, I just kept wanting to do other things to this card. I wanted vibrant color and I wanted things to stand out. I don't know if I accomplished that but I am happy with it.

I took the card layer and sanded it (mostly in the middle going outwards) till I was happy with it. Then I inked the edges and came up on the card a bit with stampin up tempting turquise. I used basic greys's lime ricky paper for the patterned paper. inked the edges of the orange piece after sanding with stampin up's pumpkin pie. I stamped the palm tree's cut them and pieced them together creating a 3d affect. inserted 3 brads on the edge where the card opens and then stamped the sentiment. the stamps are stampin up as well.

I am soooooooo tired, I have not slept from last night yet. I'm so surprised I made it through the day.

Thanks for stoppen by - ttfn

YOU ROCK!

Happy Sunday everyone! Hope your sunday is sailing as smoothly as mine today. We have had a busy weekend. My boys have had somewhere to be Fri, Sat and today. Today however, was a special day (well tomorrow is the real day) kuz it is my niece Taylor's birthday party. It was a pool party! fun fun fun. And this is the card I made for her b-day.
You may not be able to see very well in the pictures but it is a shaker card. I put silver micro-beads in the eyes and nose section of the skull. I used gesso for the pattern I made on the first layer and then I dry embossed the pink layer with my big shot and a sizzix embossing template. Then I used Adirondack mixatives "pearl" and wiped that over the dry embossed pink layer. All in all I am very pleased with how it turned out.

On my way out the door again so ttfn

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAYLOR!

Thank You Card

I have been trying to get to making this Thank You card for like a week now. I finally had time to sit down and get it done. I only have 3 more thank you cards to get done this weekend and a birthday card. Hope I get to all of them.

As you can see I have incorperated my acetate lollipop flower into this card. I chose the colors and made the card around the flower. I cased Jessica's Scooter birthday wishes card. I love her cards. I love all thier cards over there at Gina K. Designs

I need to mess around in Photoshop Elements more and get the 411 on all the editing to make my pictures look better. Until then though, I hope you all can get a fairly good view of the cards.

Unitl next time . . .

Recipie:
Cardstock and Ribbon - Papertrey Inc
Stamps - Clear Art Stamps
Embossin Tinsel, color: Black Opal - Ranger
Acetate - is available at many different places - I got mine at: The Stampin Place

Scrapping with my boys . . .

Trust me friends this for me does not happen often kuz, well . . . I have boys. But today was a rather "boring day mom" So I asked them if they wanted to do some crafting. Jordan(my 10 yr old) was watching me watch a video last night on acetate lollipop flowers (Thanks so much Arlene!)and he wanted to try that. I had done one myself last night and I was pleased but I thought the bottom flower was just too large at 2 1/2 inches so for Jordans I took the sizes down a tad the largest flower being 2 inches and away he went! Keeton(my 5 yr old) wanted to make a card for his daddy so I dry embossed apiece a plain white cardstock for him and gave him my luminarts paints and markers to play with. They had fun! I had fun!



To the left is the Jordan's finished acetate lollipop flower:

To the left is my finished acetate lollipop flower:
Although I'm not sure about you guys but I think Jordan's flower turned out wonderful! I like it better than how mine turned out. What so you guys think?

BLOG CANDY - PAPER BAG MINI ALBUM

Thats right! Over at With a Grin , Stephanie has made a gorgeous and i mean GORGEOUS paper bag album that she is giving away as blog candy. She has a complete look at all the pages of the book on her blog, if you haven't been to Stephanie's blog scoot on over you will be mesmerized by her talent.

Our Packer Family Night Bummer Rain Out

In this picture from left to right is my niece Taylor, my niece Madyson, my son Jordan, my son Keeton and my boyfriends son Quinton.

In this picture from left to right: My son Jordan, my son Keeton and my boyfriends son Quintin.


Saturday morning the morning of the Packers Family Night, at 5 in the morning it stormed something UGLY! and I was all worried the game was going to be affected. but at about 10 or 11 am the sun came out and it turned out to be a scorcher of a HOT day so I started to feel much better about the events to take place that night. Greenbay is 2 1/2 hrs away from where we live in WI so I just felt much better about the drive with the weather cooperating.

We left at 3:30 and headed to meet a few other family members and then at about 4:30 we were on the way to Greenbay and to have loads of fun!!! at the Packers Family Night. We got there at oh I think arounf 6, found parking fairly quickly (we were a train of 3 suv's) got out stretched, got the babies in thier carriers, all children were counted and we started our short walk to the stadium. We got to the stadium marched up step after step after step . . . after step (I was very winded!) - lol - untill we found our setats then because there were 16 of us all together it took us about 15 minutes to get situated.

We were all situated, finally! and ready for the FUN!

Then . . . as you can see in one of the pictures above the storm rolled in. Ugggg. The clouds were dark and it started to sprinkle. As the Onieda Indians started to do there dance (nope not the rain dance - as many joked about - hehe) It was annouced that for our protection because it was a lightning storm, we were to all head to the concourse and wait for updates. Now it was HOT and HUMID! everybody was elbow to elbow in the concourse and dripping sweat. The kids wanted to run around and play, my brothers twins were hungry and crying (thankfully for my sister-in-law anyway they were hungry one at a time, and the older children were super bored and kept asking if we were gonna leave.

After about an hour of waiting with no real end to the storm in site we decided to leave. I later found out that the night was eventually cancelled.

BUMMER! Enough talking . . . here are some pictures - It was super fun while it lasted.

I just Won . . .

Oh My Gosh! I just checked my mail and I had an envelope from Channel 3000 - I'm thinking why in the world and I getting mail from my local channel 3 . . . I opened it and the letter started: Congradulations! your entry was selected on our website as the winner of a family 4 pack at Noah's Ark! Whoo Hoo! The best part about this is that my day up till then had been going, well lets just say gloomy!

quick little explanation on my cards and a question . . .

Right now I havent beenleaving information after my cards as to what supplies I use and how I made them because I felt like with just sorta getting out there(I'm still fairly new) that I didnt really need to and that I would do that once I had more followers and.

What do you think? Should I be leaving that information or should I wait till my blog picks up more?

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Card I made for: CSSC78 STITCH It UP at SCS

Hello all, I was sifting through SplitCoastScrappers site and stumbled upon this challenge and since I love stitching on cards but havent done so in a while, this was the perfect challenge for me.

Just a little future info: My family and I (which includes me my b/f and our 3 boys)and 11 other members of my family will be attending the packers Family Night game, and I can't wait. Oh don't worry, I will have pictures to share!

K I'm off to relax with my d-b/f and watch some t.v. b4 bedtime. I have a large project ahead of me tomorrow.

G-Night.

A Blogaversary to celebrate . . .

One of the blogs I follow Creating from the Heart is having her blogaversary and in celebration is giving away some very nice candy scoot on over there and check it out!


Today we have been having t-storms on and off all day so the boys and I sat around and watched movies all day. I used to love sitting around with my mother and father and watching t.v. (right in the middle of the two) on stormy days. My boys love it to. So after a very gloomy day alas I do not have a card or any other project to post, however, tomorrow is another story. I have 2 projects to start. One I will finish quickly the other will take me at least a few days. I will have a project to post tomorrow my friends.

Good night (it is 11:05pm here) I'm going to watch my d b/f play ps3 for a bit and then go to bed.

till tomorrow . .

Sketch I did for gina k designs thursday sketch challenge

I made this card for Gina k's Thursdays scketch STVsc22
Making this a quick post as I am being pushed out the door to my db/f's softball game

Happy day all

That was Sweet

Hello everyone. I have been trying to set aside a time or two perhaps a day to attain to my blog. I started in April as you can see but left it terribly neglected. So I have organized my space and hopefully my mindset and off I go on hopefully a good start to a blog many will people will enjoy.


I made this card a while ago one night when I couldnt sleep. I was up till like 5am making it. Even after I completed it I still wasnt tired. Ever have nights like that?

Well it's late but I wanted to get at least one card posted. I am planning posting a couple more tomorrow.
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Addicted . . .

This is a cute video I found while surfen, check it out.

Were Here

My brother and sister in law had their twins on Thursday April 16th. I wanted to make a card for them. I actually had something completely different in mind, but I found myself changing my mind and this is what I ended up with. I want to give props where they are due, so I wanted to share the link of the blog that I lifted this technique from, however, in my hurry to get to the hospital I did not save the blog and now I can't find it. I will continue to keep looking (I have to find it eventually - I hope) when I do, I will get it up here.

I should also mention that besides messen around and doing cards to learn techniques and so forth, this is my very first posted card! My journey is really just beginning and I am so super excited!