More Goodies

I got some more fantastic goodies from Jen at ScrapCity! I won two of her month-long challenges, and this is the RAK that she sent to me. Isn't it fabulous?


She made me a gorgeous card, and then she sent a bunch of flowers, chipboard centers, some rhinestones, some rhinestone brads, and a couple of flower clips. All of these are from a Lisa Bearnson kit that was sold on QVC. It was such a dark, wet, cold, and gloomy day here yesterday, and this was like receiving a little bit of spring in an envelope! Totally made my day! Thank you so much Jen!

I was wondering if anyone has heard about the man that is selling his life! I read this on the Yahoo News page yesterday. Apparently, this man is tired of his life, so he's going to sell it to someone else. He's in Perth, Australia, and he's getting rid of it all. Check out his site if you get a chance: http://www.alife4sale.com/. I found it to be very interesting! He's selling it all on June 22nd, and after the fact, he says, "I intend to walk out of my front door with my wallet in one pocket and my passport in the other, nothing else at all, and get on the train, with no idea where I am going or what the future holds for me." Like I said . . . interesting!!

OK, I never got to the cards that I wanted to make yesterday, so I don't have anything new to show you. I DID work on the scrapbook that I was contracted to make. However, I can't show that to you, because the photos don't belong to me. I want to make some cards today . . . we'll see how that goes! I also need to run a few errands. I have nothing for Easter! I need to get some goodies! PLUS, I want to get out and buy "Enchanted" on DVD. My girls and I saw it at the theatre, and it was fantastic! To me, it's a "must own" DVD!

Have a great day! I'll definitely have something to show you tomorrow, and thanks for stopping by!

Pet of the Month Update

Oh well, we tried our best, but voting for the Pet of the Month ended yesterday, and it appears that we were not victorious. I want to thank all of you that cheered us on and voted for our sweet girl, Princess!


It doesn't matter what the site says, because she's a winner to US! Look at that face! I need to get working on some cards, and hopefully I'll be back with an afternoon post! Thanks again for the votes, and thanks for stopping by!

Cousins

This is another negative space challenge page. I'm loving these layouts! I love the simplicity and the clean look. I also love that the photo is definitely the main focus.


This is a photo from 2005, and it is my girls with their younger cousins. These cousins are on my husband's side of the family. Isn't this the cutest photo? I used Basic Grey papers. I cut two strips from a dotted sheet, and I created the criss-cross border on the page. The "cousins" title is chip chatter chipboard letters. That's it. Easy as can be, but I like it!

I'm counting down the days this week, because spring break starts for my girls when they get home from school on Thursday! I can't wait! They can definitely use the break, and I love when they're at home! Thanks for stopping by!

Altered Jar

When I got my CropADile Big Bite from HSN, it came with a lot of eyelets and grommets. I decided to alter a jar to hold them all.

This is either a large relish jar or a small pickle jar. I used My Mind's Eye papers, a metal rimmed tag, ribbon, felt ribbon, Prima Sprites, plus a gorgeous Making Memories brad. I really like red and turquoise together, so I love the way this turned out.

I cut a flower with my Coluzzle from another sheet of My Mind's Eye paper for the lid. I love when organization is functional AND pretty!

My oldest did great with her school choir yesterday! The choir could have finished I, II, or III, and they did finish "I", which means that they will compete again at a state level!! Very impressive! I have to admit, they were awesome!

Here's Emily in her choir robe! Doesn't she look cute? Have a great Sunday! Thanks for all of the Princess votes! If you haven't had a chance to vote for Princess yet, please visit yesterday's post and give her your votes! Thank you so much!! Thanks for stopping by!

Please HELP & Princess Page

I have a HUGE favor to ask of all of you. Could you please take a few minutes to VOTE for Princess? She's in the running for Pet of the Month in our local newspaper. She is being beat by quite a large margin right now, but we can still keep trying to close the gap, right? There is voting on four sites, and since ALL of the votes count, if you could vote on all four, I would really appreciate it. Please vote on the sites for Mokena, Frankfort, New Lenox, and Orland Park. Princess is the 2nd dog on all of the sites. You just need to select Princess, and then go to the bottom to click on the "vote" button. It's very easy. If you vote, thank you so much!


Here's a scrapbook page I did for a challenge at 4 Scrappy Sisters. I was randomly selected as the winner of the challenge! The challenge was to love your paper and to use patterned paper from three manufacturers on a layout. I actually used four! I used My Mind's Eye, Junkitz, ScrapWorks, and SandyLion. I normally don't mix papers from different manufactures on a layout like this, so this was really a FUN challenge for me. I don't know if you can read the MME tag, but it actually says, "make way for the princess" . . . now, how perfect is that? (You can click on the photo for a larger view!) Princess is showing off a diva dog purse toy (with an embroidered "Princess" on it) that she got from one of my very divalicious friends, Queen Diva Sue. I definitely need to add a small journaling spot on this page before it goes in my album. I added some Primas and lots of rhinestones. I love the way this page turned out!

We have a choir music competition to go to today for my oldest, so I will be catching up with all of you later this weekend. Have a great weekend! Thanks for the VOTES, and thanks for stopping by!

Sorry for Word Verification!

I'm sorry, but I'm going to enable word verification for a while. I don't like it, but I'm tired of deleting non-crafting comments with links in them. I've been getting a lot of these comments lately, and I want to see if the word verification helps. Sorry!

Thanks Card & Happy Mail

I made this card for a challenge over at 4 Scrappy Sisters. We were challenged to make a card using brown, red, and yellow, circles, and some stamping. This is what I came up with.


When I read the color combination, I immediately thought of this We R Memory Keepers paper. I cut circles from the patterned paper with my Coluzzle. I stamped "Thanks" with a stamp from my Everyday Expressions Stampin' Up set. Two circles and the sentiment are popped up from the card. I also added some brown dotted ribbon around the ticket punched card front. This card didn't photograph well, because the yellow that I stamped the sentiment on and the yellows in the circles look very different in the photograph, but in real life, they're very similar. Oh well!


I also got some goodies from Wendy at ScrapCity. I won two challenges that she issued during the Virtual Crop over the leap day weekend at the end of February. I won both the "think outside the box" use cardboard on your layout and the "playing with a full deck?" use playing cards on your layout challenges. Wendy sent me some goodies for winning. Thanks Wendy.

I have quite a few errands to run, and I need to do more pages in the scrapbook that I'm making for a client. I'm very behind on blog hopping, but I'll catch up with all of you this weekend. Have a great Friday and a fantastic weekend. Thanks for stopping by!

Sketches {by Tamara} Card Sketch #35

It's Thursday, so that means there's a new sketch on the Sketches! {by Tamara} site. Here's my card for Card Sketch #35. If you make a card using this sketch, be sure to let me know! I would love to look at it. Also link it back to Tamara's site. As always, it's a great sketch this week!


I used DCWV Pocket Full of Posies paper for my card front. My flower is stamped with Stampin' Up's "Love Without End" set. I added a beautiful Making Memories brad to the flower center. The "THANKS" was cut on my QuicKutz. The ribbon is American Crafts.

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Mail & Princess

I want to give a big thank you to Jen at ScrapCity. I played a number of games during the Virtual Crop that they had at the end of February, and I won a few of them. These are the RAKs that I received from Jen for playing and winning her games. Thank you so much Jen! I love EVERYTHING that you sent! I also love the "what's up dog?" card that you sent. Too cute!

Yesterday afternoon, Princess did something that she hasn't done for months! She actually wanted to go outside just so she could relax in the backyard! That must mean that Spring is close! Look at how CUTE she is! She hung out in that very spot for about a half hour! What a sweetheart!

Her ball is actually a dryer ball! My sister in law gave it to her, and she LOVES it! I gave her a big bone because she was posing so nicely for my photos!

Thanks for stopping by!

My Man

I'm having a lot of fun trying to do some of the challenges over at 4 Scrappy Sisters. Check out today's challenges and games if you get a chance.

I did this page yesterday for an "unscrappable photo" challenge. We were to take a photo or photos that we considered to be unscrappable for whatever reason and we needed to scrap them! I originally wasn't going to scrap this photo of my husband. This was before I had my digital camera. I took this photo, and I have no idea how I didn't realize that he had huge shadows over his face. It wasn't the effect I was going for. Yesterday, I pulled it out and decided to make a page featuring this photo. He still looks incredibly handsome to me, so why not scrap it? I used Bazzill die cut cardstock on top of white cardstock. The "my" is QuicKutz, and the "man" are chipboard letters that I received from Kristy. The beautiful brad is from Making Memories, and the ribbon is from either Hobby Lobby or WalMart. I love the way this page turned out! (It's not totally crooked, it's just the way I photographed it!!)

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