Happy Birthday Zeus!!

He is 2 today!!

Steelers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

won last night!! Yahoo!! I am a huge--huge Steelers fan!! One more game til we go to the Super Bowl!! Yahoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

January's Challenge over at SSPT!!

Happy New Year!! I hope your holiday was wonderful!! Did you get lots of goodies under your tree?? I sure hope so!! Did you make resolutions? I don't..I set goals! I have goals to continue to exercise, watch my diet better this year and of course, scrap more!! This is a goal I want to acheive!! LOL!
This month's challenge comes from Designer Deborah. She wants us to alter something! Well I was in a swap and it was to be mostly handmade! I really enjoyed the swap! I took some cardboard sheets and made a recipe book!


http://sugarsweetpapertreats.blogspot.com/2011/01/januarys-altered-arts-challenge.html
I hope you can join me over at Sugar Sweet Paper Treats this month! Every month, we have a new challenge posted!! This month, Deborah is giving away a new Cart! If you Spread the word about the challenge blog, I would appreciate it, I am trying to get more people to play along (I have taken over the blog and would love to see it take off)!! :)

A Christmas Layout!

Anne at Paper Patch Crafts issued a challenge and I wanted to play along!! We had to use a sketch she posted..


Now I just need photos! LOL! I am in no hurry for it "Let it snow" pics! LOL!

I Love Snowmen ATC

I hope Jen likes it!! I haven't made an ATC in a long, long time!!


I used doodlecharms for the snowman..he is my favorite one!! Then some jewerly beads on the top and some flock on the bottom (outlined the "snow" in stickles of course LOL)

cards for TurnedGypsy's blog

Chris is collecting cards for a Children's Hospital. I am so glad I could help. I made the snowmen ones today and the others I had made previously and had them tucked away and this was a perfect time to use them!!
Here they are:


Easter ones:


Valentine's Day ones:

Brads for Swap

So I have become addicted to a swap website that my dear sweet friend Jen told me about! Thanks Jen! LOL!!
Anyway, I signed up for a brad swap..picture is hard to see but I was supposed to send 30 brads but I decided to send 50. I embossed some of them, hope she will like them..but instead of just mailing them in a baggie, I made a cute little bag for them!

Sorry the picture isn't good..I used my cell phone and it doesn't take good pics like my hubby's!

Glass Block Gift!!

I didn't get a chance to make these last yr but wanted to make one for a gift this year. I bought a 6x6 inch block and filled it with a small strand of lights and some of those little circle things (I don't know the real name of them LOL..they are like styrofoam)..I found this Laptop sticker and loved the saying so I added that to it (I was going to cut vinyl) and added a couple flowers..I may have to get some more of these and make more gifts..Maybe I should add a couple more flowers to the other corners..yes or no??
What do you think?


then lit up:

Christmas Card 2010

Here it is!! I love this snowman stamp, I used on a couple cards last year..but this year it is my main card! I used my nestabilities for the rectangular frames and colored the snowman in with glitter pens. I used one of my CB folders. I also found those rhinestones at J's..I had to glue them on myself (as they are not the self adhesive ones) but I got a much better deal! LOL! I think I made about 25-30 of these! I hope that's enough!! :)I may add some chalk on the background of the snowman, haven't decided yet..
What do you think?

Wow...it has been over a month..

since I have posted! School is sucking up my creative time LOL! Well hopefully I will be able to get some craft time in soon!!

Card Front Swap

This is my first time participating in a card front only swap!! It was fun! I am used to making a card for a specific reason (bday, Christmas, etc) but for this swap, there were to be no themes or sentiments! I can't wait to see what everyone did on this one!!

WOW!! Check out this Blog Candy!!

This is being given away by http://greengoddescreations.blogspot.com/2010/09/blogaversary-candy-time.html

Rest in Peace our Buster

Our Buster passed away Tuesday afternoon. It was a complete shock to us all. We knew he was getting old, he was 10 (11 in December) but other than showing signs of getting older (moving around slower and getting grey hair..we would call him grey beard or our old man) we don't know if he was ill. My husband came home from work and let him to go the bathroom and he was fine he said, then he went back off the porch to finish up and passed away in the yard.


Thank you Buster for blessing us for the past 10 years with your neverending love!! You showed us what unconditional love is all about!! Now go play with Lenox and you both watch over your kids--they miss you so much...we love you Buster!

WINNER WINNER WINNER!!

Random.org picked Number 28 which is Terri!!

Terri said...
COOL Notebook!!! Everything else looks great too!!

September 3, 2010 9:50 PM



Thanks everyone for blog hopping with us!! I hope you had as much fun as I did!

Terri..off to contact you now!!

BLOG HOP!!

thanks for joining us for our 2nd blog hop!! You should have arrived here from Gina's blog http://ginathorntonstamping.blogspot.com/ if you want to start from the beginning..please click on http://crystalscraftycreations.blogspot.com/ which is our Commander Crystal!!


Do you have kiddos in school--if so--this blog hop is for you! Our theme is Back to School! If you don't, don't worry...I bet you will find some great projects that will inspire you!

Our second blog hop is sponsored by the very talented and generous Regina from CUTTING CAFE. You can find Regina's blog right here: http://thecuttingcafe.typepad.com/

So while you are hopping and getting lots of inspiration make sure that you leave comments on all the blogs to be entered to win THREE CUTTING CAFE STAMP SETS OF YOUR CHOICE from the wonderful Regina. Crystal will check to make sure the winner that random.org picks has commented on ALL the blogs and post the winner one Monday afternoon! Good luck!

Now on to my cards! I have never made my children cards for their first day but I did this yr! It was a lot of fun!! I used the School Days stamp set which can be found here: http://thecuttingcafe.typepad.com/the_cutting_cafe/2009/08/school-days-printable-stamp-set.html Thank you Regina for providing me with such great "stamps" to work with!!


Now don't forget to leave a comment..become a follower if you wish (PS I love followers!!) I decided to give away an altered comp book I made and here it is:

I will use random.org for the winner Monday morning and announce on my blog! Please leave a way for me to contact you as well!! You should now be heading to see what Jess is showcasing! ScrappyJess http://scrappyjess.blogspot.com/



Here is the Order for the Blog Hop:
Caitlynsmommy http://crystalscraftycreations.blogspot.com/
GRKIDDO http://ginathorntonstamping.blogspot.com/
Me http://www.scrapthiscraftthat.blogspot.com/
ScrappyJess http://scrappyjess.blogspot.com/
Kat/Bluerose http://katzdesignz.blogspot.com/
DDDCort http://www.dawnsaddiction.blogspot.com/
KarelJCreations http://www.karelj.blogspot.com/
SherylGreene http://sherylscraftingcorner.blogspot.com/
LarelynSartini http://www.handmadefromtheheart-designsbylarelyn.blogspot.com/
Kisatrtle http://www.kisatrtleskreativekorner.blogspot.com/
AJoy713 http://adreatravis2008.blogspot.com/
BeeJay http://www.beejaysstudio.blogspot.com/
Pamela http://blog.pamelaosterday.com/

Have a great hop!!