Heavens Sweet Babies Blog Hop

             Hello Everyone,
              Hope every one is doing well today.
              Today we are supporting Jessica our HIMCR sister and her sweet little
                 angles. We would also like you to hop to support all women who have
                 had a Miscarriage. I hope that you would hop along with me to honor
                 these women and their sweet angles. You may know a mom, friend or
                 you may have had a Miscarriage.
                

              Here are some facts about Miscarriage & a link for American
              Pregnancy Association for more information.

            Miscarriage is the most common type of pregnancy loss, according to
               the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG).
               Studies reveal that anywhere from 10-25% of all clinically recognized
               pregnancies will end in miscarriage. Chemical pregnancies may
               account for 50-75% of all miscarriages.This occurs when a pregnancy
               is lost shortly after implantation, resulting in bleeding that occurs
               around the time of her expected period. The woman may not realize
               that she conceived when she experiences a chemical pregnancy.

           Most miscarriages occur during the first 13 weeks of pregnancy.
               Pregnancy can be such an exciting time, but with the great number
               of recognized miscarriages that occur, it is beneficial to be informed
               about miscarriage, in the unfortunate event that you find yourself or
               someone you know faced with one.

           Don’t forget there are support groups

 What Makes A Mother
I thought of you and closed my eyes
And prayed to God today
I asked, "What makes a Mother?"
And I know I heard him say
A Mother has a baby
This we know is true
But, God, can you be a mother
When your baby's not with you?

Yes, you can he replied
With confidence in his voice
I give many women babies
When they leave it is not their choice
Some I send for a lifetime
And others for the day
And some I send to feel your womb
But there's no need to stay.

I just don't understand this God
I want my baby here

He took a breath
and cleared his throat
And then I saw a tear
I wish I could show you
What your child is doing Here

If you could see your child smile
With other children and say
"We go to earth to learn our lessons
of love and life and fear,
but My mommy loved me so much
I got to come straight here!"
I feel so lucky to have a Mom who
had so much love for me
I learned my lessons very quickly
My Mommy set me free.
I miss my Mommy oh so much
But I visit her each day
When she goes to sleep
On her pillow is where I lay
I stroke her hair and kiss her cheek
And whisper in her ear
"Mommy, Please don't be sad today
I'm your baby and I am here"

So you see my dear sweet one
Your children are okay
Your babies are here in My home
And this is where they'll stay
They'll wait for you with Me
Until your lessons there are through
And on the day that you come home
they'll be at the gates waiting for you

So now you see
What makes a Mother
It's the feeling in your heart
It's the love you had so much of
Right from the very start
~Author Unknown

                                                                   
                                        Here is my card that I made in for Jessica.

Now make sure to check out the rest of the hop team.

Some of the ladies have blog candy.

AJ Scrapbooking & Cards
Angela’s Crafty Spot
Jenscrapstoo

Until my next post have a Splendid Day!!!!!!!!!

HIMCR Challenge #44

Good Morning Everyone,

Hope to find everyone doing well this weekend. Today we start a new

challenge over at Hiding In My Craft Room. Challenge #44 Mix it up

Mothers Day. Before you know it Mothers Day will be here and what

will you give your mom. Will you buy something for her? Or will you

make something for her?  My mom always loved homemade gifts better.

In the header picture is the card that I came up with. In the picture below

is what the card looks like on the inside.

Card Recipe:

White , red, green, olive and beige cardstock

Mulberry paper in white and rose

Versa Magic ink ( Malted Mauve)

EK punch ( English Ivy)

Studio G stamps (mothers Day)

Queen and Comapny Pearls

Bubble Stickers (corners)

Cricut cartridge ( Mothers Day Bouquet and Storybook)

We would really love for you to join us for this challenge.

You have until Friday, May 4th to link up your creation to

get entered into the monthly drawing this week. When

uploading to online galleries please use code HIMCR44.

Make sure to check out the rest of the design teams

creations. There is some really beautiful work and

inspiration.

Jennie from Jenscrapstoo

An'Jenic from AJ Scrapbooking & Cards
Jessica from Craftin' and Stampin'

Angela from Angela's Crafty Spot

To Join in follow the link below

http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/2012/04/himcr-44-lets-honor-mothers.html

Until my next post Have A Splendid Day!!!!!!!

 

 

Blog hop date change

Hello Everyone,

Hope to find everyone well. It's friday and I'm sure many of you

are looking forward to the weekend as I am...LOL... On saturday

we start a new challenge over at Hiding In My Craft Room be sure

to check that out. I want to talk about monday, I know, I know the

weekend isn't even here and I want to talk about monday. In my

header picture is a blog hop button that the very creative and

talented Ajenic Gibson created for the Heaven's Sweet Babies Blog

Hop that I will be a part of. Please be sure to join us.

This will be the line up:

AJ Scrapbooking & Cards

Angela's Crafty Spot

Jenscrapstoo
SnowflakeDreams1

 I know that on my last post I said that this would be on thursday that

past but It was changed and I got very busy yesterday. I'm still

fighting with my blog because it won't post my scheduled posts. I

know it's not just me I have read other blogs that since the change

they too are experiencing that same difficulties. Hopefully it will

get better soon.

Please don't forget the challenges that are going on for the design

teams that I'm a part of.

We would love for you to come join in on

our challenge over at HIMCR. To join in follow the link below.

http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/2012/04/himcr-43-april-showers-bring.html

April Showers bring.........Homemade Flowers

also

Over at Lets Ink It Up we are still on our Distressing challenge

till the end of the month. If you would like to play along follow

the link below.

http://letsinkitup.blogspot.com/2012/04/challenge-22.html

Challenge #22 Distressing

Until my next post Have a Splendid Day!!!!!

A post of a different kind

Hello Everyone,

Todays post is going to be a little of the wall and not so much with

something being crafted. While watching the news this morning

there was a lot of talk about beautiful women, and men. More talk

about natural beauty and this is when it hit me. In the header picture

is how with make-up applied this is what is considered beautiful

and I had to laugh. To me it looks more like indian war paint. Don't

get me wrong I'm not saying anything bad about a race because I

am part indian. What I'm trying to say is when and who is teaching

women that putting a stripe at their cheeks looks good. Take a good

side view look it looks more like war paint than enhancing your

beauty. Maybe it just me and what I perceive.

In the picture below is what is being called natural beauty.

I remember being told by my mother before I was allowed to wear

make-up to just pinch my cheeks it would give your cheeks color

which gave your face beauty. Now looking at the picture of the young

lady said to be the most natural looking beautiful woman. I think that

the rosie cheeks look better. What do you think? Oh and this is what I

read on a web page about apply blush.

                        Add a Pop of Color
                       “Every woman needs color on the apple of her cheeks,” Nigara says.
                       “What changes is the intensity of color from doll like to fresh.” Using
                        the clean side of the damp sponge you used to apply your tinted
                        moisturizer, pat a cream-to -powder or gel blush like
                        Maybelline Dream Bouncy Blush into the skin on the apples of your
                        cheeks and use the same color to contour directly under the
                        cheekbone.

Ok so now on to some crafty stuff..

Please don't forget the challenges that are going on for the design

teams that I'm a part of.

We would love for you to come join in on

our challenge over at HIMCR. To join in follow the link below.

http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/2012/04/himcr-43-april-showers-bring.html

April Showers bring.........Homemade Flowers

also

Over at Lets Ink It Up we are still on our Distressing challenge

till the end of the month. If you would like to play along follow

the link below.

http://letsinkitup.blogspot.com/2012/04/challenge-22.html

Challenge #22 Distressing

Until my next post Have a Splendid Day!!!!!

Wall Decor

Hello Everyone,

Hope all is going well with all my blogger friends and followers.

Todays post is a quick one because I am real busy working on some

design things for the design teams that I design for. Also I'm working 

 on a very special design for a a special blog hop that will begin

thursday. In my header picture is a subway art piece that I did a while

back so I know you have seen it before. When I was organizing my

craft space I decided that I was going to keep this and hang it up. When

I hung it up it looked like there was something missing it just looked

plain up on the wall. I made the floral piece and hung it up next to the

canvas and now it looks better.

So as you see I do work in many mediums and am always creating

something. Some of it I just don't post because well as we all know

we judge our creations harder than others do.

Please don't forget the challenges that are going on for the design

teams that I'm a part of.

We would love for you to come join in on

our challenge over at HIMCR. To join in follow the link below.

http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/2012/04/himcr-43-april-showers-bring.html

April Showers bring.........Homemade Flowers

also

Over at Lets Ink It Up we are still on our Distressing challenge

till the end of the month. If you would like to play along follow

the link below.

http://letsinkitup.blogspot.com/2012/04/challenge-22.html

Challenge #22 Distressing

Until my next post Have a Splendid Day!!!!!

Flower card

Good Morning Everyone,

Hope everyone is doing well. Yesterday I posted a flower card that

I made for our design team challenge. Some of my readers didn't

realize that it was actually a card. So in my header picture is the

picture of two other flowers that I had also cut out to make into a

card. These two my brain just couldn't at the time figure out how to

make them look more 3-D so I put them on the back buner.

In the picture below is the one that I made work the way my

brain had imagined.....LOL.....

We would love for you to come join in on

our challenge over at HIMCR. To join in follow the link below.

http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/2012/04/himcr-43-april-showers-bring.html

April Showers bring.........Homemade Flowers

also

Over at Lets Ink It Up we are still on our Distressing challenge

till the end of the month. If you would like to play along follow

the link below.

http://letsinkitup.blogspot.com/2012/04/challenge-22.html

Challenge #22 Distressing

Until my next post Have a Splendid Day!!!!!

HIMCR Challenge #43

Good Morning Everyone,

 Hope everyone is ready to enjoy their weekend. Today begins a new

challenge over at Hiding In My Craft Room. Challenge #43 April

Showers bring.........Homemade Flowers. In my header picture is my

homemade flower card. In making this card I used my Gypsy, Cricut

and the Mother's Day Bouquet cartridge. I used my gypsy because in

order to make a shape card out of it I would have to flip my second

image so when I folded the card that the petals would match. I then

made sure to overlap the flower ever so lightly and welded it together.

The base of the card is cut out at 4-1/4"  then the rest are cut at

3- 1/4",  2-1/2",  1-3/4", 1-1/4" and 3/4". I cut all of the flowers

out of white cardstock. The reason for that is that I was going to

do the alcohol ink and shaving cream technique but when I went

to use the shaving cream it wasn't working. So the technique that

I used to colour the flower is a water color pencil and a water misting

technique. I colored most of the flower in the middle then misted it

with water. I used crumpled up wax paper to pull the color to the

edge of the flower.

I curled the edges by using just my fingers. I punched a hole in the

middle of all the loose flowers and used a small brad to hold them all

together which then I only needed to glue one piece to the base. The

green leaf also come from the same cartridge that the flower comes

from. I cut the leaf out at 3-1/2"

I hope you enjoy my flower. We would love for you to come join in on

our challenge over at HIMCR. To join in follow the link below.

http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/2012/04/himcr-43-april-showers-bring.html

Please make sure to check out what the rest of the desing team created.

The ladies are all so very talented and creative.

Until my next post Have a Splendid Day!!!!

National Scrapbooking Day Contests

Hello Everyone,

Wow two posts today. This is a real quick post to share with

all of you.

This is what they have to say about the contests:

What better way to celebrate National Scrapbooking day then to win some really great prizes? We couldn’t agree more, so thanks to our friends at Homeketeers we are giving away some great prizes in honor of National Scrapbooking day.
One Grand Prize Winner:

• Tim Holtze Vagabond – value $249.99
• 10 scrapbooking Kits – value $220.00

One First Prize Winner:

• Pink Sizzix Sidekick – value $39.99
• 7 scrapbooking kits – value $150.00

Two Second Place Prize Winners:

• 5 scrapbooking kits – value $110.00

Follow the link below if you would like to enter too.
http://nationalscrapbookingday.com/national-scrapbooking-day-super-contest/

Good Luck to all of you!!!!!!! Have a Great Afternoon and evening!!!!!!!!!

Mini Album Kits

Hello Everyone,

Hope you are all doing well. It looks like we will be having a

warm weekend so I bet all kinds of plans are being made to

enjoy the sunshine. I'm still a bit under the weather but I'm

feeling just a little bit better today. I think the worst of this

was yesterday. My head and ears hurt so bad that I didn't do

much of anything yesterday other than complain. In the header

picture is one of those mini album kits that you buy that comes

with paper and a front and back cover then you have to figure

out how to make it work. The next picture is of another kit.

Next is a picture of a couple of pages from the first kit.

Next is a couple of pages from the second kit.

I did make three of the kit mini albums but the pictures of

the third one didn't turn out all that great so I won't post

that one up. Wow I guess I have been doing alot of crafting

just hadn't posted it......LOL.........

Tomorrow we start a new challenge over at Hiding In My Craft

Room so be sure to join us.

Over at Lets Ink It Up we are still on our Distressing challenge

till the end of the month. If you would like to play along follow

the link below.

http://letsinkitup.blogspot.com/2012/04/challenge-22.html

Challenge #22 Distressing

Until my next post Have a Splendid Day!!!!!

Final part of the Love mini album

Hello Everyone,

I hope to find all my fellow bloggers feeling well and enjoying

the spring weather. As for me well I have had a cold for a few days

now and am still not feeling all that great. I could not really sit

around and rest though because I had the bills to pay and go buy

the groceries. Hopefully I can rest up and feel better soon. So today

I want to finish posting all the pictures of the Love mini album

and move on to the next mini so as not to bore everyone.  In the

header picture I continue with the next page from the day before.

In the pictures below are the pages that follow along with the

inserts.

I guess I should let everyone know that the paper bags that I used

for this mini are not your regular brown paper bags. I bought these

bags around Valentines day at the dollar store. It makes for a

different type of mini album. That is why on every page there

are hearts.

So there you have it. My Love Mini Album. Hope you enjoyed it.

Please don't forget about our design teams challenges. We would

love for you to join in. Follow the links below to play along.

http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/2012/04/himcr-42-super-scraps-saturday.html

Super Scrap Saturday.

and also

http://letsinkitup.blogspot.com/2012/04/challenge-22.html

Challenge #22 Distressing

Until my next post Have a Splendid Day!!!!!

Part 2 Love mini album

Hello My Fellow Bloggers,

Hope the weather is good in your area. In mine it is raining and

a little gloomy. No sunshine for us today. In my header picture

is the next pages of my Love mini album. The picture right below

is one of the inserts for journaling and adding pictures to on the

reverse side.

The picture above is another insert, and below is the next set

of pages

This is just real quick today. That dreaded cold is back and I'm not

feeling well but I have lots to do today. Hopefully I can get it all done,

we'll see what happens.  

Please don't forget about our design teams challenges. We would

love for you to join in. Follow the links below to play along.

 

http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/2012/04/himcr-42-super-scraps-saturday.html

Super Scrap Saturday.

and also

http://letsinkitup.blogspot.com/2012/04/challenge-22.html

Challenge #22 Distressing

Until my next post Have a Splendid Day!!!!!

Part 2 Butterfly mini album

Hello Everyone,

Hope everyones day has gone well so far. Mine has been a

little busy so I'm just now getting to posting today. In my header

picture is two more of the pages of my butterfly mini along with

some of the pocket inserts. All the inserts on the reverse side

has a place for a picture to be added. Below in the other pictures

are a few more pages, the back cover, along with the inserts

for the pages.

That is it for this mini. I will finish showing the Love mini in the

next couple of days. I know a kind of short post but I wanted to

remind everyone of the design teams challenges.

To join in follow the link below.

http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/2012/04/himcr-42-super-scraps-saturday.html

Super Scrap Saturday.

 

and also

 http://letsinkitup.blogspot.com/2012/04/challenge-22.html

Challenge #22 Distressing

Until my next post Have a Splendid Evening!!!!!

HIMCR Challenge #42 Super Scrap Saturday

Good Morning Everyone,

Hope to find everyone doing well. Today starts a new challenge

over at Hiding In My Craft Room.

Challenge # 42 Super Scrap Saturday.

Take out your scraps and lets see what you can create with them.

In my header picture and the one below is what I came up with.

I made this card because my oldest sons birthday is on wednesday

and I needed to get a card done so I could mail it to him. The

thing about this card is that I'm not sure where some of the cardstock

came from since I used my scraps. I really can't give the recipe other

than I used my cricut to cut out the sentiment and then used glossy

accents to make it shiney. The shiney sentiment made it hard to get

a good picture of the card. Believe me it looks alot better in person. 

Please join us in our new challenge . We would love to see how

creative others can be. To join in follow the link below.

http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/2012/04/himcr-42-super-scraps-saturday.html

Don't forget to check out the design teams creations. Until my

next post Have a Splendid Day!!!!!!!!

Love Mini Album

Hello Everyone,

I know it's late but I had several things that I had to take care

of  today, I hope everyone has enjoyed their day. In the header

picture is another of the mini albums that I had been working

on. This one I call my Love Mini Album. I know, I know, I did

not finish showing you all the pages of the other mini album but

I don't want anyone to get bored so I decided to start sharing this

one and maybe this weekend show you the last for pages of the

Butterfly mini. Below is the picture of the inside cover and one

of the pages from the new mini.

So what do you think about it?

Tomorrow we start a new challenge over at Hiding In My Craft

Room. It would be nice if you played along. At Lets Ink It Up our

challenge runs to the end of the month. Come join in there too.

http://letsinkitup.blogspot.com/2012/04/challenge-22.html

Challenge #22 Distressing

Until my next post Have a Splendid Evening!!!!!

More Mini Album Pages

Hello Everyone,

Hope to find all of you doing well on this gorgeous day.

Below is a couple pictures of the pages in my butterfly mini

album.

The next pictures are of some more storage ideas. I bought

a over the door shoe holder and I'm using it for my punches.

Helped in being more organized.

Don't forget about the Design Team challenges that are still

going on.

Follow the links below to join in.

http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/

Color Challenge!

The colors this week are:

Pink Pirouette

Rose Red

Basic Gray

http://letsinkitup.blogspot.com/2012/04/challenge-22.html

Challenge #22 Distressing

We would love for you to join in.

Until my next post Have a Splendid Day!!!!!!!