Is your grass green?

Hello fellow bloggers.

I know it's a little late but I got busy and forgot to

post a blog earlier today. A little update on Marion, doctors

say she has parainfluenza stage 2 which is not good for

the health issues she already has. I ask you to continue

praying for her and her family. Thank you!!!!

Now to my card.

In my header picture is just another card I made.

The card is made of many scraps that came from other

projects that I have been working on and some of the

cardstock I don't even know where it came from. The digi

is from Paper and Prints. Thank you paper and prints for

allowing me to use your digi. The grass was done with

a stamp from Fresh Impressions and the sentiment is

an Inkadinkado stamp from the You Are Invited set.

I thought about making the grass less green since well our

grass is still brown but decided that green grass was

better. 

Hope you like my card. Until my next post Have A Splendid

Evening!!!!!!! 

A request for Prayers

Hello fellow bloggers!

This wasn't the post I had in mind today but I come

to all of you with a request. Several times I have

talked about the sweet girl  in my header

picture and that how she adopted us as her

grandparents. Last night she was rushed to the

hospital. For those of you who might not know

Marion was broght into this world fighting for

her life. She has MS and a multitude of other

health issues. She is in the hospital today fighting

once again. She has pneumonia with no sound in

in her right lung which is not good, she is running

a high fever and is on 40% oxygen. I am a believer

in the power of prayer. So my request is that you

send out a prayer for her and her family.

Thank you in advance.

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

 

Thrifty Tuesdays

Hello fellow bloggers!

Hope to find you all doing well. Looks like i'm getting back

in the groove of things....LOL..... Well in all honesty not

really. I am real busy taking care of some things that will

be bringing some big changes in my life but I have to keep

it to myself for a little while longer. So let me get to my

header picture. Now that the holidays are over at least the

big ones that make some of us want to pull our hair out..

ha ha ha.

All the pictures on my post are some of the items that I

purchased at all the after Christmas sales.

Cardstock that ranged from seventy-five cents a sheet

down to twenty-five cents a sheet (Teresa Collins, My

Minds Eye, Graphic 45 etc).

Paperstacks that ranged from three dollars to fifty-nine

cents.

I know that new products will be coming out and this will

be the old of last year. To me it makes no difference if it's

last years as long as I can create something with it.I had to

stop at different craft stores to get the bargins but I was

already out there so why not stop at every store.

For those who are on a tight budget it's the only way to go.

As I have said before I want to show everyone that you can

create on a budget and here is some of the proof. Hope this

can be of some help

So until my next post Have A Splendid Day!!!!!!!

 

Keeping my New Years Resolution

 

Hello fellow bloggers!!

Hope to find everyone doing well and staying warm.

Can you believe that I am still keeping up my New Years

resolution? We are almost into a new month so I knew

that I better get my Christmas card done and posted on

my blog. If you read my blog you know that last year I

was very behind in making my Christmas cards so I

made a New Years resolution that I would make a

Christmas card and tag every month so as to maybe

get ahead of the game. Speaking of games will you

be watching the Super Bowl or will you be out shopping?

I will be home watching the game only because I need

to use all my craft supplies before I buy any more...LOL..

I think I have a stack of cardstock maybe three feet tall.

Ok I'm rambling so lets move onto the card I made.

Below is what the card looks like inside.

 

Card Recipe:

Red and white cardstock

Pattern paper from My Minds Eye (Santa Claus)

Rubber stamp: Stampendous

Poinsettia

Water colors

Tim Holtz Distress ink (tea dye)

Seam binding

Spellbinders Nestabilities (Floral Ovals)

 

Hope you all like my card. Now don't forget that

No Matter Which Challenge Blog begins a new

challenge soon and there are a great group of ladies

that will help inspire you to join in. So keep reading

and watching for the new challenge. Until my next

post Have a Splendid Evening!!!!!!!!

 

Spanish style with a little chicken mole

Hello everyone!!!!!

Hope everyone is being safe and staying warm. I'm trying

my best to stay warm around here. Sorry that I have been

away for sometime now but can you believe that I finally

have blogger working right? My pictures are uploading

normally so it's not such a chore to blog anymore. WooHoo

In my header picture is a card that I made on a challenge

from one of my cousins. She made a comment about my

cards needing to have a more spanish flair and this is what

I came up with. It still didn't pass my cousins standards.

When I think spanish I always think of all the iron work

on the doors and windows of the homes thus that is the

affect I was going for with the heart and the punch used 

for on this card.  This still wasn't good enough. Oh well

I tried.

To try and make her agree that it was good enough I

tried bribing her with some chicken mole. My interpretation

of spanish style.....LOL.........Like what

you see in the picture below and I even made 

homemade flour tortillas

The food filled her stomache but the card still did not

fill her heart with joy. I guess I will have to try again.

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

 

Carnations blooming in my dreams

Hello Everyone!

Hope everyone is doing well and keeping warm.

Our tempeture is slowly climbing up there. We

have gotten up into the twenties. Boy can you

really tell the difference. In my header picture.

is one of the new cards that I made. The carnation

stamp is a Stampin Up stamp from some years

back and I'm not sure what it's called.

The white carnation is made from the Mother's Day

Bouquet Cricut cartridge. The butterfly is made with

one of my new EK Sucess punches.  

I guess that I'm hoping/ dreaming for spring to arrive

soon and planting flowers on alot of my cards lately.

You'll get to see what I mean as I post the cards that

I've made recently....LOL...

I want to Thank the NMWC Design Team for  all the

birthday wishes yesterday. Awesome and talented

group of ladies. Don't forget to stop in and visit

the NMWC blog and see who all made the design

team. New challenge starts in February at NMWC

blog. Until my next post Have A Splendfid Day!!!

Tickled Tuesday

Hello fellow bloggers!!!!!

Hope you are all having a great day and staying warm.

We are freezing my direction . When I got up this

morning it was only 18 degrees outside. Thankfully

I am still working on organizing so I'm moving alot and

staying warm.

In my last post I kind of let everyone know that I had

received some new craft toys over the holidays. In

my header picture is a few things that I have cut out

with my Big Shot and a couple of dies that I got along

with the machine. I also got Xyron sticker machine

which will help when I have some really small items

to glue onto my projects. Most of you know that I

would have never bought any of the machines mentioned

unless they were at a awesome discount price. Thank you

family I was tickled to pieces.You know me, looking for

that great bargin on crafting supplies. Just so that you see

what I mean take a look at the picture below.

I received a gift card and went to Michaels when they

were clearing out alot of the Christmas items. All the

items you see in the picture were twenty-five cents per

package. This is only a few of the things that I bought.

I have gotten really bad about getting the camera and

taking pictures of everything before I put it away. Sorry

about that.

Now that I'm almost organized it makes it so much simpler

to find what I need and makes the crafting process faster.

I am currently working on some albums and DT projects.

I have a few projects that I finally got around to taking

pictures of them since we actually have sunlight. So until

my next post Have A Splendid Afternoon!!!!!!!

 

My Crazy Valentine

Hello everyone.

Hope you are all enjoying your saturday. I'm still

working on getting things organized and I'm still

fighting with blogger to get my photos to download.

I finally bit the bullet and went through the long

process of getting my photo uploaded. In my header

picture is a card that I made using scraps. I'm trying

to use up the scraps as much as possible.

 

 

Since I'm trying to use the scraps I really don't know

who the paper company is that made the papers that I

used in this card. I have been using up the scraps by

cutting flowers, frames and such out. I've been stamping

tickets and cutting them out too.  Maybe this will make

it easier and faster to get a card made. All I will have to

do is dig out the die cuts that are already made. Wishful

thinking right? Right! 

I will have to show you some of the new toys that

I recieved. I have been having fun with all my new

crafting toys.

I would also like to remind everyone that new

challenges begin in February over at NMWC Blog.

There are also some new faces on the design team. If

you get the chance stop in over there and meet the new

very talented ladies.

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

 

 

 

 

 

 



What? A Resolution and how I got around the picture posting issue

 

Hello Everyone!

Hope everyone is having a fine saturday.

I'm having an issue with blogger and so that

is why this is late in the day. My issue with
blogger is that it won't let me upload my
photo to my blog, but I managed to get
around the problem. If you would like to
know how I'll give you the steps at the
end of this post.

Well by looking at my header picture you

will see that I am trying to keep up with

the New Year Resolution that I made. If

you can't remember what it was let me

remind you. My resolution was to make

a Christmas card and tag every month so

that maybe I would not get behind like

I was last year. Here is my tag for the
month.
Tag Recipe:
Cardstock: Christmas Cottage (Teresa Collins)
DCWV Glitter Stack
Sierra Pacific craft stack
Corrugated Papers (Write Stock)
Bow made out of Raffia
Snowflake and branches(Martha Stewart punches)
Deer  (Tim Holtz die)
Bling embellishments (Recollections)
Stamp (Studio G)
Tea Dye Distress Ink (Tim Holtz)
Stazon Black ink

I am entering this tag in the challenges below if
I can get the picture to upload.....LOL...

Simply Create Too  (Anything Goes)

http://simplycreatetoo.blogspot.com/

Stuck On U Skethches ( I deer-ly love Christmas)

http://stuckonusketches.blogspot.com/2012/12/dec-28-die-cut-challenge-i-deer-ly-love.html


Ok so as I went to blogger to report the
problem of not being able to post my
picture onto my blog I read that I am
not the only one having this problem. It
has been an issue since friday for some
of us. This is how I got my pictured
uploaded to my post. I went to my Pictures
file on my computer and double clicked on
the photo that I want to post
 which opened it up with my Picasa photo
viewer then I right clicked on the picture. It
gave me a drop down menu and on that menu
I clicked blog. It put the picture on my blog.
I then copied and pasted it again. I haven't
found a way to do more than one picture. I
hope this helps. Until my next post Have
A Splendid Evening!!!!!!

What's your dream?

Hello fellow bloggers and a Happy New Year!!!!!!

Here it is day one of the new year. I hope everyone is

doing well so far. What are your hopes and dreams for

the new year? This year for me will be bringing some

big changes, just not to sure when exactly. I will be sure

to blog about it when it does happen though.

In my header piture is a mini album made from a 12 x12

piece of cardstock. I know we just made it to January of

the new year and looks like I'm already working on

Valentines projects. Not so this is just a mini of love.

The following pictures are of the pages inside.

I'm thinking about adding an envelope to the first page

because it looks like it's not finished. If I do I will take

another picture of it and post it later.

The next picture is the back cover.

This was a pretty fast project. I think I will be making

a few more of these.

This last year I felt that I got so behind on everything

that I decided that I will be working at making at least

one Christmas card and one tag a month. So if you see

that I have not posted a Christmas project for the month

I would like all of you to help me by reminding me

.....LOL....

I'm off to start putting away some of the decorations.

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