May 14, 2010

Wow! We are half way through May and I am about 3 months behind! It is time to pack up and head for the cabin in Colorado and I am no where close! I still have a trip to OKC and I am going to visit my uncle that has pancreatic cancer. I also have a wedding June 12th in the Dallas area!
I have to get to the cabin as we lost the top to our deck due to high winds last year and we are building a new one! I am way behind on my projects, I haven't colored with my copics in days! Woe is me! LOL!
I wanted to post some pics of my newest cards that were featured at SimplyScrapping. Thank you so much ladies! This group is so much fun if you haven't checked it out you really must go take a look! The Thank Ewe was for the Diecut/Punch Cricut Challenge, The Bee Hive is for the Copics Challenge where we had to use an image that we colored jeans, and the Shelties(my babies) was for the Color Combo Challenge in which we could only use the colors white, black, gray and pink.
My youngest son is home from college! Wooo Hooo it is so nice to have a kid back in the house!
Have a great Friday!
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May 11, 2010

Hi! Today has been hectic! What am I saying this entire month has been hectic! I am having trouble keeping up with my thoughts much less anything else! I am entering my Longing Tilda Card in the MagnoliaStampLovers.blogspot.com Challenge! It is to create your Magnolia and make it dimensional. I just love this new little Longing Tilda and her cute little frog prince! Well, supposedly prince until you get to the inside of the card. There you find out in life sometimes you have to kiss a lot of frogs! LOL! I hope it wins! I hope you enjoy it! I want to send prayers out to all the tornado victims in Oklahoma! I was supposed to be right there yesterday when the storms hit but was delayed as my youngest son is coming in from college and wanted to go with me to OKC. My DD lives there and is a genius architect and I was going for a visit. We will make the trip later this week but want all of OKC to know I am praying for them!
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May 6, 2010

Hello Everyone! I want to thank Simply Scrapping for a wonderful National Scrapbooker's Day and weekend! It was a wonderful weekend of scrapbooking and fun!
I even won one of the Challenges sponsored by Simply Scrapping it was Your Favorite Things Challenge. I won with the card that I made for my sister for Mother's Day. I put my very favorite things on it as that was the direction for the challenge! I love butterflies and Swavorski crystals and this has both!
I was encouraged as I have mentioned before by Lisa of The Purple Place to join in on the challenges. I am having a blast and pushing myself way past what I thought was possible.
I finally got my craftroom cleaned up today from the weekend or should I say Sunday of creating! LOL! Today was a new list of challenges for the month so I have my room ready to start again. I encourage everyone to go to the site and check out this great group of gals! I have never met such a wonderful group, they are so encouraging and supportive!
I have a tutorial that I am posting today for the expanding photo box that is below. It is so much fun to make! I am using my box to store my Magnolia Stamps.
If you haven't been to Suzanne Dean's blog Scrap Blitz you need to check it out. Suzanne has some wonderful tutorials on her site and teaches a wonderful Copics class. I highly recommend it.
I also encourage you to go to www.aolgames.com and play a game of Texas Hold 'Em with me! I host games for Masque Publishing in the tournaments division in the Monte Carlo Room. Monday through Friday at 8:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. est I host Omaha Games in the Omaha tournaments Monte Carlo games! I would love to see some of you there. It is a lot of fun.
Have a wonderful day and thank you so much for stopping by!
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Hi! I have been struggling with NSD Challenges and it is now 12:00 midnight and I just loaded my last challenge! Thank you Lisa from The Purple Place for pushing me so to push myself! I have had so much fun. I even posted the tutorial for the darling expanding box! Wow! I also host poker games for Masque Publishing on Aolgames.com and I got my games done as well! Whew! I am posting the pics of the cards I made for the challenges and then I think I will clean up my mess in my scrap room. OMGosh! I have thrown paper, cartridges, embellies everywhere! The only thing that is in its place is my Pink Cricut Expression (that I love!) on my desk oh and my Copics are all nesting in their new Cubbies. Have a fantastic night!
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May 2, 2010

I hope everyone had a fantastic National Scrapbooker's Day! I have been traveling for the most part but did stop at a rest stop with Wi-Fi so I could participate in some of the celebrations!
I spent Thursday night and Firday with my daughter and then she was off to Dallas for a competition. I spent the night at her house as I HAD to see the game between the Oklahoma Thunder and the Lakers. Dang it! We came so close! I had to be so proud of The Thunder however, we lost by 1 stinking point. Not bad for a second year team to take the Lakers until the 6th game to win the series! Next year we will go all the way! I am SURE of it! I had gone to babysit my Grandpuppies.
I left early afternoon and brought her two dogs with me (I had my two shelties as well) heading for home. I pulled over to walk the dogs and noticed that the rest stop had Wi-Fi so I thought what the heck, I'll just check for a sec and see what all is going on! Well, 3 1/2 hours later I was back on the road again.
I am posting a card I made for my uncle. He has pancreatic cancer and I love him with all my heart. The only thing I could think of when I was given the news is "Cancer Stinks!". This idea popped into my head and I made the card for him. All of the white areas including the letters have crystal stickles all over and the black areas on his little face have black diamond stickles on them (eyes, ears, mouth). It is 10" x 15" and on the inside I wrote a note saying, "I am like Forrest Gump and this is all I have to say about that!"
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Hi I was just over at Simply Sweet by Emma and she has the neatest giveaway of this darling stamp! So rush right over and check it out!
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Simply Sweet http://emmalockley.blogspot.com/2010/04/gorjuss-give-way.html