ArTsY card...

Hey there bloggers!

I am so excited to share

this project with you!

You can check out the "how to"

on the Rubber Cafe Blog! 

Supplies:

 Large Paisley Butterfly stamp

 18th Century Proclamation stamp.

I Stampers big brush.,  watercolor paper.

    PITT Artist Pens in reds and yellows.

Gelatos 

 Scrap Happy Glue

You're so fine glitter-Diamond Clear Cool Highlight.

Such a fun project! You should try this!

Dont forget to enter MY GIVEAWAY!!!

Lets try this again! BIG Giveaway!*closed*

Hey there bloggers!!

 Why is it that when you go out of town blogger goes crazy

and doesn't post my posts?

Or better yet posts it and some people can see it and can't comment or

some people see nothing but the title?

I don't know but let's try this again!

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First here is a card made with sticky backed canvas from

Love My Tapes! It already has the newsprint on it and I used

my Gelatos from Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft to color it!

The butterfly stamp, glue & glitter is from The Rubber Cafe!

Speaking of Gelatos let's do a giveaway!!!

How about $25.00  worth of

Faber Castell- Design Memory Craft products!!

It could look like this...

or this...

or this...

or this...

it will be a combination of products to total $25.00!

Oh and did I mention I will pick

THREE winners to win $25.00 in product???

Four ways to be entered to win

1. follow my blog

2. suscribe to  Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft  

There is a little button at the top right that looks like

  click on this to suscribe to the DMC feed!

3. "like" Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft on facebook

4. Post this giveaway on your blog or facebook

Come back and

put a comment on this post for each entry

and FRIDAY March 2nd

 I will pick THREE random winners from the entries!

Good Luck!

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P.S. it was so nice meeting so many lovely ladies this weekend!!!

three posts!!!

Wow in all this time I have never had this happen

today I have different posts in three places!

I am super  excited to announce my first official post at The Rubber Cafe!

Not only did I get to play with some really fun new stamps and stuff I am going this

weekend to do demos for them at the Scrapbook Expo in Anaheim!

Which reminds me - I will be gone but I am doing a huge giveaway everyday this weekend!!

You will have to come back on Friday for the details!

I also have this totally cute project on the ScrapGal Blog today!!

And this very cool acrylic card

on the Clear Scraps blog today!!!

Please go and check our these other posts!!!

                              PS!!! Come back Friday I will be doing some giveaways!!!

You DON'T want ot miss out on this!!!!

A new artist...

 

One of the things I love about kids is that they are so

 open and honest about whats on their hearts.

Baby girl is always making these

 beautiful peices of art and they always

 have a message of love for the recipient.

( Usually a family member. ) I love that! 

She has become  quite the budding atist so I decided

her art needed to be framed.

( I did have her sign it after I took the picture!)

Thank you so much for your continued

prayers for my son.

(post below)

I hope you are having a wonderful day!

Hey Chick! (prayer request)

I know you were expecting some big ol' pink and red valentine post

but yeah, thats not gonna happen!

I got new stuff! I was so excited I just got these papers hot of the press from

Ta Da Creative Studios I had to make something!

This collection is called Yee Haw ! 

There is another brand new super cute collection called poolside too!
*the fabric tape - is from Love My Tapes!

This ones for the girls!

Yep you know who you are, I miss my friends

and since they know I am a total slacker

about keeping in touch I figured I'd do it here with this card!

  Here are the papers I used

"hittin' the hay"

 

  "bumper crop"

Yee Haw snippets and clippets!
So there you have it!

I hope you have a fantastic valentines day!
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Prayer Request

As you know my son graduated early last year

at 16, he is now 17 and of course knows everything (I am just the mom).

He has been going to college, and we are grateful for that.

Since he graduated he has contemplated going into the military.

Seriously, I have no problem with the military and I honor and salute

our brave men and women who proudly serve our country.

My problem is when his father and I ask if he has prayed about this

decision he changes the subject, avoids answering and gets angry feeling like we

are questioning or making fun of his descision. He has changed his mind form

the Marines, to the Air Force and now to the NAVY.

He won't even talk about this with us except to "sign here" as he is still a minor.

He will be 18 in May.

Tomorrow he takes the ASVAB

and he will have some career choices to make

in the next two days. I can't imagine making life changing decisions

without first seeking God and His will for my life.

He is a believer and knows this.

Why he isn't seeking God in these matters I do not know.

 This morning he told me

"I don't have to pray about this, I made a decision and I'm sticking to it."

 PLEASE

 be praying for him, I know he just thinks

we are tryng to influence his decision -

truly we know that it is his to make we just want

to be sure that he is making the right choice for him

 and that this is God's will for his life.

We are praying for wisdom and discernment,

that he will hear God's voice and make decisions based on God's will for his life.

Thank you, I am sure that you can understand my concerns

 and so very much appreciate your prayers.

May God bless your family.

What is so fun about CHA!

  
One of the cool things about going to CHA winter is that it takes place in Anaheim, CA. Not far from where I grew up. I was able to see some of my friends and visit with my MIL.

I guess when you are a scrapbooker the funniest things make your day. For this trip it was these buttons I received from my MIL. She noticed that I use buttons in my work and asked if I would want some. I said sure, not knowing how many buttons she was talking about! Look at this!!! This isn't even all of them! There were so many she had to ship them to me - I couldn't fit them in my suitcase!!! I got TWO boxes!

 Here are some of my favorites!

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Another fun thing is meeting IRL
(in real life)
friends that I've met online and talked to (some of them)
for years! This was my first time meeting

 Melissa and Tammy
from Scrapbooking from the inside out!
Here's the whole crew

Tammy, Rachel (owner of SFTIO), me, Melissa, Sophia

Old friends...

Another fun thing is seeing old friends that you haven't seen for years!

All the way on the left is my friend Pat
( I am in yellow - probably the last time you would catch me wearing that color!
But I digress!), the little girl is her sister.

 This was from our 9th grade graduation (yeah I am not listing THAT year! LOL!) 

                                                            

  Here we are now, it's been years since we saw each other

in person-how cool is that? I think this will make for a fun layout!
I was also lucky enough to spend time with another very close

friend  but we were so busy catching up that

we forgot to take a picture! :(
Ironically she took this pic of me
and Heidi Sonbol.

This was after everything was over and we were exhausted!
But you can't go home without bringing
 goodies for the kids!

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OK a couple more photos of CHA...
I have a ton more if you want you can see them here
I even filled up my flickr account!

Isn't this gorgeous?

And I had to share this photo of Graphic 45's booth!
There are always amazing things in there!!!
I think I am exhausted just doing this post! I am going to bed!
Goodnight all!

CHA...oh my goodness more pics...

 

Ok so since I have been home I am trying to get my house back in order

laundry, cleaning, catching up! I still have some fabulous photos

to show you from CHA!

Now for this picture - I would so appreciate if the displays would post

the designer of the projects - I am so loving these

and would like to see more but I dont know who designed them.

(If you recognize them and know the artist can you let me know?)

 I was so excited to meet Heidi Grace - isn't she cute?

She is back in the industry and designing her own cute new lines!

Love this - you know how hard it is to find "big boy" lines!

                                                                             So fun!
                                                                       Congrats Heidi!



I was super excited to see my card in the top 20 case at CHA for Clear Scraps...
It's the one one bottom right hand corner!
How cool is that?

and last...
Grant Studios



How cute is that canvas, not to mention this wall...

I would love to have a wall like that!

CHA part 6!

This caught my eye as I was walking by...Melissa Francis

I think I need these trims!

Fun dispaly!

I needed way more time for all the vintage goodies in this booth!

How cute is that garland? Coffee filters! Yay Ephiany crafts!

Love love  love this new line from GCD

Kaisercraft always has awesome displays...

 


                                          There you have it for today at least! LOL!
                                              Still more to come, did I mention
                                                    I brought home some goodies
                                                             from CHA to giveaway?
                                                                      Stay tuned!