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Bundle of Joy ...

  Here is another  multi open card invite .. this time its  for a  baby announcement ..  sorry I do not have the measurements handy right at this moment ( to  early  I suppose )  But it is very similar to my BBQ CARD I did a few days ago with just an extra  panel to open & with 1  slight change   the back base card is the size of a post card  NOT a full size card like the BBQ one .  As you can tell by the  following photos .. Once I get the measurements I will  come back and  make a  addition  to this post .. Okey  Dokey ..

MEASUREMENTS: starting  from back of card and moving forward :

Rose red ~ 4 1/4 X 5 1/2 ( post card size )

Sage shadow ~ 4" X 5 1/4

Going Gray  3 1/2 ( score @1/4)  X 3 3/4

Rose red 3 3/4 ( score @1/4 ") X 3 1/4

the  scored  sides  are where you will apply your sticky  strip and  wrap  behind  sage shadow layer

Here is  what the  1st panel  looks like when opened and

then with the  final  panel opened to  reveal the  announcement  of the little bundle of Joy I used Sage shadow and  rose red   & Going Gray for the  colored CS  with also whisper white .Sticky  strip was used  to hold the beads  on the front panel  of the card .  and Narrow organdy white ribbon along with  silver cord..    such a fun card to make ..

About 3 weeks ago I had sent hubby his lap top computer to him  with a LOT of other goodies  snacks, flip flops ,  blanket ,   a bunch of new  light  colored  shirts from Steve and Barry's  anyway I had also put in there those  12 I LOVE MY HONEY SHADOW BOX CARDS with 12 envelopes  and well he finally got his package   this past Saturday  YAHOO!

I was really worried about sending the computer and not only that, But the package weighted in at 36 lbs ( Holy Cow HUH? ) anywho ..  As soon as he got the package  & my 12 cards  I sent him he  started handling the cards out .. Everyone looked  really weird at him  and  was waiting for  the  catch .. Like >  What he wanted in return for the  card  and  Rich told them It was FREE and there was  NO  catch .. Rich  went on to tell me that  all of guys over there   do things  for someone in return  for something ..( is  this not how the world  Thinks  even in the USA .. ya know Nothing is  for FREE right? EXCEPT  FOR  the cards for the troops !! )  well he had all 12 cards gone in  a FEW  MINUTES his Foreman/ Operation Glitter Drop Manager ( Hee! Hee! )    told Rich that  the card was the coolest thing he had ever seen  in his whole life .. YAHOO! So needless to say  Rich  is sooo excited to get  all the cards you have sent for him to  hand out  to everyone for FREE.. Making him of course the most wanted man over there  all thanks to YOU!!  WOW  what a  testimony  he will be  to everyone over there HUH? .. I am sure we will be hearing tons of stories  from over there once he gets  the cards and starts handing them out ..  I am sooo excited  Not only  for my Hubby  to be able to pass all  your beautiful cards out , But   also for our troops and all their family members  to receive  such a awesome card in the mail from thier loved ones over in Iraq .. All because  of YOU  Stampin Angels !

Have a Fabulous Monday everyone and I will catch you all tomorrow.

May 2nd is only 2 days away  YAHOO!

Until later .. Happy Stampin!!

Heres a cool trick ...

I  thought I would pass along  the  cute trick ..  you will need a dollar bill and 2 paper clips.. Set your  dollar up  with the paper clips as shown in the photo  and  once you get that done  pull  both ends of  the dollar  .. and  see what happens  to the paper clips Pretty Cool HUH?  do it again  to see how it all happens  in slow motion ..  I  cant wait  to show my Sunday school kids this   morning  they will love it ..

Happy  mail day again ..  packages came from  Bonnie Shay  and  Janice  Heighway .. OH my thank you so Much girls..  Bonnie sent  envelopes with hers as soo many of you have done so too Thank you  so Much for doing that ..  you will never know  how much this  has helped me  since I had never planned on receiving so Many cards ..  and Janice  had a  little surprise in  her box for me  along with her cards  .. a new cuttlebug  embossing folder " Script " you all are  sooo awesome and thank you  so Much..  You all are sure spoiling me  .. Big {{{ HUGS}}} to all of you ..

Remember  May 1st is the deadline for  the blog candy give  a way with Angie .. But  Like I  have shared  many times before I will  continue to accept  any  you want to send me   for our troops / " OPERATION GLITTER DROP" all year long  since I will be mailing goodies to hubby  every week .

Well I must get around for church I have to put together a jello salad  for tonight's  April birthday fellowship at church . Thanks  so Much for stopping in and I will see you tomorrow .. Enjoy the 3 postings of   just a few of the  cards I recieved  for  the troops .. every  single card  that is sitting in my house right this minute  are all sooo beautiful  I just wish I could showcase every one of them

Until later ... Happy Stampin!!

Cards for Troops keeps on GROWING

  In my endless search for the perfect Salt and Vinegar  potato chip I have finally  found 2  that are to die for .. the  1st on the list  which is  my  ultimate favorite  in Salt & Vinegar is  the  brand name  ARCHER FARMS .. OH my  girls  these chips ROCK my world     the brand of chip is a  kettle  cooked  style  and the flavor of the salt and vinegar is  sooo  perfect  Not to strong  Just the perfect  blend .. you can find these chips at  Target stores  for 1.99 for a big bag  YUMMY YUMMY!!

The next  on my  favorite list of Salt and Vinegar chips is  Uncle Rays   a  Local Michigan  boy  in 1965 founded  this awesome chip company in Dearborn MI  and is located  now in Detroit.  You can read the  whole story on Uncle Rays chips site HERE  click on  OUR COMPANY    and also  chapters are printed right on the back of each bag of chips ..  such a  awesome personal touch IMHO  and  what a awesome  Reason  to why he started doing that  read  that part  HERE   & be sure to read the Uncle Ray chapters online  also   to see how it all got started ..The  bestest part of Uncle Ray is that he is a Christian ..  and proudly proclaims this on the home page of his   web site ( check it out  Praise  God !! )   These chips  are VERY strong in favor ( Love them )  and  are your typical  potato chip ( Not kettle cooked ) Both  are my  Most Favorite  chips .. and Yup I  am sending some to Rich  cause he love Salt and Vinegar too ..

Last night Jessie had a Spring fling event at her  school  all night  from 8:30pm last night until 6:00am this morning .. up all night  with friends  they went  roller skating ,  and played whirly ball and   then to Laser tag, Had Pizza  and  a ton of fun ..  and well  since  Jessie was  out and about having  a great time  I was   also ..  Cause I was stampin  with my  girls   for my fee fi faux fun II class  last night . Here is a card from  the class last night that we made  doing the  Faux wood Grain Technique .. What a Great time  we had .. Thanks girls ..

  Yesterday was  another awesome  Mail day YAHOO!  But the sad news  was the my mail man didn't get the update  on   the count,   since I was at the dentist office  when he delivered the goodies .. I got  3 packages  yesterday  1 from Carri Steele , 1 from   Christina  Muller  and 1 from Jen  Young In Hawaii .. You  girls are soo  sweet .. I have been receiving  little goodies in your packages   from  a personal card for me  with  such sweet notes ,  I even got a   day planner with magnet pen  for the frig, I got a  bunch of   accessories  and Yesterday Jen sent me a package of Chocolate Macadam eon  nuts  with a note  that said "A little  sunshine from Hawaii  for Dawn"   w/ a   cute card  with a turtle   wearing a hat ( which she also  colored in Purple .. and personal note inside .. You all  are sooo sweet  I  feel so unworthy to  be on the receiving end of  such  wonderful   goodies .. When it is all  of YOU that are doing  such a  beautiful thing for our troops  and of course making my hubby the most wanted man   over  there in Iraq .. Its  you all   that sooo deserve  these  sweet goodies .. Thank you  from the bottom of my heart ..  Reading all your personal  cards with notes inside makes my heart smile soo very big and brings me to  shedding tears of  JOY! Just imagine  how you all are going to make our troops feel when  they  get these cards ..  You all are changing the world   with your kindness .. Words can not express  My  deep appreciation  to all of you . You all have really went beyond my   expectations  in this mission  for cards for the troops ..  It just blows my mind  how many  card I have received  in such a short time .. you all  are  sooo awesome . Want to hear something really   cool ??  I talked to hubby last night and  told him  about Ruthie and Kirks idea  about " OPERATION GLITTER DROP " and how all that started with Sharon  posting a comment on my blog  about naming  the   card shop and  that I thought  they should call their portable Hallmark  store  that over there "OPERATION GLITTER DROP" ... Rich   got such a kick out of the name  I really hope he makes up signs  for his  area  for the   troops to come and  get their free cards . I of course told him  we need  to see Tons of photos .. Then  Rich told me  they already have a manager for the   Operation glitter drop  card shop  and are just waiting for them to start arriving .. YAHOO! How  funny is that Hee! Hee! What a blessing it will be  For  Rich and His Manager ( Hee! Hee! )   to hand out these awesome cards & to see the smiles  the troops have on their face  when  the troops find the most perfect card to send home  to their  loved one .. Can  you just  picture those days when this all happens ? He had BETTER take lots of  photos  especially of their Grand Opening Day   Hee! Hee!  and to think you all had  a part of all this  girls .. You all  Just can not imagine  what you all have done .. Thank you  so Very much ..

Have a Fabulous Saturday girls  and I will see you tomorrow .

Until later .. Happy Stampin!!

I have been Tagged again !!

OH my I have been tagged  again ( Thank you  for tagging me  girls ) .. This time I am to  list 7 things  you never knew about me  and then  tag 7  other blogger friends ( so hard picking since  everyone looks like they have been tagged already  But I will try  )  Ok  lets see.. HUMMM

1.I have only been in one car accident  in my life( Knock on wood )  and that was not my fault..It   happened at beauty school and  someone rear ended me  in the parking lot ...

2. One day I was at Wal Mart  ( about 6 years ago now )  and I came out and the whole side of my  truck was smashed on the left side .. Of course the driver  was no where to be seen ..

3. I drove to Mississippi all by myself from Michigan  to see Richard  Graduate  from Navy  "A "school ..I thought I was  a  real  Cruising gal cause I had my dads CB radio  hooked up .. I do remember that a Trucker  helped me find  the right exit  I passed  at 2:00am  he  told me  the exact exit to take just by me telling him the mile marker I was at .. .. thinking  back now  This was  pretty STUPID on my part HUH ( lots of crazies  back then too KWIM? )  OH so young and  just plain STUPID!! HUH ? No wonder my mom was a wreck  with me going  by myself ..  wont do that today thats for sure ... and just for the record neither will Jessie

4. Richard and I  got married on my  Father In Laws  Birthday  August 31, 1988

5.I know most of you know this But its too good to pass up  and not mention again I LOVE PICKLE JUICE

6.I have a tattoo on my  right ankle  Not  something I  like to show  off now that I am 40 years old and all .. Hee! Hee!   But  back  when I  got it  I thought it was the coolest thing .. Funny thing is  that my tattoo is a rose  with Richards name  across the top .. I  thought I would kill to birds with one stone  since my dads name is Richard also  Hee! Hee!

7.I have a tanning bed in my basement 

Ok  now on to tagging 7 others ....

Lois Michael

Jen in Hawaii

Erin Kellogg 

Dee Jackson

Irene Mlaguzi

Dawn B

Gwen M

Today I have a dentist appointment  for my 6 month cleaning YAHOO I love getting my teeth cleaned ..

Another GREAT mail day yesterday   I received 5 packages  with cards for the troops  YAHOO!! Packages  arrived from Tracy Gonzales , Janet Dowell,  Barb Mann ( and friends )  and a sweetie pie  who lives on Tree shade way  in Ga, and 1 very special  personal  Hand delivery from  My  bestest gal  Dawn AKA~ Dawn Mercedes ( she delivered  another bunch of goodies  to my home  ( Can you believe that )  OH my even in the rain and all .. she actually has  all  the designs  posted on her blog if you want to  skip on over and take a  peek at what  she  hand  delivered to me yesterday ..  Every   card is sooo wonderful .. All you Girls  R-O-C-K !! ..

My mail man is  actually getting a kick out it right along with me , Cause every day  he says sooo what is the total so far today ?? His eyes  seem like they get bigger and bigger with each passing day when I   tell him  the amount ...OHHH  what I wouldn't  give to just be a   little bitty spider  over  with hubby to see him and all the troops when they receive all these awesome cards ..You all  are just amazing ... NOTE: Remember  the blog candy  give a way ends May 1st  ( all cards that  want to be entered into Angies  blog  candy give a way must be in my hands MAY 1st ... I will still accept any cards you want to send to me  for the troops after May 1st  because  I will be mailing goodies all year long to hubby and  Cards  will always make a nice  added bonus  for our troops over there .) announcements  to follow on May 2nd    You  will not  want to miss all the excitement on May 2nd  girls ... I can hardly  wait ..

OH NO  attack of  Mr Crabby Pants Just when you thought it was safe to  come out .. Whammy  he just shows  up again .. This is actually 1 of the 2 projects we are making tomorrow (Saturday) for my club meeting  and  I   sent This to Angie  also   for her to look at  while  she is recovering  from  her surgery (  wink wink ) last week  which by the way  she is doing   fine and is home trying to keep comfortable ..Please go say  HI to ANGIE  ..

Here is what the  Mr Crabby pants  tri fold looks like opened up .. He is sooo cute ... Have I told you yet   that I Love my Mr Crabby pants stamp set .. He had better make the new catalog thats all I have to say  about that !

Have a Fabulous Friday  and I will see you all tomorrow

Until later ... Happy Stampin!!

HELP!!! I am searching for YOU!!

I can't  find any other way to  get in contact with a couple gals  that I recieved packages of cards from today .. I need to have  Dowell   email me personally  and also  the person  that lives on Tree Shade  Way in GA please mail me  personally.. Along  with K. Skiff  ***Please email me****

Thank you so Much ..We now return you to  your  previous reading

Fire up the BBQ Grill girls ...

 I  wanted to share with you this really cute invite I made the other night .. and of course  I DO  NOT have a BBQ party planned any time soon.( I wish )    Just thought it was  cute  and since I have been smelling the BBQ grills  cooking around our neighborhood  this past weekend  made me  want to make this card .. It is a  tri fold of  sorts I guess you could say    I have  attached photos  of  each  step of this card as you open it  and here are the measurements  .

Your basic  base card ( real red )   measures 4 1/4 X 5 1/2 ( your base card will open from the left)  the  top  black mat size measures   4 1/4  X  3 3/4  on the 4 1/4 " side  score  at 1/4 "  this will be  where you will apply the sticky strip  to and wrap around to back side of your base  card . That's it in a nut shell ..  Now  you go make one of your own .. I actually have  this  template  made up with no  stamping images  on the card  just 2 pieces of card stock  made into this template  write your measurements on the back side and you will always have a  quick reference  for a quick  cute card   for  any occasion .. I received  12  different templates similar to this one a few years ago from  the Holland  stampin seminar I attended  and  I have always loved these cute and simple templates .. and so will you ..

I thought it was time again to brush  the  dust off  these cute templates and  make a few  of them with updated  sets.  Even though this BBQ set  is long gone ..I still think of it as new  since It has hardly been used,  But  is still a keeper  in my book .. Now if I could only  find a way to add the  scratch and sniff of a BBQ grill cooking , THEN I  think the card would be totally  AWESOME  Don't you ?

Great news hubby started receiving his  mail yesterday  ( OK actually it  was His Thursday  MY Wednesday ( yesterday )  Is that confusing or what ?  Especially now that he is  working midnights  OH boy .  I was really  beginning to get concerned with that whole issue  with him not getting his mail  ya know .. HELLLLOOOOOO  I am getting ready to send  him a ton of cards and the last thing we need is to  have them lost over the  Atlantic  or  Indian  Ocean  some where .. Now we can NOT have that one little bit .. sooo  this was  really  wonderful news  I got last night  from hubby that he is getting his mail now ..YIPPY!  Apparently  the post man over there  was on  his  RR leave back  home  in the US    sooo that was the reason for the hold  up ..

I have been trying to get a  few things stamped ahead of time  before my  knee  replacement surgery on the 10th  since I will not be able  to go  down stairs to my  stampin room   for  awhile  I  figured I  would try  to  stock pile a few things that will tie  us all over  during this down  time  thats approaching very quickly I might  add YIKES!!

Flash backs are suddenly  appearing  alot more frequently  If your pickin up what I laying  down ? Hee! Hee!

Yesterday was  a super dee duper mail day

7 packages arrived  with cards  from

Melissa Duncan,

Tessa Boulter,

Melanie Taylor,

Liz Kilburg,

K Skiff,

Snookie Hilker

Thank you  girls sooo very much  all your cards are sooo Beautiful .I am sooo excited about getting these to the troops .. 

I have 1  request today...

Can  K. Skiff  &  Snookie Hilker

email me personally ..

Did you all see LOST last night ?  Oh my !! What Sun is going to die now in 2 months ?, Jin is the baby's father , Who is that woman that fell  from the sky? She said they found the plane and there were NO survivors WHAT IS GOING ON ????... Good'O Juliette is up to her  tricks again with Ben cause she is  leaving  secret messages for him , even though  she did say she hated Him ..  and didn't the  eye patch guy die a couple  shows back ??HUUMMMM Just more questions to make it more Twisted  HUH?  Isn't it GREAT though ?  gotta love LOST! 

Have a Fabulous day and  until later... Happy Stampin!!

~~Spring is in the air~~

I got  a couple new  stampin goodies  delivered yesterday  and Had to put them to work  right away  ..  Again using  Cool Caribbean with   So Saffron  I used my new set THATS NICE I just love those  sayings .. I separated  the  word from the saying as you can  tell in the photo below .. I think I will get alot more use  out of my set mounted this way .. Thank  goodness the  words fit on the side since I did not even think of measuring  them before I made the   cuts ..WHEW so thankful they fit on the   side of the  wood block .. ( Thank you  SU! for thinking  of me when you made this set to be mounted this way  Hee! Hee!) 

    You can see  by this photo  how I did mine .. Just love  my Palette O' Prints  sampler pack too...  (Palette O' Prints will be Available  May 1st to everyone ... See  being a demo  does have its Perks )

These are  Brand new  double sided papers  that will be in the new catalog  come this July  Yippy!  Don't worry May 1st will be here before you know it to get your  hands on  this  sampler pack too  .. Now that I think about it We got  Lots of exciting things going on  around  May 1st HUH? .. Gonna have to wait  just a little longer   for the BIG  news on the "Operation  Glitter drop " and  also a couple other announcements coming your way  too.. so stay tuned   I can tell your excited just by the  way your sitting on the edge of your   chair  there at your computer ..   Just   waiting in anticipation huh? Believe me  I think it has been way harder on me trying  not to  say  anything .. Trust me  you all  should give yourselves a BIG  {{{HUG}}} You all make me so proud to be apart of  such Fabulous group women .....  There is  No one like  YOU!! Stampers  truly  are a work of ART!!

Look  what else  popped   up  and is  bloomin   at my house !! I thought for sure my tulips would  not bloom this year since that cold spell we had 2 weeks ago  I really thought they were goners .. 

Yesterday  Jessie got  some really awesome bubbles .. the best thing  about these were that they smell like strawberries  Yummy !! Look at this  big bubble Jessie  caught  while we were outside yesterday  enjoying the  weather .. It's  soo pretty HUH?  I  love bubbles seems like   the kid in all of us  comes out  when bubbles are  around ..  and  that made it feel like Spring  has officially  arrived ..

Enjoy your  day today and make someone 

SMILE

Until later ... Happy  Stamping..

What is Tall , black and cool caribbean ?? MY baby giraffe of course silly

I had to try my hand at making one of those  4 .25  sq  base cards  That I have been seeing around alot lately, with the  end  measurement of  my card being 4 .25 X 5 .50 with the baby Giraffe popping up  to  make it the 5.50  finial  size.. I also used my friend Gwen's  sketch  layout  from yesterday  on  our angel group , Not exactly  what the  sketch  looked like  piece by piece  But  the idea and layout  did  come from  the sketch template . ( Thanks  Gwen baby ) I used  cool Caribbean , black and whisper white  card stock  along with my  scallop  scissors and  my  awesome crop-a-dile  for my eyelets , and my white gel pen  along with my black  stamp & write  marker  for the  doodle  dots  & my  Bundle of joy stamp set .. I really love  how it all  turned out.

Yesterday was another awesome MAIL day I think   the  mail was making up  for having  Sunday off  cause I got  5 packages yesterday ..  Thank you   Lisa  Bauer, Erin Kellogg , Mary Binder, Kay Peterson, &  Beverly  Ambrosi..OH my goodness  I so wish  you could all see these beautiful cards .. Thank you   girls  sooo very much  and  again  Thank you  everyone  who has sent in cards and will be sending in cards .We have had such an out pour of Love  for our troops  from all over the world ...  I  am sooo excited  to mail all your  awesome  cards to all of them. Even more excited to hear all the stories and see the photos of our troops  with the cards .. I did alittle "FUN" stamping last night ( ya know the kind where your just goofing around with different things ..( I love doing that )   But  the rest of the week  have to  start  preparing  for the EVENTS I have planned this weekend   I got everything lined  up Just have to get everything pre cut and  ready to go now ..

Things that make you  go HUMMMM....

Why You do we  go under  over passes and over  under passes ? HUMMMMMM

Why do they say a" an alarm is going off " when it is really  going on ? HUMMMMM

Thank you all who signed my new guest book ..  if you have not done it yet OH please do I love  to put a face to all my blogger friends ..  very simple to do just click on  view all guests  button and  it will open in a full  screen  and then you will  be able to add yourself to  my guest book ..   and  also you can view all my other guests  and their beautiful faces there also .. Thanks  girls ..

Thank you all for  stopping by today and  I will see you all tomorrow ..

Until later ..Happy Stampin!! 

Happy Monday to ya's!

Saturday I received a  letter from Rich and It made me  chuckle cause I  Had just mentioned to you all HERE about  him calling me  His Lady .. look at this letter .. see  he really does  call me that  girls .. Last night  he was able to  get on a computer ( not his yet  .. he is still waiting for it to  get there ) and  we were able to email  each other  YAHOO! I am Soo excited that he can  email .. and I will be even happier once he starts  receiving his mail from us ..   Jessie and I have  got  at least 4 letters  so far from him and he has not got  1 yet .. What's up with that ? I think this is why he seemed a little down on Saturday when he called .. even though  he  didn't  want us to know,  But  I can tell by his  voice  he  was  feeling  down .. I know my honey bunch. We figured it takes about 10 days  for his letters to reach us ..  No telling how long  packages and  our letters take to get to him . Just wish they would start arriving  to lift his spirits a bit ..  I am   so excited about the email thingy  though ..

This  weekend  was soo beautiful out side ..  I  love Spring  weather . Here  is a  card I had for my  stamp a stack a few weeks  back  a very simple card  But it  makes me thing of spring when I look at it .. Its a  fancy fold of sorts .. cutting and scoring your  reg  card base  then on the  front  of your card  score at 2 1/8 "  ( the little mark after 2") this makes  a fold  line  right in the middle of  the front of the card .. fold  back and  add a  small image.. pretty cute and quick .. I used the  doodle this  stamp set along with the  word blessed  from the  Fancy Flexible  phrases   from the  recently passed  winter mini.

  My friend Sharon posted a comment on naming  the  hallmark shop hubby will be setting up over  there and she made me giggle  with her sugestions for  the name of his card shop .. She is  one gal after my heart... Then I got  an email from my  cousin  Ruthie with her response to Sharon's comment she left HERE   and   the name  her and her hubby came up with  just made me  smile ear to ear .. what do you all think about  "Operation Glitter Drop "   How cute is that ?  so Stay  tuned for May 2nd  and BIG news on Operation Glitter Drop.. Thank you Sharon , Ruthie & Kirk  for  such  cute names  for hubby's portable  hallmark shop over in Iraq 

Have a Great  Day  everyone.  I am soo excited to see what the mail man brings today Wink wink ..and thanks so much for peeking in today,  I will see you  tomorrow

Until later ...Happy Stampin!!

   

Cards Galore !!

   Happy mail day yesterday . I received  Sharon Canters cards  along with Kay Mespelt Thank you  so Much  girls .. your cards are  all so  Beautiful ..

  I  received this blogger Rak  from Nancy Brandt   Thank you Nancy for  this super cute  card  she used  one of my  Favorite  SAB sets  this year  you can visit Nancy's blog  by  clicking HEREThank you Nancy

I have also received these 2  cute Easter cards .. I am sooo sorry for being  so behind in posting this one is from Kay Mespelt sooo cute huh?   

and the 2nd Easter card I received was from Gina Wrona.. her card  is a tri fold   and  is also soooo sweet  thank you so Much  girls  your cards are sooo sweet

The next card I received  is from Terri Molineux Thanking me for her  scissor charms   she also used  another Favorite SAB set  sooo cute Terri

Inside both of my packages yesterday   from Kay and  Sharon , They each sent a   awesome card  for me personally   the  1st  from Kay is sooo cute  when you open  this  cute  little  card it holds a  package of  coffee  and she stamped  you warm my heart ..

  and Sharon  sent me this   pretty card  along with her  package of cards for the troops

Thank you all so very much  I think this may catch me up on all  the beautiful cards I have received  the last  couple weeks  I am sooo sorry for posting them so Late ,, Please forgive me .. you all are sooo sweet and I  love them all  thank you  so Much

Have a Great Sunday  and I will see you tomorrow

Until later ....Happy Stampin!!

More cards for the troops ..

  Happy Saturday to ya  Here is another Bunch  from the  cards for the troops . I  Had another Fabulous mail day yesterday I got  packages  from Ellen Sutton , Sandy Dayhogg  and Connie Babbert..OH MY goodness I have  quite the  collection in my living  room  and its growing  every day ..Thank you  girls  sooo much  all your cards  are just beautiful . I wanted to share with you all  some cards I have  received  as  RAKs, Thank you notes  and  even a  invite the  1st one comes  from Annette  T  she sent me this super cute  thank you card  using  bundle  of Joy .. Love that cuttlebug girlie .. and I look at her butterflies .. sooo cute I tell ya ..  Thank you Annette..   ( I dont know why the underline is there ..Sorry ) The next card comes from Gina  W  she sent me  a invite to   come to her  Daughters 1st  Communion   such a pretty card  and Love that Gold  cardstock  girlie  scallop punches  and  cross brads  add such  a nice touch..  Thank you girls  for such beautiful cards .I have a few more to share  But I will save them for tomorrow  okey dokey ?  So have you seen my new guest book  over on the left hand side of my blog? OH my goodness this thing took me  hours to  downsize to have the whole screen  fit on  there .. Thank you  Kathy.... Kathy called me to help   me  try and add this  cute little  guest book  thingy  since her blog  was the  1st I seen  with  one  she is soo cute  her and her hubby were  trying  to help me  along with Dawn But  I use type pad for my blogging   and they both use  Blogger spot Both are sooo different Bu I sooo appreciate  all your  Helps    .. I finally  realized that I could  change the code  in the my  notes TypeList .. so I just changed the  size  amount to smaller so the screen was still big enough and  everyone still be able to view the guest book  But yet not be cut off  KWIM ?..  Would you  please sign my guest book and add a photo if your able too  Cause   I would love to  put a face to  all my blogger friends.. Bowzer is shaking his ears so it  gonna be ear drops  for him ..  poor baby .. he has   such ear problems  I think that is a  normal  thing with Labs .. he gets a yeast  in his ears   every so often and  can  stop shaking  his head ..

Things  that make you go  HUMMM...

If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked? HUMMMM

Why when your driving  looking for a address , you turn the radio down ? Hummmmmm

Why is the word abbreviation so long ? hummmmm

Have a Great Saturday ...

Until later .. Happy Stampin!!

Happy Friday!!

OH My another great mail day ... I  received  D Sparks  cards  ..YAHOO!  so many Great  cards .. Thank you so Much  D!!

So are you all  enjoying the  samples I have been sharing  from everyones  cards they sent in .. every  single card I  recieved  is soooo beautiful . My hubby's  portable Hallmark store over there will be  better than any  Hallmark store here in the US thats for sure ..  Thank you  everyone ..  Its not to late to join in   you have until May 1st to get in on the blog candy give a way BUT  I will be accepting  cards for troops all year long  since I will be  doing lots of mailing to  hubby  so Keep them coming  ..   

I also received  some  cards from my  Momma  yesterday .. Seems she  was in a cleaning mood  this past weekend  and  is cleaning out  her  back  bedroom  for me to  sleep there in case I need  to after  my knee surgery .. she is the Bestest Mom .. Richard called yesterday out of the blue .. That was  awesome ..  Richard  still has not  received  any mail  That I have sent yet ..But  Wednesday and Thursday Jessie and I started to receive  His mail so  I hope  he  starts  getting our mail  even though it seems like we talk about everything  that we write each  other Its just something about getting a card/ letter in the mail KWIM?  Rich sent  Jessie  some  money he had  got over  there  and she  was sooo excited about it and couldn't wait to show everyone at Church and at school  what her dad  sent her .. money exchange over there seems  to be  $3.56 Iraq to $1.00  US Thats if I remember right  since Jessie  took the letter  so Fast   and I have no clue where it is .. But thats  what I remember of it  anyway ..Rich had been  working nights over there  now ( his thoughts  was that he wanted to be up when  me and Jessie   are  up and and about with our day  too .. so sweet )  Rich  told me   he was on  call  all night Monday  because a Marine Corp  was Hit with a IED bomb  right out side his  Base gate  and Rich said he was on stand by all night at the hospital  for the  doctors  with the  generators , lights  etc.. Just in case anything went  out  during the time to help this Marine ..  The Marine  corp  was alive when Rich  left his shift  But lost both his legs  and they were getting ready to fly  this  Marine to Germany  Once they got him stable .. Just Terrible I tell ya  what  these men and women are facing every day over there .. I think this is why I am SO  excited  about getting these cards  over there  for all of them ..  Such a small piece of  home  and for a Brief moment  to  let them forget  whats happening over there Ya know ?   I also made a few more cards for the HUGE  bunch to  go  I made  a few of these Lady Bug cards  last night ..  Kinda reminds me of my  Honey Shadow box I think so  But of course with lady bugs .. Funny  thing  Rich has  always  called me HIS LADY!!  so maybe that was the base of my Creativity with this  card idea  I  don't know..  I Sure Am Missing him !!

The Lady Bug Card I used  the  all wrapped up  stamp set for the  Jar and the  Lady bugs came  in the All wrapped up accessories .. Can you see the  tiny  small Red  stickles glitter dots ..( wow  say that  10 times fast )  I even touched a  small dot on the lady bugs backs  too .. I used my Karen Foster  snap stamps  for the "I love my Lady "   I also cut out the  lid and propped it up  against the jar  and added a red  gingham  bow.. Pretty simple card  really adding the glitter   dots with the stickles was  the  trickiest since I didn't want to squeeze to much out and  get a Big BLOB  KWIM?

Things that make you  go HUMMMMMM

Why is it  Vanilla Ice  cream  white  when  Vanilla  extract is  Brown ??   HUMMMM

Why is Charlie short for Charles  when they both have the same  number of letters ?? HUMMMMMM

Have a Fantastic Friday !!

P.S ENABLER  ALERT!!  Joanne has a 50% coupon   until tomorrow  the 21st ...

Until later ... Happy Stampin!! 

I have been Tagged !!

Yesterday I was tagged by Alli Thank you girlie  xoxoxo.  this Tag  go around  has no Q&A BUT I  must tag 5 other  Great Bloggers  well  thats gonna b hard to narrow the  field down  cause  all   my awesome blogger  friends  are  listed on the left  side of my  blog ..  But  I do have to pick 5  so here you  go ..

Sarah Bevard

Kelly Sampson

Rose Ann

Robin Desko

Mary Anderson

I could  go on  forever  ya know .. But seriously ..I truly  have some awesome blogger friends  these  gals listed above and all those listed on the left hand  side of  my blog... I love  my blogger  girlfriends .. Pop in and say Hi to these gals  for me .. Thanks  Alli  for tagging me .. and your  sweet email  to me  yesterday

I have had a few gals ask me  How many cards am I up to know .. Well thats a  BIG Secret   cause you  all are going to have to come back  on May 2nd  cause   something fun is a  brewin ( Thats all I can say  right now )  with also BIG news  on   May 2nd    please  make a note  to not miss those 2 BIG  announcements  coming ..  One for all of you and One   about me ... Hee! Hee! Yesterday was a GREAT  mail day   I got 4 packages of cards from  4 amazing stampers yesterday  ~ Melissa Sibert ,Beate Johns , Kristine Breach    and  More cards from my  favorite cousin Ruthie  Swenson..OH MY Gosh  such  awesome cards I have  sitting in my living room ..   Thank you all  so Very much .. Good thing I have a HUGE-O box  already for sending these Beauties  to my hubby I am sooo excited ...

Yesterday  My Knee appointment  went  really  great ...  everything is a go   Just have to wait to   get the  call to  go see the  anesthesia  doc  closer to surgery date ..  I will be  getting a  spinal  again this time around .. Plus  I want to be knocked out also .. cause did you know   some people like to be awake  for knee surgery .. OMG  I so  could not handle that ..  even though I did wake up   during  my knee surgery last time  I heard   alot of hammering .. and I  woke up and  asked "WHO is doing all that hammering"..  didn't feel anything   just woke up ..   after that I don't remember a Thing.. apparently   this was when they were  taking out my  knee  OUCHIE huh?  Yes  TKR ( total Knee replacement )  is not a simple  task  thats for sure .. Pretty in human if you  ever  see one done . which of course I was required to watch a small video  on the TKR  last time  and It is NOT a pretty sight .. BUT thank God  They can do theses  things now a days  to help  thousands  of people ..

I really  hope I am not boring you all with my Mr Crabby pants  Cards ...  I have to share  this one I made  a few weeks ago.

I had mention awhile ago how much I love Black CS with any of our  SU! colors and this one is no  different .. By the way  have you all seen my  Crabby Pants  Family gallery on the left hand side of my   blog ..  I used the  slit punch to make all the scallops and  going gray was thrown in   the mix to  add  some more  color  and also  red gingham ribbon with staples were added  for flair  and lets not forget the  doodles  with my black marker..

Hope you all are enjoying   the  samples from  the  huge  amount of cards I have been receiving  for  our troops .. I will be sharing more  in  the  upcoming weeks  to  let you  share in my  excitement  too ...  Thank you all  for  visiting my blog  so faithfully  I so  enjoy  reading  that  you  visit my blog  1st thing in the morning with a  cup a joe .. I do believe  you all are like family to me  and I look forward to posting  every morning  just knowing your out there   looking and reading

So now  on to  Lost ...I thought  for sure that  person that fell  from the sky was really going to be Penny  didn't you .. Poor Desmond.. and  OH boy Kate and Sawyer were at it again last night .. OH MY !! .. Did you all  fall for the 1st scene with Charlie  getting  shot in the neck ? I  think I was onto that whole  set up  with Desmond's  visions  and all  from the previous weeks .. I sure like it when he says Brother ..   getting  down to  get  wire   now  ONLY 5 more   weeks  Boo Hoo!  next week looks  Great  with  Sun  and her baby ? what is going to happen with her ? HUMMMM with all the  stuff  going around  with women on the island not being able to have  children ..OH NO !!

  Until later ... Happy Stampin!! 

 

Looky ~ Cards for Troops

OK  2 posts in 1 day  what is happening   you ask ?  I  am just busting at the seams here with excitement  over all your beautiful cards  and seriously  every  one  is sooo awesome  I  had  literally   just grabbed  a  hand full of cards  from all that  has been sent in up to  today and I  just have to share   a  few with you   each day  I  swear I  could probably post a new  grouping every day   for the next year  but for the sake of  time running out I will post a  photo of  a few cards  I have received   up  through May 1st  for the Grand total  Photo of  them all Hows that ?  I am sure you will not want to miss  that  photo  will ya ?  I have no clue who sent me  what  in the upcoming photos  and what company's  the stamps , cardstock. accessories   and inks are all  from  Like I said I just grabbed  some and started taking photos .. But rest assured every single  card  is  just as Beautiful as the next and has been counted  for credit to the sender .. .. I am sorry I will not to able to post every single card  and Please Please  I do not wish to hurt anyones feelings  I just merely want to share  with you  How very talented  all you are out there in   the stamping  world ..I  am truly blessed   words can not  express  what  I feel when I see  all these  awesome  cards  spread out  all over my  living  room  for our  Troops .. I can only imagine  what my hubby is going to feel like when he opens   this HUGE  box of  wonderful cards ..  I have had a few gals  write me and  tell me they  didn't sort them ... OH my  are you kidding  thats  all the fun my hubby can have  when he receives  them Hee! Hee!  .. There is NO possible way I could  do that  I really  don't think there would be enough  hours in a day to do  that .. so Please just send  them  how ever .. I did tell hubby he should look into having someone  over there build him a  card rack  to have  them all on display ..   Plus  with the  package of cards I will sending him  some  adhesive  to have on hand  ( Great Idea Ruthie .. ya know she is my  favoritest cousin  wink wink )  due to the  Very  hot  climate  over there nothing is worse than having the card  come apart  right ?  so I got that covered also.. Gee wiz  we will make  my hubby a stamper  after all  the compliments  he will be receiving  for  all these Beautiful cards 

  Thank you all from the bottom of my heart .. Enjoy  your evening and I will see you tomorrow

Until later ... Happy Stamping 

Blast from the past ...

Look what I stumbled on looking through my old files ..( Don't you love finding things from the past)  Actually this was my  very 1st publication with our  SU! magazine  called " On Stage " January - March 2006  Vol 6 ~ issue 5  It is located on page 7 One of my other favorites sets is showcased  on the cover of this issue  of  On Stage  where my card is located.. Its  the frog from Unfroggetable  ( which by the way  was a re-make from Debbie Olsen's  card  for   her winning submission for  March 2006   contest)    anywho  .. I just love this  card I submitted  But what SU! failed to show  in the photo  they published was  what this   card   looked like  fully opened  up ..  so  I wanted to post and show you  this card what it looks like  when  you pull the sides  out . These are the famous  Wiper  cards ..I still haven't  framed that page from that issue yet ... not sure if I can bear to mess up my  whole magazine to do that .. I guess I  could  have kinkos  copy it for me ..  since I  think I really want to do that .. (  Kinkos has the BEST Laser   copiers  that I have EVER  seen in my whole life )  Pretty funny how  having a card in a SU!  magazine  can make you  feel  alittle famous , even if it was  for a brief  moment  in time  It was   still  the highlight  of the whole year  for me .. Plus this was actually  one of my  most used and loved  stamp  sets from Sell-a-bration  that  year .. It just screamed for glitter  KWIM?  and you all know me with my  glitter  HUH?  Thanks for going  down memory lane with me ... This morning I have  my  appointment  with my   knee  doctor .. just the last visit before  going under the knife  and getting my new knee .. I am sooo excited I get to  do aspirin therapy  this time around and not Cumidin ( sp?) ( which you all know is  rat poison  right? )  The other  knee replacement  I  had to take that junk for 6 weeks  and  had to give blood at the hospital every week  YEA like that was alot of fun (giving blood no biggie)  But it was   getting out  with my new knee  in the  middle of winter  ..  (Thus the reason for  doing my other knee in the spring NO SNOW!!! )   I know  such little things to get excited about  HUH?

Another exciting mail day yesterday  I  got a bunch of  awesome cards from Kathy Wheeler  & Lisa Rogers  Thank you  so Much  girls  your cards  are  awesome ..   

Things that make  you  go HUMMM.....

Why , When we  send something  by Ship Its called Cargo  and if we send  something by  car its called shipment ? HUMMMMM

Why do they call small candy bars  the "FUN SIZE"?  Wouldn't be more  fun to  eat a big one ? HUMMMMMM

Ok one more for today ..

Why are they called APART-ments  when they are  stuck together? HUMMMM

I want to  mention   My Great friend Angie  you know   ANGIE???  My blog candy cards for the troops  Gal (  read top post on my blog )  .. She is having Surgery this morning at 8:30am  can you all  be praying for her today ... xoxoxox  to Angie  girl

My Heart is Breaking for those  that live in Va and that Massacre at  VA Tech this past Monday. Many people ask  where is God  at a time like this ..  Ya Know God is the same yesterday  today and  tomorrow  and  He is still on the throne.  Believe  me  God wants ONLY his perfect will to be done  BUT you  know Satan is roaming  the Earth  seeking  who he can  destroy,even though God is  On his Throne, People  still have Free will be  do these terrible things  in our world   Yes I do Mean Terrible  things  Thats why we must tell everyone  about Jesus ..Its sad to say  things like this  are still happening  every day But Praise God One day  No more tears, NO more killing  and we can  all live in perfect peace with our Lord .. Until that day Our  world  will be  seeing many  terrible things happen  BUT  remember   We know who wins  at the end right ? Maybe thats no comfort  . But Christians have comfort in the Lord  and all things must come to pass before his 2nd coming . Praise God  for he is crying too  for this   senseless blood shed . 

It finally is  looking like Spring here in Michigan  YAHOO Temps the rest of the week in  upper 50's -60's..  and By the way update on my hand  from Monday ( Sorry Mr Crabby pants was showing off yesterday and took over  .. what else is new ??)  anyway .. Doc  told me that a cortisone shot would not help my finger since   my whole finger was badly swollen  so He gave me a Med pack  to  help and its ben only 3 days and I can  at least  touch my  ring finger to my palm when I make a fist  so I guess that means its working  and the swelling is going  down .. Praise  God ..  I sure  wish  they would  invent something  that would make  me  feel like I didn't have RA  like  these  steroids do .. man I have gotten so much done  the last 2 days  Its  amazing these little  pills make me feel like  I don't have RA at all ( what a cover up that is  HUH?)   BUT  TERRIBLE  that they are  not  so good for you ..  I guess thats another one of those ..Things that make you go HUMMMMM.. HUH? 

See you tomorrow Thanks for peeking in today  have a Fabulous  day ..

Until later ... Happy Stampin!! ( sorry for such a long post today )Dont forget LOST os on tonight ... Like we  all need a reminder of that DUHHHH

Dont be affraid ... He is a Trained Professional !!

For your  complete amazement  and astonishment  I want to introduce to you the very talented group of  Mr crabby pants preforming  a death de fying  pyramid  YES  he is going be the next furby of the 21 century.. Mr Crabby  pants  is very talented you see  he plays hide in seek  with you when you open the card , and  he even has a sparkle that  will put a  shine  all over the room when he enters..  The very talented MR Crabby pants  will  arrive  at your home for a  personal  little  side show  just for you.  Just because you sent his  owner  ( ~ Dawn Griffith Proud Momma  of the little Mr~ )   10 cards or more  ( MR crabby pants is  pleading for more )  for the TROOPS in Iraq .. Mr  Crabby pants is totally aware  that nothing could outshine what our troops  are doing for our Country, But with his  small  amazing  body he just hopes this  will encourage  more cards to be  sent by the  deadline of May 1st .. So if  you  would like your own private   amazing  side show  with  me  "The one and only very talented Mr Crabby pants"   Please  stamp, wrap and send  all your cards to my momma (  Dawn )  and you will make  MR crabby pants  smile even bigger.. and  whats even better is that  you will help bring a  smile to our troops ..

Thank you  for all your  applause   &  I  " The Very talented Mr Crabby pants"   will be leaving the   building on May 2nd  at 10am

Things that make you go HUMMMM.....

If a store is open 24/7 ...  Why are there locks on the doors ??? HUMMMM

If a bunch of cats  jump on top of each other ...is it still called a Dog pile ??? HUMMMMM

See you all tomorrow :

P.S I got  3 packages of  awesome cards  yesterday  from Rose Ann, Rita Bracy  her #2 box  of cards  & Paula  Goff  WOWZIE!! Love  them all and so will our troops ..  Thank you  girls  so  very much  you all  are making my  hubby the most wanted  man  with a 10,000 reward

Until later ... Happy Stampin!!

Happy Monday to ya !!

  Got to use my new doodle this  set again  and for  this card  I had my friend Linda on my mind  she loves  everything pink  and I love anything with lots of Glitter ( so does Linda by the way  hee! hee!) so  this  is what I came up with .. I  made this card  last week and  forgot to share it with you all  and well  since there hasn't been to much stamping  this weekend ( due to my hands  hurting ) I wanted to share this  super glittery card with you today ..  Today I hope to get in  with my RA doc  and  get a  cortisone shot in my wedding ring finger   I really should have done it  last Monday when I  went to the Doc office but  didn't do it .. Now I  need to get in  hopefully today  so he  can do it .So much to do I cant even   function with this terrible pain any longer ..  ok details on my card .. Pixie pink and Glossy  card stock I stamped the  images in Black Staz-On . Pixie pink ink with a dauber  was used after I did the Crayon  resist technique .. Crayon resist is soo Great using a white crayon.. Heres How ~  After you stamp your images  and  let ink  dry  or   put  the heat gun to it  for a bit .. then  highlight any areas  you  want  to resist the ink with your crayon. Once  you highlighted your areas  then take your Dauber and apply  ink  on top  of your image  . you will notice   where ever you apply  the crayon to highlight   , that area   will pop out and resist your ink  that you apply over top of it . I applied a heavy coating  of pixie pink to the imagines and then faded  out  getting lighter  on the outside  edge and inside where  the saying it .. Than I  buffed  with a paper towel .. Easy Peasy ... I then  added  a glitter edge  to my card by  running my 2 way glue pen  down the edge of the pixie pink base card ..OH BOY Love  the glitter overload ..

Today Jessie  goes back to school and I have a bunch of Errands to run .. just your typical Monday  I suppose. Can't wait to see what the mailman brings me today ( wink wink )

Have a Marvelous Monday  everyone  and I will see you tomorrow

Until later.. Happy stampin !

Blogger RAK showcase !!

Looky what I got in the mail  from Debbi .. Debbi Is a fellow Blogger  and  she sent me the beautiful RAK It is sooo  beautiful .. Even more beautiful IRL ( in real life )   Cool Caribbean  is sooo awesome with chocolate chip ..Debbi has a Great blog you can visit  check her blog out HERE.Thank you Debbie . Yesterday I receive more  cards for the troops  the batch I  got yesterday came from Rite Bracy  Thank you  so Much Rita ..  All your cards are soo awesome ..I would like to add you have  about 2 weeks to send in your cards for the troops   deadline is May 1st to be in my hands   to be entered in to  Angies blog candy give a-way BUT ,I would also like to mention  that  I will  still accept  all  your cards after May 1st since there will be many packages going out  to hubby  durning this  upcoming year so if you find it in your heart  that you  still want to send  cards  for the troops after May 1st  I would be  forever grateful ..

I thought I would share another  Video  with you this morning .. This Video is  from Chris Tomlin ..INDESCRIBABLE.. Its   such a beautiful song ..

Hope you all have a Fabulous Sunday  and I  will  see you all tomorrow

Until later.. Happy Stampin!!

Happy Saturday!!

Another late start this morning  cause my honey bunch called  I told him about the  cards for troops   that we are doing and  his 1st words  to that was HOLY  MOLY!! He did mention  that there are about 1,200   people 99% men on the base and that the cards  are  just plain yucky  that they have over there  and  are very slim pick-ins over therein the "Card department "  as Rich said they are  Dorky  cards  that they have over  there ...so any & all cards that you  want to send  are  ALL welcome.. Rich also said  everyone will LOVE them there .. sooo all your cards will be bringing  smiles to all their faces ...   Look  what I made .. I just had to make a  one sheet box fromBEATE"S tutorial  she has on  SCS  I was sooo excited about making  them  and could hardly  wait to show you all .. I  really love my new set Doodle this  set and  I  really love  certainly  celery and chocolate chip together .. inside my  sweet box  holds  snicker mini candy bits YUMM-O . I did  do something  alittle different   with  my boxes   to help me tie  the ribbon alot better I punched the  top sides  with my rectangle punch  so the ribbon  slides right in there  and holds it  alot better for me to tie  the bow .. The stitched  chocolate  ribbon is from the  Ribbon Originals "SEASIDE" .. Yesterday I received  Cards  from Lois Michael    she has a blog too  check her out  and   give her a BIG HI over there   OH my  goodness she sent   our troops such beautiful cards    ..   Thank you all so very much

Have a Fabulous  Saturday . I will see you tomorrow

Until  later... Happy Stampin!!

Without you ....

So Sorry for the delay this morning in posting  .. Jessie was baby sitting last night  for  Ruthie's  little ones, and we didn't get to bed until 2am . Anywho ..Looky what I came across  That I had made back in 2005 .. seems to  fit  pretty  perfect  for    today in 2007 HUH? Actually   thats  why I thought I would share it with you all today .. OH my goodness  Jessie looks so young  even for only 2 years ago .. This photo was actually taken in my Sunday School room back then  Not ready sure  what I was  thinking when I made this card ..  I still really like it though  .. Funny thing is  I sent this into SU! back then , I didn't win  anything for it BUT it did make the  2005 display board at Convention  .It is  pretty cool to  show up at convention and see   your   submissions  pop up all over the place .. Maybe its time to make  a new one with a  updated  photo especially of Jessie  for  Dad.. Yesterday I got everything  done that was on my list  of things to do .. So thats a praise .. I even  woke up to a Flat tire   on my  car  when heading out to do errands  .. Seems  some boys at the  end of our street didn't like the police  telling them  they can no longer play hoops in the road  so what did they do ?  thew a package of nails all over in the road ..  just about all of us on  this end of the street has  nails in our tires .. My  very nice  neighbor  who wouldn't hurt a fly  had 20 nails in just one of his tires . didn't they realize  the nails  will end up in their parents  tires too .. Kids just don't think  and do the stupidest  things  don't they   ..  so  for about 2 hours yesterday morning  I was at Sam's club getting a new tire ..YUP  couldn't  fix  mine  apparently I needed  a new  tire something about   my tire being to  worn to be repaired .. HUMMMM.. well anyway I am all fixed up and  ready to  go of course going  in the opposite  end of  our street at least until they  send the  city sweeper  machine  by down there at the other end ..    Guess what I got  yesterday ???  Your right ..I  got  More BEAUTIFUL cards .. YAHOO!  You all are sooo very talented  I tell ya.. I  am getting  more and more excited about sending these cards to  my hubby .. kinda like I have ants in my pants about   it .. I got  a  bunch from Sue Berker which by the way here is her BLOG..  WOWZIE such  a stamper  .. She is amazing ..  and last night I Picked up a  ton  from  My favoritest Cousin Ruthie ...  Love each and every one of them girlie .. your really rockin my world  GF. .. You all are the BEST!!  Thank you All  for joining  Angie and I  on the  Cards for troops  I am sooo very Grateful  to all of you  who sent cards and   those that will  be sending  their  awesome  cards . I am   Just soo exited ... By the way Happy Friday the 13th .. I know  your not really superstitious  are you ??

Thanks  so much for popping in today and I will see you all tomorrow

Until later .. Happy Stampin!! 

Love ya's

When I made this card I really thought it was  going to  be sooo very hard  & complicated  BUT guess what It is soo quick and easy Its really  amazing  How a  few  score marks and  folds   can  turn into  such a  super cute card  All Thanks  of course to   Paula for her  Great tutorial on these  cuties.. I used  Petals and Paisley  design paper for  both projects . My  multi pocket card  measures  like a 6x6  since I wanted to use a whole piece  of  12 x 12  designer paper  I  am going to make another one   cutting the  12 x 12  down to  8.5 X 11  like Paula's tutorial  says  I wanted something bigger for my  1st  round of making  these  cards.. I tell ya they are addicting .. You will see  when you make your 1st one ..Thank you Paula ..

I received Dawns  card  yesterday Just like  clock work OH my  she sent the most Beautiful CARDS!! every one of them  is  just perfect.. Thank you Dawn  for being the  1st to send in  her BUNCH .. Jessie and I oooo 'd and aaaahhh over every single one . She mentioned she sent alot of the cards from  a stash of  cards she received  from others .. How  super sweet is that  cause I know it must have been hard to part with such Beautiful  cards .. Thank you    everyone for your out pour of Love  & for  emailing me and Angie for my mailing address .. You all are  are soo awesome .. I know later tonight  I get to pick up another HUGE batch from Ruthie  you know her as  my Favoritest Cousin  ( wink wink ) she is really wanting to win the  goodies  and I  got a play by play yesterday via cell ph and email  with the amount she was up too and  how many left she wanted to  stamp . sooo  for the sake of keeping it all a surprise  until May 1st  My lips are sealed with the  total amounts Ruthie and you all send in ..  Its sooo  very exciting .. By the looks of  some  emails  I may have to   get a HUGE box for Rich to send them all in YAHOO!  For sure he will be the Most wanted Guy over there . Thank you all  so Much ... I know I  really  cant say that enough  and those  words  really  can not express  How  very  grateful I  am to all of YOU! (Kiss Kiss)

Today I have  some Errands  to run  and of course I still need  come up with 1 more  card  design for tomorrows SAS event . I also need to make out my project worksheet  for my club meeting  today  for Saturday , Then go  see my  bestest gal Gina  to get my  goodies I have coming  from our last club meeting  Hopefully  a card will spin out of those  goodies ..I have   a pack of Au Chocolat DS paper   and  the DOODLE THAT set coming  today  , Which both have been on my wish list since I  laid eyes on  the  Spring mini ..

SOOO did you all watch LOST? OMG I just knew  not to trust that Julia chick ..  what a lier  she is and  sooo convincing .. ( she is gonna pull that  act about  wanting  to just get off the island  so she will obey Ben  act I bet ..I wasn't falling for her  sweet Innocent  side ..  and Thank  God Sied and Sawyer are not  either .. Man I thought Jack was smarter than that ?  and whats that about Ben  saying to Julia  that he will be seeing her in a week  OK  where did they go ?  and to think   the Clair's Problem  was all a set up to make Julia  look like a  real life saver .. sure didn't like the  preview of next week  when they said 5 more  shows till the season's  final show .. NO Please don't tell me 5 shows left  of the season ..  Boy that went by FAST HUH?..OH what shall we do On Wednesday nights ?? . Sure do LOVE Lost !!

Have a Great Thursday  everyone ..

Until later ... Happy Stampin !!

You MaKE Me SMILE!!

  You   all make my Heart smile  from the out pour of Love  ..I had to share this photo of my Bowzer .. Yup thats Rich and Bowzer   from along time ago .. anyway  the  way Bowzer looks  in this photo is how you all make me feel  "SO HAPPY"  I sure wish Bowzer could smile on his own .. I have seen so many other  doggies  smile  on TV  and it just cracks me up But until he learns to do it himself  I guess we  have to help  him show his pearly  whites ..  did  you notice   Bowzers teeth are sooo straight  . Bowzer's  smile makes me smile  too   ..

Yesterday was very productive in the stampin room .. Got my club projects all  done and cut  and ready to go .. Now I just need 3 more  stamp a stack card layouts ...HUMMM  One reason it was sooo productive was  My friend ANGIE sent me  another goody package ..I tell ya she sure is spoiling me  and what a  surprise it was to see  all she sent me .. She  got me another  cuttlebug embossing  folder .. WOWZIE .. She is such a stink pot I tell ya .. Actually I am not sure of the name right this minute  But its the flower  one ( see below  for  1st card I made with it  and it is  going to Angie )  Angie is sooo very talented  and I am soo blessed  we have become  dear friends. she sent me so many cute things ..  the  2 projects  she made are  sooo adorable ,  and look what  else she sent me MY name  cut out in paper .. Of course in my favorite color ..pre cut  fancy paper to make  16 or so quick cards .. again in my favorite  color ,  and a Bunch of  beautiful ribbon .. can you see the cuttlebug embossing folder ... Maybe  this will help  I  just had to use the Petal Prints  set  since I thought it would  match  the folder  really nicely .. I used apricot appeal with Chocolate chip  cardstock and ink  lightly  touched the embossed  design with my  creamy caramel dauber to  bring out the   flowers  I also used black in  for the "Thinking of you"  from the  warmest regards hostess set . and also my  large scallop  circle punch . I used my   deco scissors from SU! ( retired )  for a  little border   where the  apricot appeal  ribbon is Then added a chocolate GG ribbon Bow .. How cute HUH? I  am sooo excited about this  EB folder  so many Possibilities ..Thank you so Much Angie  your a sweetie pie  and your package will  be going out  hopefully today  since I got my photos uploaded  last night .. I told Angie I  was not able to upload  my CD from my Camera  last night  and I wasn't going to send her   my package until I knew  I had the photos  of a couple things I was sending her  were on my computer .. YAHOO I got  all  my projects  uploaded  from my very productive  day yesterday !  I  am soo Blessed to have so Many  friends sending me Cards for my hubby to hand out to the troops, And this was just the 1st day , remember you have until May 1st to  send  your beautiful cards .They must be to me By May 1st Cause  Angie will be  drawing the name  and announcing the one winner who send the most .. I don't want to  give it away BUT OH my  you all have been busy stampers   and it seems you all are alot like me I  have  hundreds of cards  from swaps fronts  and  I have received many emails  yesterday  asking if these would be ok .. WHY yes as long as they are a full card and blank inside  All handmade cards are welcome .. You all just blew  me and Angie away  with all  your  love  and support of our troops ..  I have always knew  that Stampers are the most generous  group of people  you  would ever meet and this just proves what I have always Known .. I am sure there will be lots of stories from Hubby  once he gets all these cards  and I will  be sharing them all with you right here on my blog .. so stay tuned ..

Thank you all  so very much  and I am sooo excited to  receive  your cards & once  they start rolling in ( which  may be today )  I will share photos of  them also .. You see Dawn B emailed me and told me she  had already mailed a bunch out yesterday The reason I think  I may get them today .. YOU see  Dawn  just lives in the next  city  over from me  and Local Mail runs  very quick  YAHOO!  Thank  you Dawn .. You may all know Dawn  She is  such a Great friend  ..Dawn was the one that  pursued   Beth on SCS to  have  my shadow box  as a TLC101 challenge for Monday on SCS .. and  well  then that led into  doing the shadow box tutorial for  BEATE on  SCS.. I  call Dawn My  Stampin Groupie .. she knows I am totally kidding  but  really  thank you Dawn  for all your encouragement  and support in my stamping journey .. anyway Thats  my  Dawn  ... yes Great name  if I do say so ( wink wink ) which by the way Dawn also has a BLOG to  so check hers out ..DAWN SIDE NOTE : make sure  you turn your speakers down .. she about gave me a heart attack   cause my speakers were up .. you will know what I am talking about when you  visit  her today  ..  Hee! Hee!   so anyway all that to say maybe I will get her cards  today I  cant wait for my mail man .. Thank you everyone.. Blessing to all of you  for making this  such a success like I know it will be ( kiss kiss ) ..

Until later .. Happy Stampin !!!

Welcome to the Neighborhood !!

Here is   a card I made last night for our  new Pastor and his family ..  Even  though it is pixie pink  maybe its  for Robyn  Hee! Hee!  Our new Pastor Is  such a HUGE Michigan  fan I  was trying NOT to use so much green But I had to use  certainly celery  I am sure he will not mind  since its just a little bit  on there . I also use chocolate chip cardstock for the layering  and used the Aida   cloth for the  front background on my swing card ( very  hard to see in this photo ). I got my new goodies yesterday  But haven't had a chance  to go play  yet Maybe today will be better   day for my hands . All these weather changes here in MI  are really throwing my hands  for a loop  not to mention my knee .. I really can NOT believe it is still snowing  here .. I really  doubt  that my tulips  will pull through  this year .. even though  we inch up to near 50 by  this Friday  then Saturday its back to the high of 35 degrees ..  I find it  so  weird that once my hubby has left and starting working with Haliburton  it  seems I run into  so many other  women whos  husbands are doing the same thing .. small world huh? its kinda like when you buy a new car then you see  them everywhere ..Maybe it's  just I am more aware  of  things like that now   where as  over a month ago I would not have even  had a clue  what Haliburton  was .. Yea I see it on the news  and  stuff But  really had no clue how BIG it is ..Sure is  funny how Life can change in a moment  HUH? 

Have a  Terrific  Tuesday  and I will see you all tomorrow .

Until later .. Happy Stampin!!

BIG NEWS Today is the DAY!!

  Hi Everyone :  My Friend Angie  and I are making Blog  History .. Hows that you say ?? Glad you asked .. I have  yet  to see a fellow blogger  do a give a way  in  Hopes of helping a fellow blogger out .. You see Angie and I have been writing  all this  past weekend  and she  came up with such an awesome idea for a blog candy give a way  and to think she is doing this  give a way for me and  my Hubby ( BIG Cyber {{{hugs}}}} to Angie ) in hopes to make my hubby one of the Most Wanted man over in Iraq Hee! Hee!  Most wanted in a great way of course ( wink wink ) ..   Please check out ANGIE'S BLOG   for alot more details  on how her blog  candy give a way for you  when you send  me  cards for my hubby.. Cards for  our troops, Every one of the cards I receive will be  shipped to my hubby  & these  cards will  go in the hands of   anyone and everyone  on  the base where he is located to send home to their loved ones .. Think of him as a portable Hallmark of sorts  ( Wink wink )   BUT IMHO  much better than  Hallmark ..  Angie is offering 2  blog candies  to boot.. #1 is for the one person that mails me the most cards for the troops  and  #2   your name will go into the  drawing   for the goodies ..  so   weather you want to mail 1 or 100 +  your name will be  entered in her  blog candy  give-a-way #2. The one that  sends the most will  win the    Blog Candy give a way #1  bunch goodies .. DAWNS SIDE NOTE: I have added  the CARDS FOR TROOPS  Link on the  top left hand side of my blog  so you  can   find the info  quickly ..   How  do you   send me your cards ?.. Great question .. Please post a comment  on  this post  or on Angie's  post  or email  either of us for the  snail mail address . My address will not be posted on  either  blogs you must post a  comment   leaving your email address  OR email  either of us personally to  receive the  snail mail address . BY the way .. you all know I post daily  on my blog BUT in hopes that  we both have  alot of requests  this blog post will remain  at the top of my  blog  until MAY 1st   which is the deadline for all cards to be in my hands. May 1st  the names will be  drawn  By Angie ... So if you find it in your heart to  take part of  Blog History ... I  would be ever so Grateful  and I  know  my hubby would  appreciate you making him the MOST wanted Man  in Iraq .. Please  view my Daily blog post below  this   announcement ..  & don't forget to post your  requests for my address  here  or on Angie's  post on her blog ...

P.S Any card will do Just please leave the inside blank  for them to write in .. so any  type of card( thinking of you ,  Love, miss you , Happy Birthday, Happy Anniversary , etc...)   you can  also use any  type of stamps.  ALL are welcome and  soooo appreciated ..

Thank you   so Much Angie for  your  friendship and  all your doing  for me , my hubby and all  the troops   Your the BEST GF   and  Thank you  to all of you for being my sweet blogger friends .. God Bless you  all  and thank you all for your prayers ..

Until later .... Happy Stampin!!

Happy Monday to ya !!

  Over the weekend I received this super cute card from Simone Collins( a fellow blogger )  .. I love the way she   used this set  on her card .. Behind the  grasshopper she added a  slide out that says Bugs and Kisses  and you all know me I  am a sucker for  moving  cards  in any shape or form . You can visit Simone's/ AKA SpazzGirl  Blog HERE.. Thank you  so much Simone  for sending  me such a cute blogger RAK card

I have also received  this  beautiful Thank you  card from Tonniece.. What a sweetie pie  for  sending me  such a  beautiful card OF course in my favorite color .I also love her  flower  and how she layered it ..It really jumps out at you .. Thank you Tonniece

My next card came from Chris willbanks ..  such a  calming card  which is really what I need  most days .. Thank you so Much Chris for this beautiful card

I also received   this   super cute card from Yosha.. She  also used my Favorite color you cant pick it up in this photo But she also used shimmery  white Cardstock  also which I  just love  too  Love her color combo too Thank you so Much Yosha ..

Last but surely not least   this  beautiful  card come from Annette  Talpas.. Don't you love seeing all the Great things  everyone is doing with punches these days .. I love  the  cool Caribbean  with all those different  colored  designer paper punch outs  Thank you  so much Annette

As you can tell I am up early this morning I am going to be going to see my RA doc this morning  and he will also be giving me my surgery clearance  today also  for May 10th .

Richard called  twice this weekend  YIPPY!!  everything is going as well as can be expected over there HE did  find a mattress  for his Cot  which I  am sure is alot better for his  body than the thin  cot  he had ..  he said he has someone building him some  shelfs and a dresser drawers  and maybe a desk  for his area .. He  has also since moved  out of  the  spot by the heater / air  conditioner  he is more now  in  the front area of the tent . They didn't  celebrate Easter over there  yesterday  seems  only Christmas and  Thanksgiving  are  holidays they  honor over there with a day off if they request it  off ..  He said he worked  right next to the Ufratees ( sp?)  river  a couple days ago .. How cool is that .. Seems  he is settling in ok .. I did   finally receive his luggage  in the mail on Saturday and  I have sent more things aside for his package  to be sent out .  Today I will be going to  get him some   light shirts  for him to  wear  Its really starting to get   pretty warm over there  during the day .. even though mornings and evening are  still  on the cool side  for temps. Thank you all for your continued  prayers  for him..  Today I am expecting my demo  order from SU!  I am sooo excited  to get a few new goodies to play with  and hopefully will   have something new to share with you  this week  instead of Mr Crabby pants .. even though he is  still sitting  right by  the edge of my desk  Just incase I get that  feeling again  Hee! Hee!

Yesterday   our New Pastor was sooo amazing ..  and even better last night . Have you ever had a comment made on your card  that  all you wanted to do was cry ?  This happened yesterday  with Robyn  (  my Pastors wife )   we met up  in of all places..In  the ladies room and she   told me  Dawn I just want to thank you  for  your card to gave me the last time we were here .  I keep it right here in my purse (  she even opened her purse and showed me right where it was )  and she said  my card  has brought her so much comfort  the last  couple months  that she looked at it  daily  to  help her  get through the rough time she was having  with leaving her old church, Family and friends to move up here to Michigan .. every time she  said she would look at my card  and it  helped her  to  calm down and realize  where  her and Brad where  moving too.. OH MY Goodness ..  I can soo relate to how she must have been  feeling  since  our last pastor left  a year ago now and the feeling we all  had  seeing them leave  and How tough it  was  for us  but I am sure it was even tougher  on them to leave  us .. I can only imagine  how it was for Brad and Robyn to leave to come to us .. You see  you never really know how much  your card touches someone  at least I never  seen it  before 1st hand  how much a simple card  can help someone  else in such a  meaningful way  ..    We are soo very blessed to  have Brad and Robyn  in our lives  and Its only going to get Better... Praise God !!

I also wanted to share  this  Jelly bean  poem  with you I seen yesterday

Lord I see in my basket 6 Jelly beans,

What  could they mean ?

Speckled  is for  the stain  of my sins

Red is  for  Blood , My Salvation He'd win.

Blue is for Baptism  when Faith I received ,

White is for the cleansing of my sin. I believe!

Green is for  studying His word  so I'll Grow,

and Yellow is for the  Promised  of Heaven  where 1 day I  will go ..

Awesome huh? It reminds me of the  little book of colors  also .. the whole plan of Salvation  in the colors of a rainbow   that even a child can understand  and not make it so  complicated. and speaking of Rainbows Such a  AWESOME promise God made and he NEVER forgets ..

Have a Blessed day   and I will see you tomorrow

Until later .. Happy Stampin!!   

Easter Blessings to you ..

Happy Easter  everyone ..

I made this card for my mom  last night ..  Had to use my favorite color Lavender lace  Which seems  it  has been  kicked to the curb lately . I used  blossoms abound  and  the saying came from Never ending joy  stamp set .. Used mellow moss and lavender  lace   Ink  with of course  a touch of Glitter .

I thought I would share a few cards I have received this  week  for Easter  This one is from Susan  I am soo crazy about her bunny card That I actually made up  6  to hand out to  the Sunday school teachers  this morning .. They will get a kick out of this  little bunny .. Thank you Susan for such a  super cute  card.

My next Easter  card  came from Nichole B. .Nichole's Card   is sooo  awesome this  stamp set I have always thought It makes such  elegant  cards for Easter .. Thank you  so Much Nichole ..

The next card came  all the way from New York .. My Friend Lilly  was sooo sweet to mail me this  super cute card . Honestly when I  Look at her card I can not help but think of Easter  Bonnets we all use to wear  to Church Easter morning when we were  younger ..  Her card is soo adorable  I have a feeling I will be casing this one in the near future  too..  what a cute Spring card  . Lilly used all punched for her hats  on her card  and I love it  Lilly .. Thank you so Much Lilly  and everyone .. I have many other cards I have received   and I will share them with you  starting tomorrow .. so stay tuned .. I took a photo of my Kombucha  yesterday but it isn't the best looking  thing  so I  decided  not to post  a photo of mine. Just don't want to  ruin the  mood  of   my post today ..  Plus if you were to click on the  link from yesterday it  has a area on there that shows you step by step  on who it will look  anyway .. so for the sake of my blog  check out yesterdays  post  about the Kombucha and scope around the  site I  had a link to ..  there is alot of info on that site  about Kombucha...

Today is the day our New pastor will be preaching .. Him and His Family  are  moved in  to the   church Parsonage  and everything is going great!! very excited to see  him and Robyn and their 2 boys this morning .  Have a Blessed Easter  and I will see you tomorrow

Praise God  He is Risen !! This is Truly  the best News of all .

Click the  link and sing along.. I love this song...

Because he Lives

God sent His son, they called Him, Jesus;
He came to love, heal and forgive;
He lived and died to buy my pardon,
An empty grave is there to prove my Savior lives!

Chorus
Because He lives, I can face tomorrow,
Because He lives, all fear is gone;
Because I know He holds the future,
And life is worth the living,
Just because He lives!
How sweet to hold a newborn baby,
And feel the pride and joy he gives;
But greater still the calm assurance:
This child can face uncertain days because He Lives!


Chorus
Because He lives, I can face tomorrow,
Because He lives, all fear is gone;
Because I know He holds the future,
And life is worth the living,
Just because He lives!
And then one day, I'll cross the river,
I'll fight life's final war with pain;
And then, as death gives way to vict'ry,
I'll see the lights of glory and I'll know He lives!


Chorus
Because He lives, I can face tomorrow,
Because He lives, all fear is gone;
Because I know He holds the future,
And life is worth the living,
Just because He lives

Until later ... Happy Stampin!! 

Mr. Crabby Pants Has NOT left the buliding

YUP Unlike Elvis  that  has left the building Mr Crabby Pants  has one more show  at least  for today anyway( By the way did you notice my Mr Crabby Pants  photo gallery on the left side of my blog  Please check out him and his  Crabby family  out  when you have a minute or 2  today) .. I made  these for  2 upcoming birthday boys  I really  do believe  Cool Caribbean  looks great with any other color  especially here with creamy caramel .. I think the card   is pretty straight  forward  in what I used ..I had to use my  cuttle bug "HAPPY" embossing envelope  and then  attached the  caramel Gingham  ribbon with staples ..  I colored in Mr crabby with  my  cool Caribbean reinker  & my blender pen ( just squeezed some reinker in the ink pad lid  and picked up with my blender pen ) along with my Creamy caramel Marker .. I really  don't think nothing of adding  glitter even to my   birthday cards  for  Guys  and this  card is no  different  since I added a touch of glitter to the  little  flowers on the  Happy embossing  envelope .  Thank you all for  emailing me and posting yesterday  WOWZIE!! you all are sooo sweet .. I have had alot of you ask me   when  can you send cards  to me for hubby ..  All I can say  right now is Stay tuned for a BIG announcement.. (wink! wink! to  you know who out in Blogger land )

The last  few days I  think I have been  detoxifying  you see I have been  taking KOMBUCHA  yup  the Home made  kind  and  this stuff is  really helpful for  so many things..( I am taking it to help with my RA  & among other things) I have only been taking 2 Oz's  every day for the last 3 or so weeks  and  Just recently I have this  rash of sorts on my  chest  up by my neck also .. OH boy it itches  so This means it really working ..  I received a FREE Kombucha scooby / mushroom  even thought its really not a "Mushroom "  from  a teacher at my daughters  school  she purchases her  Scooby at a Organic  farm  all you need is

3 quarts of  filtered /distilled water

1 cup of Organic sugar

4-6 Organic green tea bags

1/2 cup of  Kombucha from previous  culture

and one  kombucha mushroom

Boil  water  turn off right before it reaches  a rapid  boil and  stir in sugar and dissolve  sugar in water ..  then  add tea bags  and let it sit  for  at least 3-4 hours at room temp until water is cool . Then  take tea bags out and throw away the tea bags  Pour liquid into a 4 quart or larger  glass bowl  and add your 1/2 cup of  Kombucha  culture   placing your mushroom at the top of  liquid  cover with  a  dish towel and place in a  warm dark place( I use my closet ) for 7-10 days  or longer depending on how  you like it .. the longer it  ferments  the stonger the taste .. It actually tastes  like apple cider.  once  you are done   between 7-10 days  strain the kombucha  into a  glass  canning jar  and I put it in the  refrigerator  making sure to put your scooby in another glass container  with 1/2  cup of  your  mixture  for your next batch ..  you can cut your scooby and share it with   someone to make their own batch .. The really cool thing about  Kombucha it that  your scooby will produce  a baby   scooby so you will never   have to purchase a new scooby  and yes you can cut or tear your scooby  to share  or to get 2 batches going at the same time.  start drinking your Kombucha  in small amounts MY mom noticed when she drink to much at first your body cant not handle the detoxing  that quickly  and you will feel a headache , stomach  will be queasy  and so on so start out with 2 ozs 1st and build up to 4 ozs a day  thats it ..   I have a batch ready  to  strain today so I will take a photo of  what mine looks like  and show you later OH yes 1 more thing do NOT drink your Kombucha   to late in the afternoon  since it will give you alot of energy you may have trouble   getting to sleep  if taken to late in the day .I usually  take mine  in the morning  time ..  Just something  I thought I would share with you  today .. OH you can purchase  organic  sugar  and Organic Green tea at your locate whole foods store , I have even found it at a vitamin shop .. If you have any questions please ask me I don't claim to know it all Just know  what it does for me  and all the benefits   Kombucha has I thought it may help someone  like myself out there in blogger land .. 

Have a  Fabulous  Saturday . Daughter is off all this  upcoming week for  Spring Break  so I may be sleeping in a bit  BUT not to late KWIM? so don't worry if my post isn't up before 6:00am

Until later ...Happy Stampin!

He's Baaack!!

   Yupper  He's Baaaacckk.. Mr Crabby Pants that is .. I just can not seem to shake  this crab set ..  I think I have never used a new  released set so much .. I used regal rose  and certainly celery  Cardstock  with a strip of  Loves me  designer paper  and my   retired SU  scalloped  scissors with of course my white gel pen  for the doodles ..  I added  the  white  gel pen also to the  sides of my scallop  scissor  cut outs  and I really like how  it  shows a  slight shadow  when I added this . I did  use my Black marker to  brighten up his smile and  add the  squiggle  lines to the  crabs Tag also . I really don't know which I love more my Crab & company set or my  white gel pen..

This afternoon  we are having our  Walking in Jesus footsteps program  very excited about that . and Since Jessie has  today ( Good Friday off from school ) it seems I  was able to sleep in  this morning a  bit longer ..  and Last night  My mom  made me and Jessie dinner  which was delish .. a Pot roast with all the fixin's  Yumm-O . I stamped  this  crab card  last night in the middle of  making  cards for my  stampers  club and also  the  stamp a stack  both of which is approaching  very fast , especially since I am waiting on some  of  my  new goodies I  have  coming. 

Hope you all have a wonderful Easter weekend  and remember  Without Easter we wouldn't have  Christmas, For this is the whole reason God sent his son  to earth in the  1st place .. To save  us sinners  and to give us Salvation  to have  eternal life with  our Heavenly Father ..  Seems the world  gets a little side tracked  with   Easter and  Christmas. We must keep the  true meaning  Alive.. I think I will watch "The Passion  of the Christ " again this weekend ..I really think this movie is  really awesome  BUT  it   doesn't  really  even come close the  what Jesus went through  for me and for you .. Do you ever ask yourself  If you  could ever  give up your child  to save other people  that  don't even  care  or love him . It  really blows my mind to think God  really loved me that much  that he would  send his only  Son    to be born  and  know the only reason  he was born was to  die  for the whole world .Could you do that ? I know I couldn't.. And do you know there  are  people that don't even know about Jesus ? and whats even  worse is the next generation  I am seeing  living right in my own Neighborhood Don't have  a clue who HE is .. I  Must  tell everyone  what Easter Means  to me .. WILL YOU?

Happy Easter  and Praise  God for his Son Jesus !  For this is the TRUE meaning of Love !     

Exciting Day yesterday!!

Hi everyone :

I had to break out my silly sea life stamp set  BOY its been awhile since I used  this set and it just reminds me  of why I  love it sooo much . I remember like it was yesterday when this set  hit the market and  I was sooo excited to have this set go right along with my fishy friends  set  Which is also one of my favorite  sets ..  This card I had designed mainly  for Gabby  as a thank you note for  her card she gave me on Monday .. BUT  like I mentioned Just love my silly sea life .. So this is  another one of my  Stamp-a-stack cards  I used one of my brand new  envelope  templates "YOU"  and  Highlighted the  YOU in Glitter ( of course )  and my scallop punch  too, and Its  really something funny  with this  little  guy I love  really love coloring him  OR should I say HER since she is  pixie pink and Orchid opulence.. I so love  her smile  Hee! Hee!  I am giving you  fair warning more MR Crabby pants  are on their way .. I had so much fun yesterday and late last night  stamping More  cards and I just could NOT resist Mr Crabby Pants any longer ..

OH MY  did you all see LOST!! I  was crackin Up with Sawyer last night   I really don't think I can handle him being "The night  GUY"  so to speak  I love his  sigh  remarks  But I have to admit  even the nice sawyer had me crackin up  with his facial  expressions .. I love Sawyer.. OOOO the black  floating  monster with the loud moaning  returned last night OH MY  that was sooo freaky .. It is just me or is  everyone  story line  that  shows the past  seems to be repeating again  on the Island..Kind makes me feel like  when  God has a lesson  for us and we don't  get it the 1st time around  it seems  he  has us go through it again   ..Ya know " GOING AROUND THAT MOUNTAIN " again "   Kate's story line made it soo clear to me  that  when they flashed back to her searching for her mom and wanting approval  from her .. wasn't  she  searching for Jack and wanting  some  approval  from him also . and then she was befriended by Sawyers  woman from the past ( OH MY She is pregnant) and how that all tied into  Julia befriending her also  on the island .. and also Where did John and   the others GO ? and  what  was up  those  Flashes of light  with that  black  smoke monster  thingy   that happened  with Kate and Julia.. and why don't Jack and  them bring the  whole group to the  village   where the houses are ? maybe thats  coming up  in  weeks  to come.. something about last night show was totally awesome I loved the way  they were showing both parts of the island story lines .. Man that hour goes by sooo fast  HUH?  so what are your thoughts ? would love to hear  what you all think ..

Richard called yesterday and he has finally reached his  location  yesterday and Its the PITS to say the least ..   he said it is worse than  what we see on the TV show MASH   the bathrooms are out houses , the  showers  are  not located  close to him  and has to walk  a bit to get to them .. The base just recently   got a coffee house and thats it .. My only thoughts are thats why he is there to help build that base  and make it like others  over there .. A little more comfortable  for them and the   military  .. The tents  have dirt floors   and he has only a 3x3 space for his  stuff he also said he has to get dressed  in the hallway of the tent  cause there is NO room .  He   also mentioned  he has a cot  to sleep on  NO pillow  Just a sheet so it looks  like when I send out the  1st package in a  couple weeks NOT only will I be sending him his Lap top BUT  also his pillow  and some other bedding things. it seems all he could do yesterday was laugh BUT I think he was in shock  on how bad the base is there ~Ya know laugh  to stop from crying  type of thing~  .. He did say  the base LOOKED Nothing like the photos they showed him . BUT again my thoughts are maybe that what they are aiming for  what they sent him and others there to do .. Today is the 1st day for him to report in  and do more briefing  and then maybe go to work .. They have only 2 building there  and  It is  a small base  the compound /base he said was about the size of the high school at the end of my  street .. I hope he is taking lots of photos  for us to see . He is able to  connect to a  direct ph line to Houston so He avoids the international  surcharge on the calling cards  so that is a AWESOME thing !!   cause if he were to use the calling cards as a  international call he would lose 37 mins of the card right off the top Not including the time we actually  get to talk .. Yesterday I  sent him  card with a letter and  some photos of the parsonage  for our new pastor  that he  done so much work in .. The finished parsonage is sooo beautiful  I thought I would share  a before and after with  all of you  to see what my hubby done .. Of course I had sent him  about 14 photos but  for the sake of limited  space I will only show you the before  and after  He   put up all the new dry wall in the kitchen and also laid the new wood floor  and also  helped in  putting in the new  Cabinets ..  YUP Hubby  is  sooo very talented . as you can see by the after  photo  and  wow  what a difference  HUH?  P.S Our new Pastor  has arrived and  started moving in yesterday YAHOO He was also  at church last night   so excited about  this Sunday when he will be preaching   Easter Sunday .. 

Have a Great  day and I will see you all tomorrow

Until later ... Happy Stampin!   

Pretty Daffodil ...

I have been seeing  lately a few cards  That used the glorious gift stamp set from the Spring mini  where they make the  flower  into a daffodil  so I had to try it  for one of the  cards for my Stamp-a-stack event that is approaching.. Just by layering the small  flower on top of the larger flower in this set  look at what  you get .. Pretty cute huh?  I also used the  word Celebrate from my  "Fancy  flexible phrases  stamp set  from the Winter mini.. I actually had alot of fun  designing  some cards  for my  upcoming EVENT   5 done  yesterday  and 5 more to   design .  For my card I used Apricot Appeal  with certainly  celery and whisper white cardstock   along with celery  GG ribbon  and Apricot Appeal, certainly celery  and only orange   classic ink  for the  stamped  daffodil , I  also used white craft for the  background  and  also  apricot appeal for the  right side  background .. added   the white gel pen  to centers of flowers .Then stamped Celebrate in  Basic black .OH and lets not for get  the dazzling diamonds  to the center of the daffodil..  I really love the looks of that flower  and  how  simple  this card  really is , I hope you  enjoy it today as well . This card actually  reminds me of my   flowers   in the front of my house .. all my  tulips and  a couple daffodils stems are all out and  just waiting to bloom ..Just hope the  snow thats heading this way will not  kill them( Yup Not feeling like Spring time here any longer in Michigan the rest of the week ) ..  I love  all my tulips  which usually  blossom by Easter ..  I will have to wait and see  what happens  this year .. 

OOOO I  Cant wait for LOST tonight something  is going to happen with the Kate and Julia   story line .. seems they will be handcuffed  together( whats  that all about? .. Is it some sick game Ben is pulling hummmm )   and Maybe  Julia  has a thing for Jack too and this gets to   Kate ( I dont know just guessing  here ) ..  either way I am so excited to  watch it tonight ..  and  today  I will be heading  back to my stamp room  to stamp  some more goodies ..   Catch  you all  tomorrow  and thanks so much for peeking in today ..

Until later ... Happy Stampin!!

My Favoritest Cousin!!

  Ruthie made these adorable  Easter  Diorama box  cards  and I was  one of the lucky  recievers .. Is this card cute or what ?  Ruthie didnt stop there  she has been one busy stamper  the last few days .. she made all these card  for me to send to hubby   and he will have so much fun handing  these out  for  all our  men and women over in Iraq to send home to their loved ones.. Thank you so Much   Ruthie  even though Kirk  was taking credit for making all of them ( Hee! Hee! Cant fool us Kirk ) ..NO worries Gabbie was sticking up for you  and all your  work of love .. Look at all these beautiful  cards she made  for the package.. You are the  bestest girlie xoxox.Well yesterday  something  sooo very sweet happened  in the middle of  receiving these awesome cards from Ruthie ..Gabbie ( Ruthie & Kirks  8 year old daughter)  hands  me a card  and said Here is a card I made you ..OH NO Tears  flowing  now  uncontrollably  just like a  wet  sponge  being  squeezed ..NO KIDDING   Gabbie used  my favorite color  Purple   which is Gabbie's  favorite color too  and of course  she used glitter  also  one of my FAVORITES!! look at her card. Its is sooo beautiful  Gabbie .. BUT wait there's more for this crying  fest    Look here at what Gabbie  wrote  inside her card to me ..  Is this the sweetest thing  ever ..Thank you  Gabbie   & Thank you Ruthie  for making my yesterday  morning     so  AWESOME..

Today I am off to  get started on  my Stamp a stack  event  to be ready for  the 13th   and also pick up  my house  alittle  ( notice the order in which I put the most important  to be done 1st .. wink ~ wink )

For a bit of Very sad  sad news .. Stampin Up! announced today that the window sheets  are NO longer  available and are officially discontinued today  ...Sad news I tell ya .. Seems there isnt a company out there that can  make  such a  supply  that SU! needs  to be able to offer them  to us..  Will keep you posted if  and when I find  another resource of getting our beloved window sheets  

Have a Terrific Tuesday  and I will  see you all tomorrow

Until later .. Happy Stampin! 

Could NOT resisit a April Fools Joke yesterday...

Whitney  got her cards yesterday .. But not until after I pulled a April Fools On her ( Poor Whitney ) yesterday  after Sunday school I  had called Whitney  into my class and  I took her by the hands and  told "Whitney I had all  your graduation cards done  and  called your mom on Wednesday to see if I should bring them  to church on Wednesday night and she  told me you were not going to be there , She then told me to just bring them on Sunday " I went on to say "That I had put them in my car  so I wouldn't forget to bring them on Sunday and  That something terrible happened " That I had left the  back seat car window down and  all the rain we got Saturday night  damaged all her  cards and there wouldn't be enough time to make   her cards again "OF course I said all this with tears in my eyes and  then she looked at me  and  tears coming to her eyes she said in a small whisper "  Thats ok " I just couldn't do it any more  and I then hugged   her and  said APRIL FOOLS "  and then  gave her all her cards .. Look at that smile ..Just priceless I tell ya .. Of course she was off showing everyone and   also telling everyone  how cruel I am Hee! Hee! ...

Yahoo I have  the 3 winners  from My Blogger Candy give-a-way  this weekend  and their  card will be  going out in today 's mail Congrats  again  girls..

Richard has  called me a couple times  this weekend to let me know he has  arrived  in Iraq  he got to Kuwait on Friday and then Saturday he  called and told me he  had arrive  to his  the next city (  cant even  pronounce the name ) then  yesterday he  called and left a message  must have been while we were at church,  anyway he  has one more flight in a couple days  to reach his permanent  location .. seems he has  some  more training  there where he is at right now .  He seems  to be up in spirits Praise God for that ..

NOW   for something  stampin ..HUMMM Had to case Jan Tink's card from Our Stampin success magazine   I really love the way she added a  smiley to the center of her flower..I used all purples for my card along with  white  craft ink for background flowers  from the set  called  Sweet on you  from Winter mini  along with  Small saying from Winter mini  also . a very simple But  super cute card ..I added some purple GG ribbon  along with a snip of black gg ribbon  and of course some   faux stitching with my white gel pen was added  Thanks Jan  for the inspiration..

Have a Marvelous Monday and I will see you back here tomorrow

Until later ...Happy Stampin!!   

ATTACK of MR Crabby Pants again !!

OH NO Mr Crabby Pants  is on the attack again  Hee! Hee!  I know I have said this  so Many times BUT sure do love  My Crab & Company set .. I used him again for my  swing  tri fold  card , Just love  the cool Caribbean  and Black together .. actually  we were just talking about that last night how  Black looks  great with every color  HUH?  Here is my  swing tri fold card open.  I also used the    Jumbo wheel PETALS  on my MR Crabby Pants  card  very light the photo  does not pick that  up  very  well since its  tone on tone   But if you click on the  1st photo to make larger you can see it  ever so slightly ..

I am Still Waiting on  getting the 3  winners mailing address   from my blog candy  give-a-way yesterday .Please email me with your  snail mail info ..

well I must share  something that  had happened  for the very  1st time  since I started stampin .. Last night was my Eastsiders  Club  and  well we were all finishing up  ordering and what not and I had dropped  something on the floor and I just leaned  down to pick it  while I was sitting in Trish's  computer  chair and  I fell out of the chair  YUP  right on the floor  Thank goodness I didn't have far to fall  But I  needed Trish and Gina to help me up( Left knee  doesn't bend anymore ) .. Talk about pie in the face moment  Hee! Hee! so BIG HUGE  thanks  to Gina and Trish for  giving me a  helping hand ..  I didn't get hurt  just felt  stupid  thats all  so I  Need to write this down as  one of the 1st  Really  embarrassing moments  I had   when stamping with Friends .. OH BOY!!

SO did you all see the SU! special  starting today OH BOY  something FABULOUS!!! click  HERE and  you gotta see THIS too.. Yahoo!! And that's NO APRIL FOOLS Either

well I am off to get around for church see you all  tomorrow  Have a  Sweet Sunday  everyone ..

Until later ..Happy Stampin!