tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89850123014557841222012-02-24T11:02:30.140-06:00I love to craft in any way. If it can be done, I will try it.Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250293825207803164noreply@blogger.comBlogger3461100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985012301455784122.post-49761904509244930672012-02-10T00:00:00.000-06:002012-02-10T00:30:44.280-06:00

Good day all - Welcome to Festive Fridays blog hop.  Today I am revisting a card I made last year for our Festive Friday card because it has been a very hectic week for me and this was one of my favorites.   Every other Friday we are showing different cards for the Christmas season and since it's an every other week affair there isn't a mad dash at the end of the year to get them done.  So if

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Good morning fellow crafters, I know I haven't been the best blogger lately but I am trying to keep up with a busy work schedule and manage some family time and now I am getting ready for my daughter's baby shower...yup my daughter is expecting her second child in a little more than I month and I am so excited for that event.  I am in charge of her baby shower and I wanted to make it special

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Welcome all to our Love Cast in Clay blog hop.  If you just arrived here or are reading this in an email, please start at the beginning at Creative Paperclay.  If you arrived here from Gini then you are in the right place.  Also if you get lost I have the entire blog hop posted on my right sidebar.   As most of you know I am a designer at Creative Paperclay® and I soooo love it.  The best

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Good morning and welcome again to another year filled with Christmas cards every two weeks.  I know, you are probably thinking "we just got done with Christmas", but this is a way to get all those cards done throughout the year and not have to worry about a made dash in November.  I participated in this hop last year and got so many cards done and I even had some left over.  So come every 2nd and

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Good Morning Today I am going to show you another project using Creative Paperclay® and a stamp.  A while back we were given an opportunity to order some stamps from VivaLasVegas Stamps and I went a bit overboard. I love stamps and of course using it with the clay opens another new world. I rolled out my clay at about 1/4 inch thickness and stamped the dartboard image onto the clay using a

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Good morning and welcome again to another year filled with Christmas cards.  I know, you are probably thinking "we just got done with Christmas", but this is a way to get all those cards done throughout the year and not have to worry about a made dash in November.  I participated in this hop last year and got so many cards done and I even had some left over.  The people who got my cards this past

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Good morning all: I was excited about this blog hop of an oldie but a favorite and it brings back memories for me and my children...check out below the rules and have fun hopping! :) If you came here from Ruby, I apologize that you won't find a project.  I had the date written down incorrectly and am not ready, but you can go visit Shannon and keep hopping. Here is the entire lineup Minus ME

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Good morning, today I am here to show you another fabulous idea using paper clay.  For this project I used the Delight air dry modeling compound.  I love using this stuff because it is so light and fluffy.  I especially like using it for my scrapbooking and cardmaking because of that reason. So I started off using a dartto make my mold. I added the Delight clay to themold and let it sit for

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At Checkout, copy/paste my Promo Code STMMMS28873 and you'll receive $10 discount on the software AND $10 at the store! You save $20!! I absolutely love this software and highly recommend it to everyone!! Happy scrappin'!!

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Good morning all, I just wanted to share a very quick and easy gift I made for some very special people in my life.  You know the kind...The kind that are there for you whenever you need something, even if it's just an ear.  The kind that do NOT judge you no matter what.  The kind that call you just to chat.  The kind that invite you over for coffee just because.  The kind that ask for nothing

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Good morning and welcome to another Amazing Mold Putty creation by me.  I cannot get over how much I love using this stuff.  As we were putting up our Christmas tree this year and going through boxes and boxes of ornaments I came across an ornament that I absolutely love and that's when it hit me...I can make a mold and cast it and then turn it into a pin.   Here is the ornament.  It's very

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Good morning and happy Sunday to you all, Today's layout for the Lasting Memories post is all about Sentiments.  Titles, to me, are the most important part of a layout.  Sometimes just the title is enough for me and I don't add journaling.  I suppose I should so that others may know why I scrapped the pictures or the story behind them, but sometimes I just don't feel the need.  This layout is

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Good morning all, Today I am going to show you how to use your stamps with Creative Paperclay®.  Recently our paperclay DT was asked if we would be interested in teaming up with VivaLasVegas Stamps and create a project using both items together.  I jumped at the chance because not only do I love using paperclay and stamps but merging them would be a lot of fun.  I've stamped words into my

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Happy Sunday all...I'm finally back with a layout for Lasting Memories.  I am so glad to be on track again and I want to apologize to everyone that have missed me.  I pretty much took most of the month of November off with a few exceptions, but now I am back and ready to show off some fun things.  This week's challenge at Lasting Memories is Color Me Happy with a color inspiration  and a sketch..

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Good morning and welcome to another project using the Amazing Molding Putty (you can purchase it on the website or Michaels and Hobby Lobby carry it also).  Check out the Amazing Molding Putty blog here.  I know I haven't been around much, but I'm trying to post as much as possible.  I really didn't know how much my crafting and blogging was taking over my world until I started working again.  I

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Good morning and welcome to another edition of Festive Fridays. If you are new to us, sit back, grab a cup of coffee, relax and enjoy some wonderful Christmas Cards. Yes, I did say Christmas...Festive Fridays will be every other Friday with samples of Christmas cards. This way, you can be making your cards all year long and you will avoid the mad rush when you could be enjoying the Christmas

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Good day all I know it's been a while since I've shared anything and I want to thank EVERYONE that has sent me emails and contacted me on facebook with your concerns.  I know I had said I really wanted a job for my birthday, and not only did I get one, but I got two...and time has just gotten away from me.  I seriously have not been in my craft room for sooooo long I forgot what it looked like.

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Hello all, Welcome to the 2nd day of the GREAT PUMPKIN Blog hop. If you missed yesterday's post, please scroll down.  This HOP is all about the pumpkins!! NO witches, NO haunted houses ... 100% pumpkins/100% of the time!! For this hop, PLEASE make anything that focuses on PUMPKINS. Can be anything altered, handmade, card, 12 x 12 pages , 8 x 8 pages, minis, etc.   If you arrived from Christina,

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Hello all, Welcome to the 1st day of the GREAT PUMPKIN Blog hop. This HOP is all about the pumpkins!! NO witches, NO haunted houses ... 100% pumpkins/100% of the time!! For this hop, PLEASE make anything that focuses on PUMPKINS. Can be anything altered, handmade, card, 12 x 12 pages , 8 x 8 pages, minis, etc.  If you arrived from Christina, you are in the right place, otherwise start with Amy.

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Good morning and welcome to another edition of Festive Fridays. If you are new to us, sit back, grab a cup of coffee, relax and enjoy some wonderful Christmas Cards. Yes, I did say Christmas...Festive Fridays will be every other Friday with samples of Christmas cards. This way, you can be making your cards all year long and you will avoid the mad rush when you could be enjoying the Christmas

Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250293825207803164noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985012301455784122.post-84326693151827172222011-10-27T00:00:00.001-05:002011-10-27T00:00:03.217-05:00

 Good morning and welcome to another project using the Amazing Molding Putty.  If you missed my first tutorial using this stuff, click here.  Since I've had this stuff I have made some amazing things but this is one of my favorite tuts.  Now I did not use the Molding Putty for the first project, but the second one I did so keep reading. I started by melting some candle wax in my potall melted....

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Good Morning and welcome to my first Creative Paperclay® submission for the new term.  I'm so excited that I was chosen again and want to show you a quick project you can adapt to any holiday.  Since we are so close to Halloween I thought I'd make a Spiderweb barrette.  Now you will need a mold and I made my own using the Amazing Mold Putty and some Creative Paperclay®.  I started with making my

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Good morning all, +++If you are looking for my Lasting Memories post, please scroll down+++I just wanted to let you quickly know that I made the Creative Paperclay® DT again for the second time in its existence!!!  Yeah.  I have to tell you, when I first applied I wasn't sure I'd even get chosen.  I do not do a lot of 3D projects, mine are usually pretty small for my card and scrapbooking layouts

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Good morning and welcome to another Lasting Memories layout challenge and this week it's all about BLING.  I created this layout for my challenge submission over at PaperSecrets again also.  As you know, each week we are given an assignment at PaperSecrets for a layout. I really don't care if I win the contest, it's just helping me to do more layouts that I should have done a long time ago. If

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Good afternoon, I just wanted to show a quick page I made using the MyMemories Digital Software.  I just cannot believe how quick and easy it is to create a page.  Last night my SIL sent me a succession of pictures that showed Bella making Halloween cookies.  Right away I knew I wanted to create a layout with them, but when I do layouts traditionally it takes a while since I need to resize my

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Good morning friends Today is another challenge filled day over at Love to Crop.  I just love Amy and her blog challenges...  Have you seen some of her explosion boxes?  WOW.  She is so gifted and I am always honored when she wants ME to guest design.  Well, every other Friday she hosts a challenge on her blog and this week it's all about "CIRCLES".  Easy, right?  So here is my take on the

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Good Morning Everyone! FileKutz is releasing a new file called "Flower Petal Blossoms".  LisaJane asked me to do a tutorial and this is one of the flowers I made for her.  Hope on over to the shop and purchase your file here and it's on $1.99You will need a circle approximately 1 inch3 large hearts cut at 1.2 x 1.272 small heart cut at 1.07 x 1.003this totally depends on your finished flowerI

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Good morning friends Wow, I can't believe how time flies...Halloween is right around the corner and it's time to Decorate to Celebrate Halloween Style.  I just love this new DT I am on because I can make decorations till the ghosts come home...I mean cows come home.  LOL  Speaking of ghosts...yup you guessed it, today's decoration has something to do with ghosts.  For trick or treating we always

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Good day, +++if you are looking for my Amazing Mold Putty post, please scroll down.+++ Welcome to another quick post for the Filekutz Designs Challenge blog.  Now I am a designer for LisaJane and I like to participate whenever she has something going on and right now she is hosting a color challenge...and the rules are easy:  1. to use the specified color(s)! This is just a fun do it on your

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Good morning crafters, I am so excited to share another project using the Amazing Molding Putty.  If you missed my first tutorial using this stuff, click here.  I've been searching the house for all kinds of things to make molds out of and this time I think I came up with a fabulous idea for a friend, so here we go: First this is what you need: Here are my containersI found these cutsie

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Good morning Today is another MyMemories Suite quickie for a challenge they have going here.  The challenge is to create a layout with text wrapped around the pictures.  So first, just to give you a little bit of background...my DD is not crafty.  Now I do not mean that in a mean way at all...she just didn't inherit the "craft gene" from my side of the family.  My mom is a wonderful crafter and

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Good morning and welcome to another Lasting Memories layout challenge.  I created this layout for my challenge submission over at PaperSecrets, but it also fit perfectly for this week's "dimension" challenge.  I am not a "flat" scrapbooker, as I always have something sticking up or popped up.  I LOVE dimension and I am learning how to add it to digital, but this week I went traditional.  As you

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Good morning It's challenge time again over at Filekutz challenge blog.  LisaJane has a super collection of svg files ready to purchase in her shop and I hope I will inspire you to create a fun Halloween card.  Being a member of the DT really gets me into the Halloween spirit and her files are super cute.In this selection you get the batty borderand the girl, kitty and pumpkin.I chose to faux

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Happy Halloween Today I wanted to share a quick post using MyMemories digital scrapbook software.  I tell you what...I am so in love with how quick and easy this is. A few weeks back MyMemories gave us a freebie Halloween paper pack (so much fun to get free stuff and there is usually something weekly).  So I downloaded it and played around with it.  For the life of me I could not figure out how

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Good morning and welcome to another edition of Festive Fridays. If you are new to us, sit back, grab a cup of coffee, relax and enjoy some wonderful Christmas Cards. Yes, I did say Christmas...Festive Fridays will be every other Friday with samples of Christmas cards. This way, you can be making your cards all year long and you will avoid the mad rush when you could be enjoying the Christmas

Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250293825207803164noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985012301455784122.post-83533207517312041482011-10-13T00:00:00.006-05:002011-10-13T00:00:02.371-05:00

Good morning, I am so excited about today's post.  I am a guest designer over at Susan's and just love that she wanted me to post for you today.  I wanted to show you an oldie but goodie.  I saw these last year after the Fall season was nearly over and wanted to remind myself to make them...well, if you are anything like me, you forget about it.  At least I did until I was reminded by Ruthie

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Good Morning Everyone! FileKutz is releasing a new file called "Flower Petal Blossoms".  LisaJane asked me to do a tutorial and this is one of the flowers I made for her.  Hope on over to the shop and purchase your file hereYou will need 12 large pears cut at 1 x 1.375and 10 small pears cut at .7 x 1a snowflake 2 x 1.7and two leaves 2.25 x 2.45Ink all the edges front and backthe snowflake doesn't

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Welcome to the Birthday Wishes Winner announcement.  Thank you all for joining in on my hop.  I can say I did get a job for my birthday...yeah, actually the day before so I am pretty excited about that.  I'm so sorry I didn't get to the winner announcement yesterday, but I have been a bit under the weather for a couple of days and just had no energy for anything.  So without further ado...the

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Good morning, wow, what a crazy week it's already been.  I have a quick project for Christmas.  Since it's not that far away, I thought I'd start working on some projects to give away as gifts.  I just love Christmas and every year the kids get a new ornament, so this year I thought I'd make them.  Being on the Creative Paperclay DT was a good reason to use the clay for this project. The

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Good morning again for another challenge at Lasting Memories.This week's challenge has to do with tags...Now I have to tell you, since I've received MY Memories digital software I have NOT done much traditional scrapbooking...I'm having so much fun with the software.  I promise, I will be showing off some traditional soon as I have a plan....but I just can't post the reason behind my (in)sanity

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Welcome to the Birthday Wishes Blog hop.  Hi every one I want to thank you for joining us today for MY Birthday hop.  Today I turned, 40 something and I have  a lot of wishes right now.  My first and foremost wish is that you all had a great time hopping through and seeing the amazing talent these gals have.   Please make sure you leave some bloggy love at all the stops today.  If you post on all

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Good morning  (if you are here for my Creative paperclay submission project, please scroll down) I am so excited to share a new product with you today.  As you know I've been involved with Creative Paperclay and now we have teamed up with a company called Amazing Molding Putty to give you even more uses for your clay projects.  I've been playing for a couple of days now and I can tell you

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Good afternoon, I just wanted to quickly share some late breaking news.  As most of you know I've been a guest designer over at Decorate to Celebrate for the last month.  DTC is a blog where we showcase decorations for lots of theme parties.  This have been fun to do and I thank Amy and Rhonda for asking me to help them out by spreading the word about it and also making some party decorations.

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 Good morning crafters...wow can you believe it's October already?  I know I can't...but I can tell by looking out my window and watching the leaves turn right before my eyes.  I love fall with all the color changes and such, but I'm just not ready for that dreaded you know what...but here I am today showing you how to use your Creative Paperclay to make some snowflake ornaments...hehehe.  I've

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Good morning and Happy Wednesday, everyone! I am so excited to be a guest designer over at  Decorate to Celebrate again!  Decorate to Celebrate is a super-fun challenge blog dedicated to showing off decorations for every celebration.  This is my third guest design spot over there and I am hoping for many more to come. The theme for today's challenge is: Tweens and Teens Party (anything having to

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Good morningWow, can you believe it's October already?  This is crazyness how times has flown by...plus I've been scrapbooking WEEKLY for a challenge over at PaperSecrets.  Each week we are given an assignment for a layout. I really don't care if I win the contest, it's just helping me to do more layouts that I should have done a long time ago (or some new ones in this case). If you participate

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Good morning friends I'm so sorry I didn't get to the winners this morning like I had promised, but it's been a bit crazy over here.  I will have an announcement tomorrow or Wednesday and with that a giveaway to start out October.  Yeah, so exciting... So without further ado here we go: For the Fashion Blog Hop the winner is:   Carla said... You did a good job on your project. It's cool

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Hi all, I'm sorry I haven't been around today, but I've been real busy with some projects and just haven't had time to visit any blogs or do any blogging myself. I want to let you all know I am also behind on picking some winners, but I am hoping to get to that tonight.  Look for the winners to be posted tomorrow morning. I hope you all had a great weekend and look for some exciting projects

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Good morning again for another challenge at Lasting Memories.It's all about a Recipe with a little "Twist"Now Karen challenged us with this recipe:1 Photo2 embellishments3 colorsand the twist:  A song for the titleand this is what I came up with using my NEWMyMemories digital software.I used:1 photo of Bella at the Apple Orchard from last weekend2 embellishments - the Apple (added word art from

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Good morning, I just wanted to remind you of the giveaway for the MyMemories digital software.  If you don't remember, or didn't see the post, they approached me a couple of weeks ago and asked if I would be interested in using it and then blog about it.  I had been thinking of trying digital because I wanted to make a Christmas present of a project.  Well here is another layout I created and it

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Good morning friends Today I wanna show you a quick re-purposing project.  With what I would usually have thrown away, I love to recycle it and make it "new" and useful again.  Hubby loves peanut butter and I bet I own 10 of these empty jars, but they will come in handy someday...like today.  As most of you know, I throw on a dart league.  I've been throwing darts for about 15 years, but just

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Good morninghere's my layout I did for the challenge over at PaperSecrets.  Each week we are given an assignment for a layout. I really don't care if I win the contest, it's just helping me to do more layouts that I should have done a long time ago (or some new ones in this case). If you participate and follow the guidelines you advance to the next week. We started with 27 and 10 moved on

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Good morning Today I want to show you a quick and easy way to make a frame out of cardstock using a file from  LisaJane.  Since I've become a member of the DT I am loving all the crafty projects I've come up with for her. The frame measures 6 x 6 I got this using some pretty heavy cardstock with my E-Craft Isn't the detail marvelous?I added scoretape to 3 sides of the frameand adhered it the

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Good morning friends Today I want to share a project that was super easy and fun involving some more alphabet cookie cutters.  As most of you know, I am also a designer over at Creative Paperclay.  I love working with it for embellishments for my scrapbooking and cardmaking but this time I used the paper clay to make a sign for Miss Bella's door.  I am taking over decorating for her room and

Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250293825207803164noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985012301455784122.post-84912067943325093482011-09-26T00:00:00.004-05:002011-09-26T00:00:03.162-05:00

Good morning guys... I wanted to show you a quick card I made using one of Adamsacres files.  As you might remember, I am a designer over there.  She's been moving into her new house and hadn't done much, but she's back and I'm ready to show you a simple Halloween card.   Isn't this cute?  I added some stick pins to the bow.I heat embossed his little face and distressed his belly a bit and pop

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As some of you know, one of our DT Members, Evanna, at Lasting Memories daughter, Izzy, was diagnosed with Leukemia and Karen thought it would be a great idea to make cards for her.  So if you feel compelled to brighten up a little girl's day with a card, please mail them to: Cards For Izzyc/o Karen WilsonPO BOX 438Willow Beach, ONTL0E 1S0Canada Cards do NOT have to be "Get Well", in fact, they

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Happy Sunday all, Today over at Lasting Memories it's all about Frames and Flowers...2 of my most favorite things.  I chose a picture of my mom that is one of my favorite.  My mom LOVES her flowers and her garden.  Most of the time you can find her just sitting outside enjoying her beautiful yard.  Now be prepared this is a VERY busy and loud layoutAll the cuts are using the Storybook cricut

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Good Morning crafters Today I want to show you how to re-purpose something.  I just love to recycle and reuse things I would normally throw away.  Now, I would not have thrown these away and if I didn't have them on hand, I would have gone to my local thrift store and purchased them...LOL  So we recently sold the Winnebago :(  I'm very sad because she was a long time friend.  We pretty much

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Good afternoon all, +++If you are looking for my "festive fridays" card or my LTC cards, please scroll down+++ Okay, so here's the scoop...you all know how much I love to scrapbook...that's how it all started.  I've been scrapbooking for MANY years and then that evolved into card making and then that evolved into buying a cricut, then I upgraded to the expression, then I found my passion for

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Good morning ***If you are looking for my Festive Friday's card, please scroll down***  welcome to another day of challenges over at Love to Crop.  I'm so excited to be back for another LTC challenge guest designer.   Amy is such an inspiration and when she asked if I would again help out with the challenge I was more than pleased to assist.  This actually came at a perfect time because I was

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Good morning and welcome to another edition of Festive Fridays. If you are new to us, sit back, grab a cup of coffee, relax and enjoy some wonderful Christmas Cards. Yes, I did say Christmas...Festive Fridays will be every other Friday with samples of Christmas cards. This way, you can be making your cards all year long and you will avoid the mad rush when you could be enjoying the Christmas

Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250293825207803164noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985012301455784122.post-1490252539755777622011-09-22T15:24:00.000-05:002011-09-22T15:24:13.642-05:00

Hi Everyone!! I just wanted to send a quick reminder about the challenge over at FileKutz Free File Challenge and am posting to share with you a sneak peak of the PRIZES for the current Challenge, so don't forget to go get the free file and read the full post and entry rules HERE! Must be entered in the Challenge by: midnight EST on Wed. Sept. 28th by Noon that only gives you another 6 days to

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Good morning AGAIN I can't believe I'm posting for a second time today...I just had to show you this super cute card I made.  The other day I got an email update from Terri over at Ramblings of a Texas Craftroom  and she was showing how to make Pop Up cards.  I was fascinated with pop ups as a kid.  I remember my mom bought be this super cute Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs popup book...I couldn't

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Good morninghere's my layout I did for the challenge over at PaperSecrets.  Each week we are given an assignment for a layout. I really don't care if I win the contest, it's just helping me to do more layouts that I should have done a long time ago (or some new ones in this case). If you participate and follow the guidelines you advance to the next week. We started with 27 and 10 moved on again

Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250293825207803164noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985012301455784122.post-4094565300018474502011-09-21T00:00:00.003-05:002011-09-21T00:00:03.453-05:00

Good morning and Happy Wednesday, everyone! I am so excited to be a guest designer over at  Decorate to Celebrate again!  Decorate to Celebrate is a super-fun challenge blog dedicated to showing off decorations for every celebration.  This is my second guest design spot over there and I am hoping for many more to come. The theme for today's challenge is: BABY BIRTHDAY (anything having to do with

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Good Morning and welcome to another Filekutz challenge...well, this will be my first, but you might already know about them.  I've been on the Filekutz DT for about a month now and I've been having a blast.  LisaJane's files are awesome I tell you what, but I'm sure I've already told you that.  Check out what I did with the file and I hope I will give you some inspiration to enter the challenge..

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Good morning and welcome to the Fashion Blog Hop.  We have 8 wonderful ladies showing off some fashion ideas for you.  If you just happened upon my blog or are reading this through your email, please start here with Bernice.  I'm so excited to be here today with the wonderful ladies on this hop.  I knew I wanted to make something jewelry like for this hop and remembered a friend of mine AMY

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Good afternoon I just wanted to show you all the prize I just won over at Dana's.  Thank you so much for choosing my comment and your layout was fabulous.  The glitzy leaves caught my eye right away. I'm so excited to use this paper pack and embellies.I already have something in mind.

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Good morning ... today is another Sunday filled with Lasting Memories. Karen really knows how to challenge me somedays.  This week she gave us a sketch to do and challenged us to use fall colors...now I know I've said I like doing sketches, but with my printer still not having any ink, it's hard for me to just run and print a few pictures, so I have been relying on some very OLD pictures.  I

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Good morning and welcome to our Upcycle Blog Hop.  I am so excited to be here and the projects you are about to see from all the talented ladies...well let me just say, you will want to be crafting till there's no tomorrow.  If you just hopped over from Bridgett you are in the right spot, but if you are reading this from your dashboard or reading via email then please start at the beginning with 

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Welcome to the "All About Fall" Blog Hop!! We're so happy you could join us for this super-fun hop showcasing cards, layouts and projects that are All About Fall!!  You'll find an array of ideas throughout the hop -- From decorations to gift ideas and more, we hope you'll enjoy each and every project along the way!! This is a TWO-DAY hop, so be sure to catch both days for maximum ideas (

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Hello Friends! Thanks for stopping by my blog and I am glad you came to join me and the other designers for worship! We are here to glorify God in song! :) We are here to start another series that will be on Wednesdays every two weeks to start and today it is the kick-off!! :) woohoo! Welcome!  If you just came from Amy then you are in the right place, if you just happened up here or reading

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Good morning friends Today I want to share a project that was super easy and fun involving some more cookie cutters.  As most of you know, I am also a designer over at Creative Paperclay.  I love working with it for embellishments for my scrapbooking but this time I used the paper clay to make pumpkins for a wreath. Here are my step by step instructions, kinda picture heavy.Just roll you paper

Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250293825207803164noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985012301455784122.post-26827249287592870892011-09-12T00:42:00.000-05:002011-09-12T00:42:02.475-05:00

Good morning, I have to apologize for not posting anything related to 9/11 yesterday, but it's just a really hard day for me.  I just cannot fathom the reasoning behind someone or something being so angry with someone or something to want to destroy it.  There is no reason for any hate, no matter how bad you dislike something.  As I was growing up I was always told I had every right to "dislike

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Good morning ... today is another Sunday filled with Lasting Memories. This week, Karen has challenged us to do a layout strictly in Black and White.  I was pretty excited about this at first, but then I remembered I had no ink for my printer and couldn't print any pictures...I know, I still haven't gotten any.  So I had to resort to going through my stash of pictures when I came across this one

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Good morning I do not have a "crafty by me" post today...I know, you are saying "REALLY?", but yes, really, I don't.  I really can't believe it myself, but I've been so busy making things for some upcoming hops and guest design spots that I haven't done anything just for myself.  Speaking of upcoming hops...I hope you will all come back here on October 8th and celebrate my birthday with me and

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Good morning ***If you are looking for my Festive Friday's card, please scroll down***  welcome to another day of challenges over at Love to Crop.  Amy sure has kept me busy the last couple of weeks.  I was asked, just yesterday, if I could come up with a Fall project...oh boy.  I, of course, couldn't say no because I had been thinking about this project for a while now anyway, but I worked

Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250293825207803164noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985012301455784122.post-45362814859436070172011-09-09T01:34:00.000-05:002011-09-09T01:34:17.138-05:00

Good Morning and welcome to another edition of Festive Fridays. If you are new to us, sit back, grab a cup of coffee, relax and enjoy some wonderful Christmas Cards. Yes, I did say Christmas...Festive Fridays will be every other Friday with samples of Christmas cards. This way, you can be making your cards all year long and you will avoid the mad rush when you could be enjoying the Christmas

Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250293825207803164noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985012301455784122.post-2520101069363901412011-09-08T00:00:00.005-05:002011-09-08T00:00:02.522-05:00

Good morning and welcome to another Paper Secrets Layout...as you know each week we are given an assignment for a layout. I really don't care if I win the contest, it's just helping me to do more layouts that I should have done a long time ago (or some new ones in this case). If you participate and follow the guidelines you advance to the next week. We started with 27 and 10 moved onto again last

Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250293825207803164noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985012301455784122.post-8551029202541946922011-09-07T07:00:00.074-05:002011-09-07T07:00:17.003-05:00

Good morning and Happy Wednesday, everyone! I am so excited to be a guest designer over at an awesome blog that I just recently found, Decorate to Celebrate!  Decorate to Celebrate is a super-fun challenge blog dedicated to showing off decorations for every celebration.  This is my first guest design spot over there and I am hoping for many more to come.  I've entered only one challenge so far

Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250293825207803164noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985012301455784122.post-30371749722203851672011-09-06T00:00:00.006-05:002011-09-06T00:00:00.537-05:00

Good morning, Today I have a quick card to share with you.  I've been having a great amount of loss lately with friends and friend's friends.  It's amazing how one day you can be here and the next, your gone.  Remember to take time and tell your family, friends and everyone else you can think of how much you love them.  When you find yourself thinking of someone you haven't talked to in a while

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Good morning and Happy Labor Day, Here is another submission for a project I did for Filekutz DT.  Have I told you that I am a new DT member and thrilled to death about it?  LisaJane's files are simply fabulous and very easy to put together.  This week I chose the Tanny Harley Girl Tear Bear and if you click on the link it will take you directly to the store where you can purchase her for $1.99

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Good Morning friends Hello! Here we are in Sept, can you believe that? It's crazy how fast time has gone by and I would like to thank Karen over at Lasting Memories for keeping me on the DT for another term.  I've had the best time working with her and all the talented ladies.  Be sure to head on over there AFTER you've visited the rest of this post and welcome the new DT.  I am excited to be

Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250293825207803164noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985012301455784122.post-83437948032320414122011-09-03T00:00:00.000-05:002011-09-03T00:00:01.950-05:00

Good Morning  Welcome to Susan's Anything goes Festive Birthday Bash Blog Hop to celebrate Susan E. Bermudez's birthday with anything goes to celebrate her birthday whether it be a card, favor, banner, or that something special. Hope you enjoy our hop while you check  the following blogs as we celebrate Susan's birthday with our usual creativity and craftiness!!! So, please stop by and make

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 Good morning Here is a quick look into my before and after craft room.  You need to know that this is a VERY small bedroom and I can barely walk in it with all this stuff, so organization is a must, but staying organized is the bigger challenge.  LOL Before After My cricut was on an old baker's rack and misc junk piled here and there Now the baker's rack holds my 

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Good morning my dearies, I wanted to quickly share my commissioned cake with you.  If you remember I had made a cake last week and you can see it here. My friend Amy at Love to Crop has a challenge for the Decorate to Celebrate blog.  The theme for this challenge is WEDDINGS, ENGAGEMENTS, and BRIDAL SHOWERS!!  So we want to see all of your decorations and party supplies celebrating everything

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Good morning Hi and welcome to McVic is 36 Birthday Blog hop! I was so honored to be asked to participate in this blog, so please sit down, stay a while, and enjoy the cards or crafty projects we have made. Also  make sure you comment on each blog, Kacee is going to give away some blog birthday candy to a follower who comments on all the blogs, and lives in the United States. There may be other

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Good morning, I hope everyone is doing great this morning.  I think life is getting a bit better on my side of blog land...at least there hasn't been any set backs in the last 5 days.  It's been a little rough over here, but the sun might just be shining on me sooner than later.   I wanted to let you all know that I have been added to the Filekutz Design Team....yeah for me!!!  LisaJane has

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I just love awards and this one is no exception.  Two very special ladies sent me this award last week and they just have no idea how much that meant to me.  I am thrilled to death over their thoughtfulness.  Audrey and Kacee, thank you from the bottom of my heart!!!In accepting this award I must answer the following 12 questions, and pass the award on to 10 others:Name your favorite color? 

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Good afternoon dearies... "If you are looking for my Lasting Memories layout, please scroll down" Welcome to another Simply Sunday at Getting Cricky.  As you probably know, Kristal came out with another 3 brand new sets of stamps and this week I am showcasing you the Winged Things.  I LOVE this set, but I do believe I say that about all of them.  This set is truly beautiful.  I love all the mix

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Good morning to you all...today is another Sunday filled with Lasting Memories.  Not only is there a new challenge, but Karen is also looking for new Design Team members.  So if you are interested in getting on the DT, all you have to do is play along EVERY week in August.  That's how I got on the DT and I've been having a blast doing it.  Karen and the other ladies are so inspirational and

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Good morning my dearies, I'm sorry I haven't been here much this week, but my personal life is a bit crazy at the moment and I've just had a lot going on.  I am hoping I can get out of this stuff soon and get back to normalcy...is that even a word?  I won't bore you with all the details because I really want you to come back to visit...hahaha.  I do think that crafting is my therapy and I

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Hello again ***If you are looking for my Festive Friday's card, please scroll down*** I know, I've been absent the last couple of days and here I am with 2 posts in one day....geesh.  LOL   My very good friend Amy over at Love to Crop asked me to be a guest designer for this week's challenge on her blog.  I was thrilled that she asked me because she is such a wonderfully talented person.  Have

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Good morning and welcome to another edition of Festive Fridays. If you are new to us, sit back, grab a cup of coffee, relax and enjoy some wonderful Christmas Cards. Yes, I did say Christmas...Festive Fridays will be every other Friday with samples of Christmas cards. This way, you can be making your cards all year long and you will avoid the mad rush when you could be enjoying the Christmas

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Good morning friends Today I want to share a project that was thought up almost last minute.  As most of you know, I am also a designer over at Creative Paperclay.  I love working with it for embellishments for my scrapbooking and cardmaking, but recently I've begun to think a bit outside the box and experiment a little.  This was extremely  fun to make.Here are my step by step instructions,

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Good afternoonhere's my layout I did for the challenge over at PaperSecrets.  Each week we are given an assignment for a layout. I really don't care if I win the contest, it's just helping me to do more layouts that I should have done a long time ago (or some new ones in this case). If you participate and follow the guidelines you advance to the next week. We started with 27 and 10 moved onto

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***If you are looking for my Lasting Memories layout, scroll down.*** Wasn't the U-stream and stamp release fabulous on Friday night?  What, you missed it?  Well, you can click on the link below and watch what you missed..Each of Kristal's stamp sets benefit charity. At least $1 per stamp set goes to benefit the charity noted on the stamp set package. Kristal is donating to the following

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Good Morning today is another Sunday filled with Lasting Memories.  Not only is there a new challenge, but Karen is also looking for new Design Team members.  So if you are interested in getting on the DT, all you have to do is play along EVERY week in August.  That's how I got on the DT and I've been having a blast doing it.  Karen and the other ladies are so inspirational and encouraging.  

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Wasn't the U-stream and stamp release fabulous?  What you missed it?  Well, you can click on the link below and watch what you missed..Each of Kristal's stamp sets benefit charity. At least $1 per stamp set goes to benefit the charity noted on the stamp set package. Kristal is donating to the following charities: Cancer Angels, Storefront Shelter for Homeless Children, Intrepid & Fallen Heroes, E

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Welcome to the Getting Cricky Ustream Event and Blog Hop where we are showcasing three BRAND NEW sets of K Andrew Design's Stamp Art Sentiment Stamps! All of the FUN will start RIGHT HERE at the Getting Cricky Ustream Channel at 9pm EST (6pm PST)...  So please click on the link and Join the Getting Cricky Crowd (if you are joining us later, we invite you to watch the recorded version of the

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