keep the sun in your heart...

I'm going to share a card that has some new goodies on it!!!

I recently received the Partly Cloudy set from Lawn Fawn. I just LOVE that sun's face....tooooooo CUTE!!! The sentiment is from that set also...it all teamed up so well with a couple of Practicing Creativity sets, the sun rays are from the You're Dandy and the hot air balloon is from the Look Up! set. I'm patting myself on the back for mixing 3 different stamp sets:)

I was inspired by Sketch Thursday #83:

Have you popped over to my 365 Cards DT bloggie buddy TesaB's blog? She is in the midst of having a Blog Party!

We were to use this sweet pic as our inspiration....do you see the resemblance in my card for today?

Okay peeps...have a fabbie Monday!

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dance in the rain...

It is the Wednesday Whimsy Haven Blog Hop!!!

You should have hopped over here from:

Jen of Jen's Cup of Creations!

Remember that the Blog Hop starts at the Whimsy Haven Blog! You'll want to check out the Wednesday only $1 Blog Special.....the regular price kicks in tomorrow!

Pretty exciting over at Whimsy Haven this week....Lindsay is sponsoring 2S4Y!!

Check out what I have for you today:

I wanted to play with the Rainy Day set....what can I say? I'm a true Washingtonian:)

I was inspired by Tracy's Sketchy Thursday:

Next stop on the hop is:

Amy C's of Caffinated Cropper!

♥♥kidlet alert♥♥

I'm the luckiest Momma ever...okay, I think Mom's all think like that...I wanted to share with you over the next couple of days what my kidlets did/made for me for Mother's Day.

Check out this fabbie October Afternoon card that my girl made me...I don't think that she actually planned on making it all OA but that's how it ended up....she inked up a sweet {Highly-Neglected} owlie OA stamp set and do you see that? Why yes, she sliced into my new OA pads...and YES, it was totally worth it...a true keepsake in my book...something made by my girl...

She also is making something in her "Skills for Life" class {translation: Home Ec:) }...it's a cross-stitch project...can't wait to have THAT in my greedy Momma hands...

This is the same girl that found this image on the web and promptly posted in my crafty area:

Not sure where SHE found it, but I found it on Owltastic.

Typing about my crafty area...I was a winner over on the EAD Designs....I won a "Create" Craft Room saying!!! Woot Woot!!! Sooooo very excited about that as I'm still purging and re-organizing my area and it'll be a great add to my wall!

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you rock...

Happy Monday!!!

How was your National Scrapbooking Day Weekend? I managed to pick up a bunch of goodies...more on that in a smidge:)

I wanted to share my Cosmo Cricket'licious-ness Card! For those of you that have been following me for a while, you all know how much I adore Cosmo Cricket..quite frankly, I'd probably mod podge everything in my crafty area with paper from the Early Bird line [IF I wasn't so lazy]...

Anywho's, the 'ole boyfriend was being neglected...as in the Cosmo Cricket Boyfriend line...hahaha..I know, I'm easily amused:)

Well, I'm pretty proud of myself for cranking out a masculine card...those are always tough for me...I love girlie colors and embellies.

I was inspired by ESS #81:

...okay, back to my NSD purchases...I bought a load of 12 x 12's at a place called Scrapbook Hideway. This is the 2nd time I've been there...and no, it isn't in Washington, it is in Missoula, Montana! We drove over there on Friday...6 hours...oy....Darin has an annual golfing tournament over there and while he golfs I book 80 miles over to Missoula and I shop:) Tax free shopping! Thanks to the fabbie Lea Lawson that recommended the shop to me:)

It's a long drive to Montana...I managed to stay up for the entire drive over there...I typically fall asleep:) Lookie what entertained me:

Oh boy, I WISH it were mine BUT close enough, it's Darin's...he bought the Apple iPad 3G version...it is absolutely incredible...good grief, what will they think of next?

Okay, peeps...here's to a great week...come on back tomorrow for the Jacksonbelle Tuesday Challenge!

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hello...

Hello!

Welcome to the Jacksonbelle Tuesday Challenge!

The Challenge is to make a card/project with an Easter theme or Easter Colors. I opt'd for the colors because I really wanted to use my new Prima papers that I recently ordered through the Jacksonbelle store!!!

I teamed up the papers with Sketchy Thursday #75:

It is a perfect sketch to highlight my new goodies!

All the patterned paper is Prima...the "hello" is a SU rub on...the buttons PTI teamed up with black Kaiser Crafts Rhinestones. The ribbon is May Arts and there is also a smidge of black waxed twine.

Be sure to check out what the other JBelle Gals created for some fabbie inspiration!

Dawn Lusk
Julie Lacey
Heather Pulvirenti
Windy Robinson
Stephanie Severin
Pam Varnell
Lynda Benden
Tobi Crawford
Jill Dunn
Heather Lee-Reppen
Shemaine Smith
Lindsey Botkin

Keyword JBE098 for SCS and PCP

Thanks sooo much for poppin' by!

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Domestic Goddess

Okay, I had a ton of fun putting these 2 cards together.

I'm entering both of them in the Moxie Fab World Around the House Challenge.

The first one is for Kazan's Sketch #35. I rotated the sketch and did my thing :)

(Hey Sherry & Tami...check it out...Graphic 45!!).

I had a gift certificate burning a hole in my pocket for the local Ben Franklin Craft Store. Well, they had a whole display of this magnficent Graphic 45 stuff....Domestic Goddess. Isn't she fabulous...complete with a crown!

I stitched the 2 panels together....1/4 of the way down my stitching went wonky...grrrrrr....so being the way that I am...I took the time to remove the stitching and lined it up and went for it again. I couldn't bear to 'toss out' the panels...especially since I only bought 1 sheet of each pattern. So although this card looks like it should be a slam dunk, it ended up being quite labor intensive.

Yes, I'm using more of the ZVA crystals...love them...tons....I yet again altered the shape {snipped here and there} to make so that it would fit...and what's that I see...yuppers...a PTI Pure Poppy button!! wooo hoooo!!! I distressed all the edges, including the Domestic Goddess tag...

Next up, a new challenge site for me....

Eat Sleep Stamp by Tracy Clemente

She is celebrating her 52nd sketch with a $52 spending spree!!! Check out the deets...she needs 52 players...come on ladies {and dudes}....I'm telling you, it's soooo worth all the fun!!!! Thanks to Tami for giving me the heads up on this one :)

Okay enough with the chit chatting...here's the fun sketch:

Here's my entry #2 for the Moxie Fab World Around the House Challenge:


All the patterned paper is ala Teresa Collins {yes, picked up a couple sheets with that fabbie gift cert!}. Surprise, surprise...I'm using Thickers...LOL. How do you like my 'flatware'? I've had those for, well, years...I happened to go to a Packaging Specialties 'garage sale' and picked them up there.

Thanks to my very magnificent friend 'm' for the gift cert...I also bought one of these and one of these.

Soooooo much stinkin' FUN!!!!

Well, that's it for today...come on back tomorrow for my 365 Cards Super Sketchy Sunday card!!!!

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