Its my JOY to stamp

Moved

2008-04-07T14:30:00.000-07:00

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Just give me Jesus

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2008-03-31T07:48:00.000-07:00

Wow, I made it! I made a card last night and then looked at the challenge again and decided that it didn't quite work. I do love the card and am posting it here because I do love it, but the second one is great too. I do not have the nestabilities so tried my best to make the cute outline and think it worked but sure do want those ;-) Anyway, had a great time with this challenge and thanks for checking.

Blessings,
Sara

WSC40 and BIC5

2008-03-24T07:16:00.000-07:00

I must admit that I had a great time with the Be Inspired Challenge that Beate posted here. It challenged me to think outside of the box and I really love how the card turned out. I have the older style Creative Memories Circle and Oval cutters and love how it turned out with the different sizes and shapes.

Then I was not even going to do this challenge for WSC40, but when I was making this card for my Mother in Law, it just turned out to fit. So it was fun. I also used the same paper that I will be posting later of my OSW cards. I am having so much fun with them but they are not all done yet.

Thanks for the challenge and checking.
Blessings,
Sara

WSC39 and an altered notebook

2008-03-17T16:17:00.000-07:00

Well the time has come for me to take the plunge and finally alter this notebook that my sister got me back in November 2003. I have always loved the picture in the center of the front cover but the rest of the cover has always been a bit... Not too sure about it. But now I love it! I didn't do to much to alter it but love how it turned out. I took my inspiration from the WSC that Beate had this weekend. Didn't follow exactly as I moved the placement on both items, the card and the notebook. Anyway, thanks for the inspiration Beate and the challenges, always fun. Thanks for checking!

I am so glad that I finally updated the front of this notebook, maybe I will finally use it for my many thoughts???

This is a close up of the stenciled area that reflects what this notebook will finally be used for.

Here is the fun card that I made with this sketch.

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2008-03-09T13:47:00.000-07:00

What a great challenge. I was not sure what I would be making with this challenge and then I went to Drama practice yesterday and knew I needed to make a card for the director - she had lost track a little as the whole team was together for the first time. The actors practice their lines and dancers practice at another location. This is a ministry drama called HisACTS - such a great team. I work as the Stage Manager and love seeing everything come together, however... The inspiration came from the Directors Shoes. They caught my eye looking like 'So Saffron' and 'Close to Cocoa' little flowers so I tried, freehand style, to make the design. That is where the center square comes from. I added the flourish to the bottom that looked bare and did some paper piercing followed by a watercolor pencil to look like Faux Stiching. I love how it turned out. The heart in the center does not look so pink in life. Thanks for a great sketch Beate and thanks for checking!

Be Inspired Challenge by Beate...

2008-03-09T13:27:00.000-07:00

I love her challenges and this one was especially fun. I think I did it the same day or next but getting to the computer now a days to actually post something seems to take forever. But, that's OK as I had a great time with this one. I used the chalkboard technique that Beate had posted earlier since I do not have a whole bunch of colors the chalk allows me to use more than I have...

I got to use colors on this that I would not normally use and did not use my most elaborate flowers as I did not know how the chalk would work with them. I did experiment with the one under the corner a little using more colors and I think it turned out great. Chalk and paper are SU, as well as the flourishes and the big flower the other two flowers are just some clear stamps that I have had for a little while. Thanks for checking!

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2008-03-03T09:26:00.001-08:00

Well apparently I missed the new deadline for posting this but I did get it done and still wanted to share, along with other items that I have been working on. I will post those later today. I saw the bouncing brayer technique and thought it would work perfect for what I wanted to do with this card but the ink colors that I had were all too dark. So I ended up using chalk and ink to try to mimic the look of the bouncing brayer. I love how it turned out and am going to share with my friend and maybe make another card or two. My mom purchased the He is Risen set from Gina K Designs and I just love it. So much fun! Hope you enjoy as well. Thanks for checking!

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2008-02-04T14:36:00.000-08:00

I am so excited!!! It is now February and TODAY is the first time that I have stamped all year. Actually since before we left in mid December for Vacation. Just glad to finally get moving again, thanks Beate for such a great challenge! Hopefully I can keep this up as I really put three cards together today. I started off with two from Novembers' Stamp camp that Beate sent me, again thanks, which is what finally got me motivated to stamp again. I guess being away from it this long was a little intimidating to start again, but I did and had a great time. I am glad for this card too, it means that I have my hubby's V-Day card - such a relief!, especially since his birthday is friday and I have my Dad's birthday on Monday, my nephew Connor's birthday is right around the corner - certainly did not want to go back to old habits of trying to find just that perfect card on the shelf... So thanks for a great challenge and like I said hopefully I can keep going ;-)

Paper and Stamps from CTMH - Heart stamps on shimery white CS from Stampin Up!. Not sure who made the ribbon - velvet my fav!

Back???

2008-01-12T06:30:00.000-08:00

We had a great time on Vacation. It was fun to spend time with the family and see Abigail with her Cousins, Grannie and Papa and Great Grandma. I have many pictures to share but have not even had the time to download pictures yet, so will share when I have the time to catch up. I hope that everyone is doing well and will be checking in periodically.

Thanks and Happy New Year!

Christmas...

2007-12-17T05:59:00.000-08:00

So I have been extremely busy getting ready for Christmas and well have been working on projects, work and cleaning. So I have made a couple different cards this year - which is something I have not done before - thanks to all of you for the inspiration. I did not get pictures of the cards, but will probably make up the couple that I have left and take pictures of those but I did make a couple trees and have pictures to share with you. They are so fun, not complete in the pictures as I was not sure what I would do with the tops at the time. I made a star for the one and am still voting on the second - we will see... Maybe next year at this rate!

Both where I have them displayed - just perfect for me...

Individual close ups!

Merry Christmas and Happy New year everyone as I am not sure that I will get to post anything between now and then - You know visiting with family - opening presents, etc...

Missing...

2007-12-11T06:20:00.000-08:00

Well I guess that I have been a little lax in posting. I have been working on some Christmas trees and just got most of my cards in the mail last night - so they will go out this morning. But because of all the Christmas doings I have not had time to make anything other than cards and trees, which I will try posting later. I may not start posting again until after Christmas Vacation. We will be visiting my family for several weeks. So with that have a great Christmas and I will be back in the new year. Merry Christmas!!!

Happy Birthday Jim

2007-11-17T12:33:00.000-08:00

My StepFathers B-Day is today and this is the card that I sent his way. I had to borrow the fishing set but am certainly glad that I did because I just love how this card turned out... The inside just says 'Happy birthday'

Happy Birthday Jim ;-)

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2007-11-14T04:52:00.000-08:00

Wow this was a fun but challenging one for me. It was simple enough but cannot believe how it challeneged me, probably because I was trying to make a more masculine card, although my husband says it still would not work ;-) Oh well... I still like it and will keep trying that more masculine approach.

I also could not stay with the circle, I tried but an oval seemed to work better with how I choose to layout this card.

Thanks for checking!

Harvest Time

2007-11-04T12:55:00.000-08:00

I have been very busy with trying to take picture of my daughter for her 18 month pictures, now that I have a really nice camera I do not want to spend the money going to a photographer. But, I did find some time to make up these pumpkins that I saw on Polished to Perfections web page. Super Easy and very fun. Next I am going to try making the Christmas trees that she gave 7 examples of. They look so fun and will be great as some decorations since we are not having a tree this year. Small ones will be just fine for us...

I really loved the first and second one so much that I couldn't even share with my Mother in law for their 40th anniversary, sorry!!! They are sitting on my candle holder in place of a couple of the candles and look great. The third one I really made specifically for my Mother in law. I thought that it would be perfect for the celebration and it fit in perfectly.

This is a picture of all three of them together in my little pumpkin patch!

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2007-10-29T14:56:00.000-07:00

I had fun making this card. I finally tried embossing again for the first time in many, many years. I almost forget that I used to stamp and emboss images when I was in High School, but I never got rid of my embossing heater, so quite easy to get back into it. I am not to excited about how the embossing turned out and now I really see the reason for the embossing budy, will probably have to get that one when I can place another order ;-)

Front View all tied up--

Inside view-- I made an area to place the note by embossing the lines...

Close up of the wording...

Stamp set by CTMH, some paper from SU, main card paper - Not sure where it came from.

A couple parties...

2007-10-26T12:54:00.000-07:00

I have been busy attending a couple parties recently and just had a blast at both of them. The Stampin Up! one was fun, but boy was everyone sure quiet, but I learned a lot. I have been staying away from heat embossing because it has just been a long time since I have done that but now no more excuses, time to get back at it! We made this cute little Happy Holidays card and I got to experiment with the blending pens and the chalk, I like that technique a lot!

The other party was by special invitation at my CTMH demonstrators house and she had us make these cute little small gift boxes, this traingle fold card and then a scrapbook layout. I already added pictures to that one so unfortunately will not be posting that here, agreements made with the hubby ;-) But it turned out great, time to get back into scrapbooking - I am soo far behind!

2, 5, 7, 10 Box...

2007-10-26T12:47:00.000-07:00

I finally made one and sent if off to my Mom, it was really easy and cannot believe it took me this long to finally make it ;-)

I actually made it a little while ago, so she has since gotten this wonderful little box. I used SU Paper (river rock, groovy guave and the blue current in color - cannot think of the name) and CTMH stampsets (Flourishes and the heart is from another set, cannot remember right now). It was fun!

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2007-10-20T12:27:00.000-07:00

This was a fun one and I got to use some of my new CTMH stamps from winter wonder. I love it. The snowflakes are just perfect and I have wanted to use this snowflake light blue background for a while but it just never seemed to work before this. So I just love this card, but am not sure about the tree. I tried to make it look like it was snowing and that snow had accumulated on the branches but I just am not sure. I hand drew the tree but just not sure about the snow effect, any suggestions on what I could have done differently???

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2007-10-16T16:38:00.000-07:00

I got this done this last weekend, but ran out of time to post it. I have been busy making my Christmas cards and will post those as soon as I am done, next month sometime;-) This was another fun sketch and I knew exactly who would be getting it, yippie!

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2007-10-07T13:35:00.000-07:00

This was a fun one, just wish that I had completed it yesterday but our DVD player died and we had to get a new one, Veggie Tales is very important you know... So we ended up shopping and not only getting the dvd player but also a 42" plasma TV. We were going to be getting one anyway, but were waiting until the addition was completed (still haven't started construction, just finishing up plans) But why buy a DVD player for a tv when you would just have to buy one again when we got this new TV, so sooner than expected but oh well...

Back to the Card, it was a fun challenge and I am glad that I got the chance to complete it on the weekend. Thanks for another fun one Beate!

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2007-10-01T09:36:00.000-07:00

This Library File Card was fun and challenging. It was great to try and add different layers and I really like how it turned out. The paper is all Stampin Up, the stamps I used were from CTMH flourishes and the little flower stamp from g CLEAR stamps (michaels) and the ribbon is also from Michaels. Very fun. I think next time I need to try some distressing but am a little shy because I do not want to waste something but I think this card would have turned out even better had one of the layers been distressed. Cannot wait to take a class on that, soon it is on the calendar already!

And this winner is....

2007-09-30T12:48:00.000-07:00

Random.org gave me a number of 32. So counting down the list gave me...

Elaine said...
congrats on your promo at work! I hope you will still have time to stamp and share your designs!! And go have fun getting candy for yourself too!!

So Elaine, send me your snail mail address and I will get your goodies out to you. There is a link to my email on the sidebar.

Thanks all to commenting. This was so much fun. It is fun to hear why you all like scrapbooking and/or card making. I love it because at the end of the day, week or year I have something to show for it and it is always nice to have something to do on rainy days with friends ;-) Have a great day and know that each of you are inspirations to me! Enjoy!

Happy Birthday Ryan

2007-09-28T07:30:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was my nephews birthday. When my Mom was here I made a card and sent it off with her to give to him. He was not all that excited about the card but loved the cash inside ;-) He is now 7 years old and I just cannot believe it, amazing how time flies. Love him so much and cannot wait to see him and his brother at christmas;-)

Picture of Candy and Card...

2007-09-27T19:52:00.001-07:00

So I finally made it to the store to pick up some stuff for the blog candy and this is what I found. I may include some other stuff as I think that there is more to share than what I have pictured here. Included here are two 'G' clear stamp sets and blocks from Michaels and a small little scrapbooking kit. It has all the stuff to make that little album that is included. I think it is great if you have a small event or one day that you want to scrapbook. Such a neat idea. I hope you enjoy!

The other thing is that I got around to making a card for my coworker who is having a baby. I just love this little 3x3 card, quick and simple and yet I get to say that I finally did a little stamping ;-) So exciting.

Thanks for checking and have a great day!

Wow, would you look at all those hits...

2007-09-25T19:45:00.000-07:00

Wow, I cannot believe how many hits there have been in just a few days... It is amazing what a little candy will do to your blog. I was hoping to get to the store yesterday or today but did not so will have to figure out blog candy sometime this week. I will definately have it figured out and posted before I draw out the winner. Thanks for checking and have a great week!!!

WSC20 and blog candy...

2007-09-23T19:50:00.000-07:00

Well I actually got a sketch challenge done on the weekend that it was for, yeah!!! This was a little challenging until I figured out which stamps and paper I was going to use. The sketch itself was great, I really enjoyed it and how the card turned out! I mostly used CTMH paper and stamps with a new ribbon clip that I just got from Melissa Frances. I love how it turned out...

Now I just noticed that I am almost at 1000 hits, cannot believe it. I knew if I made it that far that I would want to celebrate and so here I am offering my first blog candy. I need to figure out what I would like to give away and may need to make a stop at the store tomorrow to get some great stuff, so will post the picture either tomorrow or Tuesday. I have been promoted at work so this week will be a little hectic (working 50 hours, ouch!). I will draw a winner on Sunday Sept 30th, using a random number generator. To help me celebrate please leave a comment on this post letting me know what you like best about scrapbooking or card making. Thanks and Good luck!

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2007-09-18T20:12:00.000-07:00

Wow, I finally got to do some stamping!!! I was glad to finally get a chance to make something. We went to my Dad's this past weekend and that cut down on my crafting time, tremendously! But I got back to it tonight and am glad. So here is my card for this weekends sketch challenge that Beate at Fresh and Fun put together. I am also sending this card to Victoria, yeah someone to send it to as well. I am glad.

Catching Up and WSC18

2007-09-09T12:45:00.000-07:00

Wow, I cannot believe how long it has been since I have posted anything. I have been very busy and not crafting busy.

It seems like life has taken a hold of us and I am trying to make it to the surface of the water and take a breath before it takes off again. I keep telling my coworkers that I feel like a cat in water! You know the saying a fish out of water, well I just didn't think that it described it well enough. You know how cats LOVE water and how they would do anything to get back out of the water, clawing it or anything that gets in their way, well that is how I have been feeling but have been declawed so cannot even get a grab of anything that may swim by, that is my life these past couple of weeks.

On a good note we celebrated our 3rd aniversary and watched our little grow pass 16 months old. She is growing just so fast and is such a blessing.

Well anyway, back to the reason that I started this post, I finally got to do some crafting and made a card for this weekends sketch challenge that Beate has posted. It was really easy - I thought so anyway - and I had fun putting it together. Thanks for checking!

My Mom's cards for the 10 for 1

2007-08-29T15:02:00.000-07:00

Here are my Mom's cards, for some reason I could not add them to the previous post so here they are. Didn't she make some great cards for her first time trying?

10 for 1 challenge

2007-08-29T14:45:00.001-07:00

Wow!!! I did not think that we would get through this one. Korin asked if anyone would try the 10 for 1 templates and I thought it would be fun to introduce my mom to making cards while she was here for a visit. I thought it would give us something to do while my DD is napping. Boy it took a little longer than I anticipated but it sure was fun. We each made 10 different cards each. They do not match exactly but they turned out great for the paper we each chose. The challenge was to use four different pieces of paper, follow the template and make ten cards. We did it!!! and here are our cards, my mom started with christmas paper but made several different types of cards and I needed to make several thank you cards but ended up with some great aniversary or valentines day cards as well. So much fun!

These are my cards and the next post will have my moms cards ;-)

WSC#16

2007-08-26T14:17:00.000-07:00

Well I did it... My mom is here visiting us and so just have not had all that much time but got to show my mom how easy it is to make a card using this challenge, thanks Beate! I was having trouble coming up with a design to make a congrats welcome Baby type card for my coworker. But this challenge really helped me along. She is not finding out what she is having, at least at this time, and so just wanted a simple neutral card. I could not come up with the box in the center but kinda faked it with the corner pieces, hope it still counts!

My first Christmas Card

2007-08-20T15:54:00.000-07:00

Well, I got my Make a wish Stamp set from Gina K Designs and since I won a lot of Christmas paper from Ammie that I would make my first Christmas Card and I think it is OK, but maybe missing something. I may try a little more later, but my husband just got home and I need to get moving on the dinner idea.

My first RAK

2007-08-20T15:47:00.000-07:00

Pieces of Me holds a monthly RAK club and I thought I would give it a shot. Well look what I got, I just cannot believe the generosity! They are just beautiful.

Phoebe made the first card and I love it. The second card came from hulahlah Paper Company. Both are so amazing.

Fresh and Fun Weekend Sketch Challenge #15

2007-08-20T09:06:00.000-07:00

This was an easy one that I really enjoyed, although I have not added the sentiment yet because I am not sure who it is going to go to. It will be in the lower right hand corner of the card. I am not sure who the paper is made by as I just received it as part of the blog candy that I won from Amy. I was so amazed at how much paper she sent me and I love all of it! Such a happy day ;-)

Fresh and Fun Weekend Sketch Challenge #14

2007-08-15T06:34:00.000-07:00

This is my card for this past weekends sketch challenge that Beate does. I love this challenge and really enjoyed making this card...

Not sure where all the paper came from or where the brads came from but the ribbon is from Making Memories - a recent purchase while camping this past weekend.

Fresh and Fun Weekend Sketch Challenge #13

2007-08-09T05:25:00.000-07:00

Well, I will share both attempts for this challenge. It is a great sketch but I am not sure that I am all that happy with how either card turned out. I may have to try a third time but we are heading out today to do some camping so these will have to do for now!

My first attempt - I don't know what it is about this card but I just am not to sure about it.

My second attempt - I like this card a lot better but still think I should have done something different but cannot put my finger on what I should have done differently...

Thanks for checking and have a great weekend!

Requesting info/help...

2007-07-30T06:15:00.000-07:00

OK - So I really want to start adding some glitter but am not sure how to go about doing that. Do I purchase a glue pad and some glitter and add glitter that way, do I emboss - which I already own an embossing heater - so could do that. But I want really easy and want to know others do. Also if you know of any tutorials that would be great. Thanks!

Two for one - challenges

2007-07-29T07:37:00.000-07:00

Wow, so I have seen others doing more than one challenge with one card and I never thought that I would give it a try so here it is... I started with Beate's card challenge 12 and it looked pretty boring. I then remembered that I say a daring card makers challenge to make any card but you have to incorporate squares (actually checks but it said squares so that is what I did).

For the card itself I really do not remember where I got the papers or who made them but I love them. The flower stamps and ribbon came from a blog candy gift I received from Debbie. I think the card turned out great. The second one is just a little closer so as to see the sentiment a little clearer...

CHA Giveaway! Get over there

2007-07-28T19:16:00.000-07:00

Get over to Daily Dose of Spazz she is giving away such an amazing prize of goodies from her trip to CHA. I really want those goodies, but if you enter maybe you can win them. I would love to see someone head over there and win because they found out from here;-)

What are you thinking, still here??? GET OVER THERE

Waterfall Card.

2007-07-23T19:28:00.000-07:00

What an amazing day. I actually got everything done. Ran all the errands, made mix chip cookies, cleaned the floor, watched Abigail playing in the backyard, played with Abigail when she did not take a nap and I made another card. I just cannot believe everything that I got accomplished today. This is one of those pat yourself on your back kind of days. I will be in the office for the next three days instead of working from home on Wednesday so I am glad I got so much done. Well here is the card that I made. I did follow the tutorial from SCS and it was easy. All paper and supplie from CTMH except the two little button style brads (can't remember where they came from). Have a great night!

Wow - Nominated for the Rockin Girl...

2007-07-23T13:04:00.001-07:00

Wow - I can't believe it, I have been nominated for the Rockin Girl Blogger, what a treat. Thanks IDA!

Now I get to nominate 5 others, who to pick there are just soo many awesome blogs that I check out everyday. Who, who, who... OK here it goes.

Beate from Fresh and Fun

Tara from Stamp a licious (she has already been nominated but it sure is hard finding those who have not been nominated so here goes the first of duplicates)

Shawntel from Sweet Stamping Mama

Jen from my stamping spot and...

Jenn from I got stamps (another second nomination)

Thanks this is so much fun, and I am just amazed!

Another one for challenge 11

2007-07-22T20:11:00.001-07:00

My 14 month old daughter tried helping with this one, but I still like it a lot. I just hope that it is not too busy... Paper is Let's Get Together by CTMH, as well as the ribbon. The stamps are from Stampendous - I think that is how you spell it? I can't remember where the little bling came from even though it is a recent acquisition.

Fresh and Fun Weekend Sketch Challenge #11

2007-07-22T05:54:00.000-07:00

As soon as I saw this one I knew what I was going to do, until that is I started... The colors I thought that I was going to use just did not work together. But after a little thinking and looking I figured it out and this is what I came up with. The paper and ribbon are all CTMH, the stamp I cannot remember where it came from, the little flower was from some blog candy I won - same with the cutout. But I am so glad it worked out, because its another card I just love and hope whoever receives this will too ;-)

Fresh and Fun Weekend Sketch Challenge #10

2007-07-18T06:15:00.000-07:00

I made it, I finally decided on the colors to use for this layout. That was my only challenge with this one! Once I figured out what colors to use it was soo easy. I love this card and know exactly who I am sending it to. Thanks again for a great challenge!

Tagged

2007-07-15T06:14:00.000-07:00

OK I got tagged by Ida and this is my first time being tagged, although I must admit that if this had come by email that there is no way that I would be responding because I have done way to many of these but because you are all so nice about sharing with me I thought that I would give this a try... I will also not really play by the rules because I know most everyone I check has been tagged before but if not consider yourself tagged and link back to this comment so that I can check them out. Maybe I will find some new blogs to look at - wouldn't that be cool!!! So I am supposed to share 7 things about myself, so here it goes...

1 - I love to mountain climb, go mountain biking, and white water rafting.

2 - I was born in Northern British Columbia.

3 - I am a full time working mother - currently of one 14 month old and life is very hectic.

4 - I love to read the Bible and wish that I could spend all my time with the LORD and potentially would love to go back to a bible school or seminary - just to go deeper with the LORD. Time seems to escape me these days.

5 - Spending each moment my sweet little girl is awake with her - even when she is not awake, watching her sleep in my arms is worth 10 billion dollars (OK really can you put a price tag on that) Right now I am thinking about those AMEX commercials where they give you the price of two things but that third item is priceless. That is what time with my daughter is like - ABSOLUTELY PRICELESS!!!

6 - I am a college graduate with a degree in Environmental Science. I was selected as the student speaker for both the full Western Washington University Graduation Ceremony and the Huxley College Graduation Ceremony where I talked about sustainability and carpooling, walking or riding your bike to work. We just bought a SUV that I drive to work for safety. The selling point was the DVD player for my daughter. Boy how priorities change.

and last by not least...

7 - GIVE ME JESUS!!! Jesus died for me and then rose again, so that I may have life and life more abundantly - so give me Jesus! I must realize that life more abundantly is not a quarantee that I will be rich but I will have all my needs met. Needs not wants and it has been just awesome watching how the LORD has provided for us daily. I have a full time job but my husband is self employed and does not advertise his work but somehow even when there should not be anything there is always enough to provide for our needs. It is just Awesome to see Him work in our lives! Praying that for each of you to!

8 - I absolutely love scrapbooking and cardmaking and stamping. They are just awesome! I know one more than required but that is ok, isn't it?

I will be posting a new card hopefully today because I just love the weekend sketch challenges that Beate does. So thanks for viewing and reading. Sometimes I wonder if there are people out there because sometimes the counter goes up but no new comments, but that is the same here I mostly just look and sometimes post a comment. better get better at that.

Fresh and Fun Weekend Sketch Challenge #9

2007-07-10T19:49:00.000-07:00

I finally got a chance to make this card. I was excited about this one as I have never made this type of card before and it was a challenge because I messed up on the tutorial, although written just fine, I just could not follow for some reason - maybe not thinking clearly after a weekend of camping. So much fun!

Here is the card. I think it might need a little more on the inside. A saying or some flowers or something like that - what do you all think? Myabe at the top inside corner on the outside of the little inner card - does that make any sense at all???

Fresh and Fun Weekend Sketch Challenge #8

2007-07-02T08:54:00.000-07:00

I just love these challenges that Beate does. They are great to get me thinking and look at combining the different papers that I have, I love it! So here is this weeks try at the card, I really like this one, it is fun - now just who do I send it too? I am sure I will figure that out soon...

Co-workers Retirement

2007-07-02T08:48:00.000-07:00

I love this card making thing. I am so glad that a friend got me into it. I guess that I should send her another thank you card, because it is just so much fun. We had a coworker retire last week after 20+ years with the city. She was such a neat person and I am glad that I got the chance to work with her. She does not or did not work in the same department, but the last major project that I was working on I got to work a little with her and am thankful. Now that I have lost weight - post baby - she gave me advice on how to take my pants in so that I did not have to go out and buy all new pants, for which I am very thankful... So here is the card that I made for her. It says Imagine on the front and inside - which I forgot to take a picture of - Life without the city... What an Adventure!

I won Blog Candy

2007-07-02T08:41:00.000-07:00

Check it out... I won blog candy. I cannot believe it. Check out Angelosity's site. It has some cute ideas.

Here is a picture of the blog candy that I won

Here is a card that I made with the candy that I won. I think it is so cute and really love the little butterflies and the Thank yous that came with the stamp set. Never can have to many Thank You's...

Addicted???

2007-07-02T08:40:00.001-07:00

64%

Fresh and Fun Weekend Sketch Challenge #7

2007-06-25T10:33:00.000-07:00

Here are a couple of cards that I made from Beate's latest Challenge. They were pretty simple to make and perfect for the occasions...

I CASED a card...

2007-06-17T19:52:00.000-07:00

Ok I think that is what it is called when you copy a card that you really like. Well I mostly copied this card from Beate's site. I love it, and had a good time creating it for my friends graduation card, although sometimes I wish that I could just create the card for myself but what fun would that be;-)

Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge #6 and Simply Amazing Sketch card

2007-06-16T16:16:00.000-07:00

This first card is for this weekends sketch challenge. It was fun trying this round card. I have the circles from Creative Memories and they worked great, once I figured out which size I wanted for the card. The one thing that I should have thought about was the center of gravity, I would have designed it a little differently, but I still like it and my coworker loves purple so this ones for her!

This one is for the simply amazing giveaway that Beate is doing for making it to 300,000 hits! That is simply amazing. I found a sketch from this Sketch this website that I really liked and this is the card that I made. It is for my Husband, Abigails Dad for Fathers Day. I hope that he likes it a lot!

Fresh and Fun Weekend Sketch Challenge #5

2007-06-08T10:46:00.000-07:00

This was a great card as soon as I saw the layout I knew what I was going to do. I am going to give it to Grannie Paula today after her last radiation treatment! I also got to use my new bee (I am sure that I was not supposed to buy this but I fell in love with it the first time that I saw it and knew that I had to have it, I just ran across this in the store and could not resist...) and love the colors that I used to color him in with.

Fresh and Funs Weekend Sketch Challenge #4

2007-06-03T15:54:00.000-07:00

I am having a really hard time with this layout. I have tried two different cards and think that I am going to try a third before this weekend ends, but for now these are the two attempts that I made. On the second one I tried some paper piercing, but I not too sure about that. I will have to try a little more to see if I like that or not. Just had a little bit of a hard time...

For someone special...

2007-05-29T04:58:00.000-07:00

I hope that the person who gets this card really enjoys it, I love it! I got to do a little shopping this weekend and these are made with the new papers that I got, Yippie (They only had one of the greenish paper Basicgrey BLUSH admie - so I ordered some more online - My husband even likes the paper its great!) I just enjoy the bright fun colors they definately make me smile ;-)

Fresh and Funs Weekend Sketch Challenge #3

2007-05-27T08:08:00.001-07:00

I made this card, I know who I am sending it too but they will have to wait and see who is going to get it... I am not sure about who makes the stamps but I did use my new Copic pens and I LOVE them!!! Had fun doing this challenge. This is all still so new, but am completely enjoying myself and that is what it is all about!!! Thanks!

A couple more...

2007-05-27T08:02:00.001-07:00

A few of the cards....

2007-05-27T06:32:00.000-07:00

I have made recently. I have just started creating cards and I just LOVE IT!!! Just wanted to share what I have made.