A Blogger Award!!!

Wow...I can't believe it, I have been awarded

by two talented Teresas. First by Teresa Kline and then by Teresa Payne-Neal. These two Teresas are super talented and you won't be dissapointed when you visit their blogs. Thanks so much ladies for thinking of me. HUGS!!!

Now I must pass this award along to some more talented ladies. Check back later for the list.

Family Portrait

Hello Everyone,

I thought my kids would get a kick out of seeing themselves online, so here is a picture of me and my family. We took this picture back in December of 2006, I guess it's time for an update.

Of course you can guess who I am. And the big guy is my hubby Andrew. The guy to the left is Alexander and the little guy to the right is Nickolas. We also have an 11-year old old english bulldog named Brandy. And that completes my family.

Have a wonderful weekend.

A Girly Girl Card...

Hi Everyone,

I hope most of you are in warmer conditions. It is currently -9 degrees in my part of Illinois. No school for the kiddies and a "I'm going in late today" for me. Who can be on time for work in this type of weather?

Well on to my card for today. I have to say that I absolutely loooovvvved coloring this image last night. First I have to give a big thank you to "craftycrunchymama" (Susan) over on SCS for sending me these Sugar Nellie images of "Daisy". She is so adorably cute. I am going to have to purchase this stamp. That is, when it comes off of backorder. Well here she goes... Isn't she the cutest? I think I fell in love with this image because I don't have any girls of my own, and she just looks like what a little girl of mine would look like. Well enough of the mushy stuff, because this image is as close to a little girl I will get. Not counting my 3 neices.

And I am so proud to say that I used my SU markers to color her in. Get to know me and you will know that I-should I say it?-o.k. here it goes..."I hate SU markers!" I know, I know, how dare an SU demo say such a horrible thing. Shame on me. But I always get an ugly picture using them. Maybe the old saying practice makes perfect holds true for SU markers also. Because I do like the way she turned out. However, I did use a black prismacolor pencil to color her hair in.

Well I guess I should get to work, I did just get here only about 30 minutes ago. Have a warm day!!!

Oh, here is the inside of the card. I don't always decorate the inside but since I used such a simple sentiment on the front I thought I would make room for someone to write a personal message.

Stamp Set: It's All Good
CS: SU Real Red, SU Whisper White, DSP-Summer Picnic

Blogger Group 7 Challenge

Well this is my first Valentine's Day card for 2009

The blogger group that I belong to over on SCS has decided to do monthly challenges. So I opened my big mouth and threw out the first challenge. It was to make a Valentine's Day card, but you could not use red, pink, or white in the card. Believe me it was a little challenging. Only because I am so use to grabbing my whisper white cs. And I couldn't believe how much dsp I have with red, pink, or white in it. But I made it and was pretty happy with the results.

And I also want to send a thank you credit to "chandapie" on SCS. I cased her card fold from our monthly card swap group. "Thanks Chanda"!!!

CS: Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, Baja Breeze(textured)

DSP: Manchester

Stamp Set: So Much(flower) and For A Friend(sentiment)

Embellies: Flower Fusion Too, Vintage Brads

A Quick Side-Track Project

Or should I say "A Very Quick Side-Track Project". O.K. I am one who gets side-tracked very easily. I can be in the middle of doing something and come across something totally different and I will drop what I am doing and completely start off in another direction. Never-mind I got a pile of the first project I was working on in the middle of the floor. Well that is what happened to me on Wednesday. As I was cleaning my craft room (which by way I should take some pictures of and post them-see told you I go off in different directions-I was just about to leave my computer and get my camera-LOL) O.K. back to the post, as I was cleaning my craft room I was putting some paper away in one of my magazine holders and a rub-on sheet was partially stuck to it. So instead of throwing out the whole image, I carefully cut around it and then did a quick scan of my craft room to see what I could do with this small piece of rub-on. Well on the floor in the "things that need to be put away" I found this picture frame and began rubbing. So for the next 2 minutes I designed...VOILA!!! ...a cute little frame to put a picture of me and my DH in. That is if I can find one. It's probably in the "things that need to be put away" file. Talk to you later...