to your nearest Michaels.

On a shopping excursion to M’s, I was browsing the dollar spot, and-right next to it, found these babies!

Look familiar?

Well, if you are saying DUH! Its says right on the package Decorative Accents-that obviously go in your candle holder/vase’s then you are SO WRONG!

These are JUST like the Robin’s Nest Dew Drops! I mean EXACTLY! same size and everything. Only for an entire bag of these you will only pay $3.99!!

I was tipped off to these during my blog browsing (which is not very often :C), so if you know who originally made this find-post it here!

I had to see for myself. YUP! They are exactly the same.

You see I got the pink/purple variety, green variety, and clear-so I can use my Copic marker’s to color them whatever color I want 😀 They also had a blue variety. No need for that.

Now the bag was rather big, and was NOT with the plant/vase stuff. It was near where you buy decorative home greenery, on an end cap!

So I wondered  HOW I could store these.

As you can see in the above photo, I used a old SU! plastic stamp case. I didn’t want to mix them up, so I did this

I simply measured my case size. Then cut cardstock a bit longer (about 4 inches longer) in length. Scored it, with my Scor-Pal, to make divider’s that fit it inside!

The dividers are scored at (for example) 2-3-4 then again at 6-7-8. This gives you the mountain you need to support the weight of the beads, and keep them separate! Your measurements will vary depending on case size and how many packages of bead thingy’s you purchase.

Just put a bit on adhesive on the bottom of the divider before you place it in. Add beads-DONE!

Cool huh?

I have an INSANELY busy day today, so hope to post some eye candy later.

I have alot to share this week, so stay tuned 😀

INCLUDING a cool product I NEVER heard of before. You are going to want to see it.

HINT-its shines, and changes color.

 Now I know you want to know what it is 😀

Till then.

So now that we have some ground, we sometimes let Diasy play outside for a few minutes, in the driveway, while on the leash. Only when she really wants to stay out.

She can’t be in the yard yet, cause her place is not ready, and we still ahve several feet of snow.

So this afternoon I tied her up, and I went inside to start lunch.

8 minutes later………………………Came out to see this-

Look at that face? If she could talk I think she would say “Oops! Did I do that?”

She immediately sat down, and gave me this pathetic face-only a doggy mom could love.

Oh after getting my Crafty Secrets Coffee & Tea set, I had to dust off my beloved MFT Hot Stuff set!

I LOVE this set. I recently had a card with it published in the Dec/Jan issue of Paper Trends.

The *ONLY* problem with being on design teams is, you get these awesome sets you LOVE, you get to use them briefly before a release, then its on to the next set. NOT COMPLAINING! So, when you REALLY love a set it stinks when you don’t have more time to use the “oldies but goodies”.

Kim is only going to be releasing one mini set in February, since she is busy getting ready for CHA,  and has given us free reign to PLAY with our faves instead. I am getting an early start :D.

So wait till you get enabled to buy some older sets (wink)!

I was so happy with this card/layout.

I used some YUMMY Martha Stewart paper (and ribbon), and away I went. I used my sewing machine to attach the patterned layer, onto the embossed floral layer (embossed paper came that way). The colors are blush blossom, and pretty in pink. A nice monochromatic combination.

Its pretty simple, but lovely all the same.

Things are going pretty well here. I always appreciate the warm thoughts 😀

Tomorrow will be TORTURE the kids day!

My way of getting back at them for driving me insane the past week-KIDDING!!!

I made them each an appointment at my most FAVORITE place-the DENTIST!!! I don’t know WHO it will hurt worse, me for having to deal with 3 kids at the dentist, or them for having their first cleaning.

YIKES! I get an anxiety attack just thinking about it. If you follow this blog-you will understand. I hate the dentist. I hope to get my kids in and have a good experience.

Alexa can’t be touched. She has Chemo Wednesday, so I guess a week of travel AND torture. Her counts have to be REALLY good to go to the dentist, for risk of infection, plus due to her heart surgery she always requires antibiotics. They will however PEEK in her mouth to make sure things look OK till we are safe to get her a cleaning. People with Down Syndrome are prone to dental issue’s :C Little enamel, and overcrowding are a big issue-add chemo and you have the perfect cocktail for cavities no matter what you do. I will get Alexa’s teeth capped when she has all her adult teeth in, and will make sure she has a nice mouth of teeth if it kills me.

Due to our hectic health schedule this will be Noah’s FIRST visit and he is 5! BAD MOMMY! OK I honestly don’t have that much guilt because I can’t. We had priorities, and that was Alexa’s health first. We had all we could juggle. I can put my guilty sign on, but it will do no good. I have done my BEST. That is all one can do.

I really think we as mother’s wear that sign all too often, and we have to cut ourselves some slack time to time.

It’s OK to not be PERFECT! Who is really?

OK that is enough of my crazy banter.

Hope you have a great day. I have tons to do.

Don’t I always?

Till tomorrow-

Today is the 20th! That means it is time for our monthly Dirty Challenge. I really have fun doing this with all my fellow Dirty Girls.

All past/present dirty girls, who want to, participate in the challenge.

Each month has a special theme with certain guidelines or restrictions!

This month-Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!

RULES:

Challenge Focus: Girls Young and Old (your main image must be or include a girl – think Bella, Ronnie, Hanna, Elzy, Rubber Romance, etc. etc.)

Required Element: Something *SWEET* – you may interpret that any way you like.

Restricted Element: NO standard A-2 cards (4.25 x 5.5). Any other card size or type of project is ok.

Keyword: DCG108-this is where you can find them in the SCS Gallery.

So, for me, I went the extra challenge mile, and used my Rubber Romance Girls!

The link I provided is where mine came from. I learned recently that the creator of them, has her own Etsy store, and sells many you cannot find else-were!

Jody, always KILLS me with her mad skillz using them! After seeing some of her recent stuff I ordered “a couple”! So these are for her!

So here is my first one:

 Romantic Ribbon of Birthday Wishes

How could I possibly resist this one? Her name is -Judy is giving gifts.

This card is 5 1/2 squared.

Girl is stamped on a rectangle, cut using my nestabilities. Colored with Copic markers.

When we got word of the challenge and to use something sweet, I thought, what is sweeter than a new use for my May Arts ribbon?

 I folded it up, and made it into the bottom of her party dress. I used a hobby blade to cut a slit at the waist band and put the excess through the slit.

I thought it was so “sweet”. I also used some YUMMY paper by Imaginisce called –For Peep’s Sake. You cannot see it by the photograph, but the paper has glitter all over!

I wanted it to be soft, and elegant, so the added sheer ribbon, and tied it around the card-like a gift package.

The vellum punched flowers (edges sponges with ink), with a touch of bling, would be perfect! To continue the design, I used a scallop border at the bottom portion of the card.

The sentiment is a Rub On from Making Memories.

What do you think? Sweet enough for you?

Here is my second one:

 Daisy

For obvious reason’s I called this one Daisy!

This one is suppose to be for my mom, as a thank you for helping Jason buy Daisy for me. She is the best little poochie ever.

 Here is my mom, holding Daisy, with her GINORMOUS Golden Retriever named Teddy. He weighs OVER 100lbs, and is the gentlest dog ever.  Daisy had NO idea what that HUGE ball of fur was. Keep in Mind Daisy was only 5lbs! So the size of one of the clumps of fur, that comes off him after brushing! LOL!

 Here is Teddy “dog kissing” Daisy.

Cute huh?

I got this stamp from AmyR! She bought it for me right after I got Daisy. (Don’t know the name of this one though). She said it looked just like us. AWE! Thank You Amy!

Isn’t it SO us? So this is my sweet! Sweet Daisy Doodle.

I colored this with my Copic’s. Used my Scor-Pal to create the dry embossed border around the image. The Prima’s match the embossed border.

I  LOVE this paper by Piggy Tales-Little Red Riding Hood. It inspired my color scheme for this card.

Now due to the large image, and challenge requirements-this card is 4 3/4 X 6.

My sentiment is by a CTMH set-I think its called Puppy Love. I really love that set alot, and it has the best sentiments for cute dog cards 😀 Cute images too.

So that is that.

Hope you enjoy looking at all the challenge cards.

Till tomorrow.

 Circle of love

I figured MOST of my sketches have funky layer’s. This time I felt like we should KEEP IT SIMPLE!!!

I love clean and simple. I am also planning on “stepping it up”! LOL! I want to do another card layered, with the same sketch idea.

 click to enlarge it.

I love incorporating circles in my designs, so thought this card would be a great one for today.

I DO agonize about the weekly sketch, as I try to make it fun, fresh, easy, and exciting. I did ponder if this was TOO plain. But I will let you decide 😀

So, for THIS card, I was re-organizing my “supplies”. This is something I like to do often.

My space has to be clean and spotless for me to get creative. Sometimes my supplies in bins get unorganized. So it was time to reclaim my totally organized space!

I was also inspired because one of my reader’s asked how I know what I have, and how I find it all! LOL!

Well I do have “bins” for each thing. Such as -BLING has a bin, fun flock has a bin, stickers, have a bin, rub on  also have a bin, acrylic frames and ghost shapes and the like have a bin-you get the idea. SO things have their place.

As I organized, I came across the red sticker you see in the upper left. They were in the Target $1 spot like 2 years ago! I know I hoard alot :C So I figured it would be fun to use it. I had forgotten all about it actually.

So I used my Green Grass set, which I am SADLY realizing as I type this-has been discontinued :C It was one of her Alpha’s, in which the name escapes me now. But any word could do the same thing. She has a bunch of sentiments/words/alpha sets.

So I stamped the “love” word several times onto white card-stock.

The what I did can be done with any word. I used the “love” sentiment, and stacked it onto each other, coloring 1/2 the letters in a darker color to create a “block” word that says love, once stacked on each-other. I made it POP out at you, by using a making memories page pebble.

I then used my Coluzzle to cut the circle. I stamped a large frame circle (PTI Borders and Corners circle set) with white craft ink, onto my base, then fit the stamped circle into it.

Added my sticker, and ribbon.

I then did the same “love” sentiment in the lower right corner.

Now please use whatever you want in YOUR circle! You can use images, may your own paper, whatever you choose.

I hope you have time to try it out. If you do send me a link here so we can all see YOUR take on the sketch! I HAVE NO “rules” about my sketches, just that you have fun. Use them how you wish.

As always, thanks for reading.

I am off to my LSS AGAIN! I may take Amber with me 😀 She loves to shop too.

Tomorrow is the 20th-which means it is  Dirty Challenge time! All past and present Dirty Dozen girls get together with a “theme” for a challenge! So check back then!!!

Till tomorrow.

So, its time for my last letter. The letter “J”.

Before I go into all my “J” for Julie ramble, I hope all my PSF’s know it was hard to pick only a few to shower with “mytime” mail. I tried to spread the love to PSF’s whom I had not ever done much for, but are deserving all the same.

If I had the time I would make each PSF a letter. But its not a perfect world :C. So I hope none of you feel sad or slighted in anyway, as each of you are important 😀 I also appreciate all your friendships.

OK So upon my search I realized that there are hardly any GOOD words that start with J! WOW!

Here are some random words-BUT we wont say all of them are associated with Julie OK!

Jezebel, Juicy (HA! HA!), Jiminy, Jeepers, Jealous, Justify. Jump, Jinx, Joker, and Jewels!

But one GOOD word was JOY!

She has brought alot of JOY to us.

Did you know that she bought Alexa is “talking, light up Tinkerbell wand” all the way from Disney! Now she doesn’t live there, and it kept going off through their travels. She begged her hubby NOT to chuck it out the window! Everytime the wand goes off-(usually off one of the other kids heads) I remember her story. Alexa LOVES the wand BTW.

Thank you Julie for everything. Here is Julie’s Letter-

I think this was my favorite of them all! Because it was so different, and maybe because it had butterflies! AND Julie’s favorite color was purple-just like me 😀

I used the “Joy” , which is lightly stamped in the bkgd from the PTI set Serene Snowflakes, and the sentiment is from Green Thumb.

The butterflies are from my favorite Stampin Up! set-Garden Whimsy . Of course there is dazzling diamonds on the wings. I had to add Prima’s to coordinate.  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Now Julie wanted to learn to sew! So, I did some on her letter, and sent her one of the famous sewing machine’s I got for myself! Sorry people, I got the last 2 they had and the other was MINE!

So I hope she liked her package of goodies.

I’ll be right back with todays sketch!

Till then

Today’s letter is R.

R is for Remarkable, Radiant, Romantic, Reliable, Responsible, Reasonable, Rich, Regal, Riveting, Resourceful, and Rea-for a REAL Friend! Not just a PSF (PRETEND Stamping Friend).

R is also for Renee. Renee is the FIRST original PSF. When my daughter got Leukemia, Renee was the first person to contact me, and start this revolution of amazing friends, that Alexa calls the PSF’s!

She coined the term when all of “mommy’s computer friends” would send her gifts and cards in the hospital.  She would ask WHO sent it to her. I would tell her Mommy’s stamping friends from the computer. So, because she never met them, and couldn’t see them, she said “Oh they are your PRETEND Stamping Friends”. So basically she thinks I type to FAKE people that don’t exist all day! LOL! Then they magically send her her little cards and things too. Oh the mind of a child 😀

Renee is a special person, and will always hold a special place in my heart. I hope to meet my pretend friend someday.

This woman took a tragic time in my life, and gathered so many women, who not only reached out to us, but who became my rock through the storm.

They were there to get me through the toughest times in my life. How can you say Thank You, to all of them. Through that I have made some of the BEST friends a person could ever ask for. Each one has truly blessed our lives, and touch it forever.

So to all my PSF”s I love you, cherish you and thank you for everything. Your friendship has meant the world to me and my family. You all saved me mentally and emotionally, on days that I didn’t think I’d get through.

Now that I’m all teary, I will share the letter with you-

For info on how this letter was made into ART, click—->HERE

I used chocolate chip card-stock for the base.  I stamped it with Beautiful Blooms, and adhered some $1 spot paper flowers (like Primas) to some of the centers. Dew Drops are in the centers.

Here is a view of the sentiment-another CTMH one.

“We can do not great things, but in rising up every-time we fall”

How suitable for Renee. She helped me rise up, when I thought I would fall.

The birds are by Inkadinkadoo. I love them!

And that my PSF’s is that.

Now I really need to go stamp. Then get the kids home from school so I can go INSANE!

Yes, my kids have been awful lately. What’s the word to describe them Rebellious, Rabid, and Ridiculous! LOL!

OK Im sorry if this post bother’s you or offends you but I just could NOT resist.

What do you get when you have a new puppy, and a 5 year old, who doesn’t wear shoe’s?

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You get one unhappy boy, who stepped in a pile of puppy poop!

I couldn’t resist taking this picture, I did refrain from the photographing him throwing up as Jason cleaned off his foot 😀

Gotta love it.

OK  I need to be totally HONEST here.

This week’s blogger’s challenge is to use the color-River Rock, Blue Bayou, and Real Red.

Upon seeing this combo I thought-HMMM, OK I can totally do that. It will be fun.

Um, yeah, not so much.

Just THINKING about this challenge all week and waiting till the last minute to make it destroyed my precious, free flowing MOJO today.

So here I share my card.

I did only a “touch” of red, since I was totally NOT feeling this, this week.

Make sure you check out the other member blogs-Im sure theirs are fabulous.

New Home

This is the Bella Dream House, andSellabella. I LOVE my concept of using the two-again dont like the overall card though.

The tag is by Making Memories.

Not much else to say. Just a case of the BLAH’s!

“B” is for BUSY -that is me this week! I got all my stuff in at the SAME time, and have all the same deadlines :C YIKES! Not complaining though, its a happy busy. I do my best work when I have a TON to do. It get’s my mojo in high gear. I’m really proud of what I have done so far.

Enough about ME-lets talk about the letter B (Did that sentence sound like you were reading an episode of Sesame Street or what! LOL!).

On that note, I bet you can’t guess what my favorite puncuation is?

Answer-(!). Shocking huh? OK sorry-back to B.

In this case B is for Bonnie and her favorite color BLUE!

Some other words that come to mind-Birds, Beautiful, Best, Bodacious, Bright, Breezy, Brainy, Bashful……and I’m Bewildered there aren’t many more NICE words that begin with B.

BECAUSE……..Bonnie is one amazing person! Despite all she has on her plate, she thinks of others all the time. She is just the BEST! LOL!

OK enough of that-

She was one of my other Secret Friends-so here is her letter I did for her.

If you want the details, on HOW my letter’s are made please see this——->POST. It will give you the blah, blah blah, as to how they are made into ART 😀

This one was done using Prism cardstock-in Perfect Baby Blue Light. LOVE that cardstock, and that color.

I stamped one of my most favorite flourish designs by TAC ( The Angel Company ), called Deco Designs. You may recall I used it HERE as well.

I used Brilliance ink in beige for the main image-then colored with my Twinkling H20’s and Lumiere.

Sentiment is yet ANOTHER from CTMH (close to my heart). I LOVE all their sentiments!

Is that not beautiful or what?

I seriously LOVE doing these letters!

OK well back to work for me. I have a ton to do and a ton to share, but not till tomorrow!

2 more letter’s to share, and I have our Blogger’s Challenge tomorrow, and the Saturday sketch!

Till tomorrow!