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Sketch time, with a team!!

Aug 2, 2008 Author: mytime | Filed under: Cards, Saturday Sketch

Happy Saturday!

Today is a big day here in Pittsfield-its our town Annual Hot Air Balloon Rally. SORRY this is a bit later than planned. I have been busy. Its a big event here, and in walking distance from our house! I look forward to it every year. A great family weekend. I usually KILL myself doing Amber’s birthday party this weekend but since she is getting older, and has friends we won’t do the family party this year. We are having a friend party in Sept. after she returns to school.

We will still celebrate her birthday, ON her birthday, just not this weekend.  The balloon rally makes me sad because summer is almost over :C That is a huge bummer.

So let’s get ot the sketch!

WOW! Was I ever overwhelmed with emails from those who volunteered to do my Saturday Sketches!! Thank you!! With so many willing, I hope more of you will join in, in trying them D You don’t have to be listed here to get in on the fun. Just send us a link here in the comments section and people will be able to check our your take on the sketch.

I want to also let you know that the other girls who will be sharing their versions on Sketch day are now on my sidebar! So make sure you check them out!!

So for more inspiration to try out the sketches here are my weekly Sketch Girls

 Tamara Harder  https://tamarastamps.blogspot.com

Maria Levine https://riacreations.blogspot.com/

Dawn Easton https://www.TreasureOilerDesignz.blogspot.com/

Kirsten Dubosque www.kirstendubosque.blogspot.com

Kristy Vernon https://www.kvernon.blogspot.com

Kim Gasper https://stampinintherain.blogspot.com
MacKenzie Bruckler https://midnightscramper.blogspot.com/

Alicia Weiman  https://www.happystamp.blogspot.com/

sketch-59.JPG Here is the sketch-click to enlarge.

This week I made 2 cards. They aren’t EXACTLY like the sketch, but the point is a starting point.

Here is Cabana Cupcake

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I had fun making this one. I don’t ever round corners!! But it was a nice change. I was inspired by the rounded frames in the set I used for the sentiment called-  Hello My Name Is . It was a fun way to put the focus on a sentiment 😀

I LOVE this funky little cupcake (OK big cupcake) from the Mini Party Cupcakes. I like that there were 3 sizes to choose from, and this one was perfect. I decided to do some paper piecing with the Canbana papers, (I know “cabana” not your typical thought when you think yummy cupcakes), but I like it. I got the brads to match.

Me, loving sentiments,  had to get circle words. There are so many fabulous sentiments AND little images to put in the center. Way cute. Used a decorated clear button for the center of this one.

Lots going on in this PARTY card, but it was a fun challenge. So since I had so much fun with the sketch I went with another one.

The Road to a Friends House-

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How cute is she? I have been DYING to play with my Bella’s for SO LONG! It’s been too long actually. The coloring was inspired by Bethany’s card. I just LOVED how she colored a portion of the bkgd. Pure genius!!!

I gotI-wish-i-looked-so-good-riding-a-bike-ABELLA from my dear cyber friend Sonia! I loved that Bella!!! Sonia was so sweet to send me some goodies, and this was one of them! THANK YOU!! Your thank you is coming soon, I promise!!

So for my Bella I used Sweet blush cardstock as my base, and some pretty paper called Isn’t it romantic, and the co-ordinating brads, and the large felt flower.  The sentiment is by A Muse, and is one of my all time faves.

I am still addicted to adding that splatter of color with my color spritzer. I just cant NOT use it now! No idea WHY!!

Anyway that is all for me. I am off to fun family day with the kids! I never stamp on the weekends.

Thanks for checkin in with me. I hope you get to join in for this weeks sketch!! And show the girls some love 😀 I cannot wait to see what all of you come up with!!

Till tomorrow……………

FIRST- thank you for the well wishes after the tornado thing. Also the advice. I think I got lots of info that I would not have otherwise. My heart goes out to all who experience this often, and any losses you have had because of it. Those who talked about it being the signs of the end of the world, unfortunately, I agree and get the heebie jeebies over it. 

I have the Saturday Sketch for you!

sketch-58.JPG please click to enlarge.

ALSO if any of you know of HOW I can make these with PaintShop Pro-email me!! (DAWN you know I’m talkin to ya girl! LOL!) Or any other program other than Paint. I can’t always get into more complex L.O. due to the regular Paint Program. Thanks 😀 I would love to learn to get better sketches done.

 I wasn’t going to post…………..lives are busy at this time of year, and people seem to not be doing them as often, so I really wandered if it was even worth doing this week. This week also leads to my insanely busy time of the month. I have stuff going on that would make your head SPIN I tell you! In fact today I had an idea for another BIG thing, but we will see where that goes!! This will make sense to you in time.

Please take note there is NO time limit or contest on my sketches. My point is for pure inspiration ONLY! I want to get your hiney OFF the computer (after you stop by here of course! LOL!) and get using all the products you buy.

 There are always so many challenges, so I figured what is ONE more. I have been doing these weekly sketches for well over a year now!! I thought maybe you all were sick of them, to be honest.  But if you all want it, then here you go!!

I am happy to hear so many do enjoy them at some point in their crafting 😀 I also thought maybe I should get some volunteers! Anyone want to do a weekly challenge? You don’t have to have a blog. Just some place to link-or you can send me your creation and I will upload it here for you (WITH CREDIT OF COURSE) Let me know.

OK now to the paper sample of the sketch…………………

It’s a Jungle

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I LOVE this set-Born to be Wild from Lizzie Anne! I {HEART} Giraffes. Noah still has his little stuffed once he got when I found out I was pregnant with him. Jay and I had his named picked within 3 hours of finding out. All we needed was confirmation for a BOY!

Very recently Noah made me remove all his “Noah’s Ark” themed items from his room, stating “Mom, I’m not a baby anymore!” “I don’t need all this baby stuff” (AWE!!! WHAT does he mean he’s not a baby anymore?! He’ll always be my baby!!) But he did make sure I kept “Raffey”. That made my heart leap 😀 YEAH! He has sentimental value. That is something that can’t be taught. You got it or you don’t.

OK sorry about that. Everything I do always has a thought or reason, or a WHY I love it so much, and sometimes I go overboard in explaining that.

SO point is I have had it this set too long and had been unable to pull it out and use it. WELL-I finally had to play.  It was a lot of fun.

I used a Paisley & Petals collection by SEI, to inspire my colors. I also made white polka dots on my giraffe like in the paper. I thought these colors were so RETRO SAFARI!!! They are also a bit masculine. Love it. I love this layout. I am going to have to try it again (I think I always say that! LOL!!!!)

SO if you try it, or if you don’t, I hope you are just plain inspired to stamp. I encourage those of you who just gallery gaze and are afraid to upload to STOP!! Get your creations uploaded and into a gallery or something. I noticed this week I got a lot of emails about being afraid to upload, and you fear your work isn’t good, and all that non-sense!  We all are continuously needing to better OUR best. Don’t compare yourself to anyone else but you. SERIOUSLY!!!

 Even the very best artist make really crappy cards time to time-you just don’t see them. Not every vision turns a masterpiece. What you hate, some one else will love (this happens to me often and I think I have bad taste! LOL! My least liked creations or one’s I may not want to share become the most loved! I almost never shared my ONESIE card! LOL!) I still throw cards out. You should have seen the HOT MESS (channeling Christian from Project Runway-love that saying) that I made the other day. It was my worst card in a LONG time. REALLY BAD!

SO UPLOAD, SHARE!!! Be confident. If you have no confidence in yourself WHY would anyone else?

OK off the soap box. If you start a new gallery or something I’d LOVE to see it and send you some encouraging words-so drop me a link 😀 I’ll check it out.

Happy Saturday, and I cannot wait to see what YOU do.

ib-alexas-set-tags-a-plenty.jpg 100% ADORABLE ALEXA

Oh how long it has been since I inked Alexa’s Set ?! TOO LONG.

I wanted to create a fun and funky card with my new  Mini Build A Tag. It was the PERFECT set to go with my Groovy Girl Alexa! ( I honestly would LOVE to have the Groovy Girl line to carry a doll in honor of Alexa! I swear SOMEDAY I will get that to happen!!( PS if you are from that line at Manhattan Toys and some how find this CALL ME! LOL! I swear my daughter has the largest collection of any girl! She has been collecting them since 14 mos old, and play with EVERY SINGLE ONE EVERYDAY!!!! You would buy an Alexa Groovy Girl wouldn’t you?? That would be her dream come true!)

I made this image to look like a clothing tag you would find on some clothing. I love all the little details on this using the images from that set. Just so perfectly cute. I have seen other people do more shabby chic stuff or vintagey stuff with the set, but I wanted to FUNKTIFY it! LOL! Mission accomplished 😀

The colors were pulled from my American Crafts ribbon 😀 Love it

SOOOOO-I had to use it for this weeks card sketch (WARNING it is a challenge!!) but that is the POINT 😀

sketch-57.JPG Click to enlarge, and feel free to MIX it up! DONT BE AFRAID!

If you try the sketch, just send us all a link here so we can see your take 😀

This was ANOTHER pool side sketch!! LOVE that pool time. Speaking of pool and Alexa-while at swim classes Wed. night she was “swimming on her own, and went RIGHT UNDER the water (by accident) I almost had a heart attack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She popped right back up, spit out the gallon of water that she chugged, and just kept swimming. One of the other mom’s asked me if “I” was OK. She said my face was priceless and I turned pale white. I of course wasn’t, but Alexa was, so I sucked it up. OYE! That girl is definitely going to be what KILLS me someday. No one else in the world has ever put my heart through so much! GESH!

SUPER DUPER NEWS: Alexa’s set is now back up for sale!! YIPPEE!!! If you don’t know about this set here is a little info:

Alexa’s set was created in honor of MY daughter Alexa! I am super proud that Missy B allowed this set to be created, and 100% of the proceeds go to Pediatric Leukemia and Lymphoma research! The set is SUPER cute, and it even has Alexa’s signature 😀 If you want to know more about my daughter and our LONG battle-visit HERE It has been updated as well. FINALLY!

Thanks for reading 😀 Have a super day!

Filled with Joy

Jul 11, 2008 Author: mytime | Filed under: Cards, Saturday Sketch

YEAH! Its Friday. I’m sure I am not the only one who is crazy busy with summer being here. Jay and I have a little get away next week!!!!!!!!! Nothing fancy, just some time by the beach. We can’t afford anything over the top right now. We just had to dump some money into a special stove as another means of heating our home since oil is OUTRAGEOUS.  So its going to be just the 2 of us. You know what? We feel GUILTY for going without the kids!

This is the first time that feeling has ever crept in. We are normally, are literally doing a happy dance in the kitchen when we get a minute of alone time, let alone 3 nights-KID FREE! That is countless date time! Much needed, but still we feel bad.

I think since they are older, we know they would enjoy going. Oh well. We plan on doing some other fun stuff like going to a weekend at Story Land, and Santa’s Village. I am just so surprised I feel so bad going without them. I am sure we will get over it once we hear them fighting! LOL!

Anyway…………….I am filled with joy! Hence, the card 😀 I have so much to be grateful for. My family, friends, God and believe it or not-health!! Things are going super 😀 I just feel like I should acknowledge that. We are all quick to complain, so why not be quick to say “Hey you know what? My life is really good right now” So that is me-Life is good. Be happy, thankful and joyful. I would love to hear what is going GOOD for YOU! No complaining-just good stuff.

Speaking of good stuff……………..

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It is sketch time here (a little early for those of you who stamp on Friday’s :D)

sketch-56.JPG Hope you like this weeks sketch! I know I do. I think I may make another!

I have to say I am just totally in LOVE with this card! So much so that this is the Sat. Sketch! Yes, a day early 😀 I have a lot going on so I am sure many of you do too.

 I made this about 2 weeks ago, and have just been nuts since this is a busy week preparing for reveals and whatnot, so it sat, patiently waiting to be photographed and shared with the world 😀

The colors are so rich and pretty together-black, olive, ruby red, and coral.

I LOVE that the middle panel is in the window up on dimensionals-so like a floating layer. You see the bottom layer peeking through. Its a really fun look. I have done similar cards, with the floating layer, before but think this is my favorite.

I have been looking around and doing some shopping since I LOVE happy mail! Haven’t had a delivery in a while, so I was due!

Seems like everyone is using some new stuff from The Purple Turtle Shop. OK I guess I should say that I noticed Debbie is using their stuff! LOL! Well after looking around, and getting curious, I put several sets in my cart! I have been having some fun with all that, let me tell you. I love ALL stamps 😀

I have to say my first inked set was Bold Carnations. I just fell in love with it. As I was browsing the store it really popped out at me. It was very different than some of the silhouettes I had. I like the larger scale this set has, as well as the mix of smaller images. Plus the price was insanely awesome. These sets are like unmounted rubber. They come with a black pad, for you to stamp on. A wood mounted set like that would be TRIPLE the price for the size of the images you get. I was really happy with what I purchased, since I was unfamiliar with their store and products.

I colored the solid flower with my SU! markers, then stamped it. The solid blocks, stamped in black, were colored in with my Copic markers, then punched out.

Anyway-this card quickly came together! I needed an everyday card, and felt this sentiment was PERFECT!! It is from the Sentiments set. I LOVE sentiments, and believe you can never have too many. That set just has a nice mix! I am also shocked at the price-$11.99! That is really awesome.

Now here is another-for another view of what the stamps are like:

sending-prayers-ib.jpg Love & prayers

(OK this is like a PERFECT sentiment for so many difficult times! Don’t you think?)

I know these are so not my usual colors, but that is what I really love about this one. I saw a skirt in the store, and the bold flowers were layered in yellow, red, and black. It was SO striking to me so I went with it. You can see the much larger bold flower stamped in yellow.

Again I used the Bold Carnations set, and Sentiments set. The bird is from another must have set for me (hehehe) Silhouette’s.

I think we all should step out of our comfort zone and try new things. Be it a technique. layout (hint hint) or color scheme. Heck maybe even a new type of stamp! If you haven’t tried UM stamps or acrylic and you really like an image, why not try it out?

I hope this inspired you to do just that. Try something new.

Well I have dinner to make, so Im off and running. If you try the sketch send us all a link here, so we can see your take on it.

Also thank you all so very much for your lovely comments on my PTI project yesterday! Meant so much. I am working on compiling questions to answer in one post 😀

Later!!

Sketch time!! And some samples.

Jul 5, 2008 Author: mytime | Filed under: Cards, Saturday Sketch, Uncategorized

 

I hope you all had a fabulous 4th of July! I know we did. It was my grandfather’s 74th birthday. I hope to share photos when my camera batteries are re-charged!!

Time has flown by. I signed my children up for swimming lessons and I was reminded of when my grandfather taught me how to swim over 25 years ago! Today’s stamp set goes with my thoughts today. Those were great times at my grandparents all summer long. My grandfather would play “shark” and chase us around the pool. We would spend an hour creating a “whirlpool” so we could get caught up in the circling motion. We would spend HOURS in that pool. They had a screen house that we would then sit in the glider chairs and just listen to the buzzing of the electric lines of the hot day, and watch all the June Bugs try to get into the screen house. The second we were dry we were back in the pool. Just great memories there. Obviously since the 4th of July is my grandfathers b-day, this time of year always gets me thinking like that.

So, anyway the day was great. I decided that this card, with somewhat 4th of July colors would be our sketch for this weekend. This set is called Summertime Fun. You can view it, and the other design team samples HERE! Don’t forget to enter to win a free set of your own 😀 The release of the 3 new sets is the 7th!! Party starts on the forum at 8pm EST-10pm EST

I hope you enjoy it. Its got some good layering going on! LOL! Take the risk!

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The paper for this is by Making Memories. I just love the boy themed colors. I hope you get to try it as well. Send us a link here if you do, so we can see your take.

Now let me share some other fun creations I made using this set-

I adore this card 😀 It uses American Crafts paper/ribbon. It was inspired by my layout for the sketch today, just mixed up a bit 😀 The colors are super summer fun!!

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Monkey Fun

ats-monkey-tube.jpg He is flocked. Isn’t he just the cutest thing ever? I love him floating on the “waves” like that.

Lulu scuba dives-a gel card

lulu-scooba-dives.jpg This was a super quick card. I wish I could have incorporated some purple paper but my brain was DEAD when I made this one! LOL!

I have MANY more samples to share, just not today!

I also want to wish Kim from MFT a HUGE Happy Birthday since today is her 40th!!!!!! I made something special for her, but I will share that tomorrow. Oh and I still have more MFT stuff to share from the new release! YEAH!

OK I need to run and take the kids to Canobie Lake 😀 Later!

Friends Furever

Jun 28, 2008 Author: mytime | Filed under: Cards, Saturday Sketch, Uncategorized

sketch-54.JPG Here is your sketch for today! Sorry I’m a “tad” late. I had fun with this one. I LOVE circles 😀 If you don’t, feel free to change the shape-no big deal. These sketches are just a starting point to get you inspired to actually STAMP and play with all the purchases we love to make. Sometimes the shopping is more addicting than the stamping. Can’t justify purchases if you don’t use what you buy. I know I love getting HAPPY MAIL!!  So the shopping is usually lots of fun for me personally.

Since I was DROOLING over the new Bella stuff yesterday I decided I better play with the NEW un-inked Bella stuff I already owned.

You had to know I about FLIPPED when I saw Butch and Mimi ! I think they look just like my Daisy. Her fur is grown in the the perfect length now, so she looks JUST like she did as a new puppy 😀 WAY CUTE!!!

Anyway I decided they would be perfect for todays card

bella-furever-friends.jpg Friends Furever

How cute are they? I so love this card. Its way cute & simple. The focus is on the puppies 😀

The paper for this  is by Piggy Tales.

When creating a card I usually pick my image, then my colors or patterned paper. I work from there. Patterned paper is great for color inspiration. I like to lay out my embellishments and everything before its ALL adhered/attached. That way I can change it up before anything is permanent!! I do lots of revision  sometimes. I may already have a sketch planned out and then try to see what works for that. Sketched definitely get things free flowing.

Try sketching your ideas. I believe you will find it really helpful to warm you up.

I am one busy girl this weekend. We had to go food shopping, and looking at Pellet Stoves for another heating source. It is also Nascar weekend here in Loudon, so of course we had to take the kids all around to see the different race cars and whatnot.

Fun stuff. Then my class is tomorrow-and after it I get to have lunch with my PSF’s!!

That being said I gotta run. Lots of new releases coming out SOON!!!

NOTE: I didn’t get any photos of Alexa yet. We had and emergency-AND now she is off to her father’s for about a week (I think). He never knows how long he will decide to keep her when vacation hits.

SO like I said We had a mini emergency here yesterday. Daisy scratched Noah while he was rough playing with her on the floor, and we thought she scratched his cornea. Anyway running out the door with 3 kids is a RAGING rain in a thunder & lightning storm in 5 o’clock traffic  to the ER, which is 45 minutes away, to make sure his eye was OK . He could keep the cold cloth off it long enough for me to get a close look, and that lead me to further think he had a scratched cornea. ANYWAY thankfully there was only a TINSY scratch and he is fine today. He got some eye drops if it got inflammed, but ended up being fine. He did think that his eye looked super cool when they put in the yellow dye and turned out the lights. I let him see his eye with my compact mirror. Kids crack me up.

Lets just say my life is NEVER boring. EVER!! What will I do for entertainment when they grow up? I am going to be so bored! LOL!

Thanks for reading and enjoy the day.

Saturday Sketch with Magnolia

Jun 21, 2008 Author: mytime | Filed under: Cards, Saturday Sketch

Thank you to all for the well wishes on my new adventures 😀 Means so much to me! 

Quickie post today-

It’s Saturday! Ready for another sketch?

It is another Magnolia creation 😀 I am REALLY hoping to use more of these soon.

If you LOVE Magnolia there is a Yahoo! Group—>HERE! It was started by Deb, who was sweet enough to ask to use this card I am going to share on the HOMEPAGE 😀 Thanks Deb!!

If you want to order Magnolia-Diana at Scor-Pal is now selling them!

  People can contact Diana
at
[email protected].

 The stamps are mailed from Blaine, WA for US customers and Surrey, Canada for
Canadian Customers. The prices are at par.

Now, time for the sketch

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Here is the card sample (use whatever you want along the bottom-buttons brads, cardstock, flowers, sentiment, dew drops, bling-whatever!) Feel free to omit large sentiment circle.

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How adorable is she? I love her. I stamped her first, then masked her and stamped the stairs. LOVE IT! I just sponged on some color. I have to say I love the colors this one has!

Colored with Copic’s of course 😀 I also colored the bridal confetti shimmery flowers. I loved using so many fun buttons on the bottom.

The sentiment is from Father Knows Best. I thought it was perfect for her.

Well that is it for today. Family things to do. If you try the sketch send us a little link here so we can see your take on it!! Just keep it fun OK!

As always-thanks for reading 😀 I’ll have some more great stuff to share tomorrow and the blog candy winner gets announced. Dont miss out!

If you haven’t already-

Enter to win my blog candy for the stamp set-Butterfly Garden —>HERE

Kimberly has blog candy courtesy of Storage Units, Ink & More—>HERE

Also dont miss your chance to win the MOTHERLOAD of giveaways —> HERE

Saturday Sketch

Jun 14, 2008 Author: mytime | Filed under: Saturday Sketch

Oh boy my internet is all wonky today. SORRY!

 Im on the run  to the Spa (for 4 hours!!!!) and to get Jay’s Father’s Day stuff. I had my class last night and Ambers graduation. Long story short Im running on little time here and have your sketch.

Its a hard one to do a printout for so here is the card

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Details to follow later. This set is Sing to the Lord. It releases from Our Daily Bread tomorrow 😀

Be back later-running late.

If you try out the sketch send us a link!
Lauren

Sat Sketch Time-inspiratation

Jun 6, 2008 Author: mytime | Filed under: Cards, Saturday Sketch, Uncategorized

“The journey of a 1,000 miles begins with a single step”

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This is the photo I took of Alexa the LAST day of her Chemo treatment. To mark a milestone. The end of a long journey for her. A new beginning.

This is for Alexa’s doctor’s. A thank you. For walking that long road with us.

THAT saying on this card is my newest motto. It puts everything we go through in this life into prospective.

WARNING: This gets deep! LOL! At least to me. Even if no one gets it, I do.

The weirdest thing happened to me. I so believe in fate, and God providing answers in unusual ways, or providing us with answers and things we seek.

 The very last day of Alexa’s chemo treatment, I was a wreck!!! During that visit, I was on a wild goose chase for some much promised Groovy Girls. Upon my hunt, I saw a silver bangle in the jewelry case of the store, out of the corner of my eye. I went over to look at (I never get that interested in that stuff), and the silver bangle read……

“The journey of a 1,000 miles”

I asked to see it.

Now I had JUST posted about what a long road it has been, and all we learned along the way, and blah blah blah. I looked inside and it read “begins with a single step”

Now you may think- SO?

But to me that was so pivotal! I was standing there, Alexa’s LAST chemo, and already worrying about the WHAT Ifs, and then, this simple bracelet put it all into perspective for me. Like a silent voice from God, reminding me-Lauren ONE step at a time. I felt so at peace. Tomorrow will take care of itself. We got through this journey that way, and we will continue through life the same.

Just like Footprints in the sand

      One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord.
             Many scenes from my life flashed across the sky.
                  In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand.
                       Sometimes there were two sets of footprints,
                           other times there were one set of footprints.
 
                                  This bothered me because I noticed
                                that during the low periods of my life,
                             when I was suffering from
                         anguish, sorrow or defeat,
                     I could see only one set of footprints.
 
          So I said to the Lord,
      “You promised me Lord,
         that if I followed you,
             you would walk with me always.
                   But I have noticed that during
                          the most trying periods of my life
                                 there have only been one
                                       set of footprints in the sand.
                                           Why, when I needed you most,
                                          you have not been there for me?”
 
                                 The Lord replied,
                          “The times when you have
                  seen only one set of footprints in the sand,
          is when I carried you.”

So, that left me sitting there, really wanting the bracelet as a reminder to take life step by step. I thought it would be perfect to keep next to my Alexa bracelet that I have worn since the day she was diagnosed. Sort of a “we can do this”. But, it was pretty pricey for a simple bangle.So I walked away.

Then, later that day, I go to another store, hunting for those darn Groovy Girls, and in the store window-just before the store I am there to go to, THERE IT IS!!! That SAME bracelet! I wasn’t even looking for it. It just popped right out at me.

Mind you -the store in the hospital, and the store in Concord NH are like 75 miles apart! I thought WOW! What a message someone is sending me! LOL! But I left it again. Remembering the message I was given.

Then, the next day my dear sweet friend Paulette went and found that bracelet!! She gave it to me, and I was just in awe. She is so good to me. I am blessed to have a friend like her.

I have not taken that bracelet off since. I am reminded several times a day to take it one step at a time!

WHEW! Are you still with me? Weren’t expecting all that now were you?

I just wanted to share too, what an impact a photo can have on a card. I also like that it shows the A Man’s Sole, isn’t just a guy set.

My sentiment was printed off my computer. Paper is Autumn Leaves. The flowers are Queen & Co, and SU felt flowers.

This card is 5 1/2 squared.

So here is a view of the sketch-click to enlarge

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You don’t have to use a photo. Just have fun with it. The possibilities are endless. It could be a scrap page. Those wanting to see more of that.

If you get to try it out, send us a link here so we can all see your take!

OK I’m WAY busy. Orders are all shipping today! YEAH! Don’t even want to know how much that is gonna cost EEKK!!!

Speaking of orders……Pink Cat is next up for their release on the 12th! You won’t want to miss that 😀 Then we have PTI on the 15th. Following up with my first Unity release on the 25th. Then in July Lizzie Anne celebrates 2 years! WOW!

Dont forget ATS just released 2 sets, MFT just released 3 sets and 3 singles!!

LASTLY!!! If you haven’t yet, don’t miss my classes at The Paper Tree next Friday and then Sunday the 29th!!

OK enough of that. Im off.

Till tomorrow

Saturday Sketch -Just a star!

May 31, 2008 Author: mytime | Filed under: Cards, Saturday Sketch

Well I want to thank you all for the encouraging words! I will let you know how it goes today.

Ill be gone ALL day, and am tired just thinking about it! LOL! Should be fun. I definitely see a Pina Colada in my future.

Well this is a quick post cause I am ready for bed!

I have a sneak peek for you today! It is a set from C.C. Designs girls-Layla & Virgina. It will be released on June 4th! CHECK THE ATS BLOG! Each day, up to the release there will be a peek and a giveway!!!

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I love when these girls have their arms up! Its screams super star to me.

I knew I wanted to do something star themed but NOT red, white & blue like expected.

I loved this paper by Piggy Tales. I think its so cute. The glitter stars are a glitter mat stack by DCWV. I used my star punch for them, then a star ghost shape.

I like the ribbon wrapped around this way-so fun.

Now for the sketch CLICK TO ENLARGE

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The circles can represent whatever you want! Just have fun with it and feel free to change it up a bit!! I am so into tilting things again. I get bored with everything being all symmetrical.

Now remember this is a CHALLENGE!! So you may be stumped at first, but give it a try and I am sure you will have fun.

OK I’m out! Thanks again for poppin in.

Later-

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