I have the Pencil Lines bug!!!

Happy Monday ladies : ) PENCIL LINES put up a new sketch yesterday and can I tell you that I did this layout in a matter of what seems to be minutes.

The only thing that took long was the cutting out of the animals, actually that was not that long but the drying part was, I decided to put Crackle Accents on them and the orange background is masking tape covered with modeling paste which was then sprayed with Color Wash once it dried, that one took a while to dry, but all in all it was so easy to create. I think I have the PL bug : ) 2 challenges in 2 weeks??? That's a record for me : )

The words on my page are from the song "Love is where you are" from the movie At First Sight and that is the song that I will dance with my husband if we ever renew our wows. It's the perfect song! And the yummy Prima papers are from THE PAPER NICHE and can I just tell you that this is now my favorite layout and I just noticed that after almost 12 years of being married I still lift my foot when I kiss my husband : )

Now on to other things, I thought I would share some pictures of what I am thankful for this month

I am thankful for the men and women who are out there risking their lives for our country, whether I agree or disagree on this whole war thing, I am thankful for their courage and for the daily sacrifices they make, this past week our daughters school asked the parents to make care packages for out troops and I jumped on it like a fire fighter to a fire ; ) and our Princess made them this beautiful card and she wanted to send them a picture so who ever got the packages would know who it came from so I put to pictures of our girls and wrote a little thank you on the pictures as well as on the back of her card. Sorry for the crappy pictures but it was late when I finished packing : ) and here she is at school with a box

It's great to know that our troops will be getting all these boxes filled with goodies, body wash, Tylenol, Visine and so much more for the holidays and it also teaches our daughters that sometimes it's better to give than to receive.

Well ladies, as always THANK you for you beautiful comment and sorry for the long post : )

Have a wonderful week!!!

Blissful Autumn

Happy Friday ladies!!!!! Thank God for that because I am beat, this has been one hell of a week for me and I am glad it's over with : )


Here are some layouts that I did with The Blissful Autumn kit from THE PAPER NICHE




I did this tree by tracing it from one of my Hambley stickers on to some foam, I then transfered it to card stock and covered it with brown Zing embossing powder, then I painted it with some Distree Crackle paint that came with the kit and voila!!!!!!!!!!! an adorable tree : )


I used crackle paint around the edges.





I had so much fun working with this kit that I did it all in under 2 day, this month, this time around I was all about embossing or painting or using crackle accents on my letter.
Sorry for the short and crazy looking post but the girls want to go play so I gotta go : )
Have a wonderful weekend ladies!!! And as always THANK you for your wonderful comments.

Sketch 161 of my little monster

A few weeks ago while I was cooking dinner I noticed that the house was awfully quite so I decided to sneak up on the girls and THIS is what I found

Soli had gotten her heands on some markers and decided she was going to paint her entire body. It was all fun and games for her until I started taking pictures and then she got serious. I know the picture are blurry but it was all about getting her in the act.

And the more I laughed the more she got upset.

Ever since that day I have been dying to scrap about that moment but have not been able to come up with anything until I saw the new skecth at PENCIL LINES and this is what I came up with. (THANKS for the inspiration PL)

I've had a couple of rough days filled with bad vibes and bad energy so doing this layout while I cleaned my house kinda cleaned my soul and I have to say that I am feeling much better now.

Gotta love this hobby, I get to put our lives on paper for our girls to look back on one day and it gives me the therapy I need : )

As always ladies, THANK you for the wonderful comments, 'y'all know they make my day.

BASB challenge and a page

Happy Monday!
Boy am I glad today is over, my morning started great, the girls did NOT give me a hard time this morning, the weather was cloudy and a little chilly, I had my favorite brown dress and heels, The Black Eyed Peas "I gotta feeling that tonight's gonna be a good night" (my favorite song) was on the radio and then.....................I was surrounded by negative energy, crabby @$$ people and it was about to suck me in but guess what I did to prevent that from happening,
I went to THE PAPER NICHE and got my hands on the new 7 Gypsies papers and some Prima goodies: )
And this is what I did with it



That's our beautiful Princess with her 2 BFF on her 6'th birthday.
It's amazing how papers, stamps or paints will make me happy, some people drink, some dance, I scrap to get me out of my funk!

Now, my girl LAVERNE is hosting a challenge at BASB and it is super easy and super fun here is my take.



I am thankful for my family, our health, our home and our daily bread, notice that I used a picture of us, a heart for our health, 2 little houses for our home and I gave my little girl fruit stockings for our daily bread : )
The family is also doing one but it is taking them a little longer but here is a picture of the girls doing their project



Are they cute or what?
OK so on the back you have to write about an act of kindness you are going to do for someone, so my act of kindness is.... I am going to help to help out someone who is up to their neck with work.
Now mind you the challenge was until yesterday and since I was super busy this week I can not enter to win that yummy ATC carousel but it was fun making this little girl and when everyone is done with their little girls I am going to hang them on our wall.
Well ladies, as always THANK you for your sweet comments a wonderful week!

A Halloween mini with American Crafts

All right! So you all know how much this girl hearts American Crafts and that is why I could NOT resist using their pretty spooky papers from The Paper Niche for my Halloween mini album. I hardly ever do albums because the ADD in me kicks in full gear but this little sucker was so easy to make that I finished it in a few hours : ) I might just do a few more.



I decided to emboss the edges with their Zing! powder which totally rocks my world, so far I only have ten of them but little by little I will have the ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL muahhahhaaaaahhhh!!!!!!!!!!! and while I'm yapping away I wan to so that I am SO sorry for the ghetto shoot but I took those pictures right before I left to take the girls to school and since I left the album at The Niche I did not get to take new picture of it : )
Well ladies, that is all I have for now, as always THANK you for stopping by to check out my crazies and for your sweet comments, have a wonderful weekend!!!

Prompt #3 at PBP

Hello ladies, hope your weekend was great and that your Trick or Treat night was even better.
Our third challenge is up at POINT BLANK PERIOD I have to say that this challenge was a very emotional one for me. Here is my take on it.



The journalling reads: October is breast Cancer Awareness month so I had my first mammogram done, a week later I was told I had to get an ultrasound done, a week later I was told "it seems to be a complicated cyst" Today I am scared, scared of the unknown, scared that that our daughters are still too young but I know that with you by my side there is NOTHING we can not overcome.

I kinda sorta broke the rules, we were supposed to use 3 pictures but I needed these 4, on the bottom right I went by myself for my mammogram and the bottom left is the mammogram machine which by the way when I asked the lady if I could take a picture she thought I was crazy but she humoured me and said "OK" the top left is a picture of me and my husband, he felt it was important to be there with me for the ultrasound and I have to admit that I am glad he came and of course on the top right side is the results.
I know some people might think it's kinda weird that I chose to post this but this is good therapy for me, I have yet to share this with my family because there is no need to worry them but this is why I have a blog, it's to share my creative side and to sometimes vent : )

CLICK HERE to see what the other Divas created.
As always, THANK YOU for your sweet comments, have a wonderful week!!!

A Birthday and a layout

This month our baby girl turned six and she had her party at Color Me Mine where she and her dearest little friends had a blast. I still can NOT get over the fact that she is now 6...where did the time go? Next thing I know she will be 16 asking for a license : (

OK! OK! Enough with the sappy stuff : ) Look at this!

After they painted their little hearts out we took them to Jackson's where they have the yummiest ice cream ever (it was not cheap) but boy oh boy did they enjoy their ice cream + that is where she wanted us to sing Happy Birthday to her.

All in all it was a great day, the girls had a blast and we were happy parents!And here is a layout I did with the new BASIC GREY NOOK AND PANTRY papers we have at THE PAPER NICHE and the yummiest ribbons ever!!!

I got the idea for the layout HERE and you see those yummy cup cakes? I cut them out from the paper, used some Tim Holz Crakle Accents. I think my mojo is slowly coming back to me : )

Well ladies as always, THANK YOU for stopping by to see what crazies is goinz on with me and for your sweet comments. Have a great week!!!

Oh! 1 more thing...check out our little thank you notes we made to give them what they did at Color Me Mine, 'yall know I could not just run to Target and gte some Thnak You cards, NOOOOOOOOOOOO! I had to stamp, emboss (with my favorit powders by American Craft) and put all the girls first initial on the shirts : )