Heard you had an accident...

"Heard you had an accident! Well, that's good!!"

Inside Verse
"At least you didn't do it on purpose!
Hope you feel better soon!"

Image is from Dustin Pike. Colored using Prisma Colored Pencils and Gamsol. Printed three times and layered in various places. Glossy accents used on eyes, bandaids, and spine.
Papers from DCWV, inked with Colorbox Cat's Eyes Ink.
Thanks for looking!

Friends are Like....

Here's a new card I made today using a digi stamp from Sewn Together. It's name is Cammi Bookworm. Was colored using Copic markers and Prisma pencils. Layered in different areas. Flower from the Daisy Doodles Prisma line. Green background is Tattered Angels Olive Vine Glimmer Mist. Edge border was done using the Scalloped Edge Punch by Martha Stewart. Yellow Stickles dotted along the punched edge.

Thanks to DesertBuni for coming up with the sentiment!

hope ya like and thanks for looking!!

The Circle of Friends Award

I received the sweetest award from Deborah over at A Scrapping Mom's Scraps. I consider Deborah a great friend and hope someday to meet her! She has been a great inspiration to me in and outside my craft world! If you have never checked out her page, you really need to go over and check out what she's up to. She does awesome work and makes beautiful cards! Her talents are out of this world!!

Here are the five folks that I will be giving this to...Please click on their names to check out their awesome blogs

1. Niki

2. Nancy

3. Enfys

4. JerzeyGirl

5. Sandy

Here are the rules for this award: To pick up the Circle of Friends Blog Award cut and paste the award logo and use it on your own blog. Nominate 5 other bloggers you feel have become part of your circle of friends. Link to your nominees within your blog post. Include these instructions on how to pick up the award in your blog post. Link back to the person who gave you the award in your blog post, to show your appreciation. Comment on their blogs to let them know they've received the award.

Blog Award

I received a very nice Blog Award from Brenda over at Brenda's Joy . I'm so glad that you enjoyed visiting my blog and Thank you for it!!

I'm passing this to all the blogs that I've enjoyed following and that have inspired me with my own crafts! To all of you I want to thank you for sharing your talents with us and for always being there when I've had questions or just wanted to pick at your brain!!

KeepSakes by Melissa Blogaversary Giveaway!

Melissa over at Creating from the Heart is offering a great blog candy giveaway! You really need to go and check it out. Not only does she have that sought after Goo Punch but she's giving away the SLICE MACHINE TOO!!!!! So hurry over to check out her awesome blog and her blog candy giveaway!!

~ 1 Martha Stewart Drippy Goo Edger Punch

~ 1 October Afternoon Cherry Hill 8x8 Paper Pad

~ 1 Making Memories Slice 8x8 Ledger Pad

And to go along with the Slice Ledger Pad...how about a SLICE MACHINE!! Yup, a brand new Slice machine and starter kit!!

Sewn Together Design Team Call

Sewn Together Image -- Halen Back to School

Thank God For Awesome Friends and Great Garage Sales!!!!!

Cindy AKA Futura on the Cricut MB, PM'd me and told me she was out at garage sales and said she seen something that made her think of me and needed my address. Well today I received an awesome package!!!! I couldn't believe my eyes when I unwrapped each stamp. I love house mouse and these are some of their earlier stamps. I was even more amazed that out of all the HM Stamps I already have, I had none of these!! I can't wait to use them!! But then I'm always scared of messing them up lol But Cindy made the best card also! The picture just doesn't do it justice. The colors are so vivid and the butterfly looks like it could just fly off the page! Thank you so much Cindy for your kindness and for thinking of me. This was so sweet of you and I will never be able to thank you enough!!! It couldn't have come at a better time!!!!

Thank you!!

Sorry So Slow....

Here's a card I made for a friend of mine for her birthday. It was funny though because this was the one time that the post office got the card there ON her birthday lol so kinda deleted the purpose of saying Sorry so Slow lol But anyways, the turtle is a Dustin Pike image. He is awesome!!

I was experimenting with my copics and with layering...I think it turned out alright. i know I have a lot more learning to do though. Coloring was done with Copics and PrismaPencils w/Gamsol. I printed off and colored the image 3 times.

Hope you like and thanks for looking!

Crissys Blog Candy!!

Whoa!!! Look at the great candy Crissy is giving out to her wonderful followers. Be sure to follow her blog...she has wonderful cerations!

http://crissysartnheart.blogspot.com/2009/07/blog-candy-extravaganza-plus-sneak.html

Special Delivery!

Since I have so many pictures to post, I figured I would post here instead of taking up so much room on the Cricut board.

I have to thank a few folks for some special unexpected gifts I received over the past few days. First I received some stamped images from a very special Cricut board member through a swap we were in together, and when I opened the envelope, she had included 12 Copic Markers. She said she had doubles and wanted to share them with me. I'm not going to include her name until I know she won't mind, I don't want folks bothering her, but this angel was so very sweet in sending such a generous gift...and it was Just Because! How incredibly nice was that?? I'm not usually speechless, but this gesture totally took all words from my brain and lips. I could only sit there in amazement at such a generous gift.

Then like that wasn't awesome enough, Yesterday I get a package in the mail with just THANK YOU in the return address corner. I open it up and I find this amazing altered composition book, some zutter chipboard, and package of bling in the box! I loved the chipboard and bling, but the book was my absolute favorite and was unbelievably awesome. It left me speechless once again!! That someone took so much time to personalize this book for me and to include things that she knew was special to me! Below are pictures of the book and each section she made in the book. On the backside of each of these dividers was decorated with paper from the DCWV ROCKSTAR Stack..I love that stack!!! But the front of these dividers were unbelievable, AND she took my autographed EVERCLEAR pic off my blog and reduced it and included it in my notebook as well. I thought that was really cool when I seen that in there!!! So i wanted to share all of her hard work with everyone!! I did however find out who the mystery sender was, I recognized the postmark, and it was from Nancy aka GOINCRICRAZY from the Cricut MB!!

I just want to thank both of you for being amazing ladies!!!!

Although I know that words will never repay you for these awesome gifts!!

THANK YOU!!

Win $1,000 at TheCuttlebugSpot.com!

I have just discovered that The Cuttlebug Spot is having a contest - "The Journey to 1,000"! They are trying to reach 1,000 followers by the end of July and need your help. To enter all you have to do is go to their site, sign up as follower and complete a few easy steps and you could win a $1,000 gift certificate to Custom Crops (http://www.customcrops.com/)! GO NOW and check it out at http://www.thecuttlebugspot.com/

Twilight!!--Altered Mini Comp Book

Below is another project for a Twilight Swap I'm in. Hopefully the other ladies in my group will like them. Guess the good thing about having a 17yr old driving me crazy, I can get lost for a bit in my crafts...lol and get caught up in my swaps!

These are the smaller comp books then altered with different papers. Twilight pictures gathered and printed from various websites on the internet and then resized and laid out in PSP. Tree paper on the front and back from DCWV (thanks Anna for picking these up for me!!)
Divider made in the middle to hold the ribbon book mark. Apples are various buttons that I had on hand.
Thanks for looking!!

Altered Wood Box --Goth Fairy

Below is a wooden box that I altered for a Goth Swap I hosted on the Cricut MB. The Goth Fairy is by Jessica Galbreth. I'm a big fan of her work! Box was painted with a metallic red acrylic paint. Various ribbons, skull paper from the DCWV Rockstar Stack...name was cut out with SCAL..(Thanks Michele!!)

Thanks for looking!!!

Joy Fold Fathers Day Card

Ok I finally tried my hand at the Joy Fold Card. I figured I'd do Stephens Fathers Day Card as my first one. Not sure if I really like how it looks...who knows may redo it before tomorrow. Just think it's missing something, but then I didn't want to overdo it either. Says Happy Fathers Day on the inside in the middle, and has a Gift Certificate for a round of golf held inside also. Oh well it may be good enough for him lol he's not really going to look at the card anyways. But the Joy Fold Card itself is fun to do...I can see me doing more in the future!

Happy Fathers Day to all the fathers out there!!!

Enfys Has Awesome Blog Candy to Giveaway!!

You have got to check out the awesome blog candy that Enfys is offering over at
Going Buggy!!




Click on the link above and follow Enfys requirements for participating in her giveaway!!! What an awesome lady and great friends she has!!!!

Good luck to all of us!!

Fathers Day Card

First I want to thank Kelly aka KCS1955 on the Cricut MB and you can find her awesome blog at Kreative Korner by Kelly
She posted a Fathers Day card on the MB and I knew I had to lift it and make one for my dad. Her card was inspired by JoySikes also from the Cricut MB.
I didn't want Kelly to think I copied it inch by inch so I tried to change it up a bit and make it my own, but I loved the colors she used and knew my dad would too, so I did keep those the same, but tried to change the rest up. She helped me so much with answering all my questions and explaining how to print on cardstock, which I'm still learning, don't have that quite down yet. But I think overall it turned out pretty good and I think my dad will be impressed...hopefully.
Anyways, thanks for looking and again Thank you Kelly for all your help and inspiration and hopefully one day my cards will be as amazing as yours!!

and my Father In Laws Card

EVERCLEAR IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG!! So I FINALLY got to see Everclear in concert tonight!!! They were opening for Edwin Mccain, which I didn't stay for, but I'm sure he was great..lol But they're doing a tour in honor of the military and they couldn't have been more amazing!!
It was everything I had ever imagined and then some!! It was a small concert at the Performing Arts Center here, which is fine because you get to see more and as you can see in the picture, a better chance of meeting them!!
The concert itself was totally amazing!! They sung all their most famous and well loved songs, well to me anyways! A few new ones off their upcoming CD. It was me, my youngest son Christopher and my hub Stephen that went. It was his first concert but he seemed to enjoy himself.
After their set, they announced that they would be outfront signing autographs, so we said goodbye to Edwin and me and Christopher ran up front. Lucky enough to get one of the papers so we were allowed to get in line to meet them!!! All I can say is they were amazing!!! SOoooooooooooo genuine and friendly!! Didn't rush us through the line, each one would stop and shake our hands, thank us for coming and ask us our name. They were so nice to Christopher, asking about his goals and dreams, what he was interested in. Such a great group of guys!! They definitely didn't disappoint me!! They totally made my night!! I feel like a teenager back in high school lol Who says teenagers are the only ones that can ROCK!?!?!
Thank you ART...Sam, Josh, Davey and Tommy for wonderful memories with my son!!

My son, Stephen, jamming on his guitar!

Below are a few videos of my oldest son, Stephen Jr. playing on his guitar today. He wanted to update his myspace, but since its my flipcam he was using, I get to share a little of him with my friends too!! He's 17 and will be graduating next summer. Where does the time go?? I'm so proud of him though. He makes me wanna commit myself to a padded room sometimes lol but overall he's a great kid. And theres sooooo much more he could be into these days, so I'm very proud of the man he's becoming!
He has self taught himself on the guitar. He went to a few classes but said the instructor was boring and slow, so that was that lol the rest he did on his own. He'll sit in his room and listen to the songs over and over and usually by the end of the night, I'll hear him in there playing them. I wish I had his natural talent.
Soon he'll be going off into the world by himself. It'll be hard to protect him when I won't know what he's doing or where he is, but no matter how much I would love to keep him home, I know he has to find himself and make a life of his own. I know he's a smart young man and I can only hope that he makes the right choices and if not, he learns from the wrong choices and mistakes he may make through life.
And when his heart gets broke, has trouble finding his way or just needs to talk, I'll be here eagerly waiting to wrap my arms around him again.
And when he's rich and famous, I hope he remembers Mom!
I love you Stephen and I'm sooo very proud of you!!!

I GOT AN AWARD!!!!

OMGosh! I got an award!! Thank you to Jo Ann over at Scrappin Addict for thinking my page was nice enough for an award. hmmm or maybe she just couldn't think of a 7th person LOL Either way, I"LLL TAKE IT!!!!! YAY!!!! Ok so first I'd like to thank my parents, without them, none of this would be possible!!! Second, I would...ok wait..first I would like to thank my DH...without his paycheck, none of this would be possible!!! And well ya know the list goes on, but the paychecks the most important!! I am lucky enough to have friends that push me to keep doing these crafts, thinking outside the box and wondering why I do them when sometimes it seems like folks just don't get it or appreciate it. So its nice to see its not all for nothing. How awesome..ya made my day!! Ok so I need to do a few things in return!... Here we go....

1: Thank the person who gave me the award and link to their blog (Completed)
2: List 10 honest things about myself:

1. I love making altered items.
2. I have a small fortune invested in my craft room.
3. I have made some really great friends through crafting and the Cricut MB.
4. I have a problem with procrastination and motivation.
5. I have two great sons that I love dearly and will miss as they go off into the world.
6. I'm lucky to have a great DH who supports my crafting addiction.
7. I happen to talk too much and sometimes lose friendships because of it.
8. I miss my nephews and nieces soooo very much!
9. I really wish my mom and I could be closer..but never see it happening.
10. I really have a lot of swaps I need to get finished.

3:Put the award on my blog(Completed)
4:Pick 7 people to give the award to:

In no particular order.....

A Scrapping Mom's Scraps

~*~Niki's Cards ~*~

Going Buggy

Design~Create~Inspire

Denise Loves Stamps

Hand to Paper

Dee's Special Things