My card for March's shoe box card swap.

This is the card that I made for March's shoe box card swap.

March shoe box crop

my journal for the month of April

This is my new journal that I made myself for this month. It is also incomplete and basically the same as mom's but the colors are different... I also used a sticker on mine that says, "Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure that you are." Mary Jean Irion. My idea was to use the from the garden Stamp on it and emboss it... but I have used that one a lot and I think I want to use something else. I am not sure what I want yet though. I know I want spring. I will think on it and will post more later...

mom's journal

Mom is going to Paducah for the big quilt show in a few weeks. She wanted a red journal to take with her. So I bought one today that was black and covered it with Stampin' Up's real red paper. I used a flower from scrapbookstoreatyourdoor.com and a brad and a dragonfly that I had previously purchased from Oriental trading. I still want to stamp something on the journal, but I haven't decided what I want to put on it yet. But hey I did use some embelishments. Without prompting. ::)

timmy's birthday sets.

For the birthday card I made for Timmy from Sami and I, I used Wild things. When she wakes up and gets out of my bedroom, I will get my markers and let her "write" on the card.

This is the Card he is getting from mom and dad. Nothing big, but I am not highly energetic today.
This is the wrapping paper that I made to go with mom's card. It wasn't supposed to get that many stop signs, but I somehow smeared the first red stop sign all over the paper. Red was the only color that smeared.

This was the wrapping paper that I made to go with my card.

These are the pants that I made him to go in the wrapping paper, I know it matches mom's gift much better, but I think for the last 3 yrs I have given him nothing but John Deere cards from both mom and I. The kid really really likes John Deere though. Mom made him a house coat with some tractors on it. It says, "I make dirt look good" It is so cute, I am not sure why I wrapped it without taking a picture though. Oh well.

Happy Birthday Timmy! I sure am wild about you!

Charms.

My tape runner charm off of the tape runner.

My tape runner charm on the tape runner

Charm on my scissors.

These are a few of the charms I have completed.

Sorry I missed this one in my postings last night.

I absolutely adore this one also. It is a test tube filled with spring time m&m's. I don't want to give this one away at all. But I think if I can find 18 test tubes I will be making them for my daughters class for easter. I'll have to learn how to score then :)

my day?

I had a wonderful day today. It all started last night with a sleep over. Sami and I slept over in the basement floor and we had a great time. We got up this morning around 10:30 am. She got dressed and went to see her Mema. I showered and headed to a card swap. I spent the day making cards with 11 wonderful ladies. It was so much fun. I couldn't believe it when someone one said it was 4:30 already. After the ladies left, I hung out with my friend Julie for awhile. It is so wonderful to have friends that live close and share the same hobbies. I bought some wonderful stuff from Scrapbookatyourdoor.com. I took a picture of all of it, but it is sideways. When I left Julies I went back home and spent about an hour with my mom. Doing laundary etc... then I went to a trivia night fund raiser for my sister in law and now I am home in bed .

sweet dreams

sandi

my card for the Feb Swap

Feb. Card swap

possibly my favorite card for the card swap.

This is pink card goes with the pop up card that is further down the line. I can't get them together for some reason.

The inside of this card says, "get lots of rest drink fluids eat cereal!"

The inside of the pop up card.

My mom already stole my chocolate out of this one :) I knew she would when I picked the dark chocolate to go inside of it.

I totally missed making this card. I thought it was adorable too. Oh well.

I think the inside said, "it was the worst ten minutes of my life" or something like that.

Samantha's Valentines day cards.

The back of Sami's cards. She helped me make. The green "leaves" say Love Samantha.

The front of the cards.

Sami making me a card just for me.

Samantha helping me make her valentines day cards... Eating most of the suckers. :)

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I made a card for Uncle Curt and Aunt Ginny's 50th anniversary.... The saying is on another post.

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Samantha wrote Buddy on the card... She wrote it backward but we can still read it.

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A second sock monkey card

I made a sock monkey Card for Dad for His birthday. Way back in Jan...

A second sock monkey card

I found a web site that I adore...

http://www.skiptomylou.org/

It has so many cute things on it. For stamping, for sewing for chrochetting. It has some really cute stuff on it. Now I am off to make 20 valentines day cards for Sami's library school party Wed. Wish I could go with her. Oh well.

Monday Challenge?

My friend on face book gave us a monday challenge to make a card using chocolate chip. I didn't make a card. Although, I love chocolate chip and using it to make cards, I made a notebook. The picture is of my daughter. It was taken on or about Jan 13. I used chocolate chip for the book cover, I believe pumpkin pie for the accents. I also used Doodle that for the background stamp. I used Versa mark to stamp it with. The pen holder is made from elastic I found in my mom's sewing room. SHHHHHH don't tell. :) Hope you enjoy. I also made a 50th ann. card yesterday out of blues and gold. It didn't get it's picture taken though before it got used. I will have to try to duplicate it.