NEW DOODLEFACTORY STAMPS!!!

AAGGHH!!! You have to go to this link HERE and check out these Amazing new stamps from Doodlefactory! I love the new dino family and the new forest trees!!! Here's some pics of the new stamp sets for your enjoyment (I stole them off the S.A. blog-I hope that's ok):

Now that you've fallen in love with them too, hop over there and check out the DT examples and the chance to win all FOUR of these!!! I'll be back tomorrow for a project post. The kids and I had a PJ day today and we just hung out and played board games until it was time to pull more weeds (yard inspection tomorrow from housing *bleh!*)

Now go win some DF stamps! Wait, don't, I want them, heehee!

Until next post, be blessed!

It Exploded!!!

So, Tuesday night I won a bottle of wine at the ACES (Aviano Community Enlisted Spouses) meeting and last night I decided to open it and have a glass. Well, look what happened! It exploded! It sounded like a gun went off and glass and wine went EVERYWHERE!!! Luckily I didn't get cut, but there were little shards of the bottle all over the kitchen; not to mention wine sprayed all over the walls! I know I wasn't pressing down too hard so I think something happened during the bottling of the wine causing a weak spot in the bottle. I don't know, but it was crazy! Anyway, I needed to make some birthday cards for some ACES members, and here's my first one:

This one is for a lady who's birthday was last month. I paper pieced the hippo and the balloons and drew the strings for the balloons to be tied to the hippo's tail. Here's a pic to show you the dimension in my paper piecing:

Well, after I left the card on the desk for a little while, I went back and it didn't look done. Do you ever do that? Walk away from a project and come back later for a fresher perspective? I ended up making a frame by just drawing straight lines around the edge of the card:

I feel like it gives the card it's finishing touch.

Last Thursday I participated in my first Twisted Thursday Challenge and guess what? I won! Yeah, it was a random draw, but still!!! I participated again this week and here is the card I made:I admit it, it's not my best work. I'm not entirely happy with it, but this is as good as this card is going to get. I followed the sketch, only I turned it on its side. The Twist this week is to have some purple in the card, and purple is one of the hardest colors for the to incorporate. I actually made the hippo card AFTER this one, and that purple worked out just fine! Maybe my mojo was on a little break...

One more thing before I sign off, sheck out this BLOG CANDY at Michelle O's blog! OMWord I want it!!!

Well, that's all for now. The boys are officially on summer break, but the weather isn't cooperating so we've been in the house! I hope the summer weather shows itself soon.

Until next post, be blessed.

AH, Monday!

I'm so glad it's the last week of school! Andrew should be enjoying his "Field Day" at schooltoday, and then Thursday is their last day and a half day! We've already been in the mood for summertime activities and this weekend we went outside as much as possible (when the weather was cooperating). For your enjoyment, pics of my kiddos enjoying the outdoors: That was Ashton looking through a toy and being silly. He was enjoying the sidewalk chalks that my Mom sent to the kids. And here is Angel after playing with some PINK sidewalk chalk:

See all the chalk on the back of her dress and on her white tights? LOL! At least she had fun. Also, we were supposed to have the boys' final baseball games on Saturday, but the weather was too rainy, wet, and there was lightning, so all games were canceled. Instead, we just had Andrew's end-of-season party at the community center. Here he is getting his trophy:

He did so great this season and I can't wait to see him improve next year! Finally, I got to participate in the Twisted Thursday Challenge with Justine and the ladies from Shirley's 2 Girls. The challenge was to use the provided sketch (which I altered just a bit) and the twist was to use paper piecing! I paper pieced the dress and hat for Princess Winifred from the Doodlefactory stamps at Starving Artistamps. I've been wantig to participate in this challenge for weeks now and I finally did, and on time too!

Well, I hope you all enjoyed the pics of the kiddos and the card. I'll see you all in the comments section!

Until next post, be blessed.

Happy Mother's Day! And the winners are...

Hey there peeps! Sorry for being MIA the last couple days. I had full intentions of posting the winners of the books on Friday evening, but we lost our internet connection! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We still don't have it back 100%, but that's boring blah blah blah, so I won't bother you with all that. So I had Andrew draw some names out of his baseball mit and the winners of the books are:
NICOLE: you get "Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg" (I bet Jaqui would love it as a bedtime story,and the pictures are gorgeous)
CARIN: "Hannibal Rising" (I hope you haven't read it yet, you reader!)
JULIE: "Me & Emma" (I didn't rig this, lol, promise! I hope you like it-don't forget to have tissues close by.)
JAN: "The Devil Wears Prada" (I hope you haven't read this also, Jan. Please email me with your address. And if you've seen the movie, the book is so much better!)
Well, I hope you all enjoy the books and the bookmarks. Hey Krystal, I don't have anymore bespectacled Mooses, but I can make you a bookmark anyway! OR... What do you all think of these?

This adorable deer is from The Greeting Farm. The paper is Basic Grey. I colored her with my Copics. Here we have Tink from TGF on Basic Grey papers and a sentiment from Starving Artiststamps:

And finally another Deer and more Basic Grey:

Anyone want one of these adorable bookmarks? I figure that I need to start sending my stuff out since it's just accumulating in my stamp room and with my limited square footage I should share my creations! So, let me know if you want one... first three request get them! Oh, and let me know which you want. I've made a few cards WITHOUT TGF stamps, so come back tomorrow to see some of those! YEA! Oh, and I have some adorable pics of a yummy Angel Baby to show you too....
Until tomorrow, be blessed!

DoodleFactory Home Sweet Home

I love DoodleFactory Images by Starving Artistamps. Have you been to their webshop yet? Go HERE to check it out, but come back, ok? I want you to see my very first clear card! I hope you came back, cuz here it is:

I made this card for Starving Artistamps' Clearly Cool Card Challenge on Papercraft Planet. This is the first Clear Card I have ever made. I used SA's castle from their Fairy Tale set and colored it in pretty girly colors with my copic markers. I cut it out and glued it onto some pretty paper by Imaginesce. Then I had to layer the paper inside to cover up the glue dots I used to stick it on the the clear card. Do you like it? I think I need to get some more acetate to make more clear cards cuz his was fun and I have lots more ideas!
So, did you go to StarvingArtistamps? Did you notice that they are giving away some new stamps? YES, they are! If you want to win some DF stamps, go to their blog HERE, read all about it, and enter to win!
Once again, thanks so much for stopping by, and until next post, be blessed.

Black Friday

edited to add: I figured out how to make my pictures "clickable" so you can click on them and see them closeup. Turns out that when I clicked and dragged them where I wanted them, I lost some of the html code enabling them to be "clickable." Now I just left them where they end up, and typed around them. Yo can click on all of them, except the last one. I accidentally deleted the special "clickable" html code when I dragged it to it's spot. Enjoy!

It's Black Friday today. Who braved the shopping malls? Not me! I worked several years in retail and decided that I would never shop on Black Friday unless absolutely necessary. So, we've just been hanging around the house, doing laundry, stuff like that. Yesterday was a good day. We didn't go anywhere, just stayed home and enjoyed each other's company. Made a modest Thanksgiving dinner, and watched a silly movie. It was a happy/sad day. We had originally planned on being in San Diego visiting family in the morning, then flying to Arkansas to visit family in the evening, but those plans fell through when our orders didn't get cut in time. We were happy to be together, but we were missing our family that we didn't get to be with. I really hope and pray that our orders get us to Italy for Christmas, because I know it will be a difficult day to get through if we're still here and my husband is still in Korea. But enough about that! Yesterday I got a chance to be a little crafty. My oldest son and I made Christmas lists! Andrew made his own list, and I made lists for Ashton and Angel.

Above is Ashton's list. I stamped and then colored Santa from Doodlefactory's Sweete Shoppe stamp set. Then I cut him out and glued him onto the list. I printed the lists out from my computer on Very Vanilla card stock and Real Red Card stock.

I cut the title off the red cs and put it on the vanilla cs. Then I stamped the images around the border of the lists. Andrew colored the Santa on Angel's list. Then Andrew made his own list.

He wanted to have a little section on his list for his "most wanted" presents. He colored the Santa, then glued it onto two circles that I cut out. He also decorated his list with Gio (the gingerbread man) and an ornament from Kim Hughes' set that I paper pieced.

We had a good time making these lists, and they didn't take long at all. The boys have already started filling them in with the toys they want. Notice the gift on Andrew's list? He wants a VERY expensive iPod! lol.

Well, on another subject, Wednesday was Einstein's last day with us. The poor little guy had a bad liver, and it slowly took his life away. He was just 6 months old, but he was suffering. My Mom took him to be put to sleep on Wednesday afternoon. We all miss him, but he was in so much pain, that now he is much better off. Here is a picture of him playing with Angel:

He had a great life, and we are all happy that we knew him.

Thank you again for stopping by. I really appreciate when you all read my posts and comment. And by the way, if you want to comment but don't have a blogger account, you still can if you post as "anonymous." Just click the circle next to "anonymous" and you'll be good to go. Oh, and don't forget to tell me who you are, or I won't know! lol.

Until next post, be blessed.

No pictures, The Flu, and Santa's Sweet Shoppe

Yep, no pictures. Sorry about that. I know some of you come and check out the pics and move on... but I don't have anything new to show you just yet. I do have some cards I've been meaning to photograph that I made at our last StampARama. You'll really like some of the creations! But you'll have to come back tomorrow (or Monday maybe) to see them. I don't want to take a pic of them until the sun is up because the pictures come out so much better that way. I've also been working on a Top Secret project/gift for someone, and it has to be done by tomorrow... so I've been keeping busy with that and will show it off if I get permission after I give it to it's owner. Ok, enough of that, what about the Flu?
Well, my boys got vaccinated yesterday at school. Andrew got the shot, but I didn't think Ashton would go through with it if I signed him up for the shot, so I signed him up for the nasal spray instead... Bad idea! He got the actual flu just about 8 hours after the nasal spray. Yeah, it sucks! I'm sure it's not as bad as it would have been if he had caught it from someone, but still! He's had a low-grade fever, achiness, diarhea, and vomiting since yesterday. Yuck! Andrew's doing just fine, by the way.
Well, I bet by now (if you're still reading) you are wondering about the rest of my blog title. WELL, I found the Cutest, whimsical Christmas stamp set! It's called Santa's Sweetshoppe and it's a DoodleFactory Set by Starving Artistamps! I have loved the Doodlefactory images for a while now, I just never delved into that world because I know that once I step in, I'll be stuck and forever wanting more! Well... looky HERE! I can Win a set of the new stamps on their blog! I am now a stalker, uh, follower of their blog and website. So, go check out their stuff and try to win the new set too! And if you look around their online store, you'll see alot of stamps with sentiments that you can't find the likes of anywhere else! I love their sentiments with their newer Halloween images. You've got to go look HERE! Funny, huh?
I hope I didn't lose all my readers. I will be posting pictures again soon, promise!
Until next post, be blessed!