CANDY, CANDY, CANDY!!!

***This is my second post for today, so if you haven't already, please scroll down and read my other post as well.

Hi there! I wanted to share some SUPER DELICIOUS Blog Candy offers with you! First up, Kirsten's Birthday Candy! These gorgeous Gorjuss images are being offered by Kirsten in celebration of her birthday this week. The candy ends on July 31st. HOp on over to her blog, Kirsten's Krafty Place, and find out how to enter to win this wonderful prize.
Next up I want to show you this delicious candy from Kimmi!
Kimmi is celebrating the end of 6 months of Chemotherapy by offering all of US this super sweet candy! Hop on over to her blog, Poppy Petal Designs, and find out about entering to win.
Next up we have Bona's Achingly Sweet Pink Candy! YOu have to go over to Bona's blog, Keep on Scrappin, to fully grasp the extent of this pink candy! Wow! She is celebrating making the top 100 list on Youtube's list of most subscribed (did that make sense? lol!). So hop on over there and tell her I sent ya! And last but not least, Jodi's candy!
Did you see those TWO spellbinders??? This yummy candy is being offered on Jodi's blog, Inked Inspirations, in celebration of her birthday as well. So hop over there also to enter to win.
I hope your teeth aren't aching too much from all this candy! My 10,000 hit candy will be tasty, but I don't know if it will compare with all this deliciousness. LOL!
Thanks for coming by, be blessed!

Can't leave well enough alone...

That's right, I just can't. I could not make up my mind on how I wanted my blog to look, so I've been messing with it and changing it ALOT these last few days. I think that's why I havent put up an actual blog post, sorry about that. I think I really like the way it looks now, so I think I'll be leaving it this way for a bit. Although... I think I'm going to change up my music a little. We'll see.
Well, The Greeting Farm had one of their Farm Fresh Friday challenges and it was a sketch. Here is the sketch:
And here is my entry: Andrew totally inspired this card. I told him I had no inspiration for the sketch and I didn't know what to do and he said "Well, make these three circles into stars." And that's how this whole card started! I used Space Ian since I haven't put him on a card yet. The "moon" is a diecut that was sent to me in a Blog Candy from Diana Gibbs. The ribbon was also given to me by my neighbor before she moved. The star brads are making memories and the star paper is from the DCWV rockstar pack. Oh, the dark grey paper is Stampin' Up! Here is the inside of the card:

I cut the crescent moon out of the other half of the diecut circle that the half moon on the front of the card came from. The rocket ship and star trail is from a Studio G clear stamp set and I wrote in the sentiment. I wrote a little personal note in the card and left it in Andrew's room for him to find when he woke up this morning. He really liked it :)

So, remember the Post it note holder I made with Pink Dahlia? Here is one that I made with Teal Annika!

I really love how her hair came out. I wanted to match it to the Post it notes, and it worked! The flowers were all made using Sunny Glen Designer paper from The Greeting Farm and brads from Basic Grey. It came out so nicely that I don't know if I'll be able to part with it, lol! I do have one more note holder that I made and one waiting in the wings... so as soon as I finish up the last one, I'll post them both for you all to see.

I hope you liked todays post, and come back again soon! OH!!! I just noticed on my profile page that I had 1,000 visitors to it! So I decided to check how many hits I've had to my blog and I've had over 8,900! Wow! Thanks so much for coming by and making my hit counter move up. As soon as I hit 10,000 I'm going to have a blog candy and I have lots of yumminess in store for it too!

Until next post, be blessed!

Lots of Cards

Hi everyone! Sorry for the lack of posts. Since the kids are on Summer break, I haven't had the time to sit and post anything. So this post is going to have a lot of pictures on it, please bear with me! I made a bunch of birthday and Anniversary cards for the Spouses club a few weeks back. Here's a hippo birthday card: I paper pieced the hippo and balloons and drew in the border. Here are a couple simple birthday cards:

I sponged the edges of the cards, glued on some scalloped papers, tied a bow and stamped the sentiment; so simple! This is a mini birthday card that I ended up keeping for future use:

I used Stampin' Up stuff to make it and colored it with my watercolor pencils. Here are two cupcake birthday cards:

I masked the words that are actually on this stamp and stamped it onto several patterened papers. Then I cut out the papers and pieced the cupcakes together onto the card fronts. I added the self-adhesive rhinestones to the cupcake sprinkles and waalaa! Here is another little card that I made and kept for future use:

Again I used all Stampin Up stuff on it and watercolored the balloon. Here are two birthday cards that I made using Melanie Muenchinger's card that she sent me as inspiration. You can see the card she sent me on a previous post HERE.

And finally, two anniversary cards that I made:

The first one uses a Gina K. Designs flower stamp and the second one uses a Stampin' Up flower stamp (not sure of the names of the sets they came from). The second one is tiny again and I kept it for my use later. I hope you like this photo-filled post today. I am going to try to be more consistent throughout the summer with my posts!

Oh, and before I sign off for the day, did you notice the changes on my blog? I redid the layout and added a bunch of widgets on the side panel. I love challenges so I decided to add a widget for all my favorite challenges. Hopefully I'll get to participate in all of them regularly. When I do, you'll be able to click on the widget and go right to the challenge blog to participate yourself!

Thanks for stopping by today and until next post, be blessed!

Dotty Spotty Challenge

Happy Wednesday Blog Readers! How are you all doing this week? For a lot of us, this is a short week because of the Independence Day holiday on Saturday. We're looking forward to a fun 4th at the base, enjoying the festivities, games, music, food and fireworks. What are you all doing to celebrate?
Well, right now on The Greeting Farm Blog there is a challenge going on. The challenge is to use polka dots in your creation with TGF stamps! (the challenge has been extended through THURSDAY rather than Wednesday because of Galleria upload issues-so join in!) I made two projects. Here is the first one: I like to call it my Pink Dahlia Post-it holder. You can barely see the paper, but I did use polka dot paper! I colored Dahlia's hair Pink and I love it! I got the idea for the note holder from Joy over on her blog; A Place to be Me...

If you want to make one, it's SO simple. Click HERE and Joy will show you how simple it is! Here is a close up of Dahlia and all her gorgeous-ness: I have to admit, I orginally began this project thinking that it was going to be a RAK for someone someday, but I lvoe it so much that I'm keeping it! Heeheehee! I did buy three more acrylic frames so I will be making some for RAKs eventually. The big pink flowers that I used showed up in my house one day after our neighbor (well, exneighbor-Miss you Kylie!) came over to play. I don't know where she got them... The white flowers and pink little flowers are from Stampin' Up's pretties kit. I colored the pink flowers (which were originally white) with my copic marker and they came out just perfect for this project. The centers of the biggest flowers are Basic Grey brads and the other brads are from the Pretties kit (again, colored with my pink copic). Well, my second project for the Dotty Spotty Challenge is my Space Anya card:

I actually made this one first, but it didn't come out as originally planned. Oh well. AND I don't know what is up with the photo. I could not get a good picture of this card (probably because of all the white?) so please excuse the poor quality. Oh, and the water mark at the bottom... I didn't put that there! LOL! I don't know why it's there, and there is NO Stampin' Up product on this card so it shouldn't be there anyway! Oh well. I wanted my Space Ian to be Anya, so I stamped and cut out Ballerina Anya's head and put it on Space Ian's body.

So those are my two dotted projects for today. I hope you liked them.

Until next post, be blessed!

Time for a Craft Room Blog Hop!

Instead of reinventing the wheel, I just stole this off of Joni's page: ENJOY!!! Hello everyone and happy Tuesday! Thank you for coming to the Craft Room Tour. I thought it would be a wonderful way to share our spaces, ideas, storage solutions, and make new friends along the way. I do ask that you kindly consider leaving a comment on these blogs/galleries, as we all enjoy knowing who came to visit our homes. ;)Grab a comfy chair and your drink of choice, enjoy the tour. :D
My craft space (Joni's Craft Space over on A Sticky Situation)
Kelly of My Bucket Overfloweth
Angie of My Boat
Nina B. of Crafting in Croatia
Martha of Creating Is Fun
Jen of Say It with Stamps
Ann of Creative Antics
Sue of Sue's Sentiments
Stef H of Glitterbabe Greetings
Crystal of Rustic Daisy
Robin of Robin's Artful Musings
Nicole of Anderson Arts
Jodi of Mommy to 4
Sheri of Paper Crafty's Creations

Have fun hopping around and until next post, be blessed!

Cosmo Cricket Goodness

I recently received a bunch of Comso Cricket goodies. Here are some things I made using the Jack's World Collection: I used the Jack's World blackboard and covered them with the matching Jack's world stickers to make the house, tree, crocodile, doll and car. I stuck some magnets on the back. The big, long magnet at the top of teh picture is a paper strip with magnet on the back, and the Friends magnet is one of those free magnets you get (from realtors, doctor offices, etc.) that I just covered with paper and the friends sticker. I decorated it with a button too. Angel LOVES playing with these! I also made these boxes that you may have seen on my desk in a previous post:

These are my Cute Cosmo Cricket Boxes. I copied a tutorial by Sankari. You can find it HERE. I used all JAck's World papers, blackboard, stickers and ribbon. Here's a sideview:

As I said in my Craft Room Tour post, I usually keep my italian gummies in these boxes and Angel is always asking for some.

I hope you enjoyed my little post for today.

Until next post, be blessed.

My Box and My Wrangler

Happy Thursday Friends! I can't believe that this month is almost over. That will mean less than 2 months before school starts, whew wee!!! Did any of you check out my previous post and buy the digital image of the Weiman Wranglers? I hope so! But before I talk more about that, here's that box I promised to show you: My box is on the left. I had this Pretzel box and I've been using it for all the kids' snacks. I just throw all the snacks (raisin boxes, rollups, granola bars) in the box so when the kids ask for a snack, they get to choose ONE out of the BOX. And they know just what they can have instead of asking me, "Mom, can I have an apple?" "Mom, can I have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?" "Mom, can I have this CANDY???" "Mom, can I have all of it?????" LOL! So, anyway, I originally brought this box up to my craft room to cover in wrapping paper to make it look nicer. Then I saw a challenge on Papercraft Planet from Diana Gibbs on the 3d challenge page to use a box that you have around the house as inspiration to make your own box. OK! I took the pretzel box apart (it folds into itself and can be unfolded without damage-cool!) and measured it. I then divided the measurements into a third, and made my box! I did goof a little and had to use glue to hold my box closed, but that's ok. Here's a pic of two sides of the box:

I decided that my box needed a few different characters to adorn it, so I used 4 different stamps from The Greeting Farm and decorated the box! I got that idea because Marie over on the TGF blog issued us a challenge to use 3 or more different stamps in one project. PERFECT! I stamped and colored the Panda with the wagon from Panda Friends then cut it out and glued it on the box with a pop-dot. Also, I stamped and colored the bunny riding the turtle from Down by the Pond. Here's a closeup of that:

The flower is from Panda Friends as well. I used colored pencils and OMS to color all the images. Here's a pic of the inside of the box and the third decorated side:

The mushroom bunch is from Wonderland. The papers are all from TGF's Sunny Glen paper pack. I really love my box and I use it to hold my glue dots on my desk.

So, back to the Weiman Wranglers; As I type this, Pink Cat Studio has raised over $1300 for the Make a Wish Foundation!!! WOW!!! There are some big hearts out there in the stamping world and I am so honored to be a part of it all. After I purchased the digital stamps, I printed them out and made this:

As I was coloring Wrangler Ava (or Lily-or whoever you want her to be) I ended up changing her clothes' colors! I didn't realize that when I changed her pink shirt to red, and her blue pants to green, that she was going to turn out Christmasy looking! But I ended up using the Mr. Campy paper from Cosmo cricket and all the colors ended up working out just fine. I used the sketch from 2 Sketches 4 U and just changed it up a little. I have three ribbons coming from the side, and the sketch is flipped, and the main image is on a long panel, not the circle... but it works for me! LOL!

Well, I hope you all have a Thoroughly Thrilling Thursday, and I'll see you tomorrow probably!

Until Fantastic Friday, be blessed!