I'm Alive!

I'm back from my blogging vaca! I know, I know, but that first month of blogging was really rough! :) I'm just kidding. I'm sorry girls (both of you) but I was so not in the mood! But, now I am so here we go.

I figured I would start in the present and then I would go back and fill everyone in on what I have been doing the past month.

A couple of days ago I went to Joanns for glue, ha! Well, that's what my husband thought anyway. While I was searching for "glue" I found some new paper I fell in love with! Now I'm going to show you a picture of some thank you cards I made and see if you can figure it out.



Yep, you guessed it! It's that newspapery paper! And I love it! Now, I've been eyeing this "Newspaper Ad" Scrapblock from Cornish Heritage Farms that Julia designed!!! (If you still haven't checked out her blog, do it!) I would LOVE to buy this stamp but, well, after shipping and everything I'm sure it would be kinda expensive and I just can't do that, the bargain hunter in me will explode. So imagine how thrilled I was to find this paper! I know it's not quite the same look but it's still awesome! And you can't tell from the pic, but the "ads" are all for doll furniture! So its girly, but if you used it on a man's card do you really think he would notice?? No, he would not. So armed with my new paper and some brown ink I churned out these cards. I didn't want to make them all the same so I used different ribbon, buttons, and flowers.

Now, the card in the middle is more special than the others because.... it's got vintage lace and buttons! My husbands grandmother was sweet enough to give me some old lace and tons of really really old buttons! She sews and has been her whole life, so she had lots of cool stuff. I'm still going through them all and gushing! I hoard buttons so I'm in Heaven. Here's a close up.

So, for some dumb reason, I only bought ONE piece of this paper, so I'll be going back for more. I did also buy glue and a few other sheets of paper I fell in love with (it was on sale so I HAD to). But those cards will be for another post.

I hope you read this Windy!!! She's my first reader and the blogging police, so I have to post on here or she "reminds" me! :) Love you Windy!

I can't wait to hear what you think! Leave comments, I love them!

Yep I'm Addicted!

So I LOVE Prima Flowers right?? Oh yes, and as I was making my weekly trip to Michaels I saw some flowers that I have been wanting and they were on CLEARANCE!!!! So naturally, I bought them and now I have three new packages of Prima Flowers! Oh happy day! Now I just need to make something with them! Maybe after the party this weekend! Ahhhh....

Guess who got some Prima Flowers!!!

ME!!! I've always loved these flowers and I've been stalking them at Michael's for sometime now. I always thought they were too expensive for just some flowers, until..... I realized DUH!!! Use your 50% off coupon! So now I have bunches and I love them!! And I plan on buying lots more so I won't hoard the ones I have. So here is a great card I made with them! I think this is the first one I have made and I love it!!! I used Stacey's Jewerly Color Inspiration Challenge #44. I really loved this color combo! My "Rust" looks more pink in the picture but I think it still looks great! Also, my office is decorated in plum so I actually had something I could kinda stage it with! I really hope I win this one! Please let me know what you think!

Blog Candy at Creative Antics!

Hey guys!! You have got to check out this AWESOME blog candy over at Creative Antics! It's Ann's ONE YEAR BLOGOVERSARY and she is giving away some really great stuff to celebrate! Look at all this great stuff...
Now head on over there and enter to win! You have until tonight! :) Better yet, just head over there and Don't enter! I wanna win! LOL!!

Spring into Summer Event!!

Scrapbook News and Review is having a Spring into Summer Event on July 11th, you should check it out! I am in the middle of their "Oh Say Can You See" July 4th blog hop and it is LONG but I'm having a blast!

Happy 4th!!!

Hello everyone!! I don't have any cards to post today because I have been working on my daughter's b-day invites, sniff sniff. But, hopefully I will have them done very soon and I can post pics of them!!! I love the way they look. It took me a while to figure out how I wanted to do them and I finally did it! I did have some help though, my wonderful friend Hannah sent me an email FULL of different pictures and ideas for cards! :) Thanks girl! I hope everyone has an awesome 4th of July! Be safe, don't eat and drink too much, and don't get burned! As for me, I will be stuffing my face with the wonderful BBQ my family cooks every year! They cooked twenty pork shoulders this year and they look, smell, and taste awesome!! I look forward to it every year. My mouth is watering just typing this blog. Better go! :)

Jewelry Color Inspiration #43

I haven't done one of these in a few weeks, so I thought I'd try again! This is Stacey's Jewelry Color Inspirations #43. The really like these colors together and they include pink, my fav! I used today's Mojo Monday sketch #93. It's not quite like it because I had a hard time making the scallops all the way around the frame, but it still turned out great! Hope you like...