IT SNOWED!!!

Can you say, FINALLY!  All we usually get is rain while everyone else gets the snow, but not this time!  We got SNOW......and almost 5 whole inches of it too!  It started about 5 p.m. Friday evening and by 12:30 p.m. we had a whopping 4 3/4 inches!  I know that doesn't seem like a whole lot to some but to us South Carolinian's, it's A LOT!  Dh wanted to got to Lowe's and pick up some fast food that evening so we jumped in the car and drove to town and by the time we started home we could barely see the lines in the road.  The secondary roads had not been salted and we had about 10 miles of snow covered roads to drive home on.  By the next morning all was covered in a sheet of white snow.  Here's a few pics of the animals playing in the snow.

little miss maddy hopping around like a bunny rabbit.  LOL.

 

 

   my Lulu....all she wanted to do was sniff it.

my fat cat Zoey.

 

another pic of Zoey.

 

the view from the front porch.

 

some old farm equipment.

 

and the pines.

 

Thanks for looking!

Happy Birthday Kyle!!!

 

It's hard to believe that 5 days ago my one and only baby turned 20 yrs. old! I snapped this picture of him last year and even then I had to beg, plead and help him clean out his fish tank.  I told him today I wanted some new pictures of him and all I got was ARRRGH.  lol. 

I also want to share a recent layout I created using the U R My Favorite collection from Nikki Sivils and a sketch from Sketchy Thursdays. Can I just say that I LOVE the way this one turned out!   This is also one of my favorite photos of Kyle that I snapped it back in 1999. 

  

Thanks for looking!

Coming Soon......

 

That's right, The Scrapbook Get Away is having a Crop N' Kisses crop Feb. 12 - 15.  There will be lots of challenges, games, prizes and FUN!   

Sweet Treats Cupcake

I had read on several sites that some of the Sweet Treats cartridges were defective - something about not all the cupcakes would cut, so I wanted to try mine out to see if it was defective too.....so far no problems, but then again I've only cut the one cupcake.  lol.

Here's my card using some old paper from WRMK's and a couple of Cuttlebug embossing folders.

 

This card fits the challenges over at:

Practical Scrappers - to use Die Cuts.

The Pink Elephant - to use the color pink.

and Saturday Spotlight - Bigger is Better - what's better than a big no calorie cupcake!  lol.

Thanks for looking!

SRM Sticker Challenge

Yesterday over at the SRM Sticker blog Jenyfur challenged us to create a project incorporating the color orange and stickers.  Here's what I came up with.

I chose to use a kraft card base and K & Co. pattern papers.  I also used a Basic Grey stamp, Fiskars Apron Lace border punch and the sticker and ribbon I've had in my stash forevah. 

If you would like to participate in this challenge, all you have to do is create a project using the color orange and stickers and upload it HERE.

Thanks for looking!

Let The Sunshine In......

I combined the Saturday Spotlight Challenge ( yellow) with this weeks sketch over at Card Positioning Systems.

Here's the sketch.

CPS 151

And here's my card.

 

Supplies used:

Cardstock: Bazzill and Coredinations

Pattern Paper: K & Co.

Martha Stewart: butterfly and button punch.

Fiskars: Apron Lace Border punch

Thanks for looking!

Chalking Embossed Images

It's our last week of chalk techniques over at the Cookin' Up Creations forum and this week I decided to close the month out with two final techniques.  The first one is simple enough - use chalks to add color to dry embossed images.

Here I dry embossed the tulips with a Pebbles Inc.stencil, flipped my paper over and placed the stencil over the top of my embossed image and applied color using a q tip and Craf-T Products chalk.  

 

Thanks for looking!

Creating Unique Backgrounds:

I wanted to squeeze in another easy technique so I decided to create a one of a kind background for my stamped image.  I was a bit stumped for colors at first, and then I remembered the cute little tutus I spotted over at the Sweetie Pie Tutu shop on Etsy.

The one on the right is the one I drew my colors from. 

 

Cute eh?   And here's the card I came up with!

 

First, I punched a small circle out of white paper and adhered it to my cardstock using repositionable adhesive. I then used chalks and cotton balls to rub color onto my cardstock in a circular motion. Once I was done, I sprayed my background with hair spray to set the chalks. I then removed my punched circle and stamped my image over the top. I'm really pleased with the way it turned out, but I think the card needs a little something else, hmmm......a black cord and silver beads, perhaps?

Thanks for looking!