Look at that bling!

Good morning!What a week it has been!  I've been ill this week with allergies/cold that I woke up with on Sunday...yep, on Mother's Day.  My boys have taken really good care of me, though, so I'm feeling much better today!  Yesterday was track and field day at Kyler's school so I was outside all day for that and unfortunately it was super windy...no fun at all! Okay, no fun for me the kids still had a great time!

This is the second week of the Sketches by Carly Challenge.  Make sure you check it out HERE.  There are two version to this sketch...basic, like mine, or more stepped up.  You chose which you'd like to use!  Fun, huh?  This card is for my soon to be daughter-in-law's shower on Saturday.  Her colors are purple and gold.  I think she will like it!

Well, busy day ahead and weekend, too so I best get it started!  Have a wonderful Friday!

have a nice day!

Good morning friends!  I hope you are having a lovely Saturday morning!  Sorry for the late post I seem to have found myself a cold the last couple of days so I went to bed early last night and slept in late this morning.

Today is The Sweet Stop day.  I had fun with this sketch!  I got to use a new to me stamp called Breakfast Leslie from Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps.  Super fun to color and paper piece!   The patterned paper is from the Early Bird Mini Deck by Cosmo Cricket.  And, of course, the fabulous layout is from The Sweet Stop!

I also went ahead and decorated the inside a little.  I had bought the digital elements pack for the Early Bird mini deck from Jessica Sprague's website so I picked out this fun little strip and sized it to work for my card.  I just love the little uumph it gives the inside!


As you all know tomorrow in the 10th anniversary of 9-11.  Just typing that brings tears to my eyes.  There good and bad that has resulted from that day and I am brought even closer to that day remembering my husband's deployment to Iraq in 2005/2006 and my Jon being deployed to Afghanistan right now.  Both of those deployments are born out of those attacks.  I'm not sure what or if I'll post anything tomorrow as I'm not sure how I feel about it.  Such mixed feelings...pride, anger...yeah, you get the idea.  I'm sure many of you feel the same way.  But for now, I'm going to stay on this day and enjoy it for what it is!

Thought for the day:  If something is wrong, it does not become right, just because more people are doing it.  From:  My friend Patti's blog.   

Go Pack Go!

Good morning friends! Well, it is the first day of the last year of middle school for Kyler.  I think we are all a little bit nervous for the new year, hoping all will go well.  I made egg casserole and put it in the fridge last night.  I'll go pop it in the oven in a minute or two.  He was looking forward to that and it should be a great start to the day!

I've been wanting to make today's card since I got this stamp a few weeks ago.  It is from Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps and is called Football Josh.  This set even comes with two sentiments, Go Team Go and Touchdown. You can see I change the Go Team Go to Go Pack Go.  The paper is just paper I've had in my stash forever.  You can barely see it in this photo but I printed touchdown! by Meljen's Designs on the strip at the bottom.  She has a beautiful new store that you should check out HERE.  And the layout for my card is the challenge this week at the Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps blog. 

 I'm going to send this card to Jon who is one of the biggest Packer fans ever.  Please do note that the green/yellow are Packer colors.  Oh and the Pack play tonight so I will definitely have football on my t.v. tonight!

Thought for the day:  I can be changed by what happens to me but I refuse to be reduced by it.  ~Maya Angelo  I think this is a great follow up to forgiveness from yesterday.  When we forgive someone it releases US from the bond that held us together with the other person and allows us to change and accept (but not allow the behavior to happen again) whatever has happened. 

Attitude is everything

Well, we are on the downside of the week now..yay! Who has fun plans for the weekend? Who is happy to not have plans?



Today I have a very clean and simple card made with a Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamp image called Turntable Josh. I don't have very many 'guy' images right now so I thought the SCRS sketch challenge for the week would be perfect to help solve that. The patterned papers that I used are from Cosmo Cricket's The Boyfriend mini deck.



Not much more to share with ya today since the card is so straight forward. I'll be back tomorrow with a card to share from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps and Sunday I'm taking part in the Clear Dollar Stamps Blog Hop so...I'll see ya then!



Proverbs 30:5 assures us, "Every word of God proves true. He defends all who come to him for protection." There is something satisfying about submitting ourselves to God and being content with His dealing with us. Is there a case you need to discuss with Him today? From: It's No Secret by Rachel Olsen