Color Challenge Tuesday at PCM

   Hey everyone!!!  Today is Tuesday so.. COLOR CHALLENGE TUESDAY over at Paper Crafting Mania
I have quite a bit of GIRL birthday cards this month so what better colors that :  pink, yellow, white!!  

  For anyone who may be interested in a small friendly group of ladies to chat with and help motivate AND get inspired...  feel free to join PCM.  Like i said.. we are a VERY small group, but always looking to add more friends. ;) 

  Well, here is my card. I'm not sure why the yellow sentiment looks so bright.  Don't you just LOVE Peachy Keen faces??  Have fun!!! Happy Crafting!!!

Peachy Keen and The Deleted Emails...

  Well, today was the first day back to school for my kiddos after the holidays and WOW was it hard getting up for me!!!  My lil man usually gets up at the crack of dawn, but, being 6:30am.. no sunlight yet. He was sooo grumpy and didn't want to go. :(   Long story short.. I picked him up at 10:45am and he was in such a GREAT mood. He had a super day and was excited to see me. We got home.. played a bit.. then he took a nap and I went to craft.

  So.. I went to work on a few cards. I am making some cards for a few friends that I have grown to love dearly and as a token of my appreciation for their friendship.. am sending a card and a lil surprise. :)  You never know when you may never talk to or see the people you care about so.. wanted to express my "thankfulness" for their friendship. ;)  I've been making flowers and WOW.. I ROCK!!! ;)  I'm sure I'm just a lil partial. I will post a photo after the receiver gets them. 

  I decided to take a lil break and go visit one of my FAVORITE online stamp stores...  PEACHY KEEN STAMPS. ( Don't you just love them?)  This is the luck I have had thus far this year:

   So, in November I won a gift certificate to Peach Keen Stamps. Yay me right!! Well, trying to keep the PAPER out of landfills and such.. I DIDN'T print the email I received with the code to get the stamps.  ( they give a YEAR to use it... how AWESOME is that) Well.. I go to my email to find ALL my inbox emails are GONE!!! Yes.. EVERYTHING!!! :( I contacted PKS via email and they were kind enough to send another code!!! Thanks sooo much Angelica( and EVERYONE at Peachy Keen Stamps) .. Your customer service has ALWAYS been AWESOME!!! I was really sure I was out of luck!! I am totally THANKFUL!! I have TOTALLY learned a lesson.. I PRINTED the email with the code!! I have also lost EVERY password and log in that was saved in my email. :(  I lost receipts, confirmation emails, EVERYTHING!!! So.. I will print or write EVERYTHING down!!!  I am going back to the OLD SCHOOL way= piles of papers!!!

   Thank You Peachy Keen Stamps ... 

     



 

First project of the year

  Hey everyone!! Welcome back!! I totally HOPE to keep you coming back as I keep up with my blog. So, be ready for some projects as I work HARD to post regularly!!

  Having said that... I did my first project of the New Year last night. We will go visit my husband's grandma today and I wanted to make her something special. I got the YourStory for Christmas and LOVE it!! It is soo easy and when paired with my Cricut... the possibilities are ENDLESS!!!   ( you don't have to use photos, you can cut cardstock and use that to make a book)

   I used the Cuttlebug Swirls folder before I did anything!! As I was printing photos, I pulled out my DEAR friend, GYPSY, and started figuring out my design for the front. I used the Mother's Day 2010 solutions cartridge for the cuts. The ribbon is from My Favorite Things. I bought this ribbon OVER a year ago and am FINALLY using it. I used pop dots on the "grandma" to add extra dimension.

  I hope I have inspired you to take the plunge. ;)  I do LOVE my YourStory and can see me using it OFTEN!!  ( teacher gifts, last minute gifts, etc)

   So, what do you think of it?

Last post of the YEAR!!!

  Well, out with the old and in with the NEW YEAR!!! 

   I certainly hope to do a better job keeping this blog updated. I have several projects and cards and such that I never posted. So.. I'm gonna say AGAIN.. I will try harder to post more regularly.

  Christmas was good. My lil man (3yrs old) LOVED it as well as the other kiddos. We are so blessed to be able to provide for our children.  I have a wonderful  husband who works his tail off so I can stay home!! He is definitely a blessing!!

 Here are a few photos of my family during the holidays. I love them SOOOO much!!!

My Gorgeous Daughter talking to my lil man. He was SOOO excited SANTA came.. LOL

My husband's 2 boys. They had a blast as well.

 


     Buzz Light Year to the rescue!!! Isn't he sooo darn cute? LOL

    Happy New Year everyone!!!

Did you hear the NEWS??

  OMG.. Did you hear the news?? ( no.. not talking about 2 posts in one day silly).. The news about Peachy Keen Stamps?? 
   Ok.. so..you go to Peachy Keen Stamps Blog and follow directions for a chance to win one of the NEW.. NOT released stamp sets. Woo hooo!!!!

   I got my blinkie and also posted on my Facebook.. Have you???  Hurry up..

Goodies For Lil Monsters

  Wow!! It's November already and I am just now getting this up. I made LOTS of goody bags for one of my kids' classes.. Here is a picture of them sitting on my bed full of goodies. :)

 

   ( here is a close up of one of the bags)  I made 40 of them!!! I know I posted one of these a month or so ago, but I JUST finished the last bit of them. :)  I wanted to show a pic of MOST of them. I didn't have the teacher bags done when I took the pic.

I used Peachy Keen Stamps for the faces on the monsters and ghosts..Oh my!! I just LOVE Peachy Keen Stamps!! They add so much character to any project. Hope you all had a good Halloween and I will post some family photos later.

    Hugs.. Tanya