I'm back!!!!

Hello again! It feels like I have not been able to post forever, but now I can get a few days in before I am off for a few more days. It will be nice when my parents get home, I don't mind watching the dog or the house....I think I miss them more than I mind helping them out. I am happy they will be home in less than a week, on my birthday actually, but I probably won't see them until Wednesday evening :(

Enough about that, now onto the page....this is based off the same sketch I made my first DT project with. Pam did a great job on the sketch and I really like how the page turned out, now if only I could get ALL those old pictures onto pages that quickly!!! My girls were so cute in 2001, of course, they still are! Everything on this page is from Eyelets Etc. starting with the 12x12 background paper, layering papers, stickers and of course eyelets.

Thanks for checking in today and saying Hi!

An award!

Big Thanks to Sally from CraftySally for this award. I so appreciate it and will enjoy getting to pass it on to some of my(other)favorite ladies in turn :)
The Rules of this award are:

1. Only 5 people allowed.

2. 4 have to be dedicated followers of your blog

3. one has to be someone new or recently new to your blog and live in another part of the world.

4. you must link back to whoever gave you the award.

Quite simply really it is a way of saying thank you to those who take time out for wonderful comments to boost your day.

So I like to send this award to...
Pam - Paper Askew Studio
Ginger - 2bjazzdpics2
Jen - Jens Place In Space
Jen B. - Learn.Create.Inspire
Chloe - Chole-Jill Designs

I might not be the only one who gives these girls some love with this award, but I wanted them to know how much I appreciate their sweet comments :)

Might be back later with my page and maybe some other crafty goodness tomorrow!!!

Eye-Lets Etc. Design Team Card

Sorry I have been absent for a few days, but I do have something posted on the ELE blog...my first DT project!!! I have not been home all week as we are dog sitting for my parents who are working on their retirement house in PA. Until I get my camera to download to my laptop, I won't have much to show you :( At least you can go and check out this post to see what I made for my hubby for our anniversary. I really love the way it turned out and almost everything was from Eye-Lets Etc. except for the ribbon and the little bit of ink I used to sponge the edges. The words on the card are some clear stickers that came in my kit along with the paper and the star eyelets. I also have a layout I did of a trip to the zoo but I need to get the camera working with the laptop to show you that. I just LOVE how it turned out!!!(I think I already said that!) Check out the blog today to see what we all did with our first sketch and tomorrow Pam will post it for everyone else to play along with!

Thanks for looking and feel free to let me know what you think of my first DT project!!!

PTI and ELE card

I have to say that I LOVE the way this card turned out! I actually stamped the PTI images months ago and just had it sitting in my scrap pile and just the other day put it together with the snowflake eyelets from Eye-Lets Etc. These are my very favorite eyelets (so far) and I think they compliment the snowflake serenade stamps very well. The going gray, real red and sahara sand are some of my favorite colors to work with...I just love this card.

Hope you all had a wonderful week, mine did get better as the week went on. Hubby is going in for a consultation to schedule the surgery early next week, so now I have that to look forward to. Have a wonderful weekend and thanks for letting me know you enjoy what I have to share!

What a LONG night!!!

Sorry, nothing to post today except to tell you about my wonderfully exciting night! We had dinner, which was SO good! They spoiled us so much with some champagne and too many desserts (which we took home almost all of) and a wonderful steak dinner....yummy! On our way home hubby started to have terrible stomach pains that would not go away and shortly after we got home he started to get sick from the pain. So after about 2 hours of this (some of that was waiting to hear back from the nurse), I could not handle much more and took him to the ER where we stayed until 3am! The Doctor we saw did an ultrasound and believes hubby has gallstones (which we saw at least 4 of on the ultrasound) and should have his gallbladder removed. So, today we have been trying to catch up on the much needed sleep and waiting to hear what our Dr. wants us to do, we assume another ultrasound or maybe an mri or something like that is in order and then who knows!

Thanks for the sweet comments for my DD and her card, she really loved reading them!!!

Happy Anniversary Chris

Today is my 12 year anniversary and this is the card my youngest made for my hubby and I. I think it is a beautiful card and it is so very special because I saw how much she enjoyed making it! She asked as she was making it if I would put it up on my blog and of course I had to say yes!!! I did make a card for my hubby, but I can't put it up yet :)

Hope you are enjoying your Sunday, we are getting ready to go to dinner at the Capital Grille in LoDo.

2 Sketches 4 You

Here is my card (even a day earlier than usual) for Laura's great sketch! I am having so much fun using up some of my scraps :) These are not normal colors for me to put together, but in the end it worked out great!

I used cardstock and chipboard flowers from SU!, eyelets and sticker from Eye-Let's Etc, misc. ribbon and my souffle pens in white and purple on and around the flower.

Thanks for checking in today, I am trying to work on things to post here while I work on my DT stuff for ELE. Jen H. and I get to come up with the first challenge, so make sure you look for it on the ELE site the middle of August! There are also a few other things to look for starting August 1st, so keep checking in here and at the ELE blog.