Ooops Big Mistake on my part.....

Oh My Goodness, I made a big mistake, I put the wrong blog for my winnings. I am so sorry Viv. The blog I won the Peachy Keen Stamps from was Viv's blog http://craftinghaven.blogspot.com/ please go and check her out, she does the most beautiful work. She ended up sending me two sets of stamps, what a sweetheart she is. Please go and visit her blog and give some love. Viv, sorry about the mistake on blogs names, just wasn't thinking I guess.
We are getting snow in MN right now, suppose to have a big load drop on us over the next few days. Hoping it misses us for the most part and we don't get as much as expected. Although we do need the moisture and the insulating it does to our homes in the winter.
Hope you all are having a wonderful February so far.
Angel hugs
Debby

Winner, Winner, chicken dinner & Update on me

I won some wonderful blog candy around New Years at http://bingecrafter.blogspot.com, you really need to go over and check out her blog, such wonderful projects she does. I won some Peachy Keen Stamps from her blog and they are so cute. She is a wonderful lady so be sure to stop over and give her some love.
Now for the update, I have my Mom back living with me and we will be working on some projects on her good days. So happy she is back with me, I missed having her around and our little talks. I have learned a great deal about my childhood and extended family. Love hearing the stories. Now I have had a bout with my diabetes, it had went over 500 and I got so sick with it. So right now I am still on pills and doing a carb diet so hoping that works or I end up on insulin shots which is not something I care to do. Otherwise I am doing good. Enjoying my time with my Mom and my family.
Will be sharing soon I promise, so hang in there.
angel hugs
Debby

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

To all my blogger friends who have stuck it out through my time caring for my parents, I thank you. I will be soon starting up my blog again and hoping I can stay active. I appreciate the ones of you who stuck it out with me. Your good friends to stick with me through this.
Just wanted to wish you all a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! See you soon in the new year, working on projects to share, might not all be stamping related might be Cricut to as I have really gotten involved in my Cricut.
Angel hugs
Debby

Creating from the Heart is givig a Give Away!

And what a give away it is to, you could get the Martha Stewart All Around Punch set and$100 gift card for Michael's. Yes you heard me right! Go check out her blog and see what you need to do to win.

Cricut Craft Room & Blog Hop

Cricut is working on a room for us to create in. You will hook your Cricut up to your computer and with Cricut Craft Room you can design and create plus weld all kinds of things in this. I am really looking forward to this as I want to be able to weld my images and words together so I can make cards and scrapbook pages. Right now I have nothing to be able to do that. It is like an updated version to Design Studio that Cricut has, only you will be doing it online. I can't wait until the release of the room to go in and play and create. I believe it opens up to everyone the end of April or May. I will let you know when it opens up.

In the meantime here is a card I did for a friend for his birthday. I love how it turned out.

This didn't turn out very clear for some reason but it is great IRL. Our friend is really into deer hunting and each year he gets a deer I make him a card. He has kept every card, but this one I am real proud of the way it turned out. On the outside it says "Off To" and on the inside it says "The Woods" I shaded the words and also did a brown dashed line all around the outside edge of the words. The deer plate behind the deer head is also stitched. I shaded all images with choc. chip ink from SU. You can tell I have not uploaded anything in awhile as this should of been together but you get the idea. I used Cricut Animal Kingdom in this card.

Thanks for stopping by. Be sure and check out the other Blog Hop creations, you will love seeing all the fun creations. You can start here at Karin's Blog.

Blog Candy

Go check out Laura's blog for some blog candy. Nice stuff! While there check out her blog she has some really nice projects she has done.
Sorry it has been so long since posting. Still caring for my Mom and don't get a lot of time. Also been working on pages of my Dad for an album for Mom. Doing those with the Cricut, if your interested I can post some of them when finished. Just let me know.
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Let's Go Sledding........

I found a fun snowman on a round sled on France's blog and fell in love. So had to give him a try. I am making some as ornaments and then am going to make some for some homemade cookbook pages I am doing for my 3 kids. I am thinking homemade Hot Chocolate Recipe and this on the page. These are so much fun to make and go pretty quickly.

I then got to thinking if we can do a snowman on a sled why can't we do kids on the sled to! So I put my cobwebs to work as my brain is just fried anymore, you know to much to do, not enough hours in a day type of thing. So I came up with this little guy and will also be doing more ornaments and page elements with the kids. I am also going to be making a little girl one and will share that one later on. So what do you think??

And beings this was not my idea and I don't have the right to give the recipe out for the snowman I will not be adding that info. Sorry but you can go to France's blog and see what she did. Even though I did change mine from hers a little bit. She used different punches than I did.

Wishing you all the Happiest of Holidays!

angel hugs

Debby

More Blog Candy

Going Buggy is having the most awesome blogcandy! She is giving away a full set of Promarkers!!! Can you believe it, of course I had to give this a try myself. Check it out!

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Blog Candy Giveaway

Check out Barbara's blog she is giving away awesome blog candy.

I will be hopefully posting soon. Haven't been able to do much crafting.

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Digital Delights Giveaway

Wow, Digital Delights is having a giveaway for hitting over 500 followers and 140,000 hits in the past year. Go check it out, they are giving away Nursery Rhyme Cricut Cartridge and the matching digital stamps.
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Debby

Enter LateNightStampers Game by collecting clues

Thanks for visiting my blog and for collecting clues, you could win $400 worth of Stampin' Up products by finding 20 clues and sending those clues to SherrillGraff at istmpnv@aol.com. She is always so generous.

Here is my clue:

One of my favorite stamp sets in the new catty is: The Nicest Things on page 71. This is such a cute set and would work for many things. So check out LNS blogs and find 20 clues and send those clues to Sherrill Graff at istmpnv@aol.com. Good luck to you all. And thanks for playing.

http://inkabelladesigns.blogspot.com/

http://latenightstamper1.blogspot.com/

http://www.ilinacrouse.blogspot.com/

http://parttimepapercraft.blogspot.com/

http://mycraftyworld.blogspot.com/

http://samiesentiments.blogspot.com/

http://artfeltimpressions.blogspot.com/

http://stampingfunn.com/

http://myinkrediblespot.blogspot.com/

http://www.cynthiascreativecuts.blogspot.com/

http://www.cynthiascreativecuts.blogspot.com/

http://www.nwstamper.com/

http://kraftingjems.blogspot.com/

http://yourhiredscrapbooksupplies.blogspot.com/

http://latenitestampinwithsherill.blogspot.com/

http://latenightstamper-stampandscrap.blogspot.com/

angel hugs

Debby

Tornado

This tornado is about 20 minutes from me. It hit really hard. The video's was taken from just outside of Wadena. It was the Storm Chasers from the Discovery Channel that was video'ing this. There is a lot of video's on Facebook if you type in Wadena, MN, you can also find information on youtube.

Minnesota wedge tornado intercept!!! June 17, 2010

MIA

Boy I guess I have been gone a long time. Let me catch you all up on the happenings here. My Mom moved in with us in April of last year as she had two bad strokes and my Dad could no longer care for her even though I went daily to help. So Mom has been with me for almost a year now towards the end of this month. Dad got dementia and was no longer able to live alone so I moved him over here in the beginning of October. Things got worse for Dad and his dementia, he was having horrible hallucinations. In January we had to put him in to a treatment that they could figure out what was causing the hallucinations, while there less than a week he got pneumonia and was taken to ER, which they gave him meds and sent him back. That following week we had a meeting to go and get Dad as they had figured out what was causing the hallucinations, so he could come back home with me and not have such bad things he was seeing. That day before the meeting the doctor called and said he was taken back to ER he wasn't doing good. A few hours later my Dad passed away from the pneumonia. We are all having a terrible time with this as Dad was doing so good except for the hallucinations, so it came as quiet a shock to us. Mom is having a really hard time with this as they was happily married for over 61 years. Dads passing on January 18th has been very difficult on her. Then two weeks later my uncle passed away with the same as Dad, pneumonia. So as you can see it has been a very trying time for all here. I also lost a SIL in December they found her dead in her bed in Florida. Also very shocking and she was only 50.
So along with all of this and trying to raise my family and keep house, I haven't had much time to play so my blog has went down hill. Things are starting to slow up although we have to go through Mom and Dad things and get a bunch settled yet this summer. I do plan on coming back and sharing on my blog. So if you all can hang around that long I will be back. Thanks for sticking with me and all your nice comments I have gotten during the time my blog was active. You all made me feel so good.
So take care and I hope to be back soon.
Angel hugs
Debby

Do you own a Cricut?

Well if so you are going to love this blog site. Megan is having a Celebration you all need to check out at Above Rubies Studio. She will be giving awesome prizes out the end of the month for cartridges and more. Today was her second day of it so go on over and check it out for your chance to win some of the exciting prizes.
She has also gone through a lot of work doing a guide for different papers on what settings to put your machine to. Even our SU paper. The guide is free so head on over and download your guide today!
Angel hugs
Debby

Priscillastyles Blog Candy

Wow what a blog candy give away this is!! You have to check it out, you won't be disappointed you did.
Priscilla's Blog Candy

Kristen is Celebrating 10,000 hits

More blog candy on Kristen's Blog she is celebrating hitting the 10,000 mark with some fabulous blog candy. Check it out.
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Sweet Blog Candy.............

Who would like a gift certificate in the amount of $50 to Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps? Well go to Courtney's blog and follow the rules to be entered. Of course I plan on winning this one. hee hee
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His Eye is on the Sparrow--Belli Challenge #57

This is one of the new sets from Sweet N Sassy you really need to check out these fantastic stamp sets. This one is called "His Eye is on the Sparrow" created by my friend Chris Dickinson you can find her blog here she is a Design Team member of Sweet N Sassy Stamps. Isn't this just the most beautiful set? I have some bragging rights coming to. Last Friday they had a blog and new release party and I won this set. WooHoo! Love it! New releases are now available for sale so go shopping.
We also have a new blog so you can see all the talent of the Belli Challenge Teams projects. You can check out the blog here the stamp site name is Creative Belli Blog. Go check it out.
Ok so what I used for this was:
His Eye is on the Sparrow Stamp Set
3 blue Rhinestone Bling
Birds & Swirls Embossing Folder, I sanded the card stock when done and it showed off real nice but does not show real well in the scan.
Black, Whisper White and Ballet Blue card stock
Dimensionals
Chalks
For some reason the chalk is showing outside the images to believe me on the real card it is not. I erased with a chalk eraser. Not sure why it is showing on the scan.
Hope you enjoyed the project today and go check out the Creative Belli Blog site listed above to view the other Belli Challenge Members work.
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Belli Challenge 53--Hearts

These weeks Belli Challenge was fun. I chose a sketch I liked and ran with it. I dug out some old retired stamps as I have non that are current with hearts or for Valentine's. I love this image as it can be used for Anniversary, Valentine's or a Birthday. So as you can see this weeks challenge is for Valentine's or Hearts. I chose the hearts.
Supplies used:
Sweet Songbirds and Friendship Blooms Stamp sets (SU)
Real Red, Basic Black, Whisper White Card Stock
Vellum Sentiment
Versamark, Whisper White and Basic Black Ink
Colored Pencils
Dotted Ribbon Black with White Dots
Adhesive
Crop-a-dile for punching holes for the ribbon.
Check out the other Belli Challenge girls for what they come up with this week.
Chrissy
Danita
Karen
Joan
Jennifer
Lorie
Holly
Ceal
Lee
Courtney
Guest Designer this week is Jessica
I think I got everyone this week. Hope you enjoy and join in on the Belli Challenge.
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