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.
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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!
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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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Chrissy is Celebrating 80,000 hits

So go and check out her blog and you can sign up for her blog candy. Follow the directions for her blog candy and maybe you could win. Just a heads up though I plan on winning cause I want that Teddy Bear Stamp Set. LOL
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Belli Challenge Guest

Lee I am so sorry I missed putting you on the Belli Challenge list. So everyone please check out Lee's project for the Belli Challenge this week.
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Anniversary Belli Challenge

I made a mini album out of my cake ingredients. I thought for a day as it was difficult to come up with ideas for what my ingredients ended up being. Well at least I thought it was difficult until I got started. Then the fun began.

My Ingredients:

Designer Paper

Chipboard

Buttons

Brads

Ribbon

I started out with a mini chipboard album I purchased at a dollar store. I hated the front of it so this is where the fun began was to change the front of my mini album. I traced around my chipboard front and back and cut out designer paper and glued to the front and back of my album. Inside the front to and inside the back cover to match. I think took a die cut flower and die cut our 3 pieces of cereal box and glued them together to make another piece of chipboard and decorated that with the designer paper that I also used the flower die cut on. Glued them to the chipboard flower and took black ink and inked around the edges to make it stand out from the same designer paper album. Put a two pop dots on the back of it and added it to the front of my album. Added a pink button to that with some hemp tied on the button which I figured would look good for a flower center.

So now that is the designer paper, the button and the chipboard down. All that is left is the brads and ribbon. See much easier than you was thinking huh?

I dug out a Celebration Clear Embellishment and added Rhinestone brads to this and put adhesive on the back and added in the bottom right hand corner.

Lastly I added black and red ribbon on the rings of the book to complete it.

I hope you all like the book. I will be finishing up the pages and will share with you throughout the rest of the week. I am excited to get it done. Thinking I will be putting my daughters graduation samples of pictures we took in this book. We took many of them but picked a few favorites. This could be her little memory book of the fun we had taking the pictures.

Please take some time to check out the other Belli Challenge Girls projects from this Challenge

Chrissy

Ceal

Christi

Joan

Holly

Karen

Danita

Jennifer

Lorie

What will you make with yours? Here is what you need to do to be entered in the CB Challenge this week. It's Anniversary cake week. Go to Chrissy's Blog and read and play along. This was a lot of fun. You know you want to do it so go and check it out. When you find out what your ingredients will be, rush out and make it and then upload it to your blog or SCS and put a note on Chrissy's blog for the challenge so she can see what you created with your Cake Ingredients.

Hope you enjoyed.

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