Some Happy News

Good afternoon! I have been trying to blog about my exciting new but blogger has been done. Here goes I won the Bella Blvd Scrappy Mom Contest!!!! I'm so excited and over joyed! This just made my week! Thank you Bella Blvd!
Here is the layout:




And also wanted to remind you all to please come join us next week over at Inspired 2Scrap for our Walking on Sunshine Crop. It will lots of fun and there are some great prizes too!!

Inspired 2 Scrap

Happy Friday! Today I wanted to share some news with you all. I was asked to be on the Inspired 2 Scrap Design Team! Super excited to be working with Stacey (the owner) again. I was a GDT back in oct. 2010. She puts together some really great kits every other month. This month I got work with "A Bit of Sunshine" the May/June kit. The colors are so fun and verstile. This kit is great for scrapping those Easter layouts or bday picture or summer fun or ok you get the point it is great for scrapping anytime of the month.

Here are my layouts so far:




Please stop by I2S for some fun challenges!

His day for me

Publish his glorious deeds among the nations. Tell everyone about the amazing things he does. ~ 1 Chronicles 16:24

I opened my Klove encouraging word of the day and with the day I had it made me smile.
Here is my (His) day:

So I have to work today, now some might not know I have "little" job delievering mail. I only work 2 days a month so in my opinon I'm really a stay at home mom. But today is the one day I have work. So I want to be out the door by 7:30am to get the kids to all the place I need to take. I pick up Hannah and realize "great she is pooped clear through her outfit" and now it is on me. So I change her then myself. Ok 7:40am not bad, we all get to the car, an old subaru that is great on gas and great for delivering mail and everyone gets buckled in and the car won't start grrr. Here is where I need to tell you that my hubby drives this every day to work. So why does God chose this to happen to me? I'm sure it was for a reason ;) So I call my hubby's pap who lives by us and he comes to give us a jump. The way the car acted I really thought it was more then just a dead battery; but I'm a girl what do I know. While we are waiting we pray (we pray every morning together not just when bad things happen). He arrives to jump my car and it starts yeah! So I start my drop offs. First to my sisters to drop off Hannah and Noah and as I was leaving there my car starts sputtering. I get it going but call my hubby at work all upset. He's no help because he is an hr way. So I go to my next stop to drop Faith off at her cousins to get on the bus and again when I try to go my car acts up. So I finally get on my way to my next stop which is my church parking lot where Ty's prek bus comes. So I drop him off and one of the other mother's is still there and I said "wait I'm going to shut my car off and see if I can restart" (she has jumper cables because her car always needs jumped (another story)). So I shut it off and it would not start so she jumped me and we go it started again. At this point the pastor(from my old church) came out and he said do you need help and I said "yes". Let make note here that there are some mornings when there is no one at church and this morning there happened to be 3 pastors! They were having a bible study and I know God sent them to me ;) They worked on my car trying to figure out the problem and we determined it was the battery or the altinater(sp?). My car actually came to a point where it would not start at all. My "old" pastor offered to take me home. So I walked over to the post office where I was to be working and helped case the mail (it's the least I could do). I walked into work sobbing and my boss doesn't know how to deal with that so he stayed away. Then when there meeting was over he came and picked me up and took me to my fil where I borrowed his car. Another thing I want to point out is; I called my insurance co to see if I had towing and I do but not on the subaru. Go figure! I was laughing about it and the girl said "you sound ok with it" and I said "what can I do being mad isn't going to get me no where". So I went and picked up the kids and now I'm home and just felt like this day was His day and wanted to share it. You shouldn't plan your days; let God plan them for you (He will anyway) ;)

Thank you God for watching over me today and keeping couraged even the storms.

You

I made this layout using the April Sweet Peach kit and also a sketch over at Citrus Tree Studio. I love the film strip look and loved using the whole Studio Calico rubons on one layout. I also made the scalloped pleats.


Here is the rubons.

Here is a close up of the Jillibean flower and pleats.

Here is a close up of the flowers and buttons.

Have a great day!

Doodle time

Good Morning! I wanted to share a layout I did using the April Sweet Kit over at Sweet Peach. I have never doodled on a layout and wanted to try it and I was really happy with the results. So I posted a challenge over at Sweet Peach's blog to doodle on your layout. Hope you'll give it a try. If you do link your layout over there to be entered to win a $10 GC.






I hope everyone has a great Easter weekend and remember why we have Easter ;)

Painted Jars

Today I want to show you how to "paint" the inside of a jar. It is really fun. You don't have to use a jar you can use a vase or any glass container. Here is mine using the April Sweet Kit from Sweet Peach.


Here are a close up of the flowers I made to put in the jar. I used craft sticks and wrapped green cardstock around them. Then I tied ribbon to them and made lollipop flowers to go on top.


First grab you glass item ( I used a mason jar) and a bottle of paint. You don’t need to use your expensive paint just a cheap bottle from Walmart will do.


Next you will dump about half the bottle of paint in.


Then you shake it all around till the whole inside is covered in paint. (Sorry not picture of shaking it) Then you dump it upside down on a paper towel or wax sheet and move it about every 5 min. This gets the extra paint out and moves the paint to the top. Shake whenever needed to fill in spots. Also if your thrify you can scrap up the extra paint in put back in the bottle. (I did ;))


YOU NEED TO LET THIS DRY A WHOLE DAY!! I didn’t and kept getting finger marks. It didn’t help my curious son decided to put his hand in too. LOL

Then you can decorate the outside of leave it plain. Here is my outside:


Have fun and would love to see what you create. Stop by Sweet Peach's blog to see all the fun challenges.

Freehand Scraps

Happy Monday! I'm so exctied to be the Guest Desinger over at Freehand Scraps. The owner Elaine, puts some of the best embellishments in her kits. They are fun and not always ordinary which is what I like about them. Another thing I loved about this kit is love colors! I really love "primary" colors!

Here is a layout I did using the "lucky" tag that came in the kit.


Here is another layout I did using a film srtipe look. I really love the Sassafras Lass Foldies. The are so easy!



This layout is Noah at the age of 2. I love the denim ribbon that is included in this kit and the Jillibean congurrated shapes.


This is a card I made using the corkboard heart and a gluber. I have a tutorial on their blog about this flower. Check it out.


And lastly, here is a cute charm braclett I made for my daughter. I used the wooden spools and the little charms that are4 included in the kit.

See what I mean, I really fun kit!