I have been tagged-4 answers

Dawn allowed all her followers to play and I am a huge sucker for things like this, I find them so interesting so OF COURSE I was going to play!

4 shows that I watch:
NCIS, NCIS:LA, SVU, and Desperate Housewives

4 things I'm passionate about:
family, this wonderful country, my friends, and crafting

4 words/phrases I use alot:
Bless their/your heart
Are you SERIOUS?
WHAT are you doing? (said to C mostly!)
Hey stinkpot (again to Caitlyn)

4 things I have learned from the past:
Life is never what we expect that is why it is so fun.
I am too critical of myself.
Speak my mind with tact
Time with family is precious and should be treasured.

4 things you are looking forward to:
Watching C grow and learn every single day
My 30th birthday this year
Seeing my parents/brother again
Possibly going on my first ever and C's first ever DISNEY WORLD trip

4 things I did yesterday:
shopped, tried not to be blown away with the wind, cleaned, and went to sleep early

4 things I love about Winter:
Warm fuzzy blankets that hubby got me
ability to wear sweats almost 24/7 (so comfy, and they are the straight leg ones not the one with elastic on the bottom)
the pretty fresh snow, and building snowmen with C
forcing me to take time off and relax and enjoy things

4 Places I would like to visit:
Australia
Iceland
Disney World
England

Now to pass this on to 4 people:
Everyone I would LOVE if you did this, I would LOVE to learn more about you. If you do it please link me!!!!

Merry Christmas and our Gingerbread house

I wanted to pop on very quickly and tell you all MERRY CHRISTMAS and Happy Holidays. I hope this weekend finds you happy, safe, full, and alive. We are so blessed in this country so we need to remember that. Please say a quick prayer/thought for all those that are not with family today away serving to protect us. I wanted to share our gingerbread house with you. This was the first one we have made as a family and it just makes me smile. It is SO C right now! Merry Christmas!

Second Design for Cutting Cafe

SCROLL DOWN FOR MY FIRST CREATION!

So today C FINALLY napped so I was able to get this done. I used the All About Valentines set for this layout. I fell in love with the bold TRULY MADLY DEEPLY and decided to color in one and stamp across the others. With MADLY I stamped with brown ink using a text background stamp; with DEEPLY I used a heart background stamp with red ink. I also use the tree from this set and simply colored it in with bic markits. I hope you like it!

My first Cutting Cafe Creation

This is my first try so please be nice but constructive. I needed to make a quick get well card and I LOVED these images from Rain Rain Go away. I made the umbrella have polkadots since I LOVE polka dots. I obviously have a lot to learn but that is OK I love to learn! What do you think?

WOOOHOOO I CAN SHARE!!!!!!!!

I am so super duper uber excited to tell you the secret I have been holding for a few days now (good thing it was not longer I am not too good at holding secrets!) !!!! I am so HONORED to tell you that I was SELECTED TO BE ON THE AMAZING CUTTING CAFE DESIGN TEAM!!! SQUEAL!!! HAPPY DANCE!!! WOOHOOOOOO!!!!!! Oh my gosh I am so excited!!!! I love love love all the things that Regina puts out and I am so happy! I just hope I can do her designs and the other design team sisters justice! I am still pretty new at digi stamps but I am willing to learn and keep trying!! WOOOHOOOO!

12 days of Christmas swap and a special day

Today is our 6th wedding anniversary. We have been through more than "normal" couples our age, or at least I think so. We were separated for the first 18 months or so due to war and training; had to fight tooth and nail to get stationed together after this; endured our time in the army; the hardship of getting and staying pregnant; having Caitlyn; buying our first house; selling our first house; relocating up "north" to start a civilian life; adjusting to said civilian life all while only having one another near and within thousands of miles. I love you J more today than 6 years ago when we stood up in front of our family and a few friends in our simple courthouse ceremony. I love you now, forever, always and to infinity and beyond.

Now I also have some things to share with you. My partner in the swap is moving from one state to another so she already opened her items so I can share them with you! Here you go hope you like them! Since I made almost all the days except day 11 (not pictured) I was able to get her a happy hauntings cricut cart for day one!!!!

Day two: altered candles. The word was white or tree; well my candles are cream but close enough. These are pictures I "borrowed" from her face book of her hubby and DD.

The backside of the candles, I stamped sentiments on them.

Day three: word was ooohh lala: so I made an "I" for her dd's room and included some fancy ribbon;trim.

Day four: You can "call" on me so I did this five page mini for her to put pictures of her DD in but used the word count. I hope she liked it since I loved how it came out!

Day five: Circle I made five circle clear glass magnets for her to use in her room. I also altered and decorated a box that chipboard came in to hold them.

Day 6: Favorite color My partners favorite colors were pink/brown so I made her a little composition book, band aid tin (put Dora band aids in there for her DD; an acrylic post it note holder to do frame, some flowers/bling and a roll of ribbon. The idea jar is for day 12, wrong picture and I also sent her a pocket planner/calendar to alter.

Day 7: water/ice/snow So I made these seven little wooden blocks all covered in Christmas paper, inked up and used my Cricut to make the sentiment. You may have seen these already!

Day 8: If I cant have a MAID I would love....... I made a bath kit (forgot pictures of the inside things) for her to relax.

Day 9: Girly girl This is a dollar tree cork board that I painted black and pink, added ribbon and made the nine pushpin bottle caps! I LOVED how this one turned out!

Day 10: Makes my heart leap She said the only thing that made her heart leap was her hubby's smile and her DD so I made this altered 8X10 (get it!) canvas. I loved how this one turned out too!
Day 12: sounds or memories of Christmas past I started making tags for this one and got frustrated so she has seven handmade tags, a bow holder for her DD, an idea jar and a journal. I hope she enjoyed all the things I made/bought for her. I had a great time doing this Pamela and am loving all the things you have sent me so far! Thank you for being a rocking partner!

Frosted Designs Challenge FAMILY

This week the challenge at the wonderful Frosted Designs was to use the word FAMILY on your layout. Well we all know that I am strange and did not want to do the "typical" family layout so this is what I came up with. Caitlyn is constantly entertaining us. She is so funny and fun to watch. If someone would have told me four years ago that I would LOVE to spend my nights watching her, having tickle fests, chasing her around and generally being silly I would have laughed, but alas here we are.

I hope you join us in the challenge this week! I would love to see your work, link me up!

December Daily 1-13 2010

This is the cover. The first page is an overlay in a mossy green, the cover page is fabric.

December 1: Decorating the tree

December 2: Advent calendars; Dec 3 (needs picture) Mawmaw and Pawpaw came into town.

Dec 4: Nana and Papaw in town; Dec 5 party (will have lots of pics, flips up)

Dec 6: Her birthday

Dec 7: Trees I made

Dec 8: Sulley the elf; Dec 9 : our attempt at making ornaments

Dec 10: letters from all three of us on what Christmas means to us: Dec 11: scanned image of C's letter to Santa

Dec 12: cuddle time; Dec 13 her success and picture with Santa

I need to print off pictures but for the most part I am caught up! YAY!

So sweet card- Scrapbookpal.com

Happy Monday morning. I hope you all had a great weekend and are getting close or already done for Christmas or whatever Holiday you celebrate. Today I am here to share a card I made for Scrapbookpal.com using the awesome GINGERBREAD limited edition cricut cart! I love the images on here, one because they are not too detailed and two because they are so cute and easy to assemble! This is a pocket card that I will use to thank someone for a kindness they show us.

Here is what you will need:
Gingerbread cart
Expression
12X12 mats
ATG with adhesive
chestnut roan ink
Green and red stickles
Kraft card stock
cream card stock
white card stock
three patterned paper of your choice
Martha Stewart scoreboard (or scorer of your choice)
EK success label punch
red pen
ribbon
foam tape
corner rounder

1. Cut Kraft card stock for card base at 4.25 by 11 inches long.
2. Using scorer of your choice score at 1.25 and 5.5 inches to make pocket and front facing flap
3. Decorate flap as you see fit (I used pattern paper and ribbon).
4. Cut second patterned paper to size for front of card, adhere with ATG tape.
5. Adhere flap to front of pocket card with ATG tape, making sure to ink edges if desired.
6. Cut candy piece (both layers) at 1.5 inches in red polka dot and white card stock
7. Adhere together with Zig glue pen, mount on 1.75 inch circle with foam tape.
8. Punch large label with punch out of white card stock, dab on stickles for some bling, hand write sentiment and adhere with foam tape.
9. Ink all edges.
10. Pocket insert is on cream card stock with a 1.5 inch piece of patterned paper on the top, leaving plenty of room to write. The insert measures 3.25 by 5.25.

Super simple and easy. I hope you like it! Did you know that Scrapbookpal.com has FREE SHIPPING on ALL orders (in U.S. ) over 25.00! ? And they are super fast! Make sure to check them out.

Ribbon Ribbon and buttons OH MY!

I have had these done for a while and kept thinking they would fit into one of the design team projects I needed to do but they did not, well they sort of did this week for Frosted Designs but I chose to go with something else.

The trees are from M's they are the cardboard ones since I was too cheap to buy the foam (four bucks a tree vs 1.19 for the big one here.) NOW the ribbon tree and I fought, A LOT but I love how it came out just do NOT put your hand inside as the ribbon is held on there with pearl stick pins since the glittered ribbon I was using would NOT stick! I think I used six or eight whole rolls of ribbon on it, but I did not pay more than a buck for each roll. I LOVE how it came out! I will be packing it up nicely and using it over and over.


Now with the button tree which I must admit I love the best, I painted the chipboard (I think that is what it is) tree with green acrylic paint, then got all my red and green and a few clear buttons out and randomly placed them on there with glue dots. Some are held with pearl pens and then some Sticko Shimmering silver dots (LOVE THESE THINGS NEED TO FIND MORE!) for some added bling. Super simple and easy and I love it! I did use all but two of my red buttons though LOL!


Both of the trees have toppers from the mini tree area at Hobby Lobby ( I think they were a buck a piece).(Put the topper on the button one after pictures!) Not too bad for two very unique pieces huh? I have one more and had intentions of doing it with scrap paper, curled up but it will be a project for next year.

What do you think? They are so much more vibrant in person and blingy!