Floral Thinking of You

Coffee of the Day - Creme Brulee

Happy Saturday to everyone! I hope you are enjoying your weekend so far! it's very quiet here.... all of the guys are off at work. Just the dogs and I hanging out, watching the baby robins in their nest on the front door. it amazes me at how fast they grow! Probably won't be much longer before Momma Robin will be giving them their first flying lessons. that will be quite the treat to watch! :)

I've had a few complications and setbacks in my cancer battle. haven't done any crafting in about a week .... maybe I'll get a dash of energy this weekend and feel like heading into my craft room later on. I sure hope so.... I do miss it, but just don't have the gumption to get in there right now. just so very sore and tired and very very fuzzy headed.

anyway, thought I would share with all of you the card I had submitted for the Paper Crafts Stamping Royalty contest. it was a reject, but on the positive side it has been sent to troops for Operation Write Home. that does make the rejection so much easier to take... in fact it's nice knowing, or hoping anyhow, that this card will make someone's day a bit brighter.

Stamps are from Penny Black 'A Bunch' set, papers are Basic Grey Soleil, buttons are vintage, harlequin die is MFT, and twine is Maya Road. a ticket and some washi tape complete the card. pretty simple, but I do like the way it turned out.

Hope you have a fabulous weekend! Jennifer

Challenges:
Simon Says - flower power
Basic Grey - inspired by a song (In the Garden)
Crafty Calendar - blooms and blossoms
My Sheri Crafts - flower power
One Stop Craft - anything goes
Penny Black Saturday - anything goes
Creative Corner - a song (In the Garden)
Stamping with the Dragon - a flower for Mum
Wags 'n Whiskers - anything goes
A Little Bit Crafty - kraft
Always Something Creative - plants
Country View Crafts - how does your garden grow
Fresh Brewed Designs - flowers
Catch the Bug - bingo: twine, die cut, starts with 'g' (green)
As You Like it - fave 2 color combo: pink, pink, pink, pink, pink...... okay, y'all know how much I love my pinks! grins! but really, I do love the way pinks of all shades go with kraft. I use my crumb cake ink and pretty in pink shades of ink more than any others.... so sad pretty in pink has retired. :(  don't know what I'm gonna do 'cause it's all sold out. boo hooo hooo! (my card here has brighter shades of pink ink)
Delightful - bingo: buttons, add dimension (main image and tag are popped up on foam tape), pattern paper
Digi Stamps 4 Joy - spring has sprung
Nutkrafters - kraft
Whimsy Inspiration - anything goes

A Week for Crossing Fingers

Coffee of the Day - Coconut Marshmallow

Hello everyone! I hope you are having a fabulous week so far! only one more sleep and then it's time for the weekend to semi-officially begin! :)

I just 5 minutes ago hit the 'send' button on the email for my big May Arts Spring Challenge project submission.... yikes! what a nervous nelly I am right now, as well as the entire time I was typing up that message. All projects will be posted over on the May Arts blog on Monday, April 15, so you will be able to see them all there. I have to tell you, some of the most amazing, talented, crafters are part of this round, so I don't expect to be chosen as a winner. but good golly gosh, am I thrilled as ever to have been selected as one of the contestants! All of you will have several days to vote, at least that is my understanding. so I do hope you will pop by their blog to see all of the entries and support everyone who worked so very hard! :)

I also sent off at the beginning of this week, one little card for the Paper Crafts Stamping Royalty contest. I haven't actually stamped a complete card in a while, so that was fun to do! I had Dave give the envelope a big kiss, (well not THAT big! grins!) for good luck before we took it off to the post office.

then there is the ever fun medical testing that began yesterday. ick. as usual, they had a hard time drawing blood on me. they laugh at the hospital that now when they see my name they call down to the actual lab to have one of the specialists come do the actual taking of the blood because it is so hard to draw. sad but true. lovely side effect of chemo that you don't find out about until after the fact. I could tell you horror stories of having 4 and 5 and more needles sticking out of my arm at once while they try to find a vein, but then it's not Halloween just yet...... ha! again, sad but true. more visits tomorrow. but then again, as I mentioned before, after that is WEEKEND! hooray!

just gotta focus on the happy happy.
next week is blog candy! yippee skippee!

love to all of you!

I want a cute Reindeer Hat.....

Coffee of the Day - Maple Pecan

Happy happy Saturday! guess what? we are supposed to have SNOW today!!!! woooo hooooo! not only do I have my fam home for the weekend (well, they are out at Camp working a big youth retreat until tomorrow, but they are HERE in the area!!), but snow is coming! yeeehaw! I am so excited! :) I know many of you don't share my enthusiasm for the white stuff, but I really do love the snow. so just send all of yours my way, and we will all be happy!

also, everyone loved their Halloween candy treat boxes that have posted. Mick, as you know, received his last week and his candy is completely gone. I told him that I would load him up on more before he and his roomie return to school tomorrow. but even the guys took the time to look the boxes over before diving into the candy. they loved the little mummies best, though. we are fans of the undead for some whacked out reason! guess that explains why Zombieland is one of our all-time fave movies ever!


anyhow, I want to show you my card for today. I had entered it into the WCMD contest over at Paper Crafts mag, but it didn't win. the plus side is that it will be sent to a soldier stationed overseas to send back home for the holidays, so someone will hopefully enjoy it. I liked it though! :) and I'm very happy for the people who did win! such talent!

Papers are Basic Grey Figgy Pudding, except for paper pieced reindeer hat, which is Echo Park. cutie pie image is A Day for Daisies. I would love to have a hat like this, but it might look a bit funny on an old lady like me..... oh well. buttons are vintage, as is the lace. rub-on senti is SU!. added a bit of faux stitching and polka dots with my white gel pen.

Bah Humbug - die cuts
Card Makin' Mamas - die cuts
Raise the Bar - sew what
Crimbo Crackers - anything goes Christmas
MelJen's - Christmas
ABC Christmas - vintage
Critter Sketch - 3 pattern papers
Christmas Inspirations - die cuts
Little Claire - Christmas

Who Loves you?

Coffee of the Day - Pumpkin Spice

Yesterday was a neat day. You never know what a day will bring when you wake up.

It began with David and I lying in bed talking about me losing my hair. We discovered 2 days ago that my hair is starting to fall out from my illnesses and the medications I am on. So I was talking to David about it yesterday morning as we were waking up. He asked me what kind of tattoo I was going to get when I went bald. Without hesitating I said a great big Starbucks logo. The look on his face was priceless. I giggled.... a LOT! Then we started talking about getting coffee stickers from all over the world to put on my head, kind of like passport stamps. What a funny visual. So that is how my day began.

Then I began to do my usual email check and blurffing. Boy was I surprised when I discovered that Sweet 'n Sassy stamps was not only doing a Digi Day over at SNR, but they asked me to be a Guest Designer for the month of January!! how cool is that?! yep, I shouted my response, but I don't think they heard me, so I emailed back that of course I would love to!!! So I continued along with my blog checks and saw that I was mentioned on the PaperCrafts mag blog for my contribution to the Festival of Trees auction. Wow! another cool-io thing!!! So see, you just never know how your day will turn out.......... but of course when I told the boys about it all their responses were...... " oh , whatever..... what is for dinnner?"


so my card for the Sweet 'n Sassy digi Day challenge~

the challenge was to use hearts to show your love. I don't have a SNS image with hearts on it so I improvised a bit. used some Comsmo Cricket Early Bird paper, a Maya Road felt branch, flower rhinestone, grosgrain ribbon, punched heart, and some buttons to complete this cute owl digi. I typed my sentiment above the digi before printing.

Got to race off for some errands, but everyone have a great day! :)

Button Bugs are invading! :)

Coffee of the Day - Almond Roca

Welcome to the new release blog hop for Angel's Landing!!! Once again I have been blessed to be asked by Judi to be a part of this fabby hop! I am so excited!!! :) Two new sets of digi images are being released this month - Polar Bear Cubs and Button Bugs.

If you have arrived here from *Cheryl's fabby blog*, you are cruising right along. If at any point you get off track during the hop, just head back over to *Judi's blog* and she will get you fixed right up.

Want to give you a bit of background on my projects for today. I am using images from the cute set, Button Bugs. I received an email a few weeks ago from Cath, the editor over at PaperCrafts Magazine. They are creating a Christmas tree to donate to the Festival of Trees, which benefits the Primary Children's Medical Center in Utah. In addition to the Christmas tree, some of the crafters who have contributed to the magazine have been asked to create cards which will be auctioned to also raise money for the hospital. I decided to use these wonderful images from Judi and Angel's Landing for my gift set. In addition to the cards, I have made a card storage box. I hope that the recipient enjoys it as much as I enjoyed making it! :)

The items were all created with the beautiful Prima papers and flowers. The large harlequin paper is actually a glitter paper - oh so fabby-licious! The adorable little bugs were painted with shimmerz glitter paints. Each 'trail' was highlighted with my spica glitter pen. Various trims and buttons have also been added. The letters on the box are also by Prima. They are covered in the most delightful chunky glitter! super fun!

Your next stop on this marvy tour is *Cindy's amazing blog*, so be sure to hop hop hop on over to see what wonderful things she has created! You may also join in the fun chats going on over at PCP and SNR all day long!

Thanks for stopping by! :)

It's a Coolie-O Day!

Just a quickie post ~
I received an email this morning from a company called the Janlynn Corporation. They had seen my blog and want to send me 5 free stamps! I get to play to my heart's content with these neat stamps and then feature the projects on my blog. I am thrilled to bits! and the stamps I chose have already shipped out today!!!! check out the website: www.janlynn.com. You will probably recognize many of the stamps that you see. I know that I already own several myself. I can't wait for my new rubbah to arrive!!!!! gotta love it! and what an honor!

also ~ stopped by JoAnn's today for my weekly visit! ;) Had a chance to visit with the Education Co-ordinator, Rose, and she is awesome! actually everyone at my local store is just da bomb, baby! I love going in there!!!! Anyhoooooo..... I spent a long time chatting with her and going over my PaperCrafts entry. She is going over the top in featuring my card in the store! It is really neat to see someone that excited to feature my work. She is going to create a collage of the page from the magazine and mat it. Then she will display it on several boards in the store. WOW! I am really very underserving of all this. it's just little ol' me......

and all of that brings me to this ~
God is good, every day. Every day, God is good. His blessings are abundant and continuously amaze me. Life is not always easy, but He makes it all worthwhile. Thank you for being a part of this journey with me!
Love ya!
Jennifer

Always Take A Friend to your latest issue of Paper Crafts Magazine!!!!

Coffee of the Day - Hazelnut

I screamed in JoAnn's yesterday. Okay, maybe it was really more like a yelp. But imagine my exitement, shock, joy, all out thrill when I happened to see the new issue of Paper Crafts magazine on display while I was standing in the loooonnnngggg check out line. I quickly glanced through the pages, and yep, there it is, my card, published for all the world to see. Right there on page 66 for those interested viewers! ;) That is when the famous scream/yelp/sound heard 'round the world took place. So I raced over to the service counter (after calling David and beaming on the phone to him that yes, it actually made it into the magazine after all & he kindly told me to buy a copy!! GRINS!) where several of the employees have been almost as anxious for this issue to arrive as me! I was directed to the Education Supervisor where they are putting my picture up on the bulletin board and want me to come back in next week to chat. How freakin' cool is THAT?!?!?!? I was flyin' on cloud 9 on that one all day long! So of course I had to call a friend and tell her (for almost an hour! tee hee hee!) and then pass it along to several others.

But you know what the best part of it all is? It's that my husband and most of all my 3 teenage sons are just as excited about this as I am. Am I blessed OR WHAT?!?! Isn't that just the coolest?! They were telling their friends about it yesterday, too. Okay, so enough about that. I'm not all that special and I am sure this is a once in a lifetime thing, but that is okay by me. Knowing that my family loves and supports me - now that will carry me along for the rest of my life! :D

Have a great, most awesome weekend! Love to you all!

Jennifer

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Enjoy Halloween Tag
Designer: Alisa Bangerter

~ if you are interested in the directions for the tag and/or the recipe for the yummy Garlic Cheese Biscuits, please post here and I will send them to you!