OUCH!!!

Well we ended 2009 with a bang, my oldest daughter Shaina was in a pretty bad car wreck and broke her arm on the afternoon of the 23rd. We are still fighting with getting her a rental car and having the adjuster look at hers. Sheesh what a mess. The other driver claimed 100% of the liability but that doesnt make it any easier. Thankfully Shaina's arm turned out to be ok a week later and didnt have to be recast. It was a very tiny stress fracture. Hopefully we can get her a rental today (tired of her using my car lol) and start looking for a new car for her. As you can see hers is totalled. Hopefully 2010 will be a lot better!!!

12 Pack Of Bud...

Today's challenge was going to be do scrap your favorite beverage. But since I had one faithful participant and she had to put her scrap stuff away to be able to have christmas dinner, I am giving her(and anyone else that has followed) the day off!! Thank you Anna for playing along with me and your prize pack will go out in today's mail. Trust me you won't be dissappointed. I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas!!!!!

11 Wrastling Tickets...

Today's challenge is to do a layout having to do with a sporting event...This could be a pro game you went to , a child's soccer game, flag football with the guys in the back yard...Thanks for playing and have a great Tuesday!

10 O'Copenhagen....

Today's challenge is to do a layout about a bad habit...yours or someone else's. Only two days left after today!!!

9 Years Probation...

Today's challenge is to scrap a funny misfortune, or embarrassing moment, or someone getting caught doing something they shouldn't.

8 Table Dancers.....

Your challenge for this one is to do a layout having to do with a performance. Think band concert, choir, kareoke...etc....

7 Packs of Redman....

I will be posting the next two day's tonight as I found out I have to go out of town.
This challenge is to scrap a layout with santa in it. (Redman) :) Thanks for playing.

6 Cans Of Spam...

Today's challenge is to do a layout about a favorite food..... Mine is my mom's breaded steak.

5 Flannel Shirts...

Sorry for the late post...Today's challenge is to use plaid in your layout, have fun with it!

4 Big Mud Tires.....

Posting today's a little early as I will be caught in a meeting at 9. Today's challenge will be to do a layout with tires in the picture. Can be anything as long as it has tires. Thanks for playing!

3 Shotgun Shells....

Today's challenge is to do a layout using anything having to do with shells....could be a beach picture, hunting (showing your ammo), cooking (manicotti), someone named Shell...think outside the box. Those are just a few suggestions. Thanks for playing!

2 Hunting Dogs.....

Day 2 brings us to 2 hunting dogs...I want you to do a NEW layout about your pet. Remember to post a link here by noon tomorrow to get an entry into the drawing for a amazing prize pack.

And Some Parts To A Mustang GT...

Welcome to day 1 of my Redneck 12 Days Of Christmas Challenge. Today the challenge is to do a NEW layout about your car or a family members car. That's it, easy peasy huh? Remember to post a link to your layout here by Noon (pst) tomorrow to get an entry into the drawing.

Redneck 12 Days Of Christmas Contest!!

One of my favorite times of year is christmas. One of my favorite songs this time of year is the Redneck 12 Days Of Christmas. I love it! It makes me laugh. So in honor of my favorite song I am having a Redneck 12 Days Of Christmas Contest! You can win an amazing prize package. It will be full of amazing products from Making Memories, Rusty Pickle, Fancy Pants, Tombow, etc...
So everyday starting tomorrow at 9am (pst) I will post A Redneck Day Of Christmas and the Object that relates to it for you to scrap. You will have until noon (pst) the next day to do your layout and post a link on that thread. Your name will go into a drawing (once for EACH layout you do, do all 12 and recieve and extra 3 entries!) the winner will be randomly drawn from the entries received. The winner will be posted on the 13th day(the 23rd). It will be up to YOU to check back on the 23rd to see if your the winner. The winner will then email me your address so that I can get your prize pack out to you. You must also be a follower of my blog to participate. So if your not its not too late to sign up.

Shabby chic

Here is my entry for the Let's Get Shabby Challenge they host every month at Let's Get Shabby Go check them out. I love to see what everyone comes up with.

Rest in peace Jack

So today while I was on a trip I got a bit of sad news. My buddy and coworker Jack passed away last night in his sleep. He was 79. We were both hired on at the bus shop the same day and have worked for the last 13 years together. Everything from our daily routes to trips to firecamp. I will truelly miss him. He was complaining at the end of July while we did summer school of being dizzy alot. I suggested he go have it checked out. He did and was diagnosed with a tumor on his brain. After over a month in San Francisco he went to Medford for some rehibilitation and chemo/radiation. He finally got to come home about 2 weeks ago. All was good. But he didnt wake up this morning. At least he is in peace. My prayers to his family in this really tough time. I love you Jack!

It's turning into fall

I can't believe our summer is turning into fall so quickly. It is already into the 30's at night. I havent posted in a couple weeks, with school starting back up I have been busy trying to get my route in order. I think I finally have it where it will work best for now at least. Hope everyone got their kids off for their first day of school without a hitch. It was a little wierd to me this year only having Tanisha. So used to shopping for two etc. But was much nicer on the budget :). I applied for another DT so we will see what happens. They announce the new team tomorrow. Wish me good luck. Well off to hop in the shower hope everyone has a great day!!! Keep smilin'

Let's Get Shabby Challenge #3

I did this for the Let's Get Shabby
CHALLENGE THREE
is all about
COLOUR….
Except it’s ONLY to be dominant in
WHITE or/ and CREAM.
with a HINT of ONE other colour
of your choice.

I chose to use a hint of light purple. I havent done an all white layout before and I am really happy with the results. Thank you for looking.

Back from vacation

So my vacation was amazing. I got to spend the best two weeks of my life with my babydoll Jeff. We had an amazing time. Spent 5 of those days with my girls and alot of it with his kids as well. We went to Frontier City and all the kids got along great! Then we took the girls back to Kansas and all they could say is its so flat lol. It was sad when they had to fly back home. Then we went to Altus, OK where I got to meet his mom and dad. They are great people. I love them! Then off to Oklahoma City to spend some time with his best friend Scott and his wife Jackie. We spend the day at the Elk's pool, what a blast!! Then the last night was spent alone just us two. It was the hardest thing I have ever done was to leave that day. It still chokes me up to think about it. But with any luck he will be here in less than 90 days!!! Then we can spend our lives together!

Some Changes

Just wanted to add a post about some changes that I am doing. I have stepped down from the DT of Pages in Time. There were alot of things I wasn't happy with. Things that should have been handled alot differently. Your welcome to message me privately if you need to know more, otherwise, I am still a member of the site and still love the chat. I will still frequent it and post layouts and such.

WOW!!!

So I am still on vacation and still having an amazing time! My girls left yesterday and it was definately bittersweet. As much fun as we had with them here with us, we still want some much needed alone time. We did have a great time with them, went to the Oklahoma City Memorial and museum (how sad that was), took the all the kids to Frontier City, had a great time there. Went back to the hotel for some swimming and some awesome conversations. Leaving tomorrow for the City again to meet parents and hang with some friends before heading back home. (I know I am not going to want to leave) :(

On vacation

Just checking in while I am on my vacation, I am having an awesome time, Hanging out with the most amazing man in my life. Today the girls get here and we get to go to an amusement park. Cant wait for that! Will write more after I get back!

Cherish **Rusty Pickle**

Here is a layout I did using alot of older Rusty Pickle paper. The branches were made using a techinique from Aphra which you can find Here

Absolutely Wonderful

Here is a layout I did for the
Let's Get Shabby challenge #2. The requirements were gingham and floral. I am really loving their challenges.

Breaking Free!

Here are a couple layouts I made using the new Breaking Free line from MY Mind's Eye! I have to admit I am smitten by their paper and embellishments. I only wish my lss would carry it. I drive 80 miles to the nearest store that carries My Mind's Eye. Needless to say I stock up lol.


I love how this layout turned out. I tried some of the pleated folding on the side, some handmade flowers, border punches, added some bling, lace and a great butterfly transperancy.



On this layout I took full advantage of the double sided paper. I hand cut the scalloped circle, flipped the inside circle to the other side of the paper, added some faux stitching, some bling, some more hand made flowers using the embellishments for the insides of the flowers. I love the cute tag for journaling.

Thank you for looking!

Please join me this weekend for some Christmas fun! It's Christmas in July at Pages in Time! Santa has some presents to give away to some lucky scrappers. Starting Sat. July 18 @ 8 a.m. EST. You will have until Sun. July 19 @ midnight to complete the challenges. There will be 4 challenges and 2 games. A present to be RAK'd for each. No point system, winners will be chosen by a random number generator.
Hope to see you there!!!

We have a winner!!

Congratulations to Natasha Murray, she is the lucky random winner of the blog candy I offered this weekend. Thank you to everyone who stopped by my blog for the SNR Card Universe blog hop.

"Oh Say Can You See 4th of July Blog Hop"

I'm so glad you could join the SNR Card Universe Blog Hop! Thank you for stopping by. If you came from Christine Nay's you are on the right track! If you didn't you may want to hop on over to
SNR Card Universe and start at the beginning.

To register for this awesome red, white, and blue blog candy I will send to one lucky random winner please make sure you leave a comment. This will stay open until Sunday, July 5th at 10PM, CST


And after you do that and
If your on the right track then next on the hop is Wooded views

Let's Get Shabby

Here is my entry for the Let's get shabby challenge over at Let's get shabby. Your theme was inspiration. Well my sister inspires me to be a better person. She is always there when I need to talk. I love her so very much.

Cosmo Cricket

Anyone who knows me knows that Cosmo Cricket is one of my absolute favorite manufactures. My local scrap store didn't carry it, so after bugging them for over a year, they finally called me when they got it in. Makes me a very happy girl! Well now they are looking for a couple people for their new DT so you know I have to try. So here are some of my Cosmo Cricket Layouts to share with you:

And here are some of my other projects to share:

Online Summer Time Crop

Come join myself and everyone at Pages In Time for The Online Summertime Crop of 2009 on Saturday June 27th. I have put together some great challenges and fun games for you to enjoy. The crop will run from 8am to Midnight. With prizes being awarded for the most points accumulated throughout the day. So set that yard work aside for one day and come join us. And while your there don’t forget we have live chat so you can chat with myself and other members of our great DT. And If your not a member of Pages in Time don’t worry signing up is free and only takes a few minutes.

Happy Father's Day

This is my father. He passed away June 14th, 2007. He fought a long and hard battle with lung cancer. He was an amazing man. He was in the Navy, married a beautiful wife, had 3 great kids, was the life of the party, everyone's friend. He was talented with wood, loved working on cars, and spending time with his grandkids. I just wanted to take time to honor him and let him know I am always thinking of him! I love you dad.

So Proud

I did this using lots and lots of Prima stuff. Its my oldest daughter at graduation. I love how happy she looks. She had a tough year but got through it. I am so very proud of her.

Tinkering Ink Papers

I made this for one of my design team layouts for
Pages In Time It is made with the very versatile papers from Tinkering Ink. They are heavy weight and double sided. I have found I love working with them. If you havent made it by Pages in Time to check it out yet, you dont know what your missing. We have monthly mini crops and live chat. Stop by today!

June Kit Of The Month

This month kit is just full of Lovely Rich paper and embellishments and It is jammed pack full of goodies and rich colors,and embellishments. It also comes with a sketch. This kit has the most paper that is from the newest lines out there. No one puts as many pp's in there kit as Pages In Time does and keep the price down. So get over there today and order yours! It sells out quickly!!

Kit contents: Basic Kit $25
Paper 12 sheets of pp
Oh Lovely 3 different sheets all double sided
Large floral Rose Rouge
DCWV-With Black Velvet trim
To Have and to Hold-Kaiser
DieCut- Sweet Roses cream/white pp
Pink Paisley Die Cut-Hip Huggers
Enchanting
Sincerely Yours
Two Ribbons that match the paper
Lace corner cover
Alaphet Letters
Diecut swirl with flower on chipboard (you can paint,ink,glimmer mist it)
Glitter Leaves
Buttons
3 Large Flowers
Medium flowers
Small Flowers
Mini black pearl beads
Stitching template
Die cut flower ( you each will receive a different one but that does match.
small metal key


Add on Kit: Price $12
Prima Flowers (2 pack)
Rub on's From WR Memory Keepers
Quik Quotes brads and Ribbon set
Bling it from Basic Grey
Best Creation pp with glitter

Here are a couple new layouts

Just wanted to share a couple new layouts. Hope everyone is having a great weekend!!

Welcome

I just wanted to share this cute welcome sign I made with the Tinkering Ink papers in my May Design Team kit from Pages In Time If you haven't made it by to check out the site yet please take time to do so. You won't be dissappointed. We have LIVE CHAT! It's so much fun to chat with friends and get to know new ones.

Want to be Guest Design Team Member?

Would you like to be a guest design team member at Pages in Time
Then enter your lo's in our gallery and on the discussion forum and mention you want to be a guest dt member. Must be recent lo's! Please try to stop by the site at least weekly too,stop and post a message here,and to see if you have been choosen. I choose one lo of the week that I will feature as *lo of the week*, and then after 4 choices, you pm me ur fav of the 4 and that person could be the guest design team member for the next month.

You will also be featured in the gallery and on the main post! You will win a kit for being a dt member too for that month!


****GET CREATIVE AND SHOW US WHAT YOU CAN DO!****

Enter as many times as you'd like.

When you post your lo,card,item,mention its for the guest dt member spot.
Make a point to come live chat,its on the bottom right hand side,click on chat button,chat then click on enter!

***You must have a minimum of 10 (lo's,cards,ect) posts in to be eligible.*

Handmade flowers

Just wanted to show you all some handmade flowers I made today while waiting for paint in my laundry room to dry lol. I think I might use these on a lo for a DT I am trying out for. Let me know if you would want the instructions to make these. If there is enough response I will post tutorials for them. So leave me a comment :)

Home 1948 - Tinkering Ink

Here is a layout I did with the awesome Tinkering Ink line from
Pages In Time I have to be honest I had never heard of this company until Karen sent it to me to work with. I love it. The rich blue and cream colors, amazing rub on's and die cut letters were alot of fun. The paper is double sided and a nice heavy weight. I plan on getting more of this line.

Congrats to Vivian!!

Just a quick note of congrats to Vivian Ritter who won the RAK at Pages in Time during our day long NSBD celebration. If you missed it, you definately missed out on a great time. Challenges and prizes were had by all. Make sure to bookmark it for next year. Keep checking back often as we will be hosting crops here and there as well.

May Kit of The Month

Here is May's kit of the month. It is jammed pack full of goodies and fun colors,and embellishments. It also comes with a sketch that you can do that will be perfect for our kit challenge that I will be offering monthly. This kit has the most paper that is from the newest lines out there. No body puts as many pp's in there kit as we do and keep the price down.

Kit contents:
Paper:
Lovey Dovey-Pink Paisley
Tender
Beloved
Spectacular
Full Moon
Lovely
Rugged
Adorable
Eye Popping
Enthaling
Wisteria-wind chimes-Basic Grey
Wisteria-white dynasty- Basic Grey

Alphabet stickers
1 felt die cute art strip from Prima
enchanting rub on's
captivating petal(package of two)
Mini Stamp set (4-piece set) Prima
Brads 3 large and 3 small
Boshers 1large 1 small
2 metal ribbon hooks
journaling note
small tiles
small beads
Sketch

Price $25.00 You can email me fablady101@msn.com and can pay by paypal or you can call the store
(402)420-6933



ADD on Kit:
Paper
Honey Bunch
Stunning die cut pp

Flora doodles-u get the full package of 80 Jeweled Forettes
small arrow beaded
ink pad in black
yard of lace ribbon
2 metal photo corners
Price $7.50

Additonal Add on;
You choose style and how many
Chipboard elements-19 chipboard pieces in package
Fascinating
Captivating
Enchanting
Fetching
Price 5.00each

My Two Cents: Pages in Time packs these kits full of great products at an amazing price! I got my kit last month and have already made a few lo's with it, with lots of product left over to make more. Definately worth the money!!

How exciting...

So I received a message from GabrielleP. on scrapbook.com and she asked me to put my "Find your path" lo on her distressed challenge on Mycreativescrapbook.com so I did. Well I won!!! How exciting is that? I won an awesome set of Prima flower jars. There was some amazing lo's, so I was throughly shocked. Thank you Gabrielle for telling me of the challenge.

Happy National Scrapbooking Day!! Mini challenge

Happy NSBD!! As part of the Pages In Time DT I want to welcome you to my challenge.
In this challenge you will make a layout or a card using handmade flowers. This may be any size layout or card, (may not be digital).
After finishing the challenge you will post it in the Handmade Flower thread at the Pages In Time website. One winner will be randomly chosen from this individual challenge for a RAK donated by myself. You will receive 25 points for finishing this challenge by Monday the 4th at midnight. On Tuesday the 5th all points will be tallied from all the challenges and the winner will receive a gift certificate to Pages In Time store.
Thanks for helping us celebrate National Scrapbook Day!
Here is the RAK for this challenge.

Celebrate NSBD with Me and Pages In Time

Come celebrate National Scrapbooking Day with Pages In Time


Saturday, May 2nd
Karen and the Pages In Time design team invite you to join us for a day of fun challenges, games and chat.

There will be RAK's given away for individual challenges, and one main prize awarded.

All challenges will be posted Sat. May 2nd, but you will have until Mon. May 4th midnight EST to complete them.


Official kick off time is Sat, May 2nd @ 7 a.m.
Hope to see you there!!!!!!!

Meet the Pages in Time Design Team

Here is a list of the new Pages in Time desing team that I gracefully share a position with. Please visit their blogs as well.


Ann Arbogast

Amanda Blevins

Aphra Bolyer

Deb Avery

Irene Tan

Lesley Walker

Melissa Sackman

Nikki Love

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations to Vanessa(Nessa9116) Your the winner of my Birthday RAK. Thank to everyone who signed up and played along. I hope you find some useful information here as I add more and more all the time. Also be watching for something on NSBD coming up saturday!!!!!

The coolest birthday ever!!

I might have to think that this has been the coolest birthday ever...so far of course. I was lucky enough to be chosen for the Pages in Time Design Team. Karen picked 9 out of over 100 entries! How exciting is that?! I can't wait to see what she has in store for us. You should really go visit her site http:// pagesintimestoresite.ning.com/ and check it out. It is so fun there, with the live chat and all. So much great information too. Her online store is just about up and running! Anyways just had to share the great news with everyone!!

The weekend is finally here...

Well it seems like it took forever but its finally here. I can't believe I actually have a full weekend off! What a great weekend ot be off too, it's my birthday monday and I get to spend the weekend with my mom at a crop. We signed up for the Crop for the Cure. I am excited to be helping the Relay for Life this year. Just wanted to remind you all to make sure you sign up for the RAK I am giving away monday in honor of my birthday. Hope you all have a great weekend.

I'm giving away a RAK on my birthday!!

SO monday is my birthday and I want to give to you! It's easy... all you have to do is sign up to be a follower and leave a comment about the best birthday gift you have ever recieved on this thread and I will draw one winner randomly! I will draw the name Monday the 27th at 6pm!!! So sign up today!!

It's Monday!

Well here we are on another monday. It should be a great week. It is supposed to be near 80 all week, I love the sunshine. I am going to a crop on saturday to benefit the relay for life campaign. My mom is driving over from Medford to go with me, it should be alot of fun. I am also preparing for the weekend crop next week for National scrapbook day. We have access to a whole house for the event! I will start getting goody bags together this week. Oh and I can't forget my birthday coming up on monday, haha just another day as far as I am concerned. Karen is anouncing the DT that day, so maybe that will be a great gift!

Bummed

So I am a little bummed I wasnt chosen for the design team. I wanted it really really bad. Oh well better luck next time. I did get invited to try out for another one tho, so thats exciting. It is for Karen who owns her own scrapbook store in NE. I am excited that she invited me to try out for it. She has an amazing store and sometime hope to visit there. I am glad she does offer online ordering tho. I cant wait to go browse. :) I will keep you updated if things go right :)

Pins and Needles

SO I applied for the design team and I am anxiously waiting to hear from them to see if I made it. It's a huge chance but hey I can't win if I don't enter. They are calling people this week. I am hoping tomorrow my phone rings. If not they also chose some for honorable mention I at least hope I am in those ones. It is a huge prize of $500 plus an 8 month contract. It would be so amazing. So keep your fingers crossed for me. Here are a couple of my pages.