Another Birthday Blog Hop! Happy Birthday Cheri!!

So it's another one of the girl's birthdays from the Seriously Creative DT today, and we had so much fun doing the surprise Blog Hop for Tara's birthday, we decided to do one for Cheri too!! Happy Birthday Girl!!

So if you've just wandered in here and you want to join in on the hop, head on over to the start at Janet's blog. If you're already hopping along, you should've come here from Eulanda's blog.

So, my mother in law has a tradition in her house that on someone's birthday (if we're having a birthday dinner for them or something) everyone goes around the table and says something nice about the person. Not just because it's their birthday. It has to be genuine. I think I've decided that I like this tradition, and I'm going to adopt it into my family traditions, so I might as well start here: Cheri, you are insanely talented in your craft, your creations inspire and amaze me every time I see them! You have a very kind and giving spirit too! I hope you have an amazing day!! I wish I could make it to lunch with you ladies, but I'll definately stop by to drop off my card for ya!

Well, without further adieu, here's my card!








I know that Cheri really likes pink, so for this card I pulled out all my pink stuff (which was suprisingly a lot considering it's definatley not my fav color and I have 3 boys!) I sprayed a white lace ribbon with pink glimmer mist, I also used glimmer mist on the "grass" and on some of the paper. I used the quickuts clouds border die to cut the "grass". the stamps are CTMH and ink is Distress Ink. Cardstock is Bazzil, and PP is basic grey, crate paper and some random stuff from my stash. bling is from the dollarama.

I hope you enjoy all the talented ladies' cards on this hop, and if you didn't plan on hopping, you should!! Please hop on over to Teila's blog next, and don't forget to finish off the hop at Cheri's blog, and wish her a happy birthday!!

Thanks for stopping by! Happy Birthday Cheri!!!

up coming stuff!!

i promise there will be something fun here soon!! trust me! tomorrow maybe!!

I'm sorry there's been nothing new happening here lately. I've had kind of a wicked cold, and I'm still trying to get used to my son going to school (which means I have to wake up at 6:30am to get everyone out the door on time). But I promise there will be new things to come very soon! A friend of mine is coming over tomorrow night for a little scrap time! So, stay tuned!!

Naughty Things...

It's raining, and storming here and my husband took my oldest son camping today! I really hope the weather clears up for them, but for me, I'm kinda liking it! It just makes me want to cuddle up with a hot cup of coffee, light some candles, and watch the new Grey's Anatomy (which is what I'm doing right now, as my two youngest are sleeping!)
I was trying to think of all these things that I could do with my time right now. I've got a layout on the go, I could work on that...I could clean my house (yuk), or I could watch Grey's and write on my blog! So, I guess you've figure out what I chose to do with my free time! I must say, the coffee is fab! lol

I did this layout a couple weeks ago, before I went away to Vancouver to see Hedley (which was pretty awesome, minus the rain!) I crammed 3 double page layouts and a single into 3 nights so I could qualify for a challenge at my favourite LSS to do a double layout every week in the summer...It was due before I left for the Coast, so I got em all done, and it was totally worth it, because I WON!! I won a 50 dollar gift certificate to Creative Accents! I was so excited, and I totally need to go buy a lottery ticket now, because my husband just came home from work on Wednesday morning with 50 bucks that he won at work too! I think we might have some horse shoes up our butts or something! LOL

Anyway, I'm blabbing now! This LO is of my middle son Caleb doing his first naughty thing! The journaling says something about how little I knew then about how many naughty things there were to come with Caleb! lol he's definately my little challenge, but I love him to death!!






Here's the deets: I used Bazzil cardstock (brown and craft), I can't remember the PP I used, letter stickers are Cosmo Cricket, alphabet is Quickutz Espresso, chipboard letters are from Crate, border punch EK Success, I had cut the heart and painted it with Rock Candy Distress Crackle Paint, I used paper towel and sprayed it with blue and green glimmer mist and crumpled it together a bit until it dried, buttons are random, also used distress inks.
thanks for stoppoing by!

My Sistah in Law

I just love this pic of my Sister in Law! She always says she's not photogenic, and I keep telling her that no one is when they squish up their faces and try to hide from the camera! lol When she actually lets her picture get taken, she looks quite beautiful :)
Here's the deets: I used Making Memories paint (mixed it with water so it would flick easier onto my paper), I painted the edges of the picture with white paint too. I cut the pic into 4 to give it a little funk. The papers I used are bazzil cardstock, and coredinations, the pp is crate and an unknown. Flowers are prima :) I also used a Tim Holtz texture fade (love those things!)



thanks for stopping by!

Creative Accents Fall Challenge and Blog Hop!!!

All right everyone it's Challenge Time at Creative Accents, and once again we're going to kick it off with another Blog Hop! There are some amazingly creative ladies on the Seriously Creative Design team that are joining in to kick off the Challenge and I can't wait to see what everyone has in store for the hop!!

The challenge is pretty simple!

Create any paper based project and include:
A- Alphabet (letters or words in any form)
B- Bling (pearls or gems and other blingy things)
C- Chipboard (letters, shapes, or whatever you've got in your stash)

Your project can be any theme, but if you want 'extra credit' make it an Autumn or Halloween project :)

This challenge is open to participants until October 15 at midnight. You can enter using the linky gadget at the Creative Accents blog and/or by bringing your project in to display in the store! The prize (randomly chosen from all challenge participants) will be a surprise package of goodies from all of our ABC categories worth at least $30!

We'll also be selecting another random winner from those who:
1- comment on posts along the hop and
2- are a follower of Creative Accents' blog
You do not have to comment on every post along the way, but this will increase your chances of winning a surprise ABC gift worth at least $15! Plus these ladies are amazing artists and it's just plain nice to show em some love!! So don't forget to tell them all how fab they are on their blogs!!

So now, on with the hop!! If you just wandered in here and want to join in the hop, you can start over at the ever so talented Tara's Blog. If you're already hopping along, you should've come from the fabulously creative Carla's Blog .

So here's my take on the challenge. When I heard that we were doing a fall challenge, I couldn't wait to start scrappin some Halloween pics! I absolutely LOVE Halloween and I've been getting into it lately, specially with this crisp fall air we've been having! These pics are from my sister's first Halloween party she had back in 2008. I'm starting to realize that I'll never be one of those scrappers that is actually scrapping pics from the present time! lol I figure as long as I'm getting them done, it doesn't matter how long it takes me!
I used a couple different (A's) Alphabets in this LO, for the "Sparkler" I used the Katie Grande font, and the "Scavanger Hunt" part of the title actually uses both the "A" and the "C" in the ABC Challenge. I used chipboard alphabet stickers by Cosmo Cricket. The (B) Bling I used is some unknown bling I bought from Creative Accents like 2 years ago! I'm not a huge user of bling (probably because I have 3 boys that I primarily scrap about!)...but lately I've been wanting to use it a bit more and I thought it was perfect for this layout! For the (C) Chipboard I used some chipboard accents from Imaginisce. They actually came in a paper pack that had chipboard shapes to match the stickers in it, so you could use the stickers with the chipboard, or without. Kinda fun :) So that's the ABC's of that layout! The patterned papers I used are all from Imaginisce except for the main PP which is from Graphic 45 Halloween in Wonderland (LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS PAPER!!!) I also used the Cosmo Cricket Core Impressions cardstock too (this stuff is really fun to play around with too!)
Additional Supplies: Stickles (more bling!), QK special delivery set (stitching die and scallop die), Distress Inks, edge distresser and thread.
I hope you enjoy this Layout as much as I do!! I had a lot of fun making it too!







Thanks for taking the time to check out my blog! Now it's time to hop on over to the AMAZINGLY talented Eulanda's Blog. Don't forget to leave some love for everyone for your chance to win a prize!!! Thanks for hopping with us!!

Cuteness

Well, I found my battery charger for my camera in the glove box of my van. Good place for it eh?! lol Just in time too, because Creative Accents is going to be doing another blog hop on monday, so stay tuned for that! I was scrappin up a storm last week to finish a challenge of doing a double page layout every week for the whole summer. It was due on the 11th of september, and I finished like 3 doubles and a single in 3 nights! So, now I'm taking a little break (I hate to admit it, but it was starting to feel a little like work!) I have been feeling the urge to get back at it the last couple days, but I've been pretty tired. My oldest son started kindergarten last week, and I've been getting used to having to get up early again! Maybe tomorrow I'll make it downstairs to do some scrappin!

This is one of the layouts I finished for that challenge. It's my middle son Caleb when he was around 2 or 3 months...I have to admit that I don't know how old he was there (I have to look it up on the computer one of these days), but he is stinkin cute isn't he? lol




The papers are Crate paper, and Bazzil cardstock, I used glimmer mist, and distress inks, the flower is from the quickutz special delivery gift set, and so is the alpha (Katie Grande).
Thank you for taking the time to come and check out my little blog spot :)