Happy Birthday!

I made this card for The Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #130.

I don't do boy cards that often, so I thought I'd give it a try!

Ohh this poor tag. My plan was to use a robot font, so, I tried on my printer and I'm out of color ink. So, I went to use my parent's printer but... I guess the tag was just too much for it cause it caused a paper jam... which left some ink smudged on it and it was bent a little.

So... I just crinkled the whole tag up, so no one would even notice!

Love this robot from My Mind's Eye's "Alphabet Soup".

Water Slide + exciting news!

Happy Saturday to you all!!

I have some super exciting news! I submitted to Scrapbook News and Review and one of my layouts was picked to be in their August 14th issue! I can't tell you how excited I got when I read the e-mail! I slapped my hand on my desk and said "holy..." well, you can guess what came after that!

The layout that was chosen is part of an album I'm making for Joey. It's a 6x6 album and I kept putting it off because I wanted to show all of them at once.

Can't wait until I can show you in.... a month! lol.

On to a layout! I made this layout for Scrapbook.com's "Scarplift the person before you" Challenge. I lifted Meezerpleaser's "Punkins 2007". I turned her layout and made it my own a little bit too!

I used pictures from our Cruise in May. These pictures were taken when we were going down the water slide. We both paobably went down more than any of the kids there. It was a lot of fun and it was Joey's first water slide... as you can see, he loved it.

I did my journaling on tags. The who, what, where & when stamps are Technique Tuesday's "Marquee" Stamps.

I've loved these thickers since I got them but never could find the right project to use them on. But, I think they go really well with this layout!

A little doodling!

With All My Heart

Happy Tuesday to you!

It has been quite a month for me and people that I love.

There have been 4 deaths in my life in the 3 weeks, enough is enough already! I had to watch my boyfriend lose his Mom in July, which was probably one of the worst things I'll ever have to witness.

In the past 2 weeks, my Great Aunt, My Grandpa (on my Dad's side), and my cousin, who happens to be my Great Aunt's Son-In-Law have all left us.

My heart hurts for my boyfriend and his siblings and nieces and nephews. I was 8 years old when I lost my Grandpa on my Mom's side, infact yesterday, 8/8, makes 18 years since it happened. Although I was only 8, I remember more than I'd like about it.

My heart also hurts for my cousin, who not only lost her Mom, but her husband as well in 10 days. She has 2 daughters and my heart is just broken for both of them. My heart also hurts for my cousins brother and his family. They are all very close.

My Dad's Mom passed in 2008 and since then my Grandpa has been going downhill. I guess it just happens that way sometimes.

My point from all of that was, my heart is hurting for a lot of loved ones right now and they were all in mind when I made this card.

Any prayers or happy thoughts are much appreciated for any and all, thanks!

So now that I've bummed you out, how about a card? lol.

This card is for 2 challenges. When I made the August Card Challenge categories this month, I picked Sympathy only because when ever you need a Sympathy card, who wants to sit there and make it?

So, this is for theme in the Card Challenge on Scrapbook.com and for The Paper Variety's Week 45 Challenge - to go circle crazy, and that I did! It's about time I get it posted before the deadline. =]

The circle stamp and the heart stamps were separate G Studio's stamps from the $1 bin at Michael's... love those bins. =] The sentiment stamp is Small Talk from Technique Tuesday.

I also used my new Martha Stewart Ink that Joey bought me! I told him, I don't need shoes, I don't need purses, I just need pretty paper and embellishments!

Cards, Cards & more Cards!

I made this card for the August Card Challenge for color. We are to use Black and White, only. It was a lot harder than I thought it was going to be. I kept thinking "Oh, I can add this... oh wait, it's a color....!"

Just a simple Thinking Of You Card! This is for the August Card Challenge as well, for Product, to use buttons.

Front: "Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the phone rings and you hope it isn't for you."

just a little note to say THANKS!

I made this card for the July Card Challenge, for color. The colors we needed to use were Yellow, Beige, Brown, White & Grey.. only. A simple thank you card!

July Birthdays!

I made these cards with the awesome sketch from Sweet Sunday Sketch #126. I know I say this all the time, but I LOVE Karen Giron's sketches!

This card is for my cousin Katie, for her 22nd Birthday.

This card is for my Sister's 30th Birthday. She was a bit freaked out about turning the big 3-0.. so I thought I'd have a little fun with her card!

My No Title Layout... oops!

So, I forgot a title... it happens to the best of us! My layout is already quite busy, so I can't really tell it's missing... maybe that's why I forgot to put it on? Yeah, we'll go with that!

The picture is of Joey & I in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, when we went on our cruise in April.

I really like how Joey's arm is cause it makes me look really skinny! lol.

This layout is for the July Scraplift the person before you Challenge. I lifted Lauriep78's "Best Day Ever".

On the last night of the cruise, we went down to get luggage tags, which tell you what time you can leave the ship the following morning. Well, I took 2 of each color to scrap with! Wouldn't you have done the same?? =]

Journaling: We missed our ATV tour because there was a confusion with ship time and local time. I was so bummed that we missed it because I knew how much Joey was looking forward to it. So, instead we walked around a flea market and shopped a bit. It was SO hot! It had to be at least 100 and it was so sticky and humid! After we got back on the ship, we went in the cold pool, which was too cold to go in any other day and it felt awesome!

She's here!!

My sisters 2nd little one was supposed to be born on Sunday... but decided she didn't want to wait! Kalleigh Ann arrived at 4:44pm on July 7th. She is TINY! 5lbs. 2oz. and 18 inches long.

First time holding her!

Such a sweet little face!!

I wanted to show how small she is... so I thought a dollar bill would do it!! Her piggies ended before the dollar did!

Thank you for being you.

A couple months ago, on the way home from Joey's house, I stopped at a Scrapbook store. Doesn't everyone do that? If you're going to a different city, don't you search the closest scrap stores around the city?? I know it's not just me!! It was a very expensive Scrap store and I paid an arm and a leg for this paper (no pun intended!) so I thought I better get to using it!

Hold on to your seats, there's a bunch of different challenges in this one!

I made this set of 3 cards for the July Card Challenge that I host on scrapbook.com. For the bonus challenge, we are to make a set of 3 or more cards that don't have to match, but can.

I made this card for Clean & Simple #147.

For this card I used The Sweet Stop's #115 sketch. I don't know if anyone has ever noticed, but I usually put "The Sweet Shop". I do that because we have a mattress place here in Southern California called "The Sleep Shop" lol. Totally on accident though.. it makes it worse that this is one of my favorite card sketch blogs!

I didn't use any sketch challenges for this one, this sketch was just floating around in my head.

I snuck a card in!!

I saw Paper Craft's Magazine has a Color Inspiration Challenge going on right now, that ends on the 4th and wanted to join in!!

I'll be donating this card to Operation Write Home.

July 1st already?

Wasn't it just January like, yesterday?? This year has flown by, very quickly!

I've been working on an 8x8 album for Joey recently, so I don't have any cards to share right now, so I'm going to share photos instead!

Joey, Pluto & I at Disneyland.. I just noticed, Joey's shirt is still wet from Grizzly Bear Run, we all got soaked!

Joey & I at my friend Luci's Wedding

Joey & Klayre at Luci & Kyle's reception, LOVE this one!

On Wednesday I took Klayre to Disneyland for the first time by myself. We had a BLAST! We went on 16 rides and met and got 5 characters autographs.

This is on The Tea Cups... she likes spinning them and making her TT dizzy!

Before Klayre was born (and we knew her name was going to be Klayre), we'd call my sisters belly, Klayre-A-Bellie. We call her Klayre-A-Bell also, so I told her to just stand there so I could take a picture and this is what she did, lol, perfection!