Hello all Long time no see!!!

I know this is a little plain Jane, and so have my other pieces of art, but the other job seems to be taking a lot of my time this week! LOL!!
OK here's the details...
Paper: Daydream patterned paper, Sweet Leaf, White Daisy, and Lilac Mist cardstock
Inks: Blush
Stamp set: Heartthrob

I hope to get some real scrapping time in this weekend so I'll have some more!

Here's a little Flair....

Here's a real quick post before going to bed for some much needed rest. My friend and I tag teamed on this card. She did the embossing with some instruction from me and I stamped and colored the images. I can't remember which pattern from the Originals book this was, but we just threw it together to show off the Stamp of the Month called "You've Got Flair". Hope everyone has a great Friday and I still have more to post later can you believe it... LOL!

Until then....

Be Blessed!

Carla

How about a little MOJO....

My friend's birthday is Friday along with her husband's and my mom's so I needed to get my mojo going. I decided to use the Mojo Monday sketch and make this card. I really like the way it turned out. I'm just sorry it took me so long to get on the Stampin' UP! in colors bandwagon last season. I also like the stamp set called "Cheep Talk" from SU! I know I'm a CTMH consultant, but I'm and equal opportunity Scrapper. LOL!!

Hope everyone had a great hump day and is on the downhill slide for a great weekend. I have more to post, I just hope I'm not to lazy to do it. LOL!

So until next time....

Be Blessed!

Carla

I have actually been crafting, but.....

I haven't taken any pictures of what I have done. I have actually made 5 pages and should be finishing up some right now, but I have other things on my mind. I thought I'd show you a picture of my little girl in her Knights in Armour outfit. Our church has recently started a class for the kids on Sunday afternoon. The have a Bible study first and then go to the basement and learn some Kung Fu. The couple who started this are awesome Godly people and the kids enjoy it so much.I just think Kassidee looks so cute in her costume. First they learn how to put the Armour of God on when they go out in the world and then they are taught not to start fights, but to learn to protect themselves if someone ever attacks them. I enjoy watching them and really hope that Kassidee learns more about our wonderful Saviour. I can't wait until the day the Holy Spirit fills her heart and leads her to salvation. She has already started asking about different things that are said in church so I pray it will only take time and she too will be saved from sin. I love my little knight and everything she does. I will always support her in whatever she may pursue. I just pray God puts his hand on her and leads her through her life.

I hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July and will remember what it really means. Thank God for this wonderful country I can praise him openly and not be scrutinized. I hope to be back soon with some artwork posts until then.....

Be Blessed!!!

Carla

Finally a LAYOUT!!!

I have a workshop tomorrow night and I finally got a layout done. My girls wanted to do the July "workshop on the go" this month because most of them went to the zoo over Memorial Day weekend. I changed it up a little bit because I was supposed to use the "Sweet Baby" stamp set, but used "It's a Zoo" instead.

These pictures were taken at Grant's Farm in St. Louis last July. We went with my friend Kathy, her husband, and their grand children. We really had a great time and I got some Great pictures.

The weather here in Southern Illinois is very hot and HUMID! I know it has been raining a lot, but I think I would rather have the rain and it be cool than it be sunny and humid. When it's this kind of weather all you want is lay in the pool and relax, but unfortunately I have to work and the pool is not ready yet. James started on it tonight so maybe it will be ready for our vacation in about a week.

Hope everyone has had a great Thursday and is gearing up for a great weekend! We are having a sleepover on Saturday night so it should be lots of fun. Just hope Kassidee can control the green eyed monster... LOL!

Have a great night everyone.

Stay Cool and Be Blessed!

Carla

Marie's blog candy!

Marie over at Isom Cre8tions is offering some great blog candy. She is closing it out on want in on this fabulous prize get over there quick! She has a Close to my Heart stamp set of your choice and a paper pack of your choice.
She is a very wonderful and talented lady and I hope she gets a lot of of comments tell her just how great she is.
I have never met this woman, but I call her friend.
Thanks for all your encouragement Marie with a :-)

A Great Big Shot Blog Candy!!!

Hey everyone I know it's been awhile since my last post, but I have been busy getting ready for a yard sale this weekend. So no time to create, but I still enjoy looking over all my blogs. I went to Janet's blog over at Corrosive Creations by Janet and she was telling about the awesome blog candy Melissa is giving away here. It is some pretty yummy stuff so go check it out!
Hope to have something for you to look at before long.
Everyone have a great Thursday and
Be Blessed :0)

Some more awesome Candy!!!

Debbie over at Passion for Crafts is celebrating her birthday by giving away some awesome candy! She is a really generous girl and she does some great work too. You should go and check out her site!

Happy Birthday Debbie!



Everyone have a good night and

Be Blessed,

Carla

I recieved an Award!

I received this from a fabulous blogger Sarah!!!! What an honor. You are so very talented.
The friend award comes with the following description to be added and passed along.
“These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated.” It also says : “Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award.” I nominated these fellow creators due to the wealth of enthusiasm and encouragement they leave in comments to so many out there, myself included!

Sarah at Sarah's Paper Tray (right back at you girl!)

Marie with a :-) at Isom Cre8tions

Jane at Scrappy-Gram's Designs

Samantha at Samie's Sentiments

Alanna at Alanna's spot in the world

Chrissy D at Creating with Chrissy

Kathleen at Life's like a Bowl of Stamps...

Sue from Oregon at Sue's Stamping Stuff

There are so many people that I consider my blogging friends, and of course my BFF looks at my site and has joined as a friend and she deserves this award also, but I don't think she has a blog so Twanna you get this award too!

Sarah once again thank you for giving me this award and I do consider you my great bloggin' buddy too! You are awesome girl.

Hope everyone had a great Mother's day and hopefully the next week will be very blessed for you.

Until next time,

Carla

Some SWEET Blog Candy

I was just blurfing around and came across this blog. Stampin' Caz over at A Stamping and Chirping Corner is offering up some great blog candy. She has hit over 200,000 hits on her site and is sharing the love. Her birthday is also coming up on the 12th of May and this is another reason to celebrate. So go check out her blog, She has some awesome stuff.

My silly little girl got her daddy's hats out the other day and couldn't decide which one to wear. So I guess to make it easier you should just wear all three.

Hope everyone had a great day and is gearing up for a great weekend! If I don't get back on here before Sunday I hope all the mother's that are reading this has a great Mother's day. I know I am on the look out for a flowering almond for my mom, and they seem to be hard to come by. I also can't wait for another beautiful Saturday and that means lots of YARD SALES!!! :)

Have a great night and.....

Be Blessed!

Carla

3 2 1... Blast Off!!!!

I have just been randomly picking out picture and scrapping them lately. These pictures were taken at Six Flags 2 years ago. James and I took turns riding the rides with Kassidee. She was 3 at the time. I of course had to ride the Marvin the Martian ride because he is my FAV-O-RITE cartoon character. I don't know why he is, but I just like that little green guy.
Anywhoo, I used some more Stardust paper for this layout and who would of thought I would have used so much "boy" paper (that's what my workshop girls call it) for my little girl. I think you can dress any paper up for a girl, but it's a little harder to do for a boy. I guess God did had a plan for me when He blessed me with Kassidee. He knew my little pea brain couldn't figure out how to do boy layout's. LOL!
I hope you enjoy your weekend. I hope to hit some rummage sales tomorrow and get the garage cleaned out. So I can get my scrap area set up good.
I hope everyone has a great National Scrapbooking Day tomorrow and I hope to see you back here again soon.
Welcome to all my new followers and thanks for all the comments everyone has been leaving. I love hearing from you. Even if all you want to do is say Hi!.
Glad you stopped by.
Be Blessed!
Carla

Love to hike!!

Well I got to be creative once again tonight. We went to a benefit

supper tonight for an Amish boy who had got kicked in the head by a horse. This happened some time back, but the hospital bills are piling up. He was taken to a local hospital and the air lifted to Cardinal Glennon in St. Louis. He has improved greatly, but he still has headaches and he says he gets befuddled. That sounds like something my grandpa used to say. It's funny to hear a 16 year old boy talk like an elder person.
Ok on to my page. We went hiking in West Virginia in April of 06 and I have just now got around to scrapping to pictures. I used Stampin' Up! Sticky Cuts on this LO with beads. I just love those Sticky cuts. The rest of the paper is from CTMH Rustic Trail Paper Pack. I loved this paper and didn't get another pack before it retired. Maybe I'll come across another pack someday. I do however really love the new Back Country Papers from CTMH.
Once again it is getting late and I haven't even started my daily reads yet, so I better sign off for now. I have more to post tomorrow so come back soon.
Please keep the Amish boy in your prayers and have a Great Friday!
Be Blessed!
Carla

A Quick Post

I had time to make a layout today after work and before church tonight. It was kind of rush job, but I like what it looks like.

The brown man came to my house yesterday and I finally got my Daydream paper. I put of getting it for so long and now I wonder why I did.


I hope you all enjoy my work and a big thank you to all of you who are following my blog. It makes my day to read your comments. I enjoy reading each and every one of them.
I hope everyone has a great Thursday and is gearing up for a wonderful weekend.
Hopefully I can get my DH to help clean out my scrap room/garage.

Have a blessed night!

Carla

A Good Book and some Blog Candy.

I know it's been awhile, but I have been reading "The Shack". If you get a chance to read it you should. I'm only on chapter 6, but I just started it last Thursday. I took it camping with me and I do have to say it is a pretty good read.
Just want to tell you about another blog candy I came across @ Corrosive Creations By Janet It's some pretty awesome candy go check it out!
Hope to chat again soon!
Carla

Some shout outs for Blog Candy!!!

Sarah and Sue have some awesome blog candy up for grabs.
RUN don't walk to their blogs and enter today!

I also came across another blog candy from over at Sarah's blog. It is http://passionforcrafts.blogspot.com/2009/04/blogoversary-candy.html This is also another awesome candy up for grabs. GO take a look!

Another Stardust Layout!

I made another Layout using the Stardust paper pack from Close to my Heart. And since I have a dancing queen I thought the Super Star title went well with these pictures also. Like I said in the previous post Kassidee never stops moving, dancing, running, jumping, etc., etc., etc... She really has a lot of fun when we go camping or even when we are at home. She stays pretty busy all the time.

We have decided to go camping this weekend and I can't wait. It is supposed to be BEAUTIFUL this weekend (high of 82 on Saturday). We aren't taking the boat yet, but probably next time. So a lot of fishing from the bank and bike riding. Kassidee also has a birthday sleepover on Saturday so James and I can have a little romantic weekend. LOL!!! He'll probably be romancing the fish! LOL!!! This will be my last post until next week, so everyone have a great rest of the week and weekend! Oh yeah tomorrow is a very big day also. Kassidee goes to Kindergarten registration. She's growing up way to quick!!! :)

Have a great Day!

Carla

Dancing Queen....

I had a workshop yesterday and we did the Stardust layout from the Workshop on the Go from Close to my Heart. The example in the guide was of a soccer player. Since I don't have a soccer player, but a dancing machine I decided to title my layout as Dancing Queen. In the journaling I said that Kassidee is my dancing queen even though she's not 17, but only 4 1/2.

I think this girl has been dancing ever since she was in the womb. LOL! She never stops moving even in her sleep. LOL! These pictures were taken at Rend Lake while we were on vacation last year. Hope you enjoy your Sunday.

See you soon,

Carla

Just a Quick Picture.

Hi all! I know it has been awhile since I posted, but I have been extremely tired this week. I don't know why maybe a bug or something. I thought I'd share a quick picture of Kassidee's photo shoot this past weekend, and I'm pretty pleased with the pictures. Here's just one of the many that we had done. Kassidee just loves Scott ( my friend who does the pictures) and she always does exactly what he tells her to do. I can't wait to scrap some of these pictures, because I think they will look so good with some pretty spring paper. Well gotta run. Hopefully I'll have some stuff to show you later this weekend.

Think SPRING!!

Carla

A Very Full Day, But Always Time For A Card!

Well here is a real quick post.

I had to make 2 anniversary cards tonight so I thought I would make them pretty easy, but still with a big impact. We were so busy today and it still isn't over. We have to get showers and the Easter bunny still has to come tonight too. Here is all we did today:

1) Kassidee and I went to get her pictures made. So we were out of the house by 9 am. When we were pulling out of the garage I thought I was dragging something under the blazer, but when I got outside it still felt funny. I get out of the car and see I have a flat tire. :( I go back inside and yell at James to tell him it's flat and he gets grumpy. It's a good thing that we have 2 cars. So I jump in the other car ans am on my way. Then...

2) I get call from a lady who was having a rummage sale yesterday and it was pouring down rain so she postponed it until today. I bought a couple of SU! stamp sets for $5.00 and thought that was the deal of the day!! Anywhoo, She called to tell me that they still had the Polly Pocket things Kassidee wanted. So after the photo shoo we ran back to the rummage sale and ended up with My Little Pony instead. Then..

3) We get home at about noon. James is still grumpy because of the tire and he is hungry! We then go to my Mom's house drop off Kassidee and go do some bunny shopping. First though we have to get the car to the shop to get the tire fixed. We drop it off at Wal-Mart and walk over to Ryan's for some lunch. By the time we got done eating and walking back to Wal-Mart the car was done. I get the stuff I need for Easter dinner at Mom's and we get our bunny shopping done. Then...

4) We go back to Mom's and start making the cake and the broccoli and cauliflower for tomorrow. Plus we visit for awhile. James watched the game with Dad and he seemed happy and not so grumpy, because he was full, the tire was fixed, and the Cardinals were winning!

Then...

5) We head home at about 5 pm and then I have to take pictures of all my flowers so Mom can see them tomorrow. The neighbor boy comes over and him and Kass play a little shadow boxing and of course I have to take pictures. Then...

6) It's time to color Easter eggs!!! James set up a table in the garage and away we went. Kassidee had to bring all her Build-A-Bears out there because they were watching a movie. ;) We finally got done coloring eggs about 8 pm. Then.....

7) I finally got the time to make this card for my friends who are celebrating their 30th anniversary this week. Also a couple we go to church with celebrated their 35th anniversary today. We were so busy that we didn't have time to squeeze in the reception today. Oh well maybe she'll forgive me after I give her this card. LOL!

So that sums up my whole day and boy was it a doosy!

I hope each and every one of you have a Blessed Easter.

Glory to God... HE IS RISEN!!!

Carla

Chris's Blog Candy....

Chris is offering this stamp set from Sweet and Sassy. It is called "His eye is on the sparrow".

She is celebrating our Savior and all he has done for us. He is the Rock of all ages. He took away my sins so that one day when I meet him face to face he will be able to look on me and see my light. I am no longer that black sinful Carla anymore. He has washed me white as snow.

Thank you Jesus for all you have done for me. You have gave me a loving family, a good job, and everything in between. It's all yours God. Hope everyone had a great Thursday and is looking forward to a beautiful Easter weekend.

May God bless you in every way possible.

Carla