Flowers, A book made of envelopes, Chair snatchers and A GIVEAWAY (for a good cause)!!!!

Happy Thursday everyone!

A bit of a later post today, I have been super busy since 7am this morning!

Client meetings, Dr. Appts, errands and enjoying a couple of hours at Starbucks with a girlfriend.

I have made a few more flowers since my tutorial. They are just so stinkin sweet that

I cant get or make enough of them! Its quite theraputic too. I will sit on the couch with the hubby while we watch football listening to him scream at the tv while I sew flowers...

Its all about bonding right???

Get a load of some cuteness:

I have been tinkering away in my E-cave however creating some pretty scrumptious things!

I came across an adorable little idea today for a mini-book.

Its an envelope mini-book and I think that I am falling head over heels for this

unique method of scrapping.

You can use envelopes of any shape and size depending on how large and how you want

your mini-book to look.

I will provide detailed instructions when I finish my envelope mini-book and have worked out all of the kinks (I am pretty much teaching myself how to make these just from seeing

one picture that I no longer have access to so bare with me!) 

and really really hope that you

all participate and make you own and

comment with a link to your wonderful creations!!!

Here is a picture of the front of my envelope mini-book that I have done so far :

Amazing little book idea isn't it !?

I am quite fond of it so far!!!

I cant take all of the credit though...

I did have help from my creative little muses and partners in crime.

Infact, I was forced to take a break this afternoon after coming back from making a phone call and discovering that I had been kicked out of my workspace by said partners.

I didnt have the heart to move them!

Would you?!

Now on to the main event!

A GIVEAWAY!!!

I met Monica about a year ago at a LSS and have kept in touch with her through our

Facebooks, blogs, various scrappy adventures and through our status

as proud Air Force wives!

She has started a wonderful charity called

A Touch of a Hero : a line of Jewelry and accessories made from Military Uniform Buttons!

A Touch of a Hero was established in June of 2010 after having gone through a

deployment with her husband.

While SSgt. Heimes was deployed he had very limited phone contact with his loved ones due to

a short supply of phone cards to call the states with.

Monica uses every dollar of her earning to buy phone cards to send overseas so that our soldiers and their families can keep in contact during a very trying time.

With the help of people purchasing her adorable creations

she has been able to send 80 plus phone cards to our soldiers deployed overseas!

Monica and A touch of a Hero have been generous beyond measure already but are going above any beyond by offering products for a few giveaways!

Look at how adorable this key chain is!!!

Along with these SUPER ADORABLE earrings made from 100% authentic military issued uniform buttons.

I have GOT to get my hands on a pain of these!!!

Okay folks! BOTH items are up for grabs, you win you pick.

To enter: simply follow my blog and leave a comment on this post :)

Deadline is September 2nd at midnight.

Tell your friends and spread the word for a good cause!

While youre at it let your fingers do a little walking and stop by Monica's blog and leave some love!

Check out her A Touch of a Hero Facebook too!

Easy enough right!?

So ready...set... GO!!!

And Good luck !

Handmade ribbon flowers with Sara Laurent

A quick video tutorial on how I make some of my favorite ribbon/fabric flowers for

layouts, cards, books etc.

Sorry for the poor quality, working on getting a new video camera!

The sound and images are a bit grainy and distorted but you get the idea :)

Enjoy and look forward to more Tutorials!

You can see the full sized video HERE

Better quality!

 

 

(not so) Manic Monday

NOT SO

This past weekend was fairly uneventful. Its been raining here most of the time... Why is this

place called the Sunshine state again?

Oh well that just means more time for scrapping and the Hubby :)

Took a drive out to Destin this weekend and went to Michael's.

Their Halloween stuff has begun to creep into the isles!!!

Halloween...its the most wonderful time of the year.

Along with the usual home decor there is all new Martha Stewart scrapping etc. supplies!

There are some really cute things from her this year that I must get my hands on!

Items include but aren't limited to : Boarder punches, stamps, paper pads, fibers, embellies etc!

Along with the various decorations and party supplies.

Take a look at some of the cuteness!

I'll be taking a trip back in a few weeks to stock up!

Don't forget your coupons!

On another note.

Its almost my Mom's birthday! I made her card this weekend, nothing too flashy

or bearing any set of numbers lol. Very nondescript.

LOVE IT ! I made this card using mostly items I won from the Scrapgrlz Blog

Wednesday Winners.

EVERY WEDNESDAY

Shell has an awesome giveaway. Sometimes is a little something something

and other times its a hugely awesome prize.

A winner (or sometimes even winners!) is drawn every Saturday at random.

Go check it out!

I have lots to get done today! There really needs to be more hours in the day, I swear!

I need to work on layouts for three clients. I also got a card order in over the weekend

and need to have those done within the next week or so. I also have been getting in orders for my

"A year in cards" card packs! I MUST start work on those within the next couple of days.

On top of that craziness I want to make a few fabric flowers and work on ribbon embellie pieces

Gorgeous arent they!?! I need some for a layout and mini book that I have in mind and cant wait to start playing with all of that goodness!

And last but not least!

Another fantastic giveaway that I stumbled upon!

Happy Manic Monday!

Aaaaand Im off!

Finally Friday (the 13th) !

Happy Friday the 13th!!!

What a better day to get a jump start on making all our

 Halloween goodies than this?!

Along with all that goodness I have been applying for various awesome design teams as you know

from some wickedly fantastic sites/blogs etc!

Today's entry was to Skipping Stones Design 

I just LOVE LOVE LOVE all of their adorable stamps etc!

Not only do they have great product, good prices and a wonderful group of people

designing for them but

they provide you with these sketches to get you started and give you an idea.

The sketch that I chose from the Skipping Stones Blog for my entry piece was SSD #34. I loved the sketch along with the whole concept of sketches in general. They really help you get motivated and are fun to branch off of and add your own elements to!

Here is the sketch that I chose to work with:

Too cute huh !?!

And here is what I did with it! *Drum roll please!*

I just knew that today would be the PERFECT day to get started in all sorts of goodies for my

 FAVORITE Holiday of the year!

Toady's Challenge :

Take this awesome sketch and make a card of your own using it as a reference for your

creativity!

I cant wait to see what you all come up with!

Be sure to post a comment with a link to your finished product for myself and everyone to check out!

READY   SET   GO !

 

Delicious treats and DT calls

We dropped my sister-in-law off at the airport 

yesterday afternoon for her to go back home to Boston...

I am wicked sad that she had to go! The visit was WAY TOO SHORT if you ask me.

Its been a little over a year since we've seen family. Not since our wedding in June of last year.

We had tons of fun, got some great scrapbook shopping and goodies done and ate WAY too much delicious food! I even made my famous coveted Black moons... they are a LOT of work but crowds gather when I make them HAHA... They are my husbands FAVORITE treat though so they go quick!

These little beauties are Black Moons!!! Some people call them Whoopie pies... you may know them as that! These were made using my secret recipe handed down through a couple generations...

These are why my husband married me! lol

 

So... I have a huge amount of scrapping to get done!

I took the week off from working on orders while my SIL was down so its time to get cracking!

Right after Im done on here of course!...and after my second cup of coffee... and second black moon :)

 

I have started sales on my "A year in cards" packs too and those puppies are pre-selling like hot cakes!

I make them every year and they make the ABSOLUTE best gifts ever!!!

They are a pack of handmade greeting cards consisting of 1ofeach - Valentines, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Birthday/thank you! These make the PERFECT gift for friends, family, co-workers, secret santa, gift baskets, stocking stuffers anything ...you can think of !

 

Not to mention that I have worlds of fun making them! I will be posting pics of them periodically as I get them done :)

 

On another note.

I have been applying to a few DT calls lately and am really hoping to make at least one. That would be FANtastic you see because its something that I have wanted to do for quite some time now!

My most recent application was to My Scrapbook Nook .

Wish me luck !!!