It's Your Birthday!!!

TGIF everyone!!! 
I had scheduled my post to be up this morning, and I come home to find that not only did it not post, but it completely disappeared! tsk, tsk... I am typing with frozen fingers! Oh how they ache! 
This morning there was a Pumpkin Festival of sorts at my kiddos school today,
and everything was outside in this 50-something degree windy weather we are having!
Eeeek! They had to cut it short a few minutes, these poor Kindergartens were really starting to feel the cold too, poor wee ones... 
and yes, I am feeling so much better now! Have had a lingering cold for over a week, and just started to feel like myself again yesterday! I hope that I didn't overdo it with today already, lol! Oh well, that's why we have weekends for, right?! ;)


Now that I'm thawing out and can somewhat feel my fingers a bit ;) 

I want to share my card for today's Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge!!! 


For today's sketch, I used Taylor Expressions a la carte stamp, 
"It's Your Birthday"... 

The last time that I used this stamp, the colors were dark, you can see it here! 
So for this time, I was really in the mood to play with some bright colors 
and decided to pull some scraps from my Echo Park pad 
and have some fun with the sketch...


I created a second card too! 
but left off the 2 side panels, lol! 
Just goes to show that maybe I shouldn't be creating when I'm not feeling so good ;) 
Oh, and instead of using ribbon, I used Taylored Expressions die, 
"Basic Bow" 

Here's the awesome sketch: 

... and here are the stamps and dies I used: 

Please be sure to visit the rest of the Sketch Crew's designs too :) 
Cassie Trask
Lori Craig
Margie Cortina
Monika Davis
Rachel Sztonyk
Taylor VanBruggen 
Tracy Clemente

Thanks for stopping by today!
Happy Friday :) :) :) 

On the 6th Day of HALLOWEEN!!!

On the SIXTH day of HALLOWEEN... 

my true love gave to me

SIX GOBLINS GOBBLING!!!

Five scary spooks!

Four skeletons, 

Three black cats, 

Two trick-or-treaters, 

and an owl in a rotten oak tree!!! 

'morning friends!!! 

It's starting to get spooky around here!

Have you all seen what's been going on at 

Simply Betty Stamps!?!? 

I am super excited to have been invited to play along with their 12 Days of Halloween this year!!! 

Be sure to stop by the Simple Betty Stamps Blog for more details!!!... 

Everyone their, especially Betty, just loooves Halloween! 

and there are prizes every day! 

Take a peek and play along :) 

For my "goblin", I decided to use "Franken Jude"... 

I have to admit, I had a hard time picking a "goblin" for this, lol! 

Cindy aka The Scrappy Chick helped me out with choosing my goblin 

and sent me this from Wikipedia... 

"A goblin is a legendary evil or mischievous illiterate creature, 

described as a grotesquely evil-like phantom." 

hmmm...

We decided that a 'Frankenstein-ish' guy would fit this description... 

even though Jude is definitely waaay too cute to be considered 'grotesquely', LOL! 

My SIX things are the buttons!!! 

This idea has been brewing in my head for quite a while now!

and I am so happy to finally be able to use it on this card today :)

I am LOVING my twine!!! hee hee

I colored Jude in with my Copics, used some Bella Blvd 'To cute To spook" scraps 

and the 'boo' sentiment is a Making Memories sticker from 2 years ago, lol! 

It's time to dig out some goblins and get your spook on!!! 

You have until October 31st to play along :) 

Thanks for stopping by today!!! 

Happy Weekend to you all :*) 

Confessions of a Shopaholic!!!

Hellooo :)  Just a quick late night post to share :)

Yesterday, there was a bit of scrappy-happy time with some scrappy friends at my sister's apartment and I was able to play with my new Moka stamp from Taylored Expressions!

Here's Olivia and Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge #139!

... definitely my kind of girlie!!!

I actually don't consider myself a shopaholic, lol!

Don't shopaholics buy EVERYTHING??? hmmm... hee hee!

I'm just a purse-aholic, scrap/card-aholic and maybe even a bookaholic ;)

That's not everything ;) Right???

I had some fun paper-piecing her dress shirt and using my Taylored Expressions May Key Ingredient Kit too! Everything, except for the Lace and Dew Drops, came in the kit! I also got some clear dew drops to play with! I haven't tested if these will be color-able yet, but I'm looking forward to trying it out soon! 

Wow, look at all those layers! Yes, I did have fun with this one ;)

Thanks so much for your sweet commments and visits!

Much appreciated and loved!

Enjoy your Monday :) :) :)

Card Details:
Stamp(s): Taylored Expressions - The Moka Collection "Olivia" Stamp Set
Paper(s): American Crafts Happy Go Lucky DP, Taylored Expressions Snow White, Iced Pink, Frosted Kiwi CS
Ink(s): Memento Tuxedo Black Ink, Copic Markers
Accessories: Lace/Ribbon from Taylored Expressions Store, Small Circle and Scallop Circle Nesties, CM Corner Rounder Punch, The Robin's Nest Dew Drops

Strawberries!!!

YUMMMY!!!

It's almost strawberry season around here! And I am hoping we can take our boys out to the fields next weekend to do some yummmmy Strawberry picking :)

Now, if only I had a cool hat like "June Pixie" to wear when we go ;)

For this week's Pixie Dust Studio Challenge theme is...

"Tooty-Fruity"

Create a card/project with FRUIT on it!!!

Yummm!!!

Can't wait to see what you'll create for our challenge!
Be sure to stop by and check out the rest of the Pixie's projects today too :)

Enjoy!!! :*)

Card Details:

Stamp(s): Pixie Dust Studio "June Pixie - Pixie of the Month" Digital Image

The Greeting Farm Sentiment Stamp

Paper(s): Jillibean Soup Chilled Strawberry DP, Taylored Expressions Lava and Choice Snow White CS

Accessories: MFT Scalloped Scallop Die-namics, Prima Flower, Small Circle Nestie,

White Lace and Gingham Red Ribbon from TE Store